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Eyefly 3D Coming Soon It Will Support Every Smartphone
Lacking 3D technology in your Smartphone? Don’t worry boss! Without changing your Smartphone, now you can also travel to the world of 3D. We are not talking about a groundbreaking hardware or brand new Smartphone. It’s a simple screen cover or screen protector which can turn the screen of your old mobile device into 3D-capable display. The Eyefly 3D Screen protector is going help you in this pursuit for 3D. Say goodbye to other 3D smartphones , stick this 3D simple plastic filter to your Smartphone display and enjoy miraculous, distortion-free, brilliant 3D content with your naked eye. EyeFly 3D film will look like a typical screen protector but it consists of 500,000 miniaturized lens structures that are about one-thousandth the width of a human hair.
Technology and Working of 3D Screen Protector Film
The filter is a plastic film which is loaded with about half million perfectly shaped lenses and those are imprinted using nanotechnology. Lenticular lens technology is adopted in case of Eyefly 3D screen protector and by this, an array of lenticular lenses will magnify the different sections of the image depending on their viewing angle. It can render the stereoscopic 3D content very effectively. 500,000 tiny lenses having 1:100 height-to-width ratio is incorporated over this 0.1mm 3D plastic filter. This video can tell you more about Eyefly 3D technology.
How to enjoy 3D content with Eyefly 3D
An app is available for iOS and Android to support this 3D system. This app helps in the calibration of film and screen. After calibration, the app can be used to view 3D video content. A separate app is available for the conversion of images fron 2D to 3D.
Eyefly 3D pricing and availability
The EyeFly 3D film for iPhone 5 and the 5th generation iPod touch can be pre-ordered for a price of US$34.95. Android users have to wait a bit because Samsung Galaxy S4 version is next in the pipeline.
The Google Watch with Google Now
The Google Watch with Google Now - A wearable computer for the present
The future of computing is mobile, and the future of mobile is wearables. Google knows this; so does LG, Samsung and Apple. That’s why all four are rumored to be working on their own smart watches. Google’s, it’s reported, will run Android, and might be with us sooner rather than later.
The Pebble smart watch has already proved the appetite for this kind of product as a smartphone companion device. The appeal is obvious -- the ability to keep tabs on email, messages, calls, music playback, etc. using a device that’s always on your person. Relief from the burden of constant phone-checking (or at least, a weaning of users onto constant watch-checking instead.) It’s no wonder Google and others want a piece of that pie. Glass is for the future
Sure, a smart watch might not be as sexy as a futuristic headset like Google Glass. But it’s also nowhere near as risky a proposition, not to mention easier to get into consumers’ hands using Google’s existing infrastructure and software. (Think Android and the Google Play Store.) Make no mistake -- Google faces an uphill struggle in making Glass a success. It’s a potentially revolutionary class of product, but the barriers to ownership and acceptance are immense. For the moment it’s expensive -- $1500 for the Explorer Edition. It’s also a highly visible accessory that draws attention to its user -- and not necessarily in a positive way. Its being at eye height means you can’t not notice it, and the presence of a camera will be a cause of unease for some. For those reasons, we’ve already started to witness some blow-back against Google’s smart glasses. A Seattle dive bar famously issued a pre-emptive ban. State legislators in the U.S. are pondering a ban on Glass while driving. In the UK, anti-Glass pressure group Stop the Cyborgs has made the news in recent weeks. And it isn’t all scaremongering and publicity stunts -- there are some real privacy, safety and security issues around Glass that’ll need to be resolved in the coming years.
Glass is for the future. The present needs a different kind of wearable computer, and the Google Watch fits that bill. Google’s smart watch should offer its own unique benefits in a less obtrusive package. The larger footprint of a watch would allow traditional (low-power) smartphone innards to be used, presumably alongside a standard touchscreen of some sort. And if Google’s to use Android on its smart watch, as is reported, then it’s already got a ready-made, mature mobile platform to build off. All the individual pieces Google needs to make a really great smart watch already exist, and the path to release is much smoother.
Android on a watch
But Android on a watch isn’t going to look a whole lot like Android on a phone -- it’s a completely different class of device. Consider, for instance, the problem of text entry on a screen so small. Whereas most smartphones are built around a central home screen launcher, a watch needs to offer information at a glance, and perhaps the ability to launch additional apps where it makes sense. That requires a radical re-thinking of the UI most of us are familiar with, even if under the hood it’s the same old Android running the show. Being an embedded OS, of course, Android can look like anything -- a phone, a tablet, an oven.
Almost a year ago our own Phil Nickinson asked whether Google Now, Google's predictive search app, might someday replace the traditional Android home screen. There’ve been a few baby steps towards that with the Google Now widget, apps like DashClock and more content-centric home screen implementations like HTC BlinkFeed. But the natural place to put Google Now -- the place that makes so much sense that it can’t possibly not happen -- is on the Google Watch. Wearing Google Now
It’s a perfect fit, and it brings a whole new meaning to the term “timely information.” Google Now is easy enough to get to on most Android devices, but on phones and tablets it’s hidden behind either a swipe gesture or a few button presses. At a more basic, physical level, there’s the problem of actually having to extract your phone from your pocket, then unlock it and find Google Now.
This is exactly what smart watches aim to remedy -- the constant need to check your phone. Watches, as a product category, are all about fast access to timely, relevant information. So when Google’s smart watch eventually arrives, Google Now should be front and center, providing single-glance access to not just the time and any pending notifications, but the weather, transit directions, appointments, sports scores, boarding passes and more. In doing so, it could elegantly fit into a new role as the face of the Google Watch.
Search is Google’s bread and butter, and Google Now has shown us that the future of search is predictive and personal. Android has always been about hooking users’ mobile lives into Google’s products, and recently that's expanded to include predictive search. As an Android product, Google’s watch, if and when it arrives, should be a continuation of Android's mission. And if Google Now is the center of that experience, it might just be the ideal wearable device for the here and now.
The future of computing is mobile, and the future of mobile is wearables. Google knows this; so does LG, Samsung and Apple. That’s why all four are rumored to be working on their own smart watches. Google’s, it’s reported, will run Android, and might be with us sooner rather than later.
The Pebble smart watch has already proved the appetite for this kind of product as a smartphone companion device. The appeal is obvious -- the ability to keep tabs on email, messages, calls, music playback, etc. using a device that’s always on your person. Relief from the burden of constant phone-checking (or at least, a weaning of users onto constant watch-checking instead.) It’s no wonder Google and others want a piece of that pie. Glass is for the future
Sure, a smart watch might not be as sexy as a futuristic headset like Google Glass. But it’s also nowhere near as risky a proposition, not to mention easier to get into consumers’ hands using Google’s existing infrastructure and software. (Think Android and the Google Play Store.) Make no mistake -- Google faces an uphill struggle in making Glass a success. It’s a potentially revolutionary class of product, but the barriers to ownership and acceptance are immense. For the moment it’s expensive -- $1500 for the Explorer Edition. It’s also a highly visible accessory that draws attention to its user -- and not necessarily in a positive way. Its being at eye height means you can’t not notice it, and the presence of a camera will be a cause of unease for some. For those reasons, we’ve already started to witness some blow-back against Google’s smart glasses. A Seattle dive bar famously issued a pre-emptive ban. State legislators in the U.S. are pondering a ban on Glass while driving. In the UK, anti-Glass pressure group Stop the Cyborgs has made the news in recent weeks. And it isn’t all scaremongering and publicity stunts -- there are some real privacy, safety and security issues around Glass that’ll need to be resolved in the coming years.
Glass is for the future. The present needs a different kind of wearable computer, and the Google Watch fits that bill. Google’s smart watch should offer its own unique benefits in a less obtrusive package. The larger footprint of a watch would allow traditional (low-power) smartphone innards to be used, presumably alongside a standard touchscreen of some sort. And if Google’s to use Android on its smart watch, as is reported, then it’s already got a ready-made, mature mobile platform to build off. All the individual pieces Google needs to make a really great smart watch already exist, and the path to release is much smoother.
Android on a watch
But Android on a watch isn’t going to look a whole lot like Android on a phone -- it’s a completely different class of device. Consider, for instance, the problem of text entry on a screen so small. Whereas most smartphones are built around a central home screen launcher, a watch needs to offer information at a glance, and perhaps the ability to launch additional apps where it makes sense. That requires a radical re-thinking of the UI most of us are familiar with, even if under the hood it’s the same old Android running the show. Being an embedded OS, of course, Android can look like anything -- a phone, a tablet, an oven.
Almost a year ago our own Phil Nickinson asked whether Google Now, Google's predictive search app, might someday replace the traditional Android home screen. There’ve been a few baby steps towards that with the Google Now widget, apps like DashClock and more content-centric home screen implementations like HTC BlinkFeed. But the natural place to put Google Now -- the place that makes so much sense that it can’t possibly not happen -- is on the Google Watch. Wearing Google Now
It’s a perfect fit, and it brings a whole new meaning to the term “timely information.” Google Now is easy enough to get to on most Android devices, but on phones and tablets it’s hidden behind either a swipe gesture or a few button presses. At a more basic, physical level, there’s the problem of actually having to extract your phone from your pocket, then unlock it and find Google Now.
This is exactly what smart watches aim to remedy -- the constant need to check your phone. Watches, as a product category, are all about fast access to timely, relevant information. So when Google’s smart watch eventually arrives, Google Now should be front and center, providing single-glance access to not just the time and any pending notifications, but the weather, transit directions, appointments, sports scores, boarding passes and more. In doing so, it could elegantly fit into a new role as the face of the Google Watch.
Search is Google’s bread and butter, and Google Now has shown us that the future of search is predictive and personal. Android has always been about hooking users’ mobile lives into Google’s products, and recently that's expanded to include predictive search. As an Android product, Google’s watch, if and when it arrives, should be a continuation of Android's mission. And if Google Now is the center of that experience, it might just be the ideal wearable device for the here and now.
Facebook Launches Home, Its Android Phone Project
After years of construction, Facebook is at long last revealing its effort to build “a new home” on Android.
“Today we are finally going to be talking about that Facebook phone. Or, more accurately, we are going to talk about how you can turn your Android device … into a great social phone,” Mark Zuckerberg said, kicking off the event at companyheadquarters in Menlo Park. “We think this is the best version of Facebook there is.”
Facebook Home, as the product is known, isn’t a phone, per se, but rather a series of customizations that replaces the look and feel of a standard Android phone with a set of Facebook apps, home screens and messaging experiences.
As we first reported in a series of articles more than a year ago, the project to create a custom Facebook phone on top of Android — code-named Buffy — has been going on for some time.
Facebook has since spent a lot of time noting that it is not building a phone — which is technically true. However, it has built the software guts of one, and it even partnered with HTC to put a hardware face on its the project.
Zuckerberg stressed that what Facebook is doing isn’t building a phone or an operating system, but rather an experience that is a family of apps that becomes your home screen on a standard Android device.
“You don’t need to fork Android to do this,” Zuckerberg said. Facebook Home will be an update on Google Play to the social network’s existing Facebook app. It will be available initially only for phones, with tablet support coming within several months.
Updates to Facebook Home will also come monthly, the company said, arguing that yearly updates such as those made to Android just aren’t frequent enough.
Zuckerberg reiterated why the company is focused on the software rather than a single phone. Zuckerberg said that a great phone might sell 10 million or 20 million units — one percent of Facebook’s total user base.
“We’re not building a phone, and we’re not building an operating system, but we are also building something that is a lot more … than an ordinary app,” he said.
Zuckerberg took aim at the app-centric approach taken by most modern smartphones, saying phones should be about people rather than programs.
Facebook isn’t the only company trying to move away from an app-centric world. Windows Phone, for example, has a People hub that focuses on all the ways that someone connects with a person and their photos and updates.
Apps, of course, are still a part of phones, so an app launcher is just a swipe away.
One particular feature should be more than just an app, Zuckerberg said, and that’s messaging. The company has built a new experience where “Chat Heads” — little pictures of your friends — pop up when a new message comes in.
Beyond the cute head shots, Chat Heads allow messaging to take place in any app, rather than requiring a user to either stop what they are doing or risk ignoring the person seeking their attention.
“It really feels like your friends are always there,” said Joey Flynn, the Facebook designer who created the messaging experience.
Chat Heads work with both text messages and incoming Facebook messages.
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Facebook Home, as the product is known, isn’t a phone, per se, but rather a series of customizations that replaces the look and feel of a standard Android phone with a set of Facebook apps, home screens and messaging experiences.
As we first reported in a series of articles more than a year ago, the project to create a custom Facebook phone on top of Android — code-named Buffy — has been going on for some time.
Facebook has since spent a lot of time noting that it is not building a phone — which is technically true. However, it has built the software guts of one, and it even partnered with HTC to put a hardware face on its the project.
Zuckerberg stressed that what Facebook is doing isn’t building a phone or an operating system, but rather an experience that is a family of apps that becomes your home screen on a standard Android device.
“You don’t need to fork Android to do this,” Zuckerberg said. Facebook Home will be an update on Google Play to the social network’s existing Facebook app. It will be available initially only for phones, with tablet support coming within several months.
Updates to Facebook Home will also come monthly, the company said, arguing that yearly updates such as those made to Android just aren’t frequent enough.
Zuckerberg reiterated why the company is focused on the software rather than a single phone. Zuckerberg said that a great phone might sell 10 million or 20 million units — one percent of Facebook’s total user base.
“We’re not building a phone, and we’re not building an operating system, but we are also building something that is a lot more … than an ordinary app,” he said.
Zuckerberg took aim at the app-centric approach taken by most modern smartphones, saying phones should be about people rather than programs.
Facebook isn’t the only company trying to move away from an app-centric world. Windows Phone, for example, has a People hub that focuses on all the ways that someone connects with a person and their photos and updates.
Apps, of course, are still a part of phones, so an app launcher is just a swipe away.
One particular feature should be more than just an app, Zuckerberg said, and that’s messaging. The company has built a new experience where “Chat Heads” — little pictures of your friends — pop up when a new message comes in.
Beyond the cute head shots, Chat Heads allow messaging to take place in any app, rather than requiring a user to either stop what they are doing or risk ignoring the person seeking their attention.
“It really feels like your friends are always there,” said Joey Flynn, the Facebook designer who created the messaging experience.
Chat Heads work with both text messages and incoming Facebook messages.
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Facebook Home, as the product is known, isn’t a phone, per se, but rather a series of customizations that replaces the look and feel of a standard Android phone with a set of Facebook apps, home screens and messaging experiences.As we first reported in a series of articles more than a year ago, the project to create a custom Facebook phone on top of Android — code-named Buffy — has been going on for some time.
Facebook has since spent a lot of time noting that it is not building a phone — which is technically true. However, it has built the software guts of one, and it even partnered with HTC to put a hardware face on its the project.
Zuckerberg stressed that what Facebook is doing isn’t building a phone or an operating system, but rather an experience that is a family of apps that becomes your home screen on a standard Android device.
“You don’t need to fork Android to do this,” Zuckerberg said. Facebook Home will be an update on Google Play to the social network’s existing Facebook app. It will be available initially only for phones, with tablet support coming within several months.
Updates to Facebook Home will also come monthly, the company said, arguing that yearly updates such as those made to Android just aren’t frequent enough.
Zuckerberg reiterated why the company is focused on the software rather than a single phone. Zuckerberg said that a great phone might sell 10 million or 20 million units — one percent of Facebook’s total user base.
“We’re not building a phone, and we’re not building an operating system, but we are also building something that is a lot more … than an ordinary app,” he said.
Zuckerberg took aim at the app-centric approach taken by most modern smartphones, saying phones should be about people rather than programs.
Facebook isn’t the only company trying to move away from an app-centric world. Windows Phone, for example, has a People hub that focuses on all the ways that someone connects with a person and their photos and updates.
Apps, of course, are still a part of phones, so an app launcher is just a swipe away.
One particular feature should be more than just an app, Zuckerberg said, and that’s messaging. The company has built a new experience where “Chat Heads” — little pictures of your friends — pop up when a new message comes in.
Beyond the cute head shots, Chat Heads allow messaging to take place in any app, rather than requiring a user to either stop what they are doing or risk ignoring the person seeking their attention.
“It really feels like your friends are always there,” said Joey Flynn, the Facebook designer who created the messaging experience.
Chat Heads work with both text messages and incoming Facebook messages.
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Facebook Home, as the product is known, isn’t a phone, per se, but rather a series of customizations that replaces the look and feel of a standard Android phone with a set of Facebook apps, home screens and messaging experiences.As we first reported in a series of articles more than a year ago, the project to create a custom Facebook phone on top of Android — code-named Buffy — has been going on for some time.
Facebook has since spent a lot of time noting that it is not building a phone — which is technically true. However, it has built the software guts of one, and it even partnered with HTC to put a hardware face on its the project.
Zuckerberg stressed that what Facebook is doing isn’t building a phone or an operating system, but rather an experience that is a family of apps that becomes your home screen on a standard Android device.
“You don’t need to fork Android to do this,” Zuckerberg said. Facebook Home will be an update on Google Play to the social network’s existing Facebook app. It will be available initially only for phones, with tablet support coming within several months.
Updates to Facebook Home will also come monthly, the company said, arguing that yearly updates such as those made to Android just aren’t frequent enough.
Zuckerberg reiterated why the company is focused on the software rather than a single phone. Zuckerberg said that a great phone might sell 10 million or 20 million units — one percent of Facebook’s total user base.
“We’re not building a phone, and we’re not building an operating system, but we are also building something that is a lot more … than an ordinary app,” he said.
Zuckerberg took aim at the app-centric approach taken by most modern smartphones, saying phones should be about people rather than programs.
Facebook isn’t the only company trying to move away from an app-centric world. Windows Phone, for example, has a People hub that focuses on all the ways that someone connects with a person and their photos and updates.
Apps, of course, are still a part of phones, so an app launcher is just a swipe away.
One particular feature should be more than just an app, Zuckerberg said, and that’s messaging. The company has built a new experience where “Chat Heads” — little pictures of your friends — pop up when a new message comes in.
Beyond the cute head shots, Chat Heads allow messaging to take place in any app, rather than requiring a user to either stop what they are doing or risk ignoring the person seeking their attention.
“It really feels like your friends are always there,” said Joey Flynn, the Facebook designer who created the messaging experience.
Chat Heads work with both text messages and incoming Facebook messages.
RELATED POSTS: Ten Minutes With Adam Mosseri, the Guy in Charge of Facebook Home If Facebook Made a Real Facebook Home (Comic) The Buffy Story: Facebook’s Long Road Home to an Android Phone Facebook’s Phone Also Coming to France Telecom-Orange, but First to AT&T Content, Content Everywhere In Facebook’s Ideal Mobile World Can Facebook Build an Android-Style Home on the iPhone? Probably Not. How to Turn Your Handset Into a Facebook Phone HTC First: The Hardware Side to Facebook Home Buffy Has Landed: Facebook Launches Home, Its Android Phone Project
