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This is the gear that gets our troops excited. Microflown Technologies’ tiny sensor listens for the sounds of war by measuring particles in the air. Then it reports what weapon made the sound and where that sound originated. The sensor uses a technology, developed by Microflown, called acoustic vector sensing

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Tiny Sensor Listens For Gunshots, Identifying The Gun and Location [Military]

At its surface, a recently uncovered Apple patent application describes a Motion Based Input Selection. But a closer look reveals that Apple wants the iPhone to become your life’s omnitool.

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Apple ‘iKey’ Places a Combination Lock on Your Wallet [Patents]

In his hundred-word inquiry to Steve Jobs as to whether or not the iPad will tether to the iPhone, Jezper Söderlund started by saying, “I’ll keep it short.” Steve’s response kept it really short: “No.” Updated: Is Jobs wrong? OK, Steve’s answer hardly comes as a surprise, but I’m always tickled when there’s a report of Steve Jobs responding personally to someone’s e-mail. I imagine him sitting on the can, flicking idly on his iPhone, and finally deciding to open that massive folder of his inbox where all the e-mail from the plebs gets redirected. Oh, what’s this

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Steve Jobs Says "No," iPad Won’t Tether To iPhone [Ipad]

OK Go ’s new music video for ” This Too Shall Pass ” is four minutes of pure Rube Goldberg insanity . And as these behind-the-scenes videos show, it was every bit as monumental an undertaking as you’d expect: What started with a two-paragraph synopsis of the band’s vision quickly ballooned into a massive-scale project requiring 20 engineers. The work was headed up by Syyn Labs (formerly Mindshare), a collective of “creative engineers” who explore the intersection of art and technology. The planning started last November, according to Wired , with actual construction not beginning until January

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How OK Go Built the Craziest Rube Goldberg Machine Yet [Music]

People have been thinking long and hard for well over a month now whether they’ll buy the Wi-Fi version which is available this month, or wait for next month’s 3G model. Which is why AT&T says they’re not making you get a 3G contract . Chief executive Randall Stephenson said at an investor conference yesterday that the iPad will mostly be a “Wi-Fi driven product

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AT&T’s CEO Explains Why There’s No Contract for the 3G iPad [Apple Ipad]

Oh, hello! A trip to the YouTube wayback machine shows that 1996’s Steve “Great Artists Steal” Jobs might have taken issue with Steve Jobs 2010, and his patent lawsuit firebombing of HTC. Irony! The comment was made during a 1996 PBS documentary called ” Triumph of the Nerds ,” and looks a smidge hypocritical in light of today’s events. As does this one: “We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.” Goodness. If that’s true, then lawyering up against innovative competitors must be the one of the best ideas you ever heard

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Steve Jobs, 1996: "Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal" [Apple]

Today in Redmond, Microsoft Research demoed the Translating Telephone . It does exactly what it says it does, and as you can see—well, hear—from this video, it was awesome. Imagine a VOIP system that caches all your calls, converting them to searchable, storable, everlasting text. That’s already pretty amazing—especially if you already jump through hoops recording interviews and conference calls.

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Microsoft’s Translating Telephone: The Realtime Translator We Assumed We’d Have By Now [Microsoft]

Every man and his dog is aware that Condé Nast has been working on iPad magazine apps for their popular titles such as Wired and GQ, but apparently we’ll see GQ’s April issue available (presumably) this month. According to the NY Times , they’re expected to announce details concerning their internally-developed iPad magazines today—all of them but Wired, which was developed with Adobe—via a company-wide memo. The info won’t be kept on lock-down I’m sure, so by the end of the day we should have more firm details—like just how much Condé Nast will be charging, and whether subscribers will get free access to the iPad version of the mags. The reason they’re doing two flavors of digital magazines—a glamorous one with Adobe for Wired, and one that’s essentially glorified iPhone apps for every other rag—is because of Adobe’s unsteady relationship with Apple.

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Condé Nast’s iPad Magazines Launching This Month, But Caught Between Adobe and Apple [Apple Ipad]

No special technology to see here, just clever design. The Glimpse Mirror by designer Sarah T.

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Glimpse Mirror Opens the Door to Doppelgängers [Art]

I’m going to need someone to prop up my iPad while I play Xbox on my phone and drink coffee, so we need some more interns in New York City. But this time, we’re looking for a few different kinds of interns.

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Be Gizmodo’s New York Intern [Interns]