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Future of Internet Search: Mobile Version

Future of Internet Search: Mobile Version What you wish about the internet searching capacity???? you wish the internet search will be able to do with a mobile device in NEAR future. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, Google Map (May be Google Earth) Google search, image search.. all in one device. Like this way, when you can see a building thorough it, it give you the image search result right on the spot. Choose a building and touch a floor and it tells you more details of the  building. Well, it doesn't have to be a building, but it can be any object you see. You can use it when you want to know a car model, an insect name, what kind of food is served at a restaurant and how much, who built a bridge etc etc. But as a designer myself, i hope it's able to tell me a name of a font of the type I see, the size, color (in RGB), and so on. It's got a scanner built in, so you can use it this way when you want to check the meaning of a word in th

Continuance Rechargeable Battery with USB Interface

Continuance Rechargeable Battery with USB Interface for Gadgets A concept that could be beneficiary for us in our daily routine life. Continuance is name of the invention, which is rechargeable AA battery concept, integrates a USB port on the side. So, when we have low battery and emergency to call we can just put our cell into charge and call it. Awesome technology. Such an helpful gadget.  Designed by : Haimo Bao, Yuancheng Liu, Hailong Piao and Xiameng Hu from the Dalian Nationalities University in China.  This is concept is participated in International Forum, and awarded as useful design. Really a wonderful imagination and creativity of mind.  Useful for : Gadgets like, camera, cell phone, electric device (which use AA batteries), Emergency torch etc.

hipKey, Way to keeping tack your valuables

The hipKey is a high tech way of keeping track of your valuables. Simply attach to the item of your choice and you're ready to go. Made of sculptured one-piece anodized aluminum ring surrounded by high-quality plastic parts, its sleek oval from fits perfectly in your palm or pocket. You can even attach into your keys. Different Modes Alarm Mode: Warns you if you forget your iPhone or iPad or if someone attempts to steal it. Child Mode: Alerts you if your child wander too far away from you. Motion Mode: Put hipKey in your bag and you are alerted if someone moves it. Find me Mode: Quickly find your iPhone, iPad or your keys at any time. Highlights Maximum range of up to 164 feet Loud alarm (90 dB) Clear vibration indications Motion detection Rechargeable battery with micro USB Battery lasts two to four weeks between charging Iconic aluminum design Durable and Flexible key hanger Four key features designed to keep an eye on your valuables Fits perfectl

Ubuntu Superphone

Ubuntu Edge Dual Boot Smart-phone will coming soon in market. :) On 22 July, Canonical launched an ambitious Indegogo campaign which aimed to raise $32 million ($21.5 million) to fund the development of the Ubuntu edge Smartphone. Canonical has already released support for Android and introduce a gesture-heavy operating system, but now the software company behind Ubuntu wants to get directly involved with hardware by building the Ubuntu Edge phone and computer hybrid to run the software it creates. Ubuntu is already expected to arrive on phones in 2014, but Canonical wants to attract more hardware partner and prove that there is a market for its software. That market is likely to be incredibly small given the dominance of Android and Apple iOS. Despite the challenge, Canonical is betting that early adopters will crowd-fund the project to generate $32 million in 30 days. If successful, the Ubuntu edge would developed and sold to jumpstart Ubuntu's mobile OS. The Ubu

Smart Walking stick for Blind People

Smart Walking Stick - built in sat navigation, by Fujitshu's Technolab Japanese technology firm, Fujitsu has create a "next-generation" cane that may help the country's rapidly ageing population find their way home. An LED display is mounted on the top of the stick which shows the user which direction they should be going, and vibrates when they need to change direction. In can also monitor the heart rate and temperature of its user, and beam that information back to a carer, along with its location. If the stick detects anything unusual, it can send an email alert and even automatically contact emergency services. The innards of the walking stick include 3G, GPS and Wi-Fi connectivity, and while it has been designed for Japan's elderly population, the company also says that it could be used by any vulnerable individuals. Blind Stick with eyes It is the familiar red and white stick, but with the enhanced features that make it quite a

Turns Paper Into A Touchscreen

Software which Turns Paper into a Touchscreen Fujitsu laboratories has developed a technology that can overlay an interactive touchscreen over real-world objects, such as paper. The Fingerlink Interaction System reads finger motions and using a webcam, projection and computer in fornt of you -importing the visual information in front of you -importing the visual information you designate as data. Put your documents under the machine while motion trackers determine where your finger is and, with a series of gestures, user can highlight images or text, then automatically digitize what they select. The machine can pick up on either a flat sheet of paper or adjust to the curve of real book. "We think paper and many other objects could be manipulated by touching them, as with a touchscreen," said Fujitsu. "This system doesn't use any special hardware; it consist of just a device like an ordinary hardware; it consists of just a device like an ordinary web

Apple's iCar Project

Apple's iCar project, rumors and Speculation Apple Inc. revealed the dream of Steve Job's, the Apple iCar. Mickey Drexler stated that there are lots of tragedy and accidents happening in America and around the Globe, Steve  Jobs dream was to make a car which would reduce the tragedy's and shake-up the auto-mobile industry. Since 2007, there has been rumors of the iCar, Steve Jobs had also met up with the Volkswagen group team up for workin on the Apple iCar Project. iCar a three seater plug in electric concept car as iMove with touch screen display on the dashboard which could be charged by Solar Glasses. Apple iCar rumors and speculation have ramped up sporadically over the years. Steve Jobs, like many boomer males, was a car enthusiast, is his case with a partiality for German marques. During the second Jobs era at Apple, the notion of an Apple-branded (or at least themed) "iCar" automobile was dangled tantalizingly in fornt of crossover Apple and

Google's Driver-less car

Google's driver-less car (Project by Google) The Google driverless car is a project by Google that involves developing technology for autonomous cars. The project is currently being led by Google engineer Sebastian Thrun , director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Co-inventor of Google Street View . They created robotic vehicle called "Stanley", which won DARPA Gard Challenge (Dirverless Vehicle Competition, held in America) and US $2 million as a price. Very Challenging and tough task of driving through silicon valley on freeway 101 in busy Friday lunchtime traffic (in short very heavy traffic), Google's Chris Urmson flicks a witch on the steering wheel. A green light comes on to tell him and your correspondent in the passenger seat that the car will drive now itself. On each and every obstacle, Lexus(Toyota's car which is used as trial run) backs off smoothly, maintaining a sensible distance, then accelerates again once th

Google's Long History into Social Media

Here are Google's Social Media prospect. :) Amazing.. Google is world's number site as compared to traffic. February 17, 2003 : Google bys Pyra Labs, the creator of Blogger , for an undisclosed amount. (Then after blogger is so famous and now a days trending one) Late 2003: Friendster management receive $30 million buyout offer from Google , which they decline. But in January 10, 2007 Friendster announces they will partner with Google, and the search giant will power friendster's search and text ads, just as it does on MySpace. The two year deal and financial weren't disclosed. But since Friendster reports less than 1 million monthly unique visitors, the agreement likely isn't on the same scale as the $900 million Google-MySpace deal. January 24, 2004 : Google launches Orkut , an independent project of Orkut. The community's membership was originally by invitation only. April 1, 2004: Gmail launches an invitation only beta release, and be

Funny Things About Facebook

Read this.. Really amazing as well as funny things about the facebook. 1 in every 13 people in Earth is on Facebook In 20 minutes, 1,000,000 links are shared, 1,484,000 event invites are posted, 1,323,000 photos are tagged, 1,850,000 status updates are entered, 2,000,000 messages are sent, 2,000,000 photos are uploaded. 50% of active users long on to Facebook in any given day. More than 70 translations available on site There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products. The meaning of Poke has been never defined Australian's spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7 hours on average. It is the second biggest website by traffic behing Google There is over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages. Users on Facebook more than 800 billion. 3rd largest country in terms of people who are accessing facebook. US with the most number of users 30% and rest of the world with

Be Alert: Google Chrome exposes Users Password

Hello Every One, Be alert while saving your password into "Google Chrome" . Google Chrome browser displays user password in plain text in its setting. Google is taking some serious hear for the way Chrome can reveal all your saved passwords to anyone with access to you computer. Yet Google has defended the move, with Chrome's security tech lead arguing that further password protection measures would only provide a "false sense of security". The issue has to do with the way Chrome stores passwords that the user has decide to save. So, now be aware of this while saving your password. Because hacker may interest the bug and can take the control of your account. All of these passwords are the listed in chrome://settings/passwords . Clicking on a password in this list, and then clicking the "Show" button, exposes the password in the plain text. You can test it. (Just type  chrome://settings/passwords  in your address bar and click on show password).