Top 5 Advantages of curved display of Samsung Galaxy Note Edge

It's been a while since Samsung tried its hand at a rounded screen, and even longer since the device-maker took a stab at anything resembling a second display. Nevertheless, here is the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, essentially a stylus-toting Galaxy Note 4 with a curved -- and independent -- right edge that has its own purpose and behavior.

Curved like an infinity pool, the touchscreen bend on the Edge's face contains its own contextual controls, app shortcuts, and notifications that you can see and interact with without leaving whichever window you're on.

The Edge display can give you access to your top apps so you can launch them from anywhere in the OS. We didn’t have an issue with the old sliding drawer from traditional Galaxy Note handsets, but making access to favorite apps more quick and efficient is always a welcome change.

Since the Edge display can display information independently of everything else, you’ll be able to see incoming notifications no matter what you’re doing, even when viewing full-screen content like games and video. This also works for incoming calls so you won’t be kicked out of your game when an unsuspecting phone call comes in.

We’re not sure how many of you care about personal expression outside the use of your standard wallpaper, but you can customize the Edge display to show whatever it is you want when it’s not in use. You can add images and text as you see fit, including drawings with the S Pen. Samsung’s main use case for wanting to customize your Edge display is when it’s sitting inside a folio case, but we’d imagine most people would rather have the display off whenever it’s not needed.

The Ticker Board app can show live information about stocks, sports scores, live news and Twitter trends so you can keep tabs on the latest without having to tab your way through a multi-step user interface. It’s nothing a typical notification can’t handle, but it does look pretty neat.

Finally, the advent of the Edge display makes way to quick tools that can be used without much effort, including a stop watch, a timer, a ruler, flashlight control and voice recording. Samsung has it 5th on their list, but we’d probably shoot this one closer to the top of the list of useful features the Note Edge enables.

Thermal Imager For Mobile Devices

Owners of mobile phones, for one reason or another and yearn to get this imager should look at the Seek Thermal - miniature thermography compatible with smartphones based on Android and iOS. The device weighs only 14 grams and is able to capture a wide range of temperature: -40 to +330 degrees Celsius. Seek Thermal offers four different ways to measure the temperature.

Connecting to iOS- and Android-powered device is organized with the help of Lightning connectors and micro-USB, respectively. Switching between an ordinary camera and thermal imager in shooting mode occurs with a single swipe. The cost of a thermal camera is $ 199, that for this category of devices is more than acceptable result.

FretPen - Miniature Guitar for iPhone

The miniature guitar FretPen for iOS devices, despite its compact size, the guitar boasts enough sound to rock. The device has just one string, maple neck and four buttons for control via a special application for iOS. Interestingly, the guitar has a removable nozzle which can be turned into a normal pen. Thus, you can always write lyrics and play it on the guitar.



FretPen uses Bluetooth to connect to the iOS devices. The application has two modes: play and learning. In the Play mode several types of acoustic and electric guitar sounds and different effects are available and in learning mode the user can use the various lessons and training to learn play guitar.


The Kickstarter funding FretPen costs about $99 and you can get more details here.

Which Is The Best Selling Electronic Gadget Ever?!

Apple iPhone 5S - NO!

Samsung Galaxy S4 - NO!

Sony Xperia Z - NO!

As surprising as it might be, with over 250 million total sales, the basic dirt-cheap Nokia 1100 is actually the world’s most popular phone. Not just this - the Nokia 1100 is actually the best selling electronic gadget ever!

The Nokia 1100 had a monochrome display with support for 4 lines of text and a resolution of 96 x 65 pixels. It had no browser, no camera, no mobile data, basically, it was just a phone for calling and texting and it had 2 games on board, one of them being famous 'Snake'.

Among top smartphones, though, it’s probably no surprise that the Apple iPhone 5s is the single most popular gadget. Analysts estimate there are over 100 million iPhone 5s sold and that number will surely continue to grow, so we would not be surprised if one day in the future the iPhone 5s actually surpasses the Nokia 1100. This is just a guess, though, and even if that was to happen, it’d take years.

Do you still own one of these bad boys? Let me know in the comments...

Microsoft's keyboard with gesture support

One of the disadvantages to smaller keyboards, like those of the Microsoft Surface, is that they aren’t as big as full-sized keyboards meaning that using them can be a little cramped. The upside is that the Surface Touch Covers do come with built-in gesture support which we guess makes up for its small size.

Developers from Microsoft Research demonstrated a new input method Type-Hover-Swipe, allowing the keyboard to perceive gestures made over it. To do this in normal keyboard keys have been built between the infrared proximity sensors. These sensors allow you to control your computer using hand gestures at a small distance from the keyboard.

According to the description, “We propose the use of motion signatures a technique that utilizes pairs of motion history images and a random forest classifier to robustly recognize a large set of motion gestures. Our technique achieves a mean per-frame classification accuracy of 75:6% in leave–one–subject–out and 89:9% in half-test/half-training cross-validation.”


What do you guys think? Is this something you’d like to see in the future?

Turn The Things Around You Into A Speaker!

Yes, It is true, you can turn anything into a speaker using Rock-It. The Rock-It 3.0 portable vibration speaker system takes music from your device and turns it into vibration sequences. It sends those vibrations through the Rock-It pod which sticks to ANY object. Simply press play on your device and the Rock-It will turn that object into a speaker!

The Rock-It 3.0 works great on things like Carboard boxes, appliances, coolers, drawers, cups, bowls, lamp shades, tupperware, file cabinets, etc. The more hollow and bigger the object the better the sound quality.

Rock-It 3.0 Features built in rechargeable lithium ion battery that will provide 10+ hours of play time. Works with ANY device that has a standard 3.5mm headphone jack: iPods, iPhones, Droids,  laptops, Blackberrys, etc.

You can buy Rock-It 3.0 from Amazon.

50 Cent headphones

50 Cent in collaboration with Lucasfilm released a series of thematic headphones devoted universe Star Wars. The new line will be available for sale for a limited time and will be supplied with a certificate of authenticity and various souvenirs in the box with the logo of Star Wars. If you have already decided on which side of the Force are, cook for $200 in the spring, when the first batch will be on store shelves.

4 versions of Headphone are available: Stormtrooper ("Assault"), Rebel Alliance ("rebels"), Boba Fett ("Boba Fett") and Imperial edition.

Basketball fans may be interested in another line of headphones - Audio Sport, dedicated to Carmelo Anthony. 3 models of headphones that are included in this series include both wireless and wired accessories, the latter are protected from tangling wires. As a bonus, each buyer will receive the complete collection towel and headphones themselves will be available in three colors.



Headphones go on sale for as low as $ 80 to $ 180 for wired and wireless headphones, respectively.

Pebble Smartwatch - Features, Compatibility, Price and Availability

Pebble, an E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android, self-proclaimed as the first watch built for the 21st century is highly customizable, with beautiful downloadable watchfaces and useful internet-connected apps. Pebble connects to iPhone and Android smartphones using Bluetooth, alerting you with a silent vibration to incoming calls, emails and messages. You will love it because of its Fashionable water-resisting design.

Features:

1.  Pebble acts as a bike computer, accessing the GPS on your smartphone to display speed, distance and pace data.

 2. Use the music control app to play, pause or skip tracks on your phone with touch of a button.

3.  Golf rangefinder app for Pebble than can work over 25000 courses world-wide.

4. Measure Speed while running.

5. Watchfaces, that changes instantly to provide better outdoor visibility. Lot of watchfaces are available for download.

 6. Pebble can notify

• Incoming Caller ID
• Email (Gmail or any IMAP email account)
• SMS on both Android and iPhones
• iMessage (iOS only)
• Calendar Alerts
• Facebook Messages
• Twitter
• Weather Alerts
• Silent vibrating alarm and timer

Compatibility:

iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S, 5 or any iPod Touch with iOS 5 or iOS 6. (iOS 5 and iPhone 3GS have restricted feature sets). Android devices running OS 2.3 and up. Works great with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)!

Unfortunately Pebble does not work with Blackberry, Windows Phone 7, or Palm phones.

Price and Availability:

 Pebble is priced at $150 USD, will be available in stores from July 7th and its also available for PRE-ORDER from its official site. Pebble is available in 3 colors, Arctic white, Jet black and Cherry Red.