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DJI Spark!

26th July 2017/in Gadgets / Tech, Technology/by billywright

We recently got to play with an amazing cool new drone called the DJI Spark, complete with HD 1080p camera, a mechanical gimbal and intelligent flight controls, this is a new affordable drone, designed to get everyone involved in the world of drones!

The DJI Spark has the ability to recognize your face with tech known as FaceAware and will take off and hover as soon as it turns on, not only that you can take photo’s, which are shareable with the DJI Go 4 app, with hand gestures! Plus all these features, which we were very impressed with!

Active tracking
16min flight time,
2km HD video transmission,
Return home capability

To buy a DJI Spark please click here!

Texts, Emails, Voice Recordings could be used as Wills

20th July 2017/in Gadgets / Tech, Technology/by billywright

Texts, Emails and Voicemails could soon be considered as a valid will by the courts after a radical overhaul of the inheritance laws, if approved by a judge.

Believing that the current laws around wills are outdated and need to be brought into the modern world as the previous laws are “Failing to protect the vulnerable” regarding conditions around older people who suffer from dementia.

The Law Commission (who oversee the laws) are well aware that this proposal may cause arguments, stating that the current rules are unclear and too formal, (40% of people die without making a will) the law would need to be softened to encourage others to make a will.

This would open the door for those who have not left a will, the family can apply to have the intentions that they expressed in a message, email or voice recording be recognised as a form of a last testament. Plus it would allow those who are unable to write a will, either by pen or digitally on a keyboard, will be able to leave one as a voice recording.

To listen to the guys chatting about this please click here!

Man Replaces Thumb With Toe

20th July 2017/in Gadgets / Tech/by billywright

A man has had his severed thumb replaced by his big toe. Yes his toe.

20 year old cattle worker Zac Mitchell had his thumb severed when he had his hand kicked by a bull into a fence in Western Australia. Placing his thumb in a cooler full of ice to preserve it but it surgeons were unable to save it and used his big toe in it’s place.

Apparently according to Dr Sean Nicklin, Mr Mitchell was reluctant at first to have the procedure:

“It is a bit of a crazy idea – they [patients] do not want to be injured in another part of their body……even if you have got four good fingers, if you do not have something to pinch against them, your hand has lost a huge amount of its function….A lot of people think their balance and walking is going to be significantly affected which it generally isn’t.”

The Sydney Eye Hospital who completed the procedure, apparently stated that it’s rare to transplant a whole toe with patients usually resorting to partial toe relocations.

Mitchell now requires more than a year of rehab and he plans to return to work once recovered.

To listen to the guys chatting about this please click here!

Surface Pro

20th July 2017/in Gadgets / Tech, Technology/by billywright

We created an amazing soundscape, that was edited and published with the new Microsoft Surface Pro and we were very impressed! Please see below more information about the Microsoft Surface Pro:

A best-in-class laptop, with the versatility of a studio and tablet.
2.5x more performance than Surface Pro 3
Up to 13.5 hours of video playback – 50% longer battery life than Surface Pro 4
Create, study, work, and play virtually anywhere – Surface Pro gives you total mobile productivity
Create on screen with Surface Dial and the new Surface Pen, featuring real-time writing, new tilt for artistic shading, and increased sensitivity

To listen to the guys chatting about this please click here!

To buy your own Microsoft Surface Pro please click here!

Ode To The Commute – Microsoft X Suli Breaks

20th July 2017/in Gadgets / Tech/by billywright

We recently collaborated with Microsoft on the Microsoft Surface Pro, which we created a soundscape using a Zoom H6 and edited together using just the Microsoft Surface Pro, in EP249 we chatted about a great piece of content that was also created solely with the Microsoft Surface Pro, please see Suli Breaks wonderful piece above.

To listen to the guys chatting about this please click here!

To buy your own Microsoft Surface Pro please click here!

Meet the world’s most powerful computer

10th July 2017/in Gadgets / Tech, Technology/by sadiaakhtar

China houses the world’s most powerful computer

Two decades ago China did not have a single super-computer, now it is home to the world’s most powerful computer.

China only started production of its first computer chips in 2001 but it has developed att a rapid pace.

Now, the computer that can carry out 93 quadrillion calculations per second, has 41,000 chips and is twice as fast as the last super-computer (also Chinese) is called the Sunway TaihuLight.

Calculations that computers like this can carry out in record speed will help analyse complicated data such as variations in weather patterns over months and years and decades.

Unidentified sea creature ‘with huge balls’ washes up in California

10th July 2017/in Gadgets / Tech, Science/by sadiaakhtar

A ‘sea monster’ has washed up on a beach, with no real shape or form aside from two disproportionately large ‘balls’

The creature that was discovered on a Californian beach has no eyes, mouth, limbs, or fins that people have been able to find!

It weighed around 7 pounds and is about 5 inches wide, the only noticeable thing on the creature were two very large ‘balls’ which has lead to speculation of what it could possible be.

Theories include a Cowrie Snail or a dead Sea Hare but the most likely explanation is that it’s a sea snail washed up without it’s shell.

You might need to scan your face to unlock the new iPhone

10th July 2017/in Gadgets / Tech, Technology/by sadiaakhtar

There’s speculation that the iPhone 8 might not have a ‘home’ button

Due to this fact people have started to question if there’s no ‘home’ button, how will you unlock your phone? Your face?

Testing is underway on the technology that would power the new 3D sensor, they are claiming the scanner will work even with the phone lying flat on a table.

This is not the first time face scanning technology has been available, but in the past it has been difficult implement due to speed and reliability, but if it does happen it will also mean improved selfie picture quality!

How does Stephen Hawking speak and write?

10th July 2017/in Gadgets / Tech, Technology/by sadiaakhtar

The Professor has managed to write books and give lectures despite his disease

The Professor who is world renowned, has a progressive disease called ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) that has gradually paralysed him over the years, yet despite this he is still able to give lectures on a global stage and write dozens of books.

75 year old Hawking is able to do this using a single cheek muscle which is attached to a computer to communicate simply by tensing it. At the start of his disease he had a hand held clicker that spelled out words, he now uses the cheek based device that moves a cursor to find the first letter of the word, after typing a few letters sophisticated predictive text technology which suggests the best-fit words.

The professor has previously tested eye-tracking technology and a system controlled by moving his eyebrows but he found the cheek movement sensor the most effective for him.