drag2share: Starwood's app for Google Glass will let you search and book hotels

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/16/starwood-google-glass-app/

Imagine walking into a hotel lobby and telling the wearable on your face to pull up your reservation details. Starwood, the company behind properties from the Aloft to the W to the St. Regis, is hoping to up its hospitality game with an app tailor-made for Google Glass. Currently in beta, the upcoming SPG app for Glass will let guests search Starwood properties around the world, get turn-by-turn directions to a particular hotel and explore room photos, amenities, dining options and more. It looks like you'll also be able to book a reservation directly from the Glass app and -- importantly -- call a hotel if you get lost.

This isn't the first time Starwood's demonstrated an interest in bringing tech to its properties. This year it announced plans to swap out room keys for a mobile app, so its interest in Mountain View's wearable is no surprise. Google has long touted how useful Glass can be when it comes to travel with apps such as Field Trip, so bringing those geolocation and search capabilities to your hotel stay is a logical next step. And Google Glass may not be the only wearable device SPG has its sights on; in a statement it explained, "[Our] goal with Glass and other wearable technologies is to explore what kinds of new features and services are possible, and to learn from guests."

Filed under: Wearables, Google

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drag2share: And now one cool relaxing GIF

Source: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/and-now-a-neat-relaxing-gif-to-take-your-stress-level-d-1563429520/+caseychan

This cool GIF is 1,280 x 480 pixels, so expand it and imagine yourself there, listening to the water and feeling the mist on your face. It's a good day to do nothing but wander around the forest. Got a favorite relaxing GIF or video that makes you dream about taking a vacation? Post it below.

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drag2share: Google's Modular Ara Phones Will Go on Sale January 2015

Source: http://gizmodo.com/googles-modular-ara-phones-will-go-on-sale-january-2015-1563723655

Google has gone into more detail about its Project Ara modular mobile system, using a specific developers conference for the hardware format to update us on its plans for self-assembling our dream phones out of various components.

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drag2share: Lenovo's banking on motion control and Flex-able laptops with latest releases

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/16/lenovo-announces-motion-controlled-all-in-one-new-flex-laptops/

Motion control hasn't outmoded the mouse and keyboard yet, but it is finding its way into more and more consumer products. Take Lenovo's upcoming A540 all-in-one desktop, for instance: its one of a handful of the company's products to feature Lenovo Motion Control, a 12-gesture collection of hands-free (well, hand waving) media controls. The $1,279.99 machine is built specifically with families in mind, featuring a 23.8-inch 1,920 x 1,080 touchscreen, NVIDIA GeForce GT 840A graphics, an Intel Core i7 CPU and an aluminum frame that tapers down to 4 millimeters at its thinnest point.

Lenovo is refreshing its laptop line-up too, including two new models for its Flex family of convertible notebooks. The 14 and 15.6-inch Flex 2 laptops feature the same 300-degree hinge we saw in the Yoga, Yoga 2 and ThinkPad Yoga - allowing them to bend over backwards into a makeshift (and rather large) tablet. The machines are fairly customizable too, and are available in both Intel Core i7 / NVIDIA GeForce or AMD APU and Radeon GPU configurations. The 14 and 15.6-inch Flex 2 convertibles will be available this June for $429 and $799, respectively.

Filed under: Laptops, Lenovo

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drag2share: Project Tango teardown reveals the wonders of the phone's 3D sensing tech

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/16/project-tango-teardown/

Want to get a better understanding of Google's 3D-sensing Project Tango smartphone beyond the usual promo videos? iFixit is more than happy to show you now that it has torn down the device for itself. The close-up identifies many of the depth mapping components in the experimental handset, including the infrared and fisheye cameras (both made by OmniVision), motion tracking (from InvenSense) and dual vision processors (from Movidius).

However, the real centerpiece is the infrared projector. As you can see from the pretty light show pictured here, Project Tango maps the environment in much the same way as the original Kinect: it's creating a grid of dots that it measures to calculate distance. Other parts are relatively pedestrian, such as the Snapdragon 800 processor and 5-inch display, but it's clear from the teardown that they play second fiddle here -- this is an imaging device that just happens to double as a phone. You can see this for yourself at the source link.

Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Google

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Source: iFixit

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