Controlling Your Home with the Touch of an iPad
When you step off the elevator into the 8,000-square foot Savant Experience Center, it feels less like a showroom and more like a swanky Manhattan abode. “We wanted to develop a space where technology blended in with the environment,” says Robert Madonna, chief executive of Savant Systems, a Hyannis, Mass.-based home automation company. ”We built a high-end New York City ‘apartment’ and…everything is automated.” The Savant Experience...
University edition of Office 365 to be offered via subscription only
Microsoft has announced a version of its new Office suite for university students, and one of the most interesting aspects is that it will be sold only through a subscription license. In other words, it won’t be possible to buy Office 365 University by paying a flat, one-time fee for a perpetual license. Instead, Office 365 University, scheduled for release in the first quarter, will be available for US$79.99 for a four-year...
LG tells the story behind QSlide multitasking, won’t be mad if you tweet at the same time (video)
By James Trew posted Oct 20th 2012 3:08PM LG’s been stepping up its mobile game recently, with the Optimus G being the firm’s clearest display of podium-position ambitions yet. And just like its regional neighbors, it’s getting in on the “explaining-ideas-behind-concepts” video action. In this clip we see senior research engineer, Sebastian Hochan Song, explain the inspiration and process behind the new...
Alt-week 20.10.12: our oldest primate ancestor, the birth of the moon and a planet with four stars
By James Trew posted Oct 20th 2012 5:00PM Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days. Most mornings, we wake up with little to no idea what happened the day before, let alone last week. Fortunately, they don’t let us run important scientific research projects. Or maybe they do, and we just forgot? This week (and most others as it goes) we definitely leave it to the pros,...
Node modular iOS sensor hands-on
By Brian Heater posted Oct 20th 2012 7:56PM With the spate of bad publicity surrounding all those Kickstarter projects that never make it beyond the funding stage, there’s a certain surreality to actually holding a crowd-funded device in your hands. But here it is, the Node, a project we highlighted in its infancy, way back in February. The whole thing blew way past its funding goal, scoring $76,000 out of a requested $50,000....
