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recently, whatsapp made an announcement officially on it's webite that they will be ending theur services on selected smartphone platforms by the end of 2016 .  here is what they said. "Earlier this week WhatsApp turned seven years old. It has been an amazing journey and in the coming months we're putting an even greater emphasis on security features and more ways to stay in touch with the people that you care about. But anniversary dates are also an opportunity to look back. When we started WhatsApp in 2009, people's use of mobile devices looked very different from today. The Apple App Store was only a few months old. About 70 percent of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia. Mobile operating systems offered by Google, Apple and Microsoft – which account for 99.5 percent of sales today – were on less than 25 percent of mobile devices sold at the time. As we look ahead to our next seven years, we want to focus ou...

What is the LG Rolling Bot? It's a few things. A remote controlled toy. A home surveillance camera. An entertainer for your cat. We kid you not - this is LG's crazy creative juices in full flow. LG didn't even intend to launch the Rolling Bot, but it was so well liked internally they decided to treat the world to it. Perhaps the success of Sphero BB-8 encouraged LG to make its own round rollable a reality. The white plastic sphere comprises of two domed wheels bolted onto a central circular control unit. Slightly smaller than a bowling ball, the Rolling Bot looks like it could belong on the set of iRobot. It feels pretty tough, but LG recommends not dropping it from anything higher than about a foot - so don't go running it down the stairs. You control the Rolling Bot with a smartphone app (available on Android and iOS), and with its built-in 8MP you get a visual from the robot as you drive it round your house.You can take pictures and record footage, and the...

A new laser weapon that can burn up targets in just a few seconds recently melted and destroyed a test drone flying over California. Known as the Compact Laser Weapons System, the futuristic, drone-shooting weapon is a smaller, more versatile version of the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD), a system developed by Boeing to be mounted on top of U.S. Army vehicles. Both weapons forgo conventional bullets for "directed energy"— a focused beam of energy that heats up and damages a target. "Think of it like a welding torch being put on a target, but from many hundreds of meters away," Isaac Neal, a Boeing engineer, said in a video about the new weapons system that was posted on the defense contractor's website. In a recent test, the laser, which is compact enough to carry around in a suitcase, was able to locate, aim and fire at a small drone flying above a testing facility in Point Mugu, California. The laser gun acts quickly (it took just 15 ...

A new device that can detect, target and deter commercial drones could be used to keep the flying robots away from areas where they're not wanted, like government properties, airports or your own backyard. The new Anti-UAV Defense System (AUDS) was developed by three tech companies in the United Kingdom. It has a radar detection component, advanced tracking capabilities and a sneaky little onboard device that keeps drones at bay. Rather than melting drones in midair like Boeing's new Compact Laser Weapons System, AUDS shoots the flying vehicles with something that doesn't destroy them — radio waves. Drone operators typically communicate with, and direct, the aerial bots using radio signals. Enter AUDS, which uses a drone's communication system against it. Using directional antennas pointed at the drone, AUDS sends the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) radio signals that interfere with the radio signals coming from the remote operator. When the drone picks up AUDS...

A new 3D printer can print living tissue structures that could one day be used to replace injured or diseased tissue in patients.  "With further development, this technology could potentially be used to print living tissue and organ structures for surgical implantation," Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, who co-authored a study describing the new printer, said in a statement. This photo shows an ear structure printed with the new bioprinter. In experiments, the researchers implanted such ear structures under the skin of mice to see if the structure tissue would survive. They found that the structures did survive, and had even developed blood vessels by two months after implantation, thanks to special microchannels printed throughout the structures. (Credit: Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine) This image shows a jaw bone fragment printed with the new bioprinter. The size and shape of the fragment corre...

this gadget is not very new to the world but its worth mentioning again and againbecouse of the great concept used behind it A unique soccer ball called the Soccket is an energy harnessing soccer ball that turns thirty minutes of play in to three hours of lamp light. Originally funded on Kickstarter, the Soccket is Uncharted Play’s flagship product. For people in soccer-loving third world countries who endure the aforementioned energy difficulties, the Soccket can be a revolutionary addition to their way of life.  It weighs only one ounce more than a standard soccer ball and its playability is so close to that of a normal ball that players won’t feel the difference. The technology that captures the energy in the Soccket is ingenious in its simplicity.  All that is required to create light is something already being done in many third world countries: kicking a soccer ball around.  Soccket’s VP of Business Development, Melissa Seligmann explains that “the Socck...

For just $120 you can have a small bionic bird of your own and control it from your smartphone. It has a foam body, and carbon fiber tail and wings, and it flies just like a real bird by flapping them really fast. It even comes with a Turbo-Charge egg. Apparently, real birds are attracted to it and there are plans for gesture control and cameras down the line. Right now it’s ideal for tormenting cats and mail carriers.

Imagine a motorized belt that adjusts to your body when you sit down, or extends itself as your gut expands during a marathon eating session. French company Emiota has realized the dream, but it doesn’t end there because Belty can also track your waistline and measure your activity. Alongside the tiny motors there’s an accelerometer and a gyroscope. We’re told this will be a premium product, so expect a high price tag. But do we need one? You could argue that a standard belt is already pretty good at telling you when you’re getting fat via notch technology

want to quit smoking or just want to track down your smoking habbits ? then the following gadget may surely prove usefull to you. It's the Quitbit Lighter You know what you really need to help you quit smoking? A $100 lighter. The Quitbit contains a heating coil and it will need charged around once a week. It automatically tracks every smoke you have and it can sync with your iPhone or Android to give you a series of graphs showing your smoking habits in minute detail. You can even set limits so that Quitbit will refuse to light you up. The makers say that one less cigarette a day will pay for the lighter within a year, but we feel compelled to point out that it’s not really a great quitting tool if you’re still smoking a year after buying it.

Buying underwear online, especially bras, can be quite challenging, which is why a start-up called ThirdLove❣ has been working to improve this. ThirdLove uses advanced image recognition technology, a smartphone app a growing network of bra manufacturers; and experience that the wife-and-husband co-foundershave gathered. Heidi Zak (CEO) and David Spector worked previously with Google & Sequoia and recently they just got 💲8M in Series 🅰 funding. But ThirdLove isn’t you average e-commerce app, it rethinks making and selling bras. The app requires you to take a series of selfies then it sequences the information three-dimensionally and matches the information to its database🗂, that’s right, no measuring tape required. No selfies are ever uploaded into ThirdLove’s databases or elsewhere.

Apparently, NASA (USA's Space Agency) is studying the aerodynamics involved in sports balls moving through the air in order to make a spacecraft take the most efficient route to Mars. "Sports provide a great opportunity to our researchers to study aerodynamics with something they can relate to", says Rabi Mehta, chief of the Experimental Aero-Physics Branch of NASA's Ames Research Centre. Mehta gave a couple of examples to demonstrate his point - "A smooth golf ball travels half the distance a dimpled one travels, because the dimples delay separation of the ball from the boundary layer" and "When a quarterback throws the football he ideally wants to throw a tight spiral with high rotation rate to help stabilise the ball as it flies through the air". At this rate, NASA might well field a couple of teams in the sports leagues and win them easily.

For the first time, the intelligence chief of the USA has acknowledged that they might use the new generation of smart household (IoT or Internet of Things) devices, like washing machines, alarm systems and cars, to increase their surveillance capabilities. IoT are various devices which connect to the internet and to each other promise to increase convenience. However, security features on these devices are extremely underdeveloped. Adm Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), said that it was time to consider home devices becoming more “defensible.” James Clapper,US director of national intelligence was more elaborate and said, “In the future, intelligence services might use the [internet of things] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials.”

A new motor developed by researchers at ETH Zurich's Department of Power Electronics and marketed by the Swiss company, Celeroton, can spin in excess of 1 million revolutions per minute. As a comparison, collapsed stars spin at 60,000 rpms, a blender at about 30,000 and high performance engines at around 10,000 rpms. The matchbook-sized motor has a titatnium shell, ultra-thin wiring and a trade secret iron formulated cylinder. The need for smaller electronic devices requires smaller holes, which means smaller, faster, more efficient drills.

you may have seen various ways of unique identification but this new method of identification is far away futuristic . check it out.  another technology innovation is the biometric identification and security device known as PalmSecure.It works by identifying the vein pattern in the palms of our hands.Similar to our fingerprints, vein patterns are unique to each individual. The purported advantages of this technology is that it is less expensive, easier to manage, and is more reliable than traditional methods of identification.

Johathan Ritchey has invented the Watermill, which is an atmospheric water generator. It converts air into fresh water. This latest technology invention produces fresh water at a cost of about 3 cents a liter (1 quart). Originally designed for areas that do not have clean drinking water, the Watermill is for households that prefer an eco-friendly, cost effective alternative to bottled water. Atmospheric water generators convert air into water when the temperature of the air becomes saturated with enough water vapor that it begins to condense (dew point). "What is unique about the Watermill is that it has intelligence," says Ritche. This makes the appliance more efficient. It samples the air every 3 minutes to determine the most efficient time to convert the air into water. It will also tell you when to change the carbon filter and will shut itself off if it cannot make pure clean water

Apple for the first time is accepting banged up iPhones as a trade-in from those wanting to upgrade. Until now, Apple offered credit to iPhone owners only if the device had an intact screen and working buttons. Apple hopes that with more leeway, applicable only to iPhone 5 and later models, more people will upgrade to new iPhones. Apple Inc has told investors that it may book its first revenue decline in 13 years when it reports quarterly earnings in April due in part to weakness in the global economy. But the smartphone market has matured as well after a years-long streak of blistering hot demand. Apple relies on the iPhone for two-thirds of its revenue. Tech blogs have speculated about an iPhone 7 to be released in the fall with dual cameras and wireless earbuds. Apple pays up to $350 for phones without cracked screens or broken buttons. For damaged phones, it will pay $50 for a 5S, $150 for a 6 and $200 for a 6 Plus.

Google began a few weeks ago driving a single Lexus RX450h SUV around a few square miles in North Kirkland to create a detailed map of the streets.  Alphabet has said that its self-driving car project will expand testing to Kirkland, Washington later this month, the third city where it is testing autonomous vehicles. The company's Google unit has conducted autonomous vehicle testing for six years in Mountain View, California, where it is based, and it expanded testing to Austin, Texas last summer. Google said in a statement that one reason for the new site in the northwest United States is to gain experience in "different driving environments, traffic patterns, and road conditions." Kirkland has significant seasonal rain that allows for wet weather testing, along with hills that will allow testing of sensors at different angles and elevations. Google began a few weeks ago driving a single Lexus RX450h SUV around a few square miles in North Kirkland to create a detailed...

The Android-powered smart mirror is a prototype and the engineer is working towards making it more intelligent. Google Software engineer Max Braun has developed a 'smart mirror' which gives him important updates as the weather, date, time and other important news. The mirror is powered by Android and is developed using the Android APIs. Talking about its project in a blog post, Barun said, "I ordered myself a two-way mirror, a display panel and controller board, plus a bunch of components and arts and crafts supplies. The display is only a couple of millimeters thin and embedded in a layer between the  two-way mirror glass and the door of the medicine cabinet. That way it looks immaculate, and I can keep using all the shelf space inside." The mirror comes with a very basic interface and complies of relevant information. Moreover, he is further planning to incorporate other important updates such as traffic updates, appointment reminders and many others. ...

A simple code can give you access to hidden information your iPhone, as well as allowing you to make changes to its private settings. The iPhone's Field Mode is a largely hidden but useful tool that allows you to see extra information about how your phone is connected to the internet. The tool is enabled by dialling *3001#12345#* and then pressing the call button. Your phone will switch away onto a grey screen, after which you'll see the extra information. One of the most useful features is a more detailed signal strength indicator which should appear in the top-left hand corner. Anything above -80 is roughly equivalent with full bars on the normal scale. Anything below -110 would be one or no bars and you are unlikely to be able to easily make a phone call. In practice, the maximum strength ever achieved is around -40. No reception at all is around -120, though it goes all the way to -140. If you want to keep that number in the corner, rather than the usual dot...