📅 June 18, 2012

LeBron James: Introducing Nike+ Basketball [video]

ow do you measure greatness? NikeBasketball introduces technology that will enable you to see your game, in order to improve, like never before.

On June 29th Nike will be launching their latest Nike+ gear, including a dedicated running shoe and a dedicated basketball shoe, each equipped with sensors that will interact with Nike+ iPhone Apps in order to report each and every one of your movements to them.

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📅 January 29, 2012

Siri: A Massive Data Hog? Another Myth Debunked

More often than not opinions can generate a world of pain for the holder, especially if the said opinion is based purely on myth rather than fact. Take Paul Farhi from the Washington Post for example. On Friday he wrote an ‘opinion’ article about why the Skynet-esque voice assistant Siri is a massive data/bandwidth-hog.

This is simply NOT the case.

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📅 July 5, 2011

Phone-Call Cartography: Aggregated Cellphone Traffic In United States [infographic]

If you analyze aggregated cellphone traffic — as researchers at M.I.T., AT&T and I.B.M. did with United States data from July of last year — interesting patterns emerge.

If you analyze aggregated cellphone traffic — as researchers at M.I.T., AT&T and I.B.M. did with United States data from July of last year — interesting patterns emerge.

Cities become connective hubs as people move to them from nearby counties and from far across the country. As a result, many calls originate and end in cities, connecting urban citizens to their families back home.

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📅 May 6, 2011

OpenPaths: Upload Your iOS Device Location Data, Securely Store It & Explore It via A Map Interface

The site lets you upload your location data from your iOS device, securely store it and explore it via a map interface. It is an anonymous, user-contributed database for the personal location data files recorded by iOS devices.

Together with a few colleagues at NYTimes R&D, for the last week Jer Thorp has been working on a project called openpaths.cc. The site lets you upload your location data from your iOS device, securely store it and explore it via a map interface. It is an anonymous, user-contributed database for the personal location data files recorded by iOS devices. You can securely store and manage your personal location data, and grant researchers access to portions of that data as you choose.

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📅 April 20, 2011

Barcodas: Use Your iPhone To Scan Barcodes And Turn Them Into Musical Pattern [video]

Leo van der Veen, the name behind c74, an iPhone app that let’s you connect your device with Cycling ’74′s Max/MSP 5, has just published a new app that allows you to scan any barcode and produce melodies from them.

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📅 February 23, 2011

Pennant: The Results Of 115,000 Baseball Matches Visualized In One iPad App [video]

Created by Steve Varga and what originally began as his thesis in the MFA DT program at Parsons the New School for Design, Pennant is an interactive history of baseball now available for the iPad.

Created by Steve Varga and what originally began as his thesis in the MFA DT program at Parsons the New School for Design, Pennant is an interactive history of baseball now available for the iPad. Pennant’s rich interface allows fans to browse and view data from over 115,000 games that have taken place from 1950 to 2010. Seasons, games and events are graphically represented and visualised in a manner that takes them beyond the numbers. The app is available for $4.99 in the app store…

See a vid of the app in action after the break…

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📅 January 26, 2011

Second Gen Apple Peel Adds Voice And Data To The iPod Touch [video]

Like Sprint’s ZTE Peel iPod touch case, the Apple Peel 520 gives Apple’s iPod touch the ability to connect to a cellular data network. Unlike the ZTE Peel, the Apple Peel also allows users to send and receive voice calls and SMS from an iPod touch. In other works, the Apple Peel picks up where Sprint’s iPod case left off.

Like Sprint’s ZTE Peel iPod touch case, the Apple Peel 520 gives Apple’s iPod touch the ability to connect to a cellular data network. Unlike the ZTE Peel, the Apple Peel also allows users to send and receive voice calls and SMS from an iPod touch. In other works, the Apple Peel picks up where Sprint’s iPod case left off.

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📅 July 8, 2010

How To:Get Your Unlimited Data Plan Back With AT&T

How to get the unlimited data package with AT&T even if you never had it before. With a little work and an easy loop hole to slip thru.

So you made the mistake of thinking you’d save some money by lowering your iPhone data plan down to the 2 gig deal when you bought your new iPhone 4 . Or maybe you’re a new AT&T subscriber, and you want that unlimited plan that old AT&T customers were grandfathered into. Well I got an answer…this may or may not work for long, so don’t dilly dally around. Give it a try.

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