Social Media Celebrities and Microstars
Social media have become one of the easiest ways to find fame and fortune. Nowadays, even a teenager can catapult to prominence if he is lucky and smart enough. The Web is not an “American Idol,” but it has already helped dozens of people become famous and make their living. These Web celebrities and microstars are viral and popular. One may think that it is difficult to become a Web celebrity so let’s view several stories of breakout Web microstars.
Read MoreOnline Dating Services: More than Just Dating
Have you ever thought about the time you usually spend with your smartphone and how exactly it might be helpful to you? It is quite difficult nowadays to imagine our lifestyle without having powerful smartphones boosted with numerous features. It can be really useful in various life situations and what is more it has a small comfortable size so it is the right device to be always taken with you wherever you go.
Read MoreTomTom Introduces Hands-Free Car Kit for Smartphone
Market has plenty of cheap windscreen suction mounts for smartphones that offer variable mounting options. The problem is that headsets, visor mounts, and other peripherals are necessary but not very convenient for a hands-free operation with these suction mounts. Motorists looking for a real hands-free smartphone cradle can check TomTom’s Hands-free Car Kit for Smartphone.
Read MoreAT300 is Toshiba’s Latest Tablet
After the design of the Toshiba AT100-100 tablet did not appeal to some consumers and critics, the company produced a textured aluminum backing and silver trim for the AT300 instead of the cheap rubberized backing of the AT100. Measuring 8.5mm in thickness and 590g in weight, the AT300 is the Japanese company’s latest tablet that goes under the name of Toshiba Excite
Google’s Android Goes Closely behind iOS
While Apple stringed its customers along with its new devices, Google took a moment and improved its achievement, reaching more than 500 million of Android activations. This news became known after Google’s mobile chief Andy Rubin tweeted that there were half a billion Android activations, it is about 1.3 million new every day. Meanwhile the “fruit company” has nearly 515,000 iOS-powered device added every day according to the results of the second quarter, while just a year ago, Google announced 700,000 activations.
Read MoreGet Control on House Lighting via Special App
The popular crowd funding website for creative projects is a newcomer on the world’s stage nevertheless it gets crowds of supporters daily. One of the latest project that was shown on Kickstarter is a special light bulb that would be powered with iOS and Android app allowing users to control the lightning in the house. The project is named LIFX and it is a LED bulb that will be saving energy with the theoretical operating life up to 25 years. The initial goal of the project was to get $100,000 on Kickstarter but the LIFX beat all expectations as it obtained $260,000 over 58 days.
Read MoreMost Stable Optical Resonator in the World
The latest news from the science world says that the group of international developers created unique frequency stability laser. The scientists’ invention can make a real change in optical spectroscopy that deals with highest resolution ever reached. The new stable laser will be suitable for optical atomic clocks as it produces a radiate light that runs with a highly constant frequency, according to the developers. Such laser systems might be helpful in commerce in case it gets some modifications in optical resonators. They consist of two mirrors with high reflection, that are located at a certain distance by means of a spacer. One of the main features in the resonator is its length as it specifies the frequency of light with which the device will be oscillating. To make a laser really stable with the stabile resonators’ length, the mirrors’ distance in the optical resonators should be invariable.
Read MoreiPhone 5’s Radical Connector Design Change
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Intel: No More Passwords
A number of social networks one uses at once led to the multiple accounts with different logins, while the fact that the cyber attacks become more frequent resulted in the need to create different passwords for each social outlet and even online banking. However, it is really difficult to remember all of them, that is why the chip maker corporation, Intel, plans to develop prototype technology that will replace all passwords. For this purpose the company’s researchers have incorporated a tablet with a specific software and biometric sensor that perceives lines on a person’s palm.
Read MoreThe Sony NEX-6 as a Hybrid Compact System Camera
Sony NEX-6 is a hybrid containing some of the features of Sony’s two other compact system cameras, the enthusiast level NEX-5R and the high-end NEX-7. A quick check of the NEX-6 compact system camera will show that it has the phase-detection sensor, remote shooting, and file transfer features of the NEX-5R. Sony’s new compact system camera also has the NEX-7’s XGA 2,359k-dot OLED electronic viewfinder and 3-inch 921k-dot TruBlack tilting LCD. The NEX-6 is one of the few compact system cameras with a built-in viewfinder. Users can also play back images in the viewfinder or see how an image will appear before pressing the shutter release.
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