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| Is 'Star Trek' Technology Still Light Years Away? | | 12:06:46 AM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| In the age of iPads, flying cars and space rovers, some gadgets that were once confined to the science-fiction world are quickly becoming commonplace 21st-century commodities. Star Trek, which aired its first episode more than 40 years ago on NBC, stood at the forefront, dazzling its fan base for decades with such high-tech gizmos as phasers and tricorders in the exploration of the final frontier.
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| Stay Powered Up With This Tiny USB Smartphone Charger | | Friday, July 05, 2013 11:30 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| The new CulCharge USB phone charger gets right to the point with no unnecessary frills, and it's compact enough to carry around in your pocket. The CulCharge is a simple charger made of flexible silicone that has a USB plug on one end and a connection to a phone on the other, as explained in the video above.
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| Apple May Be Working on Self-Adjusting Noise-Cancelling Headphones | | Friday, July 05, 2013 8:36 PM | Emily Price |
| Listen up — Apple may be working on its own noise-cancelling earbuds. A recently discovered patent application filed by the company shows a pair of headphones that adjust their output based on how they fit in a person’s ears. SEE ALSO: 7 iPhone Concepts That Will Make You Salivate Noise-cancelling earbuds are often affected by how they fit in the ear.
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| 7 Tips For Scoring a Date on Tinder | | Friday, July 05, 2013 6:14 PM | Adam Popescu |
| If your thumb hurts from constantly browsing Tinder, the addictive dating app, you're not alone — it boasts of a membership of about 20 million. The service is extremely simple. Cycle through potential partners, and click the green heart on profiles of those you're interested in. Otherwise, click a red "X," and you'll move on to the next profile.
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| A New High-Tech Way to Detect Crime Scene Fingerprints | | Friday, July 05, 2013 3:42 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| The latest in high-tech crime scene investigation is a "fluorescent tag" that can help identify fingerprints on bullets, knives and other metal surfaces by creating images that are accurate to the nanoscale.
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| 5 Futuristic Inventions We Wish Existed | | Friday, July 05, 2013 3:12 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Who would have thought Total Recall's prediction of driverless cars or The Truman Show's forecasting of the rise of reality TV would actually come to pass? But other predictions from futurists and Hollywood visions of hoverboards, flying cars and space colonies don't exist quite yet.
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| Visit 23 Museums and Zoos Free With Google Field Trip App | | Friday, July 05, 2013 2:30 PM | Emily Price |
| Google wants you to go on a field trip this summer. If you have Google’s Field Trip app installed on your phone, you can get free admission at 23 of the nation’s best museums and zoos until the end of July. Options include everything from President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington D.C. to the Bronx Zoo in New York City. SEE ALSO: Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time Google originally launched Field Trip last September.
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| Capture Your Favorite Scents on Camera | | Friday, July 05, 2013 2:11 PM | Discovery News |
| A freshly mowed lawn, lit charcoal and sunscreen are just a few summer smells that are as ephemeral as they are memorable. However, a new “smell camera” could help preserve these fragrances, not only in memory. Created by designer Amy Radcliffe, Madeleine is an “analog odor camera” based off "Headspace Capture," a technology developed for the perfume industry to analyze and recreate the odor compounds that surround various objects.
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| Everything Gmail Knows About You and Your Friends, Visualized | | Friday, July 05, 2013 10:34 AM | National Journal |
| When Google hands over email records to the government, it includes basic envelope information, or metadata, that reveals the names and email addresses of senders and recipients in your account. The feds, in turn, can mine that information for patterns that might be useful in a law enforcement investigation.
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| 14 Google Tools You Didn't Know Existed | | Friday, July 05, 2013 8:22 AM | Denise Lu |
| Now that you've written your eulogies for Google Reader, it's a good time to remember that Google has an abundance of other resources that may not be as popular but still deserve a spotlight. We rounded up some lesser-known Google tools and applications that could help you cope with the loss of Reader and rekindle your love for Google.
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| You Aren't Using These 10 Simple Security Settings | | Friday, July 05, 2013 7:11 AM | Jess Fee |
| Online security isn't just a good idea anymore — it's an essential safety measure for anyone using the web. In 2012, Wired senior tech reporter Mat Honan lost more than a year's worth of pictures of his newborn daughter after his Google and Amazon accounts were hacked. Earlier in 2013, the Syrian Electronic Army allegedly hacked the Twitter accounts of The Financial Times, E! Online and The Associated Press.
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