For everything from family to computers…
If you use an RFID card for your transit pass or ID card at work you can embed that card right into your phone so you don’t have to carry it around. Electronics DIY web site Adafruit shows you how to do it. More »
from Lifehacker
If your smartphone’s too quiet, you can always buy some speakers. If you’d rather keep your budget to under $1, you can make your own amplifier out of a plastic cup and two bobby pins. More »
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With AT&T desperately trying to move away from unlimited data plans, it only makes sense for AT&T to follow Verizon’s lead in creating ridiculously priced shared data plans. Shared data plans lets users pool together their data plan for use on multiple devices like their phone, tablet, MiFis and more but for a more ridiculous price than it should be. More »
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Most simple explanations of climate change suggest that rising sea levels are a result of melting ice in the polar regions. While that’s true to an extent, there’s a simple piece of physics behind the rising waters that you might not have been made aware of. This video helps explain why it’s thermal expansion that’s the real problem—now we just need to work out how to stop it. [YouTube] More »
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Basically, have a plastic wrap with you at all times if you want to light a fire in emergency. 😛
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If you’re a normal person who happens to find yourself in a desperate need to light a fire and you have, like, no fire lighting equipment… you’re screwed. But wait if you can pee, you’ll be totally fine. The guys at The King of Random figured out how to light a fire with urine. More »
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The University of Michigan recently released a new smartphone app that’s designed to help you do self-examinations for skin cancer.
The free app, called UMSkinCheck, works by taking 23 (naked) pictures of yourself and analyzing them for moles and legions. The app will also have useful information and tools associated with skin cancer.
I wonder if smartphone cameras are really of a high enough resolution yet for this to be truly effective. Of course, it’s never going to be infallible, but will this really detect skin cancer unless it’s already quite far along?
Better to have something than nothing I suppose.
[UMSkinCheck | Via Gizmodo]
Wikipedia is a wonderful resource, the kind of website that makes you marvel at what the internet can achieve. But it’s only as good as its contributors and, while some are extremely committed, the sad truth is that the project is running out of editors and new admins. More »
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