Monday, December 31, 2012

Elephant eats a tourist's iPhone

When we visited the zoo or an animal park are often taken several photographs of them to remember a little tour we did in the place. One thing that definitely should not do is to keep our cameras or our smartphone too close to the animal in question or you can take it off your hands and eat it, as happened to a Chinese tourist. A curious fact undoubtedly. In the video below we can see two tourists from China who are in an elephant park...

Kindle Fire HD dominates sales on Amazon

Since it was introduced about 4 months ago, the Kindle Fire HD has become a best-selling device, particularly for Christmas, where many have chosen to buy a gift, taking it to number one in sales among all products that are available on Amazon. Note that the following three posts are also dominated by Kindle products, the Kindle Fire being this, the original Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite respectively. Christmas Day was the day which made...

Westinghouse will present a 110-inch TV at CES

Westinghouse, a firm that is dedicated to producing high-definition televisions, among other products, have plans to unveil a new line of TVs at the next CES UHD, which we know will take place next month. This great TV, that even supports 4K resolutions, measures no less than 110 inches, which makes it one of the largest market. As announced, will also be presented more conventional models 50, 55 and 65 inches and is expected to be launched...

More images of the new BB10 QWERTY keyboard and some details

Several days ago I had talked about the leak of a photo of a smartphone with BlackBerry OS 10 further incorporates a physical keyboard, returning to the classic models that defined the brand. Now at least we now have better image quality and even have a name for your phone: BlackBerry X10. The display also indicates that several apps will be available for BB10 popular as the platform to be launched in late January, which is in only one month....

Apple abandons claims against the Galaxy S III Mini

We're on the last day of the year and likely Apple wants to start the next on the right foot, while also adding a little rest to his lawyers. What do you see the lawyers? As the company has decided to withdraw the patent claims made ​​against the Galaxy S III Mini for Samsung . It seems that both parties have agreed on this and have decided to leave the matter behind. After Samsung announced that the S III Mini not be sold in the United...

CES 2013: 8 things you might see

The new edition of the CES show, which will be the CES 2013, will take place between 8 and January 11, 2013 in Las Vegas. It is at this popular fair where manufacturers show their latest creations and make spectacular presentations of modern devices technology . Let 8 Things may be presented in the new edition: 1-More wireless charging devices. One of the wireless charging devices most popular was the Nokia Lumia 920. LG and HTC also...

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Color wheels safer than normal

The wheels you see in the picture below might seem part of some kind of Car tuneo set. The outside of the tire seems furrowed reddish or orange lines that give a pretty nice touch (depending on individual taste). But the thing is that the idea behind this design is quite practical because, in principle, are safer than other rims.This does not mean that the paint used for tinting the wheel has some additional property that enhance adhesion is simply...

Mice in the future with gyroscopes, accelerometers and other advanced motion sensors

If you look at a desktop computer you realize that in the last 10 or 15 years has evolved almost everything, disk drives, displays, processors, etc.. But there is still the odd item that resists being redesigned, this bag could fit a classic peripherals: mouse and keyboard. Is it because they are perfect enough or a lack of imagination? Apple may have the key to the next generation of mice because it has just patented design.These include a mouse...

Technology 'Virtual Body' gets you into the body of another person

The telepresence system goes a step beyond the odd you've seen it directly puts you in the shoes of another person, as if you had somehow 'possessed in spirit' or whatever you see. The experience should be pretty strange judging by what they say and what you see in the video, to begin around you a virtual reality system based on multiple sensors that isolate you to some extent the world around you. These sensors include a 3D viewer that provides...

Floating magnets move chasing a laser, the possible future of maglev vehicles

If you had to name two futuristic inventions that can be found today would probably maglevs lasers and these vehicles almost magically levitating through the effect of magnetism and get impressive speeds. Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan have united both concepts to give a curious invention: a magnet that levitates on a metal surface and moves chasing a point of light. The metal surface comprises a matrix of small magnets. The material on the...

Turn your Wi-Fi password in a QR code

If you want a truly secure WiFi network then you have no choice but to resort to measures such as using one of those very long passwords consist of letters and numbers. This adds an extra point security, but sometimes the problem is just remembering this password or share it with friends or colleagues at the office. A Reddit user thought a quick fix: turn your WiFi password in a QR code and then print it out and hang it on the wall in a visible...

Saturday, December 29, 2012

The PS2 is no longer produced in Japan

The huge success of Sony's PlayStation 2 brought a huge catalog of games . Some very good, some maybe not so many. Surely many of us carry some memory of this fabulous console, right? After staying in full production for 13 years, the legendary PS2 has finally stopped being produced in the country of the rising sun. Its sales of over 150 million units are among the best-selling consoles in history, all thanks to the great titles that are...

Mac Mini could be produced in U.S.

As we said at the time, Apple has plans to bring some of their production to Asia to America and start making devices there. Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, said some computers Mac begin to be produced in North America, but was not very specific about which ones. Fortunately a report from Asia seems to shed some light on the subject. The Taiwanese Digitimes says that Apple plans to manufacture PCs in U.S. is none other than the Mac Mini. The report...

Control a cockroach on Twitter

Many people hate cockroaches. Some seem disgusting, others fear them, etc.. But, what if you could control the movement of a cockroach? Is it possible to do that? Of course you do, and frankly not surprising given that the technology is now at a very good level. What we do soprende a bit which can be checked via a cockroach Twitter. The Twitter Roach (that's the name that has been given) is a leading real roach over it a kind of wireless...

LG presented new 5.5-inch screen and a screen for tablets at CES 2013

LG seems to be completely ready to make your big presentation at next year's CES, which like every year will take place in January 2013 will be from 8 to 11 of the said month, if memory serves me. The company has already prepared to present a phenomenal Full HD screen that measures 5.5 inches and has a density of 403 pixels per inch. Surely this small will be used in some future phablet to launch the firm. In addition, LG also plans to...

Windows 8 Store now has 35,000 apps

The App Store Windows 8 continues to grow. Each day adds a new app to the selection available in the Windows 8 Store and indeed in the last month 14,000 applications have been added by site MetroStore Scanner. With this, the store has managed to exceed the total of 35,000 applications available for download and will continue to grow even more. Obviously yet still has a long way to go to reach those with the greatest stores, currently Apple...

Galaxy S IV would be released in April and come with a S Pen

There are rumors that Samsung has already planned a date to launch the Galaxy S IV and future will be in the month of April next year. But that's not all, because it is said that the South Korean company will mix your Galaxy S series with the Galaxy Note and the result will be the successor to the Galaxy S III, and obviously will be the first time a smartphone that is not a Note has a S Pen stylus. Also worth noting that the S IV will have...

Friday, December 28, 2012

Facebook for Windows Phone gets a new update

If you're somebody who practically can not live without being connected to Facebook and also if you have a smartphone that runs Windows Phone, then we have good news for you. The biggest social network in the world announced the new version of its app for Windows Phone. The application has just been updated to version 2.8, but unfortunately were not made ​​aware of the changes that were made ​​to the app. Does that mean we must discover it...

ZTE Grand S, new smartphone of 6.9 mm thick

We have seen several devices that will be officially unveiled at CES 2013 in Las Vegas in just over a week, so let's take a look at another one: the Grand S ZTE, a new smartphone very thin. Early rumors indicated that the Grand S would have a thickness of 7.6 mm, but it seems that in reality it is only 6.9 mm, which puts him among the mobile world's thinnest, but still lacks a couple of millimeters to be as thin as the Oppo Find 5. Speaking...

This Christmas sales of smartphones and tablets were a record

Unsurprisingly devices mobile as smartphones and tablets are chosen as Christmas gifts because they are usually perfect and useful for everyone. What did surprise us a bit is the amount of tablets and smartphones that were sold in this past Christmas. Sales broke all records and what expectations. According to a report by the firm Flurry, the number of devices activated iOS and Android this Christmas were a total of 17.4 million. It is a...

Samsung will reach 500 million smartphones in 2013

The 2012 has been a very significant year for Samsung . He has had a very successful sales and Galaxy S3 has become one of the mobile world bestseller. It is estimated that the company has sold over 420 million units of smartphones around the globe. According to a report in the Korea Times, Samsung has no intention of staying put. The idea is to grow the company and achieve it sold 510 million smartphones in the world by the end of 2013....

Apple's new device could be a clock

For a long time there has been talk that Apple is planning to launch a new HDTV, but not too quick with that because the company seems to have other plans in mind. The idea is to create something Apple much smaller than a TV, something we can wear on our wrist: a clock. This device, which is probably known as iWatch or something similar (just in case I should clarify that is a guess, his name is not known yet), will be the equivalent of a...

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Firewall, a touch screen unusual

Designers Mike Allison and Aaron Sherwood have given new meaning to the concept of interactive touch screens. Firewall may sound a typical firewall using our computer , but in this case it refers to something completely different. Firewall is an interactive touch screen that takes things to another level. When you touch or press it, the screen is able to create a fire effect that will follow the movements of your hand. But that's not all,...

Google plans to expand free calls through Gmail

Good things come in 2o13, and one of them is an expansion for the service calls through Gmail, the popular email service from Google . This new expansion for now only be used freely by users who are in the United States and Canada. Besides that, only applies to local calls, meaning that the international will cost. This function call was originally launched in 2010 and has since been improved and Google has also improved prices. To operate...

Swiss researchers are working on a robot child

Scientists are working hard to create humanoid robots that are able to mimic our physical capabilities. A team of Swiss researchers and scientists have decided to take things to another level trying to create a boy robot, or a robot that looks like a child, as they prefer to call it. Roboy is the name of the robot that is being created in the Artificial Intelligence Lab in Zurich, Switzerland. When complete will be the size of a 4 year...

ZTE Nubia Z5, a new Android supersmartphone

Smartphones are here to stay and we are happy to do so. The smartphone you see here today is one of modern technology created by ZTE and presented very recently in China, ZTE Z5 Nubia. It is, if memory serves me correctly, the first supersmartphone from China and we are sure that he is destined to become very popular in that country. While the launch is planned for January, in that Asian country and can be pre-ordered. And as we said your...

A look at the Acer Aspire S7-191

  There is no doubt that the MacBook Air is the 11-inch notebook more successful, but the competition is here and is called Acer Aspire S7-191. This is an ultraportable model priced at $ 1200 U.S. dollars. Why that price? It's probably his great 11-inch touch screen with full HD resolution, also for just half an inch thick and its weight is less than 1 kg, and of course, for its great specifications. The Aspire S7-191 is a pretty...

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Galaxy Note 7.7-inch is coming

  The rumors that Samsung is preparing a device for 7.7 inch Galaxy Note are increasing. According to the website GLBenchmark, a brand gadget codenamed Samsung GT-N5100 in your records. Apparently it is a device that uses a processor Exynos 4412 at 1.6GHz and has a screen resolution of 1280 × 800 pixels. This new device will surely be a tablet, running Android 4.1.2, although it is likely that when released and comes with the new Android...

FlipSide, new iPhone case that acts as a control game

There are all sorts of controls for smartphones and tablets, but what's a little weird to see is a cover that fulfills the function of a control for games and that is also solar powered. One such case is the flipside, and it's exclusive iPhone. This new case has been designed and created by the efforts of firms Justice Frangipane and iDevices. That FlipSide use solar energy to operate means that we will not have to worry about replacing...

Java and Adobe are the main targets of hackers and malware in 2013

The next year, according to research conducted by Panda Security, vulnerabilities of software will be the main target for cybercriminals. In particular, Java and Adobe will become the main targets of hackers. The guys said Panda, in 2012, Java was compromised multiple times and used to infect a wide variety of users, and the software is installed on millions of devices of all kinds. Other software has also been very committed is Adobe Acrobat...

The Oppo Find 5 will have a 32GB model

Oppo Digital, the company behind the phenomenal smartphone Oppo Find 5, has a surprise for his fans around the globe. Yesterday morning, perhaps on the occasion of Christmas and trying to give a "gift" to his fans, decided to launch a small teaser via Facebook where you can see a variant of counting Find 5 32GB of internal memory, is say twice what was thought to be the only option available. When the Oppo Find 5 was officially unveiled...

First photos of a physical QWERTY BB10

Recently leaked a couple of pictures that belong to a new device that uses the new RIM BlackBerry platform 10. It is a smartphone with a touch screen is almost square in which we find a QWERTY keyboard, which is a known element of the BlackBerry line. The new mobile belongs to the new BlackBerry N series, to be released after the L series is released, which is fully touch smartphones. The main reason behind the series L is able to compete...

Apple Maps: the most used iPhone app in 2012

IPhone users Apple may not have loved the Maps application for the company, but the app was used more than any other in the smartphone from Apple in 2012 according to Nielsen data. It is estimated that Maps was used by about 32.4 million iPhone users monthly, surpassing even Facebook which reached 28.6 million. We all know that Maps was a major disaster for Apple, even the company's CEO, Tim Cook, apologized about it. Earlier this month...

Scientists develop solar cells that can stick and unstick

A group of scientists at Stanford University have made ​​a great advance in the field of solar cells. They have created the first flexible solar cells that can be stuck to almost any surface of any kind of material, either glass, plastic or even paper. To remove the adhesive enough to take a little water. While similar cells have been created previously, always ended deforming them, but in this case it is not. These new cells can be bent...

iPad 5 could incorporate elements of iPad Mini

Only recently launched the iPad in April and are already talking about the next generation of tablet Apple , which currently call iPad 5. According to sources close to a Japanese blog, Apple will launch the new iPad in March. It is also said that the device will save some similarities with the iPad Mini as it will not only thinner, but also lighter than the current model. We further expect that differs in one thing: the screen resolution,...

Huawei Ascend Mate, new 6.1 inch phablet

Lately smartphones manufacturers are thinking that it is better the larger screen of the new device they have created, but it actually is not. Soon there will be virtually no difference between the size of a tablet and a smartphone , so we'll be talking on the phone while holding up a brick next to our ear. The Galaxy Note II 5.5 inch was a bit extreme for many, but the grand prize goes to the Huawei Ascend Mate, a new phablet which measures...

10 devices discontinued in 2012

During the years have been seen many new devices of modern technology , while others have been discontinued and you were removed from production. Let 10 major devices that were discontinued this year. 1 - The White MacBook Apple: although it was discontinued in 2011, 2012 was the year in which his life was finally discontinued production. This laptop used to be quite used by students because it was more expensive than the rest of the Apple...

Monday, December 24, 2012

Acer Iconia B1, a $ 100 tablet

Usually the cheap tablets are often of poor quality, but in this case we have one that is good quality and low price as well: the Acer Iconia B1. It is a device that many rumors but nothing confirmed officially. Will it be able to compete with the Nexus 7 Asus and Google ? Probably not, since their specifications are a bit poor in comparison. What we have here then? The first major advantage and the unique prácticmanente Acer Iconia B1...

iOS 6 had a huge growth thanks to China and not to Google Maps

When the app maps Google iOS 6 was released several days ago ago, soon positioned at the top of the download list and only 48 hours had been downloaded 10 million times. 4 days ago I commented that many people had upgraded to iOS in June following the departure of that application, but the truth is that not due to this, but to something else: the launch of the iPhone 5 in China. Last week not only was the launch of Google Maps, but also...

ZTE Grand S will be presented at CES 2013

The CES 2013 is just around the corner and there we see a lot of gizmos, gadgets and devices of all types and sizes. One of these will be a smartphone , the ZTE Grand S. It is a new mobile with 5-inch screen and photo, we see above, has started flying Internet recently. It seems that a new smartphone with full HD joins the club next to the HTC Droid DNA, Oppo Find 5 and some more. We do not know much about it, but we do know that he would...

Archos 97 Titanium HD, a powerful Android tablet

  Most Android tablets are not up to the iPad from Apple , but expects its new Archos Archos 97 Titanium HD can cope with the king. It is a tablet like the iPad 4 having a 9.7 inch screen with resolution of 2048 × 1536 pixels. Under his shell hides a dual-core processor at 1.6GHz, a GPU Mali 400, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of memory. Other noteworthy specifications of the Archos 97 Titanium HD include a 5-megapixel rear camera, a 2 megapixel...

Instagram updated their app with new filters and languages ​​available

Instagram, the popular service designed to upload pictures and apply filter effects to other people see them has received an update yesterday. If you like a lot of the filters or if you know English, this update will come in handy. Both app for Android and iOS version has been updated and now supports 25 other languages ​​such as Spanish, French and Chinese. This is also available for the web version of Instagram. In addition, a new...

Google and Motorola are working on a smartphone to rival the iPhone

Over the years, the iPhone from Apple and Samsung's Galaxy smartphones have become the best known devices of the phone market mobile terminal and currently no other has been able to compete with them. This could change as Google along with Motorola are working on a mobile to rival the rest of the market, including with top level competitors iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Recall that Google already has experience in the development of mobile...

RIM: end of fall or will stand?

In about five weeks, the world will see if one of the giants of the market for mobile phones in the last two decades does stand or fall finish after having encountered a couple of years ago. The phones of RIM have not been what many expected and its technology has been somewhat "short", and while the company still has some loyal followers, the BlackBerry market share has plummeted since the arrival of iOS and Android. Many complained when RIM...

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Pants with special pocket for future smartphone included

The smartphones are becoming classic obsolete mobile phones in the same way that a current mobile phone makes it incredibly bulky classic cable, is inevitable. What remains to be seen is how much new technology affects other non-technological elements that surround us. For example, you might add a smartphone labor costs to the list of items you carry in his pockets with wallet, keys, etc.. That is why they are starting to appear clothing designs...

This is a real weapon 50Kw laser destroys airborne drone and steel sheets

The cinema has accustomed us to the future is filled with systems based on laser weapons, from guns to swords through guns. By now the twenty-first century can expect that these weapons become real, in this case the hand of this model Rheinnmetall German brand with a power of 50kW and an aspect (unromantic from the point of view of science fiction) like this: The gun has been tested on a number of test objectives and, apparently, the result has...