Nook’s Kindle Counterpunch: The Hands-On Approach [Nook]
The new $140 Wi-Fi Kindle might have been the latest salvo in the ebook reader wars, but it's definitely not the last. The ball's in Barnes and Noble's court, and they're focused on the home field advantage of 720 storefronts. More
‘Congress’ App Brings Voting Records and Political Tweets to Android
There is more than one political junkie on the Switched staff, and the lot of us get pretty excited whenever we see a cool app that makes it easier to keep on top of the happenings in Washington. iPhone owners already have a host of options for tracking Congress, but, until now, Android users have been largely left in a lurch. Thanks to the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to government transparency, that has changed.
The simply entitled 'Congress' app puts almost any information you could possibly desire at your fingertips, delivering your representative's contact information, voting record and Twitter handle. While you can manually search for a particular congressperson from the home screen, you can also set the app to pull up your district's elected rep using GPS.
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Get Wood For Your MacBook, iPad, Or iPhone
If you’re like me, your MacBook Pro is “gently loved”, and the lid is a little scratched up. Or maybe you just want something that looks a little more custom then what the rest of the Mac users are packing around. Whatever the reason, Recover’s skins are made in my home town of Portland, Oregon from real wood veneer. Compared to the prices you see from some vinyl sticker companies charge for cheesy graphics or cheap stickers, I’ll go with the feel and look of real wood. For example, Recover’s product for my pre-unibody MacBook Pro is just $35. That’s right around the same price many vinyl sticker companies charge. You can also get real wood veneer for your iPhone 4, iPhone 3G/3GS, or iPad. Go check them out, and if you see me at CES, I suspect my MacBook Pro will have real wood covering the lid.
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Float Table looks like magic in your living room
Anyone who sees the Float Table in the living room will probaby wonder what kind of magic or sorcery you dabble with when they lay their eyes on it the first time round. Comprising of 64 cubes in total, they are all magnetized in a manner that they will never touch each other, levitating perfectly in mid air as well. A series of steel cables within help everything remain in place without sliding off somewhere and falling apart, and you also have the choice rearranging the cubes and cables in a way you want, limited by your imagination. Just make sure you don't place anything sensitive like a portable hard drive or credit card since if it falls through the crack, you might as well kiss it goodbye.
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E-Sens multifunctional furniture could be the future
Industrial designer Guillaume Raoult knows that apartment living can be pretty cramped in this day and age, since they don't make land anymore these days. Well, in order for you to make the most out of your situation, you would probably be looking at multifunctional furniture units, where the E-Sens is one of them, thanks to Guillaume Raoult's idea of a sofa/TV combo which will also function as a bed whenever your eyelids start to droop. This space saving concept will rely on Lumalive fabric which will liven up your room's atmosphere, while an odor diffuser will add an aromatic touch to the air.
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Indesit Company Introduces Its Smart Washer
Indesit Company and Freescale have collaborated to come up with a Smart Washer that uses a Freescale ZigBee node, allowing it to adjust its cycle starting time according to the variable energy cost, accessing information from the local power utility via a ZigBee enabled Internet connection to the Smart Grid. With all our home appliances becoming smarter and smarter, we're looking forward to the day where we don't have to do anything to keep our house and clothes clean anymore.
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Power Strip Adds a Customizable Shortcut and Widget Dock to Android [Downloads]
Android only: While Android has a few multitasking tricks built-in, Power Strip re-assigns your Home button to bring up a dock containing app shortcuts, folders, and even widgets that you can launch at any point, without returning to the home screen. More
Radio controlled Millennium Falcon to rock your home next month
Relive tense moments from the Star Wars franchise with this indoor radio controlled Millennium Falcon, which is an official release from the Star Wars shop. Out later next month for $44.99 a pop, it lets you fly like Han Solo - as long as your imagination is in good working order. Perfect for indoor use, it features rings around the propeller blades and a foam bodied ship that prevents it from damaging walls or furniture should a mishap happen. When fully juiced up, it is capable of flying for up to 5 minutes before requiring another trip to the nearest charging station. Not exactly the most "fuel-efficient" spacecraft, eh?
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Tenerife offers first bioclimatic holiday village in the world
The Spanish island of Tenerife will soon be known as the first bioclimatic holiday village in the world, where each of the 25 energy self-sufficient houses has been built in individual designs utilizing different technologies, where it will function as a living experiment in sustainability. The house itself will not only serve as a temporary shelter for tourists, but it will also double up as science laboratories, thanks to a slew of sensors which constantly feed back information on their temperature, humidity and air movement in order to determine which techniques are the most efficient. Just in case your geography isn't up to snuff, Tenerife is in the Canary Islands, situated around 800 miles from mainland Spain and 185 miles from the coast of Africa. It took around 15 years of development to realize this dream, where the entire cost has touched a whopping €10 million (US$13 million), where the houses will be fit and raring to go in time for winter.
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