11 December 2013

What Those Lights on your Deshboard Says


No "Right" and "Wrong" Sides to New USB Type-C Connecter



The next generation USB connectors, known as USB Type-C, will be thinner, sleeker and will have the advantage of fitting into the drive both ways (up and down), meaning you'll be able to plug one in irrespective of which way up it is.

Industry review of the Type-C specification is scheduled to take place in the first quarter of 2014, with publication of a final specification expected in the middle of the year.

Industrial experts and major companies supporting the format — informs that an adapter will be necessary for the use of current USB devices with future PCs, smartphones or tablets with support for the new format.

Faster

USB Type-C will be able to transfer data at a rate of around 640Mbps, which is an improvement over USB 2.0 and microUSB which have transfer speeds of around 480Mbps, but is some way off the 10Gbps speed offered by USB 3.1.

Another key benefit of the new USB standard will be that Type-C will have the to charge devices with larger batteries faster than before, again something likely to appeal to smartphone and tablet manufacturers.

The new USB cables will allow a much higher amount of power to be transferred across the cable, meaning that the problem of not having enough AC adapters and plug sockets could become a thing of the past. 

For example, you could power your desktop monitor and desktop PC using a single power cable, with the new USB cable transferring power from one to the other.

05 December 2013

LG G Flex: Self-Healing, Flexible Display Smartphone

 
 Flexible displays are something we will be seeing more often in computer, mobile and consumer electronics. LG has now taken the lead by releasing world's first self-healing smartphone featuring a flexible display, G Flex features it's signature uniquely curved chassis which is slightly bent along its horizontal axis. LG's logic behind the curved design is that your fingers need to cover shorter distance compared to a flat screen for typing and watching movies at a distance on 1 feet will offer a viewing experience similar to a 55-inch TV at a distance of 10 feet. Don't miss the hands-on videos shared below.




13 November 2013

Hidden Chips Inside Chinese Electric Iron And Kettles

 China is planting spying microchips in Electric Iron and kettles that can scan Wi Fi devices to serve malware
News reports from Russia's state-owned channel Rossiya 24 showed footage of a technician opening up an iron included in a batch of Chinese imports to find a "spy chip" with "a little microphone" embedded into it. These hidden, embedded electronic chips are scanning and connecting to any computer within a 200m radius with unprotected Wi-Fi networks, once connected these "Trojan devices" were being used to spread viruses.

While the report says that the malware is being used to send SPAM, piggy-banking on infected computer's internet connection and resources without the owner's knowledge about it, our recent story "Hidden Backdoor In Your Internet Router - With Love, From China !!" and the fact that the rogue devices had "an microphone" further establishes the fact that these are or can be used for spying. The researchers also found other products having these rogue components including mobile phones, car dashboard cameras and electric kettles.

13 September 2013

Phonebloks, a LEGO-like Smartphone Concept that Sounds Way Smarter

This is amazing: a sleek, LEGO-like smartphone built out of reconfigurable blocks with little gold-colored electricity-channeling connector pins, where each of the blocks is like a bullet point on a spec sheet — battery, processor, memory, storage, audio, wireless chip, gyroscope, you name it.
Want to slide in a faster processor? Just swap out a block. Cracked screen? Off with the old, on with the new. Don’t need the camera? Or maybe you do everything online and don’t need local storage? The freed up space might let you drop in a bigger battery or detach non-essential components you don’t want leeching electricity.
The front side of the phone is a screen, which doesn’t break apart into blocks because there’s no reason for it to. It’s connected to a base that’s basically a pegboard. Think of the phone as a pegboard sandwich, the screen on one side and all the little blocks clapped into the other, the whole assembly locked into place with a pair of tiny screws.
It’s not just about customizability, either. Phonebloks creator Dave Hakkens argues there’s a powerful conservationist angle, too:
Every day we throw away millions of electronic devices because they get old and become worn out. But usually it’s only one of the components that causes the problem. The rest of the device works fine but is needlessly thrown away, simply because electronic devices are not designed to last. This makes electronic waste one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world. And our phone is one of the biggest causes.


04 September 2013

Clover 3 Adds Tab To Windows Explorer


This free Windows explorer extension enables multi-tab functionality similar to Google Chrome browser with a convenient bookmark toolbar for fast access to frequent locations on file-system, support for controlling tabs using keyboard shortcuts further enhance it's usability to get file-explorer tasks done quickly.
http://ejie.me/

23 August 2013

SOUL OF SCIENCE

SOUL OF SCIENCE by Daniel Martin Diaz 128-page art book that explores the mystery of science, nature, anatomy, consciousness, and the power of symbols http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8pooh8ezSA 

http://danielmartindiaz.com/soulofscience.php

Hipster Logo Design Guide

http://www.fastcodesign.com/multisite_files/codesign/slideshow/2013/08/1673156-slide-750hlgposter-1.jpg

16 August 2013

Russsian Dashboard Cams Capture Hair Raising Clips

HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS FOR THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE !!
A collection of near misses and lucky escapes for some.
But unsure about the fatalities rate there.
Winter driving is indeed dangerous anywhere.
This is why Russians use dash cams, (dashboard cameras) - 
amazing! (AND REALLY SCARY!)

AES Hidden Cameras you may Not Notice

REMINDER
& UPDATED HIDDEN CAMERAS

AES Hidden Cameras you may not notice
 

The hidden cameras will not give you a photo but 
the pole ones would come with a photo of your car.




 

Where you can find them????
 PLUS North Bound (ke Utara) 

*Under a bridge at about 456km, Sg Buloh junction.

*Under a bridge at about 459km, Bukit Lanjan interchange.

*Under the overhead restaurant at Sg Buloh. 

*Under the last bridge before Sg Besi toll at 309.2km.

*Under the bridge at 296.5km, Bangi junction. 

*Under the newly constructed bridge at 289.0km, after Nilai North junction.

*Under the bridge at 286.5km, Nilai North junction.


PLUS South Bound (ke Selatan) *Below signboard at about 454.6km and 455.2km, Sg Buloh layby. *Under the bridge after Subang junction at 11.3km.*Under the bridge at 22km, Bukit Lanjan junction.  *Under the bridge before Mint hotel, Sg Besi Toll. 80km/h only! *Under the bridge at 302.8km, Kajang junction. *About 1km south of Bangi junction, both south and north bound outer lanes *At 296.5km and 297km, Bangi junction. *Under the newly constructed bridge at 289.0km, before Nilai North junction. *At 285.5km and 285.8km, Nilai North junction. *On center divider at 251.8km and 253km after Senawang junction. *After Alor Gajah junction at 213.9km, next to water theme park.*Behind the right hand crash barrier at 198.4km.   
Elite Central Link East/North Bound *On left hand side at 4.8km after Batu Tiga/Shah Alam exit *Under the overhead restaurant at USJ/Hicom junction about 8.5km. 90km/h zone! *Below the bridge before USJ/Hicom junction at 10.5km
 
Elite Central Link West/South Bound *Under the overhead restaurant at USJ/Hicom junction about 8.5km. 90km/h zone!  *Below the bridge before USJ/Hicom junction at 10.5km.*After exit from KLIA toll to the airport, below Jalan Pekeliling flyover. 90km/h  
 
NKVE East/North Bound*300m before Jalan Duta toll, 60km/h!  *Behind crash barrier on the left when going towards Jalan Duta toll, at 24.9km, 80km/h *Below bridge at Damansara Junction, 17.5km
 
 NKVE West/South Bound *Behind crash barrier on the left when leaving Jalan Duta toll from KL, at 25.3km and 25.7km, 80km/h!  *From Jln Duta, below the bridge, 23km, 80km/h zone! *From Jln Duta, at the underpass at Sg Buloh Y-junction, 22km.*Behind crash barrier at Damansara Junction, 17.7km and 16.8km *Below railway bridge at 11.2km *Under the bridge at Shah Alam junction. 


Kesas East Bound

*Under the bridge at 44.8km, downhill run after Puchong junction.


Kesas West Bound
*At Sg Besi side of East Bound Toll. Kuala Lumpur City
*Jalan Duta; below the flyover at the Damansara junction, 70km/h zone.
Klang

*Dual carriageway between Klang and Port Klang. Towards Klang direction, at about 13km mile stone. 70km/h only!


East Coast

*Road sign at Karak highway is inadequate especially at Y junction; if you are unfamilar, 
go slow. 
*East bound, downhill run after Raub junction. 
*Maran, 60km/h zone. 
*Paya Bungor, 70km/h zone. 



SPEED TRAPS IN JOHOR South Bound 
*Tangkak junction. 
*Under the bridge after Yong Peng 

North junction 
*at 97.3km. 
*Ayer Hitam junction. 
*Sedenak junction.



SPEED TRAPS IN 
PERLIS, KEDAH AND PENANG

North Bound

*Around Ayer Hitam in 60km/h zone. 
*Before Perwaja Steel. 
*Sg Petani junction. 
*Between Seberang Jaya junction and Sg Dua Toll. 
* Penang Bridge at island end.Speed limit 80km/h

South Bound

* Penang Bridge island end. Speed limit 80km/h. 
*About 2km before Juru Toll Speed limit 90km/h. 



SPEED TRAPS IN PERAK 
North Bound 
*Under the bridge at 197.1km and 198.8km, after Kamunting Junction.
*Under the bridge at 204.3km, after Kamunting Junction.
*Under the bridge at 208km, before Kamunting Junction.
*Under the bridge at 214.8km, before Kamunting junction.
*Ipoh Vista Point at about 263km. Speed limit 80km/h.
*Under the bridge at 271km, Ipoh North Junction. 
*Under the bridge at 274.4km, Ipoh South Junction.
*Under the bridge at 286.9km, Simpang Pulai Junction.
*Under the bridge at 296km, Gopeng Junction. 
*Under the bridge at 352.6km, after Sungkai Junction.
*Under the bridge at 353km, Sungkai Junction. 
*Under the bridge at 373km, Slim River Junction. 

South Bound

*Under the bridge at 199km, before Kamunting junction.
*Under the bridge at 241.9km, at Kala u Kangsar junction.
*Under the sign post at 296.1km, before Gopeng Junction.
*Under the bridge at 297km, at Gopeng Junction. 
*Under the bridge at 300km, after Gopeng junction.
*Under the bridge at 308.6km, after Gopeng junction.
*Under the bridge at 372.6km, at Slim River junction.

Shark inside a Shark

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After casting a small fish called a menhaden, a small shark called a dogfish was quick to snatch the bait, only to be swallowed by the much larger sand tiger shark. “The dogfish was about 3 feet long and completely swallowed by the sand tiger shark,”


24 July 2013

Control Your PC With Hand Gesture Using Flutter App On Both Windows And Mac

With Flutter, play and pause your songs, movies, and shows with gestures using hand. It detects your gestures through the webcam and responds according to it. It can control Windows Media Player, Spotify, Quicktime, Winamp and iTunes. Flutter sits silently in the notification area and only spring up to action once you perform the hand gesture in front of the webcam and the music is stopped. Once you are ready to start listening again, show your hand in a similar manner and the music will start playing again. The app delivers a perfect experience while playing and pausing music with hand gestures.

 How flutter works

03 June 2013

Burglars beware: Hovering "home drone" will hunt you down

Japanese security firm Secom has a warning for would-be robbers - keep your eye on the sky because a soon-to-be-launched security drone will track you down.
The drone has been designed to fly to the scene of a break-in and wait until the perpetrator tries to leave.

14 May 2013

Richard Branson lost bet to Tony Fernandes

On Sunday, Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson dressed up in female flight attendant's uniform complete with bright red skirt suit, fishnet stockings and patent leather flats.Billionaire playboy Richard Branson dressed up as a female flight attendant and worked as a stewardess on an Air Asia charity flight from Perth to Kuala Lumpur after he lost a bet to Air Asia chief executive Tony Fernandes. The bet was about whose teams would finish first in the 2010 Formula One Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi.

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About 300 passengers on board were treated to a skyhigh show, with Branson - sporting AirAsia’s short, tight red uniform and a full face of makeup - even performing a safety demonstration, which earned applause. 

About 300 passengers on board were treated to a skyhigh show, with Branson – sporting AirAsia’s short, tight red uniform and a full face of makeup – even performing a safety demonstration, which earned applause.Richard-Branson-female-stewardess-7 

While serving, he mischievously upended the entire contents on Fernandes.

While serving, he mischievously upended the entire contents on Fernandes.

“It slipped, it really did,” he insisted.

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07 May 2013

CaseTop - Turn Any Smartphone Into a Laptop

A unique concepts has started it journey over on the Kickstarter crowd funding website called, Casetop, which has been designed to allows you to transform your smartphone into a notebook device.
The Casetop concept is the brain child of Livi Design and Casetop is compatible with any Smartphone that is equipped with a video out option and Bluetooth, including Apple, HTC, Blackberry 10 and Samsung smartphones. Watch the video after the jump to learn more about the Casetop project and see it in action.












Global Rich List - Find Out Where You Stand in Wealth To The Rest Of The World

If you wanted to checkout your personal world richness rankings, here is something for you.
The Global Rich List allows users to input yearly earnings or total wealth figures in local currency to compare their wealth with that of the rest of the world.