PeopleBrowsr Opens Up Kred API for Businesses Wanting To Track Social Media Influence

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If you’re a business who needs to track their influence on social media, and you have some people with some programming know-how in your organization, then you might want to check out PeopleBrowsr’s new Kred API.

“The PeopleBrowsr Kred API makes it easy to rapidly build tools and apps that spotlight ...
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Light Painting With LED Helicopter

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Flying machines are awesome, even when shrunk down to the RC level. One video, however, not only shows some beautiful light-painting with an RC helicopter, but actually teaches you something about the physics of helicopter flight.

This video comes from Smarter Every Day, a YouTube channel dedicated making you, of course, ...
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Tokyoflash Concept Watch Features Display That Follows Gravity

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Watches are not only useful, but are also a cool fashion statement, and one concept watch has a unique take on the old timepiece, the display actually follows the laws of gravity.

Sam from Germany sent his concept, the Gravity LCD, to Tokyoflash, who also make real watches. The display uses ...
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Arduino Controlled RC Car

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Lots of people, both young and old, love playing with RC cars, even though some of them have long since been old enough to drive real cars. One guy has taken the hobby to the next level, making a wireless Arduino-controlled car.

Blair Kelly has create the Wifly Mini (the “Wifly” ...
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Watch Tells Time, Tracks Your Perception of Time

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You might have replaced your wristwatch with your cellphone, but one cool timepiece might make you reconsider. It actually tracks your perception of time.

Just about everybody’s familiar with the relativistic time dilation phenomenon, even if they don’t know what it is. As Albert Einstein himself put it, if you happen ...
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Chocolate Box with Arduino-Controlled Lights

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Mother’s Day is coming up quick, and if you’re still wondering what to get your mom, this chocolate box LED Arduino hack might be just the thing if you’re handy with a soldering iron.

The project by Dmitriy Abaimov uses an ATTiny13, a very tiny microcontroller, along with 10 LEDS tucked ...
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Playing Chinese Zither With Two iPads

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If it’s one thing geeks love, it’s music, whether it’s on iTunes, Pandora or Spotify, or even better, making your own. One guy, however, has decided to imitate the Chinese zither, or Gu-Zheng, on two iPads.

The Gu-Zheng is a traditional Chinese wooden instrument with 21 strings plucked by the fingers, ...
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Rube Goldberg Suitcase Postcard Maker

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These days, if you want to show your friends and family what a good time you’re having on your trip, you’re probably more likely to post to social media from you smartphone rather than mailing a postcard. One project, however, tries to change that.

The design firm HEYHEYHEY has created a ...
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UC Berkeley Student Builds Awesome Automated Dorm Room

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College dorm life can be cramped and miserable, but one UC Berkeley freshman,  Derek Low, has built an amazing automated dorm room, which he call’s the B.R.A.D, or Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm.

Low’s lights and curtains are controlled by his iPhone, his iPad, and voice commands on his laptop. At 8:00 ...
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Drive A Real Car With An iPhone

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Driving around little RC-controlled cars is a pastime that both young people and not-so-young people enjoy. If you want to take things to the next awesomely geeky level, you can drive a real car with an iPhone, with some help from the folks at Waterloo Labs.

They used a car they ...
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