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Tech News Flash: Saturday -- June 27, 2015

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Gadgets: Vertical Vinyl, Kid-Friendly Video Chats, a Smart Pool Monitor
Self-Driving Cars Avoid Collision, as They Should
Oculus Rift: This Is My Final Form
Makulu 9 Aero Soars Above the Linux Distro Crowd
3D Printing Could Resurrect Custom Carmaking
Will LastPass Breach Poison Trust in Password Managers?
Lexus Teases Smokin' Hoverboard
Devialet Wants You to Experience an Emotional Sound Implosion

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Today's Story Highlights

Gadgets: Vertical Vinyl, Kid-Friendly Video Chats, a Smart Pool Monitor
I enjoy music as much as anyone, though I'm no real audiophile and I
have not an enormous passion for one format over another. I admire the
romance of vinyl but find it unwieldy and cumbersome when digital
recordings work just fine for me. The Floating Record turntable is
beautiful, though, and I'm almost tempted to race to my record store to
stock up on vinyl to play on one of these.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82221.html

Self-Driving Cars Avoid Collision, as They Should
Two self-driving prototype vehicles, one operated by Google and the
other operated by Delphi Automotive, earlier this week avoided a
collision in Palo Alto, California. Neither car touched the other, but
the incident spurred a number of rattled headlines over the so-called
"near miss." In actuality, both vehicles responded as they were supposed
to, the companies said in response to the media brouhaha.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82223.html

Oculus Rift: This Is My Final Form
No more screendoor-effect issues or motion-induced sickness. On-board
power, outside power requirements under control. With each prior
iteration of its Rift headset, Oculus VR assured gamers that they hadn't
yet seen the its final form. Finally, in the run-up to this year's E3
and at the show, came the invitation for everyone to "step into the
Rift" and behold what the VR headset has become.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82177.html

Makulu 9 Aero Soars Above the Linux Distro Crowd
The special release of Makulu 9 Aero edition might seem like one
flexible Linux offering too many. However, anyone hankering for a
Windows-like operating system and the best of what is easy about using
Linux could not make a better choice. The Linux OS is notorious for its
great variety of distros. Linux is also infamous for having far too many
choices.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82218.html

3D Printing Could Resurrect Custom Carmaking
Divergent Microfactories just introduced the world to the Blade, a 3D-
printed supercar it designed as a proof of concept to spur the
establishment of other microautomakers and reshape the auto industry.
Divergent Microfactories envisions microautomakers emerging similar to
the way microbreweries have popped up across the U.S. It wants to
"democratize the auto industry."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82219.html

Will LastPass Breach Poison Trust in Password Managers?
A data breach is no picnic for any organization, but for a company that
makes its potato salad by protecting other people's passwords, it's the
mother of all nightmares. Yet, that has happened to LastPass twice. In
2011, the service found anomalies in its network traffic that forced it
to reset all its users' master passwords. Recently, it came under attack
again.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82216.html

Lexus Teases Smokin' Hoverboard
Some said it could never be done. Some said it would be at least another
half century before someone could develop an actual hoverboard. However,
Toyota on Wednesday announced that a division of its Lexus arm has built
a prototype of a hoverboard, one that truly leverages magnetic
levitation. Superconductors, cooled by liquid nitrogen, and permanent
magnets give it lift.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82214.html

Devialet Wants You to Experience an Emotional Sound Implosion
Capable of pushing out sound levels that approach the edge of the
infrasound spectrum, Devialet's Phantom speaker system finally reached
the U.S. market last week. Two versions of the speakers will be
available: the 740 watt, 99 db base model, the Phantom, will sell for
$1,990; the 3,000 watt, 105 dB Phantom Silver will sell for $2,390.
Devialet will begin fulfilling U.S. preorders this September.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82212.html

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