Moment begins Kickstarter campaign for clip-on smartphone camera lenses
If you’re fed up with the camera on your phone, there’s no shortage of clip-on lenses to enhance the experience: Just take a look at Sony, Olloclip and Photojojo for great examples of this. This doesn’t mean there isn’t room for a new contender, however. Moment, a startup founded by the creator of Contour, has just launched a Kickstarter project for a pair of lenses that clip on to your iPhone, iPad or Samsung Galaxy S 2, 3 or 4. The new products, which consist of your choice of wide-angle or telephoto, can be mounted onto the phones with a thin piece of metal. Each one features a four- or five-element lens, almost no geometric distortion or chromatic aberration, the same professional-quality cinema glass that Moment claims is used for HD film and slightly larger diameters designed to keep image quality the same around the edges as it is in the center. If you choose to back the project, you’ll be able to buy one lens for $50 or two for $100, though there are a couple more expensive options should you be interested in getting something a little more exclusive.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile, Apple, Samsung
Via: Recode
Source: Kickstarter
Chrome 32 brings a Chrome OS-style ‘desktop’ to Windows 8
After a fairly lengthy beta phase, Google has released the finished version of Chrome 32 — and it’s one of the biggest updates to the browser in recent memory. Windows 8 users now get a Chrome OS-style interface (shown above), complete with its own windowing system and a web app launcher. Whichever platform you’re running, you’ll also get malware blocking and notifications when tabs are playing audio or using your webcam. Protective parents may also like a beta supervised users feature that lets them review their kids’ browsing habits. Suffice it to say that there’s more than enough here to warrant grabbing the Chrome update; visit the source links if you’d like the full release notes.
Filed under: Internet, Software, Google
Source: Google Chrome Blog, Chrome Releases
Tumblr adds @ mentions, further establishes internet jargon
Silly Tumblr, what with its ability to type full, actual names instead of @-based messages. Quaint, even! Well it turns out that Yahoo’s favorite microblogging service is adding Twitter-esque @ messages as of today — the company’s even celebrating the news with a custom GIF just for you (seen above). Wondering how to do it? Just…uh, well, the GIF above should let you know.
Filed under: Internet, Software
Via: CNET
Horizon for iOS records landscape video no matter how you hold your phone
On Vine and Instagram, square-sharing is the name of the game. But when it comes to YouTube or TV, you’re going to insult viewers if you present them with a vertical video. Despite six years of smartphone innovation, Apple hasn’t really solved what’s come to be known as Vertical Video Syndrome, so one app developer is taking it upon itself to fix it. With Horizon, Evil Window Dog believes it can help shape a world with no more black sidebars. Where some developers ask users to hold their iPhone on its side before shooting, like Google tried with YouTube Capture for iOS, Horizon wants to make things a whole lot easier by letting you capture horizontal video from any angle.
Horizon works by using your iOS device’s gyroscope to auto-level videos, keeping a horizontal focus on the action unfolding in front of you. If you rotate your iPhone 45-degrees, the app simply adjusts the frame to maintain its aspect ratio (it currently supports square 1:1, wide 16:9 and standard 4:3). But that’s not all it has to offer. In the app’s settings, you can set whether you’d like to rotate as you film, rotate and scale recordings or disable rotation altogether. Video quality can be tweaked to output VGA, 720p or Full HD recordings and there’s also an option to mirror videos to your Apple TV using AirPlay. You can even apply one of eight pre-installed filters, if artistically destroying homemade videos is your thing. Horizon is available on the App Store for $0.99 for a limited time — we just wish Apple and Google had bundled this as standard.
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile
Via: The Next Web
Source: Horizon (App Store), Horizon
New Nexus 10 details include Android 4.5, 3GB RAM
Samsung again looks to be the hardware maker of choice for the 10-inch Nexus tablet
Take this next bit of news however you want, but new Nexus 10 details have surfaced this afternoon. According to evleaks, the successor could debut with Android 4.5 and feature 3GB RAM with 16GB and 32GB storage options. The kicker? It’s from Samsung, not Asus.
We’ve heard arguments on both sides of the field that the new 10-inch Google tablet would come from either of these. Should this bit of news prove accurate, then the tablet could also boast a Samsung Exynos 5 processor, a 5-megapixel rear camera, and 3-megapixel front-facing camera. That display? Look for 2560×1600 pixels, or a WQWGA resolution.
As to whether all of this will pan out remains unclear; even evleaks says they “cannot vouch for this”.
We would assume that Android 4.5 is stilled called “KitKat”, especially given the promotional effort and cross-branding involved.
Unfortunately there’s not a word of pricing or availability. But, given that the 16GB and 32GB versions of the Nexus 10 are out of stock (as of right now) we could hear something soon.
UPDATE: Pocket-lint has received its own render of this tablet, however their model is black. A black and white version of a device sounds exactly like something Google might do.
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