Previously exclusive to HTC U Play and U Ultra, HTC’s virtual assistant Sense Companion is now published in the Google Play store, available for use on other HTC models. What do you need a virtual assistant for, you ask? Well, it’s a handy little tool. Virtual assistant learns of how you use your smartphone and offers information and suggestions relevant to you – for example, it may tell you about a new restaurant being opened if you are going out often, or remind you to charge your battery if you have a late event on your schedule and the device’s power level may be ...
Monthly Archives: March 2017
Foldable Samsung ”Galaxy X” may be revealed this year
It is pretty much only rumours now, but what those rumours say is quite enticing. Supposedly, Samsung is working on a foldable phone – you know, a phone that you can mold into any shape you wish to (within some limitations, of course). An unknown Samsung source has just released info stating that Samsung wants to have a working prototype of foldable device by the third quarter of 2017. It is worth remembering that even if Samsung manages to do it, it will be just a prototype, a beta version of the device, and it may or may not work as well as intended. Foldable devices are a thing of ...
Levi’s Commuter x Jacquard – jacket, a true wearable
Jacquard is the newest invention of Google. It is a fabric made of fibers that can transmit touch, reacting to it in the very much same way as touch screens of your smartphones do. Thanks to this, left sleeve of Commuter x Jacquard serves as a sort of remote for the owner’s smartphone. You don’t have to take your phone out if you have it on – you can do things like picking up calls or changing audio tracks just by pressing the sleeve. It is also possible to assign different gestures to different phone features. Are you afraid about washing the jacket? Worry not. The ...
Flight of the Amazon Queen. Classic point and click adventure game is now available on Google Play
Flight was one of the less famous of the old adventure games (after all, it was not made by Lucas Arts), but it was nevertheless praised for its high quality, humour and intellectual value. The game has just had its 20th birthday, which turned out to be a good moment to revitalize it by offering it for sale on Google Play. The game may not (okay, is not) the newest in the bunch, but what it lacks in graphics and in lackluster interface, it more than makes up in the aforementioned ...
Street billboards’ content will depend on passing cars
To nobody’s surprise, this particular idea has its roots in Russia. Startup called Synapse Labs is working on an ”intelligent” billboards. Their intelligence is said to depend upon having cameras and an advanced mechanical learning feature that allows them to recognize brands of passing vehicles. Mercedes driving by will make the billboard feature a high-end product, while a passing Bonra’s driver might check the latest price of a sack of potatoes. While the above may or may not be an exaggeration, the billboards will work in exacly that way – by showing a ...
Beware of Instagram, or an attack of narcissistic spyware
Are you using Instagram? Have you ever downloaded apps that promised to increase your number of followers? Congrats, I don’t like you and think you are stupid, plus, you are probably being hacked as we speak. Serves you right. Anyhoo… ESET has identified thirteen spyware applications advertised as to increase the number of likes and comments under user’s posts. Their method of work can be summarized as thus: after installing an app, user cannot properly log in into their Instagram account. After a few failed attempts, the narcissus… I mean, Instagram user is prompted ...
Airbus flying cars…
… only exist in the designer’s heads, at least for now. This is how all inventions start, though, so do not worry, we will get to drive around like the Jetsons did yet. Transport service dreamed about by Airbus is called Pop Up and is, basically, a four-wheeled, two-person capsule. First, the capsule appears at the transportee’s location and drives her/him/them to the nearest landing pad. There, a drone picks the capsule up and takes over to bring the users to their destination. Airbus revealed that it plans first test runs (flies) of the service in 2017, but it will ...
Will Samsung Galaxy S8 have a facial recognition feature?
From what we heard it seems like Galaxy S8’s iris scanner will not turn as great as it could, with Samsung saying that it works ”too slow”. The company has decided, perhaps to combat the low performance of iris scanner, to also implement a facial recognition system into their upcoming flagship. Or maybe it is Samsung’s reaction to iPhone 8 allegedly coming out with the facial recognition. Whatever the reason, it is unknown whether the face scanner will take iris’ place or work alongside it. ...
Nonstop Chuck Norris. Mobile game about slamming a revolving door
When Chuck Norris does a push-up, he actually pushes the Earth down – this and many other facts about the world’s greatest action hero must have been on the mind of Flaregames, makers of Nonstop Chuck Norris. It is an action game in which the player takes the role of Chuck Norris’s sidekick, and together with the hero fight off bazillion bad guys. The game is free to play, with possible in-game transactions (well, duh), and is available on both Android and iOS.I have no idea whether the game is good or bad, but I know that its trailer is hilarious, as is always the case ...
Cobalt – security man (bot) of the future
”You don’t need security, just install a camera”. This line of thought seems to not only prevail, but even thrive. Cameras are fine, but security business goes a step further and wants to create an inteligent robot-guardsman. Cobalt Robotics works on a device called Cobalt (duh), an autonomous robot equipped with a variety of tools that allow him to identify people, items, ID cards, audio tracks, CO2 and smoke. Upon identifying a threat, Cobalt will send an alert and… and that is it, because I don’t see it coming with an electric baton to fend off a thief or ...