Apple Maps has 3 times more likely to give you a wrong direction compared to Google Maps

If you've already used the Maps app from Google for iOS 6, entonce know it's great that launched against Apple . One thing that was needed was a real comparison of the use of both applications. How bad is the Apple Maps compared to that of Google?
Well according to a study conducted by CrowdFlower, if you use the app on the block have 3 times more likely to get an incorrect address if you use the search engine. We also used the address of the function that has Bing in the study.
The result was that Apple Maps is the worst of the three, then the function follows Bing and first place goes to the Google application. In a second part of the study the results were repeated, making clear that Google Maps is by far the best map application there.
What do you think about this? Do you think it's the best or even better?

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BlackBerry Z10, the first smartphone BB10

As we know, RIM has announced his big comeback for next January 30 with its new operating system, BlackBerry 10. It seems that already has leaked the first smartphone that will use this platform and the BlackBerry Z10. That being said, it would be a totally touch device, ie no physical keyboard as expected. Apparently the phone would also an improved version of BlackBerry London which was the first smartphone to use prototype BB10.
If we rely on the BB London, then we could say that the BlackBerry Z10 does not have a hardware capable of competing with current supersmartphones as it would have a dual-core processor at 1.5GHz, have 1GB of RAM, 16GB of memory, a camera 8 megapixels in the back and a 2 megapixel on the front.
It is very likely that the BlackBerry Z10 is announced on January 30, where insurance also will be released official specifications.
So far the only really filtered image circulating the net is what we see above.

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Samsung presented its flexible displays at CES

In a couple of weeks I will be starting the CES 2013, and reportedly display division, Samsung will be making the presentation of the new technology for flexible displays for the company, which, with its 5.5-inch size, are Perfect for use in phablets. South Korea is also ready to present a display of the same type but of 55 inches will surely be adapted for use in televisions.
Samsung and other manufacturers have been working on flexible displays for a while and even went on to say, before its launch, the Galaxy Note II incorporate a screen of this style, which in the end it turned out to be.
The screens that Samsung will present at CES 2013 are, as we said, a flexible 55-inch TV and a flexible 5.5-inch smartphone, but also it will have HD resolution and a density of 267 pixels per inch.
Will we see a device with flexible display and running at CES? It is highly unlikely, but will have to wait and see.

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New Disney backpacks bulletproof

It is important to keep kids safe, especially in modern times, but sometimes it can become a difficult task. If you want to be really protective / a with your children, but do not want to be a person too invasive, then you can opt for one of these backpacks come with a Disney Princess design or design of The Avengers.
These bags, called Amendment II, has an extremely light armor and RynoHide that hard as diamonds, yet we can bend like rubber. How is this possible? It is because the "armature" is made ​​from a mixture of carbon nanotubes. The addition RynoHide is soft and thin, so your kids will not realize sure it's there. Most important is that it is able to stop shots most handguns.
Undoubtedly there dangerous cities where these backpacks could be quite useful.

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This dispenser feeds the pet only indicated

In many movies often seen the classic case of school bullying in which the bad guy takes away their food which is smaller and defenseless. Obviously this also happens in real life, but there is another situation that can occur and is in our own home. In the same way that a guy can take your lunch to another, the neighbor's cat, using catlike skills, you can enter your house and eat his lunch to your beloved cat. How can we avoid this? With Gatefeeder course.

Gatefeeder is a food dispenser in which the cat should get almost half of your body for food. If Gatefeeder realizes that the cat is trying to eat right, will not automatically enter while your cat, if you have designated the collar, you can eat without problems.
Gatefeeder The price is $ 250. And yes, your feline pet will have to wear the ugly necklace you see in the image.

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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. Well here is the combination of both: the Hexapod Quadcopter. This little has a frame made of carbon fiber and uses its six rotors to stay in the air (if we take this into account, it should be called Hexapod Hexacopter).
Its creators, the guys from Mad Lab Industries, a armed just for fun. We can see it in action in the video below.

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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 ​​entirely of iPads. Specifically, this device has 15 iPads to share a wireless connection and use an application that displays all act as if they were one.
What is the approximate price of one of these? For about $ 6000, but we must clarify that used iPads are the second generation, so no Retina display here. With 15 iPads and an app as free Mobile Multi Display table we muster our own touch. If space in your home is not enough, you might want to try with 15 iPad Mini, in which case the cost would be reduced to about $ 5000 dollars.
What we are not sure of is how the tablets were operated with that app, because apparently it is developed for iPod and iPhone only.

Universal Mind So far no plans to launch a commercial model.

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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, things are very different.
MoPub found that looking at the data of 12,000 applications which support. The CEO of the firm says it is very likely that this surge of updates to iOS 6 is due to Google's Maps. This would confirm the hypothesis that many people were waiting for the release of this app .
Google Maps has become the most downloaded application from time to only 7 hours of being launched and in two days and had over 10 million users.

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