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| Nokia Debuts $68 Mobile Phones Designed for Fast Internet Access | | Smartphones may comprise a majority of mobile-phone shipments worldwide, but a sizeable number of handset users still prefer basic feature phones. Nokia catered to the latter market on Wednesday by debuting two 3G-capable feature phones — the 207 and 208 — that are specifically designed to provide users with quick Internet access.
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| An App to Help Doctors Diagnose Dementia | | 12:04:42 AM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| Doctors can now reduce process of testing for dementia from three years to 10 minutes. Cantab, a new iPad app from Cambridge Cognition, is designed to help early diagnoses of dementia. The technology, based on testing developed at the University of Cambridge, is designed to be easy for patients to use.
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| 3D-Printed Human Organs Prep Doctors for Real Surgeries | | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 9:31 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| An Iowa businessman says 3D-printed human organs can help doctors practice surgeries before actually opening up a real body. Mark Ginsberg — an Iowa City jewelry store owner, who also has a manufacturing facility with a couple of 3D-printers — has partnered with physicians to help 3D print organ models or whatever they might need, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reported.
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| Drone Project Modeled From Incredible Images of Birds in Flight | | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 8:04 PM | Luisa Rollenhagen |
| Stanford University students are capturing incredible images of birds in mid-flight in order to study their movements, behavior, and ultimately create the ideal drone. The ultra-high-speed Phantom camera they use can shoot upwards of 3,300 frames per second at full resolution, and an amazing 650,000 at a tiny resolution, which enables the students to capture the incredibly intricate movements of a bird in flight.
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| Boston University Sues Apple for Patent Infringement | | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 7:29 PM | AppAdvice |
| Boston University is taking Apple to court for patent infringement. According to the Boston Herald, the university's suit claims that the company is using a patented semiconductor in its products. Filed in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, the suit says that the component, patented by engineering professor D. Moustakas in 1997, is used in numerous products including the iPhone 5, iPad and MacBook Air.
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| Free Wi-Fi Is Coming to Select Airports via MediaShift | | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 5:59 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Free airport Wi-Fi sounds too good to be true, but a select group of 20 U.S. airports will soon be offering the service as part of a partnership with the digital advertising company MediaShift. It's called the Premier Airport Network and the deal will place ads throughout a user's surfing session.
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| Vine's Biggest Update Yet Adds 'Revines,' Cat Videos and Ghosts | | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 3:58 PM | Emily Price |
| Vine released its biggest update to date for iOS Wednesday, bringing a number of new features to the video service. Included in the update are 15 new channels ranging from comedy to cats where you can submit your videos, a new “On the Rise” section that highlights Vine videos going viral on the service, and new capture tools — such as grid and ghost tools — to add flavor to your videos.
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| The Man Who Invented the Computer Mouse Has Died | | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 3:23 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Douglas Engelbart, the man who invented the computer mouse and helped develop many of the basic computing technologies we now take for granted, has died. He was 88. The news appears to have first been announced via a tweet from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. SRI International, where Engelbart did much of his work and which represents the Douglas Engelbart Institute, confirmed Engelbart's death to Mashable.
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| Leaked: More Low-Cost iPhone Photos | | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 3:07 PM | Charlie White |
| Now there are iPhones in blue and white added to the rumored low-cost iPhones. And, we have renders of what the final products might look like.
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| Behind the Scenes of the World's First 3D-Printed Room | | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 2:08 PM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| The next craze in 3D printing is here: entire rooms. Architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger built a prototype for the first 3D-printed room, which they are calling Digital Grotesque. It's more of a grotto than a room; from the outside, it looks like a cube, and the inside is a work of art replete with intricate columns.
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| Send Your Own Personalized Spacecraft to the Moon | | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 10:51 AM | Luisa Rollenhagen |
| A new Kickstarter project now allows you to explore the solar system with a personalized spacecraft. By contributing to the Pocket Spacecraft project, you're ensuring that the the creators will send your spacecraft — and thousands of others — to the moon. The Pocket Spacecrafts are small, paper-thin discs, smaller than an average CD, which can be personalized by adding pictures and customizing the message it transmits.
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| A Digital How-To for Disaster Preparedness | | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 9:22 AM | Sarah Ang |
| You never know exactly when disaster will strike, and even in this age, no app or gadget can fully replace good old-fashioned preparation. Keeping reliable technology on hand, however, can potentially save lives. We'll walk you through five important steps to cover your bases. SEE ALSO: How We Use Social Media During Emergencies [INFOGRAPHIC] 1. The Basics FEMA has a very thorough disaster supply list online.
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