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| Researchers Build a 3D-Printed Transform Robot | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 10:38 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| | Japanese hobby researchers at Brave Robotics have developed a functioning, entirely 3D-printed robot inspired by Transformers The remotely controlled bot can turn into a car and vice versa in just a few instants and has a slew of impressive features, including Wi-Fi camera, headlights and it can even shoot little darts. The "Transform robot" is the result of 10 years of work and several iterations. The robot went from a rudimentary pair of legs that barely moved to this impressive version, which looks like it could have been featured in a Transformers movie.
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| Spotify Wants to Make Music Discovery Truly Social | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:03 PM | Christina Warren |
| | Spotify has plans to make music discovery more personalized and more social. We've always classified discovery as Spotify's Achilles' heel. Because Spotify's catalogue is so large, finding new music or rediscovering old favorites is difficult For a time, Spotify was happy to relegate discovery details to the service's desktop apps. And while Spotify will continue to leverage those apps in helping users find new music, discovery will now be an intrinsic part of the Spotify service on all platforms.
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| Mysterious Material Remembers Its Shape | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 1:57 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| | A strange new substance acts like a liquid when exposed to air, but takes a solid shape when it's dunked in water. The new stuff is a metamaterial, scientists' word for a lab-made material that has properties that are uncommon in nature. Even among metamaterials, however, it's unusual -- it's composed of man-made DNA, while most metamaterials are composed of nonbiological chemicals such as silicon or copper. Its creators are calling it a "meta-hydrogel." In the future, metamaterials made of biological stuff could go into soft, flexible circuits, according to a statement from Cornell University, where the meta-hydrogel was made. Because they have pores in which drug molecules could fit, meta-hydrogels could help release medicines slowly inside the body, the statement said
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| Give This Wireless Speaker to Your Favorite Social Butterfly | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 1:13 PM | Joann Pan |
| | 'Tis the season for holiday parties. But party planning doesn't have to be extremely stressful or time-consuming. String up a few balloons, pull out the fancy bottle opener, order in from your favorite restaurant and play some holiday tunes on your HMDX Jam Bluetooth Wireless Speaker. The mini wireless speaker takes any casual or formal soirée to the next level. The tennis ball-sized speaker, which comes in six colors to best match your living space, connects to any Bluetooth-enabled device up to 30 feet away. The rechargeable, lithium-ion battery device can blast music from your smartphone, tablet, e-reader or computer for up to four hours.
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| This Is How LED Light Bulbs Actually Work | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 12:59 PM | Amy-Mae Elliott |
| | While LED lighting has been used for years as power indicator lights in consumer electronics, for bike lights, in cars, in traffic lights and for outdoor lighting, recent technological advances mean LED light bulbs are entering our homes as a replacement for incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs Why is LED lighting growing in popularity? What are the benefits of LED light bulbs? And what's actually inside an LED bulb? We have taken a look at this potentially exciting technology to give you the answers to these kind of questions, and more
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| Spotify Now Has 1 Million Paying Customers in the U.S. | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 12:36 PM | Christina Warren |
| | Since exiting beta just over a year ago, Spotify has amassed over 1 million paying customers in the United States. The company shared the news at a press event Thursday in New York City. According to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, that makes the service the largest subscription music service in the United States, as well as the fastest growing.
Spotify now boasts more than 6 million paying subscribers and 20 million active users. The number of paid subscribers has grown by a million users in the last three months.
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| 11 Big Tech Trends You'll See in 2013 | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 11:29 AM | Lance Ulanoff |
| | Writing prediction pieces is a funny thing because there is really no such thing as “next year.” Time is a continuum, and the calendar is a human construct designed to help us keep organized. Things that will happen “next year” are already happening now, we may simply not take note of them until the sun rises and sets dozens and dozens of times. So as I look to 2013, I realize that much of which I expect to see in the coming 12-to-14 months has been quietly (or not so quietly) developing for months, even years. From my point of view, it’s unlikely 2013 will contain any revolutionary or ground-breaking advancements in technology, social media or even the nexus of the two. Believe me, I want breakthroughs. But in order for them to be such, they have to be things I’ve never seen before, which means I have little chance of predicting them. Let's be honest, I’m no Nostradamus.
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| December Saturday Evenings Are Most Popular Time to Lose Your Phone | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 10:37 AM | Samantha Murphy |
| | Smartphones go missing at 6:00 p.m. on Saturdays in Decembers more than rest of the year, a new study suggests. A survey conducted by data backup company Mozy among 3,500 UK adults revealed British consumers lose items the most during this time period due to the busy-ness of the holiday season -- a time when shopping for gifts and running to parties makes it harder to keep track of everything. Although the study found items such as jewelry and keys also get lost during this time, smartphones are most likely to disappear in the holiday shuffle. Smartphones account for 35% of all items lost by men worldwide and 25% by women.
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| 3D Printer Transforms Moon Dirt Into Lunar Base | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 10:26 AM | Space.com |
| | For space scientists dreaming up a manned base on the moon, 3D printing with lunar dust looms as an attractive possibility. Such on-demand fabrication would allow astronauts to repair broken parts, manufacture spare ones and maybe even build structures, all out of the dirt scooped from under their boots. In a new study involving artificial moon dust, engineers have shown that the technology is close to becoming reality. With 10 pounds of simulated lunar dirt (or regolith) in hand, NASA officials approached researchers at Washington State University and challenged them to melt and resolidify the fake moon rock using 3D laser printing technology, which produces objects layer by layer based on a computer model.
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| Robust Mobile Photo Editor Snapseed Arrives on Android | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 9:14 AM | Emily Price |
| | Popular iOS mobile photo editing app Snapseed has finally made its way to Android. Snapseed, the creation of 17-year-old Nik software, launched on iOS a little over a year ago. During the past year, the app has seen a whopping 9.5 million downloads and the company was acquired by Google. “Before we released Snapseed we were primarily focused on [software for] professionals or advanced amateur photographers -– the folks that are buying digital SLRs,” Josh Haftel, product manager at Google, and previously Nik Software, told Mashable. “The application has been really successful for us.”
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