With so many beauty products on the market today, selecting the ones that are truly beneficial is never an easy task—so when an expert like board-certified Dr. Ashley Magovern speaks up on her faves, we’re inclined to listen. The latest product of which this world-renowned skin care expert is singing the praises? A non-prescription eyelash enhancer called SmartLash.

Eyelash enhancement is one of the biggest trends in the beauty industry, with companies everywhere launching products promised to leave you with the long, lush lashes you have always wanted. Often,  though, these products pose nasty side effects—darkening of the eyelids or blurred vision, anyone?—and this is where SmarLash holds the edge: there’s no prescription required to get it, and because it’s free of the harmful ingredients some of its top competitors rely on, it promises to give you the look of longer, more beautiful lashes without any risk whatsoever for side effects.

And you know what the best thing about SmartLash is? It works!

Clinical studies have revealed:

Participants experienced an increase in the appearance of lash length up to 68%*

100% of participants saw an increase in the appearance of eyelash length, fullness and thickness after just 30 days

But don’t just take our word for it; remember, SmartLash is backed by a Georgetown-educated M.D. who completed her medical internship at Stanford University before working closely with Dr. Howard Murad and going on to open her own practice in Los Angeles. SmartLash advocate Dr. Ashley Magovern boasts unparalleled expertise when it comes to beauty and skin care, and SmartLash is her lash enhancer of choice—she, too has noticed a change in her own lashes using SmartLash.

This easily applicable, non-irritating lash enhancer WILL transform the appearance of your lashes. Take it from Dr. Magovern, or why not the 89% of customers who said they would purchase SmartLash again on DermStore.com? Visit DermStore.com and read its reviews, and you’ll see what real customers are saying about it. Then, take advantage of special savings on this amazingly effective formulation: SmartLash Eyelash Enhancer is currently being offered at 76% off, ONLY on DermStore.com. But you must act quickly, because these exclusive savings are for a limited time only!

*Results based on a 60-day independent clinical study with product application twice a day.

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When it looks like your phone is about to run out of battery, you actually have plenty of juice to spare. The Voltmaker is a device that allows you to make use of that reserve energy in order to charge your phone — all with the flick of a wrist.

A hidden rod that is normally secured to the body using a magnet can be released using a spring-loaded mechanism. Once you release it, you can spin the rod by shaking the device like a rattle — a movement that allows your smartphone to harvest kinetic energy.

By keeping up your enthusiastic rattling for a few minutes, it’s possible to generate enough power to make a quick phone call, play a couple of songs or light the way using an LED torch attachment that fits into the USB port at the opposite end. Read more…

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We've seen terahertz cameras that can look through walls and X-ray scanners that fit in the palm of your hand. Now, scientists at MIT have developed a way to track movement through walls using Wi-Fi signals.

The idea is pretty simple: take two transmitters and one receiver. Each transmitter sends out a signal that is precisely 180 degrees out of phase with the other, so the two cancel each other out, and the receiving antenna “hears” nothing.

But put any moving object in the area, and it reflects the signals. The signals don’t cancel out, and where once there was no radio “noise” at all, now radio energy is emanating off the moving object or person. A still object also reflects radio waves, but the time it takes for a wave to bounce back to the receiver stays the same, and the reflections will still cancel out.

The invention — which Dina Katabi, an electrical engineering professor, and her graduate student Fadel Adib are developing — is called Wi-Vi. The two will present it at the Sigcomm conference in Hong Kong this August.

There are several uses for this technology. A small handheld detector could find people buried under tons of rubble, showing rescue workers where to look, or police could use it to see if there is someone inside a room.

Wi-Vi differs from traditional X-ray or terahertz wave systems. In that case a beam of radio waves is sent to an object that reflects them back. This kind of detection is just like what your eyes do – seeing reflected light. (Radio waves just happen to be in a different part of the spectrum).

It’s also a twist on a previous attempt at using Wi-Fi routers to see through walls by taking advantage of the signals they emit. Wi-Vi doesn’t require that a router be in place.

The advantage here is that this works with radio frequencies that penetrate walls relatively easily, at least for short distances. The wavelengths are also short, so the antenna doesn’t need to be very large. It also needs just one receiving antenna, so it can be fit onto a hand-held device.

And the reason it uses Wi-Fi type signals is that they aren’t reserved for the military, and are open to use by any device with less need to get approvals from regulators.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Atlantis, the final orbiter among NASA's winged fleet to fly in space, launched on its new mission Saturday (June 29) as the centerpiece of a $100 million tourist attraction in Florida.

Astronauts from each of Atlantis' 33 flights joined officials at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for a morning ceremony marking the opening of "Space Shuttle Atlantis," a 90,000-square foot (8360 square meters) exhibit dedicated to the retired spacecraft.

"There are not a lot of places where you are going to be able to get as a close to an orbiter as you are going to be able to get when you get inside the Atlantis exhibit here," said Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator and commander of Atlantis' 11th mission, STS-45, in 1992. Read more…

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A couple of days ago, Flipboard received an update that brought a couple of minor improvements along with the usual bug fixes and performance optimizations. As it turned out, though, that same update also brought a notable change involving Instagram‘s recently launched video feature.

As noted by The Next Web, Flipboard has been updated with support for videos shared from Instagram. Now, the popular social-magazine app is able to display videos from the popular photo-sharing and video-sharing social networking app.

For some reason, the addition of this enhancement was not included in the changelog of Flipboard’s latest update. What did get included are the following:

Reminder: Log in to Google Reader on Flipboard on or before June 30th to save your feeds and folders.

Now you can share to Twitter and Facebook when sharing to your magazines.

Flipboard is available in the App Store for free. The app also received an update earlier this month that gave users the ability to co-curate magazines.

Instagram’s video feature was launched by Facebook just last week, obviously in response to Twitter’s Vine. Not unexpectedly, Instagram’s video shares to Twitter, and presumably across the web in general, have increased at the expense of Vine’s.

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Google is killing Reader tomorrow, and as a sort of consolation prize, they’ve added some new features to Google News. There’s now a box that features a four-day forecast of local weather, editor’s picks of stories, and sports scores. This is clearly not going to be replacing Reader for anyone, but it’s always pretty nice to get weather updates.

The weather defaults to the local forecast for your location, but you can also set it for a specific place. It also features links to other weather services such as the Weather Channel and the Weather Underground for more detailed information.

Editor’s Picks are limited to the categories of “Technology” and “Business” with more on the way, according to Google News product manager Anand Paka. It’s easy to click over to different news sources for more picks, but it’s a far cry from something like an RSS reader.

Right now, the sports scores are limited to U.S. football, basketball, baseball and hockey (more countries and sports are set to arrive in the near future). Google might be rolling out the features over time, but right now I can’t see the sports-scores box — which I don’t actually mind.

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Apple has been on something of a world tour securing trademarks for its anticipated “iWatch.” After first seeking trademarks in Russia and Jamaica back in June, and more recently filing for the “iWatch” name in Japan, Apple has applied for the same trademark in Mexico, Taiwan and Turkey.

Mexico’s “Institute of Industrial Property” received the application on June 3 — the same day Apple submitted its Japan application — although the filing only became public recently, according to 9to5Mac. Apple has reportedly filed for the “iWatch” trademark under both hardware and software categories, the website explains, and the document in question is tied to the company’s present Infinite Loop address in Cupertino, Calif., as you can see: Read more…

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In what's good news for Microsoft, Windows 8 has become a more popular operating system than its much criticized Vista platform.

Although Windows 8 has taken awhile to gain traction, new data conducted by NetMarketShare.com has revealed the operating system was on about 5.1% of computers in June, compared to Vista's 4.6% share. The analytics firm used the desktop systems it tracks, which includes more than 40,000 business websites and 2 million personal ones such as blogs and profiles, as the basis of the report.

Windows 7 — the predecessor of Windows 8 — dominates the space with 44.8%, followed by Windows XP with 37.2%. The data also revealed Windows occupies 91.5% of the market and Mac takes up 7.2%. Linux trails with its 1.28% share.

Microsoft's web browser Internet Explorer 10 also experienced growth, thanks to automatic updates released by the company. Internet Explorer now makes up about 56.2% of the market share, followed by Firefox (19.2%), Chrome (17.2%) and Safari (5.6%).

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Over the last few years, the social media revolution has completely redefined marketing.

The rising prominence of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and others has led to a more complex array of media choices, but has also rebooted our traditional view of marketing. This is no longer a one-way conversation with consumers. It is a real-time dialogue in which brands can be upended by an ill-conceived tweet or a rogue YouTube posting.

In such an environment, we think marketers deserve kudos for making the right calls and applying creative solutions. That's why we've created The Mashies, which are designed to recognize the very best marketing in social media. The Mashies will highlight thought leadership in such categories as Best Real-Time Marketing, Best Use of Twitter, Best Branded Vine and Best Use of Facebook, among others. Read more…

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FitBit has long been doing fitness wearables a lot longer than others, but now it's taking its heath-tracking technology to the next level with a fitness wristband — and it's one of the most impressive options we've seen so far.

The water-resistant FitBit Flex wristband tracks just about everything you do — from the steps you take to how well you sleep — and can even handle laps in the pool. Although the FitBit Flex was first announced at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics conference in January, it's been generating significant buzz since it's May debut. Read more…

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Every year in the United States, about 3,500 Americans die in fires, according to the U.S. Fire Administration. Household smoke alarms can help save lives, and a new iPhone dock design could work as a secondary detector in your bedroom.

Seattle-based Tonic Product Design created an iPhone dock and accompanying app that can warn you while you're sleeping when smoke or carbon monoxide is detected. It's still a prototype design right now, but the Sense+ dock includes a built-in photoelectric smoke detector and carbon monoxide gas detector. Carbon monoxide is an odorless gas that can be deadly. Read more…

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Ubisoft, best known for creating the popular Assassin's Creed video-game series, has announced that its user-account database was hacked, and is urging all users to change their passwords immediately.

"We recently discovered that one of our Web sites was exploited to gain unauthorized access to some of our online systems ... During this process, we learned that data had been illegally accessed from our account database, including user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords," Ubisoft said in a statement.

Ubisoft added that no personal payment information is stored in its database — meaning that no credit- or debit-card info was stolen.

Still, those who have a Ubisoft account should change their passwords right away; this also goes for any other web services where they use the same or a similar password.

Without going into details about the attack, Ubisoft claimed it took steps to "begin a thorough investigation with the relevant authorities, internal and external security experts" about the data breach. The company also said it is exploring "all available means to expand and strengthen" its security measures.

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