Watch the Leaves Change From Your Couch

It’s about that time of year where the leaves begin to change color, if you live in a fall folliage area.  But if you don’t?

A designer in Japan has crafted paper leaves that are sensitive to temperature change.  At room temperature (68-77°F), the leaf remains green.  Temperatures below that point will turn the leaf brown, while temperatures above will turn them yellow.  Each leaf includes an adhesive backing in order to stick to a surface to use as a thermometer.

There are currently two options to choose from – 5 large leaves (2.6″ x 6.6″) or 8 small leaves (1.7″ x 4.4″) for $22 from Reckless!Excessive!!Japan!!!.

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Watch the Leaves Change From Your Couch originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on October 5, 2012 at 8:00 am.

Leaked Android Music app images and hands-on review

Android Music player
This morning, an updated version of the stock Android Music app was leaked along with a new version of Android Market. The new Music app, which is labeled 'version 3', is similar to the leaked build from December, but it has received a ton of polish -- and indeed, it looks almost ready for prime time.

If you don't have Android 2.3 -- or don't want to root your phone to install the leaked Music app -- take a look through our gallery, and then read on for our initial hands-on impressions.

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Google Chrome now uses SPDY HTTP replacement, halves page load time

SPDY in Google Chrome
We're not entirely sure of the time line here, but it looks like Google has now rolled out the SPDY HTTP replacement to its full bevy of Web services, including Gmail, Docs, and YouTube. If you're currently using Google's Chrome browser you're probably already using SPDY.

We originally reported on SPDY way back in November 2009, when Google introduced it as yet another experiment in making the Web faster, like Go, Native Client and speculative pre-connections. Over the last 18 months, though, SPDY support has found its way into the stable build of Chrome.

SPDY is basically a streamlined and more efficient version of HTTP. At its most basic, SPDY introduces parallel, multiplexed streams over a single TCP connection -- but at the same time, SPDY allows for prioritization, so that vital content (HTML) can be sent before periphery content (JavaScript, video). All in all, the SPDY protocol can halve page load times, which is obviously rather significant.

The best bit, though, is that SPDY is an open-source project. HTTP 1.1 is a lumbering beast that needs to be replaced before low-latency real-time computing really becomes a reality, and SPDY is one of the best options currently on the table. To be honest, we're not sure why SPDY hasn't received more coverage -- it's awesome in every way. At the moment, though, the only way to help speed up SPDY's proliferation, is with an experimental Apache mod.

As far as actually 'trying it out,' your best bet is downloading Chrome, hitting up some Google sites, and then checking chrome://net-internals to see your active SPDY sessions. SPDY is a transparent replacement for HTTP, though, and as such it's rather hard to see its effects. Google's sites definitely feel fast in Chrome, but there are more technologies than just SPDY at work.

Google Chrome now uses SPDY HTTP replacement, halves page load time originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia Lumia 920 Launching in November as AT&T Exclusive

You’ll be able to get the Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 from AT&T in November. Photo: Noah Devereaux/Wired

AT&T announced it will carry Nokia’s two upcoming Windows Phone 8 devices, the high-end Lumia 920 and the mid-tier Lumia 820, and that both will be available for purchase in November. More surprisingly, it also revealed that the Lumia 920 will be an AT&T exclusive.

In an AT&T statement released on Thursday, SVP of Devices and Developer Services Jeff Bradley said that the Lumia 920 is “exclusive to our customers” and goes on to describe the phone’s features. Bradley does not mention the Lumia 820, which indicates that the lower-end Lumia smartphone will be available on other carriers.

According to AT&T, the Lumia 920 and 820 will both run on its 4G network. The Lumia 920 will come in red, white, black, yellow and cyan. The Lumia 820 will be available in a single black, although users can purchase Nokia’s removable colored back covers to customize the phone. AT&T did not give any specific release date beyond November.

Nokia first announced its new Lumia lineup at a press event in September, revealing two handsets running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system. The company kept quiet on release and pricing details at the time, and has been slowly unveiling this information through regional carriers. Several European carriers released pricing for the Lumia 920 and 820 late last month. AT&T, however, did not provide any pricing details with its latest announcement.

HTC had previously announced that its Windows Phone 8X and 8S will be available on AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, also with a November release date, but there is no official word on pricing for those models either.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/nokia-lumia-920-launching-in-november-exclusive-to-att/

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New York to Build the World’s Largest Ferris Wheel

According to website Expensive Places, the world’s largest ferris wheel will soon be constructed on Staten Island, New York. It will stand 60 stories (630ft) tall and have 36 capsules that can accommodate 40 passengers each. That means a total of 1440 people can ride on this ferris wheel at one time. Due to be completed by the end of 2015, this attraction will rival the London Eye ferris wheel which is the largest in Europe at 443ft tall. There’s no info on how much this attraction will cost per ride. Looks scary – but fun.

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New York to Build the World’s Largest Ferris Wheel originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on October 2, 2012 at 1:00 pm.

Engadget Podcast 312 - 10.04.2012

With TechCrunch's Jordan Crook on board, the Engadget Podcasters explore the Wild Wild East of technology, AKA CEATEC, and also go for topics closer to home like the new Kindle and a thermostat. What we're saying here, basically, is that we've got both you and your grandma covered in this, the three hundred twelfth iteration of the Engadget Podcast.

Hosts: Brian Heater, Dana Wollman
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Producer: Trent Wolbe
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03:00 - Toyota's Smart Insect concept EV packs Kinect motion sensor, voice recognition
03:15 - Tokyo University of Science shows off robotic suit powered by pneumatic artificial muscles (video)
07:49 - Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review
19:02 - Deutsche Telekom and MetroPCS agree on $1.5 billion T-Mobile merger (updated)
42:03 - Zuckerberg: more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month
44:54 - AT&T adds HTC One X+ and One VX to its future lineup, will arrive in the 'coming months'
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Apple orders iCab iOS browser to cripple JavaScript modules

The developer of iCab Mobile, a feature-rich alternative to the Safari Web browser on iPad and iPhone, has been ordered by Apple to remove its ability to download and install JavaScript modules.

Presumably it's not the fact that iCab can execute JavaScript that's causing Apple to apoplectically puff and splutter, but rather its ability to download modules. Both Apple and Google frown upon apps that contain market-like functionality, and someone at Apple probably thought that iCab's JavaScript modules looked like a bit too much like discrete apps.

Alexander Clauss, iCab's developer, has rather a lot to say on the matter. "Maybe if I would have called the modules 'smart bookmarks' and would have made installing them much more complicated, Apple would have never asked to remove the ability to download them from the internet. The great user experience of installing modules has probably created a suspicion that these modules are more than just a piece of JavaScript code. From a pure technical point of view, if Apple does not allow to download modules (JavaScript code), Apple would also have to disallow to load web pages in general, because these do also contain JavaScript code."

In conclusion, to circumvent Apple's draconian decree, iCab Mobile now simply comes bundled with some 20 JavaScript modules. The ability to download modules made by third-party developers has been disabled, however -- but even then, Clauss says that you can simply contact him and ask for your module to be bundled with the next version of iCab.

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Google adds Street View to iPhone and iPad web app

Google adds Street View option to its iPhone and iPad web apps

Google has added Street View, its panoramic ground-level mapping service, to its iPhone and iPad web app. That should hopefully ease the pain currently being experienced by iOS 6 users who found Street View missing following the September update. When Apple ditched Google as their mapping data provider and created the new, and controversial iOS 6 Maps app, they lost Street View and instead offered Flyover, which is nowhere near as useful. Thankfully Google has added a nice feature for iOS users.

Street View allows you to visually inspect a location, move down a street, turn around, and zoom into place you were planning to visit. If you were unsure what a building, shop, or restaurant looked like, Street View could help make sure you recognized it when you got there. And now, when you visit Google Maps in Safari on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you will see the familiar symbol of a person that you can click on and it takes your straight to Street View.

It works very well and the Google web app does offer a nice alternative to Apple’s own native maps app. Of course it is still nowhere near as good an experience as the previous native Google Maps app that we had with iOS 5. It will help to ease the pain while waiting for Apple to improve its offering or Google getting a dedicated Google Maps app into the App Store. Either way, it all helps!

You can also create a short cut to the Google Maps web app right on your iPhone home screen. Selecting this option will give you a rather bland, black and white Google Maps icon on your home screen with a red push pin, but it’s better than nothing.

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EU's Virtual Cyberattackers Lack Real-World Hacker Chops

The European Union on Thursday launched a massive multinational security exercise to simulate a distributed denial of service attack on online services in all participating countries. A total of 25 EU countries are actively participating in the exercise and another four are observing it. About 400 cybersecurity experts from the private and public sectors will fight off more than 1,000 simulated cyberincidents by the end of the Cyber Europe 2012 exercise.

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