AH - New ELECTRONIC and GADGETS

Keyboard Keychain These days many of us need devices that will enable us to operate our smartphones and tablets wherever we want with equal dexterity and comfort, virtual keyboards maybe topping the list of useful gadgets . These days many of us need devices that will enable us to operate our smartphones and tablets wherever we want with equal dexterity and comfort, virtual keyboards maybe topping the list of useful gadgets .

Katy Perry for GHD Hairdryers Katy Perry continues working with the producers of GHD hair dryers and GHD hair care products: the singer once again demonstrated her luxurious hair in a fresh advertising campaign – this time she had the image of a diva from “the golden Hollywood” era (the pop-diva had already had the image of a hippie, a disco girl, and a mermaid). Luxurious dresses, bright makeup and a small portion of theatricality – one can immediately see that she is a star! The shooting was run by Ellen von Unwerth, who preferred to focus on restrained sensuality and the interplay of tones rather than on bright colors (the latter are always excessive with Katy) and presented black-and-white portraits of Perry to the public. The girl really looks perfect in the pictures : whether she is playing chess, recovering after a tiring concert or just getting ready to appear on stage. But whose merit is this: that of the photographer, the heroine, or maybe Photoshop?

New Gadget Takes Smell Based Photos A student from China has created a gadget that allows you to photograph the smell. For those who always wanted to smell the appetizing-looking pictures, a student from China came up with a special device that prints the smell of food pictures . A camera that can photograph beautiful dishes, and a smell recognizer are built in a food-printer. The image is printed with aromatic ink. Zhu Jingxuan, a student at the Department of Industrial Design at Donghua University, invented the amazing device . The young man drew a sketch and made a model of his invention during the workshop by Sony. His idea was recognized as one of the best and Jingxuan, along with the other winners, went to Sony China Creative Center in Shanghai to make a real food-printer in a team with ten Sony designers.

Self Driving Cars Could Reach Ordinary People in 5 Years California on Tuesday September 25, 2012, became the second state after Nevada to allow road testing of Google's self driving cars, with standby human drivers. Gov. Edmund "Jerry" Brown signed into law a bill authored by State Sen. Alex Padilla at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. The bill, SB 1298, allows framing of rules and regulations for qualifying an autonomous car for road testing. Speaking to the press at the event, Google CEO Sergey Brin said he expected autonomous vehicles to be available to "ordinary people" within five years. "You can count on one hand the number of years until ordinary people can experience this," he said. However, Bin stressed that the road ahead was still long and arduous. "Safety is a huge challenge for us. That's one of the most difficult things that we undertake from a technology point of view, because there are never enough ...

New Gadget Takes Smell Based Photos A student from China has created a gadget that allows you to photograph the smell . For those who always wanted to smell the appetizing-looking pictures, a student from China came up with a special device that prints the smell of food pictures . A camera that can photograph beautiful dishes, and a smell recognizer are built in a food-printer. The image is printed with aromatic ink. Zhu Jingxuan, a student at the Department of Industrial Design at Donghua University, invented the amazing device . The young man drew a sketch and made a model of his invention during the workshop by Sony. His idea was recognized as one of the best and Jingxuan, along with the other winners, went to Sony China Creative Center in Shanghai to make a real food-printer in a team with ten Sony designers.

Sephora + Pantone Universe Color IQ Finds Your Perfect Skin Tone One of the greatest challenges in make-up is the choice of a suitable tone . Even professional makeup artists sometimes make mistakes, and can not recommend the right one at once. However, with this new gadget this problem seems to have disappeared for some. We are talking about the clients of the Sephora stores. Soon there will be devices that recognize skin color and recommend the right tone. They are created in collaboration with Pantone Universe (a recognized authority in the field of color). 26 July presentation of the revolutionary new product took place. Every girl knows how difficult it is to choose the right tone. There are so many shades, formulas, and forms of production. Why is it so hard to find the one that is right for you? When you are choosing a foundation, it is important to consider your skin type, as well as the type of foundation you need. For most women , searching a foundation remai...

iRobot Roomba 790 to Clean All The iRobot industry means to make us freer yet and more relying on its products when it comes to household chores, and here’s the next step toward this goal – a new vacuum cleaner release called iRobot Roomba 790. It requires so little control that it is sure to be snatched up by those who dislike cleaning most, even if it comes quite pricey at $700! Its inbuilt wireless command center makes it the handiest gadget so far, easily controlled manually from any spot in the house – that is, in case you want it to do something special like cover an area twice or get it recharged at the dock. iRobot Roomba 790 features one-touch activation and a cleaning schedule program. The 790 model boasts a cool deep blue design. Additional accessories are included – a set of filters and brushes and brush cleaning tools.

Scientists Demonstrate 2.56 TBS Data Transmission Using Light A multi-national team of scientists has developed a system of transmitting data using twisted beams of light, demonstrating transmission rates of up to 2.56 terabits per second. The data transmission rates are 85,000 times faster than the 30 MBPS transmission rates typically available at homes using broadband cable. The team was led by Alan Willner, electrical engineering professor at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. The research was published in Nature Photonics on June 24. "You're able to do things with light that you can't do with electricity," says Willner. "That's the beauty of light; it's a bunch of photons that can be manipulated in many different ways at very high speed." Willner and his colleagues used beam-twisting "phase holograms" to manipulate eight beams of light so that each one twisted in a DNA-like helical shape as it propagate...

Walk in These Shoes to Charge Gadgets If you are used to having your pockets stuffed with all those new gadgets , charging them may become quite a problem. And what if you forget to do it in good time? And how about carrying along charging stations and assorted batteries? Fuss, fuss, fuss. But where there’s a problem there is an answer. Your feet, for one. Anthony Matua of Kenya must have given a lot of thought to how to better charge his gadgets. We shall never know why he didn’t put his trust in the sun, but instead looked down and hit upon the idea to use the energy of walk ing. He evolved it into a thin crystal chip that goes into the sole of a shoe and generates power as the sole gets bent. Then it either stores the energy or transfers it by the means of an attached cord to your pocket and to the device inside. So, you are all right as long as you keep walking! The idea sounds really cool since you can insert the chips to any kind of shoe (excepting bathroom sl...

Breaking Computer Parts Bikini When we come to think of it women can handle their computers just as adroitly as men , but when we feel like joking every one of us can pounce on women’s alleged ineptitude around technology. These sexist notions (namely, that women are all fashion -minded and not very clever technology-wise) although, of course, false, are quite sticky and sometimes break out in most unexpected places. Or attempts to turn the tables do. Designers Jennifer Shannon and Andi Cheung hit upon an idea to play around these misconceptions in a way that brings together technology and fashion – their bikini is more sexy (or less sexy, depending on how you look at it) than your average one from being made of junk hardware from dismantled old computers. An objet d’art designed within the program of the Recurring Concepts in Art class at the Guggenheim Museum as the students were asked to reformulate their old projects unaided by technological devices, the hi-t...

Hangers Display the Popularity of Clothes at C&A Stores With shopping for clothes there’s always that difficulty: picking out a really nice piece of clothing out of rows and rows of stuff displayed in stores. The eye is tempted to rove aimlessly, and if something halts it, how can we know that the piece will turn out to be worthy of our attention and not a waste of golden minutes? You could always take a reliable friend along to help you out… And what about taking along all of your friends from Facebook ? That’s not a joke, at least in Brazil. Brazilian fashion store C&A invented a way of helping its customers get as much external advice as they like – by a clever device of employing hangers with displays that show the popularity of each particular piece! What C&A did was post a photo of every piece of clothing they sell on their official Facebook page and ask the visitors to vote for the pieces they liked. The store network picks up the coming informa...

iPad Charged by the Solar Case There’s always been something like a contest between the sun and electric power for a better source of energy for our gadgets, and if we are much more used to relying on power, it doesn’t mean the sun cannot put up a good show. It can, and, coupled with the necessity for the conservation of nature, maybe we should heed more devices like this Solar Charging iPad case. The case is designed to carry a built-in battery and a solar panel working on organic photovoltaic ink, a recently worked out technology that converts any kind of light into electricity. The idea is to keep your iPad constantly charged which makes the case a perfect traveling companion. At worst, should you manage to find a spot which is dark as a pit, you will have about 10 days of functioning without a recharge! The powerful case is provided with a stainless steel stand with the movie-friendly indentation of 15° angle and a USB port via which you can also recharge yo...

breast cooler Get worn out by summer heat easily? Naturally, you can’t carry around an air conditioner or a fan. The Japanese branch of the lingerie brand Triumph sympathies with you to the extent of designing a special piece of underwear for you to keep you cool outside and inside! It is called the Super Cool Bra , a guaranteed protection from the blistering skies. The breast cooler is rigged up from refrigerated gel pads, the very thing to wear, isn’t it! Stay assured, pains are taken there be no discomfort, the gel is soft and embraces your curves easily. The basic comfort is enhanced with sound and fragrance notes, provided by a wind chime between the cups and a sprig of mint. And in case you chance to come by a fountain, there is a free ladle to splash yourself and complete the super- cooling procedure! Triumph’s Super Cool Bra is adorned with an eye-cooling fish tank exterior. The company offers bamboo screens and mini skirts from mosquito net as a suitable...

High-Tech Computer Glasses The device is designed to create a rich reality around the user, where a variety of tips and reminders for appointments, information about the weather outside or the navigation instructions will pop up in front of the owner’s eyes . The futuristic Google X Lab has officially declassified the project in creating computer glasses – Project Glass . Fragmentary information about it has appeared earlier. With the help of these glasses, people will be able to make calls, translate the inscriptions on signboards or in the menu, do online shopping, take pictures and upload them onto the net, know their friends’ location and share information about their own whereabouts. In general, you will be constantly connected to the Internet and all of its services. The glasses will also perform the role of an organizer. One of the team leaders, a professor from the University of Washington, Babak Parviz, (known for creating a contact lens with electronics in...

Smart Adidas by Stella McCartney Sports Bra and Gadget in One Clothes with monitors installed are growing on us enveloping more areas of life like Exmobaby or Somnus, a sleeping shirt that watches over us during our night’s rest. But who needs such gadgets more than sportsmen? Well, men will have to wait a bit, but for sportswomen is now available a cool Adidas sports bra created by Stella McCartney . It has already been snatched by tennis champion Caroline Wozniacki whose latest matches showed her encased in the new high-tech monitoring garment.McCartney’s Adidas Tennis Bra is designed to keep tabs on your cardio stats in real time with the help of a miCoach device , while Adidas’s ClimateLite technology provides better sweat evaporation by bringing the perspiration from the skin to the Bra’s surface. $60 for making your tennis game more comfortable and healthy!

The problem of selecting a model of jeans has existed exactly as long as there have been women’s jeans models. It is rare that we can determine the necessary cut and size from the first time. The inventors from the United Kingdom decided to simplify the problem of choice. Bodymetrics pod machine has been invented, which resembles a vertical tanning booth. Built-in measuring devices scan the figure of the woman, who enters the booth, and produce an accurate 3D-model of the female body. These data are processed and classified according to several parameters: the type of the figure, the size. Then the client gets the exact recommendation to buy jeans : what brands, styles, and cuts are the most suitable. The first 100 copies of the booths are expected to appear in the U.S. retail stores. The experiment will last for two years, and if the demand for such a service is great, the technology will spread across the globe.

Every woman wants to look her best whether she is going to work, meeting friends for an afternoon tea or going out. For over ten years ghd products and styling tools have been there to help women across the globe to create that salon perfect look with their hair . Whether you want it straight, curled or flicked there is a ghd product that can help you to achieve that perfect look. Now there is a completely new ghd product being launched that will help revolutionise hair care all over again.The ghd air hairdryer literally blow the competition out of the air, developed in conjunction with professional styling experts this amazing dryer is ergonomically designed to help you unlock the secrets to gorgeous salon blow dried hair every day. This powerful professional styling hair dryer contains a powerful professional motor and advanced ionic technology which delivers exceptionally fast drying and styling technology. Not only does this help reduce frizz but leaves your hair per...

Engineers from the Land of the Rising Sun have created a speaker that can silence anyone. This safe device uses biologists’ knowledge about the speech centers of the brain. Kazutaka Kurihara from the National Institute of Industrial Science and Technology and Koji Tsukada from the University of Ochanomizu have studied the research papers of psychologists and found that people are almost unable to pronounce anything, when their words are echoed back to them with an ultra-short delay. The Japanese decided to use this effect to construct a SpeechJammer device, which could stop any conversation. To do this, they combined a microphone and a speaker in a single gadget. The microphone records the voice of the speaking person, and the speaker relays it to the side of the speaking person with a delay of 0.2 seconds. Both the microphone and the speaker can be directed, that is why the device can be used as a gun, to force a specific person or a group of people keep silence. Howeve...

The new Lytro camera is a gadget that will save us many a problem with taking pictures – oh, and will save us many pictures that would have been lost otherwise because of the irritating blurred image. Besides, you can do a spot of creating on the picture you made. Sounds fantastic? Well, the brainy boys managed it for us. The Lytro camera is based on the recent “light field” technology which has all the reason to be regarded as the most revolutionary one in photography . It is expected that Lytro may be the first in the new generation of cameras which allow you to take your picture first and then play around with it. The camera captures the scene you chose, remembering the colors and the whole complex vector system of lighting. It means that you can shift the focus of every taken pic! The clever camera stores the photos as animation, not as stills, so you touch the photo where you want it focused, and touch it in another place looking for the best effect. As soon as you’r...

The S5K3H7 imager for phone cameras supports a frame rate of 30 frame-per-seconds (fps) for full 8Mp resolution and is capable of 1080p full HD video recording, delivering camcorder-class video quality on mobile handsets. The high-speed sensor features instant capture of dynamic images without shutter lag. The highly sensitive shutter operations coupled with high-resolution features allow the capturing of motion snapshots and continuous shooting of fast-moving subjects such as pets and sports in action. By adopting a parallel processing data solution, the new imager doubles the frame rate over previous generation of 8Mp imagers to 30fps, while operating at similar power levels due to the sensor's low-power circuitry. The new sensor also provides 720p video recording at 120fps and VGA resolution images at 240fps for slow motion playback on mobile phones. The sensor fits a 8.5mm x 8.5mm auto focus camera module with a height dimension of 5.5mm enabling its use in...