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SensorWake launches on Kickstarter to make waking up a pleasant olfactory experience

May27
by on May 27, 2015 at 6:59 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

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For most us, waking up to an alarm clock is no fun — even if it is carefully calibrated with a favorite musical selection. Something about the sudden combination of sound and light can be inherently jarring — a real downer. Teenage developer Guillaume Rolland, a French engineering student, has come up with a way to ease that frustration with an olfactory “alarm” clock called SensorWake. At the appointed time, instead of sound or light, SensorWake softly emits a scent that promises to awaken you in two minutes or less. Launched today as a $50,000 Kickstarter campaign, this patented alarm clock awakens you with a…

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Wunderlist integrates with Slack so you can create to-dos while you chat

May27
by on May 27, 2015 at 6:24 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Slack, Wunderlist

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Wunderlist announced today that it’s integrating team communication app Slack into its task management service, allowing users to create tasks while chatting with their colleagues. You’ll need to follow a few simple steps outlined on the Wunderlist blog to connect the two apps and choose a list for Slack to keep an eye on. Once you’ve done that, you can type /wunderlist add [task here] to add a new task. When you comment on or complete tasks, it’ll let everyone in your channel know. If you forget your Wunderlist commands, you can always look them up by typing /wunderlist help at…

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Yahoo and Google want to buy Flipboard to up their content game

May27
by on May 27, 2015 at 4:55 am
Posted In: Acquisition, Around the Web, Flipboard, Google, Insider, yahoo

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Search giants Google and Yahoo are interested in buying Flipboard, a newsreader app, according to the Wall Street Journal. The news comes just a day after Twitter was reported to be in talks to acquire the company for about $1 billion. Negotiations have been stalled since April, though. Flipboard says its news aggregator had 65 million monthly active users this May. It’s raised $160 million from investors by December 2013. Why is everyone interested in Flipboard? The recent trend among internet companies engaging users with content could be the reason. Facebook recently launched Instant Articles for faster access to publishers’…

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Snapchat may soon let you view videos without holding your finger on the screen

May27
by on May 27, 2015 at 12:52 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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At Recode’s Code Conference, Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel announced something dedicated Snapchat users are probably going to like. Instead of pressing and holding the screen to watch video, Snapchat is working on a way to get video playing straight away. It’s not known if users will need to tap the screen (or a ‘play’ button) or if videos will just start playing as you view them. One of the reasons Snapchat employs a press-and-hold scheme for video playback is that it ensures engagement. Changing that model is risky as Snapchat wouldn’t actually know you’re viewing video. Spiegel may be confident Snapchat’s size means…

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