Operation Gadget
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Will the FAA Succeed in Banning Drone-Piloting Using First-Person View?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had never read the website called Motherboard before, but I stumbled on to an article called The FAA Is Trying to Ban First-Person View Drone Flights and the information they provided about both the FAA’s attempts to regulate the use of drones, and the FAA’s apparent lack of authority to regulate…
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Canadian Beer Fridge Now Opens For People Who Can Sing “O Canada”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Beer Fridge made popular by Molson during the 2014 Winter Olympics has apparently returned home to Canada. In Sochi, the door unlocked if the scanner on the face of the refrigerator read a Canadian passport. In this ad, the refrigerator apparently unlocks if the person standing before it sings some…
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Another Intense POV Cycling Video from the Tour of California, Shot with a Shimano Camera
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Friday night, I started a conversation on Twitter with Matt Haughey of Metafilter and A Whole Lotta Nothing fame. When I worked at Six Apart I worked with a lot of his personal friends, but he doesn’t really know me. What I asked him about was use of wearables in Pro…
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Watching the World Cup Online If You Are Outside of the United States
Reading Time: 2 minutesOperation Gadget is a U.S. website, and a lot of what we talk about is focused on the products and services that are available in the United States. But some of our readers are outside the United States and Canada. Therefore we try to present information relevant to international readers whenever possible.…
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Watching the World Cup on the Univision Deportes App on iOS
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor the 2014 World Cup games up to the Quarterfinal Round, the Univision Deportes app for iOS can be an alternative to paying for a cable television subscription to watch the World Cup on the networks of ESPN or the WatchESPN app. (Univision Deportes means “Univision Sports” in Spanish.) Operation Gadget decided…
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InCycle Video Captures Tour de Suisse Stage 5 Finish from Riders’ POV
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Tour de Suisse is going on now in Switzerland. It’s a great stage race that’s shorter than the Tour de France. A lot of pro cyclists take part in the Tour de Suisse or the Critérium du Dauphiné as a tune up for the Tour. InCycle had a few on-board…
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Flurry Sees Fitness App Usage on iOS Growing Faster Than Overall App Market
Reading Time: 2 minutesFlurry just released a great study that says health and fitness app usage on iOS is growing at double the rate of the overall app usage growth. This is a cool insight on its own, but I was most interested in the persona research– in other words, who is driving this usage…
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WatchESPN on iOS Puts “Replay” Tab in a Different Place Than on Apple TV
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe flurry of articles about WatchESPN that we published on Wednesday resulted in Twitter and Facebook conversations with a bunch of readers. The question that kept coming up; Basically, “Where are the ‘Tactical Cam’ videos in the iOS app?” was articulated by Ashi Sagati in this tweet: @daveaiello yah it wasnt available…
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Watching The World Cup On-Line Using WatchESPN or Univision Deportes
Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier today, I talked about the hidden features of WatchESPN that benefit U.S. soccer fans who want to watch the 2014 World Cup. Since then, people have been asking me questions like “Yea, but who gets to see WatchESPN, and can I see it if I’m a cord cutter?” Some of my…