Bump iPhones to Exchange Money with PayPal iPhone App

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Owe Someone Money? Just Bump Your Phones

People have predicted the death of cash and checks for a long time. But there are certain transactions — like paying a friend back for dinner or buying vegetables at the farmers’ market — for which they remain essential.

PayPal’s new iPhone application could finally change that. It promises to let you quickly divide a restaurant bill and send a friend the portion you owe just by bumping your iPhones together.

Clipped from: PayPal for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store

PayPal

By PayPal, an eBay Company

Description

PayPal’s mobile money application is the faster way to send money with your iPhone® to friends and family anytime, anywhere. It’s much easier than going to the ATM to withdraw cash, writing checks, and sending gifts the traditional way. And you can manage your PayPal account right from your mobile device. All of this with the security and protection you get from PayPal.

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The New PayPal iPhone App

Clipped from: Bump Technologies, Inc.

Bump is a quick and easy way to connect two phones by simply bumping them together. Exchange your phone number, photos, or compare friends with just a bump.

• FAQ
• Videos
• API

Sources:

1. Owe Someone Money? Just Bump Your Phones - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
2. PayPal for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
3. YouTube - The New PayPal iPhone App
4. Bump Technologies, Inc.

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2. PayPal Bumps iPhone Payments to New Level - Digits - WSJ
3. Cash Is So Twentieth Century: Bump iPhones to Exchange Money Instead | Dan's FC Blog | Fast Company
4. PayPal Launches New Send Money App for iPhone(R) - MarketWatch
5. ‘Bump to Send Money’ with PayPall iPhone App - The iPhone app PayPal has been updated with a set of new features and the “Bump to Send Money” one is, by far, the most important ingredient - Softpedia

Parrot's AR-Drone -- A Quadricopter Controlled by an iPhone

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SFGate

Flying Quadricopter Drone Controlled by an iPhone

Buzzing above the heads of marveled, camera-snapping media representatives at CES Tuesday was a weird looking, smooth-flying toy helicopter from Parrot that can be controlled with nothing more than an iPhone or iPod Touch and appropriate software.

The AR.Drone, a four-rotor "quadricopter" which is controlled by Wi-Fi signals, includes wireless cameras that can stream video to a iPhone or IPod Touch, thus allowing you to use your actual surroundings as "targets" in a "augmented reality" (that's what the AR stands for) video game. Want to take out those mean goldfish? You can hover the copter nearby, focus on them with the wireless cameras, target the dangerous beasts and "fire" away.

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CES: Control this toy helicopter with your iPhone

Moving the iPhone or iPod Touch, which have built-in accelerometers, directs the toy helicopter forward and backward and turning and other directions. Buttons on the iPhone make it go up or down.

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iPhone Helicopter from Parrot is Amazing (Video)

The AR-Drone is amazingly similar to the military drone controlled by an iPhone at MIT. The MIT drone has slightly better programming (it can run patrols or surveillance sweeps) but otherwise the two seem nearly identical.

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Parrot AR.Drone WiFi helicopter gets augmented reality iPhone control

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Parrot AR.Drone : Flight Demo

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Parrot AR.Drone : Augmented Reality Video Games Demo

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ENGADGED AT CES 2010

Sources:

1. Flying Quadricopter Drone Controlled by an iPhone
2. CES: Control this toy helicopter with your iPhone - USATODAY.com
3. iPhone Helicopter from Parrot is Amazing (Video) | Singularity Hub
4. Parrot AR.Drone - Quadrotor helicopter with wifi and 2 cameras - AR.Drone games for iPhone and iPod touch
5. Parrot AR.Drone WiFi helicopter gets augmented reality iPhone control - SlashGear
6. YouTube - Parrot AR.Drone : Flight Demo
7. YouTube - Parrot AR.Drone : Augmented Reality Video Games Demo
8. Parrot's AR.Drone seeks us out, destroys us as we go hands-on -- Engadget

Related:

1. Parrot's AR.Drone helicopter brings military-style amusement to the iPhone -- Engadget
2. Parrot AR.Drone hands-on at CES 2010 - SlashGear

iPhone Controlled Military Drones

clipped from www.inquisitr.com Next up – your own iPhone controlled drone clipped from singularityhub.com Commanding Military Drones - Now iPhone Has an App for That UAVs and other military drones are an important part of the modernization of the US Army. The Raven drone is a light-weight surveillance platform that can be launched by hand. Unfortunately, it’s operating controls are a heavy briefcase like enclosure that has to be lugged around. That sort of discontinuity irks HAL team leader Prof. Missy Cummings. Cummings was once a F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot for the Navy and saw the UAVs as a great way to prove that drone control could be light-weight, simple, and elegant. Her students were the ones that pointed out they could use iPhones. (They would all have to receive iPhones as part of their research, of course). clipped from www.youtube.com MAV-VUE Zero Order Flight Test clipped from www.youtube.com MAV-VUE First Order Flight Test clipped from www.geeks.co.uk

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Next up – your own iPhone controlled drone
Commanding Military Drones - Now iPhone Has an App for That | Singularity Hub
YouTube - MAV-VUE Zero Order Flight Test
YouTube - MAV-VUE First Order Flight Test
MIT working on iPhone Drone app | geeks.co.uk
Related:
MIT Humans and Automation Lab
New Use for Your iPhone: Controlling Drones | Danger Room | Wired.com
MIT Makes iPhone App for Controlling UAVs and a Proposal to Combine with Electric and Hybrid Planes for Robotic Flying "Cars"
MacDailyNews - Want to control a drone with your iPhone? There's an app for that
Video: iPhone Controls Robot Plane Squad | Danger Room | Wired.com
C3UV :: Home
YouTube - C3UV - 2008-09 Remote tasking and Collaborative Control

Infosys's Holographic Mobile Devices

According a U.S. patent, granted by Infosys by 2010 the handsets will beam 3D films, games and virtual goods as holographic images. Infosys's device will be able to send and receive the 3D images, allowing for example 3D text messaging on an iPhone.

clipped from www.zdnet.com.au ZDNet Australia - Where Technology Means Business Holograms beamed to handsets by 2010 Holographic mobile handsets capable of projecting, capturing and sending 3D images have been developed by an Indian tech company. The powerful onboard processor on the Infosys machine would build a series of 2D shots taken, for example, from a digital camera, into 3D holograms using algorithms called "Fourier" transformations to calculate the extra third dimension. clipped from www.phonesreview.co.uk clipped from patft.uspto.gov United States Patent Displaying holographic three dimensional images Infosys Technologies Ltd. (Bangalore, IN) clipped from www.futurenerd.net How about sending and receiving text messages from your buddies in the holographic format on your iPhone (Steve Jobs sure has a futuristic mind). Take a look at this video you will get the idea.

Related:
Holograms beamed to handsets by 2010: News - Hardware - ZDNet Australia
Holographic projection from your mobile phones within 2 years says Infosys » Phone Reviews
United States Patent: 7209269
Text Messaging in the Future | FutureNerd
Holograms on handsets by 2010 - Networks - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
Infosys: Holograms on handsets by 2010 - CNET News.com

A Greener Apple

clipped from www.tuaw.com iPhone 3G to be shipped in eco-friendly packaging: spuds clipped from www.theregister.co.uk Apple's new iPhone 3G will be shipped on July 11 in a potato starch paper tray. Apple placed an order with Dutch company PaperFoam, which also makes packages for Motorola. clipped from www.paperfoam.com PaperFoam Carbon Friendly Packaging For an introduction to our technological innovations throughout the years, please watch this video. clipped from www.apple.com Weight Recycled as % of Past Sales By 2010, Apple may be recycling significantly more than either Dell or HP as a percentage of past sales weight. All the e-waste we collect in North America is processed in the U.S., and nothing is shipped overseas for disposal. Apple products are designed using high quality materials that are in high demand from recyclers. Steve Jobs

Related:
iPhone 3G to be shipped in eco-friendly packaging: spuds - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Paperfoam
iPhone will ship in green packaging | The Register
Apple - A Greener Apple
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