Claim of the Day*: New Japanese iPhone app can allegedly control your dreams. From GizMag: It sounds like something from the movie Inception, but altering a person’s dreams can reportedly be fairly simple. The app uses a timer and the Apple device’s microphone to detect when a user has entered REM sleep, which is when they’re most susceptible to dreaming. Then it begins to play a soundtrack for the specific type of dream that the user selects, which could include sound effects or voices directing their dream. The available dreams include walking through a forest, visiting the beach, flying, becoming rich, and even romances specified for both men and women. Already available to download, but it is in Japanese. *Thinking of starting new blog: The Daily Claim.

Claim of the Day*: New Japanese iPhone app can allegedly control your dreams.

From GizMag:

It sounds like something from the movie Inception, but altering a person’s dreams can reportedly be fairly simple. The app uses a timer and the Apple device’s microphone to detect when a user has entered REM sleep, which is when they’re most susceptible to dreaming. Then it begins to play a soundtrack for the specific type of dream that the user selects, which could include sound effects or voices directing their dream. The available dreams include walking through a forest, visiting the beach, flying, becoming rich, and even romances specified for both men and women.

Already available to download, but it is in Japanese.

*Thinking of starting new blog: The Daily Claim.

theatlantic: Why the iPhone Isn’t Building a New U.S. Middle Class: Short answer: it’s not just wages. The vastly different wages paid to American workers, compared to contemporaries in Taiwan or China, is a significant factor in the shift of massive supply chain operations in the tech industry over to Asia, The New York Times says in its in-depth examination of Apple and its suppliers. Takeaway factoid someone will repeat in your earshot this week: manufacturing the iPhone in the United States would add about $65 to the cost of each unit. Is that worth it? But it’s not just about the wages. The biggest shocks of the paper’s examination of Foxconn, one of Apple’s major suppliers for the iPhone, are about physical scale, not payscale. The plant known as Foxconn City employes some 230,000 workers, with more than one quarter of them living on-site in company-built dormitories, The Times reports. The kitchens that feed the workers churn out 13 tons of rice per day, and guards work the hallways to prevent workers from trampling one another. And the most chilling assessments of the U.S. labor market’s inability to share in some of this new manufacturing activity speak to simple inability to compete.  Read more.

theatlantic:

Why the iPhone Isn’t Building a New U.S. Middle Class:

Short answer: it’s not just wages. The vastly different wages paid to American workers, compared to contemporaries in Taiwan or China, is a significant factor in the shift of massive supply chain operations in the tech industry over to Asia, The New York Times says in its in-depth examination of Apple and its suppliers.

Takeaway factoid someone will repeat in your earshot this week: manufacturing the iPhone in the United States would add about $65 to the cost of each unit. Is that worth it?

But it’s not just about the wages. The biggest shocks of the paper’s examination of Foxconn, one of Apple’s major suppliers for the iPhone, are about physical scale, not payscale. The plant known as Foxconn City employes some 230,000 workers, with more than one quarter of them living on-site in company-built dormitories, The Times reports. The kitchens that feed the workers churn out 13 tons of rice per day, and guards work the hallways to prevent workers from trampling one another.

And the most chilling assessments of the U.S. labor market’s inability to share in some of this new manufacturing activity speak to simple inability to compete. 

Read more.

Reblogged from theatlantic with 268 notes / Business Opinion iPhone Apple 

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The women who are reporting this think it clearly shows that there’s something in Siri’s programming that is against abortion and day-after contraception. Looking at the evidence, it’s hard not to believe they are right.

The coincidences are too many, and the information is readily available all over the web. It seems impossible that Siri can’t provide these answers while it can happily tell you where to find hospitals for any illness or how to get to the closest strip club.

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Is Siri Pro Life?

Wondering If You Contribute To Slavery?

There’s an app for that.

(Source: letterstomycountry)

Get Paid for Taking Pictures with Your iPhone

Grab five to ten minutes here or there, at the right time and the right place, to complete a massive task no one person could do on his or her own. That’s exactly what a new startup called Gigwalk is trying to do, using the power of– you guessed it– the iPhone. You download the app, enter your PayPal information and get assigned entry level “gigs” or jobs that may take just a few minutes at a time, if you’re in the right location.

(Source: soupsoup)

Reblogged from soupsoup with 130 notes / Jobs iPhone Business Apps 

It’s Official: Apple to hold iPhone event on October 4th

(Source: micah-singleton)

curiositycounts: National Geographic releases Trail Maps, ambitious new backcountry navigation app for iPhone and iPad, featuring high-resolution USGS topographic maps for the lower 48 states and GPS functionality

curiositycounts:

National Geographic releases Trail Maps, ambitious new backcountry navigation app for iPhone and iPad, featuring high-resolution USGS topographic maps for the lower 48 states and GPS functionality

This piece  isn’t really funny, but it did make me think about something I discussed coming out of Super 8. The movie wouldn’t have worked had it taken place in present day. Not only is the adventure propelled by a lack of communication, but there is a certain innocence that is preserved if children are lugging around archaic cameras in place of iPhones. Of course several movies other than period pieces have benefited from taking place in the past (The Indiana Jones series comes to mind), but I wonder if technology has gotten so advanced that this will become more common out of necessity. 

This piece  isn’t really funny, but it did make me think about something I discussed coming out of Super 8. The movie wouldn’t have worked had it taken place in present day. Not only is the adventure propelled by a lack of communication, but there is a certain innocence that is preserved if children are lugging around archaic cameras in place of iPhones.

Of course several movies other than period pieces have benefited from taking place in the past (The Indiana Jones series comes to mind), but I wonder if technology has gotten so advanced that this will become more common out of necessity. 

"Apple is now more liquid than the United States government, the Financial Post reports. As the government struggles to resolve the debt ceiling debate, the operating balance in Washington is at US$73.768 billion and falling. Meanwhile, Apple has US$75.876 billion – and that number isn’t going anywhere but up as the company continues to break records and make its competitors look bad."

Apple now has more cash than the U.S. government

Also: Apple sells apps faster than McDonald’s sells burgers.