The concept of pop-up books or jump books is well known to us from childhood. It was also published by Kelli Anderson, but not some fairy tales, but a pop-up book, where there is a three-dimensional folding book that unfolds and jumps out of the covers, a working pinhole camera! The book "This Book Is a Camera" by the designer and art history teacher teaches us on a theoretical and practical level how a camera uses light to create a picture.
The Huawei Mate S smartphone is not only beautifully elegant to look at and powerful. It also boasts the latest technology that upgrades touch control. The fingerprint reader on the back takes care of this. It is placed exactly where the thumb is in a normal position. However, it is not only used for safe unlocking, although it does this in an exemplary manner, without errors and, above all, lightning fast. Find out more below.
We are not used to LG Electronics sending metal smartphones to the market, but for the Zero, LG thought of new clothes. So he put on it a light and thin metal case made of aluminum. It is an extremely powerful phone that is also coming to the European market at an extremely attractive price of 269 euros. And what will we get for this 147 grams of technology?
We all know that many electromagnetic signals surround us at an invisible level, but since we cannot see them, we often forget about their existence. But the application for the iPad tablet, Architecture of Radio, offers an insight into another dimension, as it reveals to us what is happening around us at the level of electromagnetic radiation or signal waves. Insight into another dimension is fascinating on the one hand, and a bit creepy on the other.
We all know that technology makes our lives a lot easier - whether we want to admit it or not. This is the reason why technological toys are such an important and effective part of our existence. Everything from tablets and smartwatches, from weird and impressive tech gadgets to super "cool" laptops - a good tech device should look good, and its performance should impress us. And what impressed us the most in 2015? We present to you the best technological gadgets of 2015 as chosen by the editors.
Nailbot is no ordinary printer. It is a printer made especially for women, because it takes care of nail painting. It was signed by a group of female engineers united in the start-up company Preemadona. Don't expect this printer to print anything on a sheet of paper, but you will be able to wear unique designs on your nails that you have chosen using the mobile application. And another good news. The entire manufacturing process takes only 5 seconds.
Some time ago, Ikea introduced furniture for wireless charging of smartphones and tablets, but now it wants to go one step further. Heat Harvest will collect waste heat in the house and turn it into electricity. The thermoelectric device is the work of Sergej Komardenkov and Vihanga Goro and will be incorporated into furniture such as a table. It will collect the heat given off by objects like a hot cup of coffee and a computer and turn it into free electricity that we can use again. For example, to charge smartphones.
The Sound of Power (SOP) loudspeakers are a tribute to the statues and busts that our grandmothers and grandfathers loved to collect. It is a modern reincarnation of these classic dust collectors, which have not only aesthetic but also sound attributes. It's a whole new genre of busts as speakers, and currently the series includes Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un, and in the future they will be joined by other world leaders who splashed out on democracy lessons in school.
The digital world can be a scary place, haunted by the virtual equivalent of monsters – hackers. If we want our phone to defend our data from all these horrors, then maybe it's time to think about capable applications specialized in encryption and protection. Here are the apps that will make our smartphone more secure.
Remember Tom Cruise in the movie Minority Report when he only used his hands to operate the computer? This kind of technology is now finally available and it goes by the name of Gest. Gesture is an innovative peripheral unit that allows you to control your computer using only hand gestures. Given that our computers are no longer boxes under the table and soon they will no longer be laptops but smartphones, with technology such as Gest, the mouse and keyboard are likely to be slowly retired as well.
Are smart watches "meteors" for classic wristwatches? Although classic wristwatches will not become fossils so quickly, even traditional watch providers do not want to leave anything to chance or technological evolution and the law of "stronger". Who will win in the end, whether smart or classic watches, or whether they will co-exist, is still hard to say, but the fact is that watch providers who have been with us in the past will have to adapt to modern needs. TAG Heuer has already done this, followed by Movado, and now the Fossil brand has expanded its "vehicle fleet" with a line of smart watches, whose first representative is the Q Founder.
Thanks to computers, the Internet and telepresence, more and more people today can work remotely. This offers many advantages for both the employee and the employer. But physical presence at the workplace also has its benefits. That's why a double robot called Double was created, which enables our presence in the office, even though we are actually at home. And so we are not deprived of any chat over coffee.