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If you’re the sort that like to dive underwater and go on snorkeling trips, then perhaps you might want to invest in a snorkel mask like the Easybreath mask. The device was created by a water sports company in France, and they actually won first place in the 2014 Oxylane Innovation Awards, so safe to say it has something going for it!

So what makes the Easybreath so different from other snorkels? Well for starters, it allows the wearer to break with their nose and mouth. Typically snorkels are worn in the mouth, allowing the wearer to breathe only with their mouth. For the trained snorkeler, we guess this has become a habit and they’re used to it.

But for the occasional snorkeler or something doing it for the first time, it can be jarring. According to a diving center manager, “We naturally disassociate mouth from nose. In other words, we breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth, so when we put on a mask, we can only breathe through the mouth.”

This is where the Easybreath comes in, which allows the diver to breathe more naturally. Other features of the Easybreath includes a wider field of vision, and there’s a bright orange stopper at the top of the mask that prevents water from entering when the wearer is submerged, and also serves as a “beacon” of sorts to other divers and boaters.

Unfortunately the Easybreath isn’t quite as available as it should be, mainly because its company, Tribord, does not have the capacity to ship these devices worldwide. However they are expected to make their way to Decathlon stores in Europe by the end of May.

Easybreath Snorkel Mouth Gives Snorkeling A Makeover

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To mark the 45th anniversary of Samsung Electronics, the Korean juggernaut today opened Samsung Innovation Museum in Suwon, South Korea. This five story, 10,950 square meter building in located inside the Samsung Digital City in Suwon. Kwon Oh-hyun, Samsung CEO, said at the opening event that this museum gives visitors an opportunity to see how far technology has come and from where Samsung draws inspiration for future products.

One might think that this museum would be a shrine to everything-Samsung, but that is actually not the case. On display are 150 inventions and products from individuals as well as competing companies like Apple, apart from Samsung’s own products.

The museum has been divided into three main halls with each representing a different “Age.” The Age of Inventors includes inventions that laid the foundations of modern technology, from individuals like Thomas Edison, Michael Faraday and Alexander Graham Bell. Hall 2 is called Age of Industry Innovation. This features inventions related to semiconductors, mobile telecommunications and displays. Some of the world’s earliest smartphones are also on display though Samsung has naturally gone to great lengths to ensure that its mobile products take center stage. Similar products from Sony, Sharp, Nokia and Motorola are also on display. Age of Creation is highlighted in the last hall, here the focus is greatly upon Samsung’s latest devices and services.

A Samsung History Hall has also been created to showcase the journey and challenges that the company has faced up till now. The museum is open to public from Monday to Saturday, though visitors stopping by during weekdays will require a reservation.

Samsung Innovation Museum Opens In South Korea , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in General, Samsung,

For those of you who have been on the receiving end of error messages on your Samsung smartphone, and had been scratching your head all day long, trying to figure out just what could have led to such a situation, it is time that you no longer wonder. Apparently, the Samsung.com website was not made accessible to the masses on the Internet simply because of a fire that happened at the Samsung SDS building which is located in Gwacheon, South Korea. The particular site was unavailable, where it led to error messages on many of Samsung’s products, where these include their array of smartphones, of course. The website outage happened until this morning at 6:15am EST, when the site returned online, with the entire gamut of services restored as well.

That particular fire began on Easter Sunday afternoon (we’re looking at Korean time here) on the building’s fourth floor, which so happened to contain the back-up data center for the South Korean consumer electronics giant. There were several credit card related services that encountered the error message, although one must take note that the main data center that is located in Suwon was not affected by this blaze.

Thankfully, no fatalities were reported in South Korean media, and as far as we know, things have more or less returned to normal despite the video above depicting a far more adverse effect.

Samsung.com Down Because Of Samsung Building Fire , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in General, Samsung,

Back in September last year Nokia announced its intention to sell its devices and services business to Microsoft. Since then the deal has had to go through several regulatory hoops, and barring a couple of minor hiccups, it has sailed through federal regulators as well as Nokia’s shareholders. Microsoft expects to close the deal later this month. Nokia’s phone business will thus be renamed. While Redmond hasn’t made an official announcement as yet, an email sent by the company to suppliers reveals that Nokia’s phone division will be renamed Microsoft Mobile Oy. (Oy is Finland’s equivalent of Ltd.)

The division, Microsoft Mobile, will stay in Finland as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft. Official business address will be changed from Nokia HQ on Keilalahdentie to Keilaranta in Espoo. Apart from the change in legal address another change after close of the transaction would be the removal of Nokia’s logo from purchase orders.

Since Microsoft assumes all rights, benefits and obligations of Nokia’s devices and services business, including its agreements with suppliers and partners, Redmond will continue to do business with them. The company tells suppliers that they can also continue to do business with Nokia, for example on Advanced Technologies, NSN and HERE Maps, for which the Finnish company will communicate with them separately.

Nokia’s Phone Division Will Be Named Microsoft Mobile

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If you’re in need of arts and crafts supplies, there is a chance that you might have headed over to Michaels Stores, a company which is considered to one of the largest retailers with regards to arts and crafts supplies in the US. Back in January this year, the company warned that their systems could have experienced a security breach, but it was only today that the company confirmed it.

According to Michaels Stores, the breach apparently took place between the 8th of May 2013 to the 27th of January 2014. The company estimates that 2.6 million cards might have been affected. While this is a huge number, it only constitutes to about 7% of the payment cards used at its stores during the period, so not all of Michaels Stores’ customers are affected.

The company also claims that data such as customers’ names or personal identification numbers were at risk, but we guess it doesn’t hurt for you to change it anyway, just to be on the safe side of things. The malware that allowed the breach has since been dealt with and the company is working with law enforcement officials, banks, and payment processors to ensure that nothing is amiss.

For customers who have been affected by this breach, Michaels Stores has announced that they will be providing them with fraud monitoring and identity protection services. This isn’t the first time that the company has been breached and it joins other companies such as Target and LaCie who have recently experienced similar breaches themselves.

Michaels Arts And Crafts Retailer Confirms Customer Data Security Breach , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in General, Security,