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November 20, 2013
Hack Your Thanksgiving Turkey To Tweet From The Oven
Serve your Thanksgiving turkey with a side of Raspberry Pi and watch it tweet from the oven.
The Internet of Delicious Things is coming to your Thanksgiving table this year, courtesy of a fun turkey hack from Oracle.
The Making Of Bob Dylan's Hypnotizing "Like A Rolling Stone" Interactive Video
Here's how Bob Dylan's 48-year-old song became a viral, interactive video. It's powered by a proprietary tech called Treehouse. And it's full of Easter eggs for Dylan devotees.
Bob Dylan, the 72-year-old folk idol, disrupted the music video industry this week, releasing an interactive video for the 1965 classic "Like a Rolling Stone." Yes, you heard that right: Bob Dylan, 21st-century innovator.
Apple's IBeacon Comes To Macy's: Is This The Future Of Shopping?
A new installation of an iBeacon system by Shopkick in Macy's in New York and San Francisco shows us how we'll shop tomorrow.
iBeacon is an innovation from Apple that lets stores communicate with shoppers who pass through their doors through the iOS 7 iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch operating system. Now, ShopBeacon from Shopkick is the first major retailer deployment of the iBeacon technology, and if you want to experience it, head to Macy's.
LittleBits Gets $11.1 Million To Bring Its Lego-Like Electronics To Everyone
The company that makes electronics kits for home tinkerers is building its own platform so anyone can design products for LittleBits.
LittleBits, the maker of the popular, Lego-like electronics kits for home tinkerers, has bagged $11.1 million, which will go toward building out a platform that third-party partners can use to run their own LittleBits-compatible hardware.
Lytro Gets $40 Million To Expand Its Amazing Camera Tech To More Gadgets
As shrewd observers expected, Lytro's amazing "no focus" tech is going to be used in more than just fancy cameras.
Lytro's "light field" optical technology and compact camera can pull off amazing tricks. The camera can shoot without focusing, and your photos can even be printed with 3-D effects. Today the company has landed a $40 million investment round to expand its tech into many more gadgets and applications.
Rocketing To 1.5M Users, QuizUp's Addictive Trivia App Raises $2M
The round of capital will help QuizUp build on the initial success of its trivia game that's been praised for its clever social features and slick design.
Thor Fridriksson can barely contain himself. The founder and CEO of development studio Plain Vanilla Games has reason to be excited: In just over a week since his company launched launched QuizUp, the startup's addictive trivia app, the service has already signed up 1.5 million users, who have clocked in roughly 70 million games played--more than enough to rocket the app to the top of iTunes.
5 Fast Tips For Accelerating Your Online Revenue
A conversation with Steve Power, chief revenue officer for BigCommerce, who breaks down five key lessons for growing your online revenue.
For episode two of our new "Outthinkers" video blog, we spoke with Steve Power, Chief Revenue Officer for BigCommerce, who breaks down for us five key lessons you can apply to more rapidly grow your online revenue.
November 19, 2013
With Photo Books, Flickr Gets Into The Print Business
The same service that helped put your photos online now wants to help you take them offline.
When Flickr launched in 2004, digitizing photos was still new. Now, nine years later, the Yahoo-owned service has created a product aimed at showcasing photos on old-fashioned paper.
Why Cell Phone Carriers Are Against A Kill Switch For Stolen Phones
Lawmakers have been pushing cell phone makers to implement anti-theft software that can remotely deactivate a stolen phone, but carriers don't like the idea very much.
San Francisco and New York lawmakers have been pushing hardware makers like Samsung to provide anti-theft software for cell phones that would allow owners to remotely deactivate a phone should it get stolen, rendering it useless. But according to the San Francisco district attorney, George Gascón, carriers like Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint aren't crazy about the idea of implementing such a "kill switch." Why? Because they'd lose money.
Why Oranges Are Orange
And more fun color trivia from an enlightening new book, ROY G. BIV, which decodes color, with surprises all across the spectrum
Here's some color trivia:
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