Samsung released Developer Editions of the Galaxy SIII and S4, so it’s not a huge surprise to see a similarly-equipped Galaxy S5 appear on the company’s website. The listing reveals that a CDMA-capable version with Verizon branding will land at some…
Parking your car in front of a fire hydrant is not only illegal, it can bring on unwelcome consequences… and we don’t mean a ticket. Most such scofflaws would actually prefer a response from the police instead of waiting for the fire department to get involved. Here’s why.
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TinkerBots (formerly known as Kinematics) let you make robots that are easy enough for a child to build. The pieces snap together easily, and you can make things much more complex than a robot dog too. Want to train the dog to walk? Just switch on the Tinketbot’s Power Brain’s recording mode and twist and turn the dog manually. Press play, and it repeats the motion you just programmed. How awesome is that?
The Power Brain has a built-in gyroscope and accelerometer, speaker, Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, and a rechargeable lithium-polymer battery.
It’s Arduino compatible too, so you can build even more complex creations if you want. You can also program robot movements from your mobile device. Other active modules include motors, pivots, grabbers, and IR and light sensors. You can update any or all of them through the Power Brain when there’s new software available.
TinkerBots are even compatible with LEGO and Technic pieces with the proper adapter blocks in place. The cubes are roughly the size of 4 X 1 LEGO brick, cuboids roughly 4 x 2, and there are two different kinds of angled prism pieces.
This is going to be a great toy for your kids. And you of course. You can get yourself a basic set for $159(USD) on Indiegogo, with bigger sets ranging from $299 to $499.
When it comes to digital cameras, there are just so many models out there in the market, that it can get rather difficult to figure out just which particular model would suit your needs best. Not only that, the performance margins between rival models can be so small, sometimes it could be the advertising or simple customer loyalty that leads you to your purchase decision. Those who are more objective in their decision making process and are in the market for a lightweight digital camera that performs well might want to consider picking up the Nikon 1 J4 of course.
The Nikon 1 J4 has been dubbed to be able to track moving subjects with the world’s fastest continuous shooting with AF tracking, delivering excellent image quality along the way that makes full-scale photography possible. The new Nikon 1 J4 would be the latest member of the Nikon 1 family, where it sports support for interchangeable lenses as well that is capable of proposing new forms of imaging expression.
For starters, the Nikon 1 J4 happens to be a model that delivers performance with tracking of moving subjects that exceeds that of digital SLR cameras, in addition to advanced shooting functions alongside excellent image quality. All of this makes full-scale photography possible, and to think that it has been specially incorporated in a compact and lightweight body – now how about that for progress?
There are 105 focus points with phase-detection AF and 171 focus points with contrast-detect AF thrown into the mix to make sure that whatever you capture always looks at their very best. Support for high-speed continuous shooting at the world’s fastest continuous shooting rate of approximately 20 fps with AF tracking is also part of the deal, and there is the Best Moment Capture mode that comes in handy whenever it gets difficult to gauge the best time to press the shutter-release button.
Hardware specifications include a 18.4MP super high-speed AF CMOS sensor with no low-pass filter, and the latest EXPEED 4A image-processing engine. Any takers?
Press Release
[ Nikon 1 J4 announced copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
If you Google Map Guéckédou, the Guinean city smack dab in the Ebola virus’s deadly domain right now, you’d see just an abstract blotch of beige and yellow. Zoom all the way in on satellite view, and you can barely make out the outlines of buildings. Don’t even think about trying Street View. Google Maps simply reflects the state of mapping in parts of Guinea. There are no good maps of Guéckédou—until the good folks of the internet help create one.
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