Samsung working on a eight-core chip for smartphones and tablets

Samsung is developing a new type of mobile processor will be based on the ARM architecture Big.LITTLE. This architecture is an expansion of the technology 4-Plus-1, which is used by a known quad-core processor, the Nvidia Tegra 3, which is able to use a single core when not needed in order to save the rest battery.

It seems that Samsung plans to talk about his new project in the conference International Solid-State Circuits to be held in February. The new eight-core chip from Samsung will be created with a 28nm process and have two clusters of four cores each. One of these clusters will run at 1.8GHz and will be responsible for tasks requiring high performance, while the remaining cluster march at 1.2GHz and will handle simple tasks in order to save battery all possible.

Will this be the chip that will use the next Galaxy S IV?

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Google Patents gloves similar to those used Take Cruise in Minority Report

 

In a few years they will sell gloves with sensors in the fingertips, like what Tom Cruise used in Minority Report.

Increasingly we approach our homes to the technology we see in movies, but I think we have much to transport us as do Star Trek. At least now we will be able to use the technology that uses gloves Tom Cruise in Minority Report.
Well, not the exact same but very similar as these gloves possess a processor powerful enough to recognize objects, compare images, and send orders. But we must not get so excited because these gloves are not as advanced technology so it will need another device to interact with them. These gloves with cameras and motion sensors were patented last year but only approved the request last week.
The sensors are going to be able to find in the fingertips and allow us to record the hand movements and translate into orders for the device. "Like human nature," they say in the patent. At least for the first version of the gloves, we'll need another device to interact with them but hopefully for the version 2 can be used alone. In addition, the sensors capture the lateral movement, the zoom and move back to the different screens .
Google obviously we are presenting devices interesting as not to forget what Project Glass lenses, augmented reality glasses were presented in early July at the developer conference Google I / O. With these glasses you can record and send images to other devices, and to see them through their own lenses. It's still a bit early to talk about prices but if you know that your marketing will begin in 2014.

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Man created his own prosthetic arms

 

8 years ago, Sun Jifa was a victim of a bomb explosion, due to which he lost both arms. After almost a decade of hard work, finally has its own prosthetics, which were created by him.
A bomb designed to blow the fish out of water was what made him lose his arms, and as Jifa could not afford the costly medical prostheses, decided to create their own.
Now Jifa is even able to help his family with the maintenance of the farm, is also able to eat by himself and do other tasks. The downside of this is that steel is something heavy, and in times of very hot or very low may become too hot or too cold.
The next step for Sun is to create a prosthesis for another person who also suffers from similar problems.

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XPad, the Android tablet world's cheapest

 

Remember the XOPC? That mythical tablet was created in India and considered the cheapest in the world due to its price of only $ 35. Now say, does anyone know Simmtronics? Probably not, but that's not important. The important thing here is that this company has made ​​the Android tablet cheapest in the world, the XPad, which costs only $ 81 U.S. dollars.
Despite its low price, yet the device has component technology base: an ARM CPU 8, multitouch screen, 4GB of memory and WiFi. It plans to focus sales on the East and Southeast Asia, but could also launch a version for students in the Middle East. The XPad be sold in sizes 7, 8, 9, 9.7 and 10 inches, in addition, each version will run on Android 4.0 ICS and will support full HD video playback. If you expand the memory of XPad, you can use a microSD card.
A tablet of $ $ 81 makes even the new Nexus 7, $ 200 seems expensive, right? 

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