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Amazon launches a portal dedicated to customizing and selling 3D-printed products

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by on July 28, 2014 at 10:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Amazon has introduced a new portal on its site that is designed to bring together and highlight 3D-printed products for sale on the platform. The company said that the marketplace is home to more than “200 unique print on-demand products” – including toys, fashion accessories and home furnishings – most of which can (thanks to the nature of the manufacturing process) be customized by material, size, styles, colors. You can also personalize them with your own images or text if you like. To make finding and viewing 3D products easier, the portal includes custom search tools, interactive 3D preview functionality (allowing…

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

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by on July 28, 2014 at 9:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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If you took radio DJ and TV presenter Lauren Laverne’s advice to give your smartphone, tablet and computers a break this weekend, then you’re probably here feeling refreshed from your digital downtime. However, that means you did miss the best of the tech news and features from the Web in the last two days. No matter, just put your phone on silent, grab a coffee and catch up on everything you missed in the last 48 hours; your emails can wait a few more minutes. News from The Next Web over the weekend: Apple confirms it acquired book data startup BookLamp Verizon will begin throttling data speeds…

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This is what happens when you duct tape a GoPro camera to your car’s tire

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by on July 28, 2014 at 9:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Shareables, Videos

GoPro cameras are small, tough and fairly inconspicuous. Filmmakers and action sports enthusiasts regularly strap them to drones, helmets and surfboards, but car tires? That’s new to us. Ryan Fox, a Vimeo user from Milwaukee, Wisconsin attached his GoPro with duct tape before cruising around the city late at night. The camera maintains its position in the center of the frame, but the revolutions of the wheel warps the neighborhoods into a kaleidoscope of bright colors and neon lights. The concept is so simple and produces such fascinating footage that you’ll wonder why no-one has done it before. A word of warning though;…

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Cortana outsmarts Siri in Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 8.1 ad

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by on July 28, 2014 at 7:49 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Cortana, the personal assistant for Windows Phone that Microsoft developed to rival Apple’s Siri and Google Now, gets the limelight in a new ad that’s far from being subtle (spotted first by The Verge). The commercial for Windows Phone 8.1 pits Cortana on a Lumia 635 against Siri on an iPhone 5s, with Cortana winning hands-down as Siri just says it cannot carry out the instructions. Well, that’s something you would expect considering it’s a Microsoft ad. Microsoft is going on the offense as it picks such a battle showcased on this ad, but it’s also a complement to Apple that Microsoft…

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