Xiaomi’s $16 fitness tracker gets a heart-rate monitor
Although it isn’t readily available in the west, Xiaomi’s Mi Band fitness tracker has helped the company account for a quarter of all wearables sold. Unveiled in July 2014, the low-cost rubberized bracelet monitors your activity levels and analyzes your sleep, but soon be able to track another important piece of biometric data: your heart rate. The Chinese technology company today announced the Mi Band Pulse, a $16 (£10) wearable that uses a light-based PPG (photoplethysmography) sensor to measure your body’s blood flow. Slideshow-340042
Via: The Next Web
Source: Xiaomi
Sony’s Xperia C4 is now available in the UK for £175
While it was initially only launched in select markets (read Asia), the Xperia C4 has slowly become available in additional regions. A few weeks ago it was on offer at Best Buy, and now the handset has found its way to the UK. The Xperia C4 (E5303) now has its own listing page on Sony’s UK website and is currently available from Amazon UK from £174.99.
The Xperia C4 is currently only available in black from Amazon UK for £174.99 including one-day delivery if you are a Prime subscriber. Sony has announced that the C4 is slated to receive the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update, although there is no ETA at present.
Specifications:
- 5.5-Inch Full HD IPS display (1920 x 1080)
- Octa-core MediaTek MTK6752 processor @1.7GHz (64-bit)
- Mali 760 MP2 GPU
- 2GB RAM
- 16GB Internal Storage
- MicroSD card support (up to 128GB)
- 13MP Rear-facing camera with flash, AutoFocus and Image stabilizer (Exmor RS)
- 5MP Front-facing camera with 25mm wide-angle lens and flash (Exmor R)
- NFC/Bluetooth 4.1
- Dimensions: 150.3 x 77.4 x 7.9mm
- Weight: 147 grams
- Battery: 2,600mAh
- Android 5.0 Lollipop
What do you think of Sony’s Xperia C4 handset? IS £174 a reasonable price for it in the UK?
Source: XperiaBlog
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Pinterest’s visual search tool can identify items in a pin
Lots of people turn to Pinterest for inspiration, but it can be a hassle to figure out who makes that whiskey barrel table. Now that the site has buyable pins and shopping pins, it has launched a visual search tool to make it easier to find (and buy) that thing you saw. The tool is dead simple to use — when you see an object in a scene, like the light fixture shown above, you just select the search tool and draw a box around it. If it’s in Pinterest’s database, it’ll show you the name and where to find it, then let you buy it directly from retailers like Neiman Marcus or Macy’s, if available.
Source: Pinterest
18 ways to (nearly) die with Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
Lara Croft is basically a superhero. She leaps with the power of someone bitten by a radioactive kangaroo, climbs sheer rock faces like her hands are coated in glue and spontaneously zip-lines down hundreds of ancient, convenient ropes like she’s strolling down to Starbucks on a Monday morning. In Rise of the Tomb Raider, players will most certainly die a few times, whether in firefights with hordes of gunmen, while running across a rapidly crumbling sheet of ice or jumping across gigantic crevasses. What’s incredible (and absurd) is all of the times Lara Croft survives.Slideshow-339802
Portable particle accelerators may soon become reality
Modern particle accelerators are big, to put it mildly — even the smallest ones tend to occupy large rooms. Researchers at the University of Maryland, however, have found a way to shrink them down to where they’re genuinely portable. By shooting plasma with a laser pulse in such a way that they intensify the pulse and create a wake, the scientists can accelerate electrons to near the speed of light without using nearly as much energy as current machines (just millijoules for every blast). With this technology, you’d need so much less equipment and power that you could fit an accelerator on a cart.
Xiaomi teases press event to be held on November 11
Leading Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi, has begun teasing a press event to happen on November the 11th.
November 11th could be the day Xiaomi unveils its much-anticipated Mi 5 handset as well as some other cool gadgets that are expected. The reason for the anticipation is the rumored Snapdragon 820 chipset that has popped up in recent rumors and leaks. This could be the first time we hear specific details regarding Qualcomm’s new chipset, which will be among the most popular processors on future Android smartphones.
The teaser image shows a handset with a curtain over it and a question mark, indicating the company may have a new name for it. But time will tell what exactly it is that Xiaomi has planned for us. Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: TimesNews.co.uk
Via: Phone Arena
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John Chen reveals that BlackBerry has a range of products to launch after the Priv
During an exclusive interview with Fox Business, BlackBerry’s CEO John Chen disclosed that the Canadian company already has a range of products in the pipeline that are scheduled to launch soon after the Priv. It’s unclear, though, whether the new handsets will run BlackBerry 10 or Android, but we assume the latter seeing as the manufacturer has to sell 5,000,000 devices just to turn a profit and stay afloat. If the firm fails and sales aren’t quite up to scratch, it will be forced to abandon the hardware industry altogether.
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Google is giving away three free movies to all Chromebook owners
If you’re the proud owner of a Chromebook, you may want to boot it up, head over to Play Movies & TV and check the dedicated promotions section of the application as Google is now giving away three complimentary films from a limited selection to all owners of a Chrome OS-powered device. Unfortunately, the movies are only available in Standard Definition (SD), but it’s still a pretty sweet deal nonetheless.
The list of films available varies depending on the device accessing the Play Movies server and area that it’s located in, but a rough outline of what you’ll be able to choose from can be seen below:
- Mission Impossible
- Mission Impossible II
- Mission Impossible III
- Mean Girls
- Clueless
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Footloose
- Flashdance
- Forrest Gump
- The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
- The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
- The Last Airbender
- Charlotte’s Web (2006)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
All-in-all, some pretty solid choices. As a film lover, I’d recommend going with either the Mission Impossible trilogy or Forrest Gump, The Last Airbender and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).
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Samsung publishes its latest Gear S2 commercial
Earlier this week, Samsung took to its official YouTube channel to share the latest promotional video for its second-generation Tizen-totting smartwatch, the Gear S2. In the short 30-second clip, we learn how the device’s integrated 3G connectivity can be used to keep connected with the world around us, without having to use our smartphone at all.
Check it out after the break.
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ABC’s ‘BattleBots’ reboot will come back for a second season
Good news if you liked ABC’s resurrection of BattleBots for the modern era: it’s sticking around. The network has renewed BattleBots for a second season, albeit with some tweaks. It’ll preserve the single-elimination tourney that you saw in the first run, but it’ll double the number of competitors to include everyone from “expert roboticists” to “families on a mission.” Logically, past winners will come back for another shot at glory. It’s too soon to say if these changes will spice up ABC’s robotic wars, but the show’s audience grew significantly over the first season — don’t be shocked if there’s a third when all is said and done.
Via: The Wrap
Source: ABC
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