If Your Heart Stops For 96 Minutes, Pray This Machine Is At Your Side [Monster Machines]

Ninety six minutes. Eleven shocks by defibrillator. Two dozen rescuers pounding his chest in shifts to bring vital oxygen to his limp body. A helicopter, even. That's what it took to revive 54-year old Howard Snitzer this month. Oh, and a little celebrated thing called a capnography machine that let everyone know that he was still capable of being brought back from the brink of death. More »


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Monika Kley Heidemarie Frick Maike Beetz Fiona Henschel

Remote-Control Helicopter Driven by iPhone

IRemoco is a remote-control toy helicopter that you drive with your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The $100 kit contains the chopper itself, along with a dongle which plugs into the dock connector of your iDevice and sends your instructions to the helicopter. The project — currently seeking funding on Kickstarter — differs from other [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/05/remote-control-helicopter-driven-by-iphone/

Benjamin Schötz Johannes Liebl Arne Koller Fiona Brandenburg

iPhone 4 uses same Audience-powered noise cancelation as Nexus One

iPhone 4 uses same Audience-powered noise cancelation as Nexus OneProving you can never tear down an Apple product far enough, iFixit has kept digging into iPhone 4‘s noise cancellation and finally discovered… it uses the same Audience technology that powered Google Nexus One. We like mysteries as much as the next guy, so we decided to dig further. Our friends at Chipworks just decapped [...]

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TripAdvisor app for Windows Phone 7 now available

tripadvisor windows phone 7TripAdvisor, the popular travel planning tool, has just launched an app for Windows Phone 7. Just like the mobile website, the app allows you to search for anything travel-related -- from hotels and flights to restaurants and points-of-interest to visit once you reach your destination.

Geolocation is supported, which allows TripAdvisor to quickly locate places nearby. But while that's a neat feature, it's also a bit of a downer -- because, really, it's about the only feature TripAdvisor for WP7 brings to the table that its mobile Web app doesn't already offer (its browser-based geolocation doesn't work with WP7 at the moment).

While it's nice to see Windows Phone 7 users getting some big-name apps, it'd be even nicer if we saw some packing a bit more swagger.

Still, TripAdvisor for WP7 might just be worth installing on your device if you're frequently on the go -- at least until a better browser arrives with the Mango update.

TripAdvisor app for Windows Phone 7 now available originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sonos for Android review

Sonos for Android

I can remember, on at least two occasions, my father greeting me with a foot-long drill bit and a wild look in his eye. This would have been in the mid-1980s or so, and we were running speaker cable through walls, around beams, inside attics, from the laundry room across the house to the living room, and a couple points in between. Or maybe we were going through wallboard, insullation and the brick facade to put a couple speakers outside on the desk. Either way, it was dirty work, and very much not fun.

That was before the age of wireless. And that brings us to Sonos.

There are a million ways to run a music system in a house, and I've tried a good number of them. And Sonos has just about been the easiest, most enjoyable of them all. Android makes it even better, having recently released a controller application, turning any Android smartphone into a whole-house music remote control. Let's do the full review thing after the break, shall we?


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Annika Schäffer Edgar Betz Antonia Koppe Gertrud Hölzl

How Secure is My Password lets you know just that

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We've all heard it before; you need to select a lengthy password, one that's hard to guess. Not a dictionary word. And it has to have some capital letters in it too, and some digits, and a symbol or two won't hurt either.

That's a handy set of rules to keep in mind, but How Secure is My Password helps us understand why they're important.

It's basically like a full-screen version of one of those password-strength meters websites sometimes use. But instead of showing you a bar going from "weak" to "strong", it shows you an estimation of how long your password would take to crack. That's a much more visceral way to understand why your password is strong.

For example, when I entered "rabbit", it came back with "your password is one of the 500 most common passwords. It could be cracked almost instantly". "rabbit5" would take two hours, "$rabbit5" would take 38 days, and "$rabbitZ5" would take 237 years. It's quite enlightening to see what a difference three simple characters can make.

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A Drunk Woman Landed on a Roof After She Was Ejected in a Car Crash [Wtf]

This is insane driving: A woman hit the median of a freeway, went airborne with her car, had the car roll over four times until she was was ejected from her seat and thrown onto the roof. Somehow, she's alive. More »


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Monika Kley Heidemarie Frick Maike Beetz Fiona Henschel

Garmin nuLink! 2390 torn apart by FCC, put back together again on US site

Garmin nuLink! 2390
Last week Garmin announced the latest member of its high-end GPS navigator family, the nuLink! 2390. Sadly, it was a Europe only affair, leaving American consumers wondering why the company was giving us the cold shoulder. (Whatever it was baby, we're sorry, come back.) Then we spotted an unnamed 4.3-inch Garmin making its way through the FCC that matches up quite nicely, size- and feature-wise, with the 2390. The newest nuLink-enabled device is even showing its face over at the company's US website (you really do love us!), though it's not available to order and you'll have to do some serious digging to unearth it. Whenever it does hit American shores you'll be able to pull in 3D traffic data and search Google thanks to its GSM radio and tether your phone to it using Bluetooth for hands-free calls. It also has voice recognition software so you can furiously bark commands at it when you miss a turn and a tracking feature for keeping tabs on unruly teens. If you're into seeing gadgets splayed open like an organ transplant patient check out the gallery below.

Garmin nuLink! 2390 torn apart by FCC, put back together again on US site originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 May 2011 16:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AT&T sideloading officially a go, designed to allow Amazon Appstore downloads

It's the end of an era, folks. See that block of text up there? That's AT&T's promise not to keep you from installing whatever Android apps you choose. Starting with the Samsung Infuse 4G, you can expect the carrier's new Google-powered phones to have that all-important "Unknown sources" box available to toggle at will. As we heard in March, the measure was designed to let third-party markets like the Amazon Appstore function properly, but don't let that keep you from having a little fun -- we're sure your own repurposed creations are just as good. Of course, none of this helps your existing AT&T droid one bit... unless it's also true that the Aria, Captivate and Inspire 4G will also have sideloading enabled ASAP.

AT&T sideloading officially a go, designed to allow Amazon Appstore downloads originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 May 2011 19:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This Must Be Where Superman Was Born [Astronomy]

Krypton. You may think it's in a remote galaxy, but no, it's right here, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. A place that I like to call "That Island Where Björk and Eyjafjallajökull the Dragon Live" and other people call Iceland. More »


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Fiona Henschel Joshua Heinlein Markus Wigger Alexander Berner