Car manufacturers have integrated biometric sensors for increased safety

After Mercedes has done with its Attention Assist a kind of first step, now several car manufacturers are following suit and integrate several biometric sensors in their vehicles, the driver not only keep an eye on, but almost to monitor medically.
The theme is the integration of a whole host of sensors around the dashboard, the seat and steering wheel are fitted while monitoring all sorts of important functions of the body -. Including respiration, heart rate and temperature What was not in the vehicle itself is installed, can be a simple way on the smartphone via Bluetooth connect to the system, which will allow scientists to measure blood glucose levels.

While the background of efforts for each manufacturer is the same, you go in terms of implementation of different ways: Ferrari about wants to measure the brain waves of the driver with sensors in the headrest and it even go that far, the vehicle at high speeds off or slowing down, when the system detects stress. Ford wants less dramatic at least block incoming calls from the phone when the strap give the measured breathing and the heart rate monitor on the steering wheel to the occasion.

BMW seems to have devoted largely to health preloaded drivers and is working feverishly to tie already available, portable blood glucose meters on the smartphone to your own vehicle system and will even detect heart attacks to the vehicle in the appropriate case, to move to a halt.

While efforts are supported almost exclusively, the technique can also be less pleasing hint - specifically for the case that it is the intention of the driver superior. Imagine yourself one important person was admitted to hospital after an accident and the case is denied because you are upset. No thanks.

Macbook keyboard embellished with wood

If you see the black keys on his MacBook can not and would rather something natural touch with his fingers, should look at the Lazerwood-keycaps. Thus draws a natural feeling.
The key requirements for the MacBook keyboard are made ​​from either walnut or cherry wood and cost 4 to 45 U.S. dollars. The keys are thus naturally a little higher. And another thing: They need to fix individually, piece by piece. This may take.

On the other hand, if the previous keys are already very worn, the effort is worthwhile, because the poor see new buttons are not where we cherry wood like better. The keyboard lights on Macbook manages unfortunately, to get through the paper-thin veneer, like us, the manufacturer announced the meantime .. Are the key caps are also valid for the stationary Mac keyboards in the right sizes. On the MacBook Air can not be used, since the distance between buttons and fold closed display is much too low.

Adam's apple: Opel's small car uses iPhones and Android smartphones for IntelliLink-N

The new small car from Opel with the biblical name Adam is not only colorful, but also versatile. The new infotainment system called IntelliLink harbors namely for smartphone owners so many practical surprise.

Usually useful navigation systems, which are installed by the manufacturers in the car, almost outrageously expensive. Updates for software and maps often attack vulnerable deep into the wallet. Not surprisingly, however, that such a system for the Adam Opel in the most expensive version will cost just 300 euros.

This GPS is basically a registered passtes in the car seven-inch tablet that either via Bluetooth or USB with iOS devices, or - communicate Android smartphones and so, for example, stream music or navigation - and it's so rare in this device category can use apps. The audio system of the car acts as a hands-free, of course almost by itself updates for the IntelliLink can be loaded just like that with the help of the Internet connection on your smartphone.
Also handy: The BringGo navigation system can optionally be downloaded as an app on the mobile device, allowing off-line navigation with Navteq maps, even for cyclists and pedestrians. When determining the position of the GPS system then turn back to the iPhone or Android phone. What is not possible is to connect an external GPS antenna. Anyway recommended that the optional mobile phone holder named "FlexDock" used to buy for 90 euros, so the phone is not in doubt in the center tunnel is no clear view to the satellite.

Otherwise announced is another app called "Mirror Link," which makes it possible to duplicate the screen of your smartphone on the display in the car. The first acts gemoppelt twice where IntelliLink itself is only a kind of terminal to the smartphone as a server, but the latter prepares the raw tax data from the phone still on even visually.

Overall, I personally find this approach awesome. With young people is precisely the target group of the Adam Opel is usually already equipped with a smart phone that supports most functions of a traditional in-car infotainment system. So why all expensively build again when this combination can get the most from the latest technology?

After four years of iOS Android: If your smartphone suddenly yours

After over four years in the form of three iOS iPhone and the iPad first generation I return the apple to relax the back, just to enjoy under Google's flag on newfound freedom - I have discovered for myself Android.
How this came about and how the first contact with Ice Cream Sandwich for an iOS creature of habit like me feels like I will not hide from you.

Unlike in most cases, the decision was and the decision for Android rather than after careful consideration or even an intense weigh the advantages and disadvantages of the various systems in terms of my needs, but is much more spontaneous nature: I'm in love easily . To what extent this fact to the device, which is due by the system given freedom or even my bias by years of iOS experience, I can not really answer - it is, however, that the me the whole package of Android (Ice Cream Sandwich) and Motorola RAZR i drew after the first start of his spell.

Decided while a comparison of hardware, given the more than widely spaced launches the iPhone 3GS and the RAZR i from the outset is seen that on the software side of course different. Even at the risk here unleash a further, unnecessary, in my opinion discussion on the question of the "better" system, I can not deny that my Android in fact appeals more than any previously available version of iOS. The reasons are not about the failure of Apple's or particularly outstanding features of Google's Android, but simply in me: I am a very freedom-loving people and spend also usually have more time to it, devices to my special needs, as those in the real sense . use

Against this background, experienced with Android "love at first (exact) view" is not surprising, because freedom stingy with the system - on the contrary to iOS - well not really. Whether it was about the installation of applications, managing media, or the choice of a default browser, accumulated from the beginning to the moments when my Android offering course options, which would carry on iOS to only by a jailbreak . In fact, I even spent money on iOS software, which imposed without the bypass Apple's barricades would never have found their way onto my iPhone and - surprise - even these can be found after the first start in the settings. Through the seemingly endless freedom creeps me almost feel that my smartphone for the first time really belongs to me - I would give it but not anymore anyway.

Although iOS feels now beginning to sound like some kind of very heavy, digital cage, but still holds advantages that have been supported by those same cage. Apps, for example, specifically with regard to the offer: While it may seem somewhere amusing to stumble across countless displayed similar applications that would have also apparently cut them a name, the efficiency in finding useful applications of this fact is anything but as appropriate. In my case it is not a serious problem, for smartphone newbies, this "lack of transparency" (or freedom?) But can quickly lead to frustration. However, I do not regret my decision at all - quite the contrary.

Apple scores another point: stop for tablets and smartphones Galaxy in the Netherlands

Infinite legal saga going on between Samsung and Apple, this time a judge of the court of Court in 'Hague, the Netherlands, has deserved the honors of the limelight. The measure decided by the Dutch court is as follows: all the tablet and smartphone Samsung Galaxy, based on version 2.2.1 and higher of Android and free software update "blue flash" should be withdrawn from the market with immediate effect. The block sales is motivated by the violation of an Apple patent for the interface navigation of galleries (in other words the system of slide-show mode touch). The update in question concerns specifically a proprietary software that Samsung had integrated into its products last year to change the display mode of the photos and bypass the previous injunction ratified by the Netherlands courts (with its block of sales) in August 2011. The new ruling affects so the only Galaxy models on the market with the old software (the only infringing the patent referred to above) and, according to well-informed, should probably not many.




The Korean chaebol, in any case, will be required to pay a fine of € 100 thousand for each day of non-compliance with the judgment, until its products are not actually removed from the shelves, and must also communicate to the court the proceeds obtained sales of devices charged from the date of the end of June 2011, the calculation of compensation due to the Cupertino company. Apple, in fact, entering a new victory after a turn due receivable (last week) the decision of a judge of the U.S. Federal Trade Communications about the obligation to show to rival the terms of the license agreement reached with HTC to close all the outstanding legal disputes with the house in Taiwan.




The spokesman of Samsung have made it known that he had received with great disappointment the decision of the judge in Holland the Dutch producer was acquitted of breaching a patent for multitouch technology from Apple in January and awaits the judgment of a ' other cause which he sees as opposed to Apple as regards the design of the tablet.




The game on stamped paper between the two companies dominating in the mobile arena is therefore far closer epilogue (Samsung has just filed a new motion in the California court against the iPad and the new iPad mini) as is the ever-living battle for patents among other protagonists of the universe smartphone. Yesterday, in fact, the news that Research in Motion losing out by the dispute started at the Chamber of Commerce of Stockholm on the use aboard the BlackBerry wireless technologies owned by Nokia. Rim, in a nutshell, breached the contractual terms of a license agreement in 2003, renovated in 2008 and then became the subject of contenzionso the middle of 2011. The action taken by the Canadian home to include the exploitation of specific patents to Nokia Wireless Lan on their smartphones with Wi-Fi connectivity has paid off: the Swedish arbitration Rim imputes to the guilt of having used that protected by copyright without paying a penny of royalties and now risks (in addition to a heavy compensation) blocking sales of the BlackBerry in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Here is the prototype of a Japanese train will travel at 500 km / h

The Japanese railway company Central Japan Railway Company has just unveiled the prototype of L0 Series, designed to carry 16 cars and a total of 100 commuters at the incredible speed of 500 km / h. Although Japanese travelers are already used to train fast and efficient, this new chip promises to reduce rail journey from Tokyo to Nagoya in 40 minutes, compared with 90 today: less than half.
It is certainly a new and unexpected. The design, in fact, it was announced five years ago and when it will be completed, including special tracks, will cost about € 91 billion.

No, if you do not isresponsible your bags now, because this train is not on rails before 2027 is in the Tokyo-Nagoya and Osaka in 2045 in that. By then the technology behind what is now only a prototype, it will be obsolete.

Meanwhile, if you want to experience the thrill of traveling by train to 501 km / h, you can always take a ride on the Shanghai Transrapid that works in China since 2004.

The Lego brick world's most valuable is entirely of gold

Lego have often spoken on this blog and we saw all kinds, in all versions, and it is appropriate to say, of all colors. But this is the exaltation of the beauty of pure single brick, the basic element of any building and is entirely in 14-carat gold.
The measures are standard, than any brick that is in a normal package and so far Lego models of this kind were produced once every two years and were the exclusive preserve of Lego employees who arrived at 25 years of seniority in the company.

Thanks to the Internet, however, these bricks are no longer just a legend. Anyone who has access to about $ 16,000 to spend can buy one on Brick Envy, an online store that has come into possession of some specimens.
And 'certainly one thing to Lego collectors and fans of the first hour that would prepare a special display case, with the right lighting, which will hold a brick like that and show it, proud, to all the friends and relatives who come to visit. Close to Christmas, then there would certainly be an exceptional public, right?

Transformer Folio, the cover for Asus Pad that makes it more practical

Every now and enjoy talking about an accessory that is not always thought of the usual devices, such as the Transformer Folio, Cooler Master designed for Asus Transformer Pad TF300T/TG.

Like any good cover, the Folio protects your tablet from scratches and bumps and its "carbon look" gives it a touch of elegance without compromising functionality.

Available in two colors, Silver and White Dark blue / gray, the Folio is installed with a simple move and once positioned not prevent the use of the ports of the tablet or the camera.

To protect the screen dell'Asus Pad is a layer of microfiber, while bending the outside cover, will change to a support in which to place the tablet, a little 'as the smart cover of the iPad.

The Transformer Folio for Asus Transformer Pad is available in the shops of electronics and gadgets at a cost of € 39.99. And this, too, can go to the list of possible Christmas gifts.

Microsoft: Windows Blue in the middle '2013

Windows 8, the latest operating system from Microsoft than a month after its launch has sold 40 million copies, you may have already 'updated soon. That 's what would be thinking that Microsoft, according to the blog The Verge, so by mid' 2013 should reach 'Blue', a cross between an upgrade and a new version. The 'rumors' sites specialize in Blue speak of a first step towards an operating system to be updated annually, as already' Apple does.

It lets out the Nintendo Wii Mini

Despite the recent launch of its new Wii U, Nintendo does not seem to have finished presenting new products to its audience, and would in Serbian another device that would be called Wii Mini. As reported by The Verge, to reveal the news prematurely and involuntarily, was the site of Best Buy Canada on which this appeared Wii Mini immediately available for orders and should definitely come out on 7 December.

Another possibility for a package to put under the tree, just in time for Christmas.

The price, however, is not clear because, by clicking on "preorder now" you end up on a page where you can buy Wii games. On the other hand, The Verge reports that according to rumors circulating prior to this leak, the packaging of the Wii Mini should contain a sensor bar, nunchuck and Wii Remote Plus a No known details or additional technical specifications, but given the way things appear just that we do not have to wait much longer before you find out more about this new console Nintendo will be a redesign of the Wii or reserve some interesting surprise? We will update you as soon as we have more information on the Wii U. Stay tuned!

The library corner, which eliminates the bookends and defies gravity

This could be the beginning of an era difficult for manufacturers of bookends, as if that were not enough already divendite the decline of books that every year he recorded in negative numbers. This library angle (vertical, though) uses its design to stop the books placed on the shelf. Lean, as it is called this Seller brainchild of a South Korean design studio, has a symmetrical design with the ends of the shelves that go down on both sides, but with a vertical axis, which prevents the books of fall down.

Anywhere on the shelf choose to put books and magazines, the force of gravity, for once, will keep them in place. In addition, you can assemble different libraries together putting the shelving systems on each other to increase space for your books and furniture for the living room with a movement in style. The downside? Guess what '... Of course the price on which the information is accurate figure, not surprisingly, still vague. and you are familiar with wood or know a good carpenter, however, play should not be the hardest thing in the world.

No child labor by suppliers of Samsung, but there are problems

After an audit committee on working conditions had accused Samsung of child labor, the company has summoned all the companies whose services it uses for its products. The first results were immediately very good, but as the talks went on, began to sprout problems. Please note, there were no evidence of child labor, but of course the rest is not enviable.

The company has inspected 105 suppliers that produce components exclusively for Samsung in which the inspectors have found working conditions dramatic. The report of the Samsung talks about "too many overtime hours than the local rules, other than the imposition of fines for delays and injuries."

Of course, Samsung has promised to try to correct this situation, ensuring to eliminate discrimination and fines, as well as to improve the health and safety standards. Samsung has also recommended "more training for managers about sexual harassment and physical and verbal abuse." It seems that everything can turn to meglo, but after the words, look at the facts.

27-inch 3D dedicated to the game.Arrive on Philips 3D Game 278G4

Philips 3D Game 278G4,It is designed specifically for the game this new 3D monitor model branded Philips


Let's start from the beginning. Presented at the last IFA in Berlin, 27 inches in size, is equipped with technology Ambiglow, innovation that expands the screen and creates a halo of light on the wall that surrounds the back of the monitor. It is not only light the peculiarity lies in the colors. The processor, in fact, quickly analyzes the content of incoming images and continuously adjusts the color and brightness of the light emitted to improve the yield of the image.


To fully exploit the Ambiglow, must place the display near a wall or flat surface, at a distance of about 15 cm, lower or turn off the light of the room and adjust the brightness dell'Ambiglow to the level of intensity preferred. Obviously the 'Ambiglow can be turned off and the display returns to standard mode.

The monitor comes with 3D glasses and related, light and flicker, they do not use batteries or cables. In addition. To improve the speed of the game has been equipped with a USB 3.0 port

If you use the monitor to watch a movie, you can switch to Smart Bias lighting, which casts a faint halo of white light 6500K on the wall on either side of the tv, improving visual comfort by reducing eyestrain and reducing reflections on the screen from the lights in the room, without sacrificing accurate color perception.

Philips Game 278G4DHSD is sold at a price of 399 euro.

Samsung has sold over 5 million Galaxy Note II

High-Five at Samsung: the beginning of November until the company announced that it sold more than 3 million Galaxy Note II, now, not even a month later, there are more than 5 million Phablets. The 5.5 "device flies so much faster over the counters as his predecessor, who had arranged with five million units in five months time for surprise. Prost.

Bye Bye Bieber: Gangnam style is the most watched YouTube video of all time

South Korean pop star Psy has caused with his Gangnam style for one of the surprises of the year. Records, especially on YouTube, although he has been diligently collected, but now he was also the ultimate crown of Internet video "loaned". Psy overtook teen star Justin Bieber and his hit "Baby" as the most watched video of all time. Had the young Canadian with 805 million views for a long time held the top position, Psy pulled in Hoppe Hoppe Reiter step sovereign over 825 million views. We had often thought / hoped that the hype would come to an end. Apparently, the peak of the possible is not yet been reached.

Google is planning its own Chromebook comes with a touch screen, perhaps soon

Google is soon to come with its own Chromebook on the market. Apparently inspired by the success of its "own" Nexus products, should now also the Netbooksektor be targeted. Experience in the production of hardware has collected. As the China Times reports that the hotel's Chrome OS computers are equipped with touch screens. Compal, a Taiwanese ODM should take care of the production. The delivery of the components have already started, so that may this year could be expected to surrender.

Asus PadFone 2: From early December beckon from exclusively at base, LTE lovers

The PadFone 2 of Asus should come before Christmas with us in the trade and the good news is that the promise is kept. As of early December, the smartphone with a snug Tablet Buddy is to be available to us, initially, on a black exclusive to the e-plus-brand base. Who wants a new SIM card (after all, supports the PadFone 2 LTE, e-plus, unfortunately) or is the white version must wait. How long, is still unclear. The sale in the regular trade has already announced that a date had not elicit to Asus' press agency, however. The press release from base reveals that the 32GB version is available and with 799 Euros to the beats, mind you with mobile phone contract. From 34 euros per month for a two-year term one is about the co-payment for the PadFone 2 is here already. The unique hardware deposit is 199 to 679 euros. Does not sound like the deal of the year, especially the E-Plus network repeatedly patchy 3G coverage is accused in non-ideal speed. LTE seeking man, as I said, to no avail. eBay? Wait? Care anyway? Let us know in the comments. Who wants to look at the features and the concept of PadFone 2 precisely: We have included the video of the presentation here again.