It’s time for wearable tech junkie to leave their wardrobe and wear something new that unites them with their car. Nissan launches a Nismo smartwatch that measures the performance of the vehicle and the driver both.
With this mini-nurse keeping track on user’s heart rate, temperature and other biometrics, it also allows the user to keep his eye on the vehicle’s performance including average speed and fuel consumption. The Nismo watch can be connected to the car’s on-board computer system to allow users to monitor vehicle telematics and performance data. Users can also receive tailored messages from Nissan via the gadget.
You like being kind of social!?, don’t worry, the Nismo watch displays messages from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest in an app appropriately called Social Speed. So, you can be in touch with your fellas while you are speeding up.
Connectivity is the new battleground for car manufacturers and it seems like Nissan is making their make move very cleverly. Gluts of smartwatches has hit the market recently including Samsung’s Galxay Gear and Sony’s smartwatch 2. So, whats’s the deal with Nissan’s Nismo? It is the first foray of Nissan in wearable tech and Nissan claims this smart watch to be the first that focuses on connecting the car and the driver.
The Nismo comes in three colors and has a battery life of around a week and can be controlled by two buttons on the screen.
The lab plans to use electrocardiograms (ECG) and electroencephalograms (EEG) in the future to capture a range of heart and brainwave data.
The eventual aim would be to create wearable technology for drivers that can spot fatigue, monitor drivers’ levels of concentration and emotions and record hydration levels.
Kim Dotcom’s new online cloud storage serive “MEGA” is putting the direct competition to the major companies, Including Google (Drive), Microsoft (SkyDrive), DropBox, FileSonic, Box etc. Just after the launch last day, MEGA is getting a great bunch of followers.
Website faced serious downtime and servers couldn’t keep up with the demands and traffic consumptions. Webiste was revealed at an insane press release, and it is now open for public.
When the major online cloud storage service providers charge a decent amount of money, Mega fits into the regular budget of average users.
Those looking for more than 50GB of free storage will be able to select from three paid tiers — €9.99 ($13.29), €19.99 ($26.59), and €29.99 ($39.90) per month for the respective 500GB storage/1 terabyte bandwidth, 2TB/4TB, and 4TB/8TB.
On the other hand, 50GB is not too bad a deal, considering players like Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive do not offer anything more than 5GB for storage. The only other competing service will be MediaFire, which offers the same 50GB limit upload space for free.
We won’t go into too much detail about this, but Mega’s prices destroy the competition. Google Drive’s 2 TB plan goes for $99.99, 5 times the price Dotcom is offering. In comparison, Dropbox’ price for the 500 GB plan costs $49.99 a month. Again, 5 times more expensive than Mega. And by the way, there are no file size limitations.
MediaFire is available for desktop, iOS and has recently launched an Android version of the app. As is the norm with most cloud storage apps available in the market, MediaFire for Android will give users a built-in file browser and the facility to view images and videos in the gallery mode. The app will also allow online collaboration with other users to edit and share documents, presentations and spreadsheets. Sharing files over Facebook, Twitter and email is also an important function MediaFire can offer.
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.
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.
The latest trend that has taken its turn in the field of digitized education is the starting of new learning methods including the education through eBooks. The latest thing implemented is the borrowing or lending of eBooks from the e-library. But according to a new study it has been said that E-book reading has been quite slow these days as it has proved to be really slow than the manual method of borrowing and reading books from the libraries.
When asked in detail few of the problems came out in light. Users complain that the limited supply or say choices available in the case of books has been a real pain in the ass, resulting in the frustration of their kind. Another reported trouble is the uncertainty in knowing whether their local branch offers E-releases or not.
This new survey was released by the Pew research center centered mostly on the Present status of E-book lending/ Borrowing. The report says that around 12% of E-book users of the teenage group or older downloaded a text from the library over the past year, whereas around 20% of the adults read an E-book recently.
Major book companies and publishers have made this very clear in their statements that they are gonna make the books available in the form of e-books in a very limited way and some have even refused to do so. The companies feel like they are gonna loose the profit and value merchandise if they start letting other people read their books online. Some big names are Simon and schuster, the hachette book group etc and when you honestly ask me about it i feel its more because of the lack of proper awareness.
The survey conducted was actually done on about 3000 respondents in the period of almost a month , suggesting the fact that there patrons who are in charge of the libraries are also not comfortable with the E-book processing as they are unable to provide the users what they need. Same thing goes with the users as they complain that they can’t get a particular title on their devices just because the device is unable to receive any digital text from outside.
The users replied or better yet advised that they would surely be more interested in this project if they would be provided with a device with the E-book they are looking for already downloaded in it. This seems to be a better alternative for them rather than sharing just the digital content! Now this changes everything as this whole program is now turned into a E-book device lending thing. Over half of the Patrons say that most of the time it turns out that that the book they were looking for was not with them from the very start.
The American library association has been arranging meetings with publishers quite frequently nowadays since they also understand the gravity of this situation and they are looking for ways to satisfy both the sides. Recently the Penguin group (USA) announced a different pilot program or better say that as an oncoming experiment just to support this new initiative. The group has declared that they will make every book they publish available as E-books in the coming six months after the book is published. This program is going to be active only for the New York and Brooklyn library systems. But who knows if this one is going to be stable or not because they also declared some kind of a program last year also but it was later suspended, and we hope that it doesn’t happens this time around also.
“I applaud Penguin’s decision today to re-start e-book sales to libraries so that we may again meet our mutual goals of connecting authors and readers,” library association president Molly Raphael said in a statement.
On the bright side a new statistic that was lost in all the negativity found in this survey was this little fact that seems to strengthen our faith in this new digitization of library thing. The data is :- Those who borrow E-books from libraries tend to read 29 more books per year than their average usage data showed. This is still greater than those who don’t read e-books by 23 books. And the experts thing that this is good even for the book groups because ultimately the users who don’t have a library card are gonna get more comfortable buying an e-book rather than first getting a library card and then borrowing the book.
Take a look at the bigger picture here if you have trouble understanding the usefulness of this new initiative. Around half of those who were surveyed said that they bought their most recent books and only 15 percent said that they borrowed an E-book from a library!
So what do you choose? Thick and heavy books, long lines of borrowers or just a digital copy of your book on your pda or laptop or your smartphone!
If you are an actual speed freak, you might hate the tradition e-bikes laying around these days – which can’t get past the moped at it’s maximum peak.
The MotoCzysz E1pc can get you stunned, when the fearsome looking electronic-motorbike smashes potential speed limits, even if it didn’t completely rock the two-wheeled establishment.
The company revealed the first Motoczysz back in 2010 at the Isle of Man TT. Comparing the 2010 release, we can see the futuristic improvements of the technology used on the bike. The updated E1pc’s most conspicuous changes are on the outside: it tackles the problem of the wind resistance at high speeds by bringing on aerodynamic ducts and fins. Inside, torque looks to be down to 162 foot-pounds, but the equivalent to 200 horsepower (twice of 2010’s model).
Motoczysz paid a minute attention to the battery cooling system, which keeps Motoczysz creation running at full bore for considerably longer than before. The team won $15,369 for breaking a 100 MPH average speed barrier for electric bikes last year by Isle of Man.
There is no doubt – a substantial tweak can make this little giant go massive speed freak.
Connectivity is the new battleground for car manufacturers and it seems like Nissan is making their make move very cleverly. Gluts of smartwatches has hit the market recently including Samsung’s Galxay Gear and Sony’s smartwatch 2. So, whats’s the deal with Nissan’s Nismo? It is the first foray of Nissan in wearable tech and Nissan claims this smart watch to be the first that focuses on connecting the car and the driver.
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.
British mobile carrier Orange partnered with GotWind in 2010 to develop rain boots that charge your phone.
