Japanese eyeglass company Zoff has launched a new service on their website allowing users to try on glasses using a augmented reality virtual mirror . Using any computer with a web browser and webcam, users align their heads with an area marked in the screen and the glasses appear like magic on the face on […]
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Whether you head a secret organization, run a large company, or you simply don’t trust throwing away old hardware with sensitive data, Data Killers can help. They will destroy tapes, hard drives, and other items to protect you from people who may want the information on your old electronics. I recently asked Elizabeth Wilmot a
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Arstechnica reports that the campaign to rid our nation’s prisons of cell phones went to the next level, with a call from the Department of Commerce for intel on devices that can get the situation under control. The government is “seeking comment on technical approaches” to the problem, Commerce says. The illicit use of cell
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At approximately the size of a beach ball and completely black, the Spherical Air Vehicle looks likes a miniature Death Star that can transmit live video from a camera. The drone can fly down alleys, hover, take off vertically, and it can even bounce on the ground, reports AFP. The latest model, the seventh prototype,
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Forbes: Open Linux system platform for wireless handsets A La Mobile was co-founded by serial entrepreneur Pauline Alker. She served as chief executive at Amplify, Network Peripherals (IPOed) and Counterpoint Computers (acquired by Acer).
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According to a story in The Boston Globe, it’s when Chad Barraford opens his front door and swipes a radio frequency identification tag through a scanner linked to his home computer that extraordinary things happen. Welcome home, Chad,’’ says a voice coming from a wall speaker. “You’ve been away for 1 hour and 15 minutes.’’
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As senior merchandiser for the e-commerce site ThinkGeek.com, Ty Liotta, is responsible for discovering and creating such must-haves for geeks as a T-shirt that sniffs out Wi-Fi hotspots and the Tauntaun sleeping bag, modeled after the animal carcass that saved Luke Skywalker from certain death on the frozen planet of Hoth, reports Bloomberg Businessweek. Against
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Examiner: With many soldiers leaving service with technical and computer skills, New York-based Incline is offering training in order to help them adapt that talent to the workplace. Today, at 27 years-old, Brittany Laughlin acts as CEO for Incline, saying she saw a business need and wanted to make a difference. “(The) idea for ‘free
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The following is a guest post from Stephen Cline. Small businesses often adopt the newest technological advances before large corporations. That’s because small businesses can adapt to changes more quickly and they have the ability to take risks that corporations usually avoid. When paying attention to the new tech used by emerging small companies, experts
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Forbes: Business development guru Petra Vorsteher co-founded mobile advertising startup Smaato. Prior to Smaato, she was a founding member of Intershop, helping grow the company to a publicly listed company with a market cap of $12B. Follow her startup on Twitter at @smaato.
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