Whether it's the bustle of the street, the sound of trains, or just normal, everyday noise, there are many moments when you'd rather stick earplugs in your ears. But the Here headphones go one step further. These wireless headphones have a built-in DPS processor (Digital Signal Processing) and therefore the ability to digitally process the audio signal. This gives us control over the sound at the level of signals and frequencies and over the volume, and we personalize it with the associated application, as we would do in a recording studio.
It started with Lego bricks, then we built computers, now, after smartphones, we will build watches. At the Computex 2015 fair in Taipei, the Qualcomm company released a study of the Blocks modular smart watch, which was created in collaboration with the jewelry brand Tateossian. This allows complete freedom to choose functions and other features that we will choose through modules that will serve as part of the strap.
Artificial intelligence is something fascinating and something scary at the same time when we think about what it is capable of. It comes in all kinds of forms, found in smartphones and other devices like robots. One such is the Musio robot from AKA, which puts a friendly face on artificial intelligence. It is a personal robot that wants to be your friend, that learns and helps with daily household chores, answering e-mails, etc.
The GoPro Hero+ LCD is sandwiched between the Hero and Hero4 Silver models, which is considered the "pioneer" of touch screens in GoPro action cameras. If the latter is too expensive for you, this is an excellent compromise in terms of quality and price, because despite its lower rank, it is extremely capable. As the name suggests, it relies on a built-in LCD touch screen, which makes it easy to operate the camera and review captured images.
Microsoft recently announced that the Windows 10 operating system will be released on July 29, 2015. With it, the tech giant will try to regain the trust it lost with Windows 8, but before history begins to judge the tens, let's see what path they Windows had to go through to get to where they are. Windows retrospective, everything from DOS, the golden days of OS Windows 98 and XP, to the quirk we call Windows 8.
Google launched the next version of Android these days. At the annual developer conference Google I/O 2015, they presented Android M, which brings many new functions and successful improvements. Android M focuses on improving software stability and usability.
Although today's weather forecast on TV, computer or mobile device gives us a rather plastic idea of the weather that awaits us, no weather forecast goes as far as Tempescope, a device by Japanese innovators that physically simulates the next day's weather forecast in a transparent box .
If you're looking for a Google Chrome browser extension that will put you in a good mood, the Wurstify extension won't miss you. This gives the online experience a humorous dimension, as it adds a beard to every face you come across online. The add-on supports all websites and uses sophisticated facial recognition technology, with which the beard does not escape anyone.
The Slovenian start-up company Mesi has developed a special medical device, the mTABLET, which measures blood pressure, ECG or lung volume on the patient via wireless modules, and stores the results of the measurements in the patient's electronic file, which is in the cloud. This can be done anywhere and at any time by a general practitioner, an angiologist (vascular disease doctor) or a cardiologist. mTABLET will first go to the United States to seek his fortune.
In times when we capture photos and videos like crazy and in high resolutions, it quickly happens that we run out of available space on the memory of the mobile device, because these are extremely space-hungry and smartphones or tablets quickly burst at the seams. That's why we resort to cloud services, where even free space dries up quickly. Google consigns such issues to the dustbin of history with the Google Photos app, which offers unlimited photo and video storage.
Google Now just got smarter. Namely, Google introduced the new text and voice function Now on Tap, which allows the personal assistant on Android to examine everything that is happening on the screen and automatically take appropriate actions. Putting this into practice: Now on Tap will constantly collect information about the email we read, the news, the music we listen to, and it will even remember the route we drove. Then, with the help of the collected information, it will do us a favor – it will play us music, tell us what the weather will be like, reserve a free seat for us on the subway or in a restaurant, etc.
Microsoft today announced that Windows 10 will be available starting July 29 in 190 countries as a free upgrade for existing Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users. Built with the help of more than 4 million users from around the world, Windows 10 heralds the start of a new era of personal computing designed to empower people.