Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Wireless Thermometer Uses iPhone for Readout

By Charlie Sorrel
December 15, 2010 |
6:30 am |
Categories: Accessories and Peripherals

Cooking nerds, I have some fantastic news for you. It’s called iGrill, and it’s the coolest kitchen gadget you have seen this year. IGrill is a combination of two parts. First, there’s a probe thermometer which skewers your meat, cake or other target food. This unit has its own readout, and can be used with one or two probes (it ships with one). It also has Bluetooth, which brings us on to…

The iPhone app. Instead of beaming its info to a dedicated box like most remote thermometers, the iGrill sends it to an iPhone, iPod or iPad (it’s a universal app). The Bluetooth signal will go up to 200-feet, and tells you phone what is happening back in the oven.

And because it runs on a touch-screen computer, there’s more than just a temperature readout. As well as the current temp (along with a scale reminding you not to cook your beef over 140ºF, for example), you get a timer, an estimate of the remaining cooking time, and a handy feature to dial in the food type and required doneness, which spits back the correct target temperature.

There’s also a browser and recipe book, but those are icing. The main meat (if you’ll excuse me for the pun) is the thermometer, meaning that the iPhone has replaced yet another piece of hardware.

The iGrill itself costs $100, and the app is free. An additional probe adds $20 to the price.

Summary

THIS IS ANOTHER STUPID IPHONE APP. it does a whole lot of nothing unless you have the right kitchen equipment. it can change the temp on the grill and oven if you have the right equipment. it pretty much sucks. BLACKBERRY RULES

Free iPhone App Wirelessly Syncs Photos to Computer

By Brian X. Chen
December 14, 2010 |
2:20 pm |
Categories: Phones

Syncing an iPhone to a computer stinks: You have to physically plug in the device using USB, and iTunes still takes forever to copy your files. Apple hasn’t delivered a cloud-based iTunes yet, but a new iPhone app at least offers a wireless syncing solution for photos.

With the app Cinq, you can snap photos and save them straight into a folder on your computer even when you’re outside. Here’s how it works:

You download the Cinq app for Mac or Windows to create a server on your computer. Register to create an account.
Then you download the Cinq app for iPhone and log in with your Cinq account.
From here on, you can pop open Cinq and tap the camera icon to snap a photo, and it will save straight into your Cinq folder on the desktop.
You can also choose photos stored in your iPhone’s photo library and save them into Cinq.

It’s a pretty nifty app, especially for iPhone shutterbugs who haven’t gotten in the habit of plugging in and syncing to iTunes and iPhoto on a regular basis.

I just have a minor complaint: When choosing stored photos from an iPhone album to send to Cinq, we can only select one photo at a time. It’d be much more efficient if we could select multiple photos, or even the entire camera roll, to wirelessly sync with our Cinq folder.

But hey — Cinq is less than a week old, so hopefully future software updates will make this a really sweet app. It’s a free download in the iTunes App Store; there’s also a $2 version that’s ad-free.

SUMMARY

This new iphone app can sync stuff wirelessly to a computer of your choice. it pretty much sucks

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Apple’s iPad Camera Connection Kit is a wonderful thing, although overpriced at $30. Not only can you use it to inject photos from your camera direct into the tablet’s brain, you can also hook up all manner of USB peripherals, from keyboards to microphones to thumb-drives.

MIC Gadget’s 3-in-1 adapter does all this, and more. It combines Apple’s two small, easy-to-lose widgets into one slightly larger, slightly harder-to-lose package, putting an SD card reader and USB port into one plastic box. The extra is a micrSD slot, which is actually all but useless: the only way it would work is if your cellphone saves its photos into a standard folder named “DCIM”, which is what will trick the iPad into reading them.

There’s one thing that MIC Gadget’s version had in common with the official Apple version: it costs $30. I’d stick with Apple’s overpriced kit: it works, you only have to carry the part you need and it is built to last. It is also available now, unlike this 3-in-1 solution, which ship after Christmas.

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This article is all about like a thing that plugs into the ipad

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Carbon’s Domino Clock is pretty much just what it sounds like: three giant dominoes hanging on the wall and telling the time in a difficult-to-read fashion that would make Tokyo Flash proud. With a little deciphering, though, you can work out what it says. In the picture above, the clock reads 12:59 (at least I think it does).
More interesting than the aesthetics is the mechanism. The dots flop over like the numbers on those old digital flip-clocks, although instead of plastic leaves it uses a solid multi-sided block that only draws power when it is rotated. The dots use a custom actuator, with the magnet actually running around the coil. The motors were designed to flip the dots slowly enough to give a sense of heft and gravity.
This adds a nice mechanical touch and makes things exciting when all the numbers cascade at once, although it runs in deathly silence, and will run on batteries for a couple years, which is impressive given the size.
Sadly, you can’t buy one. But you can watch this video of how it works:

SUMMARY
This article is about this huge freakin' clock thats also a domino

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Free iPhone App Wirelessly Syncs Photos to Computer

By Brian X. Chen
December 14, 2010 |
2:20 pm |
Categories: Phones

With the app Cinq, you can snap photos and save them straight into a folder on your computer even when you’re outside. Here’s how it works:

You download the Cinq app for Mac or Windows to create a server on your computer. Register to create an account.
Then you download the Cinq app for iPhone and log in with your Cinq account.
From here on, you can pop open Cinq and tap the camera icon to snap a photo, and it will save straight into your Cinq folder on the desktop.
You can also choose photos stored in your iPhone’s photo library and save them into Cinq.

It’s a pretty nifty app, especially for iPhone shutterbugs who haven’t gotten in the habit of plugging in and syncing to iTunes and iPhoto on a regular basis.

SUMMARY

This article is about how the Iphone is so amazing because it has all these cool aps. But the blackberries are way better so Iphone can suck it