SlingPlayer App Comes to Kindle Fire, Expanding the Tablet’s Video Offerings
SlingPlayer is now obtainable on the Amazon Appstore. Photo: Sling Media
Kindle Fire owners, your Slingbox is waiting.
SlingPlayer, the software platform for “place-shifting” property Tv content material to desktop computers and tablets, has joined Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Vimeo in providing streaming service on Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Paired with 1 of Sling Media’s Slingboxes, which expense in between $ 180 to $ 300 and sit proper subsequent to your cable box, the $ 30 app will stream whatever you can watch at residence to Amazon’s $ 200 color tablet. Although the app lets you alter channels and access your DVR through a touchscreen interface, you’re still beholden to your television provider for the actual Television service. As the Kindle Fire lacks 3G capability, you’re also restricted to Wi-Fi connectivity for viewing content material.
We reviewed the Kindle Fire last November, and even though its performance wasn’t outstanding, video playback was a high point. So we’re encouraged to see Amazon producing much more streaming readily available, specifically given the somewhat restricted offerings of Amazon Instant Video and the limited choice of apps within Amazon’s app shop, the only spot to source the SlingPlayer — or any other app — for the Kindle Fire.
Read more…Magnus iPad Stand Marries Minimalism With Magnets
The Magnus holds your iPad at 1 angle, and in landscape orientation
It’s difficult to see why anyone would devote $ 50 on this little sliver of aluminum, but design-smart, it has to be 1 of the greatest-looking iPad stands around. It comes from Ten One particular style, purveyor of minimal iAccessories to the rich and tasteful, and it’s known as the Magnus.
The Magnus is carved from aluminum, stuffed with neodymium magnets and shod with rubber feet. It sits handsomely on your desk till an iPad 2 gets close, whereupon it snatches it from your hand and hugs it tightly, gripping the iPad’s personal embedded magnets. Therefore embraced, the tablet seems to float above your desk.
Now, if you own an iPad 2 you most likely have a Smart Cover already, which execute the same function and far more. Then again, there’s something to be mentioned for a purpose-made stand permanently set up on your desk. And if it is anything like Ten A single products I have utilized in the past, it is most likely to be quite well created. Available now, only for the iPad two.
Magnus [Ten One particular Design]
Read more…Samsung offers Personalized Engraving to Galaxy Note users in South Korea
Engraving provides a personal touch to a gadget and with the identical intention Samsung is providing an engraving service to Galaxy Note buyers in South Korea. Till March 31, customers buying Galaxy Note can engrave their devices with a special message at Samsung’s Digital Plaza retailers.
The laser engraving will be done on the battery cover and will provide a variety of fonts to suit user’s “personality.”
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Bendy Bike Rack Made From Rubber Hose and Cable
Your handy bendy bike rack
Here’s a bad thought: Take the weakest sort of bike lock — the plastic covered cable — and turn it into a bike rack. That is the concept behind the Tulip Fun Fun, an “elastic and safe rack resembling a meadow.” Precisely what you need in a bike rack.
The Tulip Enjoyable Enjoyable is truly born of a good thought. It flexes to fit the bike you’re locking to it. Any person who has spent five minutes trying to wrangle their ride into a tight rack will appreciate this. But security smart the cable-and-rubber-hose style is a disaster, chopp-in a position by bolt croppers in mere seconds.
Even metal racks aren’t immune to the industrious thief. I saw some fancy-schmancy stainless steel rack sawn clean via just las week (tip: if you live in Barcelona, stay away from the racks at the top finish of the Parc de la Ciutadella). Standard racks may be ugly, but at least they can be trusted.
Tulip Fun Fun [Keha3 via Bicycle Design]
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Bumper Sound Finally Figures out How to Stow Your Earbuds
January 28th, 2012
What to do with your earphones when you are not utilizing them seems to be a issue that’s nonetheless in search of a very good remedy. Confident there are situations and gadgets which let you wrap them around your mobile gadget, but they nevertheless take up space, and make it hard to cram your phone or media player into your pocket, and they still often finish up a tangled mess when you undo them. The Bumper Sound concept seems to have solved the problem for good – assuming it ever gets produced.
Korean designer Sang Hwa Lee came up with this ingenious concept which turns your headphone cable into a bumper for your gadget when not in use. By using a flat tangle-proof rubber ribbon cable for the headphone cord, they just wrap around the perimeter of your device when not in use. The 3 layers of rubber even offer added protection when the cord is stowed. It’s not 100% clear from these pictures, but it looks like the earbuds themselves would be pretty low profile, and snap into a groove placed on the headphone line itself along the edge of the device.
I’m nonetheless not fully sure of how the cable would stay put, but that could possibly be achieved by pairing the headphones with a matching case with clips built in to hold it. While it’s undoubtedly not prepared for production, the idea appears like it is on the proper track to lastly solving this annoying and difficult dilemma. Kickstarter, anyone?
[through reddot]
LikeBelt: Thrust to Like
January 27th, 2012
If you see a guy with a thick belt around his waist making some weird hip movements and thrusting in random directions, don’t immediately dismiss him as being some weird pervert who has nothing better to do with his life just yet. Because you never know, he might just be trying out his LikeBelt.
The LikeBelt is a concept gadget that lets you update your Facebook status on the go with just a simple thrust. Basically, it employs Near Field Communication (NFC) technology so you can send out updates when you get close enough by thrusting the belt towards an object or a person with the appropriate RFID tag on them.
However, by “close enough,” we actually mean around two inches or so, so be careful where you thrust that belt towards.
[via Wired Gadget Lab via Dvice]
TARDIS and R2-D2 Safes Secure Your Stuff Through the Power of Science Fiction
January 25th, 2012
Whether you’re into Physician Who or Star Wars (or each) – there’s a new way for you to secure your little valuables. These new digital “smartsafes” had been spotted throughout the 2012 UK Toy Fair, and they appear pretty nifty.
For starters, there’s a secure that looks just like the TARDIS, total with all the proper blue Police Box particulars, which includes a flashing blue light on the roof. It looks like it’s a fairly decent size, and could hold modest, but precious items like coins, jewelry or even modest documents. Of course, there’s no telling if they may possibly get transported to some other time or dimension as soon as you put them in there and shut the door.
Star Wars fans can skip the TARDIS and go straight for the R2-D2 safe, which finally proves that there wasn’t truly a little individual inside of the droid, but a hollow storage compartment best for holding onto your precious galactic credits and other goodies.
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