- BitDefender Safepay: How will this help you feel secure in your online purchases?
- BitDefender Autopilot: BitDefender operates on its own, without a pop up every 5 minutes. Enjoy your computer experience without constant interruptions
- Bitdefender Anti-Theft: BitDefender protects you from more than just online threats; it can track lost or stolen devices!
- Social Network Protection: Filters the links you receive from your Facebook and Twitter friends and monitors your privacy settings.
- Parental Control Options: BitDefender allows you to block inappropriate content, restrict Web access between certain hours, and it helps you remotely monitor your children's online activity – even on Facebook!
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
The Next Generation of BitDefender Total Security
Sunday, 14 October 2012
Next generation table tennis table
“Waldner” – the next generation ping pong table, is made with an advanced computer system integration. The table has a multi-touch surface, which responds to human touch and real world objects, like ping-pong balls. The table is also equipped with Siri voice recognition that monitors the game along with a Mac Pro 12-core computer. That means the table is very intelligent; it sees, feels and hears the game. You can even discuss a ball with it to improve your ping pong skills or argue about a point.
Under the surface we find two 2.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5620 “Westmere” processors and an ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphic cards, a Wi-Fi connection and 12 Bose micro speakers.The table is 2.74 m long, 1.52 m wide, 76 cm high and 5 cm thick. The surface, which is a huge screen, is made of soft acrylic that gives the correct smooth, low-friction coating. The screen is supported Apple’s new HiDPI, which gives a resolution of 2880 x 1800 pixel.
The “net” is a touch-sensitive screen from Samsung. With embedded touch sensors it shows information from balls taken in net.
After and during the game, all kind of statistics can be found on the table. Players can for example compare the balls hit areas (where each hit have been visualized by a circle and contains information like speed and trajectory. All data is stored and can be visualized as real time 3D on devices as iPad and iPhones
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
3D technologies are widespread
3D technology is now widespread across a range of communication and entertainment platforms. It has become a mainstream element of cinema, TV, Internet, video games and even mobile. This technology provides users with a whole new level of immersion, interaction and realism.
James Cameron's Avatar, released in 2009, was a major breakthrough in terms of developing this format and raising awareness of its potential.
In 2010, new 3D TV channels were introduced and these could even be viewed without 3D glasses. This effect was achieved via multiple projectors behind the screen, combined with a lens array creating parallax effects from any direction. Among the TV events during this time was the first ever FIFA World Cup to be screened in 3D.
Compatibility was soon incorporated into a range of consumer products including Blu-ray recorders, games consoles and personal computers. By 2013, the technology has become widespread in homes in developed countries.
Electronic super car unveiled
A Concept One car seen driving down a road in this undated handout released on August 31, 2012. Croatian concept car manufacturer Rimac Automobili based near Zagreb prepares to unveil a prototype of their Concept One electric supercar at the upcoming Salon Prive car show in London in early September.The Concept One has a carbon fiber body an electric motor powering each wheel, and can produce 1,088 horse powers, capable of achieving top speed of around 305 kmh (190 mph) with a range of 600 kilometres (373 miles), making it the world's fastest electric car. Costing around $1 million each, only 13 of these high-end electric cars are expected to be produced per year...
Interior of a Concept One car
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Nokia unveils Asha 308 and Asha 309 full-touch smartphones
Nokia unveiled the Asha 308 and Asha 309, the latest additions to the
Asha Touch family of mobile devices. They are tagged as the Nokia’s most
affordable capacitive touchscreen devices to date giving consumers fast web
access at low cost. The Nokia Asha 308 features easy swap Dual SIM and
Asha 309 is the single SIM variant with WiFi. Asha 308 and 309 deliver a full
smartphone experience enriched with new Nokia web services and developer
tools. Nokia estimates the retail price for the Nokia Asha 308 and Nokia Asha 309
to be about Rs 5300, excluding taxes and subsidies, with shipping expected to start in
the fourth quarter 2012.
Nokia unveiled the Asha 308 and Asha 309, the latest additions to the
Asha Touch family of mobile devices. They are tagged as the Nokia’s most
affordable capacitive touchscreen devices to date giving consumers fast web
access at low cost. The Nokia Asha 308 features easy swap Dual SIM and
Asha 309 is the single SIM variant with WiFi. Asha 308 and 309 deliver a full
smartphone experience enriched with new Nokia web services and developer
tools. Nokia estimates the retail price for the Nokia Asha 308 and Nokia Asha 309
to be about Rs 5300, excluding taxes and subsidies, with shipping expected to start in
the fourth quarter 2012.
Sunday, 23 September 2012
Vulture - Unmanned Aircraft
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
of United States is working to develop an unmanned aircraft that is
able to stay in air for a period of 5 years at a time. It is one of the
most recent inventions of world.
Officials of DARPA has revealed that this aircraft will be known as VULTURE due to its Persistent Pseudo-Satellite Capability . It means that this aircraft will be able to fly over a single area, communicating or performing analysis for years at a time.
Major Obstacles in Project:
Even this project looks appealing to many of you, but there are some serious problems or you can say obstacles in achieving this project.
1) First challenge in front of designers is to figure out some Way to Supply Power to this aircraft during long missions.
2) Another problem is that this aircraft will carry a 1000 pound (450 kg) payload in winds at an altitude of 60,000 to 90,000 feet.
3) Designers have also to sort out the problems regarding Deterioration of Materials during their long-time exposure to stratospheric flight.
In addition to this there may be many challenges during designing of this aircraft.
Daniel Newman: The Man Behind VULTURE
Daniel Newman is the Project Manger of this ambitious project of NASA. In his words: "We want to completely change the paradigm of how we think of aircraft. Aviation has a perfect record - we've never left one up there. We will attempt to break that record". It looks that its time to get out of the traditional "launch - recover - maintain - launch cycle of aircrafts."
Concept Behind Vulture:
Basically Aircrafts operates just like satellites, but the major difference is that these are not regulated by orbital mechanics. You can understand Vulture as a Pseudo-Satellite, which operates in the stratosphere and not in the low Earth orbit. This would provide a 65 dB upgrading in communications capability and will increase onboard sensor resolution.
When Will it Become a Reality? Officials of DARPA has revealed that this aircraft will be known as VULTURE due to its Persistent Pseudo-Satellite Capability . It means that this aircraft will be able to fly over a single area, communicating or performing analysis for years at a time.
Major Obstacles in Project:
Even this project looks appealing to many of you, but there are some serious problems or you can say obstacles in achieving this project.
1) First challenge in front of designers is to figure out some Way to Supply Power to this aircraft during long missions.
2) Another problem is that this aircraft will carry a 1000 pound (450 kg) payload in winds at an altitude of 60,000 to 90,000 feet.
3) Designers have also to sort out the problems regarding Deterioration of Materials during their long-time exposure to stratospheric flight.
In addition to this there may be many challenges during designing of this aircraft.
Daniel Newman: The Man Behind VULTURE
Daniel Newman is the Project Manger of this ambitious project of NASA. In his words: "We want to completely change the paradigm of how we think of aircraft. Aviation has a perfect record - we've never left one up there. We will attempt to break that record". It looks that its time to get out of the traditional "launch - recover - maintain - launch cycle of aircrafts."
Concept Behind Vulture:
Basically Aircrafts operates just like satellites, but the major difference is that these are not regulated by orbital mechanics. You can understand Vulture as a Pseudo-Satellite, which operates in the stratosphere and not in the low Earth orbit. This would provide a 65 dB upgrading in communications capability and will increase onboard sensor resolution.
Well, right now NASA has not mentioned any time table when the aircraft will be ready. But for now NASA has worked on the probable design of Vulture (see picture).
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Nokia promises new Windows phone coming soon
Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop promised to unveil a new smartphone using Microsoft's latest Windows 8 software soon, boosting expectations it will be launched before rival Apple promotes its new iPhone.
The Finnish company, which is fighting for survival after losing out to rivals in the lucrative smartphone business, is due to hold a trade show in Helsinki on September 5-6, just before an Apple event on September 12 where the U.S. competitor could announce a redesigned iPhone.
Nokia has not commented on what it will announce at the Nokia World event, but many investors anticipate a new handset designed to challenge the popularity of the iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy smartphone.
Elop did not deny a September launch but would only say Windows 8 smartphones would be released "relatively near term."
Sunday, 12 August 2012
New iPhone app checks your heart rate by reading your face
Aerobic fitness
is one of the best ways to get — and stay — in shape. It requires
getting your heart rate up, bt it's also important to keep track of
your pulse so that it stays within a helpful range and you don't end up
oveur-doing it. A new app from a pair of MIT graduates can help you do it using only your iPhone or iPod touch.
Rather than rely on a cumbersome sensor band, the Cardiio app (download for iPhone) uses the iPhone's front-facing iSight camera
to scan your face and determine your pulse. This works because as your
heart rate increases, more blood is pumped to your face, and as it is
the amount of ambient light your face reflects decreases. The Cardiio
app is able to detect these variations in reflectiveness and use them to
determine your pulse within three beats per minutes, according to its
creators, husband and wife PhD team Ming-Zer and Yukkee Poh.
The app sells for $4.99 and user
reviews on the iTunes Store are largely very positive so far, with
comments praising its accuracy and ease-of-use. Now, if only they could
come up with an app that could scan our faces and display our
cholesterol levels, we'd be all set.
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