NASA Morpheus is demonstrating its new landing system

 

While the arrival of Mars Curiosity is what else has been busy this month NASA, the agency has also been busy doing other things such as trying to Morpheus, the new landing system.
Morpheus is equipped with two key technologies for successful landings: a system that detects obstacles and a proponent of methane, which could not only be used during landings, but also during space travel, and also obtain methane appears to be a problem through fields of ice on the moon so much as on Mars. It is also estimated that every year, the International Space Station and discarded much methane produced to fill the tank of Morpheus.
The obstacle detection system is used to find a safe spot to land, without large rocks or cracks or anything like that.

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Nuance Nina, new voice assistant for smartphones

 

Nuance is the company behind voice recognition systems and the Siri of Apple . Now the firm has decided to launch an app to provide smartphones with this type of attendees: Nuance Nina. It is clear that the moment this application is aimed at developers.
Nina uses the technology of speech recognition company and combines it with a voice biometrics, enabling it to be recognized not only what the user says, but also can recognize who says it. Developers of IOS and Android can now be done with the app Nina to start doing tests.

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Apple drops the YouTube application for IOS 6

iOS 6, the new mobile operating system version of Apple not only will Google Maps on your side, but another application related to the company, YouTube will also be removed.
Since the launch of iPhone in 2007, YouTube has been in all versions of the smartphone , but it seems that 5 years after the relationship between Apple and Google are not going very well.
The latest beta of iPhone OS 6 no longer has the aforementioned app , and this is because the license that allowed Apple to put the YouTube application on iPhone OS is no longer valid, though of course users can access the portal via video a web browser and Google is already well on their own trabajanado YouTube app, which will be available in the App Store, meaning that IOS 6 does not have the application by default, but then we can download it.

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iPad incorporate a second display

 

According to the drawings of a patent revealed recently, Apple would create a cover for the iPhone that would make the tablet with a second touch screen, plus it would be flexible. It seems that this product is in general much improved performance of the apple tablet.
The new roof, which is quite similar to today's Smart Case, is the same size as the iPad. What is unclear is what percentage of the deck would occupy the second screen, but more likely the deal mostly. This second display could have several functions, including being a control interface, a notification center, a space for drawing or just an additional area located more icons, not forgetting of course that could be used as a keyboard, like the Touch cover Cover that Microsoft plans to release its tablet Surface.
Will it become reality this design? Time will tell.

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HTC smartphone could present a 5-inch Full HD in September

 

Smartphones HD are those with a screen resolution of approximately 1280 × 720 pixels (also known as 720p). Such phones have been around for almost a year, and now HTC seeks to lead the new generation with the launch of a smartphone than 5 inches which would screen Full HD resolution, ie 1920 × 1080 pixels (1080p).
It appears that this phone would be announced in September or October. Apparently have a Snapdragon processor S4 (probably quad-core), take a GPU Adreno 320 and of course you will have Android operating system, and most likely and which carries the version Jelly Bean.
What will it cost? When will the market? What will? What technology incorporated? We do not have these answers, but if the sources are wrong then HTC will answer these questions in a couple of months, you only need to be attentive, although our attention may be diverted by the arrival of phones like the iPhone 5 of Apple and the Galaxy Note 2 from Samsung.

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A-Data DashDrive HV610, a new line of external drives with USB 3.0

 

External hard drives are a hardware external to our computer very useful for storing things you do not want to lose, whether photographs, videos, music or any type of file. A-Data For Finished to present a new line of external drives with connector USB 3.0 , the new A-Data DashDrive HV610.
These external drives are available in different capacities including: 500GB, 750GB and 1TB. In addition, as seen in the picture, have a great design inspired puzzles and come with a removable cover where you put the connector cable once we stopped using the device.
The A-Data DashDrive HV610 still have no price or date of release.

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Band of the Day, app that gives you details on a treadmill every day

 

Band of the Day is a great app for IOS that falls under the category of music. Its developers hail as the first daily magazine about music devices exclusively for mobile .
The main feature of this application is that every day gives us information about a different band, including biographies, analysis, gives us the opportunity to hear some songs and see some photos. No doubt this makes it a great application to find current bands and re-discover other a few years ago.
Band of the Day has an integration with Facebook and Twitter is a free application that can be downloaded via iTunes .

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PopFab, the 3D printer that fits inside a suitcase

 

Today there are all kinds of 3D printers. 3D printers are of different colors, there are some that are cheaper, some are more expensive, are also those that are larger and some that are slightly smaller. But they all have something in common, besides their function: they must be disassembled to be carried from one place to another. Recently, a couple of MIT students have put a stop to this by creating a PopFab, a 3D printer that fits inside a suitcase.
Ilan Moyer and Nadya Peek were the ones who developed the PopFab. To use, you only need to connect a folding arm, place the material to be printed and connect the printer to a computer to transfer the design. In the video below we can see when the PopFab is being tested.



What do you think of this 3D printer laptop ?

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