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If you drank too much last night, probably you should test the level of alcohol in your blood with Thanko’s “Alcohol Checker for iPhone 5″ before starting driving a car.

After setting “Alcohol Checker for iPhone 5″ to your iPhone, breathe in the device and then you will get the result in 20 seconds. The result will be shown both in numbers and colors (green, yellow, and red depending on the alcohol level).

No extra battery is needed because iPhone 5 supplies power to the alcohol checker. It can be used with other devices that have a lightning connector such as iPad and iPod.

Price: ¥1,980
Size: 32 x 48 x 13 mm
Weight: 13 g

LG has announced an expansion to its ultra high-definition 4K line of TVs, this time with full-backlit LED 55-inch and 65-inch models. In addition, there has also been unveiled an 84-inch UHD model, which is the first to be made available to buyers in the United States. If you’re in the market for the 84-inch version, you’ll need to shell out a whopping $20,000 and head to LG’s Santa Monica retail store.

The 55-inch and 65-inch ultra high-definition TVs feature 4.1-channel 50-watt sound system that includes what LG calls a sliding speaker, which is mounted on a motorized sound bar that automatically surfaces beneath the panel. As for the display itself, LG used its Nano Full LED backlighting along with an IPS display.

The TVs feature a picture resolution of 3840 x 2160, as well as the Tru-Ultra HD engine that upscales content via a four-step process. In addition, the LA9700 utilized an H.265 HEVC (high-efficiency video coding) decoder, which will make the sets compatible with new 4K standards that may be implemented in the future for streaming and broadcast.

LG Electronics’ senior vice president Jay Vandenbree said: and head of LG’s U.S. home entertainment business. “When we brought the first Ultra HD TV to market last fall, consumer acceptance was surprisingly strong, considering that the 84-inch TV carried a $20,000 pricetag. Now, with a wider range of sizes at more attractive prices, even more consumers can enjoy the amazing picture clarity that Ultra HD TVs provide.”

In addition, the 55-inch and 65-inch models feature the Smart TV offering from LG, which provides features like Cinema 3D and Magic Remote for voice control. The smaller model has a suggested retail price of $5,999, says LG, while the 65-inch model has a suggested retail price of $7,999.

SOURCE: PR Newswire

LG unveils LA9700 series 4K Ultra HD LED 55-inch and 65-inch TVs is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Yesterday, the BlackBerry A10 – codenamed Aristo – had some of its specs leaked, showing us what the company has in mind for its Z10 reboot. Now the folks over at Boy Genius Report have nabbed an image of the smartphone, as well as a screenshot of its system information showing it running BlackBerry version 10.2.0.552.

According to the specs leak, the BlackBerry A10 is said to feature a 5-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 720. In addition, there’s said to be a dual-core processor and a separate graphics processor, something that eschews the integrated chip the company elected to use in its current offerings.

This is alongside a reported 2GB of RAM, per yesterday’s leak. The device is reportedly being focused towards gaming and power in general, and features a touchscreen display rather than a keyboard. And then there’s the actual styling of the device, which BGR reported as being more finished and to have a more refined fit over the Z10 handset currently available.

The back of the device is reported as featuring “something similar” to what is found on the current BlackBerry Q10 device, and overall it is more rounded in nature than the company’s other phones. Also leaked yesterday was the BlackBerry 9720, which is a reboot of the Q10 in the same way the A10 is a reboot of the Z10 handset.

The BlackBerry 9720 is said to feature styling that makes it similar in nature to the 9700, updating its look so that it falls in line with the company’s other 2013 devices. That’s the extent of what we know about them right now, but it is enough to give BlackBerry faithfuls an idea of what to expect. What do you think? Let us know!

SOURCE: BGR

BlackBerry A10 image surfaces shortly after spec leak is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2013, SlashGear. All right reserved.

Microsoft responded to the report of how Microsoft gave the NSA access to emails, video calls and more by saying that it didn’t give direct access (there’s that phrase again) to SkyDrive, Outlook.com, Skype or any Microsoft product. [Microsoft]

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High-end CD player “CD-S3000″ and premain amp “A-S3000″ will be out from Yamaha in early September.

“CD-S3000″ features the newly developed “Optimized High-precision Rigid CD Mechanism” for superior damping performance, and has ESS’s 32bit D/A converter “SABRE32 REFERENCE DAC” built-in.

Price: ¥451,500
Playable media: SA-CD, CD, CD-R/RW, MP3, WMA
Size: 435W×142H×440Dmm
Weight: 19.2kg

“A-S3000″ is a floating and balanced power amplifier featuring “Rigid Streamlined Construction” that separates pre amp part and power amp part and enables shortest cabling routes.

Price: ¥493,500
Size: 435W×180H×464Dmm
Weight: 24.6kg