LG Launches the World's First 55-Inch Curved OLED TV

           

           Well, that came sooner than expected. Two weeks after LG's announcements it will launch a curved OLED TV "later this year," the first such 55-inch device here, available for pre-order in South Korea.

Bill Clinton officially joins Twitter

Bill Clinton received a warm welcome from Twitter, after the former U.S. president officially joined the microblogging network Wednesday night.

This TV Ad Was Shot With an iPhone 5

The average TV commercial is said to cost around $350,000, but it's safe to say this ad for Allied Irish Bank was well south of that.

iPhone 5 with gold and diamonds surfaces, costs $15.3 million

Stuart Hughes, a Liverpool-based jeweller had earlier built a diamond iPhone 4, Platinum MacBook Air and Gold iPad 2. Now, the enthusiast has built an iPhone 5 with gold and diamonds, making it the world's most expensive smartphone.

What is Facebook Home?

You would have thought after being informed that Facebook launches Facebook Home, what it actually means? Do you know what it actually means. Come let's have a look.

Samsung announces Galaxy Mega 6.3 and 5.8 phablets

Samsung lifted the covers of the Galaxy Mega dup – the 6.3" and 5.8" Android phablets. The smartphones borrow some of the features from the Galaxy S4 flagships but offer much larger screens and aim for the mid-range segment as a more affordable alternative to the high-end Note phablet.

Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3

The Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 packs a 6.3" LCD of 720p resolution and is powered by a an Exynos 5250 chipset with a dual-core Cortex-A15 CPU clocked at 1.7GHz and 1.5GB of RAM. It runs Android 4.2 with Sasmung’s TouchWiz modifications like Multi-window (split-screen multitasking) and Air View (detecting your finger an inch from the screen). There's no S Pen though.

Intel announces next-gen Thunderbolt

Here at NAB, Intel just introduced the next generation of its Thunderbolt interface, which promises a data rate of 20 Gbps in both directions (on each of the two channels) as opposed to 10 Gbps for the previous version. Of course, the company stepped back for a

Facebook releases the ad "Facebook Home - Airplane" on Youtube

Facebook is on their way to expand the usage of Facebook Phones using Facebook Home among the facebook users. They are clearly on the plan to make people always busy with facebook. They wanted to make sure that facebook users get connected on the go. It releases ads to make their 'Home' concept gets popular among the facebook addicts. So they are using this extend their market from the web to the electronics market.

Probable looks of Verizon's New Nokia Lumia 928

Verizon's Nokia Lumia 928 is a thinner, lighter and a better variant of Nokia Lumia 920. Evleaks has published it in their twitter account [@evleaks] today. This is how the Lumia 928 would probably look like.

                    Lumia 928 resembles Lumia 720 but it is less curved than Lumia 920. Lets hope that it would be a less lighter version of Nokia Lumia. There is no official announcement of Lumia 928 's release but rumours say that it would be in this April.

Facebook's New "Home" concept and its ad

Facebook introduces a new concept called "Home". With over billion users, Facebook decides to take the next step to provide their users a 'whole new experience with their phone'. The guys at The Joy of Tech created a comic to depict facebook's Home concept.

What is this 'Home' concept? 

                         The 'Home' concept is to make sure that facebook users are connected wherever they are. With the help of 'Facebook Phones' , Facebook tries to achieve it. HTC has names its facebook phone as HTC First. When you switch on those phones you would be welcomed by the facebook notifications of yours. Whatever app you use the new notifications and messages would pop-up there enabling you to share on the go. Whether it annoys anyone or comfort them depends upon their intense usage of facebook.

                       
 Facebook has released their first ad for 'Home' on Youtube and here it is for you. Watch it. Cheers !!!

Easy way to build an attractive, wonderful and informative desktop for windows

Every one likes to a desktop look more beautiful .So they use different backgrounds and try different themes. Whatever they do it doesn't make their desktop informative , that is , it doesn't provide them the information they want them about their pc. Here I give a some easy ways to make it look beautiful as well as informative. Below is the image of how my desktop looks like.

The left panel shows feed updates from favourite websites.You can also add feeds from a Facebook page too. At the center is the widget which can show your computer time, your mails, weather of your city, stats about your CPU, hard disk and wireless network. To show the number of unread emails and weather status, you have to provide information to set it up and most importantly your computer must be connected to the network.  The right panel shows Notes, which you can edit yourselves, CPU information, currently played music information, Google search panel, Speaker volume control and recycle bin.

Things needed: 

1.  Background : You can choose the background you want. Its good if its a solid color.

2.   Rainmeter : This is the software which is needed to run and control the following skins.

3.   Enigma : This skin has different widgets and you can choose which one must be displayed on your                                  

                    screen.
4.  Ventuz : This is the skin you see on the center of the image above.  

                                            (OR)

 5.   Arcs : If you are contended you can choose this simple skin which is a digital clock.

Setting Things Up:

     
Well lets start setting things up. First of all, clear all the annoying shortcuts and icons from the desktop because it is on the top most list which makes your desktop awful. Apply the selected desktop background of yours. Download Rainmeter and install it. Now download the skins and open it. It opens automatically with the help of Rainmeter. Now start arranging the widgets on the place of your wish. Its easy just click and drag the ones you want to move to required place and it becomes its permanent place. To make it undraggable further right click on the widget and select "Settings" and uncheck the "Draggable" option.

Feeding the information:

Lets start feeding the information.
Right click on any widget of the Enigma skin and select Enigma --> Options --> Options.ini . This would open a settings panel as follows. Informations given here would be shared by the Ventuz skin too. 

If you have doubts regarding any step, please use the comments section below. Cheers !!!

Leaked! Image of ‘Facebook phone’ from HTC named 'HTC First'

 Facebook, which has become an integral part of our social lives, is hosting an event to showcase its "new home on Android." Speculation in tech industry is rife that the company may launch a smartphone running on Google's mobile operating system Android. 

 EVLeaks has leaked what it claims is the first image of the Facebook phone, likely to be called HTC First. This phone is rumoured to have a heavily customised version of Android, much like Amazon has done with its Kindle tablets. 

                                   According to tech grapevine, HTC First is likely to have a 4.3-inch touchscreen that supports 720p videos and run on a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Other rumoured features of this alleged smartphone include a 5MP camera, 1GB RAM, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) with HTC Sense 4.5 and deep Facebook integration. 

                                   Previously, HTC made two smartphones - named Salsa and ChaCha - that featured dedicated Facebook hardware keys. 

 Facebook last week sent out invites that only said "Come See Our New Home On Android." 

                                   There has been speculation about a 'Facebook phone' that can help the social network better monetise its mobile platform by featuring Facebook prominently on the phone. 

                                     Facebook has long held firm it has no intention of building its own smartphone, saying instead it would rather weave access to the social network into software running the gamut of handsets. 

                                   

News of the April 4 event at social network's main campus in the Silicon Valley city of Menlo Park came as the research firm IDC released a Facebook-backed study showing that smartphones have become people's close friends in the US.


Source: The Times Of India

Robots to save drowning victims - RTS

                         If you have any fear of being lost at sea, I beseech you, steer clear of the movie Open Water. On other hand, if you do find yourself struggling to stay afloat on the high seas, know that a rescue drone could be on its way with a flotation device. 

         If current technology trends are any indication, it's possible that human lifeguards could be replaced by robots in the future. So far, we've seen a remote-controlled rescue buoy and a salamander-like bot that travels on both water and land, among many others. Rather than having to cut through rough water to get to folks in trouble like many search and rescue robot designs, an Iranian research center proposes a quadcopter called Pars that launches from a floating platform and drops life preservers precisely where they're needed.

                    RTS Lab began developing Pars to address the high number of drowning victims in the Caspian Sea along the Iranian coastline. After creating a short-range rescue bot to help people near beaches, the team set to work on an improved model with much better capabilities.

                     The Pars design calls for a lightweight quadcopter equipped with a slew of sensors, including accelerometers, gyroscopes, GPS, a barometer, and an electronic compass. It's most distinguishing feature, however, is a series of latches underneath that can hold and release life preservers one at a time. The most recent design can hold three tubes at once, but the developers claim future models could stock over 15 by using a chemical material that expands the padding after release.



                      

                               An operator would be able to remotely control the robots manually or an onboard artificial intelligence could allow it to act autonomously in certain situations. RTS Lab says it has made a point of keeping the controls simple, so that a rescue worker could learn to operate them with just a few days of training.

                              The group also designed a charging station that would use solar energy to recharge several Pars units when they are docked. The designers claim the platform could be attached to the top of a rescue boat or offshore structure and could even be modified into a standalone floating station. In the event of system failure or low power, the aerial bot floats in water even without the life preservers, so it can easily be recovered later.

If Pars works as well as its designers claim, it could have quite a few notable advantages over most rescue robots we've seen before. For one, it could attend to multiple people in one trip, whereas most amphibious robots are only equipped to handle one person at a time.

                                Flying over the waves also allows Pars to bypass any obstacles or rough water conditions that might be inaccessible to anything traveling by water (or even full-sized helicopters by air). Though how it would handle in a violent storm remains to be seen.

                                The quadcopter could also be equipped for aerial reconnaissance, giving rescuers a bird's-eye viewpoint of an emergency situation and allowing them to get the proper equipment ready before they even reach the site of an accident.

                       According to RTS Lab, most of the initial design work for the robot itself has been completed and tested, though the current model does not include ultrasound sensors or artificial intelligence. Right now, the researchers are seeking funding to build an industrial prototype and eventually mass produce Pars to get it into the hands of rescue workers worldwide.

Source : Gizmag

Whistle Podu - Mirattal

Listen to the fan made song -Whistle podu Version 2 from Mirattal