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Drone In a Suitcase Kit Turns Anything Into a DIY Flying Menace
If you don't find yourself particularly enthralled with the small assortment of pre-assembled quadcopters already on the market, Jasper van Loenen's DIY?or Drone It Yourself?kit lets you turn almost anything into an unmanned aerial vehicle. Or at least anything light enough for its four rotors to lift.
Created with the assistance of a 3D printer, the kit can be assembled with basic skills and tools, and piloted either with an app running on a Bluetooth-connected mobile device, or a laptop. Jasper even encourages people to hack and enhance his design to suit their particular drone requirements, so can anyone recommend a reliable water balloon release mechanism? [Jasper van Loenen via Creative Applications Network]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/drone-in-a-suitcase-kit-turns-anything-into-a-diy-flyin-669326917
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eBay Buys 2dehands.be And 2ememain.be In Belgium, Consolidates Classifieds Power In Europe
It may be a holiday in the U.S. but eBay never sleeps. Today, the American e-commerce giant announced that it is buying 2dehands.be and 2ememain.be, the two biggest online classified sites in Belgium (their names mean "second hand" in Flemish and French). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but we're trying to find out (we'll update as/when we learn more).Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/8__Ir99zKV4/
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Braintree Hits $10B In Annual Payments Processed As It Adds Swedish Game Developer Mojang To Its Client Roster
Mojang, the Swedish game developer behind Minecraft, Scrolls and Cobalt, has joined the list of tech companies that use Braintree as a mobile or online payment platform. Braintree also announced that it now processes $10 billion in payments annually, compared to the $8 billion the company disclosed just three months ago. More than 25% of payments originate outside the U.S., a figure that highlights the importance of global markets to the Chicago-based company's expansion plan.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DGE0UrRWqPE/
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iOS 7 preview: Lock screen
iOS 7 brings not only live, physics-based wallpaper to the iPhone and iPad Lock screen, but Notification Center and Control Center access as well!
The Lock screen exists in some between-space, where your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad are no longer off or asleep, but nor are they fully awake and functional yet. With iOS 7, however, Apple has greatly increased the Lock screen's functionality, mainly by giving it access to Notification Center and the new Control Center, while retaining its own notifications and fast Camera access.
Apple doesn't have a dedicated description for the new Lock screen features, but they do mention them in the context of other features. From Control Center:
Just swipe up from any screen ? including the Lock screen ? to do things like switch to Airplane mode, turn Wi-Fi on or off, or adjust the brightness of your display.
From Notification Center:
You can access Notification Center from any screen, including the Lock screen. Just swipe down. And get up to speed.
From Find my iPhone:
Even after a remote erase, Find My iPhone can continue to display a message with your phone number on the Lock screen.
And here's what Apple's shown so far:
There's at least one, new, live wallpaper. It appears to have depth, or at least varied levels of blur, and, as Apple terms it, "vitality".
Up and down chevron icons give a visual indication of where Notification Center and Control Center live, and just like elsewhere in iOS, they can be accessed via a downward or upward swipe from the bezel, respectively.
- Notification Center on the Lock screen, of course, includes the new, tabbed, Today, All, and Missed views.
- Passcode has been redesigned and, thanks to its blur and translucency effect, it takes on the flavor of the wallpaper below.
The time and date are still front and center on the Lock screen, though they've been giving the Helvetica Neue Ultra-Thin treatment, like much of the rest of iOS 7.
Slide to Unlock, the now iconic control for accessing an iPhone, iPod, or iPad, is still there, and in the same place, but its interface chrome - its button and slider channel - has been removed leaving only the text itself. It still has a sweeping, highlight animation to help draw attention to it, though it appears now to be slanted on the diagonal.
Fast Camera access is also still there, also redone in the new iOS 7 aesthetic.
Lock screen notifications, unsurprisingly, also remain on the Lock screen.
"Live wallpapers" aren't new, but they've previously been animated, like old-fashioned keyframe cartoons, or like video recordings. What Apple appears to be doing is actual, real live wallpapers, using the same physics engine that's driving their new UIKit dynamics and Sprite Kit. These wallpapers move just like other iOS 7 elements, in relation to how the device itself is moved (almost certainly programmatically in reaction to the accelerometer and gyroscope). Yes, even the wallpapers are objectified and gamefied.
We've only seen the circles so far, but hopefully come the fall there'll be a wider variety of choices and perhaps, one day, a way for us to make, or at least buy or download, custom ones.
The up and down chevrons, while aiding in discoverability for Notification Center and Control Center, also create some confusion, especially the latter due to its proximity to the Slide to Unlock control. It could make a casual observer think they should slide up to unlock, instead of the proper left-to-right.
Fast Camera access also shares the same direct manipulation gesture as Control Center, simply offset to the right. Again, the Camera glyph makes it discoverable, but the doubling up of the gesture could again be confusing.
Passcode has a great, flat white effect when entering numbers. It might not look like much, but on top of a translucent blur, it's as impressive as it is ingenious.
Slide to Unlock experiences almost the opposite problem. With the interface elements reduced to pure text, it's lets discoverable and more confusing than ever. However, it looks like you can swipe left-to-right from almost anywhere on the screen to trigger it, making it more usable once discovered. (Swiping right-to-left doesn't seem to be used for anything right now, or at least nothing Apple's shown off to date.) On the positive side, the highlight, which is designed to draw attention, looks like its now diagonal, which is clever.
Lock screen notifications, makeover aside, seem to be functionally consistent with previous versions of iOS. Because Notification Center now works from the Lock Screen, some of their functionality may seem to have been superseded. They remain an at-a-glance list of recent alerts, however, which is faster if less in-depth than what Notification Center offers.
Apple hasn't shown if double clicking Home still brings up media controls in iOS 7, the way it has for previous versions of iOS. However, Control Center now includes media controls, so they may not be necessary any more.
All these new features do come with a downside, however. The more functionality you make available outside the Passcode system, the more information can be accessed without needing the Passcode. That now includes anything and everything in Notification Center.
Also, because Passcode has to allow access to this data, and to functions like emergency calls, it remains a vulnerability in an otherwise secure chain, and just as we've seen numerous times in the past, vulnerabilities can and will be exploited.
If past behavior is any indication, however, Apple will let us turn off Lock screen access to Notification Center and Control Center, just like they've let us tun off Lock screen access to Siri, Passbook, and other features in the past.
The new Lock screen will ship as part of iOS 7 this fall. Check out the resources below for more, and let me know - are you happy with the update? Anything else you'd like to see, or see changed?
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Virtual Reality Was In, Sony Was Out: Trends From USA Today in 1995
Remember 1995? Yeah, me neither. But to refresh our memories, we've got an "In and Out" list from the December 20, 1995 edition of USA Today. This strange artifact (found in the University of California-San Francisco tobacco document archives) gives a peek at how mainstream America was thinking about shifting trends in media, technology and, I guess, Mexican food in the mid-1990s.
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FAA probes close call of Spirit jet, small plane
This photo provided by the family shows, from left, Jolene, Janet and Gabrielle Dunnabeck at their home in Whitney, Texas on Monday, July 1, 2013. The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it is investigating a close call between a Texas-bound Spirit Airlines flight they were aboard and a skydiving plane that forced the jetliner to dive sharply over Michigan on Sunday evening. "It was horrifying," Janet Dunnabeck said. "Every person on that plane was screaming. We thought we were going down." She added the plunge caused overhead luggage bins to spill open, drinks to spill and flight attendants to bump their heads. (AP Photo)
This photo provided by the family shows, from left, Jolene, Janet and Gabrielle Dunnabeck at their home in Whitney, Texas on Monday, July 1, 2013. The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it is investigating a close call between a Texas-bound Spirit Airlines flight they were aboard and a skydiving plane that forced the jetliner to dive sharply over Michigan on Sunday evening. "It was horrifying," Janet Dunnabeck said. "Every person on that plane was screaming. We thought we were going down." She added the plunge caused overhead luggage bins to spill open, drinks to spill and flight attendants to bump their heads. (AP Photo)
DETROIT (AP) ? The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it is investigating a close call between a Texas-bound Spirit Airlines flight and a skydiving plane that forced the jetliner to dive sharply over Michigan, as screaming passengers feared the plane was going to crash.
Flight attendants bumped their heads and luggage spilled out of overhead binds during the incident Sunday evening.
The Airbus 319 jetliner took off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport with 126 passengers and a crew of five, bound for Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. It was over Tecumseh in southeastern Michigan about 8:22 p.m. when controllers reported another plane nearby, the FAA said.
"Air traffic controllers notified the Spirit pilot that a skydiving jump plane was climbing just south of the jetliner's position," FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Cory said in an email. "The Spirit pilot confirmed that he could see the smaller aircraft on his Terminal Collision Avoidance System. ... A minute later, the Spirit jet received an automated TCAS warning that required him to begin an immediate 1,600-foot descent to 12,800 feet from a previous altitude of 14,400 feet."
At the closest, the two planes were 1.6 miles apart horizontally and 400 feet vertically, Cory said.
The sudden dive caught the passengers unaware, said Janet Dunnabeck of Whitney, Texas, who was returning with her 10- and 19-year-old daughters from a visit with Michigan relatives.
"It was horrifying," Dunnabeck told The Associated Press. "Every person on that plane was screaming. We thought we were going down."
Dunnabeck said the plunge caused overhead luggage bins to spill open, drinks to spill and flight attendants to bump their heads.
Two of them complained of pain and asked for medicine, sitting down while nonworking flight attendants stepped up to help.
Jolene Dunnabeck, 10, said she was "really scared."
"It felt like we were falling, we were going to hit the ground and die," she said.
Only after the dive was the pilot able to give out information, announcing only that a "flight control issue" led to the maneuver.
"Thank God he was able to control the plane," said Janet Dunnabeck, who said she spoke with the pilot later at Dallas-Fort Worth airport.
No passengers were injured, said Spirit spokeswoman Misty Pinson.
"Our pilots followed appropriate procedures and adjusted their flight path upon receiving an advisory of another possible aircraft in range," Pinson said in an email. "The flight continued to Dallas/Fort Worth without incident."
Addressing why the two planes got dangerously close, the FAA pointed to the smaller plane's pilot.
"The skydiving plane was flying under Visual Flight Rules, under which pilots are responsible for seeing and avoiding other aircraft," Cory said.
Gabrielle Dunnabeck, 19, said she, her mother and sister want answers about what went wrong and whether air traffic controllers should have alerted the Spirit's crew sooner.
"We're still wondering who dropped the ball," she said.
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Broadcast editor Jennifer Garske in Washington assisted with this story.
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