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New York City-based design studio Takieso Graft Design has developed fancy, wool-covered mouse pad with a wireless charger for smartphones built into the top. The device, called the MousePad+, is up on Kickstarter right now for the early-bird price of $29, and by all accounts it looks quite nice. The wireless charging pad itself, which is a Qi charger, is covered in a brown, black , or blue leather depending on your choice, while the mouse pad portion uses wool fiber over a felt base. It can be plugged direct into your laptop or computer, and the company is advertising it as portable, in that you can fold it up and wrap the cable to fasten it into a neat rectangle only slightly larger than a standard pocket book. Image: Takieso Graft Design Takieso is estimating a ship date of August 2018, but as a Kickstarter project, make sure to take that with a grain of salt. The company is only asking for $15,000, and it’s already one third of the way there with 45 days to go. So it...

Facebook on Wednesday announced an update to its policies for restricting data access on its platform. The move came just two weeks after the company said it would take a "hard look" at the information apps could use when connected to Facebook. CEO Mark Zuckerberg also discussed some of Facebook's new efforts to shore up user privacy protections in a 45-minute long Q&A with members of the media on Wednesday. Facebook will implement nine changes, which will allow users to set privacy levels and limit automatic data sharing. The changes will affect the Events API, Groups API, Pages API, Facebook Login, Instagram Platform API, Search and Account Recovery, Call and Text History, Data Providers and Partner Categories, and App Controls. The Events API no longer will allow apps to access the guest list or posts on the event wall. Only Facebook-approved apps that agree to strict requirements will be allowed to connect with the Events API. The Pages API will no...

Swift Playgrounds is a wonderful introduction to programming. It introduces imperative logic, functions, methods, loops, and many of the marvelous APIs that are available to iOS developers. But it’s called a “playground” for a reason: you can’t make an app with Swift Playgrounds. You play with code, you learn  about code, and you do indeed code. But if you want to build something useful and distributable, you need to look elsewhere. Some popular options are  Codea , which allows you to build full apps in Lua on your iPad;  Pythonista , which offers a Python IDE and a number of popular libraries to work with; and of course  there’s always the cloud . But inside the Apple ecosystem, this “elsewhere” is called Xcode. It’s a huge and complicated application that runs only on Macs, and requires an Apple Developer account to effectively distribute the software you build. SWIFT PLAYGROUNDS’ PENCHANT FOR HIDING TRUE COMPLEXITY MAKES IT HARD TO RECOMMEND I probab...