Papieren vlieger te besturen via de smartphone

[door Richard Otto] Het papieren vliegtuig gaat met zijn tijd mee. Nog steeds is hij van papier, maar nu wel te besturen met je smartphone. De  PowerUp 3.0 Paper Airplane heeft via Kickstarter al meer dan $250,000 dollar opgehaald en daar blijft dit project wel op vliegen. 

Je kunt Paper Airplane kit inmiddels online bestellen. Wie weet lukt het om deze nog voor 5 december binnen te hebben.

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HTC Facebook Phone Specs Leak, Outlining A Solid Mid-Range Device With FB And Instagram Pre-Loaded

Facebook PhoneQuestion: How do you attract a key youth, mobile-first demographic to your social network and get them to increase engagement? Answer: Partner with an OEM handset manufacturer to create a powerful yet reasonably priced branded device with all your software already on board. Facebook looks to be readying a follow-up to the HTC Status, a mid-market smartphone it released with a dedicated Facebook button in 2011, and a new leak shows off its specs.

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Foursquare CEO Looks Beyond Mobile Handsets: Anywhere There’s A Screen, We Want To Be On It

dens-mwcGoogle has yet to release the Mirror API that will open Google Glass as a platform, but developers of some of the more popular mobile apps today are gearing up for when it will. Today, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Dennis Crowley, CEO of social location app Foursquare, highlighted Google’s new headgear as an example of how mobile screens are evolving. Later, he told TechCrunch that Foursquare is looking at how it can evolve along with that.

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Flipboard Goes Big, Launches Support For 10-Inch Android Tablets

flipboardFlipboard has just launched its social magazine app to support Android tablets, including the Nexus 10, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 and Galaxy Tab line.

Flipboard is an app that aggregates your RSS info, social networks, etc. to create a beautiful, flippable magazine. In fact, the app won Best Touch Interface at the 2011 Crunchies. But making sure that interface creates the same experience across all platforms has proven tough, as Flipboard didn’t migrate over to Android at all until June of this year.

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Karma Launches Its $79 4G Mobile Hotspot And Pay-As-You-Go Data Plan That Rewards Users For Sharing Their Bandwidth

Screen shot 2012-12-04 at 4.39.50 AMThe founders behind Karma (no, not that Karma) think that there’s something fundamentally broken in the market for mobile providers. And they’re hardly alone. So, the TechStars grads set out to create a new format, one that eschews the traditional subscription model for a pay-as-you-go approach to mobile bandwidth.

In an effort to realize their vision of providing anyone and everyone with a 4G, mobile Hotspot for their pocket, the startup is today officially launching its $79 hotspot device that comes with 1GB of free bandwidth and is available for purchase on YourKarma.com.

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