Improve Your Memory Skills by Bouncing Your Leg
So I’m a leg bouncer. When I’m working, sitting daydreaming or otherwise involved in any pursuit that does not require ambulatory movement, I bounce my leg. Turns out that this habit (which infuriates some people) is fairly common and, amazingly, very useful. According to this excellent question on Quora, leg bouncing and fidgeting in general (if allowed to happen) improves cognition. Apparently skipping can also greatly benefit memory retention.
Read MoreGrid – Awesome New ‘Visual’ Spreadsheet App
Grid is a spreadsheet app that’s better suited to lifestyle than regression analysis or loan amortization tables. It uses voice input, images, calendars and embedded social media tools to streamline the planning of activities, events or anything else that needs a bit of forward thinking.
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Get Lost – Trust an App
There are hundreds of mapping and GPS apps for all the brands of smartphone, enabling people with a poor sense of direction or map reading skills or both to get out into the world. However according to The Guardian, the apps just don’t cut it when used for their intended purpose and hikers are getting lost. The Guardian quoted the head of a UK mountain rescue team who said, “Last night alone, we were involved in two separate incidents, involving a total of 16 people, who had relied on smartphone apps to navigate on the high tops, were very poorly equipped for the conditions, and become lost.” Today’s takeaway – learn to use a map and compass as well as your smartphone.
Cardio – Heartbeat Detection for iPhone
You might be familiar with the Heart Rate app which can detect your pulse by pressing your finger against the iPhone’s camera. Well Cardio is a new app that takes such voodoo to a whole new level – it can detect your heart beat just by being pointed at your face. It works by analysing the amount of light reflected off of your beautiful visage – you just hold your phone and look into the camera to see your BPM. It’s out now for $4.99.
Read Morefēnix™ Outdoor GPS Watch from Garmin
While multi-function devices like Android and Apple smartphones are all well and good, there’s still a lot to be said for specialist single-function devices like the Garmin Fenix GPS wristwatch. Garmin are doing a great job reinventing themselves in the face of the smartphone assault on GPS devices as evidenced by this watch built for explorers. It features an altimeter, barometer, compass and waypoint-enabled GPS in one sweet looking unit and can even send data wirelessly to your phone.
Outgrow.me – All the Successfully Funded KickStarter Projects in One Place
Here’s a terrific website for KickStarter fans. As anyone who’s ever used the KickStarter website will tell you – it’s crap and painful to browse. Outgrow.me meets a great need – the ability to quickly view only those projects that got funded and taking orders or pre-orders.
Converge – Uber Cool Dock and Recharge Station
Here’s a slick dock for your digital accessories. Converge enables you to display and view your phone, tablet or other electronic device while it recharges discretely through one of the four USB outlets. It’s available now from Quirky for $39.
Read MoreEco-Made – An Eco-Friendly iPhone Amplifier
There have been a few of these speaker-horn iPhone amplifiers released lately, but this is the first one we’ve seen that is totally eco-friendly. The Eco-Amp is delivered in flat-pack form and made from recycled paper, it’s designed to be a stand-in amp for when you’re on holiday or otherwise away from your B&W Zeppelin speakers.
Read MoreGoogle+ Adds Events Feature
Google’s development of Plus continues onwards with one of Facebook’s mainstays brought into the fold. Google+ Events functions, it must be said, nearly identically to Facebook’s in terms of set-up and sharing. However during the event itself, you can engage Party mode on your smartphone and utilise the instant group photo sharing facility.
Read MoreFacebook Messenger 1.8 – Zucks Finally Getting it Right?
Facebook is such a part of the patina of life in this day and age that it’s hard to imagine how we kept in touch with each other before it came along, any more than we can remember what search was like before Google. The Facebook apps (both iOS and Android) have, until now, been fairly mediocre affairs, but the latest version of the Facebook Messenger app shows that they’re finally starting to get at least some things right. New in version 1.8 is faster loading, better push notifications, quick conversation switching and swipe to delete messages.
Read MorePaprika – Recipe Manager for iPad
Recently updated to version 1.6, Paprika is a popular recipe manger for Mac and iOS that enables you to file your favourite recipes and follow them in the kitchen when you want to cook. This latest iPad version has retina graphics, a redesigned interface, star ratings and cooking enhancements such as the ability to cross ingredients off the list as you use them.
Casio GLX150X-7 – Stylish Watch with Tide and Moon Graphs
It’s available in any colour you like, as long as it’s white, and it comes with tide and moon graphs. Clearly designed to appeal to stylish surfer types (or people who live near Kilburn High Street in London, natch), the snappily named GLX150X-7 is the result of a colloboration with Hawaiian design studio In4mation. It’s good for 200M water resistance, has an illuminator LED with flash alert, world time (29TZ/48 cities), two multi-function alarms and one snooze alarm, 1/100th second stopwatch with auto-start, countdown timer, 12/24 hr formats, and mute function. It’s retail price is $110.
MilkMaid – Clever Jug that Let’s You Know When You’re Running Low on Milk
Few first world problems come close to that moment at breakfast where you fix yourself a bowl of cereal, only to discover that someone’s used all the milk. The MilkMaid is a high-tech jug that aims to solve this particular problem. Once you’ve transferred your milk into it (two US pints or one and a half European pints) it’ll let you know when it’s running low and if the milk’s starting to turn. It’s made out of glass and brushed metal and comes complete with an iPhone app that you can check when you’re in the supermarket.
Read MoreGoogle+Tweet – Embed a Twitter Client Right in your G+ Stream with a Firefox and Chrome Extension
I have to say that Google+ has really started growing on me. I like the recent interface changes, I like the direction it’s heading in and, as a keen amateur photographer, I like how the photographic community has really embraced it. Well now I can tweet directly from within G+ or simply update my status and tweet at the same time with no fuss. Google+Tweet is an extension for Chrome that embeds a fully-fledged Twitter client right in Google+. You can find it here.
Read MoreMap This Spot – Instant and Easy Location Sharing for iPhone
With the GPS chips inside most modern smartphones, it’s obviously a useful tool for finding out where you are and navigating to where you want to go. However sometimes you just need to quickly let someone know what your location is by email or text message and Map This Spot seems like a great solution. Concerned parents can add it to their kids iPhones and, should they require help for whatever reason, they can quickly notify them of their location complete with a Google maps reference.
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