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Google Glass From A Child’s Point Of View

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Author: Tiffany Shoman

Kudos to this guy for putting his $ 1500 glasses on a tiny clumsy human.

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Helplessness, despair, and Street View come together in ‘GeoGuessr’ Google Maps game

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Author: Charity Woods

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Google Maps is usually for helping you navigate, but a new game based on Street View is about being almost hopelessly lost. GeoGuessr drops you at a random Street View location across the earth, leaving you to move around the map as much as you’d like before ultimately taking a guess at where you’re actually standing. Though you’ll occasionally get lucky and start off right in front of a hotel billboard printed with a city’s name on it, for the most part you’ll be wandering around country roads, scrounging hints off of signs and license plates, and trying to make it back to civilization. Though GeoGuessr a relatively simple game, it almost recalls the confusion and wonder of Myst, right in our own world. The game runs through five rounds…

Nokia’s Smarterphone Buy Yields First Fruit: $99 Touchscreen Asha 501 Polishes S40 With Fastlane View For Recent Apps, Contacts

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Nokia has given its Series 40-based range of touchscreen Asha smartphones another push to try to keep up with the low end reach of Google’s Android platform today. The mobile maker has announced a new addition to the range — the Asha 501 (pictured left & below) — which also ushers in a new version of the Asha touch UI that’s designed to be quicker and slicker, and has a focus on swiping gestures to make it feel more fluid.

The three-inch capacitive screen Asha 501, which has Wi-Fi but no 3G and costs $ 99 before taxes & subsidies, is expected to start shipping in June, via some 60 carriers in more than 90 countries worldwide. Nokia’s Asha range typically targets emerging markets in Africa, Asia and South America but Asha devices have also been ranged in Europe.

Although Nokia has retired its other in-house platform Symbian, to concentrate its smartphone efforts on Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS, it has continued to expand its portfolio of low end Android alternative S40-based devices — adding in a variety of new hardware and software features to devices in the range, including full Qwerty keyboards; dedicated keys for Facebook/WhatsApp; refreshed industrial design; its Bluetooth sharing technology Slam; its Xpress browser to lighten the data consumption load; preloaded social networking apps; free games downloads; and a focus on long battery life.

But keeping up with low end Androids also means improving Asha’s usability — and that’s what its latest platform refresh is all about. The Asha 501 is in fact the first fruit of Nokia’s 2012 acquisition of Smarterphone, a Norwegian company that made mobile OSes for feature phones designed to give them smartphone looks and capabilities.

Nokia said the new Asha platform is faster and more responsive. It also introduces a touchscreen UI refresh — with a dual homescreen view: the Home screen is a “traditional icon-based view for launching individual apps or accessing a specific feature”, while the new Fastlane view changes based on device usage, showing things like “recently accessed contacts, social networks and apps”.

Fastlane “provides a record of how the phone is used, giving people a glimpse of their past, present and future activity, and helping them multi-task by providing easy access to their favorite features”, according to Nokia’s press release. The feature sounds a lot like certain portions of Motorola’s Android skinning software — such as the widgets deployed on 2012 devices like the Motorola Motosmart.

The overall idea of the design refresh is to make it easier for Asha users to get to the apps and features they’re after, according to Nokia – with the two main screens accessible by a “simple swipe”. ”Fastlane is integral to the whole Nokia Asha 501 experience, but so is the ‘swipe’ motion,” a spokeswoman told TechCrunch. “With swipe as you experience it on the device, we were able to make optimal use of screen space, so you see just what you need. You swipe to everything else, including pull-down menus and of course, Fastlane. The whole user experience is faster and more responsive.”

New Asha, New Apps

So what about apps? The new Asha platform does require developers to rework apps for it — either by writing them afresh or porting them over. Which does mean Nokia is pushing the reset button yet again, but the company would probably argue that at this price point with these price-conscious consumers, users aren’t expecting hoards of apps — just select key apps. It’s also added in-app purchases to the new Asha platform, offering developers a new way to monetise Asha apps, along with its Nokia Advertising Exchange and carrier billing network.

“A good percentage of existing apps can be ported to the new platform,” said Nokia’s spokeswoman. “We already have many developers working on this. Going forward and with the new Nokia Asha Software Development Kit, developers can write an app once, and it will be compatible with future devices also built on the new Asha platform, with no need to re-write code.”

Apps that are already available for the new Nokia Asha platform include CNN, eBuddy, ESPN, Facebook, Foursquare, Line, LinkedIn, Nimbuzz, Pictelligent, The Weather Channel, Twitter, WeChat, World of Red Bull and games from Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Indiagames, Namco Bandai and Reliance Games. Nokia said its HERE location software will also be available as a download, starting in Q3 this year — and will “initially include basic mapping services”.

Messaging giant WhatsApp is noticeably absent from the list but Nokia’s spokeswoman suggested that may change in future, noting: “WhatsApp and other key partners continue to explore new Asha.”

In select markets, certain carriers are also offering data-free access to apps including the Facebook app and mobile website on the 501 for a limited time, offering another hook for the target cost-conscious consumers.

The 501 comes preloaded with Nokia’s cloud-based data compressing Xpress browser. Nokia has also created a new web app, called Nokia Xpress Now, which ”recommends content based on location, preferences and trending topics”. It said this will be available via the Browser homepage or as a download from the Nokia Store.

“Nokia has surpassed expectations of what’s achievable in the sub-100 USD phone category with a new Asha handset that is unlike any other, with design cues from Lumia and a mix of features, services and affordability that is valued by price-conscious buyers,” said Neil Mawston, executive director, Global Wireless Practice, Strategy Analytics, in a supporting statement.

Commenting on the launch via Twitter, Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi added: “Asha 501 shows what you can achieve when you design bottom up rather than strip down features to hit the right price point.

“Asha 501 Dual SIM with hot swap very important to users but what is most striking on this device is the user interface.”

The full device specifications for the Asha 501 are as follows:

Dimensions: 99.2 x 58 x 12.1 mm; 98 grams
Camera: 3.2 MP
Single SIM standby time: up to 48 days
Dual SIM standby time: up to 26 days
Talk time: up to 17 hours
Additional memory of 4GB (card included in box), expandable up to 32GB
Forty free EA Games worth €75 downloadable from Nokia Store
Available colours: Bright Red, Bright Green, Cyan, Yellow, White and Black
Suggested pricing is 99 USD before taxes and subsidies.

Google Street View arrives in its 50th country, now covers more than 5 million miles

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Author: Nancy Kennedy

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Google’s latest expansion of its Street View mapping service has seen it enter Hungary and Lesotho to mark 50 countries in which the feature is now available. The company has also pushed its “largest single update” of new and updated mapping images for over 350,000 miles of roads across 14 of its supported countries, which include France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, and Thailand.

In October, Google pushed updated imagery for over 250,000 miles of road, expanding coverage in the US, Great Britain, Italy, and Sweden, among other areas. Today’s update sees the company add more special collections to its service, which now includes popular spots like the Pena National Palace in Portugal, the Sha Tin Che Kung Temple in Hong…

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Apple Patents A Convertible MacBook Design, And Street View Navigation That Can Go Inside Buildings

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A couple of new Apple patent applications published today (through AppleInsider) demonstrate how the business may be thinking of taking on current advancements from various other big tech companies with comparable, however various designs. The first is a filing that describes a convertible MacBook design, with a touch-sensitive display that separates from the base. The second is a approach for browsing a Street View-style view of virtual maps, full with a twist that permits it to go inside structures, too.

The first design for a convertible MacBook could look familiar, since it actually resembles a great deal of designs available from Windows device makers, and some previous Android tablet designs. The screen removes from the keyboard and body section, which isn ’ t in itself awfully one-of-a-kind, however the display in Apple ’ s version communicates with the brains in the base by means of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and various other wireless interaction process, implying all the significant computing work is still dealt with by the generally found GPU and CPU. The screen itself is touch-sensitive, however doesn ’ t serve as a standalone tablet in quite the exact same way it does in some new Windows device designs.

The display also can charge wirelessly by means of the same kind of tech made use of in induction charging, drawing power from the base. What Apple explains right here isn ’ t a lot a convertible tablet, however even more of a MacBook with a display that resolves the clumsy problem of how to utilize touch effectively on a note pad by allowing it to briefly come off the base for even more ergonomic touch-based communication. Apple has discussed how touch doesn ’ t work on a typical computer system kind consider the past; this is one method around that.

An additional patent application published today might give an idea as to where Apple is goinged with Maps. It describes a navigation method for a Street View-style appearance at the world from the point of view of somebody walking the roads themselves. The distinction in between Apple ’ s patent and existing Google Street View navigation is that Apple ’ s is motion managed, treating the environment as a panorama, which can be navigated based on movement diagnosis from onboard device sensors to let an individual really experience a virtual “ walk ” through the roads of a city.

There ’ s been little proof to recommend Apple is deploying technician to collect its own Street View-style images for Apple Maps therefore far, however another current development a minimum of makes good sense offered the context of this patent. Apple just recently got indoor mapping business WiFiSlam, and this patent likewise explains utilizing the system to map and navigated indoor environments, too, so that individuals can go “ inside ” choose structures. It was originally submitted in September of 2011.

Both these patent applications seem more like Apple hedging its bets than reflections of any instant upcoming products, based upon recent reports. However they likewise address issues that could become or are already competitive sore spots for the business, so there ’ s still a good possibility we might eventually see them make their method to shipping products.

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Google Street View lets former Fukushima residents see the town they left

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Author: Randy Miller

It’s been more than two years since the tragic Eastern Japan tsunami and resulting Fukushima Prefecture nuclear plant crisis, but many of those who lived in affected areas still can’t return: witness the 21,000 residents of Namie, who had to evacuate and haven’t been back since. Thanks to a newly published Google Street View run, those former residents can once more see the town they had to leave. The 360-degree imagery shows Namie in the deserted state it faces today, with little recovery work done or possible. Google’s photos can’t accelerate the recovery process, but Mayor Tamotsu Baba views them as an incentive to eventually return — and a better way for the rest of the world to understand the tsunami’s long-term effects.

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Team Titanium 1986 – A Robot’s Point of View

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Author: Jon Mitchell

Team Titanium’s 2013 robot, The Kraken, shares it’s view of the field.
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Google Street View Goes To The Top Of The World

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Author: Stefanie Jenkins

Google has conquered four of the world's seven largest mountains. And it brought cameras.

Camp Colera at Aconcagua in Argentina

Google Maps has brought us Street View images of the Grand Canyon, Antarctica, oceans, and the inside of museums — not to mention occasional spicier fare. Today, Google is launching new Street View coverage of four of the “Seven Summits” — the highest mountains on each continent. Google has taken its cameras to Aconcagua in Argentina, Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro, Russia's Mount Elbrus, and Everest Base Camp in Nepal.

The Google Trekker, a backpack mounted with a rotating camera, which used to photograph the Grand Canyon, had not been developed when Google started mapping mountaintops. Instead, the company used a lightweight tripod and a Canon digital camera with a with a fisheye lens to capture Street-View-read images from certain locations.

Photographing at Mount Elbrus

There’s plenty to look at here: base camps are filled with tents (some of which you can look inside), scattered equipment and idle guides. There are gauchos taking a break at Aconcagua, and Soviet-era huts on Mount Elbrus. You can even explore the interior of a monastery on the edge of Everest.

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Samsung Debuts S View Cover For Galaxy S 4 With Integrated Display Window

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Author: Rod Sutherland

Samsung didn ’ t just unveil a brand-new flagship smartphone today, it likewise presented a cover accessory for that gadget with unique features. The S View cover has an integrated pass-through window for the major show, which can provide at-a-glance access to fundamental information such as call screen, SMS, existing battery status and time. It ’ s actually reminiscent of an old feature phone throwback, such as the little displays that were developed into flip phones as soon as upon a time.

The concept is to keep the phone ’ s display protected while additionally giving access to essential details, and it ’ s a rather good execution. Perhaps not as nice as the YotaPhone, which provides an e-ink show on the back that takes much less power than the primary display when triggered, which has a battery-saving attribute, too.

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Project Cars Build 397 In DIY Racing Rig (Point of View) 2560×1440

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Author: Christen Arquette

Project Cars Build 397 In DIY Racing Rig (Point of View) 2560x1440

This is a quick video to show my friend the level of information in PCars. As registrations are closed due to a FSA examination he could not sign up with up himself. I was utilizing my Motorola Xoom tablet to tape-record this, so its all over the place, the objective wasnt to race, just visual details and the noise i7 2600K @ 4.5 Ghz GTX580 1.5 GB 16GB Corsair RAM Intel 510 Series 120GB SSD Dell U2711 Monitor F4t4lity Sound card Logitech G27 Wheel Custom-made Do It Yourself racing rig Logitech Z-5500 THX border sound.
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