Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Russians create a giant iPhone to honor Steve Jobs

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No matter if you are a fan of the products of Apple or Android faithful followed, one must admit that Steve Jobs was one of the greatest innovators in the world of technology in the last 20 years. People around the world offered their tributes when he left this world renowned magnate ago and just over one year, and in fact even today continue paying him homage, and one of the most striking is a gigant iPhone and it has been created in Russia.
This is an iPhone about 2 meters high whose screen really works and it can see details of some of the most important moments in the life of Jobs, as well as the history of Apple. The small "memorial" was the winner in a local competition to honor Steve.
In the back, the iPhone has a giant QR code, which when scanned brings up a page dedicated to the memory of co-founder of Apple.

Watch this sauna that uses infrared technology

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A technological sauna? Exactly, that's the Health Mate, a sauna that uses the technology to heat the room while cleaning our body to free it of toxins. Instead of water and hot rocks, the Health Mate uses infrared to heat things up.
Sang Lee, vice president of PLH Products, the company that created the Health Mate says that traditional saunas make you feel warmer because the vapor sticks to our skin, but to get real benefits to our health, he recommends infrared technology.
After the body absorbs infrared heat for 25 minutes, enters the cooling period, when detoxification occurs and it is during the last 15 minutes of the cooling period when toxins really leave us.
Apart from this, the sauna offers a miniespectáculos thanks to its LED lights that change color, which also serves as a kind of vision therapy.
The price of one of these saunas can be up to $ 5,000 if you want to have one at home.

This robot is able to mimic the speed of the legs of a cockroach

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Cockroaches should be one of the most hated in the world beings. Now, a designer and developer of robots has been inspired by cockroaches to give life to his new creation, known as VELOCIRoACH.
Haldane Duncan Young wanted to try the benefits of creating mechanical beings really inspired beings. The result was a robot that is the quickest to date always in relation to the speed-size. Weighing only 30 grams and measuring 10 inches long, the VELOCIRoACH is able to achieve speeds of up to about 2.6 meters per second.
The key to the robot as fast is in the design of its legs, which mimic an actual cockroach, which makes them into contact with the ground 15 times in just one second. Besides that, this looks like a real little cockroach when to dodge obstacles to escape a shoe question.
As we find on YouTube a video of VELOCIRoACH I hang around here.

Samsung introduces the first OLED TV curve

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L As part of CES 2013, Samsung once again demonstrated its ability to surprise everyone with the presentation of the first OLED TV l market curve. Smartphones, tablets, computers and laptops may be the main attraction of the show, but certainly the TVs also take their piece of the pie.
The new TV from Samsung is so new that even the team of presenters was not informed about the machine specifications. All we know for now is that measures 55 inches and will be launched during the second half of the year, for which much remains.
This TV, while not qualifying as a 3D TV, it really is able to give the impression that the objects out of the screen thanks to its great technology . It is likely that this effect is created by the curvature of the screen, and also if we stared for a moment feel as if we are absorbed into it.
Note that this TV will not be mass produced, but it will be a model of insurance premium and cost a pretty penny.

Kingston debuts USB 3.0 flash memory 1TB

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It was several years ago when the memories with 4GB of space were awesome. Today, for about $ 40 we can get with a capacity of 64GB, but Kingston has something more in hand, and stupendas some memories with capacities of 512GB and 1TB, ready to make your wallet exploding with prices.
Kingston is not the first company to create such a model, since about a year ago he was presented the Victorinox Swiss Army priced, having been produced, would have been about $ 3,000.
But better move on to what's important. What gives us the Kingston memory 1TB? First off DataTraveler HyperX is called Predator, and second, we do possess the best flash memory in the world, have an even greater capacity than my hard drive and its great interface USB 3.0 gives us a reading speed and 240MB/sy write 160MB / s respectively.
How much will the DataTraveler HyperX Predator? Well was not announced, but given that the 512GB model spends $ 1,700 dollars, may not be interested to know.

Alcatel Ultra Idol, the world's thinnest smartphone

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Alcatel is not a household name in the market of phones , but the company still has ahead of giants like Apple,Samsung and HTC has unveiled a new smartphone that has now become the world's thinnest, the Ultra Idol Alcatel, measuring only 6.45 mm thick. But not to be as thin or as being a smartphone Alcatel is bad, but rather, is equipped with good technology and actually has a 4.7-inch OLED screen with HD resolution.
Running Android 4.1, the Ultra Idol brings also an 8 megapixel camera and integrates a dual-core processor at 1.2GHz. Apart from this, the smartphone works great and comes in almost any pocket without problems.
We're not sure which markets to come, but due to normal FCC is not available in the United States.

Huawei Ascend W1, the first smartphone WP Company

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The Consumer Electronics Show, better known as CES, is the perfect event to present all kinds of electronic devices, including phones obviously mobile . Huawei has chosen not only by presenting the most phablet the world , but also has also unveiled its first phone with Windows Phone 8, the Huawei Ascend W1. While this phone was leaked a couple of months ago, only now has been officially launched.
This new smartphone is a device about 10.1 mm thick that incorporates a 4-inch screen with resolution of 480 × 800 pixels.
Inside, the Huawei Ascend W1 takes Snapdrago S4 MSM8230 processor dual-core running at 1.2GHz, which is also accompanied by an Adreno 305 GPU.
If all that's not enough, the smartphone also has a 1950mAh battery, which is more than fine for the screen type and specifications it has.

Pokemon X and Y, the new titles of the franchise

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About noon yesterday, the president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, was commissioned to conduct a global transmission in which new titles were announced Pokémon franchise, and is about two new video game called Pokémon Pokémon X and Y . Such new versions will be exclusive to the 3DS console and will be released worldwide in October this year.
The games, which make up the sixth generation of the series will retain the familiar mechanics from previous games of capture, train and trade Pokémon. But this time the action takes place in a fully 3D world with a dynamic new combat system, thanks to the powerful games console that will be available. Along with the announcement, have been revealed the names and shapes of three new Pokémon, called Chespin, Fennekin and Froakie. In addition, the video hints at two new Pokémon "legendary", one similar to a bird and another that resembles a deer.
Doing a bit of history, the Pokémon franchise originated in 1996 with the release of two video games in Japan: Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green, and from then on began to emerge more video games and even a popular animated series, among many others products.