Daily Dispatch: Google offers instant previews in search results; Kinect may be listening when you don't expect it

In today's Digital Dispatch:

Beyond Instant results: Instant Previews (Official Google Blog)

...Instant Previews provides a graphic overview of a search result and highlights the most relevant sections, making finding the right page as quick and easy as flipping through a magazine. To use it, click once on the magnifying glass next to the title of any search result and a visual overview of the page will appear on the right.

Kinect May Be Listening To You Without You Knowing It (g4tv)

...The problem is this: When you initially set up the Kinect, it asks you whether you want to use Kinect to chat, and if you say "yes," "on" becomes the default setting for Kinect's microphone.

First look: Aweditorium brings indie music discovery to iPad (the Flipboard of music) (scobleizer)

...It presents a grid of new artists. I hadn't heard of a single one. You use your hand to fly through the grid. Up, down, left, right. Then you touch a band's picture. And the music plays.

I Shared What?!? See What Facebook Info You Share with the Web (ReadWriteWeb)

...The site works by letting you log in using your Facebook login and then showing you, plain and simple, what you're granting access to every time you log in to another website or Facebook App using Facebook.

Can The Story Of Electronics End Happily Ever After? (TechCrunch)

The Story Of Electronics debuts online today, the latest in a series of short films by Annie Leonard...This installment explains ‘planned obsolescence'— electronics designed to be replaced as quickly as possible—and its often hidden consequences for tech workers, consumers and the environment.

Apple buys Wi-Gear, Bluetooth headphones on the horizon? (TiPb)

According to 9to5 Mac, Apple has acquired Wi-Gear which is a small Bluetooth headphone designer from San Francisco.

Hasbro's $30 My3D goggle accessory brings 3D to iPhone, iPod touch (engadget)

...Purportedly, the toy firm is expected to fully reveal the device to investors later today, with it being "aimed at both children and adults" and offering a 3D viewing experience on games, virtual travel, augmented reality apps and entertainment content.

Mobile phone kits to diagnose STDs (guardian)

...People who suspect they have been infected will be able to put urine or saliva on to a computer chip about the size of a USB chip, plug it into their phone or computer and receive a diagnosis within minutes, telling them which, if any, sexually transmitted infection (STI) they have.

Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds (CNN)

...But you might expect other indicators of health would have suffered. Not so. Haub's "bad" cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his "good" cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. He reduced the level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, by 39 percent.

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