Siri 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.
read moreIs There a Divorce App?
The internet is filled with stories of cheating spouses done in by their social networking accounts, but Apple may have set a new record for the fastest breakup due to an app. Merely four days after its release, info from the new Find My Friends app is being claimed as evidence in divorce proceedings. Find My Friends (FMF) is like a blend of Facebook and Google maps: you send someone a request through the app and, once they accept, you can see their location on a map. It sounds a little creepy to me, but Apple’s description makes it sound rather benign and even useful (assuming...
read moreiPhone/Galaxy Drop Test
The true measure of a smartphone isn’t how great the camera is or how many apps it has—it’s how durable it is when dropped. And it will be dropped. No matter how careful you are, it is the fate of every expensive gadget to be dropped (or worse) at least once in its lifetime. Luckily there are people out there who get a kick out of “testing” to how much abuse certain gizmos can take before they bust. Here’s SquareTrade’s iPhone 4S vs Samsung Galaxy S II drop test. This might be a little painful to watch for technophiles, but remember that it’s...
read more4 Million iPhone’s Sold
Apple sold 4 million of their new iPhones in three days, smashing the already record sells of the iPhone 4. It’s no surprise that people are excited about Siri, Apple’s AI assistant, voice-control has been on consumers’ home automation wish-list for a while. If Siri proves to be a success and not just a gimmick, we’ll no doubt end up seeing the technology used on a larger scale.
read moreReal Siri Demo
Stuff.tv has a neat demo of the iPhone’s voice-controlled personal assistant, Siri.
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