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Sync Your Fitness Goals With Progress
Dec 19th
The Withings WiFi BodyScale
Packing more pounds than gifts this holiday season? This super tech scale will keep you in check with constant updates anywhere and anytime on your weight goals. The Withings WiFi Body Scale has a super stealth design and wifi integration allows instant access to your progress via iPhone, Android, iPad (first and second generation), and your computer. While some say its too much information, its probably exactly what you need to actually make that New Year’s resolution on trimming up happen.
Features
- Easy weight and fat mass monitoring on a private website secured by a password
- Personnalized multi-user monitoring thanks to an automatic user recognition (up to 8 users)
- Body analysis (fat mass, lean mass and BMI)
- Free iPhone application to monitor your weight and fat mass
- Graduation 0.2 lbs (0.1 kg) – 4 sensors, Maximum weight 396 lbs (180 kg)
- Uses 802.11g for extended range and low-power consumption
Gadgets Humping on SNL
Nov 13th
If you happened to catch last night’s SNL, something very special happend. Emma Stone and Andy Samberg show us how technology gets frisky. No really, it gets pretty real. But with a catchy song that won’t escape my head, “We’re gonna make technology hump,” and two annoyingly industrial-esk hosts in khakis and colorful tees, it is just well… PERFECT.
“Clean, close-up shots of tech humping.”
Steve Jobs’ Legacy
Oct 6th
We here at SmashWire honor the innovator and change maker, Steve Jobs. He didn’t just create a world- he redefined it. He trusted his own genius and lived with the conscious choice to step out into the unknown. Steve once said that it is by living with the awareness of our own death that free us to be ourselves and give our gift to the world. Success, as he has shown us, grows through continued trial and effort. He showed us that genius is something can be cultivated and fostered, and wasn’t just reserved for a special few.
We celebrate Steve Jobs today for fearlessly leaving behind a life that has changed the world as we know it. We carry his legacy in our drive to live with integrity, reminding us that genius can be fostered and allowed, and isn’t something just reserved for a chosen few. We will miss you.
~SmashWire
Below, his words that will be left with his brilliant mark on our world:
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. … Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
– Stanford University commencement address, June 2005.
“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.”
– Interview with 60 Minutes, 2003
“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
– BusinessWeek interview, May 1998
BRAIN BONER! Ghost Town to Test Renewable Energy
Oct 3rd
What is it about a ghost town that is so damn intriguing? You just can’t help but contemplate what transpired for a town once full of citizens to suddenly up and go. Looks like the next spot for future green testing will look a lot less like TRON, and a lot more like a ghost town in New Mexico. Huh?
The Center, as it will be called, will invest $200 million into the 20 square-mile city, and plans to be the test grounds for energy infrastructure, smart grids, traffic systems, wireless networks and more.*
The Center will be home to many houses, highways and commercial buildings, and plan to build structures to mock various styles, both old and new to make it seem more “realistic”. Those embarking on this project say it will be the first of its’ kind- allowing private companies and research institutions to test new technologies in a real-world setting.
CEO Bob Brumley claims that it will still be a few months until everything is final, and although no humans will be living there- the city will be conducted just as real people were using it. Puts a whole new-age meaning to ghost town, doesn’t it?
The future is RAD.
Bringing out the boner in your brain,
SmashWire.net
*Washington, D.C.-based tech firm Pegasus Global Holdings
VIDEO OF THE DAY: On the bus. 8 am.
Sep 21st
WHERE: Jersey City bus. 8am.
WHAT: Fat guy taking a morning ride. Feeling Katy Perry. On discman.
WHY: Always have your smart phone with you, and never miss a moment like this.
Now where to find those California girls….
-SW.net
Video from: www.todaysbigthing.com
BRAIN BONER: Play a Video Game on your T SHIRT
Aug 24th
As augmented reality is now hitting the consumer marketplace, we are coming into an era of BADASS. An era of refined technology. An era of turning that sick UFO T-shirt into a video game that shoots spaceships! Yes, I’m serious. This creation comes from Zapparell and Hybrid Apparrel, and has 20 more like it. To give you a better idea- the subject stands in front of your tablet or Android device, as you scan the T-shirt. From there, on the tablet you play a game via your tablet and the shirt itself. Each design has a different game, this one has a robot dude who shoots UFO’s. Check it out:
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What we’re still curious about is if your friend has to stand there the entire time you play a game on his shirt. Let’s hope not. -SmashWIre.net
Tip: Force Quit Any Mac App in Seconds
Jan 14th
Ever have the problem where the Application that you are currently running begins to hang? Yeah….me too? Here’s how you can Force Quit any application in 3 seconds.
To Force Quit any Application simply press and hold for 3 seconds the following key combination:
“Command 
” + “Option” + “Shift” + “Esc”
After 3 seconds the application will automatically quit.
7 Big Red Reasons why the iPhone is coming to Verizon Wireless Tomorrow (oh and the Verizon Exclusive)
Jan 10th
When iPhone first released the iPhone in 2007, there were rumors and conjecture as to why the iPhone was only available on AT&T. It’s been said that people Verizon was offered the first opportunity to carry the iPhone, but they passed on it when Apple wanted to much. If true AT&T lucked out and landed the deal. The deal of the decade.
Regardless, the desire for the iPhone on Verizon has been there since day 1. And on the eve of Verizon announcing what a large number of people have been waiting for, here are 7 reasons why tomorrow is definitely that day.
Click through to learn why it’s gonna happen tomorrow. More >
