Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker that sold around 7 million android based handsets in the year 2012 alone, is now setting its sights on bigger and better things. The company has not officially stated the presence of a smart TV in its repertoire just yet though leaked images of the back end of a TV with the Xiaomi logo on it has been spotted by a Chinese tech website.
We live in a world of webcams and high tech videography equipment that is easily available in the market. As great and handy as these options are capturing video, they don’t really provide a fine audio recording experience. Even though most video cams record decent audio, they simply aren’t geared towards capturing great audio. And this lack of readily available voice recording equipment has led to the birth of the Zoom H6 handy recorder. A Zoom North America original, the recorder is one of the more advanced portable sound recorders on the planet and provides simultaneous recording on half a dozen tracks.
Owing a boombox was pretty much a rite of passage for teens and young adults in the 1980s and early 1990s. For the pre-walkman, CD player and mp3 player generation, boomboxes were the only form of entertainment that they could share with their peeps while hanging out. However, the modern generation of kids has become a lot more accustomed to keeping their music private which may be convenient for others that share the public space with them but it also kind of isolates them from society.
Photography enthusiasts who have worked with old time camera know just how alluring SLRs from years gone by could be. However, most such models have been replaced by DSLRs today and you would only find old timey units on eBay these days. However, Lomography AG, the new photography collective and movement has launched a new DIY construct yourself camera called the Konstruktor which would allow members of the public to use old camera technologies today.
Rumors of Samsung’s camera-centric smartphone have been floating for quite some time now. However, the company has now put those rumors to rest by unveiling the Galaxy S4 Zoom officially. The device is indeed a part of the Galaxy S4 series though its phone specs fall short of the latest S4 handset. That being said, the device more than makes up for it with its stunning 16 megapixel camera that comes with Xenon flash and 10x optical zoom.
Twitter is undoubtedly the founder of the hashtag craze. The format of the micro blogging site did not allow people to view all the relevant content at one go which is why they invented the hashtags to make Twitter searches a lot easier. However, the format of the biggest social networking site on the face of the planet, Facebook, has always been a lot simpler and open and you can search for items on your own and others’ profile with ease.
Yesterday, Apple finally put all speculation to rest and unveiled the new version of the iPhone operating system. Created by Jony Ive, Apple’s famed in-house design expert, iOS 7 appears to give the smartphone a whole new look. The 3D effect that was standard in the home screen icons in previous OSes has been given up in favor of a more flat iconography. Green felt and fake leather dominated color palate has also been redone in favor of a more translucent aesthetic and the new interface shows off a more vibrant array of hues in lighter shades.
At the moment, silicon photodiodes-based digital image sensors are used in all kinds of cameras to capture light. However, researchers from Fujifilm and Panasonic are jointly working on a new kind of image sensor that would not be based on silicon at all! The new kind of image sensor technology claims to use a new organic layer instead of silicone and if its tests come out positive, it could change everything we know about imaging so far.
The world of cellular phones has come a long way since we first got our hands on the basic Nokia and Motorola designs. These days, the launch of each new phone is accompanied not only by a bunch of rumors and speculations but also by a whole lot of controversy where various manufacturers and their teams of legal eagles keep a keen eye out for patent infringements in new designs and models being launched by rival manufacturers. The launch of the new HTC Tiara the upcoming Windows Phone 8 smartphone too faced its fair share of all the usual mayhem though the company has managed to keep it away from controversy so far.
After receiving a lot of flak for not launching a physical model of the new PS4 video game console when it initially announced the new product in February earlier this year, Sony has finally revealed the console at the E3 2013. The new console looks a lot like the Xbox One and shares its physical design with the PlayStation 2. The partially matte, partially shiny design is somewhat slanted though the all black visage certainly looks very appealing indeed.
