Droid Pro (Reviews)

Droid Pro - Motorola
Droid Incredible - HTC

Camera Resolution: 5 megapixels
Flash: Dual LED
(Auto Focus, Digital Zoom)
Video Capture Resolution: 720x480 (30 FPS)
Memory/ Processor Speed: 512 MB (2048 MB ROM) / 1000 MHz

Built in Memory: 1024 MB
OS: Android 2.2
QWERTY Keyboard, Capacitative TouchScreen
Bluetooth: 2.1
Wi-fi: (802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n)
HTML, Flash, MicroUSB, YouTube Player (All Supported and Fully Functioning).


By the looks and function, it is "A 'BlackBerry' for those who don't want a BlackBerry".
Blackberries are appreciated for their emailing messaging, syncing, outlook, enterprise,security and keyboard. However, the Droid Pro only has 3 of these things, such as emailing, messaging keyboard, and security (which is not as strong as the BlackBerry), , and its keyboard is harder to use as the "keys" (buttons on the keyboard) are quite miniscule and it misses a trackball or trackpad which allows the user to comfortably move the mouse around or select apps, choices, etc. Even so, it has very good potential, as it has much more Widgets and Apps than the average BlackBerry, and it would be preferred by business owners and workers. (Weather, stock marketing, and other related- widgets are more common for the Pro) However, the Droid Pro still lags behind heavy-business phones, such as Bold 9780 for T-Mobile, or the Blackberry Curve 9330 CDMA.

Its Battery Life, KeyBoard Ease-of-use, and Enterprising Abilities are all lagging behind the Blackberry (For the Droid Pro). However, its TouchScreen, World Roamer, and HotSpot Capability is quite decent, and the Pro will be a competitive match to the BlackBerry.

Motion Doctor, "Physical Therapy" - iPad App

  
   The Motion Doctor, a $14.99 App from the Blue What Web Solutions, is like having a physical, real therapist which carefully analyzes your body and helps you protect yourself against physical harm (the only difference is that it is virtual). This app was created by Desirea D.Caucci, a Pennsylvannia Doctor who wanted to find a "portable" way to help people avoid self-injury and other undesirable wounds and to maintain body shape.

The Motion Doctor has 60 videos (which are updated every once in a while) which are "embedded" or "baked" into the app so an internet connection is not required to watch them. Each video has a "routine", which shows text, imagery, and detailed steps for that specific category of body problem. For example, if you got a stiff neck, you'd go to the "cervical flexion and extension" routine and video. The routine would say "Hold each position three second and repeat these five times a day". The rational of the routine, described by the very creator, was to maintain full neck flexibility, and to keep it out of painful cramps.

The routines are shown in colums beside their videos, and each group of routines, or a routine alone could be favorited for quick location in the future. The "favoriting" only works with routines, NOT videos. Also, "favoriting" allows routines to be separated into different genres, such as Elbows and Hip and Knees.

Lastly, Motion Doctor provides all sort of routines, exercise suggestions, and videos for Basketball, Baseball, Swimming, Golf, Tennis, Jogging, computer work, and various others for the body, like chest and hips. However, the Motion Doctor is, and will never be intended as a substitute for a real, physical medical professional. Mr. Caucci even suggested 

"If you are experiencing any unusual pain, shortness of breath or any other unexpected response when performing any of these exercises, you should discontinue using this app and contact a medical professional,"

Escalating Artificial Intelligence

Fortunately, most robots aren't the complicated emotional beings that star in movies, and we're still pretty good at identifying android impostors. Even if you don't recognize the stilted robotic diction over the phone, they usually give themselves away when they can't understand a thing you're saying. But how long will it be before you have an entire conversation with a machine without realizing it?
This isn't just cocktail party chatter; it's the long-term goal of artificial intelligence research. Alan Turing, the man many identify as the father of AI, in 1950 defined an intelligent machine as one that could masquerade as a human. Even without having to talk or understand the spoken word, there isn't a machine that can pass the Turing Test. Truly humanlike intelligence has frustrated AI researchers because it involves two skills that machines are bad at: perceiving their environment and usefully incorporating past experiences into their knowledge base. Knowledge, for even the "smartest" robots and computers, cannot take prieviously learned facts to fuse into the information that is presently available to them. "Remembering" for computers, is like setting up back-up or restoring to a prievious date, but is nothing much more than that,Think, for a minute, about what it takes to recognize a can of soda sitting in your refrigerator. The photons bouncing off the scene in your refrigerator are recorded on your retina. The optic nerve translates the image into electrical signals and carries them to your brain. So far, so good for the machines. Digital cameras have long been able to capture photons and store them as transmittable electrical signals.

The next step, though, is a bridge too far for most robots. Your brain manages to pick out the can from the rest of the scene, even though every time you see a soda can, it looks a little bit different. Your brain has what researchers call an internal representation of a soda can, so even if the lighting is different or the background changes or the can is a slightly different size, you still recognize it. It takes an incredible amount of computing power, plus the ability to filter out extraneous details, to make this happen.

Windows Gets an ARM Twist

  Microsoft might give its mobile aspirations "a shot" by polishing and releasing a new Windows OS  to run on ARM chips. The New OS will be either the Windows 8 or the beefed-up, highly-tweaked Windows 7. Windows 8, which will have Face-Detecting Technology (Uses the computer camera to detect the user and log him in) or AKA My Computer Knows Me, might show its face as this OS is released. The ARM chips will be extensively be used in Mobile Devices such as Windows Mobile Phone (7). The ARM chips consume 30% less power than Intel or AMD chips.

The ARM will rarely be used in computers (as of now), and runs on Intel and AMD (mainly Intel) processors. The ARM will be modular, so if it is used in smaller, or thinner smartphones, unncessary parts of it could easily be removed. ARM has gone multicore and can easily support multiple, complex operating systems, according to Rob Enderle, as Tegra 2, an Nvidia graphics processing unit, was released. The Tegra 2 unit has a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, which has 1080p HD video- play back processor. Apparently, Microsoft is continuing to evolve ARM and will be widely used starting from mid or late 2011 in mobile devices.

One main reason Microsoft developed this was that the Windows Phone 7 "was too light" for the competition with Google and Apple. Google and Apple both have their own mobile OS's, such as (iOS) and (Google Chrome). If ARM proves to be successful, then Microsoft will be much more competitive with Apple and Google and even Android on terms of both mobile and PC innovations. Microsoft has had massive success with computer related Operating Systems, but has not gotten far into mobile OS's, until now.

    
  What you are seeing above is the new $35 ( 1500 rupees) Indian Tablet PC, introduced by Kapil Sibal, the minister of Human Resource Development in India. As one of the most innovative devices invented this year (in my opinion), the astoundingly low price, ease of transporting and using, and its specs could be even better than the iPad. The Linux based, prototype tablet computer, along with a touch screen, also comes with a Web Browser, Multimedia, Adobe Flash (can stream videos and load sites properly), PDF reader, WiFi, video - conferencing ability, and also, a 2 GB RAM (no hard disk or bluetooth YET) with a multitude of USB ports. The Indian Institute of Technology co - produced the motherboard for the tablet computer, and as the tablet PC goes into mass production later next year, its price might drop to $20 to even $10.

As it is just a prototype and still in development, Kapil Sibal and education expert Zubin Malhotra believe its full, final version can be equal or even better than an iPad or a normal laptop we American all use at home.
The Human Resource Development in India has started a development for a new, but more expensive (100 - 200 dollars), called the "OLPC tablet". Its hardware (which is beling developed) is called "X0 - 3".  Information about OLPC is very scant, and it is predicted it will be months or years before the OLPC, or even the "$35 tablet PC" is released.

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Apple's Booming Stocks Makes it More Vulnerable to Revealing of its Secrets

  Apparently, the FBI arrest 4 people who were in an insider trade probe. The four people were hired by AMD, Flextronics, Dell, and TSMC. The Holy Grail for traders looking to game the system, however, were details about Apple’s plans via Flextronics, a contract equipment manufacturer. A Flextronics employee, Walter Shimoon, had the goods on Apple trade secrets through a contract manufacturing relationship. Flextronics supplied camera modules (for Apple's macbooks, iPhones).

The Flextronics Employee, Walter Shimoon, obtained the information:

The New (4g) iPhone will have 2 cameras.

Before the iPad was released, its code name was K48, and the unlucky employee who said "K48" out loud could get him fired. However, this threat didn't stop Shimoon from yapping this to other people.


In conclusion, the point of this is, that between Apple and Flextronics, there were lots of secrets and highly- confidential information that were passed between the 2 companies. For example, Apple informed Flextronics in 2009 about the development of the "iPad" tablet computer. To ensure that this information would not leak, its confidentiality was governed by a non - disclosure agreement executed between those two companies (Flextronics and Apple). 

Shimoon knew that he would get fired if Apple ever found out, and possibly go to jail, but he told various other anonymous people and Primary Global Research which detailed the sale forecasts of current Apple merchandise and the new 4g iPhone that would come out sometime mid-2011.


Apple's sales graph and their current status in the market:

Planet Made of Diamonds

Astronomers have recently discovered a planet 1200 light years away in the Constellation Centaurus, a planet made out of DIAMONDS. The mineral that is being doubled in scarcity each decade is as common as sand on this planet. The scientists believer the diamond - covered planet had once a diamond core that once shined as brightly as the sun. This is predicted to happen to the sun in seven billion years. Two billion years after its last wave of heat is given off, the sun could become a large, shining diamond that would stay in the center of the solar system (even though a formation of a black hole is slightly possible).

This planet is code named (Wasp-12b). Scientists have observed that the diamond littered planet has more carbon than oxygen, which would render normal humans unable to breath, or have an extreme difficulty breathing. As well as being trillions of miles away, the planet it nearly 2315 Celcius, which would make the actual excavation of the precious mineral near impossible.

Also, the planet is beaten "eaten away" by some unknown star the Hubble has detected, so the diamond-covered plant is estimated to last only 10 to 20 million years.




^^^^^^ The pic ---> The small, shiny white grains are diamonds. But this is just a professional artist's depiction of the planet, not an actual image.

AlienWare Mx15 Laptop (Dell)

Extreme Speed:   The New intel Core i7 920 XM allows the laptop to go overboard for more than 3.2 GHz, and with an 8 MB cache, it can pretty much run any game with equal to or more than 60 FPS, which includes some of the most graphic intensive games, such as Fallout or Cysis.

High Definition Screen and Design: The Specs and the price of the laptop also reflects its appearance. The keyboard can change colors by using the Alienware Command Center. Also, the curved, vented lid and edge of the laptop makes the Alienware Computer stand out even among the more stylish ones, such as HP Envy laptops.

Also Comes with  1 GB NVidia GeForce GTx 260M GPU which delievers 1080p or (1920 x 1080) resolution on the 15.8 screen.

Alienware Command Center: The Command Center is extremely flexible. It allows you to change the backlit Keyboard (The color), the speakers, the power button, and the Alienware Keyboard. Other than changing just the physical looks, the Command Center can be modified so it notifies you when a new email or message arrived.

Just One Last thing (I used the MX 11 before). This Alienware Laptop weights about 11 - 15 pounds. Even the prievous AlienWare Mx 11 weighed about 10 pounds for me. I didn't purchase the Mx 11, primarily because it was too bulky and it shouldn't really be considered a "laptop", since its unstable and would easily fall off your lap and break.

Overall, the AlienWare Mx 15 is absolutely beast, with its NVidia GeForce 260M and Intel Core i7 920 XM, making it one of the fastest and most powerful laptop in the market. According to customers, the Mx 15 easily runs some of the most graphically hardcore games, like Doom 4, MW 2 (for PC), and Crysis. The only most noticeable downsides is the weight and the price.

The Great Ball of Fire

A few months ago, in August, the Sun had two Coronal mass ejections, or simply put, massive firestorms which dispense great masses of charged particles into space. Every planet and rock in 100 million mile radius of the storm was affected. Thanks to the Solar Dynamics Observatory, other scientists noticed in great detail how the particles disturbed out magnetic field and causes great ripples across the atmosphere. (This only occurred to the side which faced the sun). These ripples were auroras, which were ripples of light that result in charged particles slamming against the upper atmosphere. One of the mass coronal ejections disbursed radiation level C, which was one of the highest levels of intensity, heat, and brightness that were recorded in the summer this year. More coronal mass ejections are expected the forecoming years, and especially 2012, where a Solar SuperStorm would occur. (The SuperStorm would knock out most of the internet, Wi-Fi, and Wireless Connections for days, causing chaos on highly modernized countries, such as Europe, The United States, and Russia).

'Intelligent" Robots

The Robot floating in the air is called "Honeywell XM 156". It is a Miniature Air Vehicle that can literally "hover and stare" to designated targets. Which in others words, can spy human activity discreetly from a safe distance. This is definitely not a robot which we would want it to be "smart".

Official known as "Boston Dynamics Big Dog." Doesn't it look like something out of Modern Warfare or Call of Duty? This "Big Dog" lives up to its name. With full charge and well-oiled parts, it can easily cross 10 to 20 miles ( usually around 14) on any sort of terrain. The speed is about of a very old car, (20 - 40 mph.) < -- Please comment on this if I am wrong, the speed of the "Big Dog" is not known yet.

It can also act as a scout, and "detect" enemy bases and current hide - outs. Sadly, it does not have a form of "eyes" to "see" the settings around them, or detectors. The 'Big Dog" is rumored to be used mainly as a scout and "chaser" (To chase targets and therefore, not completely lose them).

Smarter Machines

Nowadays, there is no day in our lives where either TVs, GPS systems, Cell Phones, or Computers are not used. This is primarily one reason why our technology, and research and development into Robots are intensifying. Most robots however, are used for military. In The Korean Demilitarized Zone, the Samsung TechWin SGR-1 is employed to ward off North Korean invaders, if they ever try to come over the border (which they have done, and failed numerous times).

The SGR - 1 has a grenade launcher, and has a variety of cameras to detect invading North Koreans. It has been encoded to recognize which "line" is the border, where the North and South Koreans are supposed to be. The Grenade Launcher will automatically fire if this "line" is crossed.

This is just one of the many thousands of new robots that have been developed to combat, or defend against intruders. One main danger is, that the robots could gain a mind of its own and bite back. After all it is possible. Already, the modern web poses dangers to others, which include spyware, viruses, and trackers. The robots we produce may be smart enough to the extent that it cannot function without proper human maintennace. However, with our ongoing industrialization, robots could eventually break free from human overview and begin acting independently, which is most likely to be disastrous for humans.