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, because there is music involved, and the more pressure the screen, most expressive music that you will hear. If you do not understand very well how it works, the video below will undoubtedly things a little clearer.
How about Firewall screen? What application would you?

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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 the service using Google Voice and users need to download a package of software if you want to have the service call.
As I said, calls made using this service in the U.S. and Canada are free, while calls to other countries outside North America and international calls generally have a reduced cost. Also suppose that 2 will be necessary to make use of Voice phone so that it can perform this type of call.

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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 old.
Roboy What makes it special is that is focused on replicating the functions of muscles, bones and human tendons. The robot is still far from being completed, but the team hopes to raise enough funds to do so.
If all goes well, is expected to be ready Roboy in March 2013, just in time for a world congress of robotics to be held in Zurich.

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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 OS will be Android.
Surely you wonder what the Z5 carries inside, so you better move on to that. Although details before we see the outside inside, because this smartphone has a 5-inch screen with full HD resolution, along with her ​​is a 2-megapixel front camera and the back side is a 13-megapixel camera.
Now, inside is a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro Quad Core 1.5GHz marching. Chaperone has 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory, while its battery is 3000mAh. The department has WiFi connectivity, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and supports HSPA + networks.
The price of ZTE Z5 Nubia in China is $ 555 U.S. dollars. We do not know if it will be released in the rest of the world, but I really hope so.

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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 powerful machine because it uses an Intel Core i5-3317U to 1.7GHz and runs with Windows 8 operating system. Storage is in charge of a 128GB SSD is also accompanied by a total of 4GB of DDR3 RAM. Your graphics card is an Intel HD Graphics 4000, which we are quite used to seeing.
If you wonder why the connectivity has both WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. Its ports are two USB, mini HDMI and a headphone jack. It also has a microSD card reader.
How about the Acer Aspire S7-191? Do you think it really is worth the money or should be cheaper?

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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 4.2. The size of the device is 7.7 inches as the title, that is similar to the Galaxy Tab 7.7
Surely Tab 7.7 recall that was one of the first 7-inch tablet market, but quickly lost to the rest of the competition and mainly against devices like the Amazon Kindle Fire, the Nexus 7 of Google and the iPad Mini Apple .
Note line of Samsung has very good reviews, so it is quite likely that a tablet Note proves to be a successful device.

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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 batteries and almost always have energy to function, unless it is night obviously.
Besides this, it seems that the creators are already working on a version for Android smartphones, but given the large number of phones that are different with that operating system is likely to be released only to a few.

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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 Reader ie, Flash, etc. and there are also several security flaws at. Adobe applications are also abused by hackers to infect all types of devices.
At the level of web sites that could suffer more attacks are Facebook and Twitter, given its growing popularity and the large amount of users they have, not to mention all the information flowing through them. Panda also suggests more careful with Skype.
In addition, warnings to stay safe are also Mac users who rely heavily on their platform but perhaps keep a few surprises next year.

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