Simple Chain Barrier ... Old School in New Tech Way

Smart-Glasses For the Visually Impaired

OrCam utilizes the power of today's advanced "Artificial Vision" technology to see what's in front of the wearer, process it and convey the acquired information to the user through a bone-conduction earpiece. The user simply wears a special small glass piece just like "Google Glass" which has the ability to read and understand words, symbols, and even faces. Do watch the practical demonstration video shared ahead.

Future of Dining

Easiest Way to Watch Hulu, Netflix and Pandora Outside the United States

In the past we have seen many ways using which we can bypass the country restrictions imposed by sites like Hulu and Netflix and browse them like a US user to watch videos. The latest service employ the process of changing our DNS connection and allows us to browse these restricted websites.

There is an easier way to this:

Open the Media Hint homepage on your browser (Firefox or Chrome) and click on the button Start Using. Depending upon the browser you are using, you will be redirected to Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-on Center from where you can install the extension.

 

After the extension is installed on your browser, restart it. You will not notice any change in your browser extension area but wait till you open Hulu or Netflix…they will no longer show you country restriction banner! So, as I already mentioned, all you need to do is install the extension.

Cardboard Box Re-Invented - The Rapid Packing Container

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.

Hidden Chips Inside Chinese Electric Iron And Kettles

 
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.

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.

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/

Carjackers Reveal New Car Hacking Attacks

A couple of hackers show off a series of nasty new attacks on cars to Forbes and shared them on video for everybody, do watch the video posted below.

Handphone Rescue

Source: PartSelect.com

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.

 

Our Perspective from Space

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.

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.

Google Glass, How Guys Will Use Them - The future is here ladies..

The Buzz on Apple iWatch

Last week, it was confirmed that Apple is creating a smart watch. But what will it do?

StickNFind - Lost Something! Someone! Fear Not

Ultra small Sticker with Bluetooth, that you can stick on any device, person or animal, and find them with your Smart Phone (Apple iOS & Android).

 

 

Diminished Reality Video Software

The possibility of this type of Technology is limitless for both Good and Bad.

http://youtu.be/FgTq-AgYlTE

Mixed Signals

When this gorgeous model uses motion-control technology, her Samsung Smart TV isn't the only thing that reacts.

http://youtu.be/Dt3SWp9IjkA