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Aug 11, 2012 12:00 PM   Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan is Mitt Romney's running mate. No doubt you've already heard. You been hearing about it for hours now, but you didn't hear it first from Romney's dedicated app, which promised punctuality but showed up hours late to the party. "There's no telling when Mitt will choose his VP. But when he does, be the first to find out with Mitt's VP app," reads the promotional material. In actuality, the Mitt's VP app announced the news at 7:07 AM ET, despite the fact that the cat got out of the bag hours before. That shouldn't come as a big surprise though, Obama tried the same trick with text messages back in 2008 and was similarly unsuccessful. "First" is a lofty promise. You'd be hard-pressed to control the increasingly voracious world of political gossip, but that doesn't mean people won't keep trying. In the end, the app will probably be able to mine some data, but as for breaking the n...

Aug 7, 2012 11:20 AM   Google has earned a patent for screen unlock that uses eye-tracking information, meaning when you finally get your hands on a pair of its augmented reality specs, you could access them with an eye roll. Just don't let your mom see you do that because she will be PISSED. Your eyes would follow a moving object, probably in some kind of pre-determined pattern, and then you'd be in. Look left. Look right. Now look up. Sounds like a trip to the optometrist's office. The patent applies to a wearable computing system, and though it doesn't explicitly say it's for Google Glasses, it's pretty obvious. And this gives us another small clue as to what the frames will actually do beyond the overhyped BMX/parachuter stunt we saw twice at I/O We'll see, just not until 2014. [USPTO via Engadget] View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made afte...