Have you watched “Tomorrow Never Dies”, where 007 controlled his BMW 750iL with his Ericsson handset? Well, that was certainly fantasy back in the day, but just like how most folks wondered when will large scale touchscreen technology arrive in the real world after watching Minority Report and seeing how tablets and smartphones are all pervasive today, we would not bet against a remote controlled car being on our streets in a decade’s time, either. What you see above is actually a China-made remote controlled car, but it is still a far cry from what James Bond’s BMW 750iL is capable of.
For starters, this full-sized, road-legal sedan that can be controlled via a remote control is extremely limited in its mobility. We are looking at a maximum speed that would be unable to overtake your everyday jogger – a mere 2km/h, tops. Not only that, it will function when the operator is no more than 33 feet away. The thing is, this is the first full size remote control sedan to date, and we do hope to see vast improvements made to it soon, especially concerning the top speed.
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It can be said that the Samsung Galaxy S3 is the South Korean manufacturer’s best attempt at churning out a smartphone to date, and they have done quite the bang up job as well. Here is a rumor that most probably would not end up as true – a new and improved Galaxy S3. We are talking about the same Galaxy S3 body being put on offer, where it will carry a similar 4.8″ HD Super AMOLED display sans any physical buttons, with the flavor of the day being a 16-megapixel sensor that has 10x optical zoom capability to boot, in addition to a Xenon flash as well to capture images under extremely low light conditions. Purportedly running on the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, nothing else other than the camera specifications were revealed, so it remains to be seen whether the processor underneath the hood will be given a nice upgrade kick in the butt.
What do the following smartphones from LG have in common? I am referring to the Optimus 2X, Black, 3D, LTE, Prada, and the correct answer would be this – all of them have yet to receive the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, but we are pleased to say that this is no longer the case, at least in the days and weeks ahead. Who would have thought that LG Singapore would be the party to reveal information concerning an Ice Cream Sandwich update for the LG Optimus 2X, Black, 3D, LTE, and Prada?
I am quite sure for many of us who first watched Minority Report, we were blown away by the user interface that saw the use of a special kind of gloves that worked in tandem with the touchscreen display. Well, Google might eventually venture into this particular field if the latest patent is of any indication. Dubbed as the Google Smart Glove, it was described in a recently issued patent as “Seeing with your hand”. I suppose this sheds new light on what some might say, “Speak to the hand, cause the ear, it ain’t listening” lingo.