Tethercell, control your batteries with Bluetooth

The CES 2013 presented some interesting devices and technologies, and Tethercell is among them. This is a AAA battery adapter that has the shape of an AA battery and to control the use of energy through an interface and application that is installed on the mobile.

What might serve a battery controlled via Bluetooth? Well first of all to remotely control power to stack our devices, but also to block access to any toy or just be aware before the battery runs out.

Whether the device uses more than one battery, you just need to replace one of the adapter Tethercell and we will have ready access to energy and its uses through the smartphone application. It is especially useful if you want to control the use of a toy from our children. We just have to block energy and from a particular time may not return to play with the toy, a little harsh, but very effective to ensure that they go to bed without playing.
The easiest is to shut down devices remotely, but exhaustion notices are also useful because normally you realize that the batteries do not work more when it's too late, until then we say 'hold on a little more, buy new batteries tomorrow 'and when the day comes we forget.
Tethercell The draft is not yet confirmed officially, it is a collective financing device and developers are gathering money through IndieGoGo platform.
By late February the funding process is finished and the final amount of revenue should reach $ 59,000. Will they succeed? How do you like the idea of ​​this unique technology?

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So the future will be the umbrella

 

Quentin Debaene French designer has decided to participate in the James Dyson Award with the design of a conceptual umbrella that may be a reality in 2050.

Debaene gives several reasons why your Airblow 2050 is great. The common umbrellas material becomes wet and then create a pool when we got home and place to dry, strong winds are capable of turning an umbrella and even break and finally the obvious: the umbrella due to collisions large size thereof.

Debaene proposes an umbrella motorized use Dyson Airblade technology, which would allow him to reject the rain. The system works by using an engine that creates a sort of dome of air that keeps us out of the water contact.

The 2050 is a design Airblow very clever and useful. We hope that someday come true.

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In 2016 we will see prototype cars that run on compressed air

 

Making a car moving at a good speed using compressed air is Very difficult to achieve. Vehicle manufacturers Have Been around the issue for years. It is so Difficult For manufacturers like Peugeot have Decided to produce hybrid cars Rather Than Those who would use compressed air. However, there always concepts.

Hybrid Air is a concept car Which to use compressed air tank mounted in the center transmission tunnel to activate a hydraulic motor.

Like hybrid cars, the compressed air would not be Able to go very fast. Still, a compressed air car would be lighter than a hybrid, Because That is added the tank is not as heavy as the batteries of a hybrid car.

It is expected That in 2016 we see the first prototype of the Hybrid Air. The wait is only three years.

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Nokia is creating a smartphone with a camera monstrous WP

 

Nokia may finally give everyone a good reason to buy a smartphone that runs with Windows Phone 8. The Nokia 808 PureView caught everyone's attention by its display or not your processor, but for his great camera of 41 megapixels.

Instead of a single pixel, the sensor takes PureView 7 pixels and then one pixel becomes pure. The end result is an image that we can make even a 3x zoom without loss of quality. The great PureView camera also takes great photos in low light environment.

Unfortunately, PureView was stranded because it uses an operating system that is already dead and it is priced at about $ 700. The sale of mobile mode neither helped.

But hope is the last thing to go. It seems that Nokia is working on a smartphone that bear Lumia Windows Phone 8 and will have a camera like the 808 PureView. For now the phone will only know an aluminum body and square corner.

We look for details.

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Huawei Ascend P2, another very slim smartphone with a great camera

Today's smartphones tend to become very large and also very thin. The picture you're seeing here has leaked recently and shows us the new mobile Huawei, Huawei Ascend known as P2. As you can see the device has a sleek and simple design with slightly rounded corners.

At a thickness of only 6.45 mm Huawei has inserted all the components of a great smartphone and 13 megapixel camera. The total weight of the device is only 170 grams.

The first reports of the Huawei Ascend P2 take us to December, when the CEO of the company BG Consumer, Richard Yu, was seen with the device during a meeting.

The presentation of the new smartphone is expected for the MWC 2013 that will take place in February. Still, expect some extra details leak before the event.

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LG U560, a new high-end notebook

 

LG has just release a new laptop in Korea known as the LG U560. This is a very good team with a design that has a 15.6 inch screen and weighing 1.9 kilograms.

Inside, the new ultrabook has a super 3337U Intel Core i5 with modern technology, it also has a dedicated graphics card, allowing play modern video games without problems.

The LG U560 also has twice the storage system, integrating a hard disk and in turn an SSD, both high capacity.

To promote his new laptop, LG is giving away gifts including bags for laptops, wireless mouse and 16GB microSD cards to buyers.

We do not know when the LG U560 will be released outside of Korea, but hopefully not too late, and obviously that its price is not very high.

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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm launches new trailer

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is a sequel and expansion of the game StarCraft II, released in 2010. It is, like its predecessors, a title of RTS and military topics, all in a futuristic setting. This is the second part of the StarCraft II trilogy. The third part is called Legacy of the Void.

In this expansion podremo have new units, there will be changes in multiplayer and the games main campaign will focus on the Zerg race. The new campaign will feature about 20 missions in total.

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm will be released on March 12 of this year for Windows and Mac

Here's a new trailer that functions as the opening of the game.

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Sanko Air, a new mouse with keyboard

 

Have you ever seen a mouse with keyboard included? If not, well then here you are watching one. As the title suggests, this is the Air Sanko, a device that combines a keyboard and mouse into one.

The Sanko Air is a peripheral that works wirelessly, ie we do not need to connect it to our computer using a cable. Operates at a frequency of 2.4GHz, which allows it to operate in a radius of 10 meters. The Sanko Air includes a microSD reader, also has a gyroscope, uses a lithium ion battery of 550mAh and also comes with a USB receiver.

The Sanko Air is on sale for about $ 45 dollars.

What do you think about it? Did you find it useful or too small?

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