Geeky Jeans Let You Tweet from Your Pocket

Have you ever had your better half, friends or family members get on your case about your smartphone usage. If you have, you are a lot like me and we both need these jeans!

DELTA415 jeans (by the way, 415 is the area code for San Francisco) feature a smartphone pocket with a zippered flap for a secure and easy retrieval, and full usability of the smartphone while sitting down. No more taking it out during dinner only to be glared at by those who just don’t understand. The jeans are inspired by fighter pilot suits and feature organic cotton. They are very San Fran and you can buy a pair of these Twitter-ready jeans here. They will set you back about $160 but they might actually save your relationship too.

Wikileakes plans

WikiLeaks says it plans to publish millions of emails from Syrian officials that contain information embarrassing not only to Syria, but to many countries that are ostensibly opposed to its government.

Called the Syria Files, the release is of some 2 million emails. WikiLeaks says stories about what is in them will appear in various publications over the next few months.

Conductive Blanket Makes 3-D Images

For those who never jumped on the Snuggie bandwagon, you were wise to wait. There's a smarter, more advanced, self-aware blanket from the University of Toronto that will put all other wraps to shame.
The prototype, dubbed the “IM Blanky,” is made of a conductive fabric and contains tilt sensors. Clusters of sensor-embedded petals gather information about their respective angles and send the position information to an Arduino computer, which calculates the slopes between the flowers. This results in a 3-D picture of the blanket’s state no matter how crumpled or folded it may be.

Paraplegic Remotely Controls Robot with Thoughts

A professor at a Swiss university on Tuesday unveiled a robot that can be controlled by the brainwaves of a paraplegic person wearing an electrode-fitted cap, news agency ATS reported.
A paralyzed man at a hospital in the town of Sion demonstrated the device, sending a mental command to a computer in his room, which transmitted it to another computer that moved a small robot 60 kilometers (37 miles) away in Lausanne.

The system was developed by Jose Millan, a professor at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne who specializes in non-invasive interfaces between machines and the brain.
The same technology can be used to drive a wheelchair, Millan said.
"Once the movement has begun, the brain can relax, otherwise the person would soon be exhausted," he said.

But the technology has its limits, he added. The brain signals can be scrambled if too many people are gathered around a wheelchair, for example.
Besides making paraplegics mobile, neuroprosthetics could be used to help patients recover lost senses, researchers said.
Professor Stephanie Lacour and her team are working on an "electric skin" for amputees, a glove fitted with tiny sensors that would send information directly to the user's nervous system.
Eventually, researchers say they hope to create mechanized prosthetics that are as mobile and sensitive as a natural hand, Lacour said.

Ah yes, the grocery store dilemma: How does this food item stack up against the rest? When the options are squinting at labels or using a special phone app on each package, sometimes good intentions get left behind. Maybe your grocery cart will have the answer.

Dad Builds Ghost-Hunting Gizmos For Late Daughter

Gary Galka knows better than most that a father's love lasts forever.

The Granby, Conn., dad lost his daughter, Melissa, eight years ago in a car crash. Galka says that his connection to Melissa remains strong, and that he constantly feels her presence. That connection led the electrical engineer to design what he says is a digital device for paranormal exploration -- or ghost hunting.

Origami' Aircraft Flies Inside Out

Inspired by geometry, researchers built an aircraft that propels itself through the air by turning itself inside out. The SmartInversion, designed by the German company Festo, is an airborne geometrical band with an inversion drive. The lightweight triangular-shaped craft is filled with helium and has electrically-activated joints controlled by a remote control. So-called "inversion kinetics" propel the contraption forwards. The video is mesmerizing. via Gizmag

Where Your 2011 Federal Income Taxes Went

Here's a delightful way to present data... and you'll find some insights regardless of your political orientation.

One reason this visualization works (unlike our daily work in analytics) is that the data view is up-leveled and segmented. In our daily life we tend to be too down into the weeds, and even then sift through unsegmented data.

PS: Is it not sad that 33% of our budget is spent on military (military +veterans+intl), 15% on interest on debt (!), and our politicians are arguing about contraception and gay rights. On all sides we need people to hold this printout in their hands, show it on a giant screens behind them, and have a better discussion. 

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Interesting clouds, aren't they? I've seen these kind of stretched out clouds before, but I'd never seen puffy clouds underneath these stretchers.. I wonder if that means the wind was at different speeds at different altitudes? Maybe a cloud expert can chime in here... :-) 

This shot was taken from the top of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Note:On the day G+ launched its new profile style, I was in LA. I went out to capture a cover photo and this was the shot I took. Some people had asked to see the full photo, here it is... (My cover photo is a really close-up crop of this photo.)

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SOLAR-POWERED FABRIC CHARGES PHONES ON THE TRAIL

When every ounce on the trail counts, outdoor adventurers dream about ditching batteries. They might not have to wait. Designers at Colorado State University are developing solar-powered clothes from natural fibers that can charge a number of devices, including phones, tablets and GPS units.

Professor Eulanda Sanders and associate professor Ajoy Sarkar in CSU's Department of Design and Merchandising, as well as four of their students, are making prototypes for solar-charging apparel that can be worn while biking, snowboarding, skiing or hiking.

SMARTWATCH BREAKS KICKSTARTER RECORDS

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Pebble Smartwatch: $150 ($99 pledge)

Ever have one of those moments when you feel your phone buzzing in your pocket, but when check, it's not doing anything? I call that the "phantom vibrate." A new Kickstart project, the Pebble Smartwatch, is making sure those incidents (or the ones where you hold your purse to your head to see if it’s ringing) never happen again. The watch connects to phones via Bluetooth and vibrates in a more obvious way on your wrist when a call, text or other message comes in.

Great Achievement ...... :-)

The dream of true cybernetics -- merging man with machine -- just got a bit closer. Scientists at Northwestern University built a device that can send signals from the brain directly to paralyzed muscles, causing them to move by thought. This technology could help patients who have suffered spinal cord injuries regain the use of their limbs.

The work was done in rhesus monkeys, who were given a local anesthetic to block nerve activity at the elbow, which caused temporary paralysis of the hand. Before they were given the anesthetic, though, the monkeys were trained to grasp a ball, lift it and release it into a tube. The signals from their brains to their hands and arms during these activities were recorded via an electrode implanted painlessly into their brains. After many repetitions, the researchers were able to see what kinds of signals were necessary to cause the the limbs to move. It turned out that the information was encoded in only about 100 neurons.Knowing that, the scientists designed a device, called a multi-electrode array, that was able to pick up the tell-tale signals from the 100 or so neurons, decipher them and send them to the muscles -- bypassing the anesthetized nerves.

The signals that reached the muscles made them contract, enabling the monkeys to pick up the balls almost as well as they did before they were given the anesthetic.

The motions weren't perfect. Lee E. Miller, a professor in neuroscience at Northwestern and the lead investigator of the study said it might be because it takes some time for a monkey to learn how to use its arm again this way.

Other research teams have enabled monkeys to take mental control of machines, and there has been some work done in humans on linking prosthesis to neural signals. But the big advance here is better voluntary control and directly connecting to the brain. Previous efforts have been geared to interpreting signals through the skin at the end of an amputee's stump, for example, or controlling arms via shoulder movements. This type of interface provides voluntary movement more like that experienced naturally.

GOOGLE PRINT SENDS

Since 2010, Google has offered their Cloud Print service, which allows a person to print a document from a smartphone. Now those people will have the ability to print documents to a local FedEx office.

This service is especially handy for business people who may be traveling and do not have access to their home printer. Just select the “Print to FedEx Office” option in the factory installed app and a digital file is generated along with a retrieval code that can be used at any of the 1,800 or so participating FedEx offices. Upon arriving at a store, simply enter the retrieval code at the printer to print the document.

Cancer chemical alert over crisps and coffe

Food firms have been warned about the presence of a cancer-risk chemical in everyday products ranging from crisps and chips to instant coffee and ginger biscuits.
A biscuit designed for babies and toddlers has also been caught up in the alert.
Experts are even warning families to only lightly toast their bread at home, as the chemical, called acrylamide, is more likely to form the longer and darker foods cook.
A study by the Food Standards Agency has identified 13 products containing raised levels of the chemical. In each case, officials at the local council where the supplier is based have been told to notify them.

crylamide, which is still being investigated by scientists, is a cooking by-product associated with frying, baking, roasting or toasting foods at very high temperatures, usually greater than 120c.
The FSA insists its findings raise no immediate risk to the public and there is no need for people to change their diet.
However, it is putting pressure on all food companies to reduce acrylamide levels because long-term consumption could increase the risk of cancer. Its official advice is also that families should ensure bread and chips they eat are only toasted or baked to the 'lightest colour possible'.

A TABLET THAT TALKS TO YOUR TV

Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 is smaller, lighter and cheaper than the iPad. So at least it's not automatically doomed.

This WiFi-connected Android tablet, which arrives Sunday for $249.99, also includes an ingredient absent from Apple's recipe: a universal-remote app and an infrared transmitter to control TVs and other audio or video devices.

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The Emperor 1510 Computer Workstation (Picture Below) is the future of high-end home and office computer work environments. The Emperor offers functionalities that enable the user to experience unprecedented comfort and quasi total immersion through strategically positioned monitors, audio system and accessories. There's also a luxury model, the Emperor 200 which is like the G450 Business Jet equivalent of where ever you normally sit to surf the interwebs, but is oddly more expensive than actually chartering a private flight. 

The built-in monitor mount allows for up to three 24″ screens, and the built in LED lights in the upper structure provide ideal lighting without causing a glare. There’s an adjustable keyboard tray for your ergonomic pleasure, and the seat controls allow for tilting, lifting, lowering, twisting, turning, and any other relevant verbs you could associate with internet usage. 

A series of various inputs and outputs accommodate your Mac, PC, or favorite gaming console, and the audio control pod makes adjusting the levels of the built-in Bose sound system convenient and simple. 

All you need now is about $6,000 for the Emperor 1510 and $45,000 for the Emperor 200, plus shipping, mmm...slightly worried that the shipping cost could be overpriced though :P

Google Art Project launched in India -- NewsX

Microsoft Beats Estimates as Windows Makes a Stand

SEATTLE — Microsoft is facing some of the biggest challenges in its history with the rise of smartphones and the iPad, but one of its stalwarts of the personal computer era showed there is still life left in its main business.
Microsoft said Thursday that sales of its flagship software product for PC, the Windows operating system, rose 4 percent in the quarter. Analysts were expecting a drop in the business because of broader industry data showing weakness in the personal computer business. Gartner, a technology research firm, recently estimated that worldwide PC shipments had grown only 1.9 percent in the quarter.
There is speculation within the technology industry that the supremacy of the PC is over and that Microsoft’s influence is waning along with it. Executives at Apple have boasted that the explosive growth in sales of the iPad and the iPhone are evidence of the arrival of a post-PC era.
During the final three months of last year, Microsoft had a drop in overall sales from Windows, at least partly because of the Apple iPad, which sapped sales of low-end laptop computers. In its most recent quarter, sales of Windows PCs to consumers suffered because of the iPad.
Big business customers, though, picked up the slack, showing how Microsoft’s products are entrenched within one of the most lucrative sectors of the technology market.
“It was nothing to get superexcited about, but relative to what we were experiencing, it’s better than a poke in the eye,” Rick Sherlund, an analyst at Nomura Securities, said of the Windows sales.
Another indication of that strength was a 14 percent increase in sales in Microsoft’s server and tools business, which includes databases and other software products for businesses.
“We are very pleased with the way businesses are investing in technology,” Peter Klein, Microsoft’s chief financial officer, said in an interview.
Microsoft reported a decline in net income to $5.11 billion, or 60 cents a share, compared with $5.23 billion, or 61 cents a share, in the same period a year ago. That decline was mainly due to a tax benefit of $461 million that Microsoft received last year, without which net income would have increased year over year.
Revenue rose to $17.41 billion, from $16.43 billion a year ago.
While its core franchises, Windows and Office, continue to generate profits for the company, Microsoft is struggling to adapt to some of the deeper changes in the technology industry in recent years, especially the shift to mobile devices.
Apple, Microsoft’s longtime rival, has been the biggest beneficiary of that transition and, indeed, has led it, with products like the iPhone and iPad. As a result, Apple now has a market value more than twice that of Microsoft.
Microsoft is preparing to respond to the iPad with Windows 8, a new version of its operating system that has been overhauled to take better advantage of touch-screen devices. That product is not expected to be released to PC manufacturers until late this year, at the earliest.
An earlier Microsoft effort to counter the iPhone has not yet borne fruit. For more than a year, the company has been offering its Windows Phone operating system for smartphones, with little success. More recently, phones from the Finnish cellphone giant Nokia with Windows Phone software, including the Lumia 900, have hit the market to generally positive reviews.
Microsoft does not reveal sales figures from its mobile phone software business. In a sign of the difficulties Microsoft still faces in the mobile market, its most important partner in the mobile business, Nokia, said Thursday that sales of its new Lumia phones had been “mixed,” with better results in the United States than in other markets like Britain.
While Microsoft has been able to point to its video game business in recent years as proof of its grasp of consumer technologies, that division’s sales dropped 16 percent, to $1.62 billion, in the quarter because of a “soft gaming-console market,” Microsoft said in a statement.
The company had been on a roll, with strong sales of the Kinect, a sensor device that allows people to play Xbox games without holding a traditional controller.

But the traditional games business this year has not shown as much innovation as in the recent past, said Mr. Sherlund, the analyst, who speculated that the Xbox could be experiencing more competition from games on Facebook and mobile devices like the iPad.

Facebook newss.....

To win over Instagram, Facebook was forced to show its hand.

Facebook bought the photo-sharing service for $1 billion in early April, agreeing to pay roughly 30 percent in cash and 70 percent in stock, according to people briefed on the negotiations who did not want to be identified because the discussions were private. At that level, Facebook is pegging its own stock price at roughly $30 a share. Based on those numbers, the giant social network is valued at north of $75 billion.

But Facebook could actually be worth more.

During the negotiations with Instagram, the parties framed the deal around a logical assumption: Facebook could soon trade publicly at a much higher market value. As part of the talks, the companies discussed a potential value of about $104 billion for Facebook, these people said. One of Instagram’s founders, Kevin Systrom, first broached the number, one of the people said.

At $104 billion, the value is roughly in line with where Facebook has at times traded on the secondary market: shares of the privately held company have been selling for as high as $40.

Scareware uses child porn warning to scam money

The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has issued a warning about scareware messages saying your computer is associated with child pornography and demands money to fix the problem.

RCMP on Prince Edward Island told CBC News Wednesday they have been receiving complaints.

"Over the past couple of weeks, some Islanders have received pop-up messages on their computers claiming to be from the RCMP or CSIS or the Federal Government of Canada, and they state that the computer is involved somehow with child pornography," said Sgt. Andrew Blackadar.

"These pop-up messages, if people click on them, will actually lock up people's computers."

The warning messages tell recipients to pay $100 via Ukash so their computer can be unlocked.

Such messages, commonly known as scareware, are designed to create such shock and anxiety that victims respond by sending money quickly, said RCMP.

Last November, Ukash posted an alert on its website about a similar scam targeting residents in the United Kingdom.

If you've been "locked out" of your computer, it's an indicator that your system may have been infected with malware and you will need to take steps to address the problem. To protect yourself, the RCMP suggests you:

new gadget

This month's roundup of The Goods includes hiking boots with sliding plates in the heels, a lightbulb with a speaker in it (or a speaker with a lightbulb in it? We're still not sure), a blast-chilling fridge that cools a beer in five minutes, and much more.

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