Advance the development of the first smartphone braille for the blind

The technology of smartphones is growing at an incredible rate. These great devices, equipped with all kinds of functions and applications, have become almost indispensable for some people and is a product widely used in day to day. Of course those who can not fully enjoy the benefits it can provide a smartphone are people with no vision. The options available for the blind are negligible and in most cases are not very useful, but this could soon change. An innovative India, young  Sumit Dagar, is developing the world's first smartphone that uses the Braille code, so that it is a device geared for people who dominate. Dagar has been working on this project with his small company for about 3 years or so.

Instead of the traditional glass screen, the screen of this smartphone is a touch that creates a Braille printing to handle the phone. The device is able to convert text messages as emails and braille code (regardless of language). The screen is able to recreate the braille code on its surface so that the person can read by passing his hand over it, which is achieved by means of a kind of grid full of small pins that are raised to be forming the words.

We hope that soon emerge more news about it.

What do you think about this project?

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Nokia announced a new device on Wednesday

Does anyone wonders what has been working Nokia in recent months? During the past weeks we have been talking a bit about some of the possible projects the company has in hand, such as the Nokia Lumia 928 to be announced on Thursday 25, the Lumia 950 , which would be its new flagship mobile, and the introduction of a solar charging system for smartphones .

We do not know what plans major Nokia at the moment, but what we do know is that tomorrow will be presented a new device , it was announced through an article in the blog of the company. Once this mysterious product is announced, will offer a question and answer session in which participate Neil Broadley, section phones from Nokia, plus a special guest was not released.

Now comes the big question: what is it that Nokia will present on Wednesday? Obviously the 99% of people betting on the same thing: a new mobile phone , and it is very possible that the same be a QWERTY, or at least that's what it seems to suggest the image above.

Could it be a new Lumia ready to compete with BlackBerry Q10? Or do you think it will be something different? Tomorrow we find out.

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The Glass not available to the public until 2014

The industry technology and all the market are closely following every move that makes Google regarding their glasses Glass , one of the most anticipated devices currently. While Glass Explorer Edition are now available, but they are for developers, not for the general public.The commercial version for the masses was expected later this year, but as said Eric Schmidt, the CEO of the company, there is a change of plans.

Recently, during an interview with British radio, Schmidt was asked about the release date of the glasses Glass, to which the employer responded that in the coming months thousands of glasses would be used by developers, and according to reports send these, Google make changes where necessary in the Glass, so shoot for the general public will be until next year , not the current 2013 as everyone expected. No exact date was given, but it is estimated that the arrival of the product to market could occur between March and May 2014 approximately.

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Millions of defective iPhones are returned to Foxconn

Apple has returned defective million smartphones to its main manufacturer, Foxconn, commented one source to China Business. was believed that between 5 and 8 million iPhone units  were returned by Foxconn and Apple that they had various defects not specified. Since the manufacturing cost of each phone is about $ 200, Foxconn could lose more than $ 1.5 billion dollars because of this.

There was no mention of what model iPhone is about. The most likely candidate is the iPhone 5, because at this time of year should not yet have many iPhone 5S units manufactured. As is well known, this is not the first time Foxconn has problems with making the famous Apple mobile.

The problems at the manufacturing level could lead to a shortage in the number of iPhones available and thus would lower sales during these weeks, although many analysts suggest that sales of the iPhone 5 also were meant to be lower during the current year quarter, as the launch of a new generation iPhone is expected in the coming months.

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Acer C710 a cheap laptop with good battery life

As we mentioned last month the  Acer C710 on one occasion, but not delve much about it, so we'll do now. This Acer is a Chromebook, so we can expect two things from it: it is cheap and its specifications are not a big deal. These two items are present in 90% of such notebooks, and Acer C710 is no exception.

This time, what Acer gives us a low-end laptop, ideal for everyday tasks, browse the Internet and more. What stands out about this team is undoubtedly its battery, which is about 6 hours or so, although it can be increased slightly by reducing the screen brightness. The rest of the specifications, which we shall see, are nothing worth noting:

-Operating System: Google Chrome OS. 
-Processor: Intel Celeron 847, a dual-core 1.1GHz with 2MB of cache. 
, RAM: 4GB. 
-Storage has a 320GB hard drive 5400rpm. 
-Screen: measured 11 inches and has a HD resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels. 
, Graphics Card: Intel HD Graphics. 
-Connectivity: WiFi only. 
-Ports: Ethernet, HDMI, three USB 2.0 and VGA. Also has a card reader.

The Acer C710, which incidentally costs $280 , is a solid choice for those simply looking to connect to the net and surf for hours. Both the processor and the battery have been improved compared to previous models of the C7.

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Gigabyte GP-S3000, new speakers with USB 3.0

As you know, if they have sought, it is not easy to find peripherals that connect to our computer desktop or laptop exclusively through a USB 3.0 port. While this technology has already been a good time available, connectors USB 2.0 are still ruling the market and therefore most of the hardware to use the old USB 2.0 interface. Well here is a pretty essential peripheral fortunately for many uses USB 3.0 interface: a pair of speakers known as the Gigabyte GP-S3000 and will be available in both black and white.

The  Gigabyte GP-S3000 not only look good, but it also must listen very well too. It is worth mentioning that this is the first speaker with USB 3.0 to be launched to the market, so they are all new to the industry. And we say "will be" released as soon as they were announced a few days ago.

The release date or price have not been released, so we have to be alert for when Gigabyte announced any new data about it.

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Bing is blocked by many browsers by having a seemingly invalid security certificate

Bad news for the poor Bing. Now days ago I commented on the problems that had the form of Microsoft with search results with malware , but today we played a theme something different.According to several reports, some browsers have been blocking access to Bing because the security certificate the site uses appears to be invalid. If you try to visit the secure version of Bing at the moment,  https://www.bing.com/  instead of the standard  http://www.bing.com/ , we see that it reports a problem with the SSL certificate similar to as shown in the image below. Any web browser probably will give us a similar warning, this is the one that shows Chrome:

It would be easy to point the finger and say that Microsoft can not handle correctly an SSL certificate, but in this case the giant software is not the culprit. The real culprit is the system that distributes the contents of Bing, by Akamai. In fact, there are other sites that also have similar problems and are cleared by the Akamai network, such as the web of the NBA.

The most amazing thing is that the problem has not been solved in more than 48 hours since it was detected.

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The Google Nexus 4 could receive 32GB of space and LTE connectivity in May

When the Nexus 4 was introduced the year, many people began to wonder how successful this could become mobile only have 16GB of space and do not have support for LTE networks. Well according to some recent reports, these problems would be resolved soon because Google would be preparing to launch an improved version of the Nexus 4. Care, we are not talking about an improvement at the processor level, or RAM, or design, but it would introduce two new things: the phone's internal memory would be expanded to 32GB and gain LTE 4G network connectivity . This was not yet officially announced, but is expected to be made ​​the official announcement at the annual Google I / O this year will take place from 15 to 17 May.

But there's more, because in the same event is expected to present search engine company the new version of mobile operating system. We're talking about Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie, which incorporate new features to the platform that runs today in 70% of smartphones in the world.

Since several of the high-end Android smartphones offer at least 32GB of memory and support for LTE networks, it makes sense that Google will incorporate these features to your Nexus 4.

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