Lock screen photo messenger Trumpit gets in-house camera after exiting beta

Trading pictures with friends and family is a time-consuming activity. You have a lot of work to do between opening the message, selecting the image to view, capturing a picture of your own, and returning the favor. Trumpit seeks to eliminate much of that fluff by placing pictures messages on your lock screen. Rightfully so, Trumpit bills itself as a “lock screen messenger.” You never have to completely unlock your phone and use another app to swap pictures with contacts. Today, Trumpit is ready for showtime as it has left the beta phase and gained an important new feature.

The newest version of Trumpit (v1.5) introduces an in-house camera for users to take advantage of. What’s the benefit of Trumpit getting its own camera? Having one less button to press. Choose to reply and then go right for the camera button; rather than launching your phone’s camera app, Trumpit will handle everything so you’re not forced to jump around between apps. Even tools for adding filters, text, and highlights remain accessible. This is all part of Trumpit’s goal to send and receive pictures with speed and ease.

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Speedo is partnering with Misfit to produce an activity tracker for swimmers

Swimmers are finally receiving the attention that they deserve. Speedo, a name synonymous with swimming, announced a partnership with Misfit to release an activity tracker that is designed for people that practically live in pools. The Speedo Shine borrows its name from Misfit’s regular Shine. The difference here is that the Speedo Shine features special lap counting algorithms to accurately record a swimmer’s progress. Data collected by the Speedo Shine — laps, distance, carlories burned, points earned — is synced with the Misfit app. The Speedo Fit app will gain support for the Speedo Shine, too, in the near future. And to prove just how accurate the Speedo Shine is, testing was conducted in Speedo’s Aqualab advanced development facility.

The Speedo Shine will be available for $79 through Misfit, Speedo, and Apple stores beginning September 1.

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Speedo, Misfit Partner to Introduce Swim Tracker in Apple Stores

BURLINGAME, CA August 18th, 2015–Misfit and Speedo today are announcing a long-term partnership and the launch of a Speedo-branded activity, swim, and sleep tracker–Speedo Shine. Speedo Shine will initially be available in retail exclusively at Apple stores worldwide September 1st, well as on misfit.com and SpeedoUSA.com, for $79.99.

Speedo Shine is the first device of its kind that was designed with simmers in mind. Proprietary lap counting algorithms embedded in the device’s firmware track a swimmer’s lap count with industry-leading accuracy, as validated by Speedo in-pool testing at their advanced developmental facility, the Aqualab, and work for all stroke types. Speedo Shine syncs with the Misfit app for iOS and Android and displays laps and swim distance, along with calories burned and points earned. The device will soon also work with Speedo’s personalized swim tracking app, Speedo Fit.

Speedo Shine is endorsed by elite Speedo athlete, fitness ambassador, and Olympic Gold Medalist Missy Franklin. “One of the mots difficult parts of swimming for fitness is keeping track of laps and the Speedo Shine eliminates that challenge,” said Franklin. “With the Speedo Shine, you can focus on getting the most out of your water workout and it’s also a great looking accessory to wear.”

Speedo Shine is made out of durable and beautiful aircraft-grade aluminum and is offered in new light silver color, Pure. Like the original Misfit Shine, Speedo Shine is waterproof to 50 meters. Extremely thin and comfortable, the device is meant to be worn both in and out of the water, and also tracks walking, running, cycling, and light and deep sleep. Since it never requires charging, Speedo Shine makes activity, sleep, and swim tracking a seamless experience.

Jamie Cornforth, Vice President of Product and Marketing at Speedo International said: “Speedo’s purpose is to inspire people to swim. The new Speedo Shine is a big step forward and will give swimmers the information they have always wanted, the ability to accurately track their laps, distance, calories, and time. The new Speedo Shine also allows swimmers to take this information and seamlessly add it to their wider fitness data, providing an accurate and complete view of their total health and fitness regime. Swimming has always been a great way to improve your health and fitness–the Speedo Shine will now make swimming an even more valuable and effective experience.”

About Speedo
The world’s leading swimwear brand, Speedo is passionate about life in and around the water, creating revolutionary new technologies, designs and innovations and supporting swimming from grass-roots through to elite level. In the 1920s Speedo made history with the Racerback: the world’s first non-wool suit. In 2008 Speedo redefined swimwear again with Fastskin LZR RACER – the fastest and most technologically advanced swimsuit ever created. 2011 saw Speed unveil another world first with the Fastskin Racing System – a cap, goggle and suit designed to work together as one. Speedo is owned by Speedo Holdings B.V and distributed in over 170 countries around the world; to find out more visit: http://www.speedo.com.

About Misfit
Misfit invents and manufactures wearable and smart home products. The company was founded in 2011 by Sonny Vu with John Sculley, the former CEO of Apple and Pepsi, and Sridhar Iyengar, co-founder and former CTO of AgaMatrix.

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Lower-limb exoskeleton is controlled by looking at flashing lights

Just like DARPA and many other institutions, Korea University and TU Berlin researchers are working on an interface that gives users the power to control an exoskeleton with their minds. The system uses an electroencephalogram (EEG) cap to read signals from the user’s brain, but it also needs visual cues to work. For their tests, specifically, the scientists installed a panel with five LED lights on their lower-limb exoskeleton. Those LEDs are arranged as a cross, and each one has a different meaning. For instance, if the left light blinks, it’s a command to walk towards that direction. The user has to see that light flashing, so when the EEG cap reads his brain to know what he’s looking at, the exoskeleton will actually move left. This video from Korean University shows the process in detail.

Like other scientists working on similar exoskeleton systems, one of the paper’s authors, Klaus Muller, believes it could help people who can’t move on their own someday. “People with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) [motor neuron disease], or high spinal cord injuries face difficulties communicating or using their limbs,” he said. “Decoding what they intend from their brain signals could offer means to communicate and walk again.”

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Journal of Neural Engineering

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FAA says a buggy software update grounded flights

Ever got a bad smartphone update? Now imagine that your phone controls air traffic on the Eastern seaboard, and you have some idea what happened to flights on Saturday. The FAA said that a software update that was supposed to help controllers see frequently used info at a radar facility ended up bringing down the overall system. That caused the cancellation of hundreds of flights in Baltimore and Washington, DC, reducing capacity up to 28 percent. The agency said everything’s fine now that it’s disabled the new function, and it’s working with Lockheed Martin to figure out why the bug wasn’t caught in testing. Meanwhile, you can now factor software glitches, hacking and bad routers into your flight plans.

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