Now partially blind people may have bionic eyes

The Argus II is Second Sight a bionic eye that has just been approved to be sold in the United States.

The Argus II consists of two main parts: an artificial retina is one which has electrodes that are implanted through cirguia in the patient's eye and the other is a pair of glasses fitted with a camera and a visual processor. The camera takes care of capturing all that "we", send the information to the processor and this is responsible for distributing the artificial retina, allowing us to "see".

What does this mean? That contrary to what many expected, the Argus II is a restorer of vision as it sounds, it just provides the person with enough so you can walk by itself.

As an analogy, people of Pop Sci has said it's like watching TV on a screen of 60 pixels.

Below is a video showing how the device, which incidentally has a cost of $ 150,000, although this does not include surgery. The procedure can only be performed in seven hospitals across the United States. No news for the rest of the globe.

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Filtration control PS4

 

Missing only four days to announce the new Sony PlayStation 4, eagerly awaited since a couple of years. Thanks to new leaks, have confirmed what will be the command / control console, and as we advance, have a touchpad.

What stands out most, as you can see, is the aforementioned touchpad. Apart from this, there is a new design for analog buttons, while the panel address (the popular "arrows") has a similar design to the PS Vita. It also has a small speaker on the front (similar to the Wii Mote), has a headphone jack and it seems that also has a sensor PlayStation Move. It is said that the touchpad is two points, which can improve our accuracy for FPS shooter games.

Several prominent blogs with their sources have confirmed that the control is fully authentic, it is not no fake design invented by some fanatic.

Regarding the console itself, is expected to have an 8-core processor manufactured by AMD 1.6GHz 4GB RAM plus. Still do not know if you can run PS3 games, but if I did it would undoubtedly many points against Sony. And by the way, the price is estimated at about $ 500, although we expect this to be confirmed in a few days.

How about the new control PS4? Would you buy the console if it is sold at the price mentioned?

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New details of HTC One

You have come to light more details of the upcoming HTC smartphone, called the HTC One

HTC Source According to the site, the new phone will be released in Europe as the HTC M7 and will be available from March 8. March 22 will be released in the U.S. under the name HTC One

The U.S. price for the 32GB model and 2-year contract is $ 200 dollars, while the cost of the 64GB model is $ 300. This puts the HTC One at the same height as the Apple iPhone as far as prices are concerned. In Europe, the smartphone will cost around € 650, or nearly $ 900.

As expected, the HTC Mobile One will be the new company logo. It will have a 5-inch display with full HD, will feature a quad-core processor and a brilliant 13-megapixel camera.

On Tuesday the company held an event in New York as we told you a few days ago. It is expected that the new terminal is released there.

What do you think about these latest rumors of HTC One/M7?

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Samsung Galaxy S IV launch a Mini in May

A new Galaxy that follows the format of the Galaxy S III Mini? It seems that not only Samsung plans to launch the Galaxy S IV soon, but also launch a mini version of it would be called, obviously, Galaxy S IV Mini. Personally, this rumor makes me very hard to believe.

This small version of the S IV will be released sometime in May, and while nothing is known about the specifics, are expected to follow the path of S III Mini.

Sources indicate that the project SamMobile J Active, codenamed Fortius and better known as the Galaxy S IV, will be followed by the Active Mini J project, codenamed Serrano, which is obviously the Galaxy S Mini IV.

The Galaxy S III Mini was what he wanted: a smaller version and with worse specs than its older brother, but with some similar features. If the S IV Mini will continue this way, and then we can go a little imagining what it will be.

Tell us: Do you plan to buy a Galaxy S IV? Or would you rather wait to see the Mini model?

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Classic Sega consoles converted into powerful laptops with Windows 8

The last major release level hardware made by Sega Dreamcast was launched over 10 years ago. This time, the company is back in action with an arsenal as it has unveiled its new laptops with modern technology, which we can say that mainly targets fans of old video games. It is portable with interchangeable covers that resemble the classic Sega consoles.

There are four types of laptop: the Sega Blue, the Mega Drive (or Genesis in the U.S.), the Saturn and the Dreamcast. Each team has a 15.6 inch screen with great resolution Full HD 1920 × 1080 pixels, run with the new Windows 8 to come preloaded with Microsoft and Sega topics, including wallpaper, icons and sounds. Apart from this, they also have 60 songs classic Sega video game. And in case you were wondering, do not come with any official emulator or anything.

Regarding the equipment specifications, has 4 positions available: Light, Standard, and Premium High Specs. Each configuration is detailed below.

-Light: Intel Pentium 2020 2.4GHz, Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU, 500GB hard drive, 4GB of RAM and DVD burner.
-Standard: Intel Core i3-3120M 2.4GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GT650M dedicated and integrated HD 4000, 500GB hard drive, 8GB of RAM and Blu-ray reader.
-High Specs: Intel Core i7-3630QM 2.4GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GT650M dedicated and integrated HD 4000, 120GB SSD, 8GB RAM, Blu-ray reader.
-Premium: High Specs equals, but instead of a reader has a Blu-ray.

The complete list with all specifications can be viewed by clicking here.

Classic Sega consoles converted into powerful laptops with Windows 8

Prices range from $ $ 1075 to almost $ 2100. Now we present them the bad news: only available for Japan, but maybe you can get one through an importer.

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Is the Wii U in Serious Trouble?

 

For fans of the Wii U, this week contained an unpleasant surprise - the Wii U's big Rayman title - Rayman Legends - was being delayed again. Having originally been slated for a 2012 release, it had been pushed back once already to early 2013. Now it's facing a release window in late 2013. But just when owners of Nintendo's new console thought things couldn't get worse, it turned out that the game was no longer exclusively coming to the Wii U - it's now headed to the Xbox 360 and PS3 as well.

This is an extremely bad sign for Nintendo, as the Wii U is, quite frankly, not a console one would consider to be doing well. Having launched last year, it's struggled for good releases in the same way Sony's PS Vita did. The similarity here is clear - a few flagship titles haven't been enough to give the console the push it needs to begin a real surge into the gaming market and draw people away from current-gen consoles that have specs that can easily compete with the Wii U's.

Nintendo have been known for taking big gambles on their hardware, and a lot of the time it's paid off. But if they want to dance with the inevitable PS4 and third Xbox, and even the latest iPhone, they're really going to have to step up their game. The graphics only just match up to consoles that are about to become obsolete. The touch interface doesn't even support multi-touch. You can only buy 18-rated games from their online store between the hours of 11PM to 3AM. Nintendo are really taking some serious risks.

It doesn't end there, either - the console has no expandable internal hard drive, GamePads are pretty expensive and few games support multiple GamePads to begin with, and third party developers seem to be avoiding launching new AAA titles on the platform at all costs. If the best the Wii U can hope for is to struggle behind the twilight years of the Xbox 360 and PS3, Nintendo are going to have to do some serious thinking if they want to survive the next ten years while still operating at the same capacity they are now (i.e., as though they were using money to light their cigars).

Taking the UK games market as a good example of how Nintendo is performing outside the bubble of Japan, the Wii U held 1.6% of the games market as of January 2013. That's a worryingly low figure - lower even than the PS Vita's 2.2%, and it shows that out of the ten available gaming platforms, the Wii U is struggling to even register on the scale, let alone thrive. Nintendo have some serious work to do if they want to have a platform that offers enough to gamers, and given this platform is potentially designed to last several years, we can only hope that 1.6% statistic makes them a little more responsive to the aforementioned issues.

Apart from Rayman Legends, here are some Wii U games that you should watch out this year:

1. Aliens: Colonial Marines (first quarter of this year)
2. Injustice: Gods Among Us (April 16, 2013)
3. Need for Speed Most Wanted (March 19, 2013)
4. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (March 19, 2013)
5. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD (third quarter of 2013)

Author Bio:

Jaime Wills is a tech-savvy entrepreneur who’s always up to date with the innovative trends from O2 and similar national and international brands. When she’s not busy with the demands of her flourishing business, she likes to wax enthusiastic about Apple products with their user-friendly and highly aesthetic interfaces.

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LG updates its Optimus line L

 

LG just updated one of its many lines of smartphones. In this case it is LG Optimus series L. The new phones will be presented in a few days during the MWC 2013 that will take place between 25 and 28 February in Barcelona.

All new devices have a "II" at the end of his name, and the new models introduced are: L3II, L5II and L7II.

The LG Optimus L7II is the best of the three. It is a mid-range smartphone that has a 4.3-inch WVGA screen, your processor is a 1GHz dual-core, has 768MB of RAM, 4GB of memory, 8 megapixel camera and has a microSD card reader . Its battery is 2460mAh, which is not bad, and will run on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

Regarding the remaining models, the L5II has a 4-inch screen and 1700mAh battery, while the L3II has a 3.2 inch screen and a 1540mAh battery.

We know more about the mobile when presented officially, but obviously we can not wait for anything special.

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Apple could have 100 designers working on iWatch

iWatch is the temporary name that gives Apple the clock until the company officially announce it, if it ever does, of course.

Not only newspapers like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have published articles on this little clock, but even the Bloomberg financial news portal also mentioned something about it. According to the site, Apple currently has 100 designers working to create the iWatch, a device that will be able to perform some of the tasks performed on the iPhone and the iPad.

For many, mobile phones have replaced the need for a watch. Still, many people still wear a watch on your wrist, either by style, by habit, or simply because they have a mobile (yes, there are people who have no phone, and not because they can not afford one).

Several companies have tried to create watches of high ability, but the fact is that so far none of these have been successful.

Do you think if Apple launched its iWatch would be a very successful device or just stay in oblivion?

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