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AT&T Will Deploy Solar Charger Stations Around NYC
Specifically, in parks and beaches around New York City, AT&T with the help of Goal Zero will bring solar-powered smartphone charger stations. Location-wise, they’ll be deployed at Fort Green Park on June 18th, then Brooklyn Bridge Park, Coney Island, Riverside Park, the Rockaways, Summerstage in Central Park, Randall’s Island, Governor’s Island, Union Square, and Hudson River Park over the next few weeks. Each solar-powered pole, designed locally by Pensa, sports six USB connections: for iPhones and iPads, there’s 30-pin and Lightning plugs, Android and Windows Phone users can hook up to micro-USB, and everyone else can use their own cable with one of three typical USB connectors.
Each station has three 15-watt solar panels, a 168 watt-hour battery, and is 12.5 feet tall, so six different devices can be charged without exposure to the sun. Of course, to completely fill up your phone can take some time, but 5-15 minutes of charge could be everything that lets you get past 6PM on that wonderful device you always use with impunity.
Via: NYT
Qualcomm has been making great strides with the Snapdragon 600 and 800 processors for the best smartphones in the industry. But to make ends meet, Qualcomm has a quad-core edition of the Snapdragon 400, working in tandem with 3G and LTE built-in. A1.2GHz, Cortex-A7 handle 42Mbps HSPA+ and China-friendly TD-SCDMA, plus 802.11ac WiFi. To complete the transition, QUalcomm also has new reference tablet designs that are in 7-inch and 10-inch variants, targeted for developing markets.
Another era of computing is dawning on us: the 4th generation of Intel Core processors. This June 4th marks a genesis where the current“2-in-1″ computing method: that’s convertible computers – flipping screens, removable displays, and everything in-between — are in need of a processor that are more inclined towards achieving that. What this means for the consumer is more battery life and slightly more performance than Ivy Bridger, the 3rd and previous generation of processors. Also, integrated graphics performance that is capable of playing 3D games, even on Ultrabooks.
Calling all gamers, pixel-lovers, and people who use computers — Asus will begin selling a 31.5-inch monitor in the UNited States this June, and it has a 4K resolution of 3840 x 2160, so you could fit four different 1080p HD windows onto the same screen. It’s incredibly dense and pixel-rich, at 140ppi.
There is no reason not to review a cool microphone on a technology news website. MXL Microphones design a variety of professional and easy-to-use microphones, fit a for a variety of recordings. Not attempting to flesh out my inner vocalist, MXL sent the Studio 24 USB microphone, which weighs a lightweight 0.75 pounds: all the sensitivity, range, and quality you’d want, but with a portable carrying case, windscreen, stand, cleaning cloth, and USB or 1/8″ headphone jack connection.
It’s actually really humble of Google to show off the six prototypes of Google Glass (considering that the current version is still a prototype, after all). From strapping a smartphone to your head, to circuit boards and wires, Google has tried almost everything until they reached the current evolution. It’s needless to say that you’d look like a real Glasshole wearing the early prototypes, if you would even want to at all.
“This is what I have been trying to do for literally the last 12 years,” explains Professor Robert J Wood, Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. “Now that we’ve got this unique platform, there are dozens of tests that we’re starting to do, including more aggressive control maneuvers and landing.”
There’s no reason to be hateful towards the front-facing camera on your smartphone — it’s compressed to a size where the geometry of taking excellent photos is nearly impossible. Not anymore however, thanks to the above sensor that will be mass-produced this summer. The new OV2724 front-facing camera sensor shoehorns a 1080p sensor into a component that’s just 5mm by 5mm by 3.5mm and can record video at 1080p HD at 60 frames-per-second.
Apparently, someone at Samsung thought it was a genius idea to put an eight-core (!) processor inside of a smartphone, namely the Galaxy S IV, but decided to leave it out of the United States release, on all major carriers, with support of 20 different LTE radio bands. Instead, the U.S. release will see the new 1.9GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor, while international 3G models will use a Exynos chipset.
