Following the success of the Apple Iphone, Apple’s new invention is The Apple Tablet. It has a 10 inch screen, and when I saw it looked just like a giant iPhone, with a black back. The tablet is as a secondary screen/touchpad for iMacs and MacBooks.
Its coming out late January, so get your credit cards out, its right around the corner. It will cost between $700-$1000 according to rumors on the Internet.
Twitter has recently purchased Mixer Labs, a company that develops location-based applications. The micro-blogging service has purchased the company for an undisclosed sum, to make location broadcasting as an important part of its service. The service is enhanced when current location is added to tweets, resulting to new and valuable services such as finding friends and local businesses; or finding location of breaking news and many more. Twitter does not want to be left behind in offering location-based services as other providers are doing it like Google Maps and Facebook. Mixer Labs has a portfolio that includes a number geo-location products that they will be bringing along to Twitter. These include Reverse Geodecoder (use in finding a city or location with latitudes and longitudes), Media Layers (runs other media services like Twitter, into a geo-specific context) and Places Finder (used for more complex, local geo-queries). The Mixer Labs purchase can also be said as one that took consideration of its talents. Both of its founders are ex-Googlers who had major contributions in the development of Google apps like Google Mobile, Google Toolbar and Google Gears.
The iPhone is a great smartphone but what others have that it lacks is a physical keypad. This handicap is about to be overcomed with the introduction of the BTstack Keyboard application. This app, which is based on the open-source BTstack project, will allow the iPhone (and the iPod) to be connected to a Bluetooth keyboard. The BTstack keyboard runs a daemon on the background of the iPhone where it generates keyboard tap events, resulting to an effect as if you were typing using the on-screen keyboard. But take note that you can use this app only if you are willing to jailbreak your 3G and 3GS iPhones. It is available at the Cydia store for $5. Combined with a portable Bluetooth keyboard, this app can replace your laptop for making notes and writing emails while you are on the road. This allows you to harness the power of the iPhone, which actually is a portable computer at your disposal.
HDMI Licensing, the consortium that formulates the HDMI specifications, has recently announced that the new HDMI version 1.4 will support 3D content. HDMI 1.4 supports a maximum resolution of 4K × 2K (3840×2160p and 4096×2160p); an HDMI Ethernet Channel for 100 Mbps connection between connected HDMI devices; an Audio Return Channel; a new Micro HDMI Connector; and an Automotive Connection System. The new HDMI version will also include specifications for a number of 3D display technologies such as the frame, field or alternative line methods; 2D plus depth methods; and side by side display schemes. The HDMI consortium is scheduled to meet in January to discuss the “Top/Bottom” 3D format. This scheme will sacrifice resolution but will save bandwidth by shoving the left and right images into single frames. With the broadcast industry pushing forward its plans to bring 3D TV to the home by 2010, the introduction of HDMI 1.4 is a timely development. This will ensure compatibility between 3D source and display devices, once they become available.
At present, there are a number of ways you could connect your PC or digital video source to display devices. The most popular are through DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort. An alternative solution is to be introduced to the market by DisplayLink, a semiconductor and software company, starting next year. The new protocol, also called DisplayLink, will allow digital video to run in USB 3.0 standard devices, which has over ten times the speed of USB 2.0. This improvement in bandwidth will make possible the transmission of high definition (HD) video over USB. It is expected that a prototype device will be on display at CES 2010 next month, showing video transfers at around 4.8Gbps speeds. When put into commercial deployment, DiplayLink will allow laptops and netbooks to be connected via USB directly to HD display devices. DisplayLink is being supported by a number of PC manufacturers like HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba and a few others. On LCD display makers, it is only Samsung that has so far come out with models that includes DisplayLink ports.
The new Iphone 4g (aka phone identified as “iPhone3,1″) is coming out in 2010. Its going to rock the world, with even a better model. Does Apple stop? OmniVision Technologies will be making the 5 megapixel camera part of the new Iphone. Apple is expecting their Iphone sales to double next year in 2010. The new phone is expected to have 64G of memory.
The new Iphone is expected to come out late June in 2010. The Iphone claims to have 46% of the smartphone market in Japan. Even Verizon Wireless is currently testing a CDMA version of the iPhone 4G and they do admit to make network changes to bring the iphone to Verizon.
The movie Avatar, takes place in the year 2154 on the faraway moon of Pandora. There exists a blue race (called the Na’vi) of humanoids that have long tails that have special neural power. Their tails can connect with other animals or nature. This blue race is very connected with its past and of nature. There are lot of Native American and environmental references in the movie. The movie is based on science fiction stories. But there is also a spiritual and new age messages, intentionally or unintentionally being said in the movie.
Where does the blue race come from? If you do some digging (no pun intended), there is a claim of a family in Kentucky that had blue skin, also referred to the blue people of Kentucky. Their blue skin will come and go, but never stayed. The last name of the family was Fugate. According to a scientist, the reason why they had blue skin is they have a missing enzyme in the blood, that can sometimes make their appearance a dark blue or purple.
Anyone who has studied new stage material has also understood who the blue people race were. The Bhagavad-gita supports a very ancient race of a blue skinned race with its stories of Lord Krishna. Instead of being an Ang (el) Krishna was described like that of an ‘Avatar’ , god or demi-god. According the the Bhagavad-gita he was a teacher who taught the workings of creation and gave an understanding of a self-realized soul. He taught the people the science of yoga in all its forms.
According to ancient occult myth, the blue race people who had yellow eyes, was one of the original races on earth and lived in Ancient Atlantis. They had a plan to make everyone like their own, so the races can experience their powers as well, so they mated with another race, which then spread across the world.
In the Bible, there are references to the giants that roamed the earth, according to some new age thought, an interpretation of this sentence is these giants were the blue race, which had psychic powers and such as teleportation, ESP, and great intuitive knowledge.
There are some myths that the ancient humans had tails, and there are also stories that people come from monkeys, which is why people have a tailbone. There is also a myth in the Jewish religion, in the Megilah, a book read on the Purim holiday, the character Vashti, the queen of the Persian empire at the time, had a tail.
Is all of humanity today have the blue race as ancestors? Do we all have potential to be psychic?
Who knows, but the movie was great. Amazing special effects and great to see on IMAX theater. What I did learn from the movie is 3d movies are getting better and better, and will launch a new revolution for movie making.
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Flash memory technology may be entering a new phase with the introduction of the organic flash memory device. Existing flash memory devices store data in silicon transistors. Information is written in memory and is retained even when the memory device is powered down. Flash memory is ideal for portable and mobile devices such as USB drives, MP3 players and digital cameras. A flexible version, offered by the new organic flash memory device, may soon be available in applications where ordinary flash memory would not permit. Sample applications are in large-area devices for entertainment and industrial fields. The new technology was developed by scientists working at University of Tokyo’s Department of Engineering and Information Systems. They came out with a stretchable OLED prototype that utilizes the same type of floating-gate transistors usually found in silicon-based flash memories. The flexible memory device memory can be bent down to its minimum curvature radius of 6mm without causing mechanical damage and electrical degradation. If this technology finally finds its way to commercial deployment, we could be seeing soon in the market flexible computing devices that were never before thought possible.
Sony is at the forefront of 3D TV technology with developments in 3D TV displays and peripheral equipment such as the Blu-ray 3D and 3D-compatible PlayStation 3 gaming device. But their DSLR segment is not to be left behind with the news that they are working on 3D versions of their Alpha line of DSLR cameras. Sony could be taking the cue from Fujifilm, which recently came out with the world’s first digital 3D camera, the FinePix REAL 3D W1. This consumer 3D camera was enthusiastically received by consumers when it was launched earlier this year. There are still no 3D DSLR cameras at present in the market and Sony wants its Alpha 3D DSLR to be the first one. There are speculations (and apprehensions) that the new camera will be a big machine with dual lenses protruding from its front. You need not worry because Sony could just follow what they did in their 3D movie cameras that shoot 3D through a single port.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has just announced the release of Bluetooth version 4.0. This came fast because version 3.0 was released only last April of this year. While the aim of Bluetooth 3.0 is to offer faster transfer speeds with the introduction of WiFi transfer (at the expense of high energy consumption), version 4.0 is targeting applications that utilize less energy and require smaller form factors. This new development will make way for new markets in various fields like home entertainment, fitness, sports, security, and healthcare. Sample devices that that can take advantage of Bluetooth 4.0 are wristwatches, remote controls, calculators, biophysical monitors and many more. The new version specifies several power modes – idle, lower peak, average, and 4.0 devices can be powered by standard coin-cell batteries. The specifications also support data packet transfers at speeds up to 1Mbps and provides full AES-128 encryption. The new standard offers two variants – dual-mode that integrates the low energy feature of Bluetooth 4.0 to existing devices, and single-mode that utilizes a lightweight link layer to implement very low-power idle mode to new devices.
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