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The future is coming, HUD Google Glasses

Joseph Ruthaford — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:04:21 +0000

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.

Another torrent site goes down in the war against piracy

Joseph Ruthaford — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:03:08 +0000

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.

Ice Cream sandwich now on 1% of all devices

Joseph Ruthaford — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:06:13 +0000

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.

Super Bowl XLVI app out now for your Android and iPhone

Joseph Ruthaford — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:35:56 +0000

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.

Apple is Charitable and Tim Cook likes that

Joseph Ruthaford — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:19:33 +0000

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.