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New iPad first tablet with Bluetooth 4.0: Should you care? | Mobile. Unless you've been living under a rock, no doubt you've heard all about Apple's new iPad . It comes packed with plenty of welcome upgrades. Among these are a crisp Retina display, a new A5X processor with quad-core graphics to drive all those pixels, and an optional 4G LTE connection for swift cellular data.
What slipped under the radar, though, was the iPad's Bluetooth 4.0 support. In fact, the new iPad is the first tablet with Bluetooth 4.0, aka Bluetooth Smart Ready. Not exactly impressed? Tablets, Bluetooth, and you The most notable new ability of Bluetooth 4.0 devices is to sip power slowly, especially gadgets designed to operate as sensors. This may not sound like much at first, but imagine coming home from a long day trekking all over town, a quick run, or time spent at the gym. In my experience tablets rarely get switched off and typically are persistently connected to Wi-Fi networks, so it makes perfect sense for a slate to serve as a Bluetooth hub in the home. Lytro is going to change the photography industry in more ways than you think. Bringing Braille to Smartphones - medGadget - Health. BrailleTouch, a new application created by Mario Romero, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech, allows the visually impaired to type on a phone's touchscreen without seeing it at all.
Touchscreens lack buttons, making it very difficult for blind or visually impaired people to use smartphones and tablets. That is what Mario Romero, postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech, probably thought when he came up with the idea to develop BrailleTouch, an app that allows folks to type on the touchscreen without seeing it at all. The application works by putting the six dots of a braille character on the screen in landscape mode with three on each side. Three fingers from each hand then press in the appropriate patterns to create the desired characters. There is audio feedback to confirm the correct input and the screen flips regardless of orientation so a user does not have to worry about the phone being upside-down. The video below demonstrates how the BrailleTouch works: The Unbreakable Smartphone That Lasts For Weeks Without Recharging. Stuart Parkin’s digital storage research is part of the reason why the video stored on your cell phone works.
It has also contributed to Google and Facebook’s ability to build giant data centers. The IBM researcher’s work on data storage has changed the way we use electronic devices. Now he’s about to do it again--this time, by soaring past Moore’s Law with a new kind of memory technology that’s 100 times faster and far more energy efficient than what we have now. The technology is called racetrack memory, and eight or so years from now, it might be what’s storing data in your laptop or cell phone. Racetrack memory is more stable than flash (which is what Apple is rumored to be using for memory in the next generation of MacBooks), allows for long battery life, and stores unfathomable amounts of data. Imagine: a nearly unbreakable smartphone that can store thousands of movies and lasts for weeks without needing to be recharged.
Nyrius HD 1080p Digital Wireless Audio Video Sender Review. I’ve been looking for some way to occasionally watch TV on my bedroom TV without the monthly expense of a cable hookup and digital settop box in there. I’ve tried an antenna that worked great for local HD stations, and I’ve tried a wireless transmitter that worked great with my Blu-ray player but not with my cable box in the living room.
Although the antenna works well, I’d still like to be able to watch recorded programs on the living room cable DVR in my bedroom. I was happy to be selected to try the HD 1080p Digital Wireless Audio Video Sender when Nyrius offered one to The Gadgeteer. Most pictures can be clicked for an enlarged view. Nyrius markets the HD 1080p Digital Wireless Audio Video Sender for these main uses: To eliminate the need for a lot of cables running to a wall-mounted flatscreen HDTV.
HDMI cables max out at about 15 feet, and cost can be prohibitive for the longer cables. In the Box Technical Specifications The two boxes are made of black plastic. Product Information. Nissan unveils world’s first self-healing iPhone case. Sony SmartWatch is an Android phone's best friend | CES 2012. LAS VEGAS--Nearly hidden away at CES was a $149 Sony SmartWatch (due in March) that doubles as a Bluetooth command center for Android phones. Featuring brushed chrome edges, the 1.3-inch OLED (65k color) touch screen features Bluetooth 3.0 and is compatible with Android phones from Sony, HTC, Motorola, Samsung, and others. You may remember its predecessor, the Live View accessory that Sony Ericsson released in late 2010. The dust and splash proof SmartWatch is essentially the same story. The updated version is sleeker in appearance (and about 0.3-inches thick), has an accelerometer, can vibrate, and will launch with a colorful swatch of wristband accessories.
A black wristband and wristband adapter is included. In my brief experience with the device, it was responsive and attractive. You can do many things through the techie timepiece, including the basics such as read SMS, e-mail, or the weather. Details on battery life are vague, but with low usage, it will last a week. Thanks to HzO, soon all mobile devices could be waterproof. By Mark R Some of you might be looking at this picture of an iPhone balanced precariously in this puddle and be thinking “oh no”. It’s probably because you were using your iPhone near a pool, sink, or toilet, and then accidentally dropped it. In those seconds of helplessness, you knew that your precious iPhone was about to be drowned and possibly rendered useless. What if you just didn’t have to worry about that? According to HzO’s Waterblock technology, a thin film nano-coating can provide a clear and near invisible layer of protection over the vital electronic circuitry within.
That is right, this company has created a method of a non-detectable WaterBlock to protect mobile devices. Of course, like all new technology, it might take a while to adopt it fully. Sony Xperia Ion Features 12MP Camera And 4G LTE. Sony has just announced its first 4G LTE device at CES: the Sony Xperia Ion for AT&T. The phone features a gigantic 4.6 inch (1,280 by 720 pixels) HD display, 16GB of built-in flash storage and a 1.5GHz dual-core CPU. Its most impressive feature, perhaps, is the 12 megapixel HD camera, which should blow the iPhone 4S’s already impressive 8MP camera out of the water. The Sony Xperia Ion is quite the fast shooter too, clocking in at less than two seconds per shot (back-to-back).
Along with the killer main camera, you can also expect an HD front-facing camera, capable of stills and video in up to 720p. Both cameras are said to include many typical features like face recognition, smile capture, panorama, etc. Other noteworthy details include Sony Xperia Ion’s support for specially ported Playstation games (it’s PlayStation certified), as in the Xperia PLAY, and the Sony Entertainment Network, which includes the Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited streaming/rental services. Can Siri Control Your Home? A small company in Arkansas is showing an unexpected side to Apple's voice-based intelligent assistant Siri. This YouTube video shows various home appliances being controlled via voice command on the iPhone 4S, from adjusting the thermostat and light dimmers to turning on Blu-Ray DVD players. Little Rock-based Carnes Audio, which custom installs home automation systems, created its own promotional video of Siri communicating with household technologies.
For example, the demo shows Siri dimming the lights to 50% and setting the thermostat to 70 degrees after she was told to do so. For most users, Siri is only able to control iPhone functionality. SEE ALSO: A Refrigerator That Helps You Diet? Carnes said the company will be rolling out these services to those that are interested in the future. Do you think we will be talking to appliances in the home in the future? Apple TV Wishlist | The Verge Forums. Canon and JVC Camcorders Add iPad and iPhone Video Sharing Features. By Emily | January 11, 2012 | No comment yet Remember having to actually hook up a camcorder to your television to be able to see what you filmed, with actual cables? Those days may soon be over as Canon and JVC release new camcorder models with built-in Wi-Fi that streams right to an iPad or iPhone. Canon plans to release four new models, the compact VIXIA HF M52 and VIXIA HF M50 as well as the entry-level models VIXIA HF R32 and VIXIA HF R30, which feature the ability to upload videos over a Wi-Fi network directly to an iPhone or iPad.
Users will also need to download Canon’s free Movie Uploader app. In addition to being iOS-friendly, the camcorders allow users to send video directly to Facebook and YouTube. The VIXIA camcorders will also be able to send video to DLNA-enabled HDTVs, and they can even bypass a PC by allowing users to save video directly to an external hard drive via an optional USB adaptor. Starting at $449.99, the camcorders will be available for sale in March 2012.