Apr 21
I didn’t know French band Equateur until I saw their Another-World-ish video for their EP Lava, which should be turned in to a video game ASAP. The video was created by Kadavre Exquis. Beautiful.
Apr 03
The making-of video for Peugeot Design Lab‘s latest project contains no words—it doesn’t need any, since it shows every step of the process: From blasting a huge chunk of volcanic stone from its resting place to crafting a piece of carbon fiber to perfectly fit the rock’s jagged profile. The resulting bench looks like like something that might’ve emerged from the sand in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Mar 18
There are all sorts of things you can do with a flying drone aircraft or quadcopter carrying a camera. You could do the obvious and chase your dog or cat around the house. You could have it follow your significant other around to make sure they’re not causing trouble.
One thing I would not have thought of doing with a camera-packing drone is send it into the caldera of an active volcano. I would expect the hot gas and flying molten lava to destroy the drone in short order. I would be wrong, at least in this instance. Recently, Shaun O’Callaghan’s DJI Phantom quadcopter drone carried a GoPro into an active volcano on Tanna Island in Vanuatu.
You can see in the video that lava and gas are flying everywhere and going all around the camera and drone. I can’t believe the thing survived, but Shaun says the drone says no harm came to it or the camera during filming.
[via DroneHire]
Mar 13
Microsoft has dropped its licensing fees for at least two smartphone OEMs, according to a new report from The Times of India (via Verge), making it much easier for those competing in low-cost markets to build devices sporting Redmond’s mobile OS. The manufacturers are Karbonn and Lava, both partners announced among a group of entry-level device makers that are getting into Windows Phone… Read More
Jan 24
YouTube’s predictably awesome lavapix shows us how a volcano consumes a can of Coca Cola: the slow, oozy, melty way. And for some reason I’m finding hard to explain, I just can’t look away.
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Jan 17
Lava Iris Pro 30 Announced
Posted in: Today's Chili
Lava recently introduced a new range of smartphones that carried the theme of “Art meets Smart”. The Lava Iris Pro 30 happens to be the first handset in the family, and it will also have the honor of being the flagship model for this particular series. Powered by the Android mobile operating system, the Lava Iris Pro 30 measures a mere 7.5mm thin, where it will tip the scales at 114 grams, and all of it was made possible with the assistance of the extremely slim 4.7″ IPS LCD display from Sharp.
Lava Iris Pro 30 Announced original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oct 15
Check out this newly launched dual SIM Android 4.1 tablet from Lava for the Indian market. Called the E-Tab Ivory, the tablet packs a 7.0-inch 1024 x 600 touchscreen display, a 1.2GHz dual-core MediaTek processor, a Power VRSGX531 Ultra GPU, a 1GB RAM, a 4GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), dual SIM card slots (GSM+GSM), dual cameras (0.3MP front & 5MP rear), GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G, a 3000mAh battery and runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS. The E-Tab Ivory sells for Rs 10,199 (about $166). [NDTV]
Aug 10
If you didn’t get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we’ve opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week brought a smartphone inspired by TopGear’s 2012 supercar of the year, leaks of a water-resistant handset for T-Mobile and an Android smartphone from LG that sells for under $100 outright. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore all that’s happening in the mobile world for this week of August 5th, 2013.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Jul 05
The Frozen Lava Flows of Mars
Posted in: Today's Chili
This might seem like some kind of psychedelic artwork—but you’re actually looking a hundreds of individual lava flows, frozen in time on the side of Olympus Mons on Mars.
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Jul 02
Lava has an eclectic mix of smartphones on the market under its Xolo brand, including the Intel Atom-based X1000 and dual-core X800 ARM model with an 8-megapixel camera. A common thread is that all are, shall we say, cheap, and the Q600 unveiled today is no exception at 8,999 rupees (about $150). For that sum, you’ll get a quad-core Mediatek 6589M processor, 4.5-inch 854 x 480 screen, 5-megapixel rear camera, 0.3-megapixel front cam, 512MB RAM, 4GB internal memory (expandable via microSD) dual 3G sims and Android 4.2. Residents of India can grab it as of today, though we can’t see this particular model ever making occidental travel plans.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Source: Fonearena
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