Holy Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! Tetris ported to a jack-o’-lantern (video)
By Mark Hearn posted Oct 30th 2012 6:04PM What happens when you gut a pumpkin and replace its insides with heat-shrink tubing, solder, 128 LEDs, eight AA batteries, an Arduino board and clever programming? You get what self-proclaimed tinkerer Nathan Pryor calls “Pumpktris.” Over the years we’ve seen the classic puzzle game Tetris ported to some amazing things, but a piece of fruit? Just in time for Halloween, this...
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Board Declares Quarterly Dividend of $2.65 per Common ShareCUPERTINO, California—October 25, 2012—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $36.0 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $28.3 billion and net profit of $6.6 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share, in...
DLNA doubles its certification of audio-video hardware in two years
By Sean Buckley posted Oct 29th 2012 11:00AM Shopping for a new home AV setup with DLNA support? You’ve got twice as many options as you might have had just a few years ago. The Digital Living Network Alliance says that it has certified over 500 AV systems, handily doubling the number of devices it has certified since 2010. The organization issued a press release lambasting the dark ages of pre-DLNA AV setups and the...
How One Business Uses Social Networking and BPM to Handle Disasters
Brian Flynn, CIO at Crawford & Company, an insurance claims outsourcer, knew that the company’s processes needed updating when he saw in person how its catastrophe team operated during an emergency. Go here to see the original: How One Business Uses Social Networking and BPM to Handle Disastersmore information
It Costs Just $1.36 a Year to Charge an iPad
NEW YORK (AP) — That coffee you’re drinking while gazing at your iPad? It cost more than all the electricity needed to run those games, emails, videos and news stories for a year.The annual cost to charge an iPad is just $1.36, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit research and development group funded by electric utilities.By comparison, a 60-watt compact fluorescent bulb costs $1.61, a desktop PC...
