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We really enjoy the ability to consume content on any device from just about anywhere we may roam. The cloud has been a big part of making that happen, but there are still a few things the cloud can’t do nearly as well as local storage — namely, share large files and provide continuous full backups of large media libraries. Attempting to bridge that gap is the Seagate Central. Ranging in price from $ 189 to $ 259, depending on whether you get it with 2TB, 3TB or 4TB of space, the Central connects to your home network and gives you a single place to store or back up your content, making it accessible both at home and on the go. That’s the idea, anyway. But what about the reality?

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Disrupt NY 2013′s Startup Battlefield competition is underway, and now New York native Keen Home is taking the stage to present its first-round pitch. Keen Home is a home automation startup, which aims to follow in Nest’s footsteps by building remote vents for your central air conditioning and heating systems that can be controlled from your smartphone to optimally direct air where you actually need it — and away from places you don’t. Keen just launched its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.

Keen Home is the brainchild of Ryan Fant and Nayeem Hussain, both of whom have experience founding companies in the home real estate and property-management space. The two believe their startup can appeal to consumers who want both more convenience in managing their home’s HVAC systems, and who want to save money and conserve energy. Keen Home’s debut product, the Keen Vent, accomplishes both.

The idea came from Fant noticing that when vents were closed in other rooms, heating and cooling the one he was currently in became much easier. The problem is that those vents generally operate separately, and manually, in most homes. Even with some systems that provide a remote, like Activent, they aren’t centrally controlled in a way that makes them individually manageable from an existing device like a smartphone.

“We found that just by closing four vents in an average-sized home, we’ve reduced the run time of the furnace by about 30 percent,” Fant explained in an interview. “So not only were we redirecting air to rooms that were actually in use by intelligently closing vents, we were increasing efficiency, as well.”

Keen believes that the focus is always on the thermostat when it comes to home heating and cooling efficiency solutions, which is good but it ignores other parts of the problem. The Keen Vent solves that, by providing both a user-guided and automated way of opening and closing vents to change how air flows through a home. A homeowner can set a schedule for individual vents, too, and it can plug into weather data to respond intelligently to changing conditions.

Fant says the Keen Vent can provide up to 32 percent reduction in run time for HVAC systems, which means lower monthly bills and less toll on the environment. Most heating and cooling vents in households are around 60 years old, Keen Home said on stage during their Disrupt Battlefield presentation on Monday.

Individual vent covers will cost around $ 40 per vent, Keen predicts, with a $ 150 charge for the system in total. There’s also a recurring fee of around $ 4 per month for access to the cloud-based management platform, which also provides monthly reports. But Fant and Hussain plan to partner with utility companies and homebuilders to try to offer the tech initially at a discount price, perhaps with, say, six months of service rolled into a new construction. It’s the same model that satellite radio provider Sirius/XM uses to sell subscriptions with new cars.

Keen Home is launching its Keen Vent product on Indiegogo today, and believes that seeking crowdfunding, as well as traditional investment, will help it get the word out and prove product viability. Its biggest challenges will be proving to users that a recurring subscription around centralized vent control is worth the cost, and in making sure that legacy players like Honeywell don’t swoop in and simply build their own similar systems. The team says that being aggressive with partnerships with big utility companies, the way others like Nest and thinkeco have done in the past, will be the key to making sure it can overcome both.

Keen said on stage that the majority of its audience would be people who don’t know what a smart home is, so they tried to make sure it was as easy to install as possible. That’s why they’ve made the install process as simple as possible, and setting up the online dashboard involves only entering a code and then doing a roughly 15 question survey. In addition, they’re planning to partner with HVAC contractors to take care of more complicated installs. Battery life is expected to be around a year for the vents, so it’d be roughly equivalent to changing the power source on devices like smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

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The New york city Times states that Comedy Central will hold a five-day comedy festival almost totally on Twitter. Comedians consisting of Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Amy Schumer, and others will upload video snippets to Vine, in addition to jokes in tweets accompanied by the # ComedyFest hashtag. The celebration will begin with a live stream of a real-world panel discussion in L.a with Brooks, Reiner, and supervisor Judd Apatow. On Tuesday, comedian Steve Agee will host a “Vine dining” party with videos of six-second stories.

Comedy Central’s collaboration with Twitter expands the micro-blogging service’s efforts to blend brand-new and old media. As the Times reports, Funny Central likewise plans to promote more digital interaction with its programs, and …

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This is a 3-D composite shot of New York’s Central Park and the surrounding buildings stitched together by photographer Sergey Semonov using a bunch of panoramic pictures he took during a helicopter ride. Me? I’ve never ridden in a helicopter before. “Wow — fascinating story, GW.” Right? I’m thinking about writing a book about it.

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Dance Central 3

• The #1-selling dance franchise for Kinect is back this fall with new features, including a multiplayer party mode for up to 8 players.
• With a soundtrack featuring 40+ new tracks, from the disco grooves of the 70′s to current chart-topping dance hits, “Dance Central 3″ delivers the most electrifying soundtrack yet.
• The library from the original “Dance Central” and “Dance Central 2″ will be importable into “Dance Central 3.”
• The fully integrated ingame Music Store will allow players to continue to expand their libraries, for a total of more than 140 songs and routines available at launch!**
• **Additional fee required to import from original ?Dance Central? game. Add-on songs sold separately. Xbox LIVE required for in-game Music Store.

The #1-selling dance franchise for Kinect is back with new featuresMultiplayer party mode for up to 8 playersWith a soundtrack featuring 40+ new tracks from the disco grooves of the 70′s to current chart-topping dance hitsFeaturing the authentic choreography Dance Central is known for dancers will learn favorite dance crazes from the past and master the hottest moves of todayXbox SmartGlass app for Dance Central 3 will turn a phone into the ultimate party remote. Please note that the bonus tracks will be emailed to the customers separately

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The most recent participants in the carriage row dance are DirecTV and Viacom, with the two business attempting to reach a brand-new agreement before their existing one expires tonight. If they do not, the network’s 26 channels (MTV, BET, VH1, Spike TV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon etc.) can be cut off at midnight. As standard, each has its own side of the argument with Viacom declaring DirecTV has actually been underpaying for years, while DirecTV accuses Viacom of looking for an increase that will certainly add up to a billion bucks in a year and is liable for pulling the channels while discussions continue. We’re not particularly sympathetic to the plight of either business behemoth (or hopeful that any type of discounts will certainly ever reach consumer’s pockets) however if you have to support one over the some other then there’s lots of propaganda to be discovered at the links below. This might not be as important as Dish Network’s (potentially) Breaking Bad-interrupting tiff with AMC, however if we need to miss out on an episode of Workaholics or Awkward it’s going to be bad for everybody. [ Thanks, AJ]