Thursday, September 15, 2011

drag2share: Google Goggles Now Works Automagically on Your Android Phone [Google]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5840407/google-goggles-works-goes-rogue-on-your-android-phone

Google Goggles Now Works Automagically on Your Android PhoneThe latest version of Google Goggles will kick into action without your lazy ass doing a thing. All you have to do is enable a setting that allows Goggles to work in the background each time you take a photo.

If Goggles recognizes something, it will send you a notification. If it doesn't you'd never know it was there, except for your battery hemorrhaging power a little faster. If you want to use the latest version of Google Goggles (1.6), you need to be running Android 2.1 or newer. Download it here. [Google]

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drag2share: Daily Desired: Exercise Headphones Designed to Stay Put [Desired]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5840290/daily-desired-exercise-headphones-designed-to-stay-put/gallery/1

Daily Desired: Exercise Headphones Designed to Stay PutWhen it comes to headphones built to stay put when you're exercising there's plenty of products that look hardcore but are just annoying. Polk's new UltraFit3000 headphones might just be the the most thoughtfully designed I've seen.

Like other old school speaker companies Polk has decided to make the jump from wooden boxes to headphones. I like that idea, because Polk's awesome sound shouldn't be confined to home theaters and stereos. Detailed specs aren't yet available, but I'd expect these to sound amazing. What is really going to set these apart for exercise addicts is the attention to function. The over-ear hook is pliable and made of a moldable rubbery material so that they will sit securely on your ear. Polk makes it sound easy.

There's lots of little details from the length of cable extensions to the shock-resistant internal build that are impossible to evaluate until I get the headphones on. I'm psyched to try these if only because exercise is an inconvenience enough without crappy headphones making it worse. If these really fit well, and sound as good as Polk gear is supposed to, I might actually get in shape. That's worth $100 easily. [Polk Audio]

Daily Desired is our look at a product we're drooling over.

Daily Desired: Exercise Headphones Designed to Stay Put


Daily Desired: Exercise Headphones Designed to Stay Put

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drag2share: The Dyson Hot Is the Most Beautiful Space Heater I've Ever Seen [Appliances]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5840390/the-dyson-hot-is-the-most-beautiful-space-heater-ive-ever-seen

The Dyson Hot Is the Most Beautiful Space Heater I've Ever SeenDyson's Air Multiplier is the craziest-looking fan we've ever seen. It shoots cold breeze out of a ring! No blades! The new Dyson Heat is pretty much just this in reverse: a warm glow for you room. From a ring.

Not only is the Hot a gorgeously minimal design piece, it's terrifically safe: no exposed heating elements mean it's pretty hard to burn yourself (or your home, down). Air's sucked in through the bottom, heated internally, and shot out, sans fan blades, and will maintain a consistently warm temp using a built-in thermostat. Of course, it'll cost you the value of several other heaters combined: $400 for one. [Dyson]

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drag2share: BungeeAir Wireless Tether Keeps Your iPhone From Getting Jacked [IPhone]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5840451/bungeeair-wireless-tether-keeps-your-iphone-from-getting-jacked

BungeeAir Wireless Tether Keeps Your iPhone From Getting JackedThis is the part of the day when I make fun of my sister. She has lost two, that's right, two iPhones in the span of four months. She doesn't use a computer so Find My iPhone makes no sense to her. Maybe being hassled by the BungeeAir security bubble will keep her next iPhone in her pocket.

Utilizing an iPhone case, key fob, and app combo, the Kensignton BungeeAir security system creates a wireless perimeter that once broken sounds sends an alert to the users key fob. The key fob (which looks like a car alarm key fob from 1997) vibrates and makes a cute beeping noise. The BungeeAir companion app can set the wireless tether distance and has the ability to autolock your iPhone once you move out of the security bubble. You can also lock down the phone remotely from the key fob.

The fob can also be used to find your iPhone when you drop it between the cushions in your couch. And if you're always losing your keys, the find feature works both ways. Fire up the companion app and if you were smart enough to add the key fob to your key ring, you can find your keys from the app.

So maybe my sister will finally be able to keep an iPhone for more than a few months. That is until she loses her keys, the fob and her iPhone at the same time.

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drag2share: iTwin Is an Invisible Cable to Connect Your Computers [Gadgets]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5840445/itwin-is-an-invisible-cable-to-connect-your-computers

iTwin Is an Invisible Cable to Connect Your ComputersCables are terrible, but we're not quiiiite to the point where we can just snap our fingers and make everything wireless. The iTwin seems like a legitimately cool stopgap between the two. You plug its two halves into two computers, and it lets you access both machines' files from either computer.

It works by sending your data over a shared internet connection in AES-256 encryption. You can remotely edit files on the connected drives, and the transfer speed is apparently only limited by your up speed. It's billed as being a more secure alternative to cloud storage and remote access software, and more convenient than just ferrying all your files on flash drives. It's $100 and available now. [iTwin]

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