Xiaomi Has Created Cheapest 4K Android TV

Jibo wants to be a part of your family

This story began with the release of a science fiction drama Bicentennial Man in 1999, the one starring Robin Williams himself! The great masterpiece is not forgotten, furthermore we can see the similar storyline today in a real world.

The robot was presented by MIT Media Lab, to be a small household assistant and for sure is not planned to replace any of the living persons at home, but being a sweet link between our world and computing. As told by Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Personal Robots Group, Jibo can be your personal photographer, messenger, video-chat avatar tracking your face position to keep a nice picture for the mate you are speaking with. He can automatically take photos or record video for your home collection using his 360-degree sound intake range and two eyes, being as well a multi-purpose camera.

11 inches high and weighing only 6 pounds robot can identify each family member using his face and voice rendering sensor in order to interact, whether it is a simple conversation or a task they are asked for. The robot boy can’t even stroll, but he can catch you with his eyes turning face-to-face in front of you. He also has touch sensors throughout his aluminum-plastic-glass body inlayed with LED lamps creating the color-lighting show when joking or amusing the guests. Two speakers allow the robo-friend to speak with people surrounding him and even to tell stories to the kids before they get asleep.

Ever wanted to have your own home secretary reminding you about upcoming events or meetings or even delivering your messages to the persons around? All these and even more may be integrated through the upcoming software, which should be installed via Wi-Fi receiver embedded.

Jibo is not available yet, but can be pre-ordered now for about $499 and shipped on Christmas of 2015. But if you choose the developer’s kit for $599 you might see it beforehand in the fall of 2015.

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Hunter Acer Liquid S2

Acer has announced the release of the smartphone Liquid S2 - the world's first mobile device with support for recording Ultra HD-video (4K). Well as other specifications are clearly more high class than we are accustomed to seeing.

Novelty is equipped with 6" IPS-display with a resolution of Full HD (1920x1080), pixel density of 368 ppi and the protection of Gorilla Glass 3. Quick First Shot function allows you to make the first salvo directly from the screen unlock the phone.

Acer Liquid S2 especially interesting in that it has become the world's first smartphone that can record video with a 4K-resolution. For this purpose in the gadget installed BSI-13MP camera with a 28mm wide-angle lens and a circular LED flash which can store five settings profiles of exposure and shoot 360-degree panoramas with resolutions up to 27 megapixels. In addition, there is a modes slow video recording and Full HD-videos at 60 fps. 2MP front-facing camera with support for 1080p video.

Inside Acer Liquid S2 located a powerful quad-core Snapdragon processor 800 with a clock frequency of 2.2 GHz. The smartphone is equipped with 2 GB of RAM and a built-in storage capacity of 16 GB. It is also worth noting the presence of NFC-adapter, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11ac/a/b/g/n. Battery Capacity - 3300 mAh.

Liquid S2 controlled by the operating system of Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and is designed to work in networks GSM / UMTS / LTE. Acer really managed to create quite compact gadget with dimensions 166 x 86 x 9 mm.

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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Stylish and smart Google watch

Google recently announced their watches Nexus SmartWatch codenamed Nexus Gem. In contrast to Sony Smartwatch 2 and Samsung Galaxy Gear2, Google created its own a concept SmartWatch is compatible with all Android devices.

According to the authors of the project, clock interface should be simple and practical. The new device will contain familiar to all Android OS and even have all of the same standard applications. Of course, now it is only a concept, though, it looks very attractive and such device should not be too challenging to manage.

Earlier we heard that the Nexus Gem could be as Motorola xWatch, but Google decided to release a new SmartWatch is under its own brand Nexus, and not under the brand Motorola. The device should work with the new Google devices which has Android 4.4 as well as with other devices on this platform.

Unlike competitors Google intends to make its SmartWatch with a price tag of less than $ 299.

Google offers Nexus Player TV for straight streaming Android games on a big screen

One more game console is ready to play with you. The real Android TV differs from the early seen PlayStation TV, including more than 700 games when just turning it on. But Nexus Player has not less in the reserve.

Perhaps it might be hard to choose between them, moreover considering the Apple TV and Amazon's Fire TV - it should be even harder to make the single choice. Chromecast? Forget about it, it's not that interesting at the moment. It has been offered to every trustful user for a long time unless it has become useless at all, which is quite naturally.

Now is the time to look further on the devices offering full-set approach to you and your demands, keeping in mind there there's a plenty of such gadgets on the market nowadays and they are much more accessible than it was before. The compact Nexus Player is one of them.

The console is a four-inch and half-pound blintz offering absolutely new user interface Android 5.0 Lollipop to watch movies and play your favorite Android games of a big choice right on the TV. You can roam the TV menu easily on the distance using the small control box with only four buttons on it, including the mic for voice commands and D-Pad on the outside panel.

Nexus Player also plays the Chromecast role, so you will not lose much refusing from the latter. The device also supports the content launch from any of the smartphones, tablets or laptops depending on the Operation System aboard. One of the greatest advantages the Nexus Player possesses is a high data transfer rate, performed through the dual-band WiFi 802.11ac keeping all the delays in the past.

For the especially prolonged game sessions there's a controller supplied additionally for $39. And speaking about the starting kit price, including the console and a remote control box the price is absolutely identical to its competitors and sells for $99 per set. If you're eager to try Nexus Player Android TV asap, you may make a pre-order right away. But be patient to wait until 3rd of November, when the shipping begins.

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Nikon introduced its new D5300 DSLR as a better entry-level camera

New LG Enact slider

LG decided to offer a phone with a full physical keyboard. This device is like all the others before it has a sliding front panel that shows the 53 square tooth.

LG Enact has a 4-inch WVGA display 800 x 400 pixels with glass Corning Gorilla. A pleasant experience makes Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus dual-core processor with clock frequency of 1,2 GHz and 8 GB of internal memory. The presence of MicroSD card slot truly eliminates the concern about the finiteness of internal memory. 2460 mAh battery to survive until the end of your active day.

This device works with all innovations LG-software. Thanks to QSlide 2,0 you can work with multiple open applications simultaneously. Note-taking service QuickMemo happy to work on the screenshots. LG also included a Q Translator that using 5-megapixel camera is able to instantly scan and translate text in 44 different languages. Record high-definition video (1080p) and use the helper of the software for the camera such as: HDR, panoramas, VR panoramas, Beauty Shot, and Continuous Shooting will add a good mood.

New LG Enact available now at $ 19.99 for a two-year contract.

Nokia 225 is cheap and cheerful

Model 225 has a 2.8-inch display, a 2-megapixel rear camera, MicroSD slot for up to 32GB of music, FM radio and battery 1200mAh which will last up to 36 days.

Dressed in red, yellow, green, black and white it is available now. Dual-SIM version is available too.

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Sony has lost its patience to present us brand new flagship Xperia Z3

It seems like only few months ago Xperia Z2 started invading the store shelves and now Sony has released their next follower from Xperia series range, which is actually being performed according to astonishing statements of Sony Creative Director to launch a new flagship every 6 months.

The purpose of such rush is a simple intention to create the leader and maybe even to improve the position on world market. Such new strategy makes Sony a company involving more Hi-tech technologies today for every new smartphone, which should be noticed by every common user.

The Xperia Z3 comes with a 5.2-inch TFT LCD screen sporting a resolution of 1920х1080 pixels and a powerful Snapdragon 801 CPU, at 2.5GHz accomplished with 3GB of RAM, Adreno 330 GPU, a main 20.7MP camera with 1/2.3-inch Exmor RS sensor and G Lens and a 2.2-megapixel camera on the front panel. The Sony Xperia Z3 features a 16GB of internal storage plus a microSD card slot, 3100 mAh battery and Android 4.4.4 KitKat operating system out of the box.

The Z3 will come in white, black, copper, and silver green body colors. It will be waterproof up to a depth of 2 meters. The Xperia Z3 should appear on market shelves globally this autumn with price tag around $850.

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The new 13-inch Alienware gaming laptop will land on Earth

Alienware that is supervised by Dell has introduced a new laptop for gaming. Regarding the design the gaming PC is slightly different from the existing models by back light, but the most interesting hidden in the Alien head.

This 13-inch version of the gaming laptop is a new venture for Alienware, while the size screen for an ordinary gaming PCs includes minimum one inch more. The complex has lost weight and now it is much thinner than the current 14-inch Alienware, but still remains considerably larger than its non-gaming counterparts.

Alienware 13 will work on ultra-low-voltage processors from Intel Core the standard i7-series and mobile GPU Nvidia GeForce 860M that supports a resolution of IPS screen up to 2560x1440 pixels. There's no word about 4K resolution, possibly because it is still too highest pixel density for such a diagonal. Alienware offers to choose an 8 or 16GB of RAM and capacity each of two SSD. Other forward-looking specs are a WiFi: 802.11ac, USB 3.0 and Bluetooth 4.0.

Alienware still hides exact spec details, price, and release date.  We expect a new generations of Alien products including 13-inch laptop that will be released before the end of 2014.

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