A Levitating Bluetooth Speaker: OM/ONE by Om Audio.

Gadgets are a fun to use, even more when portability and style is added. We have seen speakers of all types, Wired and Wireless, bamboozling Woofers and Bluetooth empowered headsets and portable speakers but here we have the world's first levitating speaker: The OM/ONE.

Powered by the amazing Bluetooth technology, here's a product that fits completely in our lifestyle. As cool as it looks, the team OM says that it sounds amazing too. Its like a sexy, cool and a bold spherical speaker rotating on a sleek platform playing our favourite music. The team OM is set out to bring about a great change in the concept of the Bluetooth Speakers with adding the cool concept of levitation.

Disco Ball Edition

Looking at the overview of specs of the fabulous OM/ONE we get a fully portable bluetooth speaker, hence eliminating any difficulty in carrying it away merely in palms just like other BT speakers. The OM/ONE will be powered by Bluetooth 4. LE technology making it compatible and easy to pair with a vast selection of devices. Pairing two OM/ONEs would add to the amazing experience of listening to music on this wonderful device. The trump card in such designed devices is the battery life of these products. Gratefully the OM/one doesn't let us down on this and will provide what it states a 15-hour battery life with an inbuilt rechargeable Li-Ion battery which makes it preferable to be carried on journeys and travels except in cases where we plan to be away from power supply more than the limit time.

It also provides an inbuilt microphone which facilitates calling and communication 

Jet Black Theme

Available in three cool looks: The Jet Black, The Glacier White and a Disco ball edition amounting $179 with a limited amount of backers. 

Never heard, Never dreamt. Iconic Design and an amazing Sound. The OM/ONE by Om Audio.

Intel's Core M Broadwell Architecture is Awesome.

Intel is a company that has been long tied to Microsoft's OS. But when the computing paradigm shifted to mobile, Intel seem to have lost the way. Granted, Intel has not yet got a strong hold in the mobile market but the new Broadwell Architecture makes sure they're the best in computing power in small package. This may be even helpful for Intel to make a strong entry in the mobile market.

There was a time when the company would make chips at higher clock speeds than the previous ones with large memory resources. But the recent computing needs have changed these demands. market demands have shifted to more efficient computing based on performance-per-watt metrics. While the Haswell Architecture was meant for lower power consumption, the Broadwell is meant for performance with power savings.

Intel is the first company to design chips with the 14nm design process while other chip manufacturers like Toshiba and Samsung have just reached the 19nm barrier. These 14nm processors are codenamed Broadwell. And the first processor family based on Intel's Broadwell Architecture will be known as Core M.

Since Broadwell is an optimised smaller version of Haswell, there aren't any big functional changes. But in addition to a few cores and package tweaks, their current Architecture can probably find new applications due to its lowered power consumption with greater performance. Essentially, Intel was trying to go for fanless design with Broadwell which clearly shows that their primary aim is the mobile and 2-in-1 hybrid devices. Broadwell is able to achieve 60% idle power reduction, which is considered huge when considering tablets and mobile devices.

Haswell on Left : Broadwell on Right

The Broadwell Architecture due to its 14nm design has also seen a considerable reduction in its physical size. Broadwell has an almost 50% smaller package size than Haswell.

It remains to be seen when and how Intel officially debuts their Boradwell processors. We'll likely be seeing more tablets and Hybrids powered by the Broadwell Processors.

A Peek on the Sony Xperia Z3

An Upcoming Sony Flagship

After the amazing result of Sony Xperia Z2 (qualitatively of course) we are almost ready to hear from the next big thing i.e. the Sony Xperia Z3 at the IFA 2014 in Berlin next month. Not knowing the specs of the device we are looking at the bigger brother of the Z2 with the specs squeekingly close to the former. I guess Sony are considering a Six-month release cycle a Hit but the image that their sales numbers show is complete irony.

Peeking into some of the specs of this Gun, we have a 5.1”, 1080p display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU with Adreno 330 GPU, 3 gigs of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage. It rolls a 19 MP Camera in the rear while a 2MP on front. Touching the dimensions, we get 146.46 x 72.09 x 7.3 mm of the Sony materials which looks down to S5, the LG flagship G3 and the HTC one M8. Despite of these sufficient dimensions we get to use a 0.4 inch shorter display which clearly implies that we get to hold inevitably sufficient big bezels....!

Sony holds a conference in about 3 week time on September 3. We possibly will be having a glance at the Xperia Z3 and the young bro Xperia Z3 compact and possibly a clean hand on their camera lenses QX10 and QX100.

Let’s see what we get...!

Here's what a $4 smartphone chipset can do

Allwinner is a chipset maker thrd of anywhere. But the same was the story when MediaTek first came to light. This chip maker like everyone else has also stated to be entering the 64bit market.

Coming to the relevance of this post title, this chip maker has recently announced the A33, a quad core chip set that'll cost you $4. Yeah that's right. Just $4. And this chip has already entered mass production.

Now at mere $4, you cannot expect it to blow your heads off. But it just works. The Allwinner A33 has a quad core Cortex A7 with a dual core Mali 400 MP-2 GPU. Details like clock frequency hasn't been known as of yet but its been said to support screens with resolutions 1280x800. Thing of the past, but still not too bad when majority of mid-range devices still have 720p displays. Some even go below that at just 540p. Not that 540p is bad but fitting this resolution on a 4.5" or 5" display makes me want to die. So device makers that want to lure more customers can get a use out of this and finally abandon those 540p displays. It certainly doesn't support 4k but does have the ability to play 1080p videos at 60fps.

Allwinner claims their design is more power efficient than other Cortex-A7 quad core designs. On a 4000mAh battery, it can have 400 hours of standby or 6½ hours of 1080p video playback.

The A33 is also said to be pin-compatible with its predecessor A23 which is dual core Cortex-A7 but the question here is how many devices already use the chip maker's SoC.? Their primary targets are the devices in the price range of $30-60. So you can expect to see some dirt cheap phones and tablets that you can gift your toddlers. After all, you don't want then to play candy crush all day on your work device. But don't expect to see it state side any soon.

Google's Office Suite for Web finally gets a new Material designed Homescreen.

About a month back at Google I/O, we were promised to get new Homescreens for Google's Office suite products. Now if you visit Google Docs, Sheets or Slides, you'll be presented with the all new Material design Homescreen.

Previously when you opened those web apps, you were directly presented to the editor. But If you wanted to see your documents, you'd have to browse through all your Google Drive folders. But now with these new homescreens, whenever you open any of these web apps, you'll be presented with all your recent documents, or spreadsheets or presentations in one place. But you can still easily create new documents by hitting that big + button on the bottom right of any page.

These new Homescreens also allow to quickly switch to other apps. Just hit it and choose from Docs, Sheets or Slides. You can go to your Drive too. These resembles very much with Android counterparts. There's also an overflow menu button just like in Android that'll allow you to rename, remove or open in a new tab.

But on a sad note, these new changes brought new bugs. I was trying to get my documents to these new Homescreens but I'm out of luck. Trying to open them from Drive also was no good. Also when I go to Google Drive, I just get a glimpse of my files and folders and then they all disappear and are replaced by a drawing showing different devices and a text saying I can access my stuff on every device.

Hope this is just a minor bug that hasn't affected more people. Because more and more people have started relying on Google's free and evolving Office Suite. And throwing a major bug on professionals' faces wouldn't be a good for Google.

Update: The files disappearing bug seems to be already resolved.

Simplocker Ransomware is getting even more powerful.

Before we get into detail, a ransomware is a type of malicious software designed to block access to a system ny encrypting files and other data until a sum of money is paid.

Simplocker is one such ransomware targeting Android. It was first discovered 2 months back but in the time till now, it has made itself more efficient in what it does. It can now encrypt even more data and get even more control of your device. According to a Slovakia based security company ESET, Simplocker has been evolved to show ransom warning in English instead of Russian and it now demands payments in Dollars instead of Euros. With this latest version, it can gain Administrator access and make it harder for a user to remove it once the device is infected.

It still cannot automatically get Administrator access of your device but it does ask you to do so. And you probably would give it the access it needs without much thinking. Yes that's right. You yourself could have been guilty. How it does so is pretend to be an app that requires Administrator Access and certainly will ask you to give permissions. After you hit the Agree button, you've pretty much lost the control of your device. Next it displays a warning telling the user that they have been caught with the kind of data they shouldn't have had like child pornography or bulk spamming and asks for a fine via MoneyPak voucher to release your phone from lockdown.

But as ESET has discovered the ransomware, they also have come up with a solution for it. You can remotely download ESET's Simplocker Decryptor App and get your phone Decrypted and also uninstall Simplocker for you.

Now this article will sure come up with the topic about amount of Malware that Android has. Lets get this straight. Downloading apps from Google Play won't do any harm to our device whatsoever. But people often become greedy and try to save money by downloading paid apps from untrusted sources. This is where the problem starts. That unknown source wants you to think you're saving money while it loads up a money eating ransomware on your phone ready to take control. So the security of your device in entirely in your hands. Unless you're doing something illegal and are been tracked down by NSA. 

Google donated $100,000 to help people take shower on a Bus.

Google Impact Challenge is a Google Venture that help non-profits pursue their goals. The Impact Challenge helps non-profits invent technology that can help tackle and transform lives around the world.

While on one hand, Google's commute buses have been stopped or Google has pay for using those commute buses on San Francisco streets, while on the other side Google invested about $100,000 in a Google Bus project.

A San Francisco non-profit Lava Mae, just showed a trial version of its Bus that aims to give showers to those homeless people who live by the Bay Area. This project was funded as a part of Google Impact Challenge.

Lava Mae founder Doniece Sandoval, a marketing veteran said such a mobile sanitary station was essential for the Human Rights of the city's homeless.

"You're living on the streets and you're filthy, you're trying to improve your circumstances," she told The Assiciated Press. "But you can't interview for a job, you can't apply for housing and get disconnected from the sense of humanity."

The non-profit bought a bus and refurbished it at a cost of about $75,000. The bus has 2 bathrooms with hot showers, shampoo, soap and towels. Watch this video to get into details about how this venture will really help homeless people of the Bay Area.