AppleInsider has discovered patent applications showing that Apple may be interested in including dual rear-facing cameras and additional sensors for a new 3D image technology in mobile devices such as the iPhone.
The hardware-based system would be an improvement over recent Android devices that include 3D camera technology due to software that takes “guesses” at how to conduct stereo disparity compensation on 3D images. The more guesses needed to process these images result in loss of quality and artifacts.
Apple’s documented patent, entitled “Systems and Methods for an Imaging System Using Multiple Image Sensors”, would provide higher quality 3D images based on multiple image sensors and hardware processing, eliminating artifacts and other quality issues. The patent also describes 3D video recording capability. (This would require Apple to include a 3D display on the iPhone.)
If Apple were to pack this technology into the iPhone 5 would you actually use it, or are 3D cameras on mobile devices just another gimmick? Let us know in the comments!
10,000 is just a drop in the bucket compared to the magazine’s 1.3 million print subscribers – but it seems a decent number after less than two months of being available as an option. And according to AdAge, the publishers are quite happy with results so far:
"We are very excited," said Gregg Hano, VP-group publisher at the Bonnier Technology Group, which includes Popular Science. "We really did not have any expectation of what would happen because we’re really pioneers."
I haven’t seen a lot of numbers to put the Popular Science ones in any sort of context – as there are still very few iPad newspaper and magazine titles offering subscription plans.
Home grown Steven Spielbergs have known about Vimeo’s existence for quite some time. In fact, Vimeo has been a hot bed for independent and amateur directors since 2004. Different than YouTube, Vimeo has an exclusive dedication to user-made video and does not allow commercial content.
Remember when the official Twitter app added the Dick.. er.. Quick Bar in a recent update? The Quick Bar was Twitter’s attempt at “sharing information” with users. It was also a clever revenue option for displaying promoted tweets.
Twitter has finally killed the Quick Bar. After a brief and painful run, the Quick Bar has been removed from the official Twitter app in a new update.(…) Read the rest of Twitter for iPhone Removes the Quick Bar
Twitter for iPhone has been updated and the much hated #dickbar Quick Bar has been removed.
The intoduction of the Quick Bar infuriated many users, so this was a smart move by Twitter. In fact, many users sought out 3rd party Twitter applications to replace the official one.
Were you one of those users? Will you return to Twitter’s official application now that the Quick Bar has been removed? Or have you fallen in love with a different app, and if so, which one?
Twitter for iPhone has been updated and the much hated #dickbar Quick Bar has been removed.
The intoduction of the Quick Bar infuriated many users, so this was a smart move by Twitter. In fact, many users sought out 3rd party Twitter applications to replace the official one.
Were you one of those users? Will you return to Twitter’s official application now that the Quick Bar has been removed? Or have you fallen in love with a different app, and if so, which one?
Labour MP (Member for Parliament) Kerry McCarthy is thought to be the first person ever to deliver a speech in the House of Commons using an iPad instead of printed notes.
McCarthy – the MP for Bristol East – read her iPad-assisted speech during a budget debate last week. She was not planning to use the iPad, but since she was called to speak late in the debate she had been making numerous edits to her speech during the proceedings and the iPad became the best choice, because it had all of her latest changes.
You asked us to put the Otterbox Defender head-to-head against the Incipio Destroyer in a proper, traditional Smartphone Experts style review and… I thought to heck with that. We’re doing an Amazing Case episode of TiPb TV. No, not a Jiu-Jitsu death-match or scratch test or water torture, this time we’re taking the Defender and the Destroyer out onto the frigid Canadian slopes, we’re putting them up against ice and snow and mud and rocks — we’re literally putting our butts on the line to stress test them for the TiPb nation!
We’ve previously taken a look at how to put on and take off the Destroyer and how to install and remove the Defender. This time we took them… sledding! Now the Defender’s outer layer is silicon (Destroyer puts that layer inside) and non-stick might be great for grip but not for racing down a hill. So we had to take that off. Destroyer is also literally screwed together. With differences like that, could it be a fair test? Could we figure out which one would best keep your iPad protected (and me alive?)
Hit play and find out!
[Special thanks to @marcedwards from Bjango for the 1-star rating t-shirts. Meh!]
Here are some of the major points outlined in their blog post:
– Things on iOS and Mac will need to be updated to enable communication with the cloud server.
This software upgrade will come at no charge, and will also sport a revamped database layer that is not only faster, but specifically optimized for cloud sync usage.
– Things sync will not be automatic it sounds like, but it will sync ‘frequently’ enough that ‘there should hardly be any reason’ for doing any manual syncs.
Whenever you open Things, switch applications, or wake your computer from sleep, Things will check back with the server to see if there are any updates to pull.
Jus search for iPad 2 on Radio Shack’s home page, and you’ll see a ‘Find a Store’ dropdown where you can choose your state, and get a listing of outlets selling the iPad 2 by city and town. Here in Texas, I was surprised to see Austin is not on the list at all.
Judging by some reports on the web over the last 24 hours – like this one – Radio Shack does not seem the best of options for those seeking an iPad 2. They are said to be getting very small supplies (below 10 units at a time) and customers are reporting being forced to buy AppleCare and or iPad 2 accessories in order to be allowed to purchase an iPad 2 at Radio Shack.
Have any of you seen a local Radio Shack selling iPad 2 yet?
