Well, there are obviously plenty of reasons for you to mute your phone. I do it when I’m working, sleeping, driving in my car, and at the cinema. Whatever your reasons for doing it, it’s not always ideal for you to have to pick up your phone and fiddle with the settings. I know I’m especially bad at remembering to turn the sound back on again after I’ve muted it.

RD Mute is here to help with that. It’s an Android Phone app that mutes your phone when it’s turned upside down.

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Most of the time, artists, designers, photographers and the like have to rely heavily on printing companies in order to get proper saleable good-quality prints that are able to last and meet the customer’s criteria.

At the other side of the spectrum, home printers nowadays are becoming cheaper and much more affordable to the laymen. So it can be said that most people wouldn’t want to do a print run at the print shop anymore, especially if you had only wanted a decent quality print.

Epson’s newly launched the Stylus Photo R3000, an A3+ photo printer is aimed at those creative minds, who want to do a little print run of their own. The Stylus Photo R3000 is a compact little printer that looks right at home on a desktop, and its designed that way; to fit on even a minuscule desk.

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Autonomous robots certainly aren’t a brand new technology, but I think it gets a little more interesting when these robots start to be able to build things, not just preform tasks.

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Here’s another translation app for you guys, and this time it’s with a twist. Remember the iphone app Wordlens that does real-time translation of text? Well, Google has taken that a step further and has added a feature on Google Translate in translating speech in real-time.

Check out the video demo here.

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I’m always amazed by the sheer ingenuity some people have for making things out of scratch, and this case is certainly something that falls into that category.

Here’s a nifty little case made by Arduino Forum member RickP, that can only be unlocked when it is at the correct GPS coordinates that have been programmed onto the case. He uses an Arduino, a GPS sensor, and a trio of nixie tubes, which indicate the box’s distance from that special spot. When the button is pressed in that spot, a servo motor unlatches the lid.

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