Leaked photos show side-by-side comparison of the Moto X+1 and Moto X
It looks like there’s a new leak regarding the Moto X+1 every day. Motorola‘s follow-up to last year’s surprising, but under-appreciated, flagship smartphone, the Moto X, is set for a release sometime next month, so it’s unsurprising to see an increasing number of leaks of the device. The last leak comes from HelloMotoHK who has acquired photos which show a comparison of the Moto X+1 and Moto X as they sit side-by-side. As you can see from the photo above, the Moto X+1 (left) is noticeably taller than the Moto X (right) and its screen is just about the right size for a 5.2-inch panel as suggested in the more recent rumours.
Perhaps interestingly, the front of the device appears to bear two speaker grilles, at the top and bottom, much like the HTC One design. This lines up with previous rumours about the device and the absence of a speaker grille on the back cover, though this latest leak appears to show a device much closer to production quality. It also appears like the infrared sensor has since been shifted to under the top speaker grille, a position not often travelled, but we’ll see how that pans out.
Are you looking to get the Motorola Moto X+1 when it is released? What do you think about the comparison of the Moto X+1 and Moto X? Let us know your thoughts.
Source: HelloMotoHK via TalkAndroid
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The Sony SmartWatch 3 may not have Android Wear, likely announced at IFA 2014
We’re expecting Sony to announce its annual smartwatch release, presumably called the Sony SmartWatch 3, however while other manufacturers have scrambled to get out hardware that is running the new Android Wear operating system, there is a rumour that the Sony SmartWatch 3 may not have Android Wear at all, instead opting for it’s homebrewed Android system which will now be in its third iteration. That of course isn’t to say that Sony is shunning Android Wear or would not consider it for future device, it’s likely that Sony had already developed a follow-up and doesn’t want to change it for this year. It’s expected that Sony will announce the SmartWatch 3 at IFA 2014 next month.
That certainly puts the SmartWatch 3 at somewhat of a disadvantage, even if it is a purely superficial disadvantage, however it will be packing some neat functionality. Digi-wo is reporting that the Smartwatch 3 will have a transflective display (for more optimal viewing in sunlight), can be wirelessly charged, and may even have its own Wi-Fi module. What this may do to the battery life isn’t known, but the outgoing SmartWatch 2 had a battery life of 3-4 days, so that’s already better than most of the Android Wear devices. Of course, like most of Sony’s other devices, the SmartWatch 3 is also expected to be waterproof.
What do you think about Sony not adopting Android Wear for the SmartWatch 3? Let us know your opinion in the comments.
Source: Digi-wo via Phone Arena
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The Om Audio OM/ONE is “the world’s first levitating bluetooth speaker”
I seem to be getting excited a lot lately. Today, my excitement is centred around the Om Audio OM/ONE, what Om Audio is calling “the world’s first levitating bluetooth speaker”. That seems pretty self explanatory, but seeing it in practice gives me the same feeling as when I played with LEGO for the first time: sheer, utter awe. The OM/ONE can act as a stationed bluetooth speaker, can be detached from its base and used on-the-run and even have a mic allowing it to be used as a speakerphone too. Check out Om Audio’s short video talking about the development of the device:
The science of it is pretty cool too, as the average speaker will suffer distortion from whatever surface it is sitting on; the OM/ONE avoids this thanks to its levitating driver. For true stereo sound, you can even hook two OM/ONE’s together via Bluetooth 4.0 for even more audio bliss. Om Audio is currently in a crowdfunding phase and has far exceeded its target of $100,000 – as of publishing this post, it is currently sitting on $353,073. There are still 46 days left to contribute, and OM/ONE’s are available from a minimum of $179 (+shipping) which should be shipped in time for the Holiday season, so visit www.omone.com/om-one to check it out if you’re interested. Now excuse me while I retrieve my jaw from the ground.
What do you think about the Om Audio OM/ONE? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Press Release
OM/ONE – World’s First Levitating Bluetooth Speaker Creates Gravity-Defying Listening Experience
OM/ONE Combines Excellent Sound Quality, Elegant Design and Levitating Driver Technology to Pioneer New Personal Audio Design
OAKLAND, CA. – August 12, 2014 – OM Audio, developers of advanced audio products enabling consumers to enjoy and connect with music like never before, today announced OM/ONE, which is the world’s first levitating Bluetooth speaker. To get one delivered before the Holiday season visit www.omone.com.
As practical as it is eye-catching, the OM/ONE has exceptional sound quality and easily connects wirelessly to all major smartphones, tablets and computers. When detached, the hovering orb acts as a portable speaker that can be taken on the go. The built-in microphone transforms the OM/ONE into a conference room phone of unparalleled styling and fidelity.
“In a world full of speakers that look and sound the same, the OM/ONE stands out from all the rest,” said David DeVillez, Founder and CEO at OM Audio. “Prior to our crowd-funding campaign we traveled Silicon Valley getting feedback from some prominent entrepreneurs and musicians and we’ve been very humbled by the praise we’ve received. We’re looking forward to getting these in the hands of consumers this holiday season.”
OM/ONE creator and audio engineer DeVillez was the former Director of Operations, R&D and Engineering at Velodyne Acoustics. One of his design breakthroughs is the OM/ONE levitating driver for hearing every high and low with no external distortion.
Listeners can enjoy the OM/ONE by itself or pair it with another OM/ONE for true stereo sound. It can power on/off, pair/dis-pair and answer call/hang-up with the push of a single button.
Early Reactions from Tech Entrepreneurs and World-Class Musicians
“As a music lover, I’ve tried out a lot of speakers and the OM/ONE stands up to the best personal speaker technology and sound out there…and it floats…in the air! Pretty cool. I bought two of them already, one for the office and one for personal use,” said J Sider, Founder and CEO of BandPage.com.
“I didn’t believe it until I saw it – there’s something weird about walking toward a beat, only to realize that it’s coming out of a rotating orb, floating in mid air. That’s some cool shit. This will make a great gift,” said Jack Conte, multi-instrumentalist/songwriter for the band Pomplamoose and Founder and CEO of Patreon.
“The OM/ONE is one of the coolest products I’ve seen on Tilt. Not only is it a Bluetooth speaker with amazing sound quality, but it levitates! Beautiful design with great sound – I can’t wait for mine to arrive,” said James Beshara, Co-Founder and CEO of Tilt.com.
Key Features
· World-class audio fidelity
· Pair two OM/ONEs for true stereo sound
· Bluetooth 4.0
· Conference calling with built-in Type 1 Microphone
· Orb is portable for music on the go
· On/Off Touch Sensor
· Up to 15 hours of continuous play
· Charging cable & stand
Pricing and Availability
OM/ONE introductory MSRP is $179. To receive an OM/ONE by Holiday visit www.omone.com to purchase the levitating speaker.
A portion of the proceeds from the crowd-funding campaign will go to Immunity Project, a non-profit initiative dedicated to developing a free HIV vaccine.
About OM Audio
OM Audio designs and creates unique personal audio products. Its proprietary processes enables users to customize their OM Audio device to create the most personalized experience possible. For more information, please visit OM Audio.
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Google snags Instagram-scanning city guide startup Jetpac
Google’s summer of startup acquisitions rolls on, ladies and gentlemen. In today’s installment, the search giant snapped up a San Francisco-based travel startup called Jetpac for (you guessed it!) an undisclosed lump of money. As is the case with plenty of new ventures, Jetpac has gone through a few phases — in its current form, the team offered up travel guides for cities that culled sentiments from people’s Instagram photos. No, seriously.
You see, Jetpac would algorithmically scan people’s Instagram photos for smiling faces of all genders to automagically craft guides like “10 Outdoor Adventures in Hong Kong”. If we’re being totally honest, those guides weren’t all that illuminating — tapping into one wouldn’t give you much more than a stream of Instagram photos and location/contact information for each hotspot. Still, you could drill down based on the types of people (Intellectuals, Skaters, Business Travelers) who frequented each spot, and the broad strokes could be helpful for people getting a sense of their surroundings.
Alas, we won’t be able to argue over how useful the app is for much longer because Jetpac will put its apps out to pasture very shortly. Now the only weighty question remaining (besides, you know, how much Google paid for it) is what will become of Jetpac’s tech and team after Mountain View assimilates it. Google declined to comment on the deal, but it’s not hard to see the company slowly bolstering its reputation as a travel titan. After all, between Google snapping up Zagat and launching Google Flights after acquiring ITA Software, there’s a whole lot of data meant to get you up and moseying around the real world. Then there’s the fact that the Jetpac team cooked up a way to scan images for sentiment information — those sorts of smarts could feasibly get baked bake into Google+ someday too.
Source: Jetpac
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Before #Ferguson, Michael Brown’s death was already a topic on Twitter
Before the protests and the armed vehicles. Before tear gas sent an Al Jazeera news crew scrambling for safety. Before Ferguson, MO became a no-fly zone and before we became all too familiar with the burned out shell of a middle America QuikTrip, the death of Michael Brown was already on Twitter.
After the unarmed teenager was shot and killed by a police officer Saturday, protesters took to the streets in following days, met initially by a heavily armed police response. Tweets and Vines from St. Louis Alderman Antonio French or journalists like Wesley Lowery and Ryan J. Reilly (all of whom were arrested and released during the protests) gave a clear picture of events on the ground as the days progressed, and livestreams like those from KARG Argus Radio showed what the TV couldn’t or wouldn’t. Misinformation has also been a problem, with hoaxes and a leaked name for the officer involved (which turned out to be false) circulating.
Now, Rolling Stone writer Tim Dickinson points out the tweets of St. Louis rapper/producer “TheePharoah” that captured the actual shooting and the events that followed live as they happened.
I JUST SAW SOMEONE DIE OMFG
– Bruh. (@TheePharoah) August 9, 2014
This man saw Michael Brown get gunned down from his Ferguson apartment & tweeted in live time https://t.co/NzWigBhBMN pic.twitter.com/DK8vsCqjoM
– Tim Dickinson (@7im) August 15, 2014
With media helicopters grounded (after reports that shots had been fired at police helicopters) and satellite trucks pushed out under police orders, anyone paying attention to the protests was likely tuned in to the internet to see what was happening with their own eyes. Now, word that the shooting itself was livetweeted provides an even clearer look at the changing world we live in. It has taken nearly a week for the police to provide a report of the incident and name the officer involved, and it will be much longer before anyone is satisfied that all the details have been revealed to the public. But now, bystanders, media and community activists alike are reaching out to the world from where they are. We’ve seen the internet transform public unrest in foreign countries, and right from the start, this week has shown how much things have changed — even when it’s depressing, horrific and hard to watch — right here in the US.
[AP Photo/Jeff Roberson]
Filed under: Internet
Via: Mediaite
Source: @TheePharoah (Twitter)
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Tonight, Twitch streams a live performance of the ‘Hohokum’ soundtrack
There’s a lot to love about PlayStation’s latest indie darling Hohokum, and its soundtrack is an absolute standout reason for even playing the game. Sony knows this and is partnering with game-broadcasting giant Twitch to stream a concert of the game’s score tonight to celebrate. Starting at 9:45 Eastern / 6:45 Pacific, you can catch the artists from Ghostly International being interviewed and playing the game’s tunes via both the PlayStation and Ghostly Twitch channels. You can even watch the show right here after the break; it’s up to you! Given how chill the indie’s music and visuals are, Twitch’s second-ever concert could be the perfect way to unwind and head into the weekend.
Watch live video from PlayStation on www.twitch.tv
Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment, HD
Source: Twitch
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Engadget Daily: the future of Xbox One, a graveyard of Boeing 747s and more!
Today, we investigate the future of the Xbox One, visit a graveyard of the world’s most prolific jumbo jets, round up our favorite laptops for school and more! Read on for Engadget’s news highlights from the last 24 hours.
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Windows Phone’s answer to Snapchat has you ‘winding up’ your friends
There’s no official Snapchat app for Windows Phone right now, but don’t worry — Microsoft is offering an equivalent that might do in a pinch. The new WindUp app covers very similar ground, letting you send media and messages that disappear after a set amount of time; you’re supposed to “wind up” your friends by giving them just a brief glimpse of what you’re sharing. No, we don’t get the (fairly contrived) explanation any more than you do, but Microsoft isn’t worried about marketing here. This is really a research experiment meant to explore how people “create, share and converse,” not to topple someone else’s messaging empire. Don’t expect WindUp to evolve or reach other platforms, then. Even so, it may be worth checking out if you’d like a ephemeral chat app focused solely on Windows Phone fans.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Mobile, Microsoft
Via: Neowin
Source: Windows Phone Store, Inside Microsoft Research
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Nike’s LED basketball court boosts training with motion tracking
Wearables have become popular among athletes for monitoring training progress, but on its recent Rise campaign stop in Shanghai, Nike took a different approach. Inside the so-call House of Mamba, NBA star Kobe Bryant hosted 30 young players from all over China who trained on a full-sized LED basketball court — complete with projected graphics and motion tracking. The playing surface displayed reactive visuals based on players’ movements for drills based on Bryant’s own regimen. A dozen athletes will compete this weekend in Beijing with three winners moving on to the Nike World Basketball Festival in Barcelona next month. Curious to see how it works? Well, there’s a pair of videos after the break that show just that.
Filed under: Misc
Via: Gizmodo (Sploid)
Source: Nike
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One Codex wants to make searching DNA as easy as using Google
Once upon a time, sequencing your genome was a prohibitively expensive proposition — mapping out your genetic code cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and the practical applications of the data were few and far between. These day the process is so affordable that health care professionals are sitting on petabytes of genome data. Making use of that data, however, is another problem. The current genome searching algorithm, called BLAST, isn’t particularly fast. A new firm hopes to change that, and is introducing One Codex: a genetic search platform that can index DNA base pairs 1,500 faster than contemporary databases.
The tool is currently in an open beta, but initial results are promising. One Codex can perform some actions and data uploads thousands of times faster than the company is comfortable estimating, and the long-term benefits of a robust and fast genome search are incredible. “Instead of using a specific test for tuberculosis, the doctor would take sample, sequence that sample and transform that biology into data,” One Codex founder Nick Greenfield says. “Then exhaustively search that data against all the pathogens and they’d be able to tell you if you have TB, the type of TB and maybe if this TB has antibiotic resistance.”
It’s pretty impressive stuff. At present, the database can search against 30,000 bacteria, viruses and fungi and that number is staged to grow further. It’s probably not a search engine you’ll use personally, but it’s one you’ll be glad exists in the long term.
Filed under: Science
Source: TechCrunch
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