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Nvidia Unveils Tegra 4 powered gaming portable with steam

Nvidia jumps into the portable gaming gadget world, invoking a new world of technology. The device includes many interesting and attracts the attention. The portable gadget is powered by Tegra 4 processor capable of powering 4k video and streaming PC games.

The shield is designed to be as small as possible, so it’s roughly the size of standalone controllers. Shield features a 5 inch, 1280×720 multitouch display. It will be the first Tegra 4 device and offer 38-watt-hours of batteries for 24 hours of high definition video.

The device runs on pure Android environment with no skin on top of it, but when you press the shield button on the device it takes you to the gaming world of new era. There is not much of the customized features and it has HDMI, micro-USB, microSD slot, 3.5mm audio jack.

Project SHIELD is set up to work with Android, so you’ll be working with Android games, of course, but it’s also connected to the cloud – so you’re able to play games with the same prowess we’ve seen made possible with NVIDIA GRID.

Nvidia announced the Tegra 4 processor just minutes before unveiling the Shield handheld. The Tegra 4 has 72 GPU cores and 4 A15 CPU cores. The company is billing it as the “world’s fastest mobile processor.”

January 7, 2013
5 amazing robots we met in 2012 [video]

We witnessed some amazing tech development this year which really got our attention. If you missed some top 5 robotic innovation this year, we are here for you. We got them all listed here.

1. Honda ASIMO

Honda ASIMO is one of the best modern bot, which is capable of performing some difficult tasks with its cute little hands and bent knees. She looks like and astronaut!

2. CHARLI

This robot can literally dance on the songs. The robot can tune in PSYs Ganganam style for hours without getting tired.

3. PETMAN

Boston Dynamics’ PETMAN Robot struts. (We’re doomed). PETMAN is owned by Boston Dynamics. Just watch him do push-ups like a robot Rocky.

4. David

Okay, this one isn’t real (yet). But Michael Fassbender stole the show as David, the charming but sinister android from Prometheus. No word yet on his feelings toward K-pop.

5. Furby

We know two things about Furbies: 1) They are pure evil; and 2) They like dancing to K-Pop. So really, how bad can they be? Bad enough that they don’t belong in a home with a child (or anyone, really).

December 16, 2012
Do you want new bulbs from from Philips whose hue will be controlled by smartphones?

Today’s market requires new technologies to be announced for their growth but no one expects some one to come up with something other than computers or mobiles. But this new update comes from Philips in the form of a new revolutionary bulb whose color or hue can be controlled by a particular android or iPhone or iPad. Well this also is connected to the same field of IT. An app allows a user to turn off or on the light from anywhere.

For the bulb to work first of all we need to have a starter kit (including a smart bridge and three bulbs) that starts at a price of $199. This kit contains a smart bridge that gets plugged inside the WiFi router in your home. Then the bulb is connected to any existing bulb holder which in turn is connected to the WiFi router. Thus the mobile is indirectly connected to the new bulb through the application. This LED bulb gives light of an intensity of 600 lumen.

This app also has many more extra features like matching the color of the bulb with a color from anywhere on the mobile screen including 16 million different hues.

What seems to be a probable future shows the use of this bulb everywhere. Since this app allows a person to control about 50 bulbs at a time and even allows to turn them on or off according to a timer. There have already been announcements regarding these types of new bulbs but none is released till now.

Philips is the first one to bring it down into the market for customers. This starter kit will be open for sale from 30th October at Apple stores for $199 and an additional bulb will cost about $59.

Now it completely depends on a person and the weight of his purse whether they will control the lights of his whole house or not. Maybe the government buys the whole lot for street lights.

Note: Make sure that you don’t lose your phone after that app or someone will be playing with your life and lights.

November 1, 2012
Top 10 stunning Digital Tech gadgets, July 2012 [images]

We brought you another set of top 10 digital gadgets which can bring your knowledge base about the future one step forward.

There are so many possibilities and researches going on already and we cannot include every one of those awesome gadgets in the list.

Take a look at a group of 10 top tech innovations from the past weeks and prepare to be surprised, delighted and maybe even intrigued.

1. Google Fiber

You heard the rumors right here last week, and now Google has officially announced Google Fiber, a combination broadband and television service that’s set to light up the Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Mo. area in a couple of months.

Here you see the Google Fiber network box, handling broadband duties, and costing those lucky Kansas city dwellers $70 a month to take part in superfast service that offers unheard-of gigabit speeds for downloads and uploads.

If you don’t need that much speed, a flat fee of $300 gets you 5Mbps download and 1Mbps upload speeds — about average for Internet service in the U.S. — and after paying that fee, it will be free. Or, you can pay that off in $25 monthly increments for a year, and after that it’s all free. Such a deal.

2. Racing simulator with 160-inch curved Screen

Look at this 160-inch curved screen from Swedish company Norman Design, using rear-projection and serious graphics power to create a spectacular Formula One racing simulator.

there’s even a mockup of a nose of an Formula One vehicle there, just to keep things super-realistic. Spectacular stuff.

Sure, you can buy this lovely screen aside from all its ersatz racing goodness, but really, are you going to be working Excel spreadsheets on this enormous display? You could.

3. LG 84-Inch Ultra-Hi-Def TV

You can’t be too rich, too thin or have too large of a TV screen, and now LG takes that beyond the mundane, now taking pre-orders for this 84-inch behemoth, going first to lucky recipients in Korea.

Not only is it gigantic, but it has ultrahigh definition, cranking out 4K resolution (3,840 x 2,160), giving you TV that’s a whole lot sharper than the best HDTV is today.

So far, LG is offering just 84 of these super-sets, selling for $21,975 out of the gate. Although the company promises there will be content available, I’m thinking the biggest drawback (other than its exorbitant price ) will be the lack of sufficient movies and TV shows available in that stratospheric format. But keep in mind, ultrahigh definition TV (UHDTV) is on the way, and might be in your living room sooner than you think.

4. Next Gen Microsoft Office – Word

Version 15 of Microsoft Office is on its way. Otherwise known as Office 2013, it’s now a cloud-based subscription service, where you’re not stuck with the software on any particular machine, but it follows you around on whichever device you’re using.

Word 15 is looking familiar, with that same ribbon interface of its predecessors.

Office 15 is now available as a consumer preview, if you’d like to try it out free for a few months. Want to give it a go? You can download the consumer preview here.

5. Soul by Ludacris: Usain Bolt Edition

In honor of the Olympics, Soul by Ludacris has released a Usain Bolt Edition of its superb SL300 headphones with active noise cancellation. I took a close listen to the SL300s — my review unit was in shiny black with white accents — and I was astonished at the accuracy and punchy power of these comfortable cans.

How do you like the wild colors of these $349.95 headphones? They’re supposed to suggest Jamaica, home country of the Olympic sprinter who’s been called “the fastest man alive.”

6. Shapeshifting Razer Ouroboros Mouse

Serious gamers, you want your mouse to fit your hand exactly. That’s the idea behind the Razer Ouroboros Mouse, a elaborately adjustable ambidextrous pointing device for lefties or righties.

You can adjust the length of the mouse, as well as the width of its side panels. Even its back arch is adjustable. Powered by single AA battery, this bad boy sports an 8200dpi fourth-generation dual sensor system, using laser and optical sensors at the same time.

Save up your $129.99, because if you’re having trouble finding a mouse that fits your hand just right, this one might actually be worth it.

7. McLaren JetSet Concept

Take a look at this carbon fiber beauty from the future, a design concept by Marianna Merenmies that looks more like an aircraft than an automobile.

It looks like it’s set to pounce with those two wing-like wheel wells, while the front takes some design cues from McLaren cars.

It certainly would be fun to drive a car that’s just about as high off the ground as a go-kart, but I’d be concerned about whether other vehicles could see me in this minuscule projectile of a vehicle.

8. Memory Breakthrough

Why should we care about a geeky thing like a memory breakthrough? Here’s why: You could fit 50 petabytes of data onto a solid-state drive that’s the size of one of today’s 1TB spinning drives.

That means someday soon, you might have more available storage than you could ever possibly fill up.

The geniuses at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have accomplished this magic by extreme miniaturization, making it so that one bit of data can be stored on a single molecule. It’s mind-boggling.

9. Touch Skin Watch

OLED displays are getting more cost-effective, and here’s a design concept that takes advantage of a time in the near future when we will see OLEDs everywhere.

The Touch Skin Watch has a snazzy charger to keep it powered up every night, and a chameleon-like face that can mimic any watch face or graphic you can possibly imagine.

Its multitouch interface can show you either the time when you touch it with one finger, the date when you touch it with two fingers, or if you touch the screen with three fingers, it cycles through the various skins you have installed.

10. Project Glass prototype Glassess

Lots of us want to get our hands on Google’s Project Glass glasses but the future-tech is still a far-cry from being ready for consumers. Or is it?

At Google I/O, the company allowed attendees who are willing to pony up $1500 access to prototype-versions of the next-generation of wearable computing.

After watching the spectacular Project Glass skydiving video, we can’t wait to get our hands on this tech — even if it’s still in the prototype stage.

July 29, 2012
Transparent solar panel by UCLA can help create electricity generating windows

There has been a wide range of developments going on, which aims to create more eco-friendly buildings around us. Todays modern large and tall buildings has wider surface area for solar energy to be converted into the electricity — some scientists are working on the experiments to utilize this fact.

Transparent photovoltaics have yet to grace the face of your smartphones, but UCLA researchers are working on a new see-through solar cell that showing potential.

The new design uses a new type of polymer solar cell, which can help you design the solar window glasses to power the entire building efficiently in the future or manufacture a better solar collecting smartphones to charge them up automatically.

The team has been able to build a device that converts infrared light into electrical current. Current prototypes boast 4 percent energy conversion efficiency at 66 percent transparency — not so crystal clear, but certainly clean enough to peer through.

The technology is still a new kid – waiting to get into the adulthood — but we sure can expect a great amount of results from it. UCLA team said in a press release:

“These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications,” said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).

“We are excited by this new invention on transparent solar cells, which applied our recent advances in transparent conducting windows (also published in ACS Nano) to fabricate these devices,” said Paul S.Weiss, CNSI director and Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences.

The team has to get some major issues to be fixed in the long run – like conversion rate per square meter and cost to manufacture the transparent photovoltaic cells. A 4% conversion efficiency equates to around 40W per square metre during the brightest part of a very bright day. Far too low for phone screens and even car roofs. The only way this technology can be made viable is if it can be applied to glass on the million-m² scale.

Whatever it is going to be, we sure are going to witness some futuristic technology undergoing the process of development.

what do you think? the technology can bring a wide range of possibilities for humans? or is it just another bunch of innovative idea which will never work practically?

[via engadget]

July 22, 2012
5 Digital Clothing concept that can change your life

You probably didn’t think about recharging your phone while you are a walk in the public park near you. So when your cell phone dies you’ll have to run for a power plug. It is real hassle sometimes and bit irritating.

But, you can now utilize that energy required to reach your home from the park you were in. Designers and technology experts are now working on the concept clothing which can fulfill all our energy requirement for portable electric devices.

Here are the top 5 Clothing concepts that can charge your gadgets and eventually your life:

1. Sound charge:

The Sound Charge t-shirt, another Glastonbury Festival prototype from Orange, powers mobile phones while attendees watch bands in action.

Users just plug their phone in to the t-shirt, which uses noise-responsive technology for a quick top-off charge.

2. Power felt

A team of researchers at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at Wake Forest University are working on Power Felt, a thermoelectric device that could convert body heat into electrical current.

3. Shoes that can charge your phone

An entrepreneur in Kenya is being funded by the National Council of Science and Technology to create shoes that generate energy from pressure.

An ulta-thin chip of crystals would be inserted within the soles of your shoes to create electricity.

4. Chargable Bra

These are My Favorite! In 2008, a solar-powered bra received a lot of attention for being able to generate enough electric energy to charge a mobile phone.

Though it’s yet to take off, the lingerie company Triumph has made a whole series of odd bras.

5. Orange Power Wellies

British mobile carrier Orange partnered with GotWind in 2010 to develop rain boots that charge your phone.

Though it was just a concept for the Glastonbury Music Festival, the prototype flaunts the potential of mobile charging solutions.

July 14, 2012