Sony

Sony takes sound to a new level.

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Sony made it’s OLED display into a speaker to take TV audio above and beyond.

In our quest for the perfect flat screen – speakers are usually the first casualty but Sony is on a mission to change this.

Their Bravia OLED TV’s have done something simple in theory but complex in design – they’ve turned the actual glass of the TV into speakers.

The TV aims to create depth and space to literally put you in the action by directing the sound from it’s visual source or from speaker placed around the room. Results of this new technology mean an immersive viewing experience with picture and sound in harmony.

Apple Sneakers

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Apple don’t make just great computers, in fact in the 80’s and 90’s Apple had a swipe at the fashion industry! Yes you heard me correctly, the fashion industry!

Heritage Auction House are planning to put up a pair of Sneakers made by Apple, which according to them are from the early 1990’s and according to the Verge will go up for auction on June 11th. The sneakers were made for thier employees exclusively and featured the iconic rainbow Apple logo. The sneakers sell for around $15K and Heritage are estimating their value is more towards the $30K value.

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DJI Spark

DJI Spark

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DJI Spark is a mini drone that features all of DJI’s previous products signature technologies, including: intelligent flight control options, a mechanical gimbal and a camera that takes spectacular images with great quality!

Other special features include:

  • Quick Launch – This is where the Spark recognises your face (FaceAware), lifts off from the palm of your hand, takes off and hovers in the air.
  • Simple Control – Take amazing photos by controlling the Spark with only a gesture of the hand! You are the controller!
  • Create With Ease – This feature allows you to create cinematic aerial videos with intuitive controls and Intelligent Flight Modes.
  • Edit and Share – Editing and then sharing your pictures or videos on social media is made simple! The DJI GO 4 app features automatic editing templates and a selection of filters. Quickly edit and then share!

To buy a DJI Drone click here!

 

Google Ad Block

Google Ad-Blockers

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Google are currently working on an ad-blocker called ‘Funding Choices’.

Ad-blocking programs are designed to protect consumers from the intrusive web ads that slow down browsers and suck up personal data.

Majority of publishes and producers rely on advertising revenue, so the ad-blockers take ‘a big toll on their companies. So giving the consumers the option to pay for ad-blocking would cover these expenses.

Recent figures from Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) show that 22% of UK adults use ad-blocking services online and in 2016 alone, the service Ad Blocker Plus claimed to have over 100 million active users worldwide.

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WWDC

Pre Apple WWDC

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What to expect from WWDC 2017 (Apple Worldwide Developers Conference held annually in California, US).

What are the latest upgrades and operating systems going to involve? Finally we will be talking about the rumours and speculations about the possible refreshes to a number of key product lines. Here is some of what we expect to see from Apple.

Hardware

Siri Speaker: Apple’s very own version of the Amazon Echo/Google Home.

iPad Pro 10.5: Another screen size?! After seeming to streamline things in recent months, Apple are bringing out a larger iPad.

MacBook Pro and Air Spec Bumps: Any new upgrades for the MacBook ill most likely be internal- only, maybe resulting in faster speeds and better, longer lasting battery life. The chips may be coming to MacBook Air also.

 

Software

iOS11: The tablet version of the operating system is said to b getting some pro-level updates such as; multi-user login and expanded support for the Apple Pencil. Also as Apple is pushing for more video content, Apple may be having a revamped version of Music.

macOS/ watchOS/ tvOS: Expect massive changes and refreshes for all three operating system.

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Facebook Broken

Is Facebook Broken?

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Is Facebook learning what you like and manipulating the posts you see?

Have you noticed that you are only shown a handful of your friends post on Facebook? Well that is because Facebook learns what you like and actually influences you to connect closer with certain people. Say for example, you ‘like’ a post or picture of pizza, if you ‘like’ several pictures of pizza it is more than likely that your Facebook feed will start to show you more pictures of pizza. Or the more you engage with posts from a particular user, the more often their posts are shown to you.

Facebook creates a small ‘in-group’ cluster of Facebook friends and topics that dominate your feed, as you grow accustomed to interacting with them, this changes your behaviour, leading you to interacting with them all the more. This then reinforces their ‘in-group’ status and basically isolates you from the rest of your Facebook friends.. or the ‘out-group’.

Strange huh!

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Quell

Quell – Wearable Pain Relief

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Quell is clinically proven, 100% drug free technology that relieves chronic pain.

Wearing Quell on the upper calf stimulates sensory nerves as it taps into your body’s natural pain relief response. It does this by sending electric charges to the brain. Neural pulses in the brain trigger a natural reaction that blocks pain signals, relieving your pain!

Powerful enough to tap into your body’s natural pain relief response.

 

There’s an app for you to control, calibrate and customise therapy. Also you can measure progress on multiple health dimensions, including therapy, sleep, activity and pain.

Download the app on Apple and Android

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Osmo Starter Kit

Osmo Starter Kit

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Is drawing not your strong point? No need to worry! Simply take, save or search for a picture on your iPad, attach the reflector to the camera, grab some paper and a pen and start drawing!

Osmo encourages creative thinking and social interaction by expanding gameplay beyond the screen!

An educational game enjoyable for all the family!

Works with latest iPads: iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4 iPad Mini, iPad Mini Retina, iPad Air.

To buy the Osmo starter kit for your iPad click here!

3D Printed Mice

3D Printed Mice?!

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Yes you read that correctly!

Scientists from Northwestern University have developed a bioprosthetic ovary using 3D-printing technology and produced living, breathing mouse offspring from them.

While the study is focused on mice, it is targeted towards women who survived childhood cancer and may not have otherwise had the chance to have children due to the cancer treatment’s damage to their ovaries.

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bitcoin

Why Ransom for Bitcoin

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Bitcoin basically is digital money, although saying this, it doesn’t exist in the physical or the digital world.

There is a finite amount of ‘bitcoins’ in the world, according to bitcoin.org.

There are only 21 million bitcoins that exist but, this does not mean once they have all gone, there is no more. Bitcoins can be split into smaller sub units as there are 1,000,000 bits in each bitcoin.

Bitcoin is used a lot on the ‘Dark Web’ because they are untraceable.  This may be why criminals ask for Bitcoin as payment from ransomers?

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