Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Discoveries of Technologies

Google Wallet Now available on Nexus S 4G on Sprint

Google announced "Google Wallet" an app that makes your phone your wallet, in May this year. Google finally launched this product on 9/19/2011 in partner ship with Citi, MasterCard, Sprint and First Data. Visa, Discover and American Express have also provided their NFC specifications and their cards will be added into the future versions of Google Wallet. Google team has been testing its new product extensively during past few months.

Youtube Introduced Video Editing Feature

In an Official log post, YouTube Software Engineer John Gregg announced this much awaited feature of "Video Editing" on Wednesday September 14, 2011. Until now, when you uploaded to YouTube, you were able to host and share only, but could not change or edit your videos. If you wanted to trim off the end, swap out the soundtrack, or tried to add an effect, you had to edit your video using a separate program offline and upload the edited videos.

Windows 8 Developer Preview Available for Download Now

Microsoft unveiled about Windows 8 Developer Preview during Build Conference at Anaheim, California. The developer preview version of the new OS by Microsoft is now available for download. There are two verions of new OS available for download, a 32-bit version or a 64-bit version for x86 machine.


Twitter Introduced Web Analytics

Christopher Golda announced on Tuesday (13-09-2011) about Twitter Web Analytics in an official blog post on twitter blog. Web Analytics is a tool that will help website owners to understand how much traffic they are receiving from Twitter and the effectiveness of Twitter integrations on their sites. Twitter Web Analytics is based on BackType, which twas acquired by Twitter in July.

JPEGmini – Reduce the File Size of your Photos by upto 5x

JPEGmini is a startup, promising to reduce the file size of your photos and images in JPEG format by upto 5x.This new photo compression technology not only reduces the overall size of image file but also it preserves the photo’s quality and resolution. JPEGmini has been developed by ICVT. ICVT is an Israel based startup company located in Tel-Aviv. which is dedicated to optimizing media compression technologies. 

PIGORASS: The robot that can Walk, Jump and even Gallop

Yasunori  Yamada a Student of Masters and his engineering team, from the University of Tokyo has developed a musculoskeletal systems of animals called PIGORASS during a robotics study.  This robot can walk, jump and even gallop.  Galloping is a state where all four feet are not touching the ground at the same time. Team members  who worked on PIGORASS robot are Yasunori Yamada, Satoshi Nishikawa, Kazuya Shida and Yasuo Kuniyoshi.

Amazone.com Testing A Redesign

Amazon.com has started testing a redesign of its retail website, the testing began last week and will continue to be rolled out to additional customers, but a full launch date is still not announced. These changes are expected to make Amazon's site more easier to use and to navigate on a tablet computer. Seattle based Amazon is expected to introduce a tablet computer in coming weeks. 

Syma S107 R/C Helicopter: The Coolest Toy for $20

Syma S107 R/C Helicopter is one of the cheapest Toys of its kind for $20 It is, without a doubt, the coolest little gadget for this pricing, It has following qualities; + Very Easy To Fly + All metal chassis, with  very good build quality + Chargeable over USB + Its price is below $20! + Replacement parts are equally cheap +/- You’ll only get about 7 minutes of flight per charge.

Blogger get New User Interface with Fast Speed

As we have already seen many of Google's products started looking a little different across the web, and Now, Blogger is the next product to get the new UI makeover. For last few years blogger have not changed its interface or look. Now engineers at Google has written  the entire editing and management experience from scratch so it’s faster and more efficient for the users.

Dash Technology – iPod Touch to help Orthopedic Surgery

Dash Technology developed by orthopedic implant company Smith & Nephew has been used in first commercial non-experimental orthopedic (knee replacement) surgery in Asia with the aid of an iPod Touch by Arun Mullaji.  The operation was performed at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, Maharashtra in India. Arun Mullaji is a specialist in computer-aided knee replacement surgery. 

Facebook with Bigger and Faster Photos

Justin Chaffer, Product Manager at Facebook revealed in a blog post about the changes that millions of Facebook users will be experiencing in the next few days. Facebook has changed the photos, Photos are now bigger in size and faster in loading, Facebook will now  show photos on a clean white background (it was black previously).  Uploaded images will be bigger Now (720 pixels to 960 pixels.

@Irene: Personal Twitter Account of Hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene now have its personal Twitter account, @Irene. If you Want to know what is happening with Hurricane Irene? Follow her on its personal  Twitter account "https://twitter.com/#!/irene" . As the hurricane heads up the coast, its tweets have intensified. But don’t worry, Irene’s Twitter account status meekly declares, “I don’t want to hurt anyone.” 

NYC Evacuation Zones Help Map for Hurricane Irene

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered a mandatory evacuation in preparation for Hurricane Irene, on Friday afternoon. The official evacuation deadline has been set for 5 p.m. ET Saturday, but residents are being asked to move before New York City transit shuts down at noon Saturday. WYNC started this helping project for the citizens of New York City, If you Want to know, you’re in an evacuation zone or safe?

Walk to Charge your Cell Phone

Charge your Cell Phones by wearing these special shoes, developed by Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Tom Krupenkin who is a professor of mechanical engineering, describes in an article in Nature Communications paper about the energy-harvesting technology known as "reverse electro-wetting" a phenomenon discovered by the two researchers. 

Google rolled out New Sign-in Page

Google rolled out a new sign-in page to selected target audiance, with a similar look of other latest Google Products Interfaces. you can preview this new sign-in page by clicking on a link "Preview it" in a tip box just above the copyrights information on existing google sigin-in page. This is an effort to make all google product interfaces more similar for visitors. This is a part of  larger redesign of Google products.

Artificial Pancreas – Device for Diabetes Patients

Scientists at London have used an "Artificial Pancreas" system of pumps and monitors to improve blood sugar control in diabetes patients in the first study to show the new device works better than conventional treatment. Researchers from Britain's Cambridge University tested the device on 17 children with type 1 diabetes during a series of nights in hospital and found it kept their blood sugar levels within the "normal" range 60 per cent of the time.

Solar Vest

Solar Vest is not only a fashionable Vest, but also your reliable assistant for charging the electronic devices of all kinds, when all power sockets are out of reach. Vest is equipped with 4 safely protected weather proof solar panels. You can pull these panels out and leave in the sun - if you are working or relaxing than put it in the open air. The principle of this clothing is as follows: These Solar panels absorbs solar energy and accumulation.

New Android based Smart Phone – HTC HERO

HTC from Taiwan has announced the release of its next smartphone HTC HERO which is based on Android platform. It has the new user interface "Sense UI". HTC HERO is 1st of Android based devices to support Adobe Flash. In addition, the smartphone has following features; It is equipped with a 3.2-inch HVGA 480 x 320 resulotion display with a special anti- fingerprints coating and Teflon coated external body 5 mega pixel camera with auto focus.

Opera Unite – Web Browser as Web Server

  Long awaited re-invention of web by Opera Software by "Opera Unite" announced on June 16' 2009 is a unique technology. It turns desktop computer or any other device running Opera Browser, into a Web server. In other words, the computer (with Opera Unite installed) is truly a part of the fabric of the Web.This is what anyone can use. Everyday non technical users can share content and services directly from their own computers in the form of intuitive.

USB Solar Charger HUB for Mobiles and Gadgets by DTech

In principle, this 4 port hub can be used in the traditional way. You can connect it to your computer easily. But why, if it can be charged from the Sun? Very convenient that the lithium battery can store charge and release it later - at the right time. This solar charger can be recharged through direct sunlight, AC power or car power.  The set contains a hub with 6 connectors for most popular types of mobiles.  It can charge mobile phones .

Tool to Manage and Organize Tasks

Task list software is useful and beneficial gadget for this modern era.This is the best and most leading tool that provides you detailed information about managing your time. This software is available with all those tools that you need to manage your time successfully. Through this unique software, you can easily manage your task list with calendar. You can manage your task lists, set reminders, appointments.

Cost Effective IT Resources

Information Technology and internet is offering an international presence and change to the businesses. In the past times, 90% of businesses could not run efficiently in the global marketing due to marketing budgets. In fact, IT discoveries have changed the concept of complexity and difficulty. Everything, which is related to IT, is not difficult or impossible. 

MultiStation Dock for External Storage

The device has a very long title of Dual SATA HDD Multi-Function Dock with an interface to connect to a computer via USB + eSATA makes it easy to add and use the 2.5 "and 3.5" hard drives at the same time. In addition, this device serves as a hub for 2 USB ports and card reader. This device is compatible with PCs, as well as with Mac. Its cost is $89. 

Mobidapter – microSD to USB Adapter for Mobile Phones

This device will be useful for those who have phones which are equipped with large amounts of embedded memory. This adapter will allow them to transfer files with a normal USB Stick to the phone or other device with USB interface. This device excludes the need to use the computer as an intermediat place in this transaction. The files from the external USB device can be displayed in the file manager application of mobile phone as from a normal microSD card after you connect the USB stick with your cell phone. The device will appear at shops in mid-June, but the price is still not published.

SATA HDD Multimedia Player Adapter by Brando

  Manufacturer Brando presented quite an interesting adapter for SATA hard drives. Hard disk format 3.5 or 2.5 inch can be connected with the device and it turns into a USB-drive and at the same time in a media player device. It can be connected to a TV or computer display via HDMI cable, media player is able to show the screen format of 1080i (up to 1920 × 1080) through its own application to play the files.

Orange Power Pump at Glastonbury Festival

This excellent device is called Orange Power Pump offered by mobile operator Orange. You can use it to recharge mobile phones, and it works very simply. A small turbine is activated by using a conventional foot pump, the turbine can generate enough energy to power 5 minutes of call time in the time it takes to inflate a pillow.. The size of this useful invention is equal 129mm x 54mm x 47 mm.

iPhone Navigation App by TomTom

The most interesting addition in Apple iPhone 3GS with OS 3.0 is that it can be used as a navigation device and the navigation application is powered by TomTom. This Dutch company is specialized in the production of car navigation systems and software for them. For iPhone TomTom announced a special application (more iPhone resources unlock iphone 3g ), and it will make full use of GPS phone capabilities.


Lightweight Internet Security Application

K7 AntiVirus, a product by K7 Computing is very easy to use and less resource hungry application. It provides security to your computers from virus, Trojans, malware and spyware threats all he time. It is very light weight application, it does not require precious system resources of your system which would be necessory to run a games or some multimedia application. It has very less processing power.

Nokia N97

The Finnish manufacturer of mobile phones, Nokia has announced a new multimedia cell phone Nokia N97, which is, as the producer himself explains, the most advanced model in the series. Innovation is the new flagship of Nseries. This touch screen mobile is equipped with large-size 3.5-inch display, standard QWERTY keyboard, integrated GPS-receiver, electronic compass, support for Wi-Fi and HSDPA.

World’s 1st 2TB Hard Drive by Western Digital

At the website of one of Australia's online stores, there is an unusual product. That is a hard drive from Western Digital with a record high storage capacity of 2 TB. Without any high declaration Western Digital intercepted the initiative of the former leader of capacity Seagate, which has released the first of the world's high capacity HDD (1.5 TB). Western Digital included energy saving technologies.

Blue Earth – A Phone with Solar Panel by Samsung

The phone under the name Blue Earth by Samsung is trying to demonstrate that all they talk is about environmental safety - it is not an empty phrase. As a result, we have the phone, which has a body made of plastic from used plastic bottles by recycling, and supporting eco-mode, which optimally adjusts the brightness of the screen, the duration of illumination and the usage of Bluetooth. 

CLP-315WK – Wireless Color Laser Printer by Samsung

Regardless of how accurate is your work place, the wires make it like a landfill and nobody in office want to have a mess of cables around the desk. The new printer from Samsung is perfect complement to any office through a wireless connection to your computer. Samsung’s new Model CLP-315WK is a wireless color laser printer, which has a compact size and stylish design.






















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