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Apple's iCloud data center gets green light to come to Reno, be a star Aug 2nd 2012, 09:48 Apple's plans to erect an iCloud data center in Sparks, Reno have gained traction now the local board of economic development have rubber-stamped the deal. While largely ceremonial, it's given its assent to $89 million in tax breaks to entice the company to break ground on the weirdly-named "Project Jonathan Hub." The new data center is expected to go live before the end of the year, hopefully ensuring that upgrading to OS 10.9 aren't as fraught as they were for Mountain Lion last week. [Image credit: Amy Meredith, Flickr] Continue reading Apple's iCloud data center gets green light to come to Reno, be a star Filed under: Internet Apple's iCloud data center gets green light to come to Reno, be a star originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink 9to5Mac  |  FoxReno  | Email this | Comments TshirtOS is web-connected, programmable, 100 percent cotton (video) Aug 2nd 2012, 09:13 An LED display, camera, microphone, speaker and accelerometer all packaged into a t-shirt and controlled via your smartphone? That's the concept behind tshirtOS, a wearable platform for "self-expression" that currently only exists as a prototype. It can show off tweets, play music videos, capture belly-height photos and send them off to Instagram, and pretty much do anything except play percussion. CuteCircuit, which came up with the idea in cahoots (inexplicably) with Ballantine's whisky, says it's about to conduct product tests and will mass produce the smart-shirts if enough folks register interest. There's no Kickstarter page, definite specs or pricing for any of this, but based on CuteCircuit's history and the video after the break we're inclined to believe TshirtOS is more than just viral marketing stunt for the sake of a dram -- click onwards and judge for yourself. Continue reading TshirtOS is web-connected, programmable, 100 percent cotton (video) Filed under: Wearables TshirtOS is web-connected, programmable, 100 percent cotton (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  tshirtOS (Facebook)  | Email this | Comments IDC: Apple's still king of the tablet hill with 68 percent of the market Aug 2nd 2012, 08:56 IDC's cabal of statisticians, nerds and people who just love spreadsheets have handed down their latest document about the state of the tablet market. Of the 25 million slates shipped in the second quarter, 17 million of them were iPads -- giving Apple 68.2 percent of the market. Samsung came second with 2.4 million devices and Amazon third, although since the Kindle Fire maker doesn't reveal numbers, there's probably some guesswork involved there. Rounding out the top five are ASUS and Acer, although the former should expect to move up a place (or two), depending on the success of the Nexus 7 when Q3's results are released in a few months time. Continue reading IDC: Apple's still king of the tablet hill with 68 percent of the market Filed under: Tablet PCs IDC: Apple's still king of the tablet hill with 68 percent of the market originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Aug 2012 04:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  IDC  | Email this | Comments Electronic skin lets machines sense water droplets and heartbeats, wonder why they were programmed to feel Aug 2nd 2012, 08:21 A team of researchers at South Korea's Seoul National University have been busy developing biologically-inspired electronic skin that is capable of "feeling" subtle stimulus such as bouncing water droplets and human heartbeats. The skin's surface is covered in two interlocked arrays of 50-nanometre-wide polymeric nanofibres that act like hairs on the surface of the skin, coming in contact with one another under the strain of external force. That contact then generates a current to help the skin gauge the changes in pressure, according to New Scientist. The creators of the flexible skin say that sensor response can be repeated up to 10,000 cycles, displaying their output on a computer in real-time. Electronic skin lets machines sense water droplets and heartbeats, wonder why they were programmed to feel originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Aug 2012 04:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink New Scientist  |  Nature Materials  | Email this | Comments

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