PointGrab wants you to be able to control your computer, TV and more with simple hand gestures. The company's website says its software enables any 2D camera — already embedded in smartphones and tablets — to read hand gestures up to five meters away. It can also differentiate between movement meant for it and an [...]
It all started in a garage that you can still find with minimal effort — especially if you're using Google Maps Less than one mile off U.S. Route 101, the highway that links San Francisco to the rest of Silicon Valley, you'll come to a quiet neighborhood a stone's throw from Stanford's beautifully manicured campus. [...]
If you're bored with your Android phone's default design, downloading a launcher is a great (and usually free) way to give your home screen an instant upgrade. Following the Sept. 18 official release of Apple's iOS 7, app developers have raced to create launchers to specifically mimic the iPhone's sleek redesign. If you want to [...]
Apple's many mobile devices were designed to be toys for adults, but are now slowly making their ways into the hands of kids Small children who just want to play fun apps on iPods grow into pre-teens with iPhones who have unlimited access to apps and web content. See also: iOS 7: Here's What's New [...]
Say you're writing a paper on Twitter during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. How do you cite all those tweets you'll be referencing? Four more yearspic.twitter.com/bAJE6Vom — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012 The Modern Language Association has an answer to that: a straightforward formula that ends with "Tweet," which is lovely. Here's how it [...]