That’s right – the latest and greatest iPhone app, known as iNap@Work simulates the sounds of office productivity so you can catch some sleep. With sliders to adjust the frequency of events like typing, mouse-clicks, and even sneezing, your coworkers will think you’re the busiest cube in the block.
Don’t forget to adjust your productivity level. If the office slacker sounds like he’s churning out TPS reports at incredible speed, your boss is sure to notice.
Source : CNet
Think your car got stolen? No problem. Just send a text to shut it down. That’s the idea behind a new anti-theft device from the minds at the University of Saskatchewan. The system works by linking your cell phone to your vehicle’s on-board computing system. Just send a text and the car drops to limited power over the course of 60 seconds, giving the thieves enough time to pull over (and probably make some sort of escape). With GPS capable phones, it seems a simple matter to get direcitons from your location to your thieved ride. The prototype comes in around $600. Think you could haggle a premium reduction from your insurer?
Source: Ubergizmo
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If you’re in tune with the tech scene, you’ve probably heard about the Kutcher/CNN race to 1 million Twitter devotees. The dashing celeb threw down the gauntlet when he noticed both his own massive following and CNN’s similar numbers. As you can see from the link above, though, the battle was not one-sided. CNN tried to keep pace with breaking news updates about the current standings. In the end, Ashton won, but not before sucking world-class companies like EA into the ridiculous scrim.
Enter Oprah. Billionaire, Cultural Icon, Celebrity so big She gets the words that describe Her capitalized. Oprah saw CNN and Ashton duking it out and decided to enter the fray. Today she’s hosting Kutcher and (gasp) joining Twitter! This is…ridiculous.
First of all, Twitter from people like, come to think of it almost anyone, is pointless. Yes there are stories of Twitter helping people out of tight spots (like Egyptian prison). Yes there are some journalistic benefits. For the most part, though, Twitter is just adding to the noise. Knowing that someone is eating a sandwich or drinking coffee or getting a haircut (all of which are being tweeted as I write this) is not relationship building, despite what Twitter’s promo video says. These little blurbs are no more real human interactions than a video camera cataloguing a person’s life would be.
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According to the popular Mac site Macrumors.com, Apple has filed a couple of patents that point to significant evolution in the iPhone hardware. The iPhone has been criticized since release for lagging behind other ‘smart’ phones, a claim they hope to refute with the impending OS 3.0 release. The new patents point to first-in-market technologies that could further expand the IQ of Apple’s juggernaut.
The first patent deals with new accelerometer-based motion technology that would allow the iPhone interface to change as the phone senses various activities. The patents suggest that the phone could determine whether you are jogging or performing other physical activity and adjust the user interface to include gestures for functions such as answering phone calls or changing tracks in iTunes. The images filed also show a transition to enlarged contact lists during motion, making sifting through contacts a bit easier for a shaky hand.
Other interesting features point to video conferencing with the addition of a user-side video camera. Video recording of any kind remains unavailable on the iPhone until OS 3.0 later this summer. Of course all of this is speculation, but the patents do give us some small window into the research coming out of Cupertino.
Source: Macrumors
I was fortunate enough to grow up with parents who trusted me. Sure, they occasionally took a look at the history and cookies on the family machine, but their snooping never went any further.
Woe to you less fortunate kids (or husbands, or wives) with AT&T a-GPS capable phones. Today the company launched FamilyMap, a location service that can track up to two phones from any web browser, mobile or PC-based. Parents can set up alerts and even ping children’s phones to let them know the big eye-in-the-sky is watching. The basic service costs $10 a month. At $15 you can track up to 5 phones. Sorry, Octo-mom, you’ll have to tether a few kids together to keep tabs on ’em.
Via phonescoop
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