A local vendor in UK has made a special
tablet for children, Kurio.
This unique tablet has been equipped with a protector on the side of the tablet to make it not easily damaged if dropped when played by your children. The protector can be removed if the tablet will be used by adults.
Kurio has been equipped with 4 GB memory, Micro SD slot, Android Ice Cream Sandwich, 2 MP rear camera, 0.3 MP front camera, and 3 screen options (7 inches, 8 inches or 9 inches).
For the 7 inch model, Kurio is come with 0.3 MP front camera only. Kurio will be available in UK on July 2012.
Who could have thought, if today a cufflinks are not only able to be used as an accessories to our clothes but also serve as a multifunction small
gadget.
With Polished Silver Oval WiFi Hotspot and 2GB USB Combination Cufflinks from Ravi Ratan, you will have a cufflink with 2 GB USB Flash drive and a WiFi USB dongle that can automatically to be set up as a router. This brand new Ravi Ratan cufflinks are made of made of rhodium-plated base metal with silver finish.
Polished Silver Oval WiFi Hotspot and 2GB USB Combination Cufflinks is sold for USD 249.95 per pair on Amazon.
Moneual Rydis H800 is the world’s first
air purifier robot that can purify the air in the room. The robot will walk around the house automatically to clean the air just like the
Roomba vacuum cleaner.
Rydis H800 can be set automatically to walk around the room and the air purification speed level can be set.
Unfortunately this air purifier robot is still using a wheel to run so if your home is consists of several floors, you have to lift it to move it to another floor.
Moneual Rydis H800 Air Purifier Robot
Moneual Rydis H800 also have a docking station for charging, gyro sensor, and PSD to avoid collisions with other objects.
As has been reported previously,
Windows 8 will support multiple types of sensors such as ambient light sensor and accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope.
All the sensors will be combined by fusion sensor from Microsoft to enhance the sensor capabilities.
Microsoft get the inspiration for this fusion sensor is coming from an applications that use the motion and orientation to the handset.
Supporting Sensors in Windows 8
According to Microsoft, by using the accelerometer and compass sensors alone are not enough to create virtual reality application so they also include gyroscope sensors. But it turns out, the addition of this sensor is still not enough because there are a lot of noise and laggy so eventually all three sensors are combined to provide a better data.
Some more information has emerged about the Wii U console.
And the biggest snippet is the fact that Nintendo’s sequel has been confirmed as launching before the end of 2012.
The company has learned “bitter” lessons from the 3DS launch, which failed to make the Christmas launch window and slipped to March, with sales suffering as a result.
Hopefully they’ll have learned pricing lessons as well, as the 3DS had too steep a price tag for many when it was first out.
The Wii has always been a competitive piece of hardware, of course, but the Wii U boasts higher-end technology capable of HD visuals, not to mention a mini-tablet controller, which will push the price up. Fingers crossed not by too much, though.
One of the other fails with the 3DS launch was the lack of big name games, with punters having to wait until the end of 2011 for the likes of Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart.
The Wii U will apparently be launching replete with a stock of great titles, as it should be.
In other Wii U news, the controller will come with NFC technology as well, apparently. This will allow it to read cards or other objects with chips embedded in them, although again, we’re eyeing that potential price tag nervously.
Another rumour is that Nintendo may be considering a name change to differentiate the console more from the original Wii.
We guess we’ll find out about the name when the official unveiling comes at this year’s E3 in June. Hopefully, some impressive launch titles will be revealed, too.
In other Nintendo news, the company just updated its forecast for a bigger loss for the year running to April 2012. The estimated loss has been upped from 20 billion yen to 65 billion, not good at all.
3DS sales are still underperforming relative to Nintendo’s expectations, even after the big summer price cut. Whereas the handheld was previously expected to shift 16 million over the year, Nintendo has revised that figure down to 14 million according to Bloomberg.
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Nokia has suffered a large loss in its latest financial results, with the company’s operating profit dropping by €950 million in the fourth quarter of 2011.
That’s a complete reversal of the situation in 2010, when the firm posted a profit of almost €900 million.
Revenue dropped 21% year-on-year, from €12.6 billion to €10 billion.
However, Nokia was keen to point to net cash and other liquid assets of €5.6 billion, and also a “solid” fourth quarter performance in mobile phones, driven by the launch of its new Windows Phone handsets led by the Lumia 800.
The Finnish company said that it had sold “well over” a million Lumia devices so far, and will be continuing to invest in building its WP7 fortunes.
However, net smartphone sales were down 27%, so hardly buoyed by the launch of the Lumia yet. Windows Phone has yet to make any real impact on analysts’ market share figures.
CEO Stephen Elop commented: “From this beachhead of more than 1 million Lumia devices, you will see us push forward with the sales, marketing and successive product introductions necessary to be successful. We also plan to bring the Lumia series to additional markets including China and Latin America in the first half of 2012.”
“And, while we progressed in the right direction in 2011, we still have a tremendous amount to accomplish in 2012, and thus, it is my assessment that we are in the heart of our transition.”
The latest figures for the tablet market have been published by Strategy Analytics.
And the analyst firm has recorded more slippage in slate market share for Apple. The figures are for Q4 2011 market share, and show that the iPad has dropped to 58% from 68% in the final quarter of 2010.
That’s a considerable chunk of the market to lose to Android, which now holds 39%, up 10% year-on-year. The 40% mark is a figure that, earlier last year, some analysts were predicting Android would only reach in 2014.
Apparently the Kindle Fire and Nook budget Android slates represent some 40% of the Android slate share, so are currently driving the droid tablet world in the catch-up stakes, as anticipated.
Of course, these are estimates for tablets shipped, and how many are actually sold to consumers is another matter which is entirely more difficult to quantify.
Apple does tend to keep its inventory moving tightly with demand, and of course, the iPad 3 is just around the corner which could – and very likely will – change the market again.
Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, commented: “Android captured a record 39 percent share of global tablet shipments in Q4 2011, rising from 29 percent a year earlier. Global Android tablet shipments tripled annually to 10.5 million units.”
“Android is so far proving relatively popular with tablet manufacturers despite nagging concerns about fragmentation of Android’s operating system, user-interface and app store ecosystem.”
Global tablet shipments were 67 million units for 2011, up 260% on the previous year. The analyst firm noted consumers were increasingly purchasing tablets rather than laptops or even entry-level desktops.
A local vendor in UK has made a special tablet for children, Kurio.
