ASU students live with Echo Dots while learning voice-control tech

Engineering students at Arizona State University can opt into an interesting new program meant to give students access to voice-controlled technology while they learn about it in the classroom. Students living in the campus’ new engineering residence…

HandL MAXIMUS Phone Case takes a unique design route

butt-caseThe smartphone is one particular device that definitely needs a case of its own, as you can never quite tell as to when disaster is going to strike, but when it comes to choosing the model, it can be quite a headache. Here is something that will definitely be very different — the HandL MAXIMUS Phone Case, which is also known as the Butt Case. The design of the HandL MAXIMUS is meant to help you reunite with the power of touch, as Allen Hirsch, the artist and inventor of the HandL phone cases shared, “Touching the buttocks is one of the most pleasant tactile and ergonomic experiences.”

We do wonder whether there is going to be more than that which goes on in the mind when setting off such feelings in a person, but the HandL MAXIMUS Phone Case is definitely a unique addition of its kind in the market. Specially designed to be a natural extension of your hand, it boasts of a patented elastic and brace system so that the use can hold the smartphone using just one or two fingers. This in turn will free up the other hand, while relieving the amount of stress and discomfort of gripping.

With the HandL MAXIMUS Phone Case, it will provide a greater degree of flexibility when it comes to taking longer range selfies, and whenever you would like to pan a video shot across the room, or to capture a scenic panoramic shot, it is the ideal tool to have as it can convert into a hands-free portrait/landscape stand. In other words, the HandL is touted to be the most comfortable method for one to enjoy content on a smartphone. Expect the new HandL MAXIMUS Case to retail for $70 apiece, where it is available for the iPhone 7 Plus.

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Google Shows How Easy It Is To Remove Visible Watermarks On Photos

Visible watermarks on photos are pretty common, and we’re sure that many of you guys have seen them all over the internet (we watermark our photos in our reviews as well). These watermarks are meant to be an identifier as to who it belongs it, and also to prevent them from being used and claimed as someone else’s.

However could there be a better way to watermark our photos? According to Google, there is, and it is simply because it is extremely easy to remove watermarks from photos which the company has demonstrated in the video above using a computer algorithm. This means that should the person know how the algorithm works or comes up with something similar, visible watermarks will become effectively useless.

Google points to the fact that one of the reasons why visible watermarks can be removed is because of the consistency of its placement, like in the center of an image, at the corner, and so on. “We show that this consistency can be used to invert the watermarking process — that is, estimate the watermark image and its opacity, and recover the original, watermark-free image underneath.”

To make them more effective, Google has suggested that introducing random geometric perturbations, basically subtly warping it, makes it harder for it to be removed. So the next time you plan on watermarking your photos/images, that could be something worth considering.

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