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Upgrade Your Smartphone Camera with Sony QX10
Mobile October 30, 2013
A smartphone camera lens with a camera on its own; this is what Sony QX10 is all about. Despite being redundant, this accessory makes smartphone photography innovatively new in every sense. It can be somehow related to mirrorless kit lens, only a bit smaller in size and in megapixels.... Read more
Now You Can Use The Samsung Galaxy Gear With Other Phones
News October 30, 2013
The smartwatch niche is a booming one, with practically every manufacturer that matters making their own version. One of the most interesting smartwatches to come out this year is the Samsung Galaxy Gear. While Pebble and Cookoo have made it to the scene first, the Galaxy Gear certainly made... Read more
Google’s phone firm Motorola has announced a new project that will allow users to build their own modular smartphone. Project Ara will let users buy a plastic phone structure, named an endoskeleton, and then add-on modules such as a keyboard, battery or other sensors, giving them flexibility to customize... Read more
Is BBM For Android & iOS A Hit?
News October 29, 2013
About six months ago, BBM for Android and iOS was announced. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: BBM is the one thing that BlackBerry can be totally proud of. Outages notwithstanding. Of course, we know just how limited you can be with using BBM, as BlackBerry... Read more
Is This Google’s Floating Data Centre?
Internet October 29, 2013
At the end of Treaure Island, San Francisco, a mysterious structure is rising from a floating barge. Although no one knows what is inside the series of modern cargo containers making up the strange structure, speculation is mounting that it belongs to Google. Although Google has refused to comment... Read more
Apple’s iPad latest event may still have the critics in their nitpicking mode, but there is a LOT to be happy about – not the least of which is the fact that the newest OS, Mavericks, is available as a free upgrade. For Mac users who may not have... Read more
Move over WiFi; successful experiments by a group of Xinhua, Shanghai based scientists have implied the possibilities of improving China’s online means by using the signals sent by light bulbs. This technology is called LiFi, a wireless communication using light as a carrier in place of the usual radio... Read more
Million-Year Data Storage Disk Unveiled
Internet October 27, 2013
Nanotechnologists have now designed and built a disk that can store data for a million years or more. That time frame is almost incomprehensible compared to the current magnetic hard disks that can store data for just over a decade. Back in 1956, IBM was the first company in... Read more
Nokia Unveils The New Lumia 2520 Tablet
Mobile October 25, 2013
Nokia has released its first Windows tablet. Nokia’s Lumia 2520 is the Finnish smartphone maker’s take on a Lumia-style tablet. It looks like a much bigger version of a Lumia Windows Phone. Microsoft may be buying Nokia’s device business, but for the next few months they are going to... Read more
Microsoft Tests Eyewear to Rival Google Glass
Internet October 25, 2013
According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is apparently jumping on the bandwagon and they are testing prototypes for optical wear similar to Google Glass. This could potentially push the company into that market. A source familiar with the project said the company has asked several component makers in Asia to... Read more
Ene-Farm Fuel Cell Moves into Apartments
InternetSoftware Reviews October 24, 2013
The Ene-Farm fuel cell is the first ever commercial fuel cell system in the world. So far, the cell units have only available to people who dwell in a detached property. However, it seems that the creators of the fuel cell unit, Panasonic and Tokyo Gas, have been working... Read more
Scientists Discover Exactly Why Our Brains Need Sleep
Internet October 24, 2013
There have been many studies around why sleep is so important to our functions, although we don’t need to read a report to know that without enough sleep each night, us humans don’t function at full throttle. Many people are interested in all aspects of sleep and sleep deprivation... Read more
The iPad Dilemma: iPad Air Or iPad Mini Retina?
Mobile October 23, 2013
Apple has done it again. While critics have been criticizing, and fanboys have been staunchly defending, Apple showed everyone that they still have some breath left in them. More than a few gasps, in fact. For a while there, the consensus was that it was unlikely that the iPad... Read more
A “bionic man” was the idea behind 1970s science fiction television show “The Six Million Dollar Man“. The show followed the adventures of a character named Steve Austin, a former astronaut whose body was rebuilt using synthetic parts after he nearly died. Forty years later and Science fiction has... Read more
Elon Musk To Transform The 007 Lotus Esprit “Submarine Car”
Internet October 22, 2013
The iconic Lotus Esprit submarine car that featured in the 1977 Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, has been snatched up by no other than Tesla’s Elon Musk. News has surfaced that Musk won the auction for the car with a bid of $866,000. What is even more... Read more
Aviate Beta: Simplify Your Android Home Screen
News October 21, 2013
Aviate is an intelligent home screen application simplifies any Android phone by organizing the information you need, when you need it. “We believe our phones should be smarter,” the company said in a blog post that announced an invite-only Beta launch. Aviate debuted its Alpha program this summer and now that... Read more
World Record 100Gbps Wireless Data Transmission Set
Internet October 20, 2013
Do you think your 802.11ac router is pretty fast? Well, I’m afraid it isn’t. In fact, it has got nothing on a new system created by the Fraunhofer Institute and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, which has recently completed a 100Gbps data transmission. That’s approximately fourteen times faster than the... Read more
US Military Tests Ground Robot That Fires Machine Gun
News October 20, 2013
Although drones have been used to attack targets from the sky, the US military are now exploring the possibilty of employing ground robots capable of firing machine guns. Last weekend, four companies tested robots armed with guns that can shoot at targets up to 500 feet away. Also present... Read more