Amazon Echo Is An Another Home Robot To Follow Your Commands! Welcome To The Future Again!
Amazon Echo is an another home robot to follow your commands! Welcome to the future again!
If you remember Jibo, then robots is your next kin of family and you think about it as of a friend, not as of an enemy aiming to conquer the humanity. And that is correct, because the Artificial Intelligence has not reached the required level of intellect to cause the war between our races. Thinking of it, is actually funny. And the possibility of this act would meaningless... supposedly for this decade at least.
Amazon Echo is one of it. It's quite useful, if you watch the demo trailer below. And actually, it's quite hard to describe the new comer using the simple words. As you can understand the robot should have the ability to understand the verbal conversation, as it would not be a robot without such a function. Indeed, Echo is capable to listen you and reply logically to your needs.
Let's pretend we are in a room of your house, where a cute coffee table is dislocated in the center of it. And when you come in and ask to play your favorite music, the cylinder shaped stick on it really does the thing asked. What would you think of it? The robot listens to you and does exactly what it was asked to. Amazing! All you have to do is add "Alexa" or "Amazon" phrase in the beginning of your command. Believe it or not, but it really works, as we see the trailer that shows such functionality.
Besides listening to your commands and replying to it, the device is capable to extend its potential by uploading more information to its Cloud Memory space in order to have more skills to answer you. The family robot can answer everybody's request, such as time now, weather forecast, music playing and a lot of other app configurable stuff.
The solid cylinder like vase looks very good on any surface of the room. It has a 2.5-inch speaker all around the body having its third part of the total surface and a mic on the top of the casing capable to hear a normally spoked voice from every corner of the room not requiring a loud speaking to accept a command. And when it accepts a command, the LED lighting accompanies the robot's reply.
The Echo friend can advise you the time, date, arrange a timer for your cooking or alarm clock to awake you in the morning. The device can also add or remove the required things to do to your "Do list" or products to your "Buy list". Another essential requests are taken from Wikipedia, if you want to know the height of the certain mountain, for example.
You can also manage the device through your smartphone remotely to make a surprise to a person you're in love sitting in a guest room with no suspicion of your activities. The robot might become the weapon of your imagination, so choose wisely how to use it.
The e-butler could make your life more interesting at a simple price of $200 and if you're a Prime user, the price would decrease $100 less, but you should get an invitation for it.
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Sony Cyber-Shot QX100 and QX10 is available now for $500 and $250, respectively.
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And for us only waiting and patience can be prescribed in order to know the final results of the smartphone details, such as inner and outer design, the price and which actually means everything! The debut of Google Nexus 6 handsets will take place around October.
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The Taiwanese company HTC named a new flagship smartphone HTC M8. It is similar to Galaxy S5 and LG G3 and is one of the most anticipated mobile devices of the year.
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Apple has scheduled a new thin iPad Mini 3
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The price has already announced. It's not clear whether it will be based on Windows or Mac, but the external hard drive itself is compatible with both of it. Samsung D3 Station 4TB is ready for consumption.
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The crowd of adventurers is in a hurry to make a pledge on Kickstarter to be the first owners of innovative mounting system and prove its exclusivity to others and superiority through best captured pictures and video evidences.
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Graphics processor: six-core ARM Mali-T628
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From one year to another, each reincarnation of iPhone was mightier with each new model, and the sixth rebirth is not an exception this time. It would be strange to see inside the new device all of the last year's assemblies, modules, or something else not making iPhones inimitable, as we expect them to see. But nevertheless, the absence of a great leader is palpable. It is unlikely for the leading smartphone to step into the new world with an enlarged clone being afraid of the anticipating crowd to be disappointed a bit. Anyway this is the strategy chosen by the company we have fallen in love with, but the respect for the brand was struggled by Steve himself and who knows how would he arrange new strategy in a volatile world we live in.
Abusing the lyrics we can affirm that the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 has a new IPS display with a resolution of 1334×750 (326 PPI), rounded edges and smooth transition area between the glass protecting the screen and casing. It also has an A8 chip with 64-bit architecture, which is generally 25% faster than the A7, and 50% improved with graphics. Also there is M8 motion coprocessor and a new 8MP iSight camera with 1.5µ pixels which supports: autofocus, Hybrid IR filter, Auto HDR, face detection. Video Recording is performed at 1080p and 30 fps or 60 fps and slo-mo video at 120/240 fps. Weight and dimensions of 4.7-inch model is 4.55 ounces (129 grams) and 5.44x2,64x0,27 inches respectively.
And the new comer handset named iPhone 6 Plus has a 5.5-inch IPS Retina HD display offering 1920x1080 pixels at 401 ppi, 500 cd/m2 Max brightness and 1300:1 contrast ratio. There is an improved 8MP camera, which contains an optical image stabilization to explain the "Plus" token in the end of its name.
Other specifications such as Time-lapse video recording, Cinematic stabilization, Continuous autofocus, Exposure control, Burst mode, Panorama and a 3x zoom inherent for the both models. FaceTime Cameras are also identical. 1.2-megapixel sensor with ƒ/2.2 aperture can recordi video in 720p HD. The front-facing camera has a backside illumination sensor, Auto HDR, face detection, Exposure control and, of course, the same Burst mode.
iPhone 6 Plus can run for 24 hours of talk time on communication 3G, and iPhone 6 - 14 hours, 14 and 11 hours of video, 50 and 80 hours of music playing. The new Apple iPhones come with three different color options, latest Apple’s mobile operating system iOS 8 on board, which is fully compatible with the new Apple Watch being unveiled too. As all of us expected it features a built in the Home button Touch ID fingerprint scanner for better security of your data. To get more details about the new iPhone 6 models switch to the Apple official website and find all the prices for the two-year contract and shipment terms.
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Dell has hidden the Sorcerer's Stone in an ordinary box
Dell has exposed new mini desktops OptiPlex 3020 and 9020. Similar machines for simple tasks are becoming increasingly popular, not only as a good solution for business needs but also as the basic tool for home entertainment.
Indeed, the mini PC sets are quite limited in performance, but don't the get yourself confused considering their mini size. There is sports engine Intel Pentium G3240T and other systems available powered by Intel Core i3 and Intel Core i5 Haswell processors for OptiPlex 3020 Micro PC, which are also equipped with a 4GB of RAM, and 500GB of HDD storage.
The OptiPlex 9020 Micro comes with an Intel Core i5 or Intel Core i7 Haswell processor picked by your choice and are supported by up to 8GB of RAM together with the choice to install a solid state disk 128GB or a slower 500GB HDD one. Both models are equipped with a built-in HD graphics, DisplayPort connections, VGA, as well as 6x USB and port Ethernet.
What Dell wants in return? Just $499 dollars for OptiPlex 3020 in low specification pack and a price of Dell OptiPlex 9020 Micro mini PC starts at $729 and 35 percent discount was made for promotion.
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