TomTom is here to bounce back with its newest product in the wearables segment, which now has many dominant players to compete with, but the company is hopeful of gaining back the lost momentum in the recent times.
TomTom has announced Spark, its latest fitness watch which is more than just a tracker. TomTom Spark is focused on fitness freaks who love their music by offering music support. You can store upto favourite tracks on the device and carry along on your wrist.
TomTom Spark is one of the first multi-sport fitness watches that combines heart rate monitor, GPS activity, sleep tracker and built in music system. The wearable is also water resistant up to 40 meters.
The users can add music through iTunes or Windows Media Player. TomTom has also partnered with Ministry of Sound to offer a playlist of songs and that come pre-installed. At the moment, the watch doesn’t support smartphone notifications, but the company says that future software updates will bring the missing functionality.
TomTom Spark will be up for grabs in different sizes of wrist strap and colors. You can pre-order one today for €189.99 and the device will be shipped to you in October.
Features
Over 500 Songs of Music Storage (subject to file size)
We live in an age when almost everything is located on Internet and every day more and more of our Media are at some point, unplayable due to some “Format Restriction” of any kind.
Well, soon that’s about to end thanks to the recently announced Alliance for Open Media.
Starting on September 1st Seven of the most greatest Media creator have created this “Justice League” of Formats and Codecs for video and media in general.
“The Open and royalty-free format for next-generation ultra high definition media”
Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla andNetflixhave made partnership into this Open-Source Project to reach to ultimate goal of “develop next-generation media formats, codecs and technologies in the public interest.”
Something that really complicate media consumption in the format of the video we’re trying to see.
For example:
For using MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 formats, a royalty must be paid to MPEG LA.
Mozilla has Daala
Google is has on VP9 and 10
Etc.
That’s why should not come as surprise that this guys wanna save some money and as result we have a more persistent and pleasant usability of video formats.
What they want to do as main task is to create media:
Interoperable and open.
Optimized for the web.
Scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth.
Designed with a low computational footprint and optimized for hardware.
Capable of consistent, highest-quality, real-time video delivery.
Flexible for both commercial and non-commercial content, including user-generated content.
(Something worth the mention is Apple absence in the group, which is easily explainable.
Apple owns QuickTime and they need to pay anyone to implement videos on iTunes or Apple TV.)
The license name will be Apache 2.0 and will work under the W3C patent rules.
If you want to know more about the project you can go HERE or follow them at @a4omedia
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This is brilliant,an app that helps the blind detect smiles which works on facial recognition technology,The app has been developed working closely with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to ensure it’s accessible to blind and partially sighted people.
The App is available on Android and iOS,check out this video first below,this is just so good to see and how happy it makes people..It was launched to coincide with the brands new Advanced White Mouthwash and power of smile campaign All the user has to do is open the camera and point it at someone and the device will vibrate…you can even share this on social media.
Description
On the camera Page:
・The top right camera icon enables you to turn the camera around to face either inwards or outwards
・Bottom right icon takes you to settings page
・Bottom left icon takes you to further information on the app
In Settings:
・Large Icons button – Doubles size of icons for accessibility
・Face Markers button – Enables white face markers on camera screen
・Sound button – Turns on sound to highlight smile detection
・The app counts the number of smiles detected and icons at the bottom of the setting page enable you to share on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter the number of smiles you’ve detected
Battery anxiety is still here and will be for many for some time to come,with many solutions available today some are great and offer more than enough power,some are an overkill and some are just meh… Welcome to Juicebox,its small,portable and also very cheap to buy and very convenient.
The guys over at Juicebox have asked us to show you their product which I think you will like…There is two versions of the JuiceBox, supporting iPhone and Samsung,micro USB capable devices..
Also JuiceBox have announced that they have just released the Micro USB version for Samsung! Micro USB JuiceBox sets will also contain a 3 foot long double shielded charging cable as well as a wall adapter. Micro USB chargers will hold the same price as lightning chargers, and also maintain the same shipping schedule.
Charges for 20 minutes allows you to hold an hour of battery life for both iPhone and Samsung.
•No compromises on quality of the JuiceBox: top ABS plastic, top lithium ion battery, and a double shielded charging cable for maximum durability.
•JuiceBox starts shipping in November with top tier rewards shipping late October.
With just a 20 minute charge, give your smartphone an extra hour of life. Smallest charger with the biggest punch on the market guaranteed. The full retail price for the JuiceBox will be $13, so you’re signing up for a deal of under half price by supporting us on Kickstarter. We will not be retailing the JuiceBox until all of our Kickstarter rewards have been shipped.
We’ been making and designing batteries for almost 5 years now, with big success. By designing a portable, high quality, compact charger, our dream is that one day everyone will have the JuiceBox ready to enhance their phones. Our company goal is to make the JuiceBox a key tool used not only in your personal life, but wherever you need it. For just $9 we want to drastically improve and increase the amount you are able to achieve in any given day.
While first developing the ion battery in the JuiceBox, we discovered an important yet complicated problem: size. As we increased the amount of testing, our team was able to drastically shrink battery size while maximizing quality. Being only from the highest grade materials available, the JuiceBox has found its maximum potential.
•Slim, easy to use design
•Up to an hour of battery life
•20 minute charge for a ready to go experience
•Water resistant and durable
•One snap, and it’s ready to go
•No bulk, to stay out of your daily life
•A lifesaving tool
•A cheap and affordable solution to increasing smartphone proficiency
•Ships anywhere in the world, for free
•Two versions of the JuiceBox supporting iPhone as well as micro USB devices
Twitter has just announced another new feature today which is that’s its going to add suggested followers in your time,this currently was available when you do decide to follow people you would be presented with a list of suggestions and move on from there..This will either annoy people of chuff them off,so far it seems the latter…However you can adjust your settings by going HERE of late you probably have noticed many promoted tweets,this also has annoyed some and some find it useful..This is also an option available on Instagram.
Twitter’s suggestions for “who to follow” or “people you may know” are based on an algorithm that makes personalized suggestions for you. You may see suggestions based on criterion such as:
If you’ve uploaded your contacts to Twitter, we’ll suggest you connect with those who already have Twitter accounts.
If someone has uploaded their contacts to Twitter, and your email address or phone number is included in their contacts, we may suggest you follow them.
E mail contacts if you have uploaded them.
Twitter may also make suggestions based on your location, e.g. the city or country you are in.
One of the most neglected apps on Windows Phone which is Twitter has today got a minor update users will be pleased to hear,not much has been added to the update but every little helps.The update gap between this and other official apps is still huge and not encouraging to say the least.
The update is now at V.3.2.2.0 and is a 4MB download..
The update cites minor changes and does not specify in detail what’s new so we are left to find out for ourself again,but we know what the new changes are so here we go..
1 – DM character limit removed.
2 – Icons seemed to be slightly different.New DM icon on front.
3 – Trending hashtag removed.
4 – Bug fixes.
Overall the app still lacks compared to its official rivals on Android and iOS which leaves lots to be said and god knows when we will see another refreshment..
The Samsung Galaxy S 6 edge plus is now on sale in Ireland,this is the big brother on the standard Galaxy S6 edge which has been on sale for some weeks now,this is one of the nicest looking devices on the market today boasting a dual curved screen and its also lightweight and a premium feel,the S6 edge plus can be now found on Meteor and Three,check out the prices below..Bear in mind that this like its little brother does not have an sd card option nor a removable battery this has upset some fans and may be a deal breaker for some but nonetheless its a nice device to have….
Features -Android 5.1.1 touchwiz – Dual Edge Screen – Quad HD super Amoled Screen 5.7 inches – 518 ppi – 4GB RAM- 16MP rear camera with an F1.9 aperture – 5MP / F1.9 / VDIS front facing camera,120˚ Wide Selfie Angle ,3000mAh battery – fast charge – octa-core processor with 4x Cortex-A53 ,1.5GHz and 4x Cortex-A57 ,2.1GHz, Mali-T760MP8 graphics.Wi-Fi ac, Bluetooth 4.2 with ANT+, NFC
Meteor Mobile Prices from €349 on Billpay and €789 on prepay..
Three Ireland prices from €149 on bilpay and €759 on prepay..
Apple is said to announce an iPad pro next week and Samsung have just dropped a clanger here just in time to of course reply to Apple with a monster tablet,they today teased of some images of the upcoming announcement in October. Dubbed the Galaxy View or theSM-T670 for now its set to sport a 4-inch TFT LCD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, an octa-core 64-bit 1.6GHz Exynos 7580 processor, 2GB RAM, 32GB internal storage, a microSD card slot, and a 5,700 mAh battery. Its said to feature an 8-megapixel primary camera and a 2.1-megapixel secondary camera.The tablet is also said to support a kickstand which for this size would make some sense,not much has more has been given away….
This tablet will not be for everybody but its setting new boundaries again as Samsung do,they where the first to introduce the phablet we all once laughed at if you can remember back to the Galaxy Note one and look how successful that came and what spawned a new breed of mobile devices,can we see the same happen with tablets now ?? Time will tell…
