About LG G4, Cheer up! Your replaceable batteries and microSD are effective yet!

LG has something new up its sleeve for the G4 smartphone and the South Korean company is alluding to greatness. The device will be revealed at events on April 28 and April 29 (due to time zones) in six cities: New York, London, Paris, Istanbul, Singapore and Seoul.

With an invitation that coyly sneaks a peek at a leather-like material accentuated by stitching, the tagline "see the great, feel the great" hints at a design overhaul that veers from the plastic-laden bodies we're used to seeing from LG. The gossip mill also gives us a hint at what to expect on the inside of the upcoming flagship phone.

I surprised to see related comments of this CNET's article.
From a iPhone to Galaxy, a number of flagship phones throw out functions such as replaceable batteries and microSD.
And it seems to become general trend.

But through these comments, there are requirements to get existed functions as ever, I suppose. Anyway, It is interesting and it will be decided.

Source - CNET : LG G4: What we know about specs, pricing and the release date

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AUO starts to manufacture 5.46" FHD AMOLED panels, already?

According to our information Taiwan's AU Optronics started to mass produce 5.46" Full-HD AMOLED panels, aimed for smartphone applications. AUO is already producing 1.63", 4.3" and 5" AMOLED displays. AUO is also developing a 1.4" circular AMOLED display. 

 

 I know AUO is already producing their AMOLED products like 1.63", 4.3" and 5".
What does company use their displays?
What kind of products to be powered by their AMOLED?
I really wonder the AMOLED display's performance.
Is it indeed having abilities to treat Samsung or LGDisplay?

Source - OLEDinfo : AUO starts to mass produce 5.46" FHD AMOLED panels

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The world's smallest computer - Michigan Micro Mote - So Tiny!

Tiny Computure - Michigan Micro Mote (M^3)

Computers used to consume whole rooms, but now one computer can fit on the edge of a nickel. At just one millimeter cubed, the Michigan Micro Mote (M^3) is believed to be the smallest autonomous computer in the world.

For over a decade, the faculty and students at the University of Michigan's computer science department have been working on the M^3. As the Internet of Things (IoT) gets bigger, the Michigan team is pushing to make computers ever smaller.

Despite its tiny size, the M^3 has the ability to take pictures, read temperatures and record pressure readings. Researchers hope to implement the microcomputer into a variety of applications ranging from medical to industrial.

With no space for a keyboard, mouse or display, the faculty and students had to invent a different way to communicate with the Micro Mote. The M^3 is programmed and charged via light. By strobing light at a high frequency, the operator is able to send information to the computer. Once the Micro Mote processes the data, it is able to send the information to a central computer via conventional radio frequencies.

The M^3 is ready for production now, and the faculty and staff are already looking forward to creating even smaller computers, which they call smart dust.

-Movie : Michigan Micro Mote (M^3)

Hardwares are vanishing into the air and we suppose to live in the future already.
Some dangerous thought suddenly comes to mind as soon as this tiny computer.
It seems to be possible to jump off internet of things and reached to human's body like we've seen in SF movie. The world human is controlled by invisible computer, is it scary?

Source - CNET :  This working computer is smaller than a grain of rice

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Apple Revealed Apple Watch's Guided Tour Video, Great!

Apple Watch Hands On

Let's say you've devoured just about everything you can find on the Apple Watch but are still craving more. That's perfectly natural. Well, Cupertino has a guided tour of the wearable that should help answer any remaining questions you might have. For now there are four separate videos with a disembodied voice talking through the different features (messages, general functionality, digital touch and faces), showing how they work and generally being pretty informative. The digital crown, for example, is apparently as integral to Watch as the clickwheel was to the original iPod. Huh.

Pre-orders will open soon, with the timepiece to be available in store starting April 24th. Impatient and rich? A few select people with deep, deep pockets can get their wrists inside the Watch Edition on April 10th

-Movie : Apple Watch Guided Tour

Apple has an ability their product appeals to people surely. I'm looking forward to the day April 24th. How many deals are possible? Can Apple Watch make new history like other Apple's one? Anyway I'll get it!

Source - Engadget : Apple made how-to videos for a Watch you can't buy yet

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Youtube is making progress to Game Streaming like Twitch

After Google's failed attempt to acquire the live game streaming company Twitch (which went to Amazon instead), it's now aiming to relaunch YouTube's streaming feature with a focus on games and eSports, reports The Daily Dot. YouTube's been in the live streaming market since 2010, and it's scored some major events like the State of the Union and the League of Legends Championship Series, but it's not nearly as robust and easy to use as Twitch. That site has basically has become the de facto way to share gaming experiences over the past four years. In fact, it's grown so large that even the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One include Twitch integration and apps (and it's also powering all of Engadget's game streams). Sources say Google has already built up a team of 50 engineers to revamp YouTube's live component, and it could make an official announcement during the E3 gaming convention in June.

A lot of people are attending for a game streaming now, and a number of viewers for game streaming has increased. Although Youtube is great place to share movies, in a field of game streaming, Twitch has great influence as ever. But I believe Youtube already has ability to compete with Twitch, and they can give a chance to join easily many people to the field.
I wish the business of game streaming will be extend through efforts like google's tries making more great platform for game streaming.

Source - Engadget : YouTube is reportedly gearing up to take on Twitch game streaming

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Will Facebook's plan their Solar Drone to bring Internet be possible for realization?

Facebook's Chief Technology Officer, Mike Schroepfer, talking about Facebook's drone program.

The big Facebook drone, called Aquila, will hold its first test flight this summer, Facebook vice president of engineering Jay Parikh told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Thursday.

"The idea of this," Facebook's chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, told an audience at F8, "is to loiter across an area at very high altitude -- 60,000 to 90,000 feet in the air -- stand on station for months at a time and beam down backbone Internet access."


The use of solar energy could help with the aspirations to keep the aircraft aloft for "months at a time." The earlier prototype Solar Impulse aircraft charged its batteries as it flew during the day and then drew on that energy to keep flying through the night. But aircraft with pilots aboard can quickly run into the limitations of human endurance.

Drones are another matter. In 2010, a lightweight, solar-powered unmanned aircraft called the Qinetiq Zephyr set a remarkable world record, flying nonstop for just over 336 hours -- that is, two full weeks.

By comparison, Boeing has been test-flying, in short spurts, a liquid hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft called the Phantom Eye that it wants eventually to be capable of four days of unrefueled autonomous flight. Northrop Grumman's remotely piloted Global Hawk has flown for as long as 34 hours.

Movie - Facebook CTO talks up solar-powered drones

It looks a very interesting try. But is it cost-effective? In the process it is realized, there will be many problems like flight regulation, harmfulness to human body by its electromagnetic wave and interference of electric wave. But I believe a fearless challenge like this can change the world. Go ahead on your way Facebook.

Source - CNET : Facebook wants solar drone to bring Internet far and wide

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Apple's Tim Cook intends to become a major philanthropist

Apple's CEO has big-time philanthropy on his list of things to do.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is following in the footsteps of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates when it comes to philanthropy. Cook said he plans to give away his fortune after paying for his 10-year-old nephew's college, according to Fortune magazine.


"You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change," Cook told the publication.

Cook is part of a group of millionaire and billionaire tech executives who believe in sharing their wealth. Gates is the most well-known philanthropist in the group; with his wife, Melinda, he's donated $30.2 billion, or 37 percent of his net worth, according to Forbes. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given away $1.5 billion, or 4 percent of his net worth over his lifetime. Other company chiefs, like Google co-founder Sergey Brin, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, are known for giving to charity.

Can't help respecting decision of Tim Cook. And I would envy their culture which can be possible this marvelous determination.

 Source - CNET : Apple's Tim Cook plans to donate his wealth to charity

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