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SNOOZ: A ‘Sound Conditioner’ For Perfect Sleep

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Short Bytes:  SNOOZ is an acoustic portable white noise machine, that makes you fall asleep. And it does a lot more that that- keeps you asleep. W hether you’re a new parent, or a working professional drained out of energy after a heavy day at work, or a patient who hopes for a speedy recovery- sleeping is the one word solution for you. SNOOZ is an acoustic  portable white noise machine, that makes you fall asleep. And it does a lot more that that- keeps you asleep. Yes, there are plenty of gadgets and smartphone apps for sleep assistance, but this new device promises of something more, and unique. Here’s the list of features that SNOOZ has to offer us: Peaceful white noise from a real fan App enabled Live, full spectrum sound Ultra portable Energy efficient Fully adjustable sound Nursery calibration No looping track No low-quality speakers No unwanted cold air Have you ever felt like the soothing sound of  a moving fan actually helps you in f

PiPhone- A Raspberry Pi Based Smart phone

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S hort Bytes: In this article, I’m going to share how someone made a “PiPhone”. Well, as the name suggests, PiPhone is a Raspberry Pi based smartphone that can make actual calls. Let’s know more. R aspberry Pi is today’s most popular development board and it’s continuing to receive tons of love from developers and DIYers. Today morning, I stumbled upon another amazing Raspberry Pi DIY that instantly caught my attention. I found this PiPhone DIY adorning David Hunt’s blog .  PiPhone is a homemade Raspberry Pi based smartphone that is smaller and looks much geeky than your usual phones. Making this phone is simple and you’ll surely enjoy this narcissist geeky gadget. It’s based on a Sim900 GSM/GPRS module and you can make actual phone calls on its touchscreen. The PiPhone is powered by a DC-DC converter and a LiPo battery strapped with it. Take a look at the video below: If you are bored with your iPhone or Android device, and Raspberry Pi D

WIFI hotspot in windows without any addtional tool

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Here is the post to know about how to Create WiFi hotspot  in  Windows 8.1/8/7  easily with simple steps. You can generate WiFi Hotspot in few seconds and spread it to your friends if they are in need of it. In Windows 8.1, you can easily create  WiFi hotspot because there are already shared option available in settings. But in Windows 8 and Windows 7 there is no such option are avail so, here I’m using the CMD method to create  WiFi hotspot . You can create WiFi hotspot by not using any  software and applications  for windows. After setting up wifi hotspot, you will able to share your internet to any devices like other PC, mobiles and tablets. So follow these simple steps to create  wifi hotspot  in Windows 8/ 7. You can easily  create WiFi hotspot  in Windows by using  command prompt  by having wired or wireless internet(WiFi)   connection. Before you follow these steps make a note that your internet connection is perfectly working. #Step 1: Open Command Prompt (Admin)

HOW TO GROW YOUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL WITH VIDIQ ?

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Hi!!!youtube publishers not getting much views for  your videos , here you have got a tool to increase your video Marketing potential and lots of visitors for your videos. With this tool you can have a stable track to post your videos and get much viewers and get a gradual growth in video publishing than before. The tool name is vidIQ . vidIQ is like an you tube SEO which gives more views to your video in very less time. The major benefits of vidIQ are, i) Maximize your organic reach ii) Build brand awareness and improve recall iii) Gain Unparalleled Insights The vidIQ tool not only ranks your video it ranks all the videos you view in youtube. It has got lots of performance indicators like vidIQ Score,   Average Watch Time,    Facebook Likes/Shares/Comments, Tweets,   Words Per Minute, Tags, Description Link Count, Description Word Count. Getting connected to vidIQ is very easy, once you connect it with your youtube account it will import all the videos to the dashboard.

Project Jacquard

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Google’s Project Jacquard Turns Clothes Into Touch Screens and Track pad We are currently breathing in a world that is smarter. We have smart phones, smart tabs, smart televisions, smart watches and what not but there’s one thing that Google wishes to add to this list of smart things of our everyday life. Want to know about it – its smart fabric, a fabric inbuilt with sensors, equipped with the ability to sense touch, swipe, send data through the conductive yarns and lot more. This is an effort by Google to generate a technology that would revolutionize the field of textiles and fabrics. The fabric can also facilitate calling, messaging, chatting and lot more alike. The project named as Project Jacquard debuted on Google I/O 2015 as a unit of Google ATAP. The fabric is weaved with a special yarn that is conductive created by Google ATAP team in partnership with American jeans manufacturing company Levis. However, the fabrics are not fully weaved out of the

LG Builds a TV That You Can Roll Up Like a Poster

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LG Builds a TV That You Can Roll Up Like a Poster LG Display unveiled an 18-inch flexible OLED screen that can be rollup up to a radius of 1.2 inches. Image: LG Display Pretty soon setting up a TV will be as easy as unrolling a poster, if LG has anything to say about it. The Korean electronics manufacturer unveiled a new kind of big-screen display that is ultra-thin and rolls up, and it expects to put the tech into TVs by 2017. Flexible displays have been around for years, but LG Display has taken the concept up a couple of notches with these two new 18-inch OLED panels, each with 1,200 x 800 resolution. Not only are they relatively large, but each can be rolled up tightly to a radius of just 1.2 inches without affecting the display at all. See also: 7 Ways You're Killing Your Tech A roll-up set could have a tremendous impact on TV shipping and storage. Today, big-screen TVs are often shipped via cargo services since they're too big to be

Virtual Reality With Gloveone

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    You would have heard about Facebook’s  Oculus Rift ,   Google’s  Cardboard   and Microsoft’s   HoloLens .   All big blues are trying to get into the world of Virtual Reality and probably this is the “Next Big Thing” coming up in near future. W ith these devices you can put yourself into a virtually created world but you can’t feel it since these devices project a virtual world whereas you are physically outside. Have you ever thought of – if you could touch&feel everything in your screen or through virtual reality glasses?  Well, your dream has come to reality with   Gloveone .  Gloveone enables users to feel and touch any virtual object that they can see on the screen or in their VR headsets. If a virtual apple is shown on the screen, with Gloveone you will be able to feel its shape or weight, sense all of its physical features, and even smash it! They do it by translating touch sensations into vibrations. There are 10 actuators distributed along the pal

Self-driving Cars Hacked Using a Simple Laser and a Raspberry PI

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Self-driving Cars Hacked Using a Simple Laser and a Raspberry PI Short Bytes: A security researcher has found an easy way to hack self-driving cars using a laser and a Raspberry Pi. By fooling the laser ranging (lidar) systems, hackers could make echoes of the fake car and put them at any location they want to fool the vehicle. T he technology companies are moving fast in the direction of bringing more and more intelligence to their products. Along similar lines, each week we hear new developments being made in the fields of automobiles and self-driving vehicles. Google has been testing its self-driving car with great excitement and sharing the pictures of the interiors of its cute-little self-driving car . However, the laser ranging (lidar) systems costing thousands of dollars could be hacked using a simple setup costing about $60. Jonathan Petit , Principal Scientist at Security Innovation, says: “I can take echoes of a fake car and put them at any location I w

Make Your Own Pi Tablet With Official Raspberry Pi Touch Display

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Make Your Own Pi Tablet With Official Raspberry Pi Touch Display Short Bytes:  The much-awaited official Raspberry Pi touch display has finally gone on sale. You can buy this $60 display and hook it up with your Pi board to get your own Pi tablet. R aspberry Pi is an amazing piece of engineering and one of the most popular platforms being used by developers and makers. Just buy a $35 board , plug in some wires to connect your display, mouse and keyboard- you are good to go. Now, using a Pi is even more convenient as the Raspberry Pi foundation has launched its official Raspberry Pi touch display that will instantly convert your Pi board into a tablet. The work on the official touch display for Pi started two years ago and now it’s here. This seven-inch screen features an RBG 800×480 display with ten-finger support touch. This display costs $60 and you can use it with the popular Pi computer to make your own tablet. The display comes with an adapter board, DS

Linux WiFi Board NanoPi Half the Size of Raspberry PI!!

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$16 Linux WiFi Board NanoPi is Only Half the Size of Raspberry P Great news for IoT and Linux enthusiast – Linux WiFi board  NanoPi , a low-power ARM MPU designed for embedded Linux enthusiasts, Makers, and players is ready to take the market on August 1st, 2015. L inux WiFi Board NanoPi is only half of Raspberry Pi (RPi)’s size and it is compatible with RPi GPIO interface. You can easily integrate NanoPi with wireless WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 module. It also offers a parallel camera interface and full-color LCD interface. This WiFi Board NanoPi can run Linux/Debian system from TF card. It is ideal for networking, wireless smart car, robotics, image recognition, HMI and other applications development. Let’s take a concrete look at features provided by this Linux WiFi Board NanoPi: CPU: Samsung S3C2451, running at 400Mhz RAM: 64M DDR2 On-Board Integrated WiFi and Bluetooth Module One USB Host interface, Type A One Micro USB Device, Support power in and data transmis

12 Surprising Facts About Google

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12 Surprising Facts About Google That You Don’t Know   Short Bytes: For most of the people, Google has become the definition of Internet. It has been more than 15 years since it came into existence and yet we know so less about one of the world’s biggest companies. Read the article to know more facts about Google. W ith an aim to organize the world’s information to be available at your fingertips, Larry Page and Sergey Brin began a research project in 1996 that today we know as Google. It is yet another rags to riches story of a startup which was originally nicknamed as “BackRub”. According to surveys, Google’s search share is about 68% on the Internet and as in April 2015, has acquired over 180 companies. Google is so famous that to google  or  google it  have become verbs today. Google owns multiple companies under each alphabet in English and therefore, changed itself to Alphabet (pretentious huh). And there is so much that you probably don’t know about Google, so