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Seeking Your Feedback

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Hey guys, I want to ask you a question. We’ve been approached by our friends at Faveable, asking us if we’d like to feature an automotive column on OhGizmo. They own a separate car site, and are wanting to drive more readers there. The idea would be to come in 5 times a week and write a short article on here, similar to the Faveable column, with some links pointing back to them. I’m concerned that there will be too much syndicated content like this, but at the same time many of you might enjoy the extra content. So I want to leave it up to you all to decide. Do you want to see more automotive news, even if it’s not written by us?

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Does My Bum Look Big In This? Why Innovators Struggle To Get Meaningful Feedback.

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Whilst you may not always see the traces in new products and services that come to market, deep within the fabric of innovation is a weave of input from a complex community of influencers. Some of...
    






Facebook Adds New Tools to Surf Real-Time Conversations on Media

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Mark Zuckerberg’s social network, Facebook is including a twin set of social media tools to lend television shows and marketing experts some insight into what is hot and what is not on Facebook. One...

Disney’s AIREAL Creates Tactile Feedback in Mid-Air

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The technical magicians at Disney Research are at it once more. This time, they’re working on a technology which allows users to feel sensations without actually having to touch a surface.

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AIREAL is a combination of hardware and software which can create tiny air vortexes in 3D space. It was developed by researchers Rajinder Sodhi, Ivan Poupyrev, Matthew Glisson, and Ali Israr. A set of these small haptic-feedback devices can be used in combination with gesture-based control devices to let users feel sensations and virtual textures while interacting with their computers and video game systems. This is truly some science fiction stuff made real.

Check out some examples of AIREAL in action in the clip below:

Pretty amazing concept, no? Wouldn’t it be cool to combine this with a head-mounted display like the Oculus Rift? The wind could blow in your hair as you run through a virtual world, or you could feel bullets whizzing by when you’re being shot at. Crazy stuff. Or it might just turn up in a next generation of Disney’s Haunted Mansion – where you can actually feel the ghosts surrounding you. Hopefully the Disney Research guys talk to the Imagineers.

You can read the entire research paper on AIREAL here. [PDF]

Best Buy Recalls 5100 ATG Replacement Batteries for the MacBook Pro

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Best Buy has recalled over 5100 replacement batteries for Apple’s MacBook Pro laptop in response to reports of fire hazards. There were over a dozen incidents of the batteries catching fire while...
    


Microsoft Reverses Xbox One After Feedback by Gamers

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Microsoft has just rolled back its previous plans for playing used games on Xbox One as the gamers badly want these. Don Mattrick stated officially that Xbox plans changed in accordance to feedback...
    


ARAIG gaming feeback suit hits Kickstarter in search of good funding vibrations

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ARAIG gaming feeback suit hits Kickstarter in search of good funding vibrations

In spite of the company's claims that feedback has always been localized on gaming controllers, this certainly isn't the first time we've seen the phenomenon incorporated into a wearable. That said, the ARAIG (that's As Real As It Gets, for the record) does wrap a lot of features into a nice looking package -- well, about as nice as one can expect from a vibrating shirt that you wear while gaming. The ARAIG (sounds a bit like "ear ache") features 16 points of feedback on the front, 16 on the back and eight on each side, a number of which are located in areas so as to offer the most muscle stimulation as they respond to what's happening in the game.

You'll also find a six speakers around the collar, offering a sort of surround sound to the wearer, as well as an admittedly somewhat clunky subwoofer on the back. Of course, ARAIG is still in its early stages, a few days into its Kickstarter campaign, so there may well be some changes to the suit in the months to come. In the meantime, the company's hoping for a lofty $900,000 in crowdfunding. You can check out a video plea below or click the source link to contribute.

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TestFlight reaches Android in beta, gives app developers a safety net

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TestFlight reaches Android in beta, gives app developers a safety net

You may not know about TestFlight if you're used to running apps rather than building them, but odds are that you know its effects when over 300,000 iOS apps have reached testers that hopefully caught bugs in advance. That makes the launch of a private Android beta something of an event, as it gives developers the same simple feedback and provisioning for pre-release apps. Coders who split their time between both Android and iOS also get a truly cross-platform management console as part of the expansion. There's no set date for when the beta expires, but TestFlight eventually plans to offer its utility directly through the Google Play Store -- and might just keep the Android app train rolling smoothly.

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Perkins Smart Brailler helps the blind learn to type, closes the digital divide

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Perkins Smart Brailler helps the blind learn to type, closes the digital divide

Most digital Braille devices are built on the assumption that the legally blind already know how to write in the format -- if they don't, they're often forced back to the analog world to learn. PDT and Perkins hope to address that longstanding technology gap with the Perkins Smart Brailler. Going digital lets Perkins build in lessons for newcomers as well as provide immediate audio feedback (visual for writers with borderline vision) and text-to-speech conversion to give even an old hand a boost. Logically, the leap into the modern world also allows transferring documents over USB along with traditional Braille printouts. Smart Braillers will cost a weighty $1,995 each when they first ship in September, but it's hard to put a price tag on mastering communication and fully joining the digital generation.

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