So you are hoping that someone with a pair of Google Glass might actually be careless enough to lose this unique and I would go so far out on a limb to say that it is highly sought after, too, pair of technologically advanced glasses. This wearable Android-based computer will be able to let you control it to a certain extent by talking to it, but with just a few thousand Google Glass units out in the masses at this point in time, not to mention a $1,500 sticker price tag, they are not too common. What if you want to give the Google Glass apps a go? Fret not, Reddit user zhuowei has performed his fair share of modifications on a few Google Gass apps so that they can now run on on a Nexus 7 tablet, with the possibility of functioning on other devices as well.

Known as Glass Home, it is more or less an alternative to the default Android app launcher. Whenever you use it as your home screen, it will rely on your tablet’s microphone to listen to your voice instructions. Kicking off an action is as simple as saying, “OK Glass,” where the app will subsequently suggest a fair number of options including snapping a photo, recording a video, or even getting some directions. Will it play nice on the rumored next generation Nexus 7 as well?

Mention Qualcomm and what would most of you think of right away? Chances are it would be chipsets, especially those that keep a fair number of smartphones around the world up and running. Having said that, here we are with something that is far different from processors, and will deal with displays instead. Surely the name Mirasol has flitted across your screen before, being Qualcomm’s reflective display technology that once again, has made an appearance in the form of proof-of-concepts at the SID Display Week.

Among those Mirasol displays that were on parade include a previously announced 1.5” panel which was embedded on the top of an “always-on” smartphone, in addition to the face of a yet unknown smartwatch, as you can see above. Do bear in mind that these are but mockups at this point in time, although the Mirasol display ought to make an appearance in select third-party devices sometime down the road. The next generation 5.1” display, however, is the one that takes the cake with a stunning 2,560 x 1,440 (577 ppi) resolution, where your eyes are treated to crisp images. Too bad it will take a few more years down the road for anything mainstream to come out of this.

With the introduction of the iPhone 5, all of your 30-pin cables and accessories became obsolete, that is, if you decided against throwing more money at Apple by purchasing their 30-pin to Lightning connector adapter. We’re sure you purchased enough Lightning connector accessories to last you a couple of years, but you may want to consider buying one more.

The Trunk was created by ILoveHandles and is a short, posable charging cable that can be used on both your iPhone and iPod Touch. The Trunk can be manipulated in a way where it can turn into an instant stand by having it bend vertically. You can have your iPhone 5 charging while it conveniently is held at the edge of your laptop, connected to your wall charger, and can even be used as a car mount, depending on where your vehicle’s USB ports are located.

The Trunk is available for just $20 and is certainly a cable that won’t break or tangle any time soon. Just be aware the trunk isn’t very long as you’ll be given 4 to 5 inches of cable to work with.

If you have been on the lookout for a spanking new Windows Phone 8 device, and yet do not want to pay top dollar for it simply because you do not have the monetary resources to do so, then you might be interested to hear that the folks over at T-Mobile has kept to their promise by delivering the Nokia Lumia 521, which happens to be a whole lot more affordable than the recently announced Nokia Lumia 925 that is headed for the fourth largest North American carrier.

In a nutshell (as you can tell by the model number anyways, the Nokia Lumia 521 is a variation of the Nokia Lumia 520, where the latter has arrived in Europe as well as Asia for quite some time already. In fact, the Nokia Lumia 521 holds the distinction of being the most affordable Windows Phone 8 device to date, where T-Mobile is offering it for a mere $149.99. Alternatively, you can also opt to take the down payment route of just $29.99 a pop in addition to a $5 monthly fee – for a couple of years though. Just to refresh our memories, the Nokia Lumia 521 would come with a 4” IPS WVGA display, a 5-megapixel shooter at the back, 512MB RAM, a dual-core 1GHz processor, a 1,430 mAh battery, 8GB of internal memory, and a microSD memory card slot for expansion purposes.

Music-streaming services like Spotify and Rhapsody have made it easy to share what you’re listening to with your friends as they have supported Facebook’s Open Graph early on. One of the most popular music-streaming service, Pandora, is announcing its users are now able to also share their musical tastes to their Facebook friends.

The feature isn’t available to Pandora users by default, so you’ll need to enable the feature through Pandora.com or Pandora’s iOS and Android applications through a new “Publish” button located in your account’s settings. Pandora users can control what exactly they’d like to share with their Facebook friends as CTO Tom Conrad points out in a blog post, “You can customize what you share, including your listening activity, the tracks and artists you like, or the people you follow on Pandora.” This will definitely help for those guilty pleasure tracks you would rather your Facebook friends not know about.

The new feature should now be available for you to activate, so feel free to share with your Facebook friends and the world just how much you love a good Selena Gomez track.

Now I know that for some of us, it is no big deal when it comes to pronunciation. After all, you say “to-mah-to’, I say ‘to-may-to’, you say ‘po-tah-to’, I say ‘po-tay-to’. Well, some others out there are rather more particular about things, and a certain Steve Whilhite, the very man who invented the Graphics Interchange Format while he was still working at CompuServe back in 1987, is rather peeved that the image file format known as GIF has been pronounced wrongly – in his opinion anyways, where it should be pronounced as “JIF” and not “GIF”.

Wilhite said, “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.” Well, when in doubt, always get back to the creator, and you know for sure whether you are on the right track or not. Which particular school of thought do you fall back upon, and do you really think that one should be particular on how the file format is pronounced in the first place? After all, a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.

We’ve seen some interesting iPhone 5 accessories come out of Japan, such as the Kissing Cases, but this smartphone stand seems a little bit on the weird side, even for us.

As you can see by the image and the title, this is the Cat Scratching Post Phone Stand, and its purpose is to not only hold your mobile device up, but to also give you your regular dose of cuteness by having a small, plastic feline act like it’s using your device as a scratching post. The stand comes in a variety of cats ranging from solid colors, somewhat spotted and striped.

The way the Cat Scratching Post is able to hold up your smartphone is through a suction located on its front. The phone stand can be purchased at Muzu but they come in a pack of 50. So you’ll either need 50 smartphones to use them all, or have 49 other cat-loving friends who you can dump the rest these stands on. Or, you can be a complete baller and buy the 50 pack, pick the stand you like, and throw the rest away.

While we are moving into a world with products that prefer to rely on flash based storage instead of traditional storage devices such as hard drives, this does not mean that hard drive solutions are being abandoned altogether. No sir, there is still a healthy budget conscious notebook market that would fall back on hard drives as the storage devices of choice, as they are cheaper and easier to produce. Data storage company HGST has come up with what they claim to be the highest capacity hard drive where notebooks are concerned, in the form of the 9.5mm 2.5” hard drive that sports a whopping 1.5TB capacity.

HGST calls this hard drive the “Travelstar 5K1500″, and just in case you were wondering what kind of pedigree does the company have to earn the right in rolling out such a peripheral, will the fact that HGST is part of Western Digital do the trick for you? HGST also claims that this hard drive is notable for its “high shock protection and low power”, where it boasts a 32MB cache buffer and a 6Gbit/s SATA3 interface.

Not everyone is lucky enough to be able to own a pair of Google Glass at this point in time, where having oodles of money alone is not a criteria that will net you a pair. Well, it is rather unfortunate that a certain Luke Wroblewski (whom you see on your right, above), has just reported that he has lost his Google Glass. Touting one of the realities in life where you own a pair of Google Glass, it seems that the more often you wear yours out, chances are higher that you would lose it, too.

Luke Wroblewski, a product designer by profession, claims that he lost his Google Glass just a couple of nights ago, which, according to Google, would certainly make this a major first for the futuristic looking device. Luke said, “[It's] pretty nerve-racking. It’s an expensive and still-rare item – plus I’ve been using them to develop Glassware. So [it's] not good on a number of fronts.” Obviously Luke was not wearing the device when he lost it, but it most probably slipped out of his bag as he had to go through the rigors of airport security. Hopefully life will be kinder to him with his next pair.

The Xbox One news just keeps pouring in nearly 24 hours after Microsoft made its big announcement. So far, we’ve heard contradicting reports on whether or not Xbox One owners will be charged for playing used games as well as a possible release date. Now, we’re hearing some information regarding Xbox Live that we’re sure Xbox One owners are going to want to be aware of.

After the Xbox One global presentation, Microsoft executives spoke with a number of members of the media to answer a number of questions they had. One of the topics discussed was Xbox Live memberships and if they would be any different on the Xbox One. It seems Xbox Live memberships can not only be used across both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One, but memberships can be used across multiple profiles. This means multiple profiles on a single Xbox One console can use a single Xbox Live Gold membership to be able to access Xbox Live Gold exclusive demos, cross-game chat and, of course, play online multiplayer.

We’re not sure how exactly Microsoft plans to implement this, but it certainly is a step in the right direction for those of us who have family members who play on their Xbox 360 infrequently, resulting in them being Xbox Live Silver members for years.