You’re with a small group of friends at a nice restaurant. Everyone is enjoying the food and conversation when someone decides to take out his phone — not for an urgent call, but to check email, Instagram and Facebook. Maybe you’ve witnessed this behavior and found it unsettling. What do you do? Do you sit idly by, thinking disparaging thoughts? Or do you call out the offender? Read MoreDaily Archives: March 4, 2016
You’re with a small group of friends at a nice restaurant. Everyone is enjoying the food and conversation when someone decides to take out his phone — not for an urgent call, but to check email, Instagram and Facebook. Maybe you’ve witnessed this behavior and found it unsettling. What do you do? Do you sit idly by, thinking disparaging thoughts? Or do you call out the offender? Read MoreAt the top of our minds this week is the new pair of Amazon Echo products, the Tap and the Echo Dot. The post Gadget Lab Podcast: Alexa, Predict the Future appeared first on WIRED.
Gadget Lab Podcast: Alexa, Predict the Future
Add this one to the bucket list….A startup called Cape Productions will use a drone to capture footage of you skiing. Stationed at Squaw Valley in Lake Tahoe, the team provides aerial footage of you racing down the slopes, providing different angles than your GoPro. Because of its impeccable safety record, Cape is currently the only FAA-approved company that’s allowed to fly drones… Read MoreTechCrunch went skiing with a drone
Amazon is making it difficult to pre-order the $90 Echo Dot. But there’s still a way and it’s really easy to nab your place in line for the new mini Echo. Better hurry, though. Amazon could close this loophole at any moment. To pre-order the Echo Dot: Open the Amazon iOS shopping app Search for “Echo Dot” On the search result page, swipe right on the device to add it… Read MoreWant the Echo Dot? Here’s how to bypass Amazon’s restrictions ...
Sony is doing something unheard of in the consumer electronic space: It’s going to show off prototypes. Can you imagine Apple or Samsung doing that? Not really, no. For several good reasons, electronic companies like to keep products under wraps until they’re completely finished and the company can unveil it with many dogs and ponies. Sony’s calling this program Future Lab… Read MoreThe Sony Future Lab could be as forward-thinking as the ...
A new app from David Barnard, the developer behind the popular Launch Center Pro, promises to be the cure for boredom. Rando, as the app is called, offers a crazy twist on our carefully curated online personas – instead of allowing you to choose a photo or GIF to share with friends, Rando will just randomly pick one for you. You can also share random text quotes, then post them to… Read MoreRando is a random social sharing app that lets you ...
Being piqued our appetite to experience the world, and the internet, like a famous person. And then it got shut down. The post Instagram Banned 'Being,' But Celeb Voyeur Apps Are Inevitable appeared first on WIRED.
Instagram Banned ‘Being,’ But Celeb Voyeur Apps Are Inevitable
Two new, recently launched applications, Daycap and VideoSlam, make it easy to summarize your day in the format of videos or GIFs, which can then be shared out to social media. Do you need these apps on your iPhone? No. Are you totally going to download them on your lunch break because it’s Friday, they sound fun, and those TPS reports can wait? Yep!
Daycap
The first application… Read MoreTwo new apps, Daycap and VideoSlam, help you create GIFs ...
The SkyWall 100 is one of the latest device promising to protect the world from the impending drone takeover. It’s essentially a smart bazooka that fires a canister filled with a net at drones 100 meters away. Boom headshot. An operator targets the drone and fires a canister that contains a large net that gets tangled in the drone’s rotors. A parachute then delivers the drone back… Read MoreThe SkyWall 100 bazooka captures drones with a giant net
Popslate may have made a pretty good product pretty great. The post The Popslate 2 Is an E-Ink iPhone Case That May Actually Make Sense appeared first on WIRED.