Scarlett Madison — Two Takes contributions

Samsung have been in the electronics industry for quite some time now and over the years they have provided their customers with different devices especially when it comes to their phones. They recently introduced us to the new Samsung Z that was unveiled early June as the world’s first Tizen

Three MIT students have been showing off a modified 3D printer that can produce customized ice cream shapes, and if the process is refined successfully you could be having your desserts to order in the near future. Using a Solidoodle printer and a Cuisinart soft-serve ice cream machine the team was

Designed to hide the list of your most recently viewed movies and television shows, Netflix is currently testing a private viewing mode that keeps your content history completely private from anyone else that uses the main profile on your Netflix account. In addition to hiding recently viewed conten

Amazon and eBay veteran, Guru Hariharan, is ready to revolutionize the way retailers price and sell products. His company, Boomerang Commerce, announced today $8.5 million in its first round of institutional financing from Trinity Ventures and Madrona Venture Group. Boomerang Commerce’s newest conce

Facial recognition surveillance software being tested by British cops that allows “faster than ever” data searching and tracking of subjects is raising concerns among privacy activists. NeoFace software analyses dozens of facial features from digital CCTV images or police body cameras and matching t

Touchscreens have typically been a one-sided affair. Most of the interaction is done from one side of the screen, usually with the one facing you. This means sense as the display and the other components are found on the underside, so it wouldn’t make sense for the user to interact from the other si

Snapchat’s first Our Story collaborative photo experiment was strictly an opt-in affair where you had to add a user to see it at all. However, the ephemeral image service is now trying something much more ambitious: it’s giving every user access to Brazil Final Live, a group photo album

CDs can’t beat the nostalgia of vinyl or the convenience of digital, but they still play a significant role in the music industry. And at least one man is singing its praises. Steven Hyden makes the argument for Grantland that CDs do have their place, much like vinyl. Hyden connects seminal al

The people behind Beats are about to rake in several billion dollars in a deal with Apple, but before that the headphone-maker could pull in even more money in a lawsuit going after Chinese counterfeiters. According to AppleInsider the company has filed a suit claiming trademark infringement, and is

Fitness and health might be a landscape best defined by how products work together. Or, how they don’t. But it seems that fitness trackers and other wellness accessories are in a hurry to start dovetailing in 2014. Case in point: Misfit, makers of the Shine fitness tracker, have announced the

Any particular device or product that is going to be worth its salt these days seem to have to carry the “smart” prefix,from smartphones to smart cars and smart homes. How about a smart doorbell like the i-Bell? The i-Bell camera basically works this way – it lets you check out who has just rung [&h

If you’re England and you go crashing out of the World Cup at the semi-finals stage on your home ground, then it would be considered as an unprecedented success. However, in the spiritual home of football, the Seleção are supposed to win the World Cup for a record sixth time with home ground support

Companies are increasingly turning to fitness wearables like the Fitbit to help reduce costs. Cloud services firm Appirio launched a wellness program it calls CloudFit, and provided the Fitbit device to 400 of its employees. As a reward for employee health data tracking, the company re-negotiated it

A group of bandits robbed a Samsung factory in Brazil last night, escaping with seven trucks filled of goods from the smartphone and notebook computer manufacturer. Reuters reports the factory in Campinas was robbed just before midnight, with 20 robbers, some armed, posing as employees. According to

Qualcomm confirmed on Wednesday that it is buying gigabit wireless specialist Wilocity in a move that puts the mobile chipmaker firmly behind the new WiGig standard. At some point next year, we will start seeing the first WiGig chipsets in smartphones and other mobile devices, said Tal Tamir, former

Farming is long and hard work, but it can be rewarding too, especially when you take into consideration that you know what exactly you are eating. Not only that, it gives you a greater appreciation of nature, but why not enlist the help of technology to increase yield and efficiency on the farm? Wha

Barnes & Noble said on Wednesday that it planned to spin off its Nook business, once viewed as the company’s best hope for surviving in an age of a dominant Amazon.com, as a separate public company. The announcement moves Barnes & Noble forward on a plan it has considered for nearly two year

Let’s face it: the theatrical security procedures at airports aren’t going away any time soon. However, they might just get more tolerable if a team of Israeli researchers bring a new, extremely sensitive bomb detection chip to an inspection line near you. The prototype sniffs for explos