Ever tried listening to your favourite tunes while doing sports? You likely discovered early on that the clearer the music, the less you heard ambient sounds. When a 4 year old boy keeps screaming, that’s a good thing. Other times, when you don’t realise that a Range Rover is about to mow you down when you cross the street, it’s a little less convenient. Enter the earHeropro, a tiny speaker designed to fit into your ear canal while still allowing external sounds to be heard.

Star Wars Prequels Condensed Into 85 Minute Film

Apparently, hard core Star Wars fan Topher Grace spliced scenes from all three prequels and condensed approximately 7 hours of footage into an 85 minute cut entitled Star Wars: Episode III.5: The Editor Strikes Back. According to this lucky bastard guy that managed to see this cut, this version is more entertaining and focussed than the original movies. Of course, Lucas himself admitted that much of what ended up in the prequels was eye-candy filler, so it won’t come as much of a surprise that excising all the fluff scenes didn’t alter plot or character development.

So where can you see this? Apparently nowhere. This was a one off, one time deal which apparently took place in Hollywood and included “filmmakers, editors, actors, actresses and only a few press friends”. I mean really? Someone goes through all that effort, gets Star Wars fans all whipped into a frenzy but no one gets to see it? Unleash the film, screaming are the fans demanding.

While waiting for Google’s augmented reality glasses to actually go into production, here is a video which showcases some of its potential uses. The current design concept of the glasses looks like a terrible April fool’s joke. Mainstream adoption will only come about if the tech is either integrated into a decent pair of glasses or can be unobtrusively retrofitted onto your current pair of spectacles.

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