CALIFORNIA - Microsoft revealed advanced smartphone camera technology. The company is developing the software giant camera with the ability to capture 3D images.
Reported from BGR, Friday (08/15/2014), Microsoft developed innovation by removing the infrared filter on the camera with a smartphone and put special filters that allow infrared light to pass through. In other words, companies replace a part that is designed to work otherwise.
Technology Review stated Microsoft did this because they wanted to use the reflective intensity of infrared light. The company also seems to do a cross between sonar signals and a torch in a dark room.
Thus, the light will bounce off the objects around it and back to the sensor with an appropriate intensity. Thus, this method allows them to determine exactly how close or far away an object is from the lens when the object photographed.
TechnologyReview page report, Sean Ryan Fanello, Cem Keskin, and Shahram Izadi from Microsoft Research to develop these innovations and expose it in the computer graphics and interaction conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. However, it is not known when the company will begin rolling out innovations that can be used on a commercial smartphone.
TOKYO - Sony launches six applications specially designed for underwater use. The software can be downloaded through the Google Play Store.
Application created by Motim Technologies, deliberately designed to function when the phone wet. In fact, some of them will only work when the smartphone is fully submerged.
This software is shaped like a wallpaper, zoom is also quite unique. Of the six applications, there are two which show that living beings, Goldfish and cactus water.
Goldie is a virtual application Goldfish are very interesting. In the demo video on YouTube, it was as though Goldfish live in smartphones are submerged in the aquarium. In fact, if the user takes the handset out of the aquarium, it looks like a golden fish will die.
Reported Digitaltrend, Saturday (16/08/2014), another application called Plantimal as if a tree seed that will grow large if watered smartphone users every day.
Sony Xperia handsets Z1S, is one smartphone that can sense the uniqueness of the application. Mobile phones Sony that features an anti-water is also compatible with the software.
CCTV cameras ranging widely used both in the home or office environment. The reason, in order to maintain the security of the neighborhood with fixed monitor. CCTV cameras monitor complete with devices selling for millions of dollars. But who would have thought, you can use the phone as a CCTV camera without the need to buy the device. This time, MOBILE will give tips on how to change the function of your Android smartphone into a CCTV device.
First Step:
• Prepare the fruit Android Smartphone devices.
• One composition notebook with integrated WiFi or a single PC equipped with a WiFi device sudag.
Software Install Process:
• Visit the Play Store, then search applications by name IPCam and there will be some options. (we use applications created by Happy Droids that can be obtained for free).
• Select the application and install it on your Android phone.
The process of changing the function of a smartphone into a CCTV camera:
1. Enable WiFi Tethering Sharing facilities on an Android phone.
2. Run the application IPCam've just installed.
3. At the bottom of the far left, you will see a button with the letter (i). It is the instructions for use of IPCam. Please read for a bit to understand how this camera works.
4. adjacent is the key image. The choice to provide authentication if anyone wants to access the camera. For this experiment, to make it easier, this option blank.
5. Select Quality settings to your liking. The better Quality, then access can be added later, and vice versa, the bad Quality, the faster access (Picture not broken). Paca this example, we tried 50%, the middle of the quality of the camera.
6. on the size, select the size to your liking. It also depends on the phone, if the phone is not yet capable of taking high resolution, not be forced.
7. Press the IP image at the bottom and enter the port you will use. If you do not understand what is the port, use only por 8000 (default port) and proceed by selecting Save.
8. Now, turn on the camera by way of "touch" on the bottom right of the image button On / Off.
9. There you will see the IP address of the camera along with the port of the camera.
10. At present, back to the notebook / computer, connect to WiFi with Android phones that have WiFi Tethering dikatifkan Sharing.
11. Once connected, open a web browser and enter the IP address as stated in the previous picture. In the example, the IP address used is 192.168.43.1 with port 8000 then the browser adress, write http://192.168.43.1:8000/. If all processes are configured properly, you will see the words as shown below.
12. Then select one of the methods that will be used mainly, if choosing to use a web browser, using a media player or other uses. Please creativity. In the example, we use the Firefox web browser.
13. Remember, not all web browsers support with this application. To make sure you are using the latest web browser or using media other than the web browser.
Done! Now your Android mobile phone can be used as a CCTV camera such as camera convensinal. You can put it anywhere as long as the WiFi signal from Android could be accepted by the computer / notebook. In addition to the direct use of the WiFi sharing, you can also use WiFi networks are already available on the condition that both computers and notebooks are equally able to access the network. IP address of Android will also follow the existing WiFi network.
Unexpectedly, now the number of applications on Google Play has reached 800 thousand. A fantastic amount. Of 800 thousand such applications, the majority is a free application. When traced from quality, was mixed between high-quality applications and application Abal Abal. But apart from that, all the attraction of people to use Android.
The number of applications to a variety of uses makes curious users to download. When installed and run like, if it is bad then immediately uninstalled, the question whether the 'culture' install and uninstall this good? For users of Internet-based services package quotas the answer is obviously not good. Just to see whether such an application, you must download first. The activity besides eating time also drain your internet data, not to mention sacrifice for what seemed a long time to download because the internet connection is not good.
Well, avoid the 'culture' which is less efficient before, there is no good to try out the tips from us, by running the application App Surfer. It is an application that provides services Andrid for you to try to run an application without having to download it. You know how come? Yes definitely can, because this application will try from the website, should simulator application.
In addition to action in the form of apps, the App Surfer can also jajal on the desktop page, namely through http://www.appsurfer.com, the web version is actually a lot of applications that can be tested directly from the browser. This simulator is complete, you can activate the GPS, change bentul screen tablet / smartphone, and run mode accelerometer. So for you who are interested in an application, but not really clear as to what dalamannya, let jajal first via the App Surfer.
1. Showcase existing Android apps on Google Play, automatically in the App Surfer, including a paid app. 
2. Equipped description and specification of the intended application. 
3. One of the applications that are visually displayed on the App Surfer.
4. Visual display of a desktop PC browser page.
