iPhone Awareness! app selectively filters outside noises into your headphones, saves hipster lives
Apps are funny things. They tend to provide narrow utility -- focusing intensely on one specific thing -- but once you get used to them, you wonder how you lived without them. Take this Awareness! app, for example: it gauges environmental noise levels, sets up a threshold, and then pipes in anything louder than that into your skull alongside your music.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: awareness, engadget, environmental, essency, filters-outside, headphoneapp, iphone, ipod-touch, ipodtouch, levels, touch
Entelligence: Is Android fragmented or is this the new rate of innovation?
Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he'll explore where our industry is and where it's going -- on both micro and macro levels -- with the unique wit and insight only he can provide.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: apple, author, coffee, desktop, forces, fragmention, general-magic, levels, look-at-desktop, patchwork, person, result, stints-at-apple, strategist, symptoms