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Since Google started shipping out their new Google Glasses Explorer
editions to lucky winners of its Google Glass Project competition and
who also had $1500 handy.
More and more aspects and functions of the Google Glasses have been coming to light, however one feature that seems to be lacking from the Google Glasses eyewear is security features.
Now Google Glasses user Mike DiGiovanni has developed a new
application called Bulletproof for the eyewear that will automatically
lock the device when it is removed from your face. Allowing you to
re-activate your Google Glasses using a combination of taps and strokes
on the Glass touch interface. Watch the very quick video below to see a
glimpse of the new Bulletpro
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Samsung
first unveiled their new 85 inch Samsung 4k Ultra HD TV at CES in
January of this year, and if you have been patiently waiting for its
arrival in the UK, you will be pleased to learn that your wait is now
over.
The massive 85 inch Samsung 4k S9 Ultra HD Tv will be arriving in the UK via Selfridges and will cost a mere £35,000, and offer users a resolution 3820 x 2160 pixels.
Selfridges technology buying manager Richard Jones explained:
"This is the world’s first Future Ready UHD TV, the quality and
design breaks new boundaries in the world of HD TV,”-”Our customers
expect the latest and finest technology for their homes and personal
use. We hope to pioneer th
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MadLab Industries have combined a six-bladed hexacopter and a
6-legged hexapod to create a new type of terrifying hexadrone that can
not only walk but fly as well.
The Hexapod is a modified PhantomX kit from Trossen Robotics, and a
custom MLI hexacopter, have been spliced together using carbon-fibre and
aluminium to keep the weight to a minimum. Watch the video after the
jump to learn more about the Hexadrone project and see it in action.
Back in December the development team behind the creation explained
that if they could successfully get the creation to function as they
wanted, they might consider starting a Kickstarter campaign to raise the
required funds to take their creation into production. The development
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The LoveFilm streaming service available on PC, Mac or via Nintendo
Wii and Wii U, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PS3, Kindle Fire HD and Kindle
Fire, Apple iPad, although not the iPhone, has this week received a new update for the PS3 LoveFilm Instant app in the UK and Germany.
LoveFilm features in the new PS3 games console app update include an improved search function and recommendation engine, combing to provide more accessibility.
Other features included in the LoveFilm Instant PS3 update provide a
new optimised user interface that enhances the way users can browse the
latest films and TV shows. Simon Morris, Chief Marketing Officer at LOVEFiLM, explained:
"Wit
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Samsung recently announced their new Samsung Galaxy Tab 3
tablet, the device seemed to have minor upgraded on paper over the
previous Galaxy Tab 3, and now the device has been benchmarked.
The Samsung Galaxy
Tab 3 features a dual core Cortex A9 processor with a clock speed of
1.9Ghz, have a look at the benchmarks below, which shows quite an
improvement over the Galaxy Tab 2.
Other specifications on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 include a 7 inch
WSVGA displays with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels at 169PPI, plus
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the device also features front an rear facing
cameras with a 1.3 megapixel camera for video chat, on the back we have a 3 megapixel camera for photos and video.<
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Relic Entertainment has just unveiled details for its new game
Company of Heroes 2 Theater of War, revealing a little of what you can
expect from the game when it officially launches.
The original Company of Heroes game was launched back in 2006, and
the new Company of Heroes 2 game comes with the Theater of War 1941
pack, which features Soviet and German missions to play through.
The Eurogamer website has been able to run through a few Company of
Heroes 2 missions and caught up with Company of Heroes 2 game director
Quinn Duffy:
"We’d like to make these pretty substantial packs of co-op
scenarios, challenges and AI battles, which are scripted battles on
existing map
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OneNote Windows 8 and RT versions have this week received a new
update from Microsoft which has brought with it a handy new drawing
feature.
The new OneNote Windows 8 and RT has added the ability to finger
paint on the screen of your device, however inking with a pen still
remains the preferred experience if you own a Surface Pro ands can
easily be switched between pen and touch.
With the new OneNote Windows 8 and RT update a new navigation has
been added to make it easy to choose pen colours, customise your
thickness, and store these combinations as a ‘favourite’ pen , when
required. Microsoft explains:
"Many of our users expressed the need to be able to draw on the
touch
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IBM has created the world’s smallest movie, the movie which is called
.A Boy and His Atom’, was created using atoms, you can see the video
below, which shows the atoms at 100 times their actual size.
The movie has been verified by the Guinness World records as the
world’s smallest movie, it is made from 242 frames that were captured
with a scanning tunneling microscope.
You’re about to see the movie that holds the Guinness World
Records™ record for the World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film (see how it
was made at http://youtu.be/xA4QWwaweWA). The ability to move single
atoms — the smallest particles of any element in the universe — is
crucial to IBM’s research in the field of atomic memory. But even
nanophysicists need to have a little fun. In that spirit, IBM
researchers used a scanning tunnelin
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Grand Theft Auto 5 fans patiently waiting for the games released are sure to be pleased that the games developer Rockstar has today released three new trailers for Grand Theft Auto 5.
The three new Grand Theft Auto 5 trailers reveal more about three
characters in the Grand Theft Auto 5 game Michael, Franklin and Trevor.
Watch the video after the jump to learn more about the Grand Theft Auto 5
game characters and see them in action.
"Grand Theft Auto 5 single-player story is told through three
player-controlled protagonists. They are Michael, Trevor and Franklin,
criminals whose stories interconnect as they complete missions together.
During story missions, the player can swit
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