Words can barely do this justice. The new Leap Interactive Computer Controller!!
Interesting Read: the F22 Raptor’s Pros & Cons
THE MOST LETHAL PLANE IN THE WORLD: It can go twice the speed of sound and climb to 65,000 feet. It’ll do something called Pugachev’s Cobra, and is capable of something known as “supermaneuverability”, which is so advanced that it’s not even a real word. It’s heralded by pretty much every US aviator as the single “best” aircraft in the sky. So why do the very men who fly them insist that our F-22 fleet should be grounded?
Check out the article here from ABC News
TechGent Health: What is really in your processed foods
Castoreum
What it is: Extract from beaver perineal glands
Where you’ll find it: “Natural flavoring is defined by the FDA as any substance extracted, distilled or otherwise derived from ‘natural’ materials, such as plant or animal matter,” Bradley explains. “In the case of strawberry and raspberry flavorings, some natural berry flavors may actually be enhanced by castoreum.” It’s also sometimes taken (intentionally) in supplement form.
Ammonium Sulfate
What it is: A salt compound comprised of nitrogen
Where you’ll find it: In some fertilizers — and in some breads, like the rolls at Subway.
L-Cysteine
What it is: An amino acid made from human hair or duck feathers.
Where you’ll find it: Used as a dough conditioner in some bread products, Bradley says, which can improve the texture and feel of products, as well as prolong their shelf life.
Silicon Dioxide
What it is: Also known as silica, it’s most often present as quartz or sand.
Where you’ll find it: Various fast food options, like Wendy’s chili and Taco Bell’s meat filling. It’s added to foods as an anti-caking agent, to keep them from clumping.
Titanium Dioxide
What it is: A chemical related to the mined metallic element titanium.
Where you’ll find it: Sunscreen. It’s a UV light absorber, says Doyle, but also works as a lightener in foods. It’s often used to whiten skim milk, which, after the fat is removed, can appear slightly blue, he says. It may also be used in salad dressings, coffee creamers and frosting, according to Men’s Health.
Shellac
What it is: Secretions from a bug native to Thailand, Health.com reports.
Where you’ll find it: Coating your favorite shiny sweets, like jelly beans. Look for it on ingredients lists as “confectioner’s glaze.”
Cellulose
What it is: Wood pulp
Where you’ll find it: In shredded cheese, salad dressings, chocolate milk and more, according to the Wall Street Journal. It’s added to foods to keep them from clumping by blocking moisture, and can thicken foods in the pace of oil or flour, which cost more.
Game Changing Concept: SAFE Plastic Money
Credit Card scams are an everyday occurrence. So the companies have gotten smart and allocated us a one-time-pin (OTP) for online shopping but still have to wise-up to forgery and misuse in the physical world. Safe Card is a protective option that allows you to use a Credit Card only after you unlock it with a password. Offering a second tier of security is the option to enter the exact amount to the card interface, so that only the specified amount is charged.
I just feel that you can’t be too safe with plastic money, heck I even have an opaque tape hiding my CVV number!
(Source: diginfo.tv)
The Next Generation e-Reading Experience
The Huffington Post has confirmed a new partnership with Spotify, the popular music streaming service. You’ll now see a new feature now when browsing HuffPost articles, the Spotify Play Button, enabling you to enjoy music curated by HuffPost editors to complement whatever it is you’re reading or viewing.
We commend HuffPost for both their intelligent reporting and this new collaboration to add to the social Internet experience. By adding another dimension to the long-standing method of receiving e-news, HuffPost may have stumbled across a concept that will form into a standard for all digital news - and just one more reason to stop reading paper-based news sources. Kudos Ms. Huffington.
(Source: The Huffington Post)
Google believes technology should work for you — to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don’t.
A team within our Google[x] group started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment.
(Source: CNET)
New Tech: Nike+ FuelBand
A few months ago, TechGent reviewed the Jawbone UP band that has very similar function as the new Nike Fuel band. However, we have now been through two malfunctioned UP wrist-bands, a use-case that does not fit well into daily life, a bracelet that looks like crap when you inevitably lose the 3.5mm jack cap, and just another piece of early tech that needed more evolution cycles. Leave it to Nike to create its own unit ‘next-best-thing’ that should soon replace the UP band. The Nike+ FuelBand is a wearable bracelet that uses a built-in three-axis accelerometer to track the time, your daily steps, calories expended, and NikeFuel — a normalized score based on oxygen kinetics that awards points equally regardless of physical makeup. You can track your activity using the Nike+ website by syncing over USB, or hook up with your smartphone over Bluetooth and suck data into an app. Integrated LEDs in the wristband keep you informed of your current status and give you an easy red-to-green goal indicator. Basically, it’s everything the Jawbone Up was what we hoped and it was supposed to be, but wasn’t. [$150]
(Source: nike.com)
AT&T iPhone-4S Users and the 4G Update
4G or not 4G? That is the question at the center of a controversy surrounding AT&T, Apple, and a little 4G indicator symbol that suddenly showed up on iPhones as of Wednesday.
The controversy began with the release of iOS 5.1, Apple’s latest operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. iOS 5.1 became available for download Wednesday afternoon following the conclusion of Apple’s iPad event; after installing the iOS update on their iPhones, many iPhone 4S users on AT&T’s network were surprised to see the letters “4G” next to the cell signal icon on the upper lefthand corner of their display screens. Had AT&T subscribers suddenly gotten a boost in data speed with their newest mobile OS?
In a word: No. Your iPhone 4S is going to download email, stream movies, and connect to Facebook at the exact same speeds as it did before, when the icon said “3G.”
So what’s the deal with the 4G icon?
Though AT&T offers the faster 4G (or fourth-generation) LTE service for some of its smartphones and tablets, the iPhone 4S does not have the proper internal chipset to connect to that network; instead it connects to the HSPA+ network, an older, though enhanced, 3G network whose peak data rates are slower than those on LTE, but which AT&T and T-Mobile both refer to as 4G on their website and advertising materials.
Man Code Style: Toiletries
If a lady were to open up your medicine cabinet, the last thing you’d want falling out of there are ultra feminine products like lavender scented facial scrubs and cucumber and fresh mist eye cream (or wart remover, that would suck too). If that’s what you’ve got in there now, quickly hit up Nevermore Body Company for a manly and mystical upgrade. Everything they offer looks like a magic elixir you’d buy at an old fair, except all the products from Nevermore Body Company come in guy-friendly aromas like Whiskey and Guinness. So while you may be loading up your Dopp Kit with eye creams and body tonics, you won’t smell like you fell face-first into a display at Bath and Body Works.
(Source: nbcwholesale.myshopify.com)
Great HuffPost Today about Bain Capital and Mittens Romney
China wants to put cameras all over the country to spy on its troublesome people, who annoyingly want “freedom” and “potable water” and similar luxuries. Well, somebody’s got to put those cameras all over the place, and that somebody happens to be a company owned by Bain Capital, The New York Times reports. Yes, Bain Capital, the private equity firm once run by a certain Willard Mittens Romney. The same Romney who just gets so darn hopping mad about China he can’t wait to declare it a currency manipulator. The same Romney who still has a personal stake in the private-equity fund that owns the same company that will be putting cameras all over China to spy on its people.
While the point about Bain Capital aiding China in their fight against the freedom of their citizens is important - We firmly believe that the most interesting point made is that ‘Mitt’ Romney’s real name is actually WILLARD MITTENS!
(Source: The Huffington Post)
