Tag Archives: App

SkyLight Adapter Connects Microscopes To Smartphones

The SkyLight is really a simple device derived to solve a simple problem: how to keep your smartphone still enough [...]

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Scanadu Raises $2M For Medical Tricorder (video)

Star Trek fans rejoice, the Tricorder is here. Medical tech startup Scanadu has created a scanner that appears to have [...]

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Smartphone Pushes – Urban Airship Raises Millions of Dollars, To Send Billions of Notifications a Month

In the future, apps on your smart phone will know where you are, what you want, and how to grab [...]

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United and Continental Airlines Go Paperless: Give Their Pilots 11,000 iPads

Everyone’s getting free iPads these days. Students, NFL football players, new car buyers – well, until recently. Now iPads are [...]

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Geocaching – The GPS-based Treasure Hunt That Five Million People Are Playing (video)

You might not be aware, but there could be a hidden treasure very close to you. And someone’s probably coming [...]

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Experience The Civil War As It Unfolds In A Daily Newspaper With New iPad App (video)

I opened up the newspaper this morning to find out that the president was in D.C. to witness a demonstration [...]

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50,000+ Download Android Flashlight App After Japanese Quake

Every global tragedy teaches humanity something about itself. Of the many lessons we may learn from the recent Japanese earthquake [...]

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Car Radio Powered by Android. Introduce Your Ride to Some Apps (video)

Sure your car can go from 0 to 60 in less than four seconds, but can it play Angry Birds? [...]

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Word Lens Translates the Text You See In Real Time. Amazing to Behold (Video)

Another part of the universal translator has fallen into place. Quest Visual recently released Word Lens, a killer iPhone app [...]

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Apple’s New Version of the AppWall Visualizes Thousands of Downloads

During his keynote at the World Wide Developers Conference this week, Steve Jobs announced that Apple’s App Store recently hit [...]

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Starbucks App Lets You Buy Coffee With Your iPhone (Video)

As if they needed to make it any easier to get a cup of their coffee, Starbucks has just released [...]

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iPhone App From ScanR Puts Scanner and Fax Machine in Your Hands

Smart phones are becoming mobile business centers. Forget about texts, phone calls, emails, and web browsing, phones can now handle [...]

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Siri: a Free Personal Assistant in Your iPhone (video)

You’re about to get your very own genie in a bottle. Simply talk into your iPhone and tell Siri what [...]

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Check Your Date Before You Mate – iPhone Has an App for That

Maybe you’ve dated someone you shouldn’t have. Sometimes that means getting bored or a little inconvenienced. For a friend of [...]

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Broadcast Streaming Video – iPhone Finally Has an App for That

Technology is turning us all into miniature media moguls. For those that want to share moments of their lives as [...]

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Dragon Dictation, Voice Recognition Comes to the iPhone for Free (Video)

Can’t afford a stenographer? Well now iPhone has an App for that. Nuance, the creators of the successful Dragon Naturally [...]

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Universal Translators Are All Around Us (Video)

When watching Star Trek, I was always amazed that the aliens all spoke English. Writers explained this happy coincidence by [...]

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Wolfram Alpha, iPhone has an App for That

You know, if computers ever take over the world, it’s not going to be through a super smart spaceship like [...]

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iPhone Lets You Reserve, Find, and Open a Car

Like peanut butter and chocolate, Batman and Robin, or babies and puppies, some things are just more powerful when combined. [...]

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Scanning Barcodes and Counting Calories – iPhone Has an App

Your iPhone can play so many roles in your life: tour guide, military commander, camerman, restaurant reviewer, bank teller, DJ, [...]

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Commanding Military Drones – Now iPhone Has an App for That

If you’ve got drones in different area codes, iPhone has an app for that. MIT’s Human and Automation Lab (HAL) [...]

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Need to Make a Deposit? iPhone has an App for That

We’re rapidly approaching a time when every conceivable human action will have an associated iPhone application. While still in the [...]

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