May 22
May 22
Wearables can track can track all kinds of health a fitness data these days, but here’s one that focuses on something different: how much alcohol you drink. Called BACTrack Skyn, the wristband acts like a wearable breathalyzer, even though you don’t technically breathe into it. Instead, it measures blood alcohol levels through you skin using fuel cell technology similar to … Continue reading
May 22
Last year, Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) team unveiled Project Jacquard, which aims to make interactive clothing using conductive yarn and miniature electronics. At this year’s Google I/O developer conference, the company announced that it’s working with Levi’s to release the first consumer product based on Project Jacquard.
The Commuter Jacquard Trucker Jacket – actually it’s “Levi’s® Commuter™ x Jacquard by Google Trucker Jacket”, but try asking for that at a store – has a touch-sensitive cuff partially made of the aforementioned conductive yarn. A small detachable device connects to one of the jacket’s button holes and wirelessly sends your input to an app on your phone. You can then control music playback, handle calls or messages and even use Google Maps by swiping or tapping on the jacket’s cuff. The jacket is just as durable and stylish as its dumber variants, so you don’t have to take special care of it and you can use it as a regular jacket if you want.
The tag is detachable not only so you can wash the jacket and charge the tag, but also so you can use it with future Jacquard smart clothing if it ever becomes a thing.
Beta versions of the jacket will be sold this fall, with the final version coming in 2017. Someday even our clothes will have bugs and software updates.
[via Google via TechCrunch & Android Central]
May 22
It was only a few days ago that the Gran Turismo Sport beta release date was confirmed. A promise was previously made that a beta of this game will be released before it’s pushed out for everybody but it appears that the beta isn’t going to happen. Series creator Kazunori Yamauchi has confirmed that the Gran Turismo Sport beta has been cancelled.
Kazunori Yamauchi confirmed this while speaking to VideoGamer. He said that delivering the beta required as much work as putting the finishing touches on the final game itself, and that doesn’t really make a lot of sense for them to continue with the idea now.
This is why developer Polyphony Digital has come to the conclusion that it needs to shelve the beta and instead use all of its time and resources to complete the game and launch it later this year.
“In order to do a beta test we have to make a gold master of the beta test code, and for us it actually takes as much effort as to finish the real master code of the actual game,” Yamauchi said, adding that he’s very sorry about the cancellation of the beta.
Gran Turismo Sport was announced in October last year, at that time, it was said that a beta would be launched in 2016. Now we know that’s not going to happen. Fans will have to wait for the game to come out instead, the PlayStation 4-exclusive Gran Turismo Sport is going to be released on November 15th.
Gran Turismo Sport Beta Has Been Cancelled , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
May 22
Takata has had to deal with a host of problems ever since it was found that the company’s airbag inflators had faulty parts which could explode in certain conditions and cause shrapnel to enter the cabin, potentially harming drivers and passengers. Since then many car manufacturers who used Takata’s inflators have recalled millions of their cars to replace the faulty airbag inflators and now Mercedes-Benz is joining that list.
Close to one million Mercedes-Benz vehicles are affected, some are currently under recall and some are now being recalled to replace the inflators. The cars range from Mercedes-Benz sedans, convertibles, and even cargo vans
Mercedes-Benz has received no reports yet of any injuries or deaths being caused in its cars by these Takata inflators but nevertheless, this is an issue that the company needs to come out ahead of, which is why it’s going to recall all of these cars.
Tens of millions of cars from manufacturers like Honda and Toyota have already been recalled in the United States. It was recently reported that auto safety regulators are examining whether up to 90 million additional Takata inflators need to be recalled because they may also pose a risk to drivers and passengers. The recall is expected to top more than 120 million cars in the United States from various manufacturers.
Close To A Million Mercedes-Benz Cars Recalled Over Takata Airbags , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
May 22
Mars is a planet closest to the sphere we call home. It’s a planet that humans are ambitious about, that they think they will be able to make a colony on. Sincere efforts are being made to send humans to Mars in order to determine whether or not it would be possible for life to survive there. We’ve already seen countless images of Mars from afar and from the surface, and the latest that the Hubble telescope has captured shows us yet another beautiful image of Mars.
Mars is already quite close, relatively, to Earth but it’s going to come even close on May 30th. It’s going to make a close approach to Earth and during that time, the Red Planet will be within 46.8 million miles of Earth.
Ahead of that fascinating event, the Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of Mars that gives us a great look at the neighboring planet. This image was taken on Mars 12th with Mars being about 50 million miles away from Earth.
This image puts the terrain of Mars on full display. One can easily make out the varied terrain with volcanic regions, basins, craters and large deposits of sand clearly visible. The look is topped off with white clouds in the planet’s atmosphere.
It surely is a beautiful planet.
Hubble Snaps Beautiful New Image Of Mars , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
May 22
Sometimes, even the most unlikely things can go viral on the internet. That’s really the power of this medium, it can take something to heights of popularity in a very short span of time, this is what we call “going viral,” and the latest video to get this treatment is of a mom in Chewbacca mask. In case you don’t know who Chewbacca is (what’s wrong with you), he’s the furry and loyal companion to Han Solo in the Star Wars movies.
This is the story of Candace Payne. She was returning clothes at Kohl’s and that’s when she found this talking Chewbacca mask. She points out in the video that she bought the mask not for her children but for herself.
“I mean, I’ll let them play with it, I’m not a bad mom, I’m not a jerk, but in all honesty, at the end of the day, it doesn’t go in their toy box, it goes in my room,” she says in her video, which was publicly shared on Facebook.
The video is about four minutes long and it’s one of the most hilarious things you will find on the internet today. Even she can’t stop but laugh like crazy at her antics. It really is fun to watch.
Thank you, Candace Payne, for making our weekends light up with your infectious laugh.
Mom In Chewbacca Mask Has The Internet In Fits , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
May 22
Some of the biggest phone manufacturers like Samsung and Apple have their own iconic ringtones that will forever be associated with their handsets. Even companies like Nokia and BlackBerry who are not as big as they used to be had their own iconic ringtones which many of us still remember since we’ve all used a Nokia or BlackBerry back in the day. A musician has taken those popular ringtones and turned them into nothing short of classical music.
Musician Tony Ann displays his skills on a piano as he takes some of the most iconic ringtones that remind you of your favorite smartphone maker and transforms them into something you’re sure to like.
Some carrier tunes also get similar treatment, see the video and you’ll find that T-Mobile’s T-Jingle and AT&T’s Original Cingular sound so much better when they’ve received the Tony Ann treatment.
Popular tones from Samsung, Apple, Verizon and many others receive the classical touch in this video, it just might want to make you change your existing tone with one of these recreations, they’re that good.
Check out the video posted above and see if you can find one that you want to use, there’s certainly something for everybody in the Tony Ann arrangement.
Musician Transforms Popular Ringtones Into Classical Music , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
May 22
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stumbled to clarify his stance on guns in classrooms, contradicting his position on the issue in one breath.
“I don’t want to have guns in classrooms. Although, in some cases, teachers should have guns in classrooms,” Trump said Sunday on “Fox & Friends.”
The real estate mogul doubled down on his contradictory stance as the phone interview continued. “I’m not advocating guns in classrooms,” he reiterated. “In some cases — and a lot of people have made this case — teachers should be able to have guns, trained teachers should be able to have guns in classrooms.”
Trump’s comments came in response to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who accused him of pandering to the gun lobby after he spoke at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting on Friday and pledged to abolish gun-free zones.
Earlier this month, Clinton tweeted that Trump would require schools to allow guns in classrooms immediately upon entering office.
Trump characterized that statement as “wrong!” but the Washington Post’s Fact Checker found that Clinton’s charge was accurate, based on Trump’s past promises.
“I will get rid of gun-free zones on schools — you have to — and on military bases. My first day, it gets signed, OK? My first day. There’s no more gun-free zones,” he said back in January at a rally in Vermont.
Despite Trump’s enthusiasm for abolishing gun-free zones, several of his own properties prohibit occupants from carrying firearms — including his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
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May 22
A humanitarian crisis can turn worlds upside down in an instant. But the recovery can take decades.
Conflict, tsunami and cyclones are just some of crises that have changed the lives of people permanently this year. Globally, we know that around 125 million people are affected by crises and 26 million of them are women and girls.
Women and girls are disproportionately influenced by humanitarian crises exposed to early marriage, trafficking, rape, forced pregnancies, unattended service delivery during complicated pregnancies and delivery. Women and girls are 14 times more likely to die in disaster settings than men.
This is what the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) will be talking about at the first ever World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul this week.
You hear of populations dislodged and of the immediate challenges of food and shelter. But what about the need for reproductive health and neo-natal services? What about the dangers of sexual violence that women and girls in particular face?
Reproductive health services are often neglected or ignored in humanitarian emergencies, a time when services are most needed yet are not prioritized. For many women and girls, this would mean the difference between life and death.
We need to ensure access to life-saving Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights services are made a priority for women, men and children in times of crisis.
In Syria, an estimated 46,500 women will suffer gender based violence, including rape, as a result of the ongoing conflict. More than 75% of Syrian refugees who fled are women and children.
Specialized front line services are needed to offer the support and protection in a critical time where women and girls are at high risks of physical and sexual violence.
We need to ensure that the human rights of women and girls are protected and able to access sexual and reproductive healthcare.
Progress in targeting women and girls has been achieved in the past decade but sexual and reproductive health services are often neglected in humanitarian emergencies and still remain a less universally acknowledged priority.
Fundamentally, we need to put money and efforts into ensuring the integration of a comprehensive package on reproductive health into the standard humanitarian response.
Access to sexual and reproductive services, even in the midst of war or natural disaster, is a human right which does not only saves lives in the short run, but also helps build resilience among refugees and those displaced.
Yet it’s one of the most important aspects of humanitarian assistance that is often forgotten when disaster and conflicts strike.
There are a number of commitments we want to see at this Summit.
First we need to ensure that there is a coordinated response on the ground which has the same status as other humanitarian response like water or food. This is a minimum set of standards for a sexual and reproductive health front line actions.
It’s not new. It is already recognized as the international standard for reproductive health in crises, known as the Minimal Initial Service Package (MISP).
Second, we urge governments to factor to recognize and implement reproductive health into their own humanitarian response delivery.
Finally, donor governments need to ensure that services are more equitably distributed between conflict zones and natural disasters. In particular in conflict areas, lack of funding leads to worse sexual and reproductive health outcomes for women and girls.
Our role in sexual and reproductive health continues to play an important role both on the ground and in the global discourse. We will keep pushing for it to be given the status it truly deserves for as long as it takes.
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