Google goggles you will hear sound directly into your head

 

Google goggles (Google Glass) have become famous even before being officially released and it looks like you are still adding features here and there to iron out the product before putting it on sale. The last one is quite interesting because it seems that the glasses will be able to send sounds directly to your head.
Instead of including a classic speakers, it seems that the glasses would be equipped with a vibration system that would act on the bones of your skull using them as amplification system. Say you would hear voices in your head the without external speakers or headphones and no one out there could hear what you're listening to.
The idea is rather curious on several levels, not only because it increases the level of privacy even while listening to music or someone during a telephone conversation. Besides that the device becomes lighter and more like ordinary glasses without attaching bulky headphones.
So far it seems that Google have patented the idea under the name of 'integral vibratory audio provides the user through the user's head.' A rather long name while descriptive.
Will have to see what other inventions added to the glasses before its release, but still many doubt it really ends up becoming a popular gadget to the level of a smartphone or tablet. Time will tell.

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Video capture in shaping thinking in a brain

 

At the National Institute of Genetics in Japan have been devoted recently to try to capture in a video which would be a thought taking shape in a brain. Although at first it may seem almost mystical in reality it is an animation showing how neurons are being activated as a thought occurs in the brain of a zebra fish .
The thinking in question is identified and is quite primary. Basically put something that looks like fish food nearby and captured the instant you saw, possibly wondering if that was floating around food or not.
To get impregnated zebrafish brain with a fluorescent substance that activates when there is some kind of neural activity. Then they recorded the video you can see a little further down in this article.
The basic idea of ​​this experiment is to learn about the neural circuits and how neurons are activated, but the second part is more disturbing. They could create a database containing all activating neural circuits in the zebrafish in different circumstances. Then, glancing at the brain of this fish could get to know what he's thinking every time you submit a neuronal firing pattern determined. The next logical step and know what is applied to humans so that someday someone can know everything that you think with a simple brain scan.

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U.S. plans a super-public wireless network throughout the country, free and ultra fast 20Mb

 

In U.S. is planning something which could be the next logical evolutionary step in Internet access: WiFi network that would operate nationally regardless of the place where you are, free and also reaching speeds that would normally only find on ADSL networks and fiber optics.
Apparently the idea has come from the same U.S. government from the Federal Communications Commission , the agency charged with regulating telecommunications in the country and based on installing a giant Wi-Fi network covering the whole country.
The direct benefits are many facing the city because it would be an effective way to provide universal Internet access literally. No matter what level you have economic or secluded place where you live, you could always have access to this network.
On the opposite side are also problems. The first is the logical opposition of the leading providers of Internet access in the country that would like their clientele would disappear overnight.
The second point (theoretically) negative is to put the system in place would have to use part of the wave frequencies currently occupied by television signals (some will say that this is an extra edge). Moreover, the TV as we know it seems destined to disappear. Perhaps a future boost to television programs broadcast exclusively over the Internet.
We talked to do not much of tec.nologia.com networks to 100Gbps with a range of 200km action designed by DARPA, so the idea would not be too far from reality. The big question that will surely be doing that if the idea is eventually exported outside the U.S., especially if you live in countries where regulatory agencies seem more concerned to maintain the economic benefits of the big phone companies.

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The new mini spy drones army shaped miniature helicopter

 

New technologies are leading to a point where increasingly harder to differentiate fact from fiction. If you look at the picture below you can see how a soldier held in his hand a small drone drone, from there you ask yourself is the scene of a movie or something real? The answer is that it's a British soldier using the latest technology in recognition systems: you are in battle and your staff drone enters enemy lines to take a look and send various information and even videos of the area.
The mini-drone is officially called 'Black Hornet', is made by a Norwegian company called Prox Dynamics, measures only 10 cm high, has 16 grams of weight and she looks like a mini-helicopter toy, ie You can easily carry it for use in the time when you need it and send in a reconnaissance mission without the enemy knows she is being watched.
Despite its small size it has inside of a number of mini-gadgets designed to spy on the enemy without realizing it, and positioning system that lets you know its location and place to be targeted include a camera that can take pictures and videos and send them in real time.
Currently has already been successfully tested in Afghanistan by the British army was the first to incorporate it as a monitoring system in practice.
The advantage over larger drones known is that it requires a large infrastructure to run or several operators who are responsible for their operation and maintenance. A single person can use to perform tasks of espionage, reconnaissance, exploration, patrol, etc..
The most pessimistic (or realistic) view it as a step towards an Orwellian world, maybe one day you see more of these mini-drones flying over the streets of your city, identifying possible crimes, chasing exceeding road speed or leaning out your window 'to see what you do'.

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ASUS MX279H, a new monitor 27-inch Full HD

 

Who would not want a monitor like this? Very good design, great screen and great picture quality make this an ideal monitor for any activity, especially for playing multimedia content. ASUS is the MX279H, freshly baked and already available for purchase. With its AH-IPS panel, this new monitor brings a 27-inch screen that has LED backlighting and full HD (1920 × 1080 pixels).

The ASUS MX279H also has a contrast ratio of 1000:1, has a great brightness of 250 nits and a 5ms response time, very similar to a number of monitors on the market.

The ASUS MX279H also has two 3W stereo speakers each and between the connectors going to find a D-Sub and two HDMI. The monitor is now on sale and cost about $ 360.

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Ainol Novo 9 Spark, un genial tablet quad-core con Android 4.1

By now we are more than used to seeing mobile devices like tablets and smartphones with quad-core processors, and are currently the best available on the market, but remember that this year and begin to see eight-core processors like Samsung.

If you are looking for a new Android 4.1 tablet high end but want to set aside the usual options, then you might want to take a look at the new Ainol Novo 9 Spark, a tablet with a simple design and very good specifications.

The Ainol Novo 9 Spark has a Allwinner A31 processor, a quad-core architecture that runs at 1.5GHz A7. The device also employs two GPUs Mali 400, has 2GB of DDR3 RAM and 16GB internal memory but you can expand using a microSD card up to 32GB. As might be expected, has a front camera is 2 megapixel and rear 5-megapixel sensor. Its multitouch screen measures 9.7 inches and gives us a resolution of 2048 × 1536 pixels, similar to the Retina display.

Besides all this, the Ainol Novo 9 Spark has WiFi, 3G, a port and a great miniHDMI 10.000mAh battery quite sure that not wither quickly. The operating system is Android 4.1.1.

The tablet is now on sale for $ 260, a bid price substantially when compared with the rest of the market.

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Neglects BlackBerry sales in Japan

Sometimes you need to make certain sacrifices to later reap greater benefits. The smartphone market is a very competitive and companies that do not want to be left behind must take steps to stay ahead. While BlackBerry is not among the top vendors in the world, his ideas are more than clear, which is why they have recently adopted a new business strategy: according to the Nikkei news agency, the corporation is unable to justify the system conversion BlackBerry OS 10 to Japanese language simply because there is a number of users large enough to be worth doing. What does this mean? BlackBerry smartphones that 10 is not sold in Japan from now on, so the Country of the Rising Sun and can dismiss the Z10 and Q10.

If we look at it from the point of view of business, this is a strategy that makes sense. A BlackBerry is doing very well with sales in the UK and Canada, but Japan has always been a market in which these devices were not very popular, reaching market shares of 5% at its peak a few years ago.

Given this, I think it is also likely that the company stop selling BlackBerry smartphones 10 in other countries if you think necessary.

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Samsung Galaxy S IV could be presented in Russia

With the MWC 2013 in a couple of weeks away and soon fulfilled one year of the presentation of the Galaxy S III is quite normal that are running all kinds of rumors about the future Samsung Galaxy S IV, which has become the mobile most anticipated of the year.

Surely you remember the S III was first introduced in London last year at a special event, it is possible that this year Samsung has chosen Russia and more specifically the cold Moscow as the place to announce his new supersmartphone. Many suggest that the smartphone will be presented at Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 because Samsung is one of the main sponsors, but the truth is that a period of two years is too much for a release of this type, so we placed our bets in 2013.

According to the recent trend of rumors, the S IV will be released on March 15 and as we have said it may be possible to do in Moscow, where low temperatures were expected for those days.

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