Aereo
Aereo is a startup company with a $12/month service that lets you stream live and recorded over-the-air TV using an iOS device or your web browser. You simply touch a show and live TV starts streaming on your device. Unfortunately, Aereo is currently only available in New York, but the project is still an ambitious one. The technology behind the service is rather unique: Aereo has several large “antenna arrays” set up somewhere in Brooklyn, filled with thousands of tiny TV antennas. When users access their Aereo, account they are assigned their own individual mini-antenna. A...
read moreiPad 4G…LTE
Everyone knows that the next generation iPad is coming, but will Apple skip past the iPad 3 and go straight for iPad 4G? The Wall Street Journal has reported that the newest iPad will feature 4G LTE technology, which will enable it to the faster networks on Verizon and AT&T. It’s still speculation at this point, but it seems rather likely that Apple will capitalize on its carrier’s 4G networks.
read moreiPad 3 in March?
Sources say that Apple has scheduled an event in early March to unveil the newest iPad, and many are speculating that it will be available for purchase a week or so after the event. The iPad has definitely been a game-changer in the home automation field, and it’ll be exciting to see what changes have been made in the newest iteration.
read moreBurning iPhones
Two iPhones, one in Brazil and then another in Australia, have reportedly self-combusted in recent weeks. The Australian incident happened on November 25 during a Regional Express flight from Lismore to Sydney. According to the airline’s official statement, one of the passengers’ phones “started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow”. The case on Brazil involved a phone that was plugged in overnight and started shooting...
read moreSiri Automation
We all knew it would happen eventually, but I certainly didn’t expected it to happen so soon: Siri has been used for home automation. It’s a rather complicated process, and it was only used to turn on a fan, but it’s still pretty neat and I’m sure there’s more to come. The programmer, Christoper Deutsch, gives a detailed account of the process on this blog.
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