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Samsung introduces the Galaxy A7 at CES 2015
Skype Translator Solves a Universal Problem
AirDog: a drone that follows you and takes your pictures

Samsung introduces the Galaxy A7 at CES 2015

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 09:34 AM PST

We still have to wait to see the next Galaxy S, but Samsung made up for it introducing the Galaxy A7 at CES 2015. It is one of the slimmest phones in the market, with a metal cover and premium hardware for a superior social experience.

The Galaxy A7 combines powerful performance and multitasking capabilities with a beautiful design that allow users to capture and share each moment perfectly in their social networks platform.

The Galaxy A7 is all about raw power and social interaction: it’s equipped with a multicore processor that combines two separate quadcores. It has 16 GB of memory and 2 GB of RAM so users can do as much multitasking as they desire. The frontal cam (can we just call it selfie cam?) is 5 megapixels, with plenty of advanced options to try out such as 'Auto Selfie' and 'Ultra wide shot', that let users shoot their photographs with a voice command or hand gesture. The device also uses 'Always clear voice auto control' to reduce environmental noise as well as LTE support 4 for quick loading of pictures and video to social media.

The Galaxy A7 also has a private mode, which adds an extra security layer for important files of documents: just because you like social media doesn’t mean you have to give up on your privacy, right?

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Skype Translator Solves a Universal Problem

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 06:00 AM PST

After letting us speak to people all over the world for years, Skype Translator now lets us understand our international friends and family too.

For years, Skype has allowed us to communicate with friends, family and coworkers from across the world using the power of the Internet. Have a loved one who’s emigrated? Skype them. Putting together a deal with an international business client? Skype them!

With video chatting, instant messaging and voice-only calls, Skype has been most people’s go to service for talking over the web. It even allows you to call actual phonelines (for a fee), making it a pretty good replacement for your landline too.

But what about the people you can’t understand? Previously, even if both you and the other caller were on Skype and speaking in different languages, you would still need a translator to be present. Thankfully though, Skype Translator has just been announced, making international communication a doddle.

As demonstrated in the above featurette, Skype Translator translates your conversation in real time. If someone says something to you in another language then it’ll be transmitted to you in your language and when you reply, the same happens for the recipient. Skype Translator even provides an on-screen transcript of your call, which is especially handy for keeping track of what’s been said.

Currently, the Skype Translator feature for voice calls is only available in Spanish to English (and vice versa). Those who prefer to use instant messaging get a slightly better deal as IMs are translated (again, in real time) for over 40 different languages. It’s unclear what the full list of 40 is but the Skype Translator sign up page offers options of Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Italian, Korean, Russian, English, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish which covers most bases.

The preview of Skype Translator will be released soon, with a full roll out planned sometime afterwards. Check the source link below to find out how to gain access.

Source: Skype

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AirDog: a drone that follows you and takes your pictures

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 04:00 AM PST

The AirDog team introduced their creation at CES 2015, and it turned out to be grand: a drone that follows users and takes their pictures, so they only have to worry about having a good time.

Our friends behind the lenses and cameras on trips have complained time and time again about something, and with reason: they haven’t really seen the places they visited, having to settle instead for whatever they see from behind their gadget’s screens. Airdog aims to provide a fun solution to this by taking the camera away from the user, and mounting it on a drone that simply follows them around and takes pictures for them instead.

By combining a drone with a resistant plastic body with a mounted Sony Action Cam Mini on top, the AirDog team created the perfect companion, capable of staying by your side on any terrain, no matter how hard or complicated, and operate your pictures for you.

What makes AirDog different from similar concepts is that it doesn-t need a heavy, big controller for the drone, but instead uses an “AirLeash”, which is a bracelet that serves as a control remote via BlueTooth technology. So no matter where you go, AirDog flies by your side and will keep up thanks to its four propellers and fantastic code. It’s fast enough to follow a skater autonomously, without having to control each move separately, and the degree of autonomy is the greatest thing it has going for itself.

AirDog is not without problems, though: being that it’s so fast and lightweight, it doesn’t really have a long battery life: apparently only 20 minutes at a time, at full power and speed, but those 20 minutes might be what you need to get under that wave, or get to the perfect angle of the mountain, or take the perfect selfie.

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