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By fear Liszewski

I’m not all trusty ground Mobile Mechatronics defined to conceive their iPhone tripod entertainer the Blur, when that’s foregather what it’s fashioned to eliminate. It’s category of aforementioned denotive an anti-nausea drug Vomit, or a fire-extinguisher the Raging Inferno. But nevertheless, I aforementioned the idea. It essentially gives the iPhone a accepted tripod increase allowing it to be foul to everything from a monopod to a Steadicam in theory. (Though there’ll belike be equilibrise issues.)

For foregather $14.99 you impart the entertainer which attaches to the bottom of the iPhone (presumably using the cut connector) a pocket-friendly though somewhat junked mini tripod and the Blur Tripod iPhone app which gives you a shutter timer, what sounds aforementioned an intervalometer and add a level. The app crapper also be purchased on its possess for foregather $0.99.

[ Blur Tripod Adapter ] VIA [ Gear Diary ]

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By Evan Ackerman

Well, okay, maybe it’s not literally zero steps. You do have to plug something in and go to a website. But in practically zero steps, you can turn any USB hard drive into a networked hard drive that’s accessible from absolutely anywhere, without going through all of the complicated and nausea inducing networking drama that’s usually required to do something like that.

Pogoplug is a piece of hardware that looks like one of those A/C adapters we all hate because they’re huge and they take up a bunch of outlets. On the bottom, it’s got a USB port, and an ethernet port. You attach your USB HD to the Pogoplug, and the Pogoplug to your router. Then you go to the Pogoplug website, set up an account, and you’re done. You now have access to your drive just like it was physically plugged into your computer, except it works like that from anywhere you have internet (it just might be a little slower). You can even get at your files via an iPhone app.

I got a demo of the Pogoplug at CES yesterday, and it seems to work exactly as advertised. There was a drive showing up on the demo computer as local network storage, except that the physical location of the drive was in Arkansas or something. It’s completely, impressively transparent. The file browsers online and on the iPhone are simple to use, and I’m told the security is excellent. Oh, and you can even hook up multiple USB drives to one Pogoplug using a USB hub.

Pogoplug is on pre-order at the moment for $79, and even though Pogoplug is also a service, there’s no subscription fee. Look for it in March of this year.

[ Pogoplug ]

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Apple has added to its legacy of zany patents a head-mounted display with head-tracking technology intended to reduce viewer fatigue and disorientation (and induce nausea, if we’re lucky) by simulating a theater or other viewing environment. The wearer of the device can pick a seat in the fake theater and then manipulate the image, zoom in and out, and look around thanks to an accelerometer and gyroscope built into the goggles. Few of these patents make it to market, but if you’re eager to throw social acceptability out the window, there are already iPod and iPhone-compatible head-mounted displays on the market — you’ll just have to do without the positioning gimmick until Apple is crazy enough to actually sell this thing.

[Via TUAW]