Visualizing video at the speed of light

Massachusetts Institute of Technology investigators have produced a new picturing system that can produce visual data at a pace of one trillion exposures per second. That is accelerated sufficient to acquire a slow-motion video recording of a burst of light moving the distance of a one-liter bottle, rebounding off the cap and reverberating back to the bottle’s bottom.

The picture acquired by this system is therefore 2D, merely merely one of the dimensions — the one matching the steering of the slice — is spatial while the other one is time. The picture therefore corresponds the arrival time of photons going through linear-dimension cut of space.

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The next big thing in medical technology

Engineering has generated us an unexampled window into the physical body. Just on a regular day basis, we don't know many things about our health.

Scanadu is a fresh technology that is going to changing that.

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Samsung Galaxy S III fervor begin already, realistic press images leak

Samsung Galaxy S III fervor begin already, realistic press images leak

When it comes to Android device releases, nothing is more exciting than a Nexus smartphone or tablet, except when it comes to the Samsung line of Galaxy S devices of course – and today we’ve got what very well may be the next generation: the Samsung Galaxy S III in leaked press images and details. The story goes like this: Concept Phones, a blog that specializes in conceptual renderings of devices, has intercepted a couple of images and some details sent in from a fellow by the name of Ivan Ilchenko who reported them appearing on Samsung’s “official” page on a Russian social network by the name of Vkontakte. If you’ve got all that, good, because here’s the confusing part: the device may well be the first smartphone to be dual-booting Android and Bada OS right out of the box.


This device is being called the Samsung GT-I9500 Universal, and its details are rather incredulous. While the renderings appear really quite crisp and certainly in line with what we’ve seen from Samsung lately, specifically with the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Players, the magic inside might be too far-fetched to be realistic. Behind a 5-inch HD Super AMOLED 1280 x 720 pixel resolution display you’ll find a 9mm thick body and a 12 megapixel camera on the back with both LED flash AND Xenon flash. Weird stuff to be sure!
Then there’s a front-facing 2 megapixel camera, availability of 32 or 64 GB internal memory, and a microSDXC slot for memory expansion. This device is said to come with a stylus like the Galaxy Note, but doesn’t appear to have the same onboard slot for carrying said pen like its big cousin does, USB 3.0 capability, and 4G LTE connectivity in its first iteration. Also onboard is a quad-core Samsung Exynos 4412 1.5GHz processor, and the whole thing works with TouchWiz 5.0.

And it all works with both Android and Bada OS. That’s just too strange to be realistic – why on earth would anyone want such a thing? Also we’ve never seen a display like this outside of conceptual renderings as a bezel allows for the display to have some overlap around the edges – how this will work is outside my understanding. Finally, before you cut up the idea of this device because of the buttons at the bottom of the display running against what’s recommended for Ice Cream Sandwich, know that Android 4.0 does have the ability to easily run with these buttons still in-tact.
We’ll either find this device to be real relatively soon or the name Galaxy S III wont pop up again until early 2012. The possibility also exists that this device is close to what we’ll see in the USA release of the Galaxy Note. We’ll see! Thanks for the tip, Alex!
UPDATE: Per Concept Phones:

“Samsung Russia just contacted us and said this is not a real phone. Here’s what they said: “The mock-ups, published in the article on Concept-Phones.com, were posted in the “Imagined Phones” section of “Samsung Phones Owners’ Club” group on VKontakte.ru. This section contains unofficial artworks and designs, created by group members, and are products of pure imagination, sometime even a joke”.” – Concept Phones

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus vs Nokia Lumia 800

We see how Samsung's Galaxy Nexus stands up to the Nokia Lumia 800

Published on Dec 22, 2011

We compare Samsung's flagship Android Ice Cream Sandwich phone, the Galaxy Nexus, against Nokia's premier Windows Phone 'Mango' handset, the Lumia 800.

Form Samsung Galaxy Nexus - 135.5x67.9x8.9mm,135g
Nokia Lumia 800 - 116.5x61.2x12.1mm,142g

Visually both devices are very impressive with some distinctive and unique design features which help them stand out from the competition.

The Nokia Lumia 800 is a very sharp and angular handset being bluntly rectangular in shape and topped by a gently curved glass screen.

Build quality feels very impressive indeed, the phone uses an aluminium unibody and it’s probably one of the most well put-together handsets we’ve seen this year.

Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is the polar opposite in terms of aesthetics, it’s all curves but it isn’t over-the-top – being a larger phone overall the longer lines compliment the slight curvature at either end of the device quite nicely.

Sadly, the Galaxy Nexus doesn’t feel quite so solid construction-wise as its opponent.
We have to give this round to the Nokia Lumia 800.

Winner – Nokia Lumia 800

Display
Nokia’s Lumia 800 has a relatively small display at 3.7-inches but it makes up for this with incredibly sharp picture quality thanks to the use of a Samsung AMOLED screen and Nokia’s own ClearBlack technology.

It features multi-touch support and reinforced Gorilla Glass, while the 480x800 pixel resolution grants a pixel density clocking in at 252 pixels-per-inch (ppi).

It’s one of the best displays on a Windows Phone we’ve seen to date, the screen is bright and crystal clear with vivid colours which really pop out at you.

The Galaxy Nexus uses Samsung’s own Super AMOLED technology, which is slightly better than the Nokia’s ‘vanilla’ AMOLED and it’s a pretty big slate of glass at 4.65-inches.
Despite its large size, Samsung has managed to keep the pixel density very high indeed, a 720x1280 pixel resolution results in 316ppi.

Multi-touch is again supported and an oleophobic coating protects the screen from oily fingerprints.

Both displays are pretty amazing to behold and each manufacturer has clearly lavished a lot of effort and attention on these screens.

At the end of the day, however, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus goes that extra mile, not only is it a substantially sized display, making media easier and more satisfying to view, but it achieves this without compromising on picture quality and goes so far as to offer some of the best available. It’s very impressive stuff indeed.

Winner – Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Storage
Samsung’s flagship Android Ice Cream Sandwich phone has two options for storage, with choices of either 16GB or 32GB onboard. Processing power is supplemented by 1GB of RAM.

The Nokia Lumia 800 only has the 16GB option for internal capacity which, while ample, is half the top-end offered by Samsung’s device. It’s also slightly behind on the RAM side of things with around half the memory of the Galaxy Nexus at 512MB.

Neither smartphone is fitted with a card slot, meaning there’s no option to expand storage space with microSD.

Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus wins this round by doubling up on the Lumia 800’s offerings.

Winner – Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Processor
Discussing the processors between Android and Windows Phones is a tricky thing, because you invariably run up against the issue of how the two platforms work in relation to optimisation.

However, the Galaxy Nexus is a little different from most other Android phones.

The problem with Android normally is it’s a one size fits all system which isn’t optimised very well, but this isn’t an issue on the Galaxy Nexus because, as it’s the Android Ice Cream Sandwich flagship device Samsung has worked closely with Google to get everything as finely tuned as possible.

The Galaxy Nexus uses a dual core ARM Cortex-A9 processor clocked at 1.2GHz and running the Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 chipset alongside a PowerVR SGX540 graphics processing unit (GPU).

Performance on this setup is going to be something pretty special, especially with the extra optimisation and tuning.

Nokia’s Lumia 800 runs on single core hardware but again it’s been well optimised and offers really good performance from its 1.4GHz Qualcomm Scorpion processor running the MSM8255 Snapdragon chipset and an Adreno 205 GPU.

Both offer excellent performance in terms of typical smartphone tasks and navigating their respective interfaces.

However, the Galaxy Nexus will handle high-end apps and games with demanding graphics much more capably and will remain the more competitive option looking ahead to the future.

Winner – Samsung Galaxy Nexus

 

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Samsung Galaxy S, Tab: No Android 4.0 for you

Owners of Samsung's Galaxy S smartphone and the 7-inch Galaxy Tab won't be getting the latest and greatest version of Android.

In a blog posting on a Korean promotional site run by Samsung, the company noted that the two devices would not receive the update to Android 4.0, the most up to date version of Google's mobile operating system.

The reason for that, as The Verge explains, centers around Samsung's use of additional software features on those phones, including TouchWiz, widgets, video calling and carrier software pack-ins. These suck up hardware resources to the point of giving users a less than desirable Android experience, Samsung says.
Sure to make things a bit complicated is that the Galaxy S is a close sibling of Samsung's recently-released Galaxy Nexus--at least on paper. That phone ships with Android 4.0, known more readily as Ice Cream Sandwich.

Announced in October, Ice Cream Sandwich adds a number of new features to devices on the platform, the main one being the unification of the OS for both tablets and smartphones, as well as the addition of software-based buttons that replace the ones that have been physical buttons. As with other major releases of Android, it carries with it particular hardware requirements, leaving a number of older devices stuck on certain versions indefinitely.

 

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Kyobo eReader with "Colored" E-Ink Display

The Kyobo eReader uses E-Ink technology. It features a 5.7" 1024 x 768 pixel Mirasol Display with a 223ppi screen resolution. This eReader is prett fast, because it has a 1GHz Snapdragon S2 processor running Android 2.3. As you can see, it plays videos pretty smoothly.

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Large Flying Remote Controlled Paper Airplane

Do you remember when we were kids and we were playing with paper airplanes? Guess what?! Some people never stop building paper airplanes. They just build a larger version of it. Enjoy the video

"RC "PAPER AIRPLANE " LOOK ALIKE.. MAIDEN FLIGHT AT THE INFAMOUS BASIN...RC ICON TONY NACARATO AT THE CONTROLS....." (youtube)

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NAO - Humanoid Robot

Aldebaran Robotics has launched the Next Gen NAO, a new generation of humanoid robots with a host of advanced features. The new robot, which has a height of 57 cm, open new usage perspectives in areas such as education, research and entertainment.

NAO can be surprisingly natural in movements of the body and can easily grab objects. If an unexpected event happens, the robot stops and uses functions and inertia sensors to mitigate loss.



NAO robot has two cameras with resolutions of 1280 x 720 pixels and features detection and face recognition, two speakers uttering the texts in eight languages ​​and localization features - four microphones and sound recognition of words and expressions.

The NAO robot is equipped with an Intel Atom processor with a frequency of 1.6 GHz and has an open source software, can be connected to other devices via Wi-Fi or infrared UTP. NAO has a battery that provides a range that at least an hour and a half of operation.

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Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

Enjoy this amazing trailer of the incredible new game Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. These special effects have stunned the fans gathered at the Spike Video Game Awards.



I believe that the Fall of Cybertron will be a sort of Batman: Arkham Asylum for human psychology. This game will be so good that when will be launched, all other Transformers games will be forgotten, giving the franchise the respect that it deserves. By the way, the song of the trailer is simply insane.

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Magic Wand TV Remote Control

Are you a fan of Harry Potter? It's time to be a little wizard and control your TV with style. This Magic Wand TV Remote Control can learn up to 13 gestures. This means you will remote control your TV with a flick of the wrist. And there is more. You can control almost anything that can be remote controlled (DVD players, DVRs, stereo systems).



Buy MAGIC WAND on Amazon

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Misa Digital Guitar Demo

Are you ready for a new way of playing guitars?




This guitar is something new, experimental. Just like a normal electric guitar in shape but with complete new functionality. The interface allows the user to control digital audio. With this instruments, the guitarists can play new and fresh techniques.



touchpad controls:
- digitiser filter
- note velocity
- pitch

more on misadigital.com

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Bearded Dragon playing Ant Crusher

This is rather funny. The video depicts a Bearded Dragon playing Ant Crusher on a tablet. I wonder if the record will be beaten.



Pogona is a type of lizards known by the common name of bearded dragons. The term "bearded dragon" is most generally employed to identify the Central Bearded Dragon. Members of this genus reside in the waterless, rough, semi-desert areas and adust open forests of Australia.

source: wikipedia

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Christmas Tech Gifts Under $50

It's Christmas? Not yet, and this means there is plenty of time to get something cool for you or your friends.

Christmas Tech Gifts Under $50

Steve Jobs Inside Apple Head Shirt T-Shirt

This t-shirt is not that expensive (around $10) and it's the perfect gift for an Apple fan. It depicts Steve Jobs inside the apple.

Nintendo Monopoly

This gift is for nintendo fans, which is a fresh and cool Nintendo Monopoly set. This game has all the iconic characters from Nintendo's 7 most popular video games. It's around $30.

Sennheiser HD428 Closed Circumaural Hi-Fi Headphone

I know everyone looks at Beats by Dr. Dre. They're a little pricey, and it will not fit into "under $50" category. That's why I'm going for Sennheiser HD428. They have an amazing sound and costs $43. The best deal!

Griffin HTC Helicopter


This is an iPhone controlled Helicopter. Is under $50, so if you are looking for an unique gift for an iPhone user, this is it!

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Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Red Gold Dream

This car belongs to Swiss billionaire Ueli Anlicker. Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Red Gold Dream is claimed to be the world's most expensive car, and costs around $11,000,000

Features: 1000 horsepower engine
600 rubies / diamonds
covered with gold

In order to get this special red color, the car was covered with 25 layers of paint!

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Nokia N9 WHITE, more elegant than ever.

N9 is the first Nokia smartphone that uses MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan operating system . The phone has a 3.9 inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels, made ​​with Corning Gorilla technology. The device weighs 135 grams and dimensions of 116,5 x 61,2 x 12,1 mm.

The smartphone is equipped with a Cortex A8 processor with a frequency of 1 GHz, PowerVR SGX530 graphics and TI OMAP 3630 chipset. The gadget features 16 GB memory and 64 GB and has a 1 GB RAM. The phone has 3G (14.4 Mbps), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, NFC, GPS and microUSB 2.0.

More Nokia N9 Features here

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Kindle Fire vs Nook Tablet: Video Comparison

If we look at prices, Kindle Fire Tablet is better than the Nook and it's $ 50 cheaper ($ 200 vs. $ 250).
Instead, Nook Tablet has 1GB of RAM and Kindle only 512 MB, Nook features double storage space (16GB) + card slot and boasts a better battery life.

Both tablets features dual-core processors at 1GHz.



But still, Kindle is in my Top Gadgets for Christmas 2011

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Manual PDF Instructions For Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

For blogging, i think the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime strongly support because availabe the Eee Pad mobile docking for typing speed and have enough size that is 10.1 inches. For create or edit document this tablet using polaris office. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime used Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system and can upgradable to v4.0. Powered by Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A9 processor and

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Mechanical engineer develops a robotic Venus Flytrap

Mohsen Shahinpoor is an expert and a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maine. He developed a robotic version of the notorious bug consuming Venus Flytrap, employing various materials he manufactured - ionic polymeric metal composite - a nanomaterial that can be exploited to imitate the way muscles work. He applies this fabric to animate the detection and closure abilities of the Venus Flytrap.

In order to create this robot, Shahinpoor designed two “leaves” that imitate the mouth-like appearing of the Flytrap. After this step, he mechanical engineered a backbone from a roll of copper. And so, trying to re-create the small fuzzes on the Flytrap that operate as the detectors, he summed minuscule strips of the ionic polymeric metal composite. The rest of the project was engineered as a typical electrical relay and electric potential generation arrangement.


At first sight, this mechanical engineered project could not look like much. But if we think about it, it's clear that the robotic Venus Flytrap is in reality a presentation of a new form of technology that could contribute to improvements in medical applications.

An elaborated application based on this mechanical engineering program could be the basics of future human muscle replacements. Also, this project could lead to medical developments in sensory applications. A good case could be reestablishing facial manifestations to patients who lose this ability after a stroke.

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Yoda Desk Protector

Star Wars Yoda USB Desk Protector Figure

Jedi Master in "flesh and bones" desk-protective variant connects to your computer and whenever someone approaches too close to it, well... you get the picture. Laser sword and smart words from the old master.

What does the little Yoda say? Famous phrases such as - In the end, cowards are those who follow the dark side sau Retreat! Cover you I will!



You need a new USB port and you have approximately $30 pounds to spend?





Sure, the package may come with a slice toaster that prints on the bread none other than Lord Darth Vader.

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Canon SX40 HS vs Sony HX 100V

Professionals and enthusiasts love DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras that have a mechanical mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the lens to the viewfinder. When triggering, mirror move away and let light reach the sensor. Pros love the larger size of the sensor and quality optics and interchangeable lenses. But the possibility of manual setting of all parameters are largely the elements that make the difference.

Bridges cameras tries to make the connection between DSLR and compact cameras. Bridge cameras allow full manual mode, but smaller sensor, no optical viewfinder, and no possibility to change objectives. They, however, allow large zooms and macro capabilities. The disadvantage is that they use many additional optics and software corrections, all these fireworks affecting the final quality of images.

Features	Sony HX100V	Canon SX40 HS	Comments
Sensor resolution	16,2-megapixels	12,1-megapixels	HX100V has higher resolution, but the sensors have the same size.
Lens	27-810mm (30x Zoom) F2,8-5,6 Carl Zeiss® Vario-Sonnar T®	24-840mm (35x Zoom) F2,7-5,8 Canon optics	SX40 has better zoom and wider angle
Minimum Focus Distance	1cm (macro) - 2m	0cm (macro) – 1,4m
Image Stabilisation	Yes Optical SteadyShot sensor-shift	Yes Canon IS lens-shift
LCD Display	3-inch 921K pixeli Xtra Fine / TruBlack	2,7-inch 230K pixels Tilting	Sony has better and larger screen. Canon has poor screen quality.
Processor	BIONZ™	DIGIC 5	Both processors are great. DIGIC5 is more advanced, allowing new algorithms for noise reduction.
ISO	100-3200	100-3200
Viewer	Digital 201,600 pixels	Digital 202,200 pixels
Blitz (distance)	Yes (12,7m)	Yes (7m)	Sony HX100V has better blitz.
Video recording	1080p60	1080p24
Battery Life	410 frames	380 frames	Great Battery Life
GPS	Yes	No
Dimensions	119,0mm x 88,9mm x 93,0mm	122,9 x 92,4 x107,7mm	SX40 HS is bigger
Weight	523 g	557 g	SX40 HS is heavier

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Nokia GEM: 21st century mobile jewel

Nokia GEM is a new concept phone from Nokia. I'm sure there are still years until this one will be in our homes, but I love the way it interacts with the user.

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Cadillac WTF concept

I was browsing the net when I found this concept design car. First I thought it was a new image from the set of Batman's movie, but it's not. The Cadillac World Thorium Fuel concept was created by Loren Kulesus

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Next Kinect can read lips and measure emotions [rumor]

It seems that rumors began to emerge about a new Microsoft product. I've gathered the available that, and many say that will be called or Xbox 720 or Xbox Loop.

The new console will be available in two models: one for common users and one for hardcore gamers. The new Xbox will feature an extremely sensitive motion sensor and a voice recognition unit. It will be sufficiently precise that it can read lips, to follow the movement of fingers and will be able to grasp the tone of voice, thus detecting players' emotions.

The current version has undergone upgrades to improve the quality of the camera. Microsoft recently released Kinect Avatar that allows tracking movement on lips and eyebrows. There are all sorts of rumors that Microsoft aims to develop a new technology that allows finger tracking for the next version of Kinect. Probably the current will be enhanced. It is rumored that Microsoft would use Kinect Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 interface 2.

They hope the new Kinect will be released with Windows 8 early next year.

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Motorola PRO+ Manual PDF Download

The Motorola PRO+ has features and specs such as Android (2.3) operating system, 1000 MHz processor, 512 MB RAM, 4000 MB internal memory, 5 megapixels camera, 3.10 inches display screen, GSM network (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), UMTS (850, 1900, 2100 MHz), bluetooth, wi-fi, and more. The Motorola PRO+ manual user guide contain information about tutorial how to operate with correctly. More detail

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