| Motes: The Wireless Helpers That Will Change Your Life | | 12:01:52 AM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| When you're away from home, it's always handy to have information about how things are in your house. Motes are wireless remote sensors that collect data on temperature, humidity, light and other data, then relay that info to your smartphone. The company, Wimoto, plans three different kinds of Motes. The “Climote” collects data on temperature and humidity.
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| Can Tech Bring the America's Cup to the Common Man? | | Friday, July 12, 2013 11:44 PM | Sam Laird |
| The America's Cup sailing race has more heritage than nearly any sporting event — in fact, its trophy is the oldest still used in international competition. But the America's Cup hasn't exactly become a hit with the masses. Part of the reason: For those of us who don't go yacht racing on a regular basis, it's nearly impossible to tell what's going on when watching the competition on TV.
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| Reporter Hilariously Demonstrates Bear Safety Tips | | Friday, July 12, 2013 11:34 PM | Hannah Orenstein |
| You'll just have to bear with this hilarious reporter as she demonstrates how to protect yourself from wild animals in the woods. Following a news story about a man who faced down a bear, reporter Julie Tremmel did a segment — for Providence, R.I.'s local NBC affiliate WJAR — on staying safe around bears. We're sure she had good intentions, but she looks about as comfortable in nature as Meredith did in The Parent Trap.
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| Your Tinder Crush Might Be a Spambot | | Friday, July 12, 2013 10:17 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Tinder literally refers to a flammable material; a dry substance ready to burn. That name couldn't be more appropriate for a dating app with a problem that could leave users steaming. Tinder, the addictive online matchmaking tool, is plagued by fake accounts luring unsuspecting users into pricey phishing schemes. And they ruse is easy to fall for, because it plays into our desire for easy flirtation.
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| Virtual Choir Joins 8,000 Voices in Stunning Performance | | Friday, July 12, 2013 9:53 PM | Allison Reiber |
| At its best, technology can connect people in a way that makes this big, crazy world seem small. Grammy Award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir project does just that. He takes singers of all ages from around world and puts them on one stage — even if it is a virtual stage — and the results are stunning.
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| Brain and Eye Monitoring Could Detect Driver Sleepiness | | Friday, July 12, 2013 9:33 PM | LiveScience |
| Technology for monitoring brain activity and eye movements might someday be used to detect when a person is falling asleep while driving, and alert them to prevent an accident. Researchers in England are working to combine two high-tech tools — high-speed eye-tracking and electroencephalography (EEG) brain recording — to understand what's happening in the brain while the eyes are moving.
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| Grandparents' Minds are Blown by Twerking Craze | | Friday, July 12, 2013 9:16 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| There are a few words that are rarely uttered in the same breath — 'grandparents' and 'twerking' are two of them. YouTube duo TheFineBros, best-known for their "Kids React To" series, introduced a few senior citizens to the world of twerking and recorded their responses on video. Their reactions? Pretty hilarious.
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| How 'Sharknado' Became a Social Media Phenomenon | | Friday, July 12, 2013 8:34 PM | Pete Pachal |
| If you've been anywhere near Twitter in the past 24 hours, you've probably been sucked into the phenomenon that is Sharknado. The campy Syfy TV movie, which aired Thursday night, has dominated conversation on the service for the past day. How did a low-budget B movie become the hottest thing on the Internet? Twitter dissected Sharknado's rise in a blog post Friday night.
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| Optical Stethoscope Could Visualize Your Heartbeat | | Friday, July 12, 2013 7:58 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| The stethoscope is not only a medical staple more than 200 years old — it's also an iconic tool that immediately conjures images of doctor's offices in our minds. But now, designers have re-imagined the stethoscope for the 21st century by adding an LED screen that visualizes our body's natural rhythms.
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| 5 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts for Entrepreneurs | | Friday, July 12, 2013 7:13 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Twitter instantly connects us with celebrities and thought leaders. But it's all about who you follow — filling your stream with forward thinkers can help stoke innovation and provide a window into the brains of competitors and customers. SEE ALSO: Gamechangers: 5 Social Entrepreneurs With Big Ideas Twitter can be a gold mine for advice and insight, too.
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| Teen Arrested for 'Terroristic' Facebook Comment Free on Bond | | Friday, July 12, 2013 6:48 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| A Texas teenager charged for making a "terroristic" threat on Facebook earlier this year has been released from jail on bail Thursday after an anonymous donor reportedly posted a $500,000 bond. Back in February, then-18-year-old Justin Carter got into a heated argument on Facebook with a friend, after playing the online game League of Legends.
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| Keyboard Case Turns Your iPad Into a Pint-Sized Piano | | Friday, July 12, 2013 6:28 PM | Emily Price |
| While there are many iPad cases out there with built in keyboards, one company is attempting to bring a more musical type of keyboard to the iPad. Meet C.24, a two-octave wireless keyboard case for the iPad that replaces the computer keyboard from a traditional keyboard case with piano keys. The case sends MIDI input to your iPad wirelessly, and will work with any music app you have installed on the tablet.
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| 'Deus Ex: The Fall' Delivers Rare Console Quality in a Mobile Game | | Friday, July 12, 2013 6:12 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| First-person games are hard to create in the mobile space. The fidelity and control found when using a mouse-and-keyboard combination or a console controller's two analog sticks can't really be replicated on the smooth surface of a touchscreen. But these obstacles certainly haven't stopped developers from trying.
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| This JVC TV Sounds as Good as It Looks | | Friday, July 12, 2013 5:59 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| 3D and connected TVs are nothing new -- same goes for borderless sets -- but what makes the two new JVC models is how it approaches audio.
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| Foreign Gamers Get Same U.S. Visas as Professional Athletes | | Friday, July 12, 2013 5:59 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Players traveling to the United States for the official League of Legends annual tournament in Los Angeles this fall will be awarded the same type of visas traditionally given to professional athletes, according to Riot Games. This is the first time that foreign professional gamers have been given visas by the United States to play in the country.
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| Meet the Woman Who Owns the Sharknado Twitter Handle | | Friday, July 12, 2013 5:50 PM | Brie Hiramine |
| When Chicagoan Elizabeth Wylder selected her Twitter handle in 2009, she had no way of knowing that Syfy would produce a movie with the same name — and that Sharknado would captivate the Internet. But since the made-for-TV movie's release, Wylder's inbox has been flooded with people accidentally tweeting at her @sharknado account, instead of using the #Sharknado hashtag.
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| AT&T Acquires Leap Wireless | | Friday, July 12, 2013 5:41 PM | Emily Price |
| AT&T announced plans to acquire Leap Wireless Friday at a cash price of $15 per share. With the deal, all of Leap’s stock and wireless properties would become property of AT&T, including its retails stores, licenses, network assets and its approximately 5 million subscribers.
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| Squidrizzle: 10 Naturally Disastrous Alternatives to 'Sharknado' | | Friday, July 12, 2013 5:18 PM | Gabe Bergado |
| The forecast didn't say anything about it being cloudy with a chance of tarantula downpour. Television movie Sharknado premiered on the Syfy channel Thursday night and was pretty much what it sounds like: a twister riddled with the carnivorous fish. In case Syfy is starting to run out of ideas, we brainstormed — err, cranestormed — a few possibilities for a sequel.
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| 8 Ways to Hear About the Royal Birth Before Your Friends | | Friday, July 12, 2013 4:59 PM | Taylor Casti |
| The world is on baby watch as Kate Middleton’s due date looms. Media stepladders have been in place for days, hoping to snap the first pics of the royal baby. People have placed serious bets on the gender and name. They've even voiced concerns about what will happen to Lupo when he’s no longer the "only child” of the duke and duchess of Cambridge.
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| eBay Debuts 3D Printing iPhone App | | Friday, July 12, 2013 4:49 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| EBay dips its toes into the 3D-printing pool with an iPhone app that lets users customize accessories. EBay announced Friday that it is getting into 3D printing with a new iPhone app called eBay Exact that lets users customize jewelry and accessories that will then be 3D printed and sent to them.
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| 27 Fin-Splitting Tweets About 'Sharknado' | | Friday, July 12, 2013 4:48 PM | Neha Prakash |
| The world was forever changed Thursday night when the Syfy Channel debuted instant television classic "Sharknado." Here are the funniest tweets about it.
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| Twitter Hands Over Data of Anti-Semitic Tweets in France | | Friday, July 12, 2013 4:20 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| After a legal battle spanning several months, Twitter has finally handed data over to French prosecutors to help them identify the authors of certain anti-Semitic tweets. Jewish and anti-racism groups sued Twitter, requesting that the company provide data pertaining to the writers of anti-Semitic tweets using the hashtag #unbonjuif (#agoodjew) last year.
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| Is This the Next Cronut? | | Friday, July 12, 2013 4:04 PM | Allison Reiber |
| Depending on your level of commitment to dessert, you may want to drop whatever you're doing and start lining up right now. New York City's Dominique Ansel Bakery — of cronut fame — is debuting a new dessert on July 13 in honor of the cronut's two-month anniversary: frozen s'mores. Frozen s'mores have a lot to live up to. The cronut, a doughnut-croissant hybrid, is still drawing lines that rival a free Justin Bieber concert.
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| Netflix Might Be Plotting 'Arrested Development' Season 5 | | Friday, July 12, 2013 3:53 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Start drumming up your favorite Arrested Development one-liners and references, because a fifth season might be coming to a Netflix near you sooner than expected. Brian Grazer, co-chairman of Imagine Entertainment, told Bloomberg TV this week that Netflix is currently in talks to start work on a fifth season (watch below). Imagine Entertainment produced the series' fourth season for the rental and streaming service.
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