Thursday, December 20, 2012

Quadcopter Hexapod, the flying robot arachnid

Spiders, and mostly large, can be terrifying, right? And while there are no flying spiders, can you imagine if there were? And what if they had the intelligence of a little robot? For the description of spider robotic flying perfectly fits the Hexapod Quadcopter, the robot of our nightmares. The hexapod robots are small six "legs" with the approximate shape of spiders, while quadcopters are also flying robots but using several rotors....

The combined power of 15 iPads

The iPad is the king in the market for tablets. This has been true since the device was launched in mid-2010 almost. You may remember that a couple of years ago, Microsoft introduced a kind of table touch named Surface (yes, he had the same name as the tablet now), but it was not very successful, especially for its price of $ 10,000. Now, following the example of Microsoft, people of Universal Mind has introduced a new touch table that is made...

More people upgrade to iOS 6 thanks to Google Maps

A few days ago I commented that Google had launched its Maps application for iOS 6 , the new version of mobile operating system Apple . According to MoPub, updates iOS 5 to iOS 6 rose by 29% in recent days following the launch of the Google Application above. What does this mean? Well obviously that many do not want to upgrade because of the known problems and mapping application from Apple, but now that Google has come to save the day,...

Apple iPad production accelerates Mini 2

Apple has begun to accelerate production of the second generation of the iPad Mini says Doug Freedman, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets. According collect data that says the Chinese suppliers of apple production has accelerated device and Texas Instruments also start to be a major supplier for the new iPad Mini. We do not know which parts of the tablet is responsible for creating IT, but previously has drivers work touch screens. When...

NEC Lavie X, the 15.6-inch ultrabook World's thinnest

With thickness of only 12.8 mm, the NEC Lavie X has earned the position of the 15.6-inch ultrabook World's thinnest. This laptop , which also weighs 1.6 kilograms, is a somewhat powerful computer that is equipped with an Intel Core i7-3517u, which is a dual-core Ivy Bridge 4-core running at 1.9GHz. Along with this CPU, the laptop has 4GB of DDR3 RAM, also has a 256GB SSD and runs Windows 8 in 64-bit version. Additionally, the NEC Lavie X...

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Kingmax UI-06, new USB 3.0 flash drives

Kingmax returns to the attack again and this time he does it with a great line memory USB 3.0 , the Kingmax UI-06. This new family of flash memory has 3 models, which have capacities of 8GB, 16GB and 32GB. Besides this, these memories are also thin and durable, as they have both water resistance to dust. The SU-06 makes use of technology Chip-On-Board, use a USB 3.0 interface to connect to multiple devices and provide us with a speed reading...

Tumblr now has its app for tablets

Throughout the year, the app of Tumblr, either version on your iOS and Android version has been updated frequently and has been improved. But one of the problems that users had to face was that Android tablets were forced to access the web-site since it was not compatible with tablets, but only with smartphones such stage. But that is past history since the new update allows us to access Tumblr from an Android tablet. In addition, the...

Consumer Reports recommends we stay with Windows 7

Currently, almost all new computers and laptops come with the new Windows 8 Microsoft and is only a matter of time before they achieve the same overtake Windows 7. But, if you have W7, you really should upgrade to W8? According to the Consumer Reports website, it's better if we stay with Windows 7, and this is the main reason to do it: -Windows 7 operating properly and most users are happy with it. If something works well, do we really...