| Today's Top Stories | | #1 | The Pogue Review: DJI Phantom 4 drone (with video) | | | By David Pogue, Yahoo Tech | | | A lot of very smart people are trying to work out safe, fair, reasonable regulations for drones. Meanwhile, the drone makers are working on the issues of noise, safety, and privacy on their own, through better technology. There's no better example of that than the latest drone from DJI, the world's largest maker of consumer drones. It's called the Phantom 4. More»
Why This Matters: If you were at NAB you saw that DJI had the standout drone booth. Pogue gets hands on with their Phantom 4. –Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #2 | The Starry Station router wants to demystify your WiFi | | | By Katherine Boehret, The Verge | | | A company named Starry thinks you could benefit from a Wi-Fi router with greater transparency, and its Starry Station tries to give you just that. This is a triangular, white device that's meant to be seen rather than buried behind the couch, tucked under a desk, or hidden in a closet like most routers. With a glance at the Starry Station's screen, you can see how many devices are using your Wi-Fi at any given time, if any device has issues, and you can read your Internet Health Score — a summary of how your service, speed, Wi-Fi conditions, and devices are performing. More»
Why This Matters: This is a pretty in-depth look at this router which has been in the news off and on and became available to consumers yesterday. It's expensive, but it might be worth it. - Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #3 | Simple MIDI synth squeezed into a USB plug (with video) | | | By Paul Ridden, Engadget | | | A few months after creating what was claimed to be the world's smallest MIDI synthesizer, which was smaller than the capsule at the end of a 5-pin DIN cable, a self-confessed MIDI lover and prolific electronics tinkerer has managed to cram a tone generating circuit into the black plastic frame inside a USB plug. More»
Why This Matters: I'm not sure it does. It's kind of silly. Even the video is slow and pointless, but the pictures are pretty good. They won't even tell you the person's name who built it. But someone did build it and if you're a MIDI lover it's good trivia. –Cynthia Wisehart |
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