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Prynt  Turn your smartphone into an instant camera If you think instant photos are a thing of the past, think again. Prynt lets you record a video and then attach that video to an actual physical photograph. When you look at the photo through your phone in the Prynt app, you'll see the video play over the picture. It's like "QR code-meets- Harry Potter newspaper " and is the closest you can get to actually printing a Snapchat or Vine. Prynt is a girthy phone case (it's more of a portable dock, if you ask me) and charges via USB. It comes with 10 sheets of paper, which are refillable through the free Prynt app, available in the Apple App Store and Google Play store. Once the case and app are easily  installed , you can use it to take a video or print a photo already stored on your phone and then record a five-second video. You have to record a video in order to print the photo. Photos print quickly and develop instantly -- no need to...

Project Loon uses tennis court-sized balloons carrying a small box of equipment to beam internet access to a wide area below. The team told the BBC they had been testing the system in Peru when serious floods hit in January, and so the technology was opened up to people living in three badly-hit cities. Until now, only small-scale tests of the technology had taken place. Project Loon is in competition with other attempts to provide internet from the skies, including Facebook’s Aquila project which is being worked on in the UK. Project Loon recently announced  it had figured out how to use artificial intelligence (AI) to “steer” the balloons by raising or lowering them to piggy-back weather streams. It was this discovery that enabled the company to use just a “handful” of balloons to connect people in Lima, Chimbote, and Piura. The balloons were launched from the US territory of Puerto Rico before being guided south. Over the course of three months - at the time o...

Chromecast  is a media streaming device that plugs into the HDMI port on your TV. Simply use your mobile device and the TV you already own to stream your favorite TV shows, movies, music, sports, games and more.  Chromecast  works with iPhone®, iPad®, Android phone and tablet, Mac® and Windows® laptop, and Chromebook. Chromecast: 6. Fire  stick : 8. ... Why is the Chromecast even being compared to devices like the Roku. The Chromecast is merely a device that allows you to mirror whatever is on your  Chrome  browser or mobile app to your TV. Those other devices have the streaming apps included in the software. Chromecast  is a streaming media adapter from Google that allows users to play online content such as videos and music on a digital television. The adapter is a dongle that plugs into the TV's HDMI port; a cable connects to a USB port to power the device. A.:  Chromecast  is a  device  that you plug into your TV's H...

Get ahead of the curve with this VR camera With interactive, movie-like VR tech sure to take pride of place in every tech-lover’s home in the next few years, it’s time to get ahead of the curve on the creation front. The stylish Ricoh Theta S camera can record and capture 360-degree video and imagery with its neat twin lens design – and it doesn’t disappoint. Offering auto and manual mode shooting, this odd-shaped camera has two bulbous, ultra-wide angle lenses with internal image stitching, which pulls the shots taken into a spherical whole that you can pore over later. While 360-degree movies are far more attention-grabbing initially, there’s something deeply beautiful about the 360-degree images, perfectly capturing moments in their rich fullness. Got a big event planned? Break out the Ricoh Theta S, try your best to get everyone to stand still, and you can capture a moment completely. You can even upload your 360-degree imagery to social networks like Facebook,...

Today apple orchards rely on people to pick their crops. Dan Steere, cofounder and CEO of Abundant, says recent tests in Australia, where apple season is under way, proved that the company’s prototype can spot apples roughly as accurately as a human, and pull them down just as gently. The machine deposits apples in the same large crates that human pickers use. “The results convinced us that we’re on the right path to scale up to a full commercial system,” says Steere. His company is planning more tests of its prototype in Washington this fall and aims to have a multi-armed system on sale to growers in 2018. “Our commercial system will pick at rates that match crews of tens of people,” says Steere. Abundant spun out of independent research lab SRI in 2016 and was initially funded in part by the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission. Mike Willett, manager at the commission, says that growers are eager for automation because of a long-term decline in the availability of se...