A concept Chevrolet prepared for the Apocalypse

If Hyundai imagine the anti-zombie vehicle ideal, Chevrolet, he prefers the concept of a well-prepared for the Apocalypse car. Presented recently during the Fair in Dallas, Texas, Silverado Blacks Ops is a concept car which integrates essential to survive against any invasion.

Defined as a survival kit on four wheels, it is a truck that has a raised suspension and an armored body. Based on a Silverado 1500, it is equipped with a winch on the front, an LED projector and integrated towing hooks. The open space at the rear contains a generator, gas cans, food rations and water. But the vehicle also features a solar kit, gas masks, gloves and a first aid kit. Folding shovel and a rope as standard included. Inside, passengers are entitled to a USB port and multimedia Chevy MyLink system. Finally, the vehicle is powered by a V8 5.3-liter Ecotec engine capable of developing 355 horsepower.

Silverado Blacks Ops is only conceptual and should remain so.

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Dell Venue Pro and 11 Pro 8: two new, powerful tablet with Windows 8.1

The Venue Pro 8 features an 8-inch IPS display, the Venue Pro 11 on a 11-inch display and a powerful "Haswell" processor. Both Windows 8.1 installed.

Windows tablet with attachable keyboard, as many come out the Microsoft Surface tablets in mind. But Dell has with the two new tablets Venue and Venue Pro 8 11 Pro now two similar models with Windows 8.1 introduced. With the Dell Mobile Tablet Keyboard the Tablet is transformed into a notebook, the Dell tablet Desktop Dock to a correct screen.

Dell Venue Pro 11 Tablet with Keyboard

8 Venue Pro with Windows 8.1

The Dell Venue Pro 8 is an 8-inch tablet with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels . Inside, a new infected Z3740D quad-core Intel Atom processor, the Bay Trail generation with 1:33 GHz and 2 GB RAM .We recommend the version with 64 GB of data storage . On the back benefit a 5-megapixel camera on the front and a 1.2 megapixel cam with.Likewise, WiFi , Bluetooth 4.0 , as well as practical, a micro USB port and a microSD card slot included.

11 Venue Pro for discerning

The Dell Venue Pro 11  with full HD resolution is supported by a quad-core Intel Atom Z3770 processor with a clock speed of 2.4 GHz driven. In addition also get 2 GB of memory. Recommended is also the version with 64 GB of data storage . This can be expanded via micro SD card slot. Wi-Fi, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 and a Micro HDMI output are also ready.

Prices and availability

According to Dell, that's Venue Pro 8 from 18 October, the Venue Pro 11  from 07 November available. The 8-inch tablet is available for around $ 300, the price of the 11-inch tablet is not yet clear.

Video: Dell Venue Pro 8 and 11

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Samsung Galaxy Round: Smartphone comes with a curved display

Samsung Galaxy Round (Source: Samsungtomorrow.com)

Having piled up the rumors, gave Samsung the Galaxy Round with Domed display now officially known. By a minimum bend the smartphone offers an interesting roll effect. Turn it can not be, however.

Corrugated display offers new roll effect

A first demonstrated in a video innovation with the Galaxy Round is called the roll effect: How can the smart phone by gently tapping it on the side tilt and so can be read certain displays such as the time more clearly and faster if the cell phone, for example, on the desk is located.Other advantages of the curved display on the smartphone are not yet known, but will probably follow.

Curved display provides roll effect (source: samsungtomorrow.com)

Specifications Samsung Galaxy Round

Processor: 800 Snapdragon
Display: 5.7 inch curved 1080p display (called Super Flexible AMOLED)
Internal Memory: 32GB (expandable to 64GB via microSD slot)
Memory: 3GB
OS: Android 4.3
Dimensions: 15.1 ⅹ ⅹ 8.0 0.8 cm
Weight: 154g
Battery: 2800mAh

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These wireless headphones hiding an MP3 player

If a pair of headphones usually works with a player or a mobile phone, designed by the firm GreenwingAudio model is simply self. More than just wireless headphones, Split is also a mini MP3 player that can play music directly hollow ears.

Split is a pair of in-ear headphones which has the distinction of taking its own memory storage. Its 256MB, pale in 2013, but are expected to contain twenty songs. Presented in the form of two small magnetic gadgets, simply separate them to activate them. Synchronization is from the separation with a quartz clock. To control the music played, the holder has to bite into the empty or clench their teeth, once to skip a track, twice to adjust the volume. An integrated 3-axis accelerometer is responsible for detecting movements of the jaw and turn them into an order. Finally, ear-buds are based on near-field communication. Each accessory has a miniature circuit, a memory chip, a processor and other components for playback of audio files.

Split is reduced in the prototype stage at the moment. The company hopes to achieve designer through a crowd funding campaign.

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Social TV: Twitter and Facebook to conquer the small screen

Social networks, Twitter in mind, are becoming increasingly important in the relationship of viewers on television and advertising strategies. In Focus, new sources of revenue for the sites.

Television has officially become the new advertising grail of social networks . The proof Nielsen launched Monday a new audience measurement of TV programs in the United States, including the hearing of the shows on Twitter. It is also on Monday that Facebook has announced an agreement with TF1 and Canal + , which will now have access to the data - aggregated anonymously and in real time - users commenting on their programs on the social network.

For the moment, Twitter is ahead of Facebook . On the one hand because its platform is open and it is much easier for partners to have access to qualitative data. On the other hand because it has already launched products for advertisers in the world of television (targeting solutions and streaming video clips associated with sharing advertising revenue).

Engaging fans as advertising purchase criterion TV

For some advertisers, engaging fans on Twitter becomes a media buying criteria in television, says Wall Street Journal who interviewed channels and media agencies. Twitter and Facebook hope that their next TV will be a growth engine for their use and a way of eating into the budget for TV advertising .

Some figures actually argue for the influence of television on the conversations of social networks, and vice versa. For example, the final episode of the series Breaking Bad , a number of hearings on Twitter the week of September 23, according to Nielsen, has attracted more than 1.2 million tweets, including retweets, posted by 600,000 users in 10 hours time. 9.3 million unique visitors have seen these messages. On Facebook, in 24 hours, 3 million people have commented on the episode or "like" a message posted on the social network about it, said the New York Times .

Sport is another favorite subject for fans of the TV company . It represents only 2-3% of the programs in the United States, but drains nearly 50% of the activity on Twitter, the newspaper said, citing Nielsen.

One in six Americans post a message while watching a program

The research firm found that the ratio between the number of people who post messages on Twitter about a TV program and the number of people who see these messages is 1 to 50. These conversations have a positive effect on the audience of the site and program.

According to eMarketer, about half of American viewers visit a social network while watching a program, and one in six post a message in connection with this program.

According to Nielsen, the number of people who tweet about a TV program increased by 24% in a year in the United States. 

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Samsung Galaxy Round vs. LG G Flex: embittered Media Race for flexible displays

The day has been in the absence of other sensations, all about the flexible displays. After the issue in the past week have taken had it today a new clash of the two driving forces, Samsung and LG. Had only informed that their stretchable display is now in mass production since the latter. A tablet with the new 6-inch surface could thus be ready for the market in November, confessed to Reuters and thus is in line with earlier news. The LG OLED panel is supposed to be only 0.44 mm thin and weighs 7.2 g. The bend is concave, along the vertical axis - like the drawing from our previous report . Whether actually or perhaps LG LG Flex Z ,, there was no new information. Shortly afterwards came the next message relating to flexible screens in South Korea, this time by rival Samsung. The smartphone market leader stressed that it is much faster and even longer in mass production for their own development. At first, I was reminiscent of the early Cold War, when the Russians and the Americans had come with their space programs for bitter propaganda race. Korean media reported in the last week of a timely introduction within the next five days. The flexible OLED Samsung is reported differently zuvir, 5.7-inches tall, weighs only 5.2 grams and even barely visible 0.12 millimeters thin. To become standard pixel density early-adopter must probably do without, because the resolution of the new screen surface area is 1920 x 1080 pixels. In addition to the maximum radius of the Samsung OLED can be bent to be larger than the competition from LG. At the same time also appeared the alleged name "Galaxy Round" in the media. This should have the same Hardware specs, like the Galaxy Note 3 Unlike LG like a banana the display from Samsung is apparently not bent, but falls on the long sides towards the outside. Prototypes of its Youm displays Samsung leads for over one and a half years on the major mobile measuring ago. The curved outer surface has always represented as an extra button or for alerts, for example in the form of a treadmill. Basically, this new OLED panels are thinner, lighter and more resilient than their previously established Glass pendants. The flexible character of course does not yet have on the form factor, since the rest of the smartphone is still rigid. Futurists, the reason for the meaning of all the questions (after looking at the reactions of a subject), should see the first models as an intermediate step because of flexible components such as batteries and memory blocks being researched and developed in parallel so that the fold-able mobile gadget with every day a bit closer. But before standing at the premiere models from LG, Samsung, respectively, and there can manufacture both currently still limited quantities per month, Samsung Galaxy and LG G Round Flex will certainly have their exclusive price.

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Computer carbon nanotubes the future of computing

The computer of the future will be smaller, fast, efficient and operate new materials. In this context, a group of American researchers created a prototype based on carbon nanotubes. Technology conceived as an alternative to the use of silicon, facing physical limits.

Presented as a graphene sheet rolled, the carbon nanotube is used here to create a new type of transistor. The computer developed by engineers at the University of Stanford is certainly rudimentary, it opens the way to more powerful but also energy-efficient machines. To achieve this functional prototype, the scientists had to overcome the major problems associated with the handling and assembly of carbon nanotubes. Indeed, they have imperfections that make their integration into electronic circuits. In the end, the computer with a processor consists of 178 transistors and clocked at 1 kHz. Each transistor contains 10 to 200 nanotubes. Also multitasking, it performs a basic operating system for counting and sorting numbers with the ability to switch between the two.

This computer is the first of its kind, but its designers are considering further research to develop models based on carbon nanotubes more sophisticated in the future.

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