Caged SELFIE DRONE!! Follows your face.

A new breed of drones are emerging, though you could argue they aren't really drones so much as selfie cameras that can fly. The newly announced foldup Hover Camera is the latest addition to this ultra-portable fleet of micro-aircraft, and with automated flight modes and a carbon fiber protective casing it could land as one of the more user-friendly solutions on the market.

There are larger consumer drones on the market such as the DJI Phantom 4 and 3DR Solo that offer automated tracking functions to keep a subject in shot mid-flight. Generally referred to as a "Follow Me" feature, this is designed to ease the learning curve for users looking to tap into the breathtaking world of aerial photography but don't yet possess the piloting skills to match their enthusiasm.
The trouble with these larger drones is that they are, well, large. So a line of smaller, highly portable camera drones have begun to emerge from their shadows. The palm-sized Zano drone was an early (and doomed) attempt at this, with others like the ONAGOfly following suite. Among the more inventive approaches, we have even seen a selfie drone that wraps around the wrist like a bracelet when not in use.

The Hover Camera from startup Zero Zero Robotics, was conceived for the same reasons as those examples above, and it does appear to package some user-friendly features into its small frame. The most important example of this might simply be its weight. At just 238 g (8.4 oz), those who purchase the Hover Camera won't need to register the aircraft with the US government's mandatory drone database, which only concerns itself with drones between 0.55 and 55 lb (250 g and 25 kg) in weight.

By enclosing the propellors in a carbon fiber cage, Zero Zero Robotics says that the Hover Camera can be safely grabbed during flight without posing a threat to one's fingers. And when not in use, this cage folds up into a transport-friendly 182 x 132 x 32.5 mm (7.16 x 5.2 x 1.27 in) package.
The Hover Camera can simply be released into the air where it will then hover in place automatically. Through smartphone controls, the drone can be made to shoot 13-megapixel stills and 4K video, along with 360-degree panorama shots. There is no gimbal system like you'll find on most larger drones, but instead electronic image stabilization to make for steadier shots. This is similar to the approach taken by Parrot in its Bepop drones, with surprisingly stable results.

Once in the air the Hover Camera can be made to capture a panorama or automatically follow the user. Rather than through GPS, the drone stays the course through optical flow captured through a downward facing camera and visual SLAM (Simultaneous localization and mapping) through the front camera. Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 2.3 GHZ quad-core processor, this combines with facial and body recognition algorithms to track a subject in real time.
It should be said that a lot of drones have promised follow me functionality in the past two years, but few are available to buy today, with the 3DR Solo and Phantom 4 a couple of exceptions as stated above. The Lily drone is perhaps the most notable example of this, which wowed the public with a slick PR campaign and racked up US$34 million worth of preorders in the process. But still, we'll wait to see how the technology works in practice.
There's no word yet on final pricing for the Hover Camera, though Re/code reports that it will go up for preorder this US summer. You can check out the promo video below.
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Soon Facebook to offer Snapchat-like one-touch photo sharing

The company’s ‘friend-sharing’ team has designed a prototype version of the app.

 
Mumbai: After announcing its grand roadmap for the next decade at the F8 developer conference, social media giant Facebook has been working on a numerous new features to further enhance its platform.
A new media report by Wall Street journal (WSJ) indicated that developers at Facebook are working on a stand-alone camera app along with a big live-streaming feature for users, allowing them to click and share pictures seamlessly.
The company’s ‘friend-sharing’ team has designed a prototype version of the app, which opens to a camera; similar to what Snapchat offers.
Moreover, the feature also allows users start live-streaming while recording a video, as per WSJ. However, this is just a prototype version and the company has not confirmed any such feature yet.
The company’s key motive is to make the platform all-inclusive and interactive for its users. While the new update differs from Faceook-owned photo sharing app Instagram, it does force users to hurdle multiple steps before posting a picture.
If the company launches the camera app along with the ultra-popular Facebook Live videos feature, it has all the capabilities of being a hit amongst the users.
While there is a chance that the app will compete well against Snapchat, there are chances that it might not do well; numerous projects launched by the company earlier such as Slingshot, Rooms, and Riff were failures.
Facebook has not yet commented on this issue but a spokesperson said that the networking site’s overall level of sharing options is sound and will get better in future.
Source:- Deccanchronicle

BSNL offering 20GB data at Rs 50 is a Fake News!!

While some people irrationally fell for the bait, it seems that the hard-to-believe news was a hoax.

Mumbai: Over the past week, rumour mills have brewed up some fresh new gossip involving a lucrative offer BSNL is launching for its customer-base. The new offer, according to social media posts, will entitle BSNL users to a whopping 20GB of free data at just Rs 50.
While some people irrationally fell for the bait, it seems that the hard-to-believe news was a hoax.
According to numerous media reports, some people even went on to say that the offer was an initiative under one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaigns, ‘Digital India’.
While the initial offer was hard to digest, another section of netizens suggesting that the low-cost 20GB data pack could be shared among five friends was even weirder.
However, the news was soon put to rest by several media reports confirming the offer as a hoax. Sources from BSNL also said that no official declaration had been given by the company and it has no intentions of rolling out such a plan.
While the move could have been a huge crowd-puller for BSNL, the company is currently gliding along well and does not need to roll out such dicey offers.
Source:- Deccanchronicle

According to TIMES OF INDIA :-

Before you ditch your operator to lineup for a BSNL sim card, be warned that there is no such offer like 20GB 3G data for Rs 50 by the state-owned telecom operator. While BSNL is yet to release an official statement, sources confirmed that there is no such offer for consumers.

"BSNL has not officially declared any offer like 20GB 3G data for Rs 50 and neither does the company intends to do so," he said.

A couple of days back several websites reported that BSNL has introduced a new 3G data offer in which prepaid customers will get 20GB data for just Rs 50. The offer sounded too good to be true and started to trend online.

The move from BSNL could have stunned its competitors, and helped attract new subscribers at large, but it is not the case.

The company has said that it has added an average 22 lakh new connections every month in January-March of 2015-16 on the back of rationalisation in tariff rates.

The company, which has announced a slew of measures like free incoming across the country, 80% reduction in call rates for pre-paid customers and the like, plans to intensify its efforts for better network coverage and sharpen focus on customer satisfaction.

Tech to Double Wi-Fi speed, Team led by Indian-origin Researcher

The team, led by Associate Professor Harish Krishnaswamy, developed the technology that needs only one antenna.

New York: Researchers, led by an Indian-origin engineer in US, have developed a novel technology that can double Wi-Fi speeds with a single antenna, a breakthrough that could revolutionise the field of telecommunications.
This is the first time researchers from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science have integrated a non-reciprocal circulator and a full-duplex radio on a nanoscale silicon chip.
The team, led by Associate Professor Harish Krishnaswamy, developed the technology that needs only one antenna, thus enabling an even smaller overall system.
"This technology could revolutionise the field of telecommunications," said Krishnaswamy, director of the Columbia High-Speed and Mm-wave IC (CoSMIC) Lab.
"Our circulator is the first to be put on a silicon chip, and we get literally orders of magnitude better performance than prior work," said Krishnaswamy.
"Full-duplex communications, where the transmitter and the receiver operate at the same time and at the same frequency, has become a critical research area and now we have shown that WiFi capacity can be doubled on a nanoscale silicon chip with a single antenna. This has enormous implications for devices like smartphones and tablets," he said

Krishnaswamys group has been working on silicon radio chips for full duplex communications for several years and became particularly interested in the role of the circulator, a component that enables full-duplex communications where the transmitter and the receiver share the same antenna.
In order to do this, the circulator has to "break" Lorentz Reciprocity, a fundamental physical characteristic of most electronic structures that requires electromagnetic waves travel in the same manner in forward and reverse directions.
"We wanted to create a simple and efficient way, using conventional materials, to break Lorentz Reciprocity and build a low-cost nanoscale circulator that would fit on a chip," said PhD student Negar Reiskarimian, who developed the circulator.
The traditional way of breaking Lorentz Reciprocity and building radio-frequency circulators has been to use magnetic materials such as ferrites, which lose reciprocity when an external magnetic field is applied.
But these materials are not compatible with silicon chip technology, and ferrite circulators are bulky and expensive.
Krishnaswamy and his team were able to design a highly miniaturised circulator that uses switches to rotate the signal across a set of capacitors to emulate the non-reciprocal "twist" of the signal that is seen in ferrite materials.
Aside from the circulator, they also built a prototype of their full-duplex system - a silicon IC that included both their circulator and an echo-cancelling receiver.
The research was published in the journal Nature Communications.
Source: Deccanchronicle

LeEco launches world’s first driverless concept supercar

The global internet and technology conglomerate, LeEco stunned the world with break-through launches and disruptive announcements which are all set to redefine the technology world.
LeEco showcased its Supercar LeSEE along with FF, the world’s first driverless concept supercar.
LeSEE concept car encompasses a unique ‘internet design’, with a large and flamboyant LED screen. This concept car mainly takes on the idea of ‘inter-connection’; not only does it have fully-automatic driving functions, it can also learn on its own, with facial recognition, emotion recognition, system recognition and path recognition.
LeEco’s founder Jia Yueting with Le Supercar’s co-founder, the global deputy president Ding Lei, revealed the first model of the concept car, LeSEE, and showed the automated driving capabilities of the super car.
At the event, LeEco also gave a sneak-peak to the audience to its concept car. Besides the electric car that holds the concept of LeEco’s intelligent shared transportation ecosystem, LeEco will also announce on the auto show in Beijing a partner in the major domestic automotive industry, as well as the world’s first AI research center with both automotive factory units and an internet company in USA’s Silicon Valley — the ‘FF& Le Future’ Research Center.
All three newly launched Superphones flaunt a metal unibody design, thin bezels on the front and a fingerprint scanner for added security. A closer look at the specifications –
LeEco Le 2 flaunts a 5.5-inch full HD (1080p) display and is powered by MediaTek’s Helio X20 tri-cluster deca-core processor paired with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage. It is equipped with a 16-megapixel rear camera of aperture f/2.0 with PDAF and LED flash, and an 8-megapixel camera up front. Armed with a 3,000mAh battery with fast charging support, the device also includes connectivity options such as Wi-Fi 802.11ac, 4G LTE and VoLTE among others.

LeEco Le 2 Pro is similar to the Le 2 in appearance, with most of the changes under the hood. It is powered by MediaTek’s Helio X25 deca-core chipset paired with 4GB of RAM and 32GB and 64GB internal storage variants. Le 2 Pro comes with a resolution of 21-megapxiel in the rear camera and has a front-facing 8-megapixel unit. Connectivity options and the battery capacity are similar as Le 2.
LeEco Le Max 2 comes with a 5.7-inch QHD display running at a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels. At the heart of the smartphone is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 quad-core processor paired with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of onboard storage. The Superphone comes equipped with a 3,100mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0 feature and connectivity options such as Wi-Fi 802.11ac, 4G LTE, VoLTE and GPS among others.

The Superphones run on Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS wrapped under LeEco’s customized EUI 5.5.
Further, LeEco also launched the fourth generation Super TVs, Super 4 X50 Pro, Super 4 X50 and Super 4 X50 CSL.

All three products all are 50 inches, 9.9 mm ultra-slim metal bodies, with the latest and most powerful smart TV flagship chip Mstar6A938, massive 3GB RAM+16/32 GB eMMC5.1 high speed flash drive, and support MEMC dynamic image processing technology, as well as HDR technology.
Super 4 X50 Pro, Super 4 X50 and Super 4 X50 CSL are loaded with the latest EUI5.8 TV — Springer operating system. This system allows for the management of various desktops and realizes stream of consciousness interactions, giving the user whatever the user wants. It fully realizes the ability to turn into a desktop all the apps; videos, sports, games, shopping, music, etc. all the contents are a part of the desktop, and can be run according to the audience, giving different groups of people a custom desktop content. Le Super TV is the true eco TV, with supreme configurations and performances, it can satisfy the best experiences during its lifetime and operational needs.
Super 4 X50 Pro will lead the way for big-screen TVs into the “age of double 3 (3GB+32GB)”, HDR+MEMC+double 3 (3GB+32GB) configuration will start big screen performance aesthetics
At the event LeEco also released the world’s first Ecological UI system, an upgrade to the EUI--EUI5. With this, LeEco achieved a historical 9-channel direct stream allowing the user to watch 9 games at the same time. More than that, it can also support watching one game, but with 9 different camera angles!
Source:- Deccanchronicle