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Japanese wrist-phone knows when you’re slacking, tells the boss
Japanese cellphone maker KDDI has announced a new phone that should be immediately unpopular to anyone with half a brain: it monitors your movements and can tell when you’re slacking off. The phone, which you wear on your wrist, actually, uses an accelerometer to check your movements against information stored on a server — which the wrist-phone communicates with wirelessly — to identify what you’re doing.
OnLive streaming video game service launches in June with one huge catch
We’ve talked about OnLive before , and the service impressed us with its seemingly impossible promise: to stream console and computer games to your TV or PC (or Mac) on -demand without having to install them. On the console side of things this is even more alluring, as you could games for the Xbox 360 or PS3 without having to buy either. What’s more, your computer’s specs wouldn’t matter.
Show your true intentions with the hand grenade cane
Protecting yourself is important.
Now you can watch TiVo recordings anywhere in your house
Never mind that TiVo is struggling, losing $10.2 million in the last quarter — the company is still chugging ahead into its future with its two upcoming TiVo Premiere models, and today it announces slick compatibility with HP MediaSmart Servers. If you’re lucky enough to have the latest MediaSmart Server EX490/EX495 or the DataVault X510, HP MediaSmart Expander for TiVo lets you transfer shows over from a TiVo DVR onto your server and watch them from any PC, Mac, Xbox, or PS3 on your network.
Google Maps now includes bike lanes and directions
You can get directions for driving, walking and public transit where applicable, and now Google is updating its popular maps service to include biking directions across the US.
Nokia patents ‘Piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester,’ or a self-charging phone
Nokia is not adverse to dreaming up futuristic concepts (such as the Morph , pictured above, though the Morph used solar power), but this Piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester sounds like it’ll either do what the company says it will, or bring about the grim future world envisioned in The Matrix where we’re all suddenly batteries. Batteries! So what is a Piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester supposed to do?
YouTube turns on auto-auto captions, gets hilarious results
You may have noticed a new option on some YouTube videos: the ability to turn on closed captioning. Next time you see it, do. It’s absolutely hilarious
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