Luxury watches host some of the most interesting and beautiful designs known, from moving belts on the Devon Tread 1 to the pistons, bellows and dynamic liquid on the HYT-H1.
The HYT watch is something to marvel at, claiming that it is a first in watch-making history to feature a liquid-filled hour ring that is pushed by moving pistons and bellows (know as hydro-mechanics).
Price: $45.000
Check out the video below for the epic video!
Source: HYT
The rumor mill has started to turn and is churning out something interesting . Reports from IGN are saying that the next-generation Xbox will be 6x as powerful as it’s current model and have a 20% greater performance that the Wii U.
The report is also suggesting that it’s GPU will be similar to that of a Radeon HD 6670 supporting DirectX11, full 1080p HD output and the capability to connect to multiple displays.
The rumor mill says also that it is heading for a late 2013 release date but something may be revealed at the E3 conference later this year.
Report: IGN – ‘720 Will Be Six Times as Powerful as Current Gen’
At today’s Education themed event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City, Apple has released a newer version of it’s popular book store: iBooks 2 (available now to update). This update bring’s the iPad into the classroom by replacing the hard-copy textbooks with interactive versions (e-textbooks I guess?) at a fraction of the price.
iBooks 2 allows students to download the relevant textbooks for their classes providing a massively visual and most interestingly, interactive experience. One of the first books for download is E.O Wilson’s ‘Life on Earth’, I’ve had a little look through the book and it is amazing, you can easily see how attractive these will be for students and schools alike with it’s interactive sections spread out over the pages along with high quality videos from experts in the field. Pages in this book for example include content focusing on Insects. Here the student can learn by interacting with one of the elements on the page that can be full-screened, the activity shows different parts on different insects. You press on the thorax and the images above highlight that particular part.
Imagine a whole class using these and the teacher dictating them through the activity: gone are the days of hearing “…turn to page 40 in your textbooks”. Now it’s more like, “…open your iPad’s at section one and complete the activity.” The future of this idea looks exciting indeed, but at the current cost’s of iPad’s, will school’s bite?
The books look and work fantastically but the sizes, well, their not small. This biology example is 1Gb, imagine a whole syllabubs on your device or even a whole University course. I suppose you could manage which books are needed for what day and install them before the day begins (that then don’s new excuses such as: “Miss, can I borrow a book? I forgot to install mine this morning.” Or, “Can I borrow your’s? My iPad has crashed.”) In the future, as iPad’s get cheaper, each student can get an iPad – like some do with laptops. These would then act solely as textbook holders allowing you to keep watching films and playing games on the one at home.
What do you think about the iBook’s update? Will it be a success?
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for UbiquiTech.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 30 trips to carry that many people.
It was that time of year again, my phone’s upgrade was due and the question arose – do I stay Android?
I do love Android but was thinking about having a change (By the way, my previous phone was a Samsung Galaxy S). For me, every year when I get an upgrade and renew my contract the 18 month tie doesn’t seem long but boy … it is! This year it was between these two phones:
I was sat in the shop holding both these handsets; the Samsung Galaxy S 2 was thin, light and size friendly. The HTC Titan was thin, light and large – very large. It’s screen comes at a size of 4.7″ against the S2’s 4.3″ and despite it not being a SuperAMOLED it’s very bright (something that makes the Windows Phone 7’s (WP7) live tiles stand out amazingly).
If I hadn’t had the Galaxy S before I would hands down choose the S2 but, like I said, I wanted a change from the Android OS that is storming the market, but why? I’m not going to lie, I am a sucker for a good user interface. At first Android was amazingly quick and looked great with it’s endless customization but after time it became sluggish and at times I wanted to chuck it at a wall. WP7 on the other hand looks just as nice (especially their newest update ‘Mango’), it’s colorful tiles that change randomly revealing different information had me hooked and after a bit of research on the net found out that it integrates all your social networks meaning that you don’t have to open the horrid Facebook application at all – you can change your status, check your wall and post things right from the OS – the decision was swaying over to the Titan at this point.
But wait! Android’s new OS update was coming to the S2 very soon. ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ is part of their sweet named firmware and looks and feels completely different to it’s counterparts, and all I wanted was a change so this pulled me back toward the Samsung. And then there is the dilemma of the App stores on both handsets. Android’s market is growing rapidly with the advantage of some awesome free apps where other platforms you have to pay i.e. Angry Birds and also a large selection of customization options too. WP7 on the other hand is smaller in comparison, with it being a new OS the store is in it’s infancy. The integration of Xbox Live though and the ability to see who is online, send messages, play games while earning achievements was very tempting – because who doesn’t want to raise that Gamer Score?
The problem for me was Android’s app store. With it having quite loose restrictions on what can get onto the shelves of it’s digital store there is a high proportion of poorly created apps, ones that work and play like an ancient toy. On my Galaxy S previously, the amount of stuff I downloaded and then forgetting to uninstall clogged up my phone making it as slow as a game of boules. This was a large contributing factor to me wanting a change, I knew that over time if I walked away with the S2 the same may happen again even though it comes packed with duel core processors.
In the end, and after much sitting, staring, fiddling and pondering I went for the HTC Titan. The new OS and unique UI was more than enough to get me to change. In the end it’s only an 18 month contract, not that long right? Oh, wait…
So, which one would you have gone for? Which handset have you got?
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