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With healthy lifestyle and looks being on the steep rise in terms of social desirability, it’s not surprising that gadgets and devices are pouring in boasting the most convenient ways to monitor your health. In an attempt to create the best thing in health monitors, Jawbone has launched the Up iPhone accessory and a free iPhone App that watch over your energy level, sleep cycles and everything related to your present condition. The Up iPhone accessory connects to your iPhone’s headphone jack by a 3.5mm plug hidden under the rubber cap on the end and syncs in. There’s a motion engine that keeps track of your steps and calculates calories, and a band that collects information on the depth of your sleep and can even decide on the best time for you to wake up according to your sleeping pattern. Also, rely on it for charting your weekly progress. The outstanding features are the gadget ’s water resistance at depths under one meter, so you can easily forget about it in routin...

Asus officially unveiled the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, the world's first tablet powered by a quad-core processor, and released its full specs on Tuesday, November 8. Announced just seven months after the launch of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, the Transformer Prime lives up to the pedigree and general design of it predecessor - A high end Android tablet with an optional keyboard and battery dock. With a 10.1-in display and an aluminum chassis, it's both slim (0.33in, 8.33mm) and light (1.29lb, 586g), with a body that is water, oil and fingerprint resistant. The 1280 x 800, Super IPS+ Gorilla Glass display has a 178-degree viewing angle. Coming to its features, it makes sense to start with the one that is most outstanding - the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, which was also officially launched on Tuesday. NVIDIA Tegra 3 Processor The Tegra 3 uses four 1.5GHz cores to speed up processing. The processor's two additional cores should drain the battery a ...

With pre-orders for Kindle Fire relentlessly pouring in, Amazon has reportedly stepped up orders for the tablets on Taiwanese manufacturers to over 5 million units, reports Digitimes. Amazon's manufacturing partners in Taiwan include Wintek, Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), LG Display, Ilitek, Quanta Computer, Aces Connectors and Wah Hong Industrial. In the middle of the third quarter, Amazon had increased its initial 3.5 million unit order to 4 million units. Kindle Fire will start shipping on November 15, and Amazon is hard at work adding to the list of apps that would be available in the Amazon AppStore on launch. Kindle Fire runs a highly customized version of Android, requiring apps to be tweaked to run on it with optimized performance. Apps expected to be available on launch include: Netflix Rhapsody Pandora Twitter Comics by comiXology Facebook The Weather Channel Allrecipes Bloomberg LinkedIn Zillow Pulse The Cat in the Hat Quickoffice Pro Jamie's 20-Minute Me...

Intel plans a new range of processors to power tablet computers, a significant tweak to its earlier plan of using Medfield processors for both smartphones and tablet, reports Digitimes. The Medfield platform, built on the Cedar Trail architecture, is Intel's first purpose-built 32nm platform for smartphones and tablets, optimized for both low power and high performance. The platform was expected to enable sub-9mm designs Tablets weighing less than 1.5 pounds. Intel's overhaul of its 2012 product roadmap has been prompted by a desire to field processors that can match ARM CPUs in terms of thermal design power (TDP), facilitating increased battery life. The company aims to bring TDP of its smartphone and tablet processors down to 10W over the next two years. Sources tell Digitimes that Intel plans to launch 32nm Saltwell, 22nm Silvermont and 14nm Airmont chipsets in the next three years.

Panasonic announced the DMC-GX1 interchangeable lens camera on Monday, November 7, a new addition to the LUMIX G Micro System mirror-less range that features significant sensor and autofocus improvements. The GX1 is fitted with a 16 MP Live MOS sensor with circuitry that improves S/N at high ISO setting by a whopping 200%, allowing for a max ISO of 12,800! It support burst rates still photography at 4.2 fps (16.0-megapixel) and 20 fps (4-megapixel). Focusing Pansonic continues to rely on contrast detection autofocus, unlike some other compact camera manufacturers who are experimenting with hybrid contrast / phase-difference auto focus systems. Panasonic says phase-difference AF system is susceptible to mechanical margin of error, while contrast AF is more accurate, especially when shooting with bright lens with small F value; at F1.4, for example, Contrast AF accuracy is 90% accurate as compared to 60% for Phase difference AF. The GX1 features 0.09 sec autofocus, achie...

Latest Apple iPhone 4S is a fascinating addition in smart phone business. Though apparently it looks like the earlier ones but the interior is all different and new with exciting advanced features. Apple iPhone 4S contains a dual-core A5 chip that delivers more power along boosting the graphics up to seven times. The battery is efficient and a 3.5-inch Retina display makes things more vibrant and vivid. There exists high pixel density that makes it the highest-resolution phone screen ever. Siri is your intelligent assistant in iPhone 4S . You can talk to it as you can with a person. It recognizes your voice and helps you to find out solutions. Siri also sends messages, makes phone calls, sets reminders, schedules meetings and does a lot more. There comes an easiest but world’s most advanced mobile operating system, the iOS. It can switch between two different sets without dropping calls. iPhone 4S camera has 8 mega pixel resolution with accurate color and illumination ...

Canon is developing a new-concept EOS-series SLR camera capable of recording 4K video using a 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor, the company announced on November 3. The camera will be able to record at a frame rate of 24P, with Motion-JPEG compression. The company's announcement coincides with the launch of its Cinema EOS System, marking Canon's full-fledged entry into the digital high-resolution production industry. The Cinema EOS System targets cinematography professionals and spans the lens, digital cinema camera and digital SLR camera product categories. 4K Standard 4K is an emerging standard for video recording and computer graphics. The standard is based on a 4,000 pixels of horizontal resolution with the vertical resolution varying with the recording aspect ratio. Current video recording formats standard names, like 720p and 1080p, are derived from the vertical resolution used in the format. Product specifications of the new EOS digital SLR camera currently u...

Canon EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera is an interchangeable lens video camera with a 8.20 MP resolution 35 mm equivalent CMOS sensor. The EOS C300 Digital Cinema comes in two versions: C300 featuring an EF lens mount for compatibility with Canon's EOS SLR camera range lenses; and C300PL with a PL lens mount for use with industry-standard PL lenses. Canon is also developing EF cinema lenses in the newly announced Cinema EOS System . When outfitted with a Canon EF lens, the C300's peripheral illumination correction automatically corrects for vignetting in accordance with each lens' optical characteristics, and enables iris control from the camera. Canon EF lenses also facilitate recording of metadata, such as the name of the lens used, aperture setting and shutter speed. Large Pixel Size The Super 35 mm-equivalent CMOS sensor in the EOS C300/C300 PL features a pixel size that is larger than that used on conventional professional camcorders sensor, enabling n...

Amazon may well be "inching" to a conclusion that Apple reached years ago: small displays are a bad idea for tablet computers. According to Digitimes, Amazon's current display suppliers - Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) and LG Display (LGD) - are gearing up to produce 8.9-inch displays. Sources tell Digitimes that Amazon may later release release 9.7- to 10.1-inch models in 2012. The second-generation Kindle Fire is expected to feature the quad core Tegra 3 processor.