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I have been reading up on a lot of new tech gadgets and I have to say I am blown away at the HUD glasses that Google is coming out with. Based upon what I read the prototype of these glasses look liek the Oakley Thumps which is the picture above. From what I have read the glasses will have a front facing camera to gather info and would be used in augmented reality apps. It will also be able to take pictures but the camera will not be big and will only be a few megapixels. The heads up display or HUD if you will, is only going to be in one eye and be on the side not right in the middle of your view, pretty like most HUD displays if you have ever played a first person shooter. The navigation system is been said to be motion activated with head tilting to scroll and click things, and it is suppose to be very easy to learn how to use these glasses. They are only speculating right now on what actually will be in the glasses for specs but it has been said it will be very close to a Android phone build from the last generation of Androids.

BTJunkie which was founded in 2005 has been huge torrent site for over half a decade. It should be noted that they are closing their web doors and it is not because they are involved in any legal action being taken on them but most likely in fear that it could happen. After seeing other sites go down and get hard penalties it is not irrational to think they were scared of the same things happening. Although the owner of BTJunkie isn’t fully getting out of the torrent game but most likely backing off until things cool down a bit. Even though BTJunkie hasn’t been targeted it has raised eyebrows in the past, it is one of the few search terms censored by Google due to piracy related content. However with this site going down there will just be another to step up and take its place.

Google has updated its stats for Android and well this time around they showed how many Android operating systems have been installed on each device. The latest update is that Ice Cream Sandwich is up to 1% of all devices. The Ice Cream Sandwich was first on Galaxy Nexus and over the time the release has been out there for official and unofficial devices. It looks like Gingerbread holds the most installs which is over 60% across every device, while Android 2.2 Froyo Follows right behind them and hopefully Android 4.0 which is Ice Cream Sandwich will be on more devices in the near future.

It looks like if you have spent a lot money going to the big game one thing you don’t have to pay for is this new app the NFL has released a Super Bowl app From what I read about it is a great app that runs pretty smooth gives you a large 3D map Lucas Oil Stadium. It also does location marking on Maps, restaurant reviews from Yelp, there is an areas for game day chat on Twitter right on to a single user interface. They have buttons on the app that will put your right into the virtual stadium to find your seat and mark your parking spot even. So this is a very convenient app if you are at the big game having the time of your life.

The CEO of Apple Tim Cook held a meeting about to celebrate everything Apple did last quarter and also gave the Apple employees huge discounts on Apple products. But from the rumblings of this meeting we hear that he spent tons of time discussing the charitable contributions of the company. Totaling around $50 million to Stanford’s hospitals. He also talked about the big deals of the status of the Product RED and that has also given over $50 million since that effort has started. This boasting must be due to all the poor reports Apple is getting over reported poor working conditions on iPad manufacturing. We all know that Tim Cook was not very happy about that reports that was in the New York Times and he is definitively trying to keep the good image of Apple up.

The Google Docs that you can normally edit on your Android device now has been updated and now you can view your documents offline and sync them later to your Google Docs. So when you download the Google Docs app in the Android market or if you update your previous app, you will now see an option to “Make Offline” for your documents. However there are a few docs that aren’t supported yet, such as Google Sites, drawings, forms , fusion tables and collections. So basically what happens here is you select a document to go offline with and it will actually download to your Android device. After you have made your updates simply go back online and it will auto sync with Google Docs, but it can also be manually set to sync by just hitting update. The update has also added a sharper look for the tablet users for easier reading.

Don’t you hate it when you go onto your Facebook and you would see one friend post like 10 things about a game he or she is playing on Facebook and all you want to do is block them from your feed for telling us they just reached level 10 on Farmville. Well it looks like the developers at Facebook are making an activity feed that is just for games. So now under Apps and Games on your sidebar you will be able to select a sub menu called Friend Activity which will show off all of your friends gaming activity in once simple place. Gone are the days where you want to look at the posts from your friends and have to move through posts of other friends gaining levels in their games. This will save a lot of bother for most people and I am very excited about this happening.

Piracy is an ongoing problem. Growing concerns from many different media outlets have caused things like SOPA to try and be enacted into government but one person has spoken out about piracy and says it might not be such a bad thing in the end, depending on how it is being done, Mikael Hed the chief executive of Rovio Mobile said. He went on to explain that no matter what they do and that he feels action should only be taken in the cause in which the piracy is actually causing harm to the brand and ripping off its customers. Hed feels that piracy actually helps the brand by building more of a fan base. I suppose in Hed medium that could be true and I suppose if someone was pirating music and loved what they heard they may be willing to support them in the future whether it be through concerts or clothing lines or even things that the artist endorses. Once again it all comes down to greed and it looks like Hed understand that is willing to take a stand on it.

I am not surprised at Apple being so protective over their products that they would put new employees on work that is not actually real until they can be trusted but for it to come out is pretty funny. Going over the things I read that Adam Lashinsky put a little tidbit from his new book called “Inside Apple” and apparently this former Apple employee confirmed this. It was reported that a new engineer would work on fake products for the part of career in Apple and also was interviewed for just about 9 months from what he said. Above is a video that will shed a little bit more on this subject.

So it looks like the tablet market is starting to grow. Android is accounting for just over 39% of the market share in Q4 2011 which is up over 29% a year ago. Now the biggest deal here is that the power of the iPad has dropped from 68.2% to 57.6%. Which means that Android is narrowing the gap on tablet sales but let’s face it, it is really thanks to the cost effective Kindle Fire and Barnes and Noble Nook. This was a study done by a Strategy Analytic Peter King. Though if you look at the market structure these 2 products barely phase the iPad because they are in different markets. The Fire and the Nook are honestly considered eReaders with some nice benefits of being able to use nice apps and surf the web.