This Video Shot With A Drone And A GoPro May Be The Most Incredible Surf Video Yet

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/gopro-drone-surf-video-2014-1

The "Pipeline" on Hawaii's North Shore is world renowned for its incredibly large and often dangerous waves, and a new video from aerial photographer Eric Sterman shows the area in all its glory.

Sterman attached a GoPro camera to a DJI quadcopter to capture this awesome footage of surfers on the pipe, according to The Next Web.

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The result is a truly breathtaking video from a perspective which used to be impossible for filmmakers to achieve without hiring a helicopter. I’ve watched a few surfing films before (Billabong Odyssey and The Endless Summer are my personal favorites) but this is by far the best footage I’ve ever seen from Pipeline.

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Sworkit Pro Adds Custom Interval Lengths, a Workout Log, and More

Source: http://lifehacker.com/sworkit-pro-adds-custom-interval-lengths-a-workout-log-1501133024

iPhone/Android: We're big fans of Sworkit Pro, the exercise app that generates a custom workout for you based on the amount of time that you have, and the app recently added a few great new features. You can now customize your workouts even more, check out a log of your exercise, and more.

The big new feature here is that you can now change the interval length so you're no longer stuck with 30 second intervals. You can also customize the workout order so it's not completely random every time, which is nice if you find an order that really works for you. Finally, you also get a new workout log that shows what you've been doing, how many calories you've burned, and more.

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These Low-Power LCD Displays Work Like e-Ink To Prolong Battery Life

Source: http://gizmodo.com/these-low-power-lcd-displays-work-like-e-ink-to-prolong-1501024252

The simple black and white e-ink display inside your Kindle lets you read book after book on a single charge, but when it comes to devices displaying multimedia content like your smartphone, a monochrome display just doesn't cut it. You want color, and lots of it, so Japan Display has created a new type of full-color LCD display that promises fantastic battery by emulating many of the tricks that e-ink displays employ.

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Horizon for iOS records landscape video no matter how you hold your phone

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/14/horizon-ios-app-horizontal-video/

On Vine and Instagram, square-sharing is the name of the game. But when it comes to YouTube or TV, you're going to insult viewers if you present them with a vertical video. Despite six years of smartphone innovation, Apple hasn't really solved what's come to be known as Vertical Video Syndrome, so one app developer is taking it upon itself to fix it. With Horizon, Evil Window Dog believes it can help shape a world with no more black sidebars. Where some developers ask users to hold their iPhone on its side before shooting, like Google tried with YouTube Capture for iOS, Horizon wants to make things a whole lot easier by letting you capture horizontal video from any angle.

Horizon works by using your iOS device's gyroscope to auto-level videos, keeping a horizontal focus on the action unfolding in front of you. If you rotate your iPhone 45-degrees, the app simply adjusts the frame to maintain its aspect ratio (it currently supports square 1:1, wide 16:9 and standard 4:3). But that's not all it has to offer. In the app's settings, you can set whether you'd like to rotate as you film, rotate and scale recordings or disable rotation altogether. Video quality can be tweaked to output VGA, 720p or Full HD recordings and there's also an option to mirror videos to your Apple TV using AirPlay. You can even apply one of eight pre-installed filters, if artistically destroying homemade videos is your thing. Horizon is available on the App Store for $0.99 for a limited time -- we just wish Apple and Google had bundled this as standard.

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Google Drive's new activity stream tracks changes to shared files

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/14/google-drives-activity-stream/

Tracking changes in those shared docs on Google Drive just got a lot easier. The folks in Mountain View have added an activity stream to the cloud-based file repository for keeping tabs on collaborative efforts. Once you're inside Drive, clicking the 'i' button at the top right will make the new list appear. Inside, you'll find the flurry of recent activity like moving/removing files, renaming, uploading, sharing/unsharing, editing and commenting. You can also select individual files or folders to view updates for only those items. Google says that the activity stream in Drive will be rolling out to users during the next week.

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