With a lot of legal battles over patents going on, every company is quick to file patents for any new idea or technology that it comes up with. Analysts have tracked Apple’s progress by reading the different patents filed by it, since they show the technological advancement happening at Apple’s headquarters. In this latest patent, Apple has filed a patent for the facial recognition feature in iOS devices.
Did you know about the designer who truly revolutionized Apple products by devising the sleekest, top-quality designs for them? Hartmut Esslinger is hailed as the designer who took Apple from a common start-up to a brand which resounded with an international audience. Here’s an image of an ‘iPhone’ like device that he designed as far back as 1983.
The demise of Kim Jong-II was hailed as a great tragedy by the state agencies of North Korea. Videos of mourning and crying fans were shown on TV. Kim Jong really strived hard to maintain ‘order’ in North Korea, or so his reign claimed. And the latest attempt in maintaining this order was by Photoshopping the photos of Kim Jong’s Funeral by North Korean Central News Agency.
It might be LG’s time. Few days earlier LG Electronics announced its 55-Inch OLED TV and Stylish 3D Glasses to release in 2012 and now it just announced to bring another superb 84-inch “Ultra Definition” (3840 x 2160) 4K TV at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in the coming year, 2012. This time LG is firmed to release 4K TV in 2012 because they wanted and failed to release it in 2011. Moreover, it is being called ‘World’s Largest’ TV.
Chpwn made headlines all around the tech world last week when he was successful in porting Siri to iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. He is back again with yet another awesome multi-tasking tweak for iPhone and iPod Touch. Named Zephyr, this new tweak allows for new multi-tasking gestures for these devices and allows for a quick, smooth switching between apps with just a single finger swipe.
Zip Browser is a very useful app developed by Alexander Rudenko. This app will help you to view Zip files like PDF files any other files from your iOS devices. Zip Browser was cost $.99 in iTunes store. But it’s totally FREE now to download from iTunes store under Utilities category.
Apple had announced earlier that iTunes Connect, Apple’s developer portal will be offline for a few days during Christmas and that developers won’t be able to access it. According to the announcement, it was to stay offline from Dec 22 to Dec 29. But rather then the scheduling restart, the portal resumes early on Wednesday. The developers, who were earlier getting a ‘Sorry We’re closed’ message were finally able to access it.
NVIDIA Quadro 6000 by PNY – World’s First 6 GB Professional Graphics Solution NVIDIA Quadro 6000 by PNY delivers the industry’s largest 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory. Built on the innovative NVIDIA Fermi architecture and providing 448 NVIDIA CUDA parallel processing cores, the Quadro 6000 is a true technological breakthrough delivering up to 5X faster performance across a broad range of design, animation and video applications.
Smile Alarm is a very interesting app which include 6 Games, 13 Clocks, iPod Music, Quotes, Sleep Timer in one app. This app is developed by Antoan Tateosian and cost $2.99 in iTunes Store. Finally the good news is now you don’t have to pay any thing to use this app. It’s totally FREE now to download from iTunes store under Productivity category.
For those for whom ordinary is not an option, Samsung brings the B2030 monitor. This 20″ monitor features a rich glossy black finish accented by an elegant clear acrylic bar along the bottom bezel. Inside, leading-edge technology results in picture quality second to none with 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and 1,600 x 900 resolution. To save energy and money, the MagicEco feature allows you to work at 100%, 75% or 50% brightness. And for ease of use, the MagicReturn feature automatically displays dual-monitor content on a single monitor when one monitor is powered off.
HD-PVR Gaming Edition is a high definition (HD) video recorder for Gaming Consoles and PCs. It records video in an H.264 Blu-ray compatible format to your PC from any component video equipped Game Console with component out, like Xbox360, PlayStation 3 and Wii. This Gaming Edition includes a 3 in 1 component cable for use with the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. This cable is a $30 value. In addition, it will record from HD cable TV and Satellite set top boxes. The HD PVR records at video resolutions up to 1080i in real time using a built-in hardware H.264 encoder. Audio is recorded using AAC or Dolby Digital. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP with Service pack 2.
At beginning of this year (2011), German automaker Daimler unveiled the third generation Electric Smart Mini Car at the Frankfurt Auto Show. The Mini Electric Smart for Two is faster, longer-lasting and specially made for highway. According to the schedule, it is supposed to be in market in Spring 2012, but unfortunately, the Third generation city-dweller ‘Smart’ has just been delayed until Fall of 2012.
Finally, Sony and Samsung have decided to break up their 7 Years friendly relationship of S-LCD. S-LCD Corporation is the joint venture of The Japanese Entertainment and Electronics Giant Sony Corp and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. whose vision was to create a new defination of LCD TV.
Before the launch of iPhone 4S, a number of news sources had claimed that the back of the device would be made up of metal instead of reinforced glass. But the actual design of iPhone 4S trashed these arguments. However, the same set of rumours are back. Some sources are claiming, yet again, that the next iPhone will support a metal back. Not only that, they state that it will have a rubber material on the sides which will let the outside serve as antenna.
Though in February 2011, Liu Zhijun, former Railways Ministry chief of China, was accused of pocketing $122 million USD and subsequently terminated from his position from corruption charges and in July 2011, a collision between two high-speed trains in Wenzhou killed at least 40 people and injured another 210, for which, construction of new high-speed trains in China had been Halt nearly, this past weekend, China’s largest train provider CSR Corp Ltd. launched a new high speed test train, which is able to cross 310 mile (500 Kilometer) per hour. New shape, design, technology, all in one in this train has been made to resemble an ancient Chinese sword.
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