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Order vintage-style photo prints from your iPhone
With Printic, just choose a handful of photos from one or more sources, and the app will deliver Polaroid-style prints to you door.
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It’s one thing to share your photos on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but sometimes you just want old-fashioned prints. You know, the kind you can stick to your fridge, clip to a board, hang on a wall, and so on. That’s especially true if you want to share fond memories with friends or family members. You know, the kind you get from a wedding, vacation, birthday party, and so on.
Printic turns your iPhone photos into Polaroid-style prints, then delivers them to one or more recipients. It’s a simple concept, done well.
The app lets you choose photos from your Camera Roll, Facebook account, and/or Instagram account. Just tap to select the ones you want (the minimum order is three pictures), then move on to the editing process.
Here you can crop, move, and/or scale each one, change the quantity, and add a caption. (In case you’ve never seen a Polaroid, it has a white border with a larger blank area at the bottom.) But Printic doesn’t have any filtering or other photo-enhancing options a la Instagram. If you want to make any of those kinds of modifications, you’ll need to do so i… [Read more]
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A look back at NASA’s planet-pinpointing space ‘scope
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NASA announced this week that a key piece of gear on its Kepler space telescope has run into trouble. And though the space agency hasn’t given up on a jump-start, the mission may well be at risk.
It’s already gone well beyond its planned duration, however, and presented us with many fascinating discoveries.
In this gallery, we take a look back at that mission — at Kepler’s intriguing quest to find Earth-like, life-friendly planets among the Milky Way’s many stars.
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A look back at NASA’s planet-pinpointing space ‘scope
Why this old-school Trekkie loves the ‘Star Trek’ reboots
I pose with a Klingon back when the “Star Trek” ride was still going in Las Vegas.
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SPOILERS AHEAD: The new “Star Trek” movies with J.J. Abrams at the helm have turned into commercial successes, but some long-time Trekkies aren’t thrilled with the direction the franchise is taking. Check out the Reddit responses to Wil Wheaton’s take on Abrams to get an idea of the discussion.
I, for one, am a bit in love with the reboots. Sure, I was suspicious at first. I enjoyed the 2009 “Star Trek” well enough, and thought it clever how it totally wiped out the timeline from the original series and gave itself a new universe to play in for the subsequent films. But it was seeing “Star Trek Into Darkness” yesterday that truly turned me into a fan of the new films. I’m going to tell you why.
My history of Trekkin’ First, let me establish my fandom. My “Star Trek” cred goes way, way back. My mother used to watch reruns with me when I was a baby. Somewhere in elementary school, I got totally hooked on the original series, to the point where I was saving my allowance to buy shiny gold insignias, spending hours poring over blueprints f… [Read more]
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Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse takes on the slow roads
Despite its massive horsepower and torque, the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse behaves nicely cruising on a twisty mountain road.
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I wish I could tell you about driving the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse up to its record-breaking speed of 254 mph. Race car driver Anthony Liu did it. Of course, he drove the Veryon on a 5.6-mile straightaway at Volkswagen’s test track in Ehra-Lessien, Germany, taking the speed record for a production convertible.
On the rural roads in Napa, Calif., the best I could manage was a few seconds of maximum acceleration, making all four wheels grab pavement with neck-snapping force from the engine’s 1,106 pound-feet of torque.
With my foot flat on the gas pedal, I wasn’t looking at gauges or consulting a stopwatch, but Bugatti says the Veyron, in its open-top Grand Sport Vitesse form, hits 60 mph in about 2.5 seconds. I’ve driven cars that hit 60 mph in 3.5 seconds, but those did not prepare me for the Veyron. It is in a completely different class when it comes to stepping off the line.
Put the seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox in first, push the gas, and hang on. There’s no time to tap the paddle shifters, but that’s OK, the car will automatically grab the next gear before redline. No fuel shut-off to worry about.
Behind me, I hear disparate noises, most notably the whoosh of the Veyron’s four turbocharger… [Read more]
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NASA craft to visit asteroid approved, destination chosen
A rendering of OSIRIS-REx from a NASA concept video.
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NASA’s plan to go poking around on an asteroid, with the ultimate goal of snagging one of the space rocks and towing it closer to earth, is moving forward and a specific asteroid has been chosen to visit and sample in the next few years.
NASA has announced that the Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) passed a key confirmation review Wednesday, approving the spacecraft to move into development phase. Translation: We’re building a new spaceship, y’all!
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Not only does Osiris Rex (nice job on the naming, NASA folks) have a green light to be built, NASA has also chosen and named the first asteroid it will visit and sample. The asteroid now known as Bennu was previously called 1999 RQ36, but was renamed … [Read more]
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Low Latency No. 62: No one is safe
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Mars rover Opportunity hits new record for miles driven in space
Mars rover Opportunity.
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The plucky little Mars rover Opportunity has proven itself to be the Marco Polo of space. This extraterrestrial robot has set the new record for miles explored by a NASA vehicle in a world other than Earth, according to NASA.
On its 3,309th Martian day on the planet, Opportunity drove 263 feet along the western rim of the Endeavour Crater and broke records by putting its total distance traveled on Mars at 22.22 miles.
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Annoyed theatergoer ejected after grabbing cell phone and tossing it
Kevin Williamson, cell phone vigilante.
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I think of it less as a cell phone than as a self-phone.
So in a land so fond of the individual’s primacy over the group, it’s inevitable that having a gadget that contains the whole of your life is more mesmerizing than, well, anyone else or anything else.
The proof of this in public places is constant. And yet some choose to fight back.
In the very latest incident of someone using a cell phone when they should have been watching a cultural performance, Kevin Williamson decided he’d do something about it.
No, he wasn’t one of the actors on stage. Nor was he conducting an orchestra.
He was merely trying to enjoy “Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812.” This is a musical based on “War and Peace.” Of course it’s loosely based. If it wasn’t, it would last until Google Glass is available to the public.
The one incessant thing about this particular performance was the alleged cell phone use by a woman seated close by.
Cell phone use is — as always in the theater — expressly forbidden during this performance. However, this was New York, where people think they can (and should) do what they like.
As Williamson told the Gothamist, … [Read more]
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Why ‘Star Trek’ beats ‘Star Wars’
Neil deGrasse Tyson does his best Vulcan impression.
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Whether he’s talking about the weight of 300 billion elephants or battling Bill Nye the Science Guy for geek supremacy, famous astrophysicist and Star Talk Radio host Neil deGrasse Tyson is someone I pay attention to. I’m interested in his opinion and give it more weight than a lot of other people’s. When he tackled one of the greatest sci-fi rivalries of all time, I perked up. “Star Trek” or “Star Wars”?
It’s no secret Tyson is a major Trekkie, but his bountiful space love doesn’t stretch to encompass “Star Wars” quite so much. Now we know why. “I never got into ‘Star Wars,’” he admits in an interview with Business Insider (see embedded clip). “They made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.”
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Forget Google Glass, Recon debuts Android-friendly glasses at I/O
Recon Instruments Chief Marketing Officer Tom Fowler tested the company’s Jet heads-up display sunglasses during a chilly bike ride earlier this year.
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No doubt, Google executives will spend plenty of time at the annual Google I/O conference that begins Wednesday in San Francisco talking about Google Glass, and all the opportunities for developers to create programs for the geeky eyewear.
But outside the conference hall, a Google partner will unveil a pair of sunglasses that comes with its own heads-up display. Even though Google invited the company, Recon Instruments, to demonstrate the glasses at its premier developer event of the year, the specs have nothing to do with Google Glass.
Instead, Recon is launching Jet, heads-up display glasses using its own technology. Recon’s glasses come with a tiny monitor, like Google Glass, except that it sits near the bottom of the field of vision for the right eye rather than the top. The heads-up display unit includes a dual-core processor; Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity; GPS and movement sensors; and a high-definition camera; among other features. That technology lets people wearing Jet-equipped glasses track and film their movements, for example, and upload that data to the Web.
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