Apple believes in innovation and they do end up launching something which is often attractive enough to create waves around the planet. Be it the iPhones, the iPods or the iPads; all have been successful enough for people to dream about owing one of them (or even all three). Now (as expected) its time for iTV, speculation is currently booming that Apple TV might be coming to an end and iTV is what might be replacing it. The only difference this time will be that such televisions have already hit the market in plenty. TV sets with apps that make the idiot box a lot more than TV is just awesome. Samsung has Android based TVs and so has Google.
Considering the fact that people out their have already seen so many of these app based TVs it just won’t be easy for Apple to come up with something which is totally unique but at the end of the day it is the brand which matters or is it?
Apple ended up selling around 3 million iPads in just around a month but that was a device which was highly attractive and people had so much to do with it. We are pretty sure that iTV (if this is what Apple calls it) will surely be attractive enough but televisions cover such a huge area that you just cannot think about all the requirements in just one box. It will be interesting to see what Steve’s army does with their format of TV.
It seems that Facebook is working on something big according to the latest leaked screenshot that shows us a ‘Call’ button within Facebook’s messaging system.
We didn’t hear any rumours about voice calls within Facebook, so this latest leaked screenshot is quite a shock to many. As you can see from the screenshot, the new Call button is placed in the top right corner, right next to the chat and send message buttons. So does this button work? Well according to the screenshot, it seems that the person who made this screenshot is trying to find out that as well. Sadly, this button has been removed from the menu, we’re thinking that this is somehow related to Skype, because Skype and Facebook have been working together for a while, but that’s just our guess.
If you cannot beat them, join them is the policy that folks at Yahoo are following. Since Yahoo is slowly losing their popularity and influence on the internet, the company’s decided to team up with its competitors, Google and Facebook.
As you know, Yahoo started using Bing to power its search engine last year, and now, Yahoo has announced that it will be accepting Google and Facebook account logins via the OpenID protocol.Thanks to this, Yahoo! services are now available to all users without the need to sign up, which is great. We also have to notice that other sites are slowly dropping the support for Yahoo! logins, so will it be that Yahoo! will soon become a dying breed?
Speaking of future and gadgets, it’s certain that we’ll see two things in the future: more USB devices and more AA batteries (for non-USB gadgets!), so why don’t we combine both these into a single solution? Well, this concept tries to do that, so let’s see how it looks like.
We assume that you have a USB drive that you use often and that you keep in your computer’s USB port most of the time. Since you keep your USB docked to your computer most at the time wouldn’t it be useful that you could recharge that USB and use it as a battery? This is what Wonchul Hwang thought of when he designed this USB/AA battery. In order to use this device as a USB you just need to twist the battery and USB connector pops out, and then you just need to twist it again in the opposite direction and you can use it as a battery.
You might have heard the stories that Facebook is shutting down and in order to prevent these rumors from spreading any further Facebook has officially responded.
According to the rumors, Facebook is shutting down on March 15 2011, and the main reason for Facebook’s shutdown is the fact that Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg is tired of it. Rumors say that Zuckerberg is tired of this social networking business and that he wants to live a normal life once again. We’re hoping that you didn’t believe in this, because it’s not true, and in order to prove that these rumors aren’t true Facebook has posted a tweet saying: “We didn’t get the memo about shutting down, so we’ll keep working anyway. We aren’t going anywhere; we’re just getting started.”
As you can see, Facebook won’t shut down on March 15, and all these rumors were false, and it would take a lot more to shut down the largest social networking site in the world.
In the CES 2011, SanDisk today announced the first product in a new category of embedded solid state drives (SSD), that are the world’s smallest solid state drives so far.
The SSD is smaller than a postage stamp and offer higher capacities and performance than existing storage solutions. The SanDisk® integrated SSD (iSSD), the first high-capacity product within this new category, is designed for use in fast-growing mobile computing platforms such as tablet PCs and ultra-thin notebooks. It is the first flash SSD device to support the industry standard SATA interface in a small BGA (Ball Grid Array) package that can be soldered onto any motherboard, and for use with advanced operating systems in mobile computing platforms.
We know that iPad is one amazing device that can do all sorts of things, and one of those things is gaming. Since iPad doesn’t have an input controller, except the multitouch display, gaming does feel abit uncomfortable for some gamers. If you’re one of them, the Fling Joystick might be a solution for you.
Playing games on the iPad with your fingers can sometimes be difficult, especially if you’re used to other gaming platforms that have controllers. If you’re used to controllers and joysticks, you can enjoy games on your iPad with Fling Joystick as well. In order to play the games with this joystick, you just need to place it on your screen, right over the directional pad of your game, and that’s it.
Fling Game Controller for iPad sounds like a potential solution, but so far, it only works with certain number of games. As for the price, you can pre-order the Fling Joystick for $25.
Identifying copyrighted materials are only possible if you have the original copy with its digital signature. So the current methods aren't sufficient as we think since many people can still sell and play copyrighted videos.
Video piracy has become a serious issue nowadays and researchers at Tel aviv university have found a way how to protect original video's and preventing video piracy that way. They have made a video technology that prevents video players from playing pirated videos. It should be quite useful because as it scans and analyzes the footage in grids to see if the footage elements are there. In that way the DNA of the video is being analyzed and scanned and if there's a DNA mismatch the video player wont play the copyrighted videos.
This might be the ending of those people making a living of selling pirated and copyrighted videos. But so fat it hasn't been implemented,but will it be successful?
China made mobile phones are those cloned phones from famous mobile phone carriers. In the Philippines. china made mobile phones are very common and very popular, every electronics store has it, why? because its price and availability has leveled those of popular phone carriers. And even from the poor can afford to buy those cheap phones. But it does not end there, majority of these people does not even know what they're buying are cloned phones from china, and bragging up their phones like those of originals. I had bought these phones earlier this year and within months, the phone itself is very fragile and frequent drops are sufficient to crack those cheaply made touchscreens. And also I've noticed that the video recording capability is in very low quality and the video itself is in low definition. And after one year of using, the phone is now dead. But if you think, your on low in budget, then you might think buying those in online stores would not be in a hassle.
Apple fan haters! I'm sure you're gonna love this the 12LVE photography exhibit that showcases apple products being shot,burned,and ran over by a train. And who's behind all this? Michael Tompert and Paul Fairchild did it costly but in their own interpretation "to make a provocative yet humorous statement on consumers' attachment to their shiny new electronic toys." Check out the full gallery after the break.
All of us know that Super Mario is the most popular game character in the world, but what about from the Super Mario franchise? It seems that Yoshi will be getting his share of popularity ,as well, today we've got a nice little thing from Yoshi's fans.
Yoshi was Mario's sidekick in several Super Mario games and he has started in several games a main character. After years being a trusty steed, and yesterday Yoshi got his own steed out of metal, Donald aka kodykoala has managed to create Yoshi's own robotic steed that will be used by Yoshi.
his steed is actually a metal replica of Yoshi and although it doesn’t have a tongue, it looks quite impressive. This metal Yoshi has a lot of detail, and speaking of detail, it even has a small Yoshi inside his mouth behind the control panel. Overall, this is impressive Yoshi robot, and we can only say that Donald aka Kodykoala did an amazing job.
It was time when Samsung's Google nexus S shows up in UK. But while we all know the next-gen Nexus was arriving today. nobody expected its price to drop£430.
The UK price was first said to be £550 (around €650)but we thought i was a quite steep so Google decided to cut it down to £430 (nearly €510).So if you like buying yourself a nice Christmas gift buy now and it should arrive this December.
It won't be long before our smartphones take over what we do with our netbooks. Now official, the LG Star as it was known in the rumor mill is now the LG Optimus 2X, and that "2X" in the name is a statement in itself. Let's get straight into this, it basically contains a dual-core Tegra 2 processor clocked at 1GHz. Now what will this handset use the power for? For starters, it is fully capable of recording videos in crisp 1080p with its 8-megapixel rear camera unit. There's also a front-facing one at 1.3 megapixels for the video-calling people.
It seems that folks from Google are in the holiday spirit, they’re doing some charity work with their latest extension for Chrome. This extension is called Chrome for a Cause and it tracks the number of the tabs that you’re opening.
The more tabs you open the more money will go to the charity on behalf of the Chrome community. In fact, Chrome community has decided to donate one million dollars to various causes, and the amount of money that will be donated is determined by the number of opened tabs on your Chrome browser.
This app tracks up to 250 opened tabs per user, and at the end of each day, users can submit their score to Google and participate in this project that way. According to Google for each 10 tabs that you open, you’ll help one tree to be planted or get a single book published and donated. For 25 tabs, you’ll provide one vaccination treatment, and for 100 or 200 tabs, you’ll provide 1 square foot of shelter or one year supply of clean water for a single person.
If you have an Android phone and you’re an active Facebook user, you’ll be pleased to know that Facebook has released another version of its app for Android OS.
The latest Facebook app for Android OS has been upgraded to version 1.5 and it has some nice improvements to offer to its users. First improvement that we have to mention is the support for Facebook Chat. Now for the first time, Andorid OS users will have the chance to enjoy in Facebook Chat functionality just like desktop or iPhone users. Besides that, chat mode can work in background so it can be used while other applications are being active. In addition, we got push notifications for incoming messages and other content as well.
As you can see, this app has several great features to offer and you can download it for free from the Android Market.
10 Fun Things I Can Do with a new Lenovo Laptop
1. Takes my PC on a whole new level
2. Interact with my facebook friends
3. Listen and watch videos on the go
4. Comment,interact,socialize into other blogs and websites
5. Read my daily fortune cookie on facebook
6. Read notifications on facebook
7. Play games on the go
8. Catches wifi signal
9. Extends my inline hours
10. My personal assistant and my friend.
This is my official entry to the Lenovo-YugaTech Laptop Giveaway
Technology has been improving to extremes but the tiny bits of innovation that are quite obvious but still untouched and yet to be explored. one such innovation has touched the brains of people behind Shogun Bros. They had Innovated the merging of a controller mouse and game keys that will save you a lot of space of your computer table.
The so-called Chameleon X-1 comes with 5 stage adjustable 1600dpi optical sensor with a polling rate of 125 Hz. This can be connected to a PC via 2.5 GHz wireless dongle
The game-pad underneath the mouse will have 14 buttons in total. These don’t include the regular mouse buttons on the top of the device as can be seen in image above.
Along with the red colored option seen above Shogun Bros will also launch a Chameleon X-1 that will come in darker than black color. We are not sure if the mouse will stay dysfunctional when the game-pad will be in use and vice versa but if this will not be the case then people might face a lot of unwanted clicks.
The neatly designed mouse controller will hit the markets somewhere in the first quarter of 2011 for a price tag of $55 USD which might seem a bit costly but you get two products for the price of one. Worth a shot!
SARTRE! Though this term might not sound familiar to most of the people out their but it can surely be the talk of the town in upcoming years. Safe Road Trains For the Environment (a.k.a SARTRE) is a project still under testing phase which if goes successful can improve the driving conditions of Europe to an huge extent and save a lot of time that people spend on driving.
The concept behind SARTRE is pretty easy to understand. While on the move people will have the option to co-ordinate with other cars and later on surrender the control of their care to the inbuilt system that will drive the car all the way. This might look like a chase sequence without any jumping actor or the car convoy of some VVIP but it might just be a common sight in days to come if testing is successful for SARTRE.
The test will be done with two cars within next 15 days and a five car test will be completed somewhere in 2011. If all goes well then we might just be able to wrap up a date or finish an important meeting while on the way to office!
Microsoft surface is flat right? Do touchscreen tabletops have to be flat? This is what at Media Computing Group had recently created their latest technology BendDesk. BendDesk offers a multi-touch desk that combine both horizontal and vertical touch surface with a curved into a large workspace.Before you start wondering whether this is just another never-to-see-day-of-light concept, we can tell you its not only just an idea anymore.
As you will see in the video below, the BendDesk workspace can be used to display any digital content like documents, photos, videos or even play games. The multitouch technology in the BendDesk allows users to interact with the entire surface of the desk using direct physical manipulation as it follows and recognises your multi-touch gestures. Check out the video demo below, might you picture yourself in something like this in the next ten years or so?
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