Moto E. Now, the new smartphone may have leaked out again, this time on Best Buy’s own website.

A handful of photos and a list of specs were quickly scrubbed from the site, though not before Android Police could snap a few screenshots. The device, which is listed as a Sprint Prepaid handset for Rs 6499, offers a 4.5-inch 540 x 960-pixel display, a Qualcomm processor (possibly the Snapdragon 200), 8GB of storage and 1GB of RAM. The new Moto E also appears to feature a front-facing camera this time around, along with the expected rear shooter.

It’s possible Best Buy got some of these specs wrong, though for the most part the Moto E (2015) seems like a solid follow-up to last year’s model. Android Police claims the device could also offer 4G LTE speeds, which would be a big improvement over the original.

Motorola might release the Moto E, though it probably won’t be much longer. We’ll let you know as soon as the low-cost phone hits the market! 

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Beam, a project currently in the funding phase of Kickstarter, which you can use to project the screen from your iOS or Android device onto any flat surface--whether it be vertical, like a wall, or horizontal, like a table.

Beam's creators envision a number of uses, including projecting games onto a table and videos onto a wall. (Presumably you could use it to project stuff onto your ceiling, too.) That said, Beam's not about to replace your TVs or monitors. For one thing, its resolution is a paltry 854 x 480 pixels--a far cry from high-definition. For another, at 100 lumens, it isn't particularly bright. (Many pocket projectors feature somewhere between 200 and 500 lumens; larger models easily surpass 1000.) It does, however, contain an LED light, so you can always have it double as a lamp. It gets all its juice from the light socket.

Though built around a projector, Beam is actually a fully functional Android computer in its own right, with a 1.3GHz dual core processor, 8GB of storage, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. As such, it runs its own software--any app available on the Google Play Store, according to the developers--besides also being controllable from an iOS or Android app.

Perhaps its most interesting feature "if this, then that" support. You can create a variety of rules that trigger an action based on certain conditions. For example, Beam can wake you up every morning at 8:00 a.m. with the weather report. Or you can set it to launch your favorite apps or play a video message when you get home from work. (It's unclear exactly how Beam determines when you're home, but our best guess is via Bluetooth pairing with your smartphone.)

If they get their funding, the Beam team is targeting an October 2015 release.

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GoPro cameras have now hit the 4th generation and the line-up has been overhauled with three new models - the GoPro Hero4 Black, GoPro Hero4 Silver and regular GoPro Hero.



It goes on sale at Rs 48,199 and the headline new features are 4K video at 30fps (the Hero3+ could shoot 4K but only at 15fps) and 1080p at 120fps - that's full HD in 1/4-speed slow motion. This is a crazy amount of power in a device that costs about the same as an entry-level D-SLR or compact system camera.

Other new features include Bluetooth support, not just Wi-Fi, and the ability to tag your best footage as you shoot it.

Early verdict

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Aesthetically, the Hero4 Black looks much the same as the Hero 3+, with the familiar GoPro box form and dimensions. This means that the standard waterproof housing remains the same and is included with the camera when purchased. But once you start using it you realise there have been a few significant changes to the design which make a big difference.



Some are fairly minor - the camera status and Wi-Fi lights that were on the front before are now two small illuminated slits to the left of the LED screen.

And on the right hand side of the body the old direct access Wi-Fi button now becomes the settings button - and if you hold down for a couple of seconds it will still enable you to toggle Wi-Fi on and off.

This new settings button is part of the overhauled navigation system, which is a vast improvement and actually makes using the camera far more intuitive than the previous version.

Finally, the battery compartment is no longer accessed through the back of the camera. It's now located in the base, and the battery type also changes from 3.7v 1180mAh to 3.8v 1160mAh. More importantly, it's much easier to swap out in the field than before.



As with previous models there's a connection on the back for a screen. On the side under a protective flap are two connectors that enable direct connection to HDMI and USB along with a Micro SD card slot.

The GoPro Hero4 Black carries on the best GoPro traditions. It's easy to use and the Wi-Fi connection to a smart device is both straightforward and fast. It's also tough enough to survive a heavy mountain bike crash better than its user.



Some of the best things about GoPro cameras are the least obvious from the specs, such as its excellent mount system - it gives a really tight grip and you can get mounts for anything from a crash helmet to a dog harness.

GoPro might be the big name in this sector, of course, but it now has lots of rivals. We've got a big POV action camera test lined up which will include a whole bunch of cameras to see whether GoPro is still king of the hill - and to showcase just what these cameras can do.

A photo shot at night from the GoPro 4 Black edition:

Soon we will have contact lenses that will give us the ability to zoom in on objects by providing magnification up to 2.8 times that of unaided human eyesight. Thanks to Eric Tremblay from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL).

This latest prototype works by incorporating a very thin reflective telescope inside a 1.55mm thick contact lens. "Small mirrors within bounce light around, expanding the perceived size of objects and magnifying the view, so it's like looking through low magnification binoculars," said the researchers.

Programmed to be smart enough to differentiate between a longer deliberate wink and normal blink of an eye, the glasses that accompany the lenses allow the wearer to wink with the right eye to zoom in, and wink with left eye to return to standard vision.

The contact lenses are designed particularly for those civilians who suffer from Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD). AMD generally affects people over the age of 55 where the deterioration of their macula leads to a loss of sight in the center of the eye. Tremblay said, "It's very important and hard to strike a balance between function and social costs of wearing any kind of bulky visual device. There is a strong need for something more integrated, and a contact lens is an attractive direction. At this point this is still research, but we are hopeful it will eventually become a real option for people with AMD."

These telescopic lenses, which are placed on the sclera of the eye, are made of rigid scleral lenses, along with tiny aluminium mirrors and thin polarizing films, all held together with biologically safe adhesives. To achieve oxygen permeability, they have incorporated tiny air channels (roughly 0.1mm wide within the lens that allow oxygen to reach the surface of the eye. This makes the lens more comfortable, less fatiguing, and more usable in daily life.

But there has be no announcement on when they will be available to consumers.

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Designing and Prototyping electronic circuit boards is no easy task and involves many hours of design and development of layouts and populating the board with components. But one small layout mistake can ruin all your work and you have to go through the entire process again. Voltera V-One aims to change this with conductive ink printing system and will make your prototyping an easy task.
Until now there has been no quick and inexpensive way to simple push a button to see if an electronic circuit idea works. The team at Voltera claims that this is what the V-One is all about: a simply operated system that produces prototype circuit boards in fewer steps, at lower-cost, and with all of the ease and convenience of other modern-day rapid prototyping systems.

According to the team, Voltera V-One is the first conductive ink printer that goes further than simply printing single layer circuits on paper like some other printers. The V-One is also claimed capable of printing electrically-separated two layer circuits onto industry standard circuit board substrate, FR4 (Flame Retardant fibre glass epoxy), which, according to its makers, is a first in a machine of this size and price.

In detail, the team says that prototyping is achieved by putting a blank board or template board on the print platform, importing the appropriate design files, and then hitting the print button. It is never quite easy with anything, and the creators add the disclaimer that print time is subject to change with an increase in dimensions or intricacy of the selected design.

Given this, it is claimed that a relatively standard layout such as that of an Arduino board should print in around 15 to 20 minutes. Add to this 30 minutes for the ink to dry, and you have a total time from pushing the print button to finished prototype circuit board of less than an hour.

The 2 layer circuit printing that's one of the claimed points of difference for this printer is a little more complex. It involves swapping out the magnetically-attached print head that supplies the conductive ink., for another head that dispenses a liquid insulating substance. Then, when print is once more selected, the on board software works out where the circuit tracks from each of the layers will overlap, and then applies a mask in those places using the insulating substance. To compete the last layer, the conductive ink head is then reattached and the software finishes applying the tracks of conductive ink.

One other important feature is that V-One's designed to automatically lay down solder paste on the pads to which components are attached and then solidify that paste by baking the board. As for the design software itself, the popularity of Gerber file format prompted V-One design team to provide for the input of these files to the Voltera system. The team hopes to also support other flavors to this software, including CadSoft EAGLE, Altium CircuitMaker, Upverter, and KiCad by the time the V-One hits the market.

Voltera V-One has been launched on Kickstarter, where the team hopes to muster enough support. The creators hope to ship the first early bid run in September 2015, followed by another early bid shipment in January 2016. The team has also added the more useful templates for the common Arduino Uno and Mega development boards, which will be shipped pre-drilled and pre-cut. The team also aims to produce templates for Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone, Spark Core.

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If you miss the the old fashion of physical photos, then here's the right thing for you. A new prototype instant camera case promise to let you print photographs directly from your Android or Apple smartphone in just 30 seconds. A startup called Prynt introduces a modular unit that acts as both a phone case and printer, and boasts an all-in-one ink and paper refill pack.

Prynt intends to inject the experience of sharing physical photos using a smartphone. Prynt's case slides onto your smartphone and plugs into the bottom of the device. Then all you have to do is just point, click and print. The case holds 10 sheets of photo paper, with drop-in refills priced at $5/pack and available through the Prynt app.

The Prynt team aims to make this case compatible with a wide range of smartphones. The case will also be able to adapt to different phones as the user upgrades. This means that if you upgrade the phone then you would not have to buy a whole new Prynt case but just swap the front connecting unit that is compatible for your latest phone. Currently, the Prynt fits iPhone 5, 5C, 5S and 6, and Samsung's Galaxy S4 and S5.

Prynt also has the ability to turn the photos into a short video. When a Prynt photo is scanned and recognized by the system's app at a later time, it replays the video over the top of the photo image. The Prynt team thinks this will be a fun way to embed additional information or surprises in shared photos.

Prynt will cost $99 and fit standard smartphone sizes. The first shipment, scheduled for August 2015, have all sold out; the second shipment is scheduled for October 2015. Prynt has definitely taken smartphone case to a whole new level and I'm sure everyone eagerly awaits for its appearance in the market.

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Are you tired of never knowing how hot is your food when it comes out of the microwave? All your worries are will now come to an end and you can cook your food to perfection. Former NASA engineer and serial inventor Mark Rober has developed a microwave that provides thermal vision display of your food as it cooks, so you know exactly when it's time to chow down.

It's still a prototype but Rober says there's no reason the Heat Map Microwave can't start saving your bacon right away. The idea is straight forward. The Heat Map Microwave is equipped with a set of infrared cameras and an LCD screen streaming a thermal view of your dish instead of the window.

As your food cooks the IR cameras capture a heat-mapped image of it. Your food goes from blue, to red and to white hot when its time to pull out. The really neat thing about this microwave is that the display can be streamed in your smartphone or tablet over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi and you'll be able to add additional time remotely via an app. So you can monitor it remotely and wouldn't need to stand around the microwave waiting.

Rober has already attained the patent and plans on commercializing the microwave. He is trying to gauge consumer interest in the product so he can convince investors to fund its development. He's asking people to pledge support by signing a petition, which has gathered more than 20,000 signatures at the time of writing. Rober hopes to muster enough support so that the Heat Map Microwave will become reality very soon.

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Researchers from University of Michigan make a new battery technology that will be able to prevent the kind of fires that grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliners in 2013.

The researchers have created a battery with advanced barriers between the electrodes in a lithium-ion battery. This special barrier is made with nanofibers extracted from Kevlar, the tough material in bulletproof vests, stifles the growth of metal tendrils that can become unwanted pathways for eletric current.

Elegus Technologies, founded by a U-M team of researchers, will bring this "bulletproof" battery from the lab to market. Mass production is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2016. As stated in Michigan News Nicholas Kotov, Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Engineering said,"Unlike other strong materials such as carbon nanotubes, Kevlar is an insulator. This property is perfect for separators that need to prevent shorting between two electrodes."

Lithium-ion batteries work by shuttling lithium ions from one electrode to the other. This creates a charge imbalance, and since electrons can't go through the membrane between the electrodes, they go through a circuit instead and do something useful on the way.

But the lithium atoms can build themselves into a fern-like structure called dendrites and penetrate through the membrane, if the holes in the membrane are big enough. If these atoms reach the other electrode then the electrons have this alternate pathway thus shorting out the circuit. This was also the reason that is thought to have started the battery fires in Boeing 787.

"The fern shape is particularly difficult to stop because of its nanoscale tip", said Siu On Tung, Chief Technology Officer at Elegus, according to Michigan News. "It was very important that the fibers formed smaller pores than the tip size."

The researchers made this membrane by layering the fibers on top of each other in thin sheets. This method keeps the chain-like molecules in the plastic stretched out which is important for good lithium-ion conductivity between the electrodes. "The special feature of this material is we can make it very thin, so we can get more energy into the same battery cell size, or even shrink the cell size," said Dan VanderLey, an engineer who helped found Elegus.

Kevlar's heat resistance could also lead to safer batteries as the membrane stands a better chance of surviving a fire than most membranes used today. Although the membrane developed by U-M researchers can stop the lithium dendrites, they are currently looking for ways to improve the flow of loose lithium ions so that batteries can charge and release their energy more quickly.

Source: Michigan News

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HTC M9, is surely being anticipated to being the next flagship of the Taiwanese mobile company. This phone is scheduled to be released on March 1, 2015. Some leaked pictures and details are shown below. These leaks are by the world renowned leaker and occassional KYM scribe @evleaks.

HTC One M9 Specs

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1. Leaked details suggest there will be a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 octa-core chipset inside made up of a 2GHz quad-core Cortex A57 running alongside a 1.5GHz quad-core Cortex A53 setup.
2. Upleaks has secured the information from a trusted source suggesting the handset is set to be almost the same size as the HTC One M8. According to the leak it’ll have dimensions of 144.3 x 69.4 x 9.56 mm but there is currently no clue on the weight of the handset.Other rumoured specifications of the phone include 3GB DDR4 RAM, 32GB storage, support for VoLTE and LTE Category 6 networks, a 20.7MP+2.1MP rear camera and a 4MP or 13MP front camera, BoomSound front speakers, Bluetooth 4.1 and a 2840mAh battery.
3. The phone will run Android 5.0.2 with Sense 7.0 UI layer on top. Audio was good on the HTC One M8 but reports suggest it is about to get even better on the company’s upcoming 2015 flagship. You will still get those excellent front-facing speakers but the back-ground tech powering these speakers (and your headphones when they’re plugged in) is getting a serious update.

HTC One M9 Camera

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1. According to LaptopMedia's unnamed inside source at HTC the One M9 will pack not one, but two 20MP camera sensors on the rear of the device. They also add that HTC has not given up on Ultrapixel tech and will use a 4UP sensor on the front for selfies - this will apparently have good low-light performance and a wide f/2.0 aperture.
2. The report claims the dual 20MP sensors will act in tandem similar to the setup aboard the HTC One M8, and it will keep the dual-LED two-tone flash.

Benchmarks

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Also called the World Cup of Drones, the Drones For Good Award held in United Arab Emirates (UAE) offered $1 million as the prize money. The international competition seeks to emphasize the positive capabilities of drones and on Saturday, a team of Swiss technologists took out the first prize with a vehicle that flies protected by a spinning cage, helping it to better travel through confined spaces.

The Flyability team from Switzerland beat out some truly big-picture ideas to claim the first prize. These include drones that detect landmines, drones that shoot seedpods into the ground to help replantation efforts and drone delivery nets that could form the mailboxes of the future.

The team claims that the main aim of developing the Gimball was to mimic the ability of insects to crash into obstacles and continue in flight. The drone is housed inside a carbon fiber cage, which sits inside another rotating, spherical frame. As the drone crashes into walls, beams and ceilings, the outer frame takes the impact and inner remains stable, allowing it to continue on its way.

The big advantage is that there is no need for obstacle avoidance sensors and software. Gimball can instead have collisions and use the obstacles to guide it in its path. The team posits that the drone will first find the value in search and rescue missions, where drones are sent into disaster zones , such as a nuclear site or ware-torn area.

Working out how drones can be prevented from crashing into things, or at least in a way that doesn't put a stop to their flight, is a legitimate problem for this burgeoning technology could see the Gimball approach pop up in all kinds of applications.

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The South Korean origin, Mobile giant, Samsung is expected to announce the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, in the coming month. Leaks of the phones from a reliable site are shown below, thanks to C|NET Korea.

The image above seems to show both the Galaxy S6 and the S6 Edge, with the standard flagship model represented by the first three phones from the left. Meanwhile, the two devices on the right clearly have a bit of curve to them, though it’s unclear exactly how much. Each handset appears to sport just one curved edge, though on opposite sides, suggesting Samsung could release two different models for right and left handed people. It’s also possible the Galaxy S6 Edge could feature curves on both sides, even if that isn’t clear in this new leak.

Beyond that one difference in design, the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are both expected to offer similar specs, including a Quad HD display, upgraded cameras, Samsung’s own 64-bit Exynos processor and a redesigned fingerprint reader. The device should run Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box with a scaled-back version of TouchWiz on top, and may even introduce a new mobile payment service called Samsung Pay.

The South Korean company is set to break the news next month on March 1 in Barcelona. We’ll be there covering the event live, but check back soon for any more leaks or updates as the big day approaches.

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Hello guys, and welcome to another review by Studience. Here, we'll tell you everything about the "CyanogenMod". Well, you might have seen the CyanogenMod on the back of phones like the OnePlusOne. But, one thing you do observe is that, this "CyanogenMod" works similar to Android OS, so what's special about this?

Technically, CyanogenMod is an open-source operating system for smart phones and tablet computers, based on the Android mobile platform. It is developed as free and open source software based on the official releases of Android by Google, with added original and third-party code. It is based on a rolling release development model.

CyanogenMod offers features and options not found in the official firmware distributed by mobile device vendors. Features supported by CyanogenMod include native theming support, FLAC audio codec support, an OpenVPN client, CPU overclocking and other performance enhancements, unlockable bootloader and root access, soft buttons and other "tablet tweaks", toggles in the notification pull-down (such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS), and other interface enhancements.

CyanogenMod does not contain spyware or bloatware, according to its developers. CyanogenMod is also stated to increase performance and reliability compared with official firmware releases.

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The first version of CyanogenMod was produced not all that long after the very first Android phone was released. In the UK that mobile was known as the T-Mobile G1, which went on sale back in 2008.

An exploit was found that let people fiddle with the phone’s insides, and shortly afterwards developer Steve Kondik started working on his own tweaked version of Android. And the first version of CyanogenMod was born. He caught the eye of Samsung and joined the company asa software engineer in 2011.

But that’s not the end of Steve’s story with CyanogenMod. As well as continuing to oversee Cyanogen while at Samsung, Kondik left the tech giant in March 2013. 

In September 2013, Kondik raised $7 million in venture capital funds to ‘go legit’ with CyanogenMod, with the aim of turning it from a nerdy internet mod to something that could be used in commercial products. It raised another 23 million dollars in December 2013, and Chinese leviathan of tech Tencent was one of the core backers. 

5 things you can do with CyanogenMod 11

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1. Apply system-wide themes at the press of a button

One of the neatest features of CyanogenMod 11 is the theme installer. It’s dead accessible, and lets you thoroughly reskin your phone with just about zero effort. What’s better than customising your phone yourself? Getting someone else to the leg work for you, of course.

CyanogenMod 11 themes alter fonts, lock screen styles, app icons and even notification and alarm sounds. They effectively give your phone a complete reskin, without any of the residual wonkiness you often get with custom home launchers you can run on any Android phone.

2. Switch features on and off from the notification menu

Lots of people think Android offers quick feature switches in its drop-down notifications bar. But it doesn't - this is one of the features most commonly added in third-party versions of Android.

Normal Android 4.4 instead has a separate page of app switches. CyanogenMod has this page too, but you also get a quartet of your favourite feature switches on the default notifications page, where you get told when your mum gives you a Whatsapp prod.

3. Custom Profiles

CyanogenMod lets you set a whole bunch of different profiles that alter the behaviour of your phone. 

These profiles save settings for things like Bluetooth, mobile data and Wi-Fi, giving you pretty good control over how much juice your phone uses throughout the day. You can also tweak how notifications come through for SMS, emails and so on.

You can even make them trigger when your phone is docked with an NFC tag, or when it connects to a certain Wi-Fi network. It’s up to you to put in the initial legwork of dictating how these work, but they should prove extremely useful. You switch profiles manually from the power-off menu, just as you would when switching to aeroplane mode.

4. Tweak the screen calibration

CyanogenMod 11 adds a handy little screen customisation section in the Settings menu called Screen Color. This lets you tweak the look of your screen, fiddling with things like contrast and colour saturation. 

It even lets you flip about the hues of colours, although this generally results in a supremely unnatural-looking image. This display tweaker will come in very useful if you find your phone’s normal colours a bit oversaturated, or a little dull-looking. 

5. Advanced gestures

Many phones have little extra gestures these days, but with the latest version of CyanogenMod you get ones that don’t even require the screen to be on in order to register. We imagine this won’t be suitable for all phones, but it works well on the OnePlus One.

Draw a circle on the phone’s screen while it’s in standby and the camera will launch. When music is playing, a two-fingered vertical swipe will play/pause the audio, and left/right arrows drawn will switch tracks. The most unusual, though, is that drawing a V will turn the LED torch on. And there was us wondering why the flash kept on turning on in-pocket. You can turn these off if you’re not a gestures fan.

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