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How much do Smartphones actually take to build?
Tableau has release this interesting infographic that shows the cost of hardware parts used on 3 common smartphones – iPhone 4, Blackberry Torch, Google Nexus One and Nokia N8. Pretty much everything costs around $190 to make. Ofcourse this doesn’t include the cost of research and software development. Interesting tid-bits: Nokia N8 has the highest…
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Install Gingerbread keyboard on Eclair/Froyo devices [Android]
An XDA developer has ported the new Gingerbread stock keyboard for Eclair and Froyo devices. We’ve heard only good things about it, so there is no harm in giving it a try. It definitely is much better than the previous Stock keyboard. I personally use and like the HTC_IME keyboard but I’ll give this a…
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Moon’s Illumination Map made from Over 1700 Photographs
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) constructed the “Illumination Map” using over 1700 photographs of the Moon’s south pole over a six month period. Each image was converted to binary by marking illuminated pixels as 1 and shadowed ones as 0. For every pixel this binary data was recorded over six months and averaged. So the…
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Nexus S Gingerbread ported to Samsung Galaxy S
It had to happen. The phone internals are pretty much the same internally and people over at XDA are way smart to not do such things. The sources released by Google were compiled by the French developer supercurio. According to his post, the things that don’t work yet are GPS, Voice, Voice, Camera and some hardware…
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LA Noire: Video Games get Amazingly Real Facial Expressions
We’ve all seen the graphics in Video Games evolve in front of our eyes. We’ve seen Mario get a third dimension; Resident Evil lose the blocky textures and Grand Theft Auto get a whole new perspective but never did anyone concentrate on the facial expressions. The eyes and nose and lips became visible, then they started…
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Two Fastest Selling Gadgets of All Time – iPad and Kinect
The two fastest selling gadgets of this year are not only the 2 best gadgets of the year, they are the fastest selling gadgets of al time! They might appeal to different category of audience but they are certainly the best gadgets to own this year. TheNextWeb compiled a cool infographic to compare their sales…
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Word Lens mixes OCR and Translation to create magic! [iPhone]
You have seen an OCR working when you scan a newspaper article and get editable text from, or when you use Google Goggles to take a picture and and recognizes the text in it. But you probably never found it more than ahh-that-was-convenient , unless you were an Image Processing student. You have definitely seen…
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Google Maps 5 for Android brings 3D, offline support
Google has released 5.0 version of their Maps application for Android devices. This is the most feature rich update to Google Maps since long. Maps in 3D Maps 5.0 now includes 3D viewing support for buildings and structures. From this version, instead of showing some images for different zoom levels, they actually draw Maps using…
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50 most common passwords from Gawker Media leak
WSJ Blog Digits made a list of the 50 most common passwords from the list recently leaked from Gawker’s database. Most of the passwords are expectedly simple to guess including the top 3 (“123456”, “password” and “12345678”). Some are related to one of Gawker Media websites like “lifehack” and “gizmodo” and some are popular keywords…
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How a Quartz watch works? [Video]
Ever wondered how a simple Quartz watch works? It requires extremely accurate engineering to create a tiny tuning fork that creates vibrations that are measured to show time. And how does the Tuning fork vibrate? Reverse Piezo-electric effect – generating pressure using electricity. Curious? This is arguably the coolest video you’ll see all day.
