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Iron Man Suitcase Will Recharge Your Gadgets
Incredible Battle Armors For Fighting Championships
PlayStation Enters The VR Arms Race With Project Morpheus
Gmail to Be Accessed Using Only HTTPS Connections

Iron Man Suitcase Will Recharge Your Gadgets

Posted: 21 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Remember that one scene in Iron Man where Tony gets his armor straight from a suitcase? That suitcase, minus armor, but still packed with power can now be yours.

This replica seen over here is meant to allow you to carry and recharge your gadgets and electronic gear, wheter it is an iPad, phone, or armor (your call, we guess). The Mark V armor suitcase fuel cell is a 1/4 scale replica, created to mimic the design seen in Iron Man 2 to the minimum details, but also packing a 12,000 mAH battery pack, with a light indicator on the side indicating how much power is left.

Source: Nerd Approved

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Incredible Battle Armors For Fighting Championships

Posted: 21 Mar 2014 06:00 AM PDT

A new set of skills might be required when it comes to close-quarters combat, and that is that of technology and robots, as these futuristic armors enter the game.

The suit you see in the pictures is called Lorica, and it’s a high-tech armor created by Unified Weapons Master from Australia for combat. The suit is meant to allow combatants to hack, bash and attack each other without killing or chopping limbs off.

These suits were created from a blend of flexible materials meant for protection, but also includes all types of connectivity including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, as well as a point-of-view camera, microphone and 52 pressure sensors that broadcast data to a computer, so users/coaches can keep track of what’s going on inside the suit. This armor would allow martial artists to move at full speed and use real weapons to fight creating a better visual spectacle.

You can see more about the Lorica in the video below these lines:

Source: Geekologie

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PlayStation Enters The VR Arms Race With Project Morpheus

Posted: 21 Mar 2014 05:00 AM PDT

Sony Computer Entertainment announces their virtual reality efforts with Project Morpheus at the Game Developers Conference.

This week during the Game Developers Conference, the entire industry waited for Sony’s long-rumored plans to announce their own virtual reality headset. With their GDC keynote, Driving the Future of Innovation at Sony Computer Entertainment, the company did just that by unveiling Project Morpheus.

Centered around a Daft Punk looking head mounted display that’s fit with blue-glowing highlights, Project Morpheus is "the next innovation from PlayStation that may well shape the future of games,” says President of Sony's Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida. Further more, “this new technology will deliver a sense of presence, where you as the player actually feel like you're inside the game and your emotions feel that much more real.”

Virtual Reality is a rapidly growing field among the development community, especially with the fevered hype surrounding VR-competitor Oculus Rift. Sony great potential for VR to their gaming platform, and seriously wants in at its onset. The company announced that they would be working with a handful of developers, including Epic Games, Unity, Crytek, and a crop of others to deliver content tailor made for VR in mind.

Project Morpheus’s VR headset is still in its developmental phase though – with the coming several months serving as a feedback period – but is being planned for a future PlayStation 4 release. Along with its blue neon accents, the helmet features a 1080p display, 90+ degree field of view, and internal components that allow for positional, 360-degree tracking that can be followed using the PlayStation Camera.

Apparently, SCE also is envisioning that control input for Project Morpheus will somehow involve the PlayStation Move, with VR content using the motion-control peripheral as a virtual object. In terms of audio, the VR headset supports "true spatial sound" using binaural audio that should allow games and what not to fill a users space around them, improving the immersion effect.

For now, everything about Sony Computer Entertainment's Project Morpheus seems truly exciting, and could add a host of endless possibilities for video games as a whole. Not just in terms of giving a new way to experience a traditional games, but to explore games that haven’t yet been thought of.

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Gmail to Be Accessed Using Only HTTPS Connections

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 01:50 PM PDT

As a sign that Google didn’t like the NSA and the US government in general fooling around its customers’ e-mail accounts, the search giant tightened the security measures by making HTTPS connection a default feature.

HTTPS connections are a bit slower than the unsecured version, but the protection it provides is worth the time difference tenfold. Google has offered its customers the option of accessing Gmail using an HTTPS connection for a very long time now, but given the recent fears that really the entire world have been experiencing, and not only the American citizens, it decided to offer the e-mail service in HTTPS-only. Besides that, Google also promised that the service wouldn’t have any off-time.

Nicolas Lidzborski, Gmail Security Engineering Lead, announced in post on Google’s Official Blog that the feature is available on all accounts as of today: “Starting today, Gmail will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email. Gmail has supported HTTPS since the day it launched, and in 2010 we made HTTPS the default. Today’s change means that no one can listen in on your messages as they go back and forth between you and Gmail’s servers—no matter if you’re using public WiFi or logging in from your computer, phone or tablet.”

According to Lidzborski, Google also makes a promise regarding the availability of the e-mail service offered by the search giant: “Of course, being able to access your email is just as important as keeping it safe and secure. In 2013, Gmail was available 99.978 percent of the time, which averages to less than two hours of disruption for a user for the entire year. Our engineering experts look after Google’s services 24×7 and if a problem ever arises, they’re on the case immediately. We keep you informed by posting updates on the Apps Status Dashboard until the issue is fixed, and we always conduct a full analysis on the problem to prevent it from happening again.”

Personally, I’m glad to see that Google cares that much about the security and privacy of its customers. That being said, it definitely looks like the search giant sticks to its unofficial motto (“Don’t be evil”). If only more companies followed Google’s example, indiscreet governmental agencies would learn their place.

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