Sunday
Jun222014

First impressions: Incipio's Focal Bluetooth low energy-enabled enhanced camera case

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The iPhone 5s is arguably the most popular camera on a smartphone today and there are various apps and add-ons that enhance its prodigiouos photo and video taking capabilities. Incipio, renowned maker of cases and accessories has created the Focal case which offers superb all around prodtection while giving the iPhone 5s the feel and functionality of an advanced point and shoot camera.

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Sunday
Jun222014

Mozilla develops open-source streaming dongle

Mozilla is set to take on Chromecast and Roku with an open source version of a streaming dongle. GigaOM got to play around with the unnamed Firefox OS-powered device. It looks like it carries a lot of the capabilities of its competitors but it will be more open for tinkering by developers. Mozilla hasn’t said when they plan on releasing this device but we will wait for its arrival.

Sunday
Jun222014

Swedish students develop concept to help you understand sign language without understanding signing

Students from Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm, Sweden want to help the deaf and the mute communicate with those around them better with a concept app and device. The concept imagines an app called Google Gesture to help translate sign language in real-time. The app will work with two arm bands that will be placed near the middle of the forearms. A process called electromyography will used to analyze the movements of the person signing. The signs will be interpreted by Google Gesture from a tablet or smartphone and speak this to the listener.

Source: SlashGear

Sunday
Jun222014

Leaked photo of the premium Samsung Galaxy F smartphone surfaces

Rumours of a metal-clad Samsung Galaxy S5 have surfaced in the past few weeks. And @evleaks over at Twitter has shared a press render of the reported Galaxy F device in what is called as “glowing gold.” The Galaxy F will reportedly include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor and a Quad HD 5.3-inch display (like the Galaxy S5 LTE-A Samsung released for South Korea). The premium device will also reportedly have 3GB of RAM.

Source: Ubergizmo