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Instagram rolls out globally the Live Story feature. #Instagram #Android #IOS #Windows10

Weeks back we saw the  Instagram team announcing the global availability of its “Live Story” feature.

Originally available only in certain countries, the app is pretty much becoming a mix between Snapchat, Vine and Periscope.

The original IG Story became one of the more popular parts of the app by getting the lovely number of more than 150 million users DAILY. And now the company just want to expand the market.

You will find the option by swiping from the app and selecting “Start live video”, according to the company this way popular Instagrammers and followers can be more connected and interact with each other.

There’s a “Top Live” options to explore new and popular users, so heavy and not so heavy users can find new content, which won’t be available after the live event is finish.

Try to keep in mind that the option can now be found on every platform , so if you haven’t seen the update yet, be patient as it could take a bit before it reach your region.

The new start of the show van be found on version 10.0 and above

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Premium Christmas Gifts with these new Dash Cams from @Thinkware #Motoring #DashCams

With the popularity of dash cams increasing, not only to safeguard your family, prove liability in case of an incident but also to protect your car whilst parked, give a dash cam to your loved one this Christmas and keep them protected and secure. May save you some money too in 2017 as many companies now offer a discount on your insurance premiums!

 

THINKWARE F770, RRP £199

 With its sleek, unobtrusive design the F770 is THINKWARE’s global flagship dash cam supporting an optional second camera for filming behind the vehicle.

 

With a built-in GPS antenna, the F770 embeds speed, time and location data to the recorded videos to give you all the information you may need and the Dual Save™ technology allows you to save recorded footage in both the micro SD memory card and the last event in the built-in internal memory. This safeguards against the loss of data in the aftermath of a severe collision if the memory card is damaged and the Dual Save Technology guarantees a backup copy of the video in the internal memory.

The built-in Wi-Fi enables you to easily control, manage and configure the settings of your Dash Cam via your iOS or Android smart phone and provides a truly convenient way for you to view recordings, download, access or delete recorded videos, all on your mobile phone.

The THINKWARE DASH CAM F770 also features ‘Super Night Vision’, a night image correction feature and ‘Time Lapse Photography’ that records one frame per second for up to two days. The ‘Super Night Vision’, which is optimised for dark parking environments, delivers up to 10 times higher brightness than existing products, featuring a new image signal processing (ISP) technology and a real-time video processing function.

 

 

 

The ‘Time Lapse Photography,’ embracing improved video storage methods, can record the details of the parked vehicle by maintaining the continuous recording while parked, instead of recording 20 second events triggered by motion detection or the camera’s g-sensor. Parking mode operates for up to 2 days after the ignition is turned off.

 

The THINKWARE DASH CAM F770’ has also adopted the ‘Advanced Driving Assistance System’ (ADAS), which assures driver’s safety and convenience with numerous driver alerts. The Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS) alerts drivers when drifting out of lane and the Front Collision Warning System (FCWS) advises drivers of when to brake by calculating the speed of your vehicle and the vehicle in front in real time.

Equipped with 1080p Full HD cameras, Ambarella chipsets, advanced video clear technology and Sony Exmor CMOS Image Sensors, the THINKWARE DASH CAM F770 also features Safety Camera Alerts using the built in GPS. In partnership with award winning camera alert specialist, Cyclops, it provides drivers regularly updated information on verified speed/red–light camera locations and known mobile speed traps.

 

THINKWARE DASH CAM F50, RRP £79.99

With prices starting at just £79.99, the F50 is the perfect feature-packed dash cam for those wanting piece of mind whilst on the road and whilst parked. It is equally as popular with commercial vehicles owners offering security, accountability and possible reductions in insurance premiums.    

The F50 is equipped with an Ambarella chipset and Sony Exmor CMOS image sensor that records detailed full HD 1080p video at 30 frames per second, a 130-degree viewing angle and a built in Active Impact monitoring system. The THINKWARE F50 dash cam certainly fits a lot of features into its small and elegant design.

 

When hardwired, the F50 features Parking Surveillance Modes with Motion and Impact Detection triggering the recording of 20 second video clips, ensuring car, van or taxi owners are able to record incidents in parking mode for 48 hours. The built-in impact sensor, which detects the level of force when your vehicle sustains an impact, is a 3 axis G-sensor whose settings are different for parking mode and continuous mode. You want it to be as sensitive as possible whilst parked but don’t want it to record incidents every time you go over a pothole. All footage is instantaneously saved to a memory card reducing potential data corruption.

 

 

The dash cams are also able to work in extreme conditions thanks to the integrated Thermal Protection. If the temperature rises and exceeds a certain level, the Self Protection Shut Down function will automatically switch off the device to protect the camera optics. In the event of power loss during an accident, the dash cam’s fail-safe recording uses the Super Capacitor to ensure that any recordings in progress are stored securely, so you can be confident your data is safe.

 

When the THINKWARE F50 dash cam is connected to the optional GPS Antenna it provides drivers regularly updated information on verified speed/red–light camera locations and known mobile speed traps thanks to the partnership THINKWARE has with award winning camera alert specialist, Cyclops.

The THINKWARE F50 allows for discreet installation due to its minimal size and black appearance. It can be placed behind the rear view mirror on the windscreen using the 3M tape so the driver’s vision is not obscured. However, to fully ensure the THINKWARE F50 dash cam is not a target for thieves, there is also a locking box accessory available to make its removal from the vehicle difficult; an attractive option for commercial vehicles.

The THINKWARE F50 Dash Cam is currently available from www.thinkwaredashcam.uk for £79 plug and play or £99 with optional GPS antenna. For more information visit the company’s website at www.thinkware.com

 

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge Now Available in Black Pearl. #Samsung

Its not been a particularly good year for Samsung after the Galaxy Note 7 debacle but the S7 and S7Edge are still popular and arguably the best smartphones to date from the company.As an owner of both devices they have served me well and I am now seeking something new and tend to move on with the latest,Would a new colour tempt me,probably not but now the S7 edge can be got in Black Pearl. Preferably the Blue coral would be my pick but I dont justify the cost right now for a new colourway and getting the same device again.. That was something I did back in the Nokia days when we had a Silver model,then a Black one would appear months later.

 

 

 

The glossy new colorway, which radiates quality and luxury, will be exclusive to 128GB versions of the device and debut in select markets on December 9.

The new Black Pearl Galaxy S7 edge follows the Blue Coral and Pink Gold editions released earlier this year. While those were largely inspired by calming, natural hues, Black Pearl was designed to be modern and striking. The sleek black finish blankets the entire device – edges and all – and adds depth to its glass design. The result is a stylish all-black aesthetic that captures the essence of the color in its purest form.

In addition to Black Pearl and the other aforementioned editions, the Galaxy S7 edge is also available in White Pearl, Black Onyx, Gold Platinum and Silver Titanium.

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Help your National Library build the archives of the future,they need your vote. #NLI

The NLI is collecting websites to ensure a record of the online life of Ireland is preserved. This year they are asking for your help to archive the commemorations of this year.

Suggest a website for inclusion in the web archive that you feel best reflects the events of 1916 and also a website you think best records life in Ireland in 2016. These websites will be preserved and will be an invaluable resource for generations of researchers to come.

 

 

Please note the deadline has been extended until the 4th December.

You can vote at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8CCV93P

 

 

New Integrated Biometric Sensor Platform. by @PhilipMahler #iMotions #eyetracking #biometrics

There is a newcomer in the world of neuromarketing and human behaviour research.

The ability to know where an individual is looking has been sought after for hundreds of years. As the saying goes, the eyes are the windows to the soul. To put it slightly more scientifically, it seems that one of the best ways to discover what’s going on behind someone’s eyes is simply to look into them.

Research into eye movement has been performed scientifically for decades in laboratories across the world. Utilizing eye movement, researchers have investigated topics as diverse as cognition, emotion, and social issues such as stereotypes, as well as both typical and atypical child development.

Nowadays, the recently minted field of neuromarketing has joined the fray, using rigorous scientific methods to study consumer decision-making.

For a long time, however, the apparata required for performing eye tracking research was large and clunky, and required research participants to become immobilized in much the same way as a trip to the optometrist. Research often required expensive laboratories, elaborate in-house methodologies, and serious man power.

However, with newcomer iMotions, a new wave of eye tracking research is upon us.

 


Image from iMotions.

iMotions is a research technology company headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Boston MA, USA.

The primary technological innovation provided by iMotions is not only to present new biometric sensors that are sleeker and more unobtrusive than ever before, but also to offer an integrated software platform that allows for live data collection from various different sources. iMotions even supports remote and mobile data collection, allowing for unprecedented access to real data.

With iMotions, researchers are able to integrate information not only from eye movements, but also from other biometric sensors including skin conductance, electroencephalogram (EEG), as well as facial expressions. What this means is that researchers gain the ability to collect data from several different biometric sensors simultaneously using inexpensive and unobtrusive methodologies.

And once a researcher gains the ability to know where an individual is looking and when, as well as some biometric data on how they might be feeling when they look there, they gain a much greater understanding of human behavior, be it for purely academic interests, or for consumer science purposes.

For more information on eye tracking research, check out the following infographic presented by our friends at iMotions. You’ll find information on:

  • The amazing features of the human eye
  • The process by which eye tracking occurs
  • The technical specifications of modern eye trackers
  • The best practices to follow in performing eye tracking research

 

Fly through a carbon nanotubes and more with #CarbonsVR. #EduChemVR #VR

If you are into carbon atoms and similar this is a must have VR app for you to test out which is free to download on Android right now and its pretty awesome.. You can fly through nanotubes,graphene,graphite or Diamond this is a must have app especially for the VR fans out there.. Having tried it out for a while its pretty cool..

Jonas Boström and Magnus Norrby founded EduChem VR the summer of 2016 in Sweden. Magnus Norrby is a professional software developer (in finance) and Jonas Boström is a drug designer (in big pharma) with a track recordof investigating molecular shapes and their characteristics.

Magnus and Jonas have a history of delivering powerful and user-friendly tools to enhance drug discovery. An example is the Oculus Rift based virtual reality molecular visualizer. H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf, the Sports Minister of Chile, the Executive Vice President at AstraZeneca and the Head of Business Development at EA Sports have all experience atoms and molecules using our previous virtual reality tool.

 

 

 

Carbons VR – an educational chemistry virtual reality app

Background
The carbon atom is special. A carbon atom is tetravalent, with four electrons available to form four bonds to other atoms. Carbon atoms frequently bonds to other carbon atoms in different ways. The different forms that the carbon atoms arrange themselves into are called allotropes. Examples of allotropes are graphite, graphene, fullerenes (e.g. buckyballs and nanotubes) and diamond. The carbon-carbon bonds in diamond are all single-bonds (sp3 hybridization), whereas in graphite, graphene and fullerenes all the carbon-carbon bonds are of double-bond character (sp2 hybridization).

 


The 3D structure of many allotropes can be determined by experiment. For example by X-ray diffraction analysis of crystalline matter. Carbon can also exists in an amorphous form. This is not crystalline, and not available in 3D.
The physical properties vary widely between the allotropic forms, and they are thus used for different purposes. The unique properties of carbon nanotubes makes it a candidate for applications in biomedical fields (drug delivery, biosensors, etc.). Many of today’s tennis racquets are made by graphite (and a few by graphene), which is opaque and black/grey. Diamond on the other hand is transparent and one of the hardest naturally occurring material known. Graphite is soft enough to draw a line with a pencil, whereas graphene is even harder than diamond. Carbon is special indeed. In this app you get to experience the different forms of carbon at the atomic level allotropes in a virtual reality.

Instructions:
There are a few options in the main menu. In “Carbons” there is some background information. In “Settings”, one can toggle music on/off, change the speed in which you travel in, set the carbon atom color, as well as how the atoms and bonds are displayed (ball-and-stick, stick, and CPK). In the “Explore VR” mode you can select which allotrope to experience, or go on a virtual tour following a predefined trajectory in auto-pilot mode. In the “Game” mode you can compete to collect the five allotropes. This is done by flying through the golden atoms as quick as possible. The Google Cardboard button can be used to start moving (one click), and to freeze the virtual experience (one click), making it possible to look around. When moving around, it is set up so that you travel in the direction you are facing.

See http://www.educhem-vr.com/  for more

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Samsung unveils the #GearS3 Frontier and Classic #Smartwatch. #IFA2016 #Samsung

So here we are once more with the latest news about tech during the IFA 2016, and as we were expecting Samsung was one of the first manufacturers to offer some new goodies to consumers.

Enter the new Gear S3 smartwatch

The GS3 will be available in two variants, one for the outdoor adventurous called Frontier

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and another for the more conservatives called Classic

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This time, Samsung went all in by using their own OS to power this devices. Tizen is a truly unique platform that seems to work better with wearable tech that anything else.

Both of them look and feel more like a normal watch than previous generations, probably due the bigger display and thicker structure. Also being waterproof with IP68 gives a sense of tranquility when using them outdoor or under heavy rain.

Onto the screens, both are covered by Gorilla Glass SR+, which was specifically designed for better clarity and improved scratch resistance. Also, there’s a new “Always on display” that will show the full color watchface.

Maybe it doesn’t look as a big upgrade just from the outside, but take a look at internals and is a whole different history

As you can see, packs anything you could ask for, even a GPS to work on its own when no phone is around, also this devices will have a LTE option as well.

We suspect the bigger battery was added to accommodate the new AOD feature but Samsung has add a few extra battery saver modes to improve it, one of which will turn your fancy new smartwatch in a “dumbwatch” that will only show you the time.

Although you can activated whenever you want, it will automatically active itself when the battery drops till 5%.

Sales are expected to star in October, mostly for the BT only variant with the LTE version coming shortly after.

The Frontier will come with 2 silicone bands (one large, one small) while the Classic will come with a leather band (as you could imagine).

Cost will be around €399..Ouch…

What are your thougths on these? Will you upgrade your smartwatch game if you already have the GS2? Or will you jump on it?

Sounds off below or join us on twitter

 

Sony announces the update route for their phones. #Android #Nougat #Update #Xperia

Just a few days ago, we read about the public release of a consumer ready Android 7.0 Nougat for the masses. But although this is great news, the well known Android update stress began.

But amongst  all that chaos, there are some OEMs that have served  well their customers when it comes to OS updates, one of them is Sony who just anounced which devices will be updated first.

Xperia Z3+
Z4 Tablet
Xperia Z5, Z5 Compact and Z5 Premium
Xperia X, XA, XA Ultra and X Performance

These devices were the ovious choices as actual or former flagships, but something that caught our attention was the ommision of the regular Xperia Z3 as the company let users installed an early version of the OS.

As it has happen before, probably this first list of phones will be updated later with new additions like the M or C series of phones released on 2015.

But what do you think about this? What are your most expected features of this update? Let us know in the comment section below.

Stay tuned for more info about this update.

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@SidTechWorld launches new #AutoWorld app for the motor enthusiast. #Motoring

A few months ago Siddhant Jain launched the app Tech World which is a really nice app bringing you the latest in technology news,You can also find us on the app. Following suit Siddhant hast just launched a new app for the motor enthusiast with the same UI and features as we have seen before which is simple and easy to use…To date we have found the previous app Tech World quite nice,reliable and consistent.

The app comes with a wealth of settings to personalise it to your needs. As with Tech World this app is new and more content will surely follow as before as Siddhant curates the content personally. We look forward to seeing what the future holds for this app as we really like the previous app which has been my GO-TOO app for tech news since launch.

 

 

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