Introducing Biometric Payment

The next leap in technology and payments has arrived: Biometric Payments via PayTango. PayTango allows the consumer to pay for a product by just placing their finger on a fingerprint scanner. The scanner recognizes the identity of the individual, and then processes and charges the payment. PayTango associates all of your payment cards with your fingerprint. It's simple and easy to use. This means you will no longer have to carry around a wallet. PayTango is backed by the YC Combinator, and is currently being piloted on the Carnegie Mellon college campus. The team behind PayTango are all current Mellon students; Brian Groudan, Kelly Lau-Kee, Umang Patel, and Christian Reyes. So, go to the PayTango website and sign up for their newsletter.

Dropbox + Mailbox = ??

Mailbox was just acquired by Dropbox. Many of us are wondering whether Mailbox will be killed by Dropbox the way Google killed Sparrow. Mailbox was purchased by Dropbox for approximately $100 million. Check out the Dropbox blog post for more info.

Google Glass Update

There has been a stir of publicity around whether Google Glass could work with prescription glasses. Today, Google released a prototype of the prescription Google Glass. Google reiterated its commitment today on Google+. The picture features early leader of the program, Greg Priest-Dorman. The technology giant also reported that Google Glass will go on sale by the end of the year for $1500. A prescription version could most likely be ready by around the same time.

Younity: Slaughtering Sync

Everyone hates sync. Whether its music or videos, it just sucks. Everyone is moving up to the Cloud. Nothing is synced. It's just downloaded for offline viewing. File syncing is the worst of all the breeds of sync. It takes literally forever. You could leave your iPhone plugged into iTunes for literally hours. Ugh!

That's where a cool new service, Younity, comes in. There's no syncing involved. You download the app on your PC or Mac, Younity does a scan, and walla! If you download the app to your iPhone/iPod Touch, you can now see all of your music, photos and files with no syncing! Isn't that awesome? Younity is making Sugar Sync and iDrive start to become obsolete. With Younity, you can also download files for offline viewing. You can also view files and photos and listen to music right from the cloud. Younity is available on PC, Mac and the iPhone app store.