Year: 2011

Apps such as Shazam and SoundHound are, I think, pretty intriguing. Point your handset's microphone at a speaker, fire up the software utility, and it'll do its best to identify the song that's currently playing. And from a general-purpose image recognition standpoint, I felt that the latest iteration of Google Goggles was sufficiently notable to […]

Apple's newest handset, the iPhone 4S introduced earlier today, isn't the "iPhone 5" dramatic advancement that some were forecasting. There's no teardrop-shaped thinner form factor redesign, for example, or larger screen, or LTE 4G cellular data support (or WiMAX embrace, for that matter). The handset's improvements from the iPhone 4 predecessor are quite predictable, truth

Yesterday I mentioned that the HTC MyTouch Slide 4G's camera facilities included (among many other things) high dynamic range image capture capabilities. If you own an iPhone 4, you've got built-in HDR, too. But if you own an earlier-generation iOS cellular handset, or a latest-generation iPod touch or iOS-based tablet, you've historically been out of

I devoted an airline flight [irony intended: keep reading] earlier this week to catching up on a cache of to-be-read publications, specifically some back issues of National Geographic. One of the many articles that I enjoyed, the September 2011 issue cover story, was entitled "The Daring Dream of Personal Flight". Here's what I found to