FUJI FILM INSTAX MINI 9 ; DELIGHT OF THE PHOTO LOVERS

Fujifilm have launched  new camera , that can be described as combination of electronics and Polaroid technology that gives instant photos.

The Fuji film Instax Mini 9 is built of plastic, but of impeccable finish. At the back, there is a small compartment for the film cartridge, an optical viewfinder and a counter which shows you the number of unused film sheets remaining.  The batteries slot in on the side and there is a loop for the wrist strap on both sides.

 

The processed film is ejected from the top.  There are flash and light measuring sensors the automatically adjust the exposure.  There are a power button and shutter button besides the lens.   In order to switch between different exposures, the ring around the lens will be used.  The Hi-Key is the only key that can actually force the camera to use that sets the flash to go off at its maximum intensity for low-light situations.  Other wise the camera automatically calculates the best exposure and switched to it, which is indicated by different LEDs.  The instax Mini 9’s film sheets give up to to 62 x 46cm photos.  The chemicals contained in the little pocket at the bottom of the sheets when exposed to light pushed in to the frame with help of rollers as it is ejected from the camera. The film will take around 2 minutes to develop fully. The frames can be personalized with white frames and drawings, etc.

The flash always fires, no matter the light conditions.  The presence of close up lens that can be clipped on the front of the main lens and that allows to shoot the objects as close as a foot away from the lens. 

DATA STORAGE ISSUE? ...DNA.... THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION

 Researchers of the Columbia University along with the New York Genome Center (NYGC) successfully carried out the storage of data in abundance on DNA. As described the Author Yaniv Erlich, this is the “ highest-density data-storage device ever created.”

According to the news release from the researchers, DNA is the perfect storage medium; it is ultra-compact and last hundreds of thousands of years if kept cool and dry.  DNA won’t degrade over time like cassette tapes and CDs, and it won’t become obsolete-

Erlich; a professor  of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering and Dina Zielinski a scientist at NYGC, successfully encoded six files into DNA: A full computer operating system, a movie “Arrival of a train at La Ciotat, An Amazon gift card, a computer virus a pioneer plaque and 1948 study by information theorist, Claude Shannon.

They first compressed the files into a master file and split the data into short strings of binary code, made up of ones and zeros. Next, "using an erasure-correcting algorithm called FOUNTAIN CODES they randomly packaged the strings into so-called droplets and mapped the ones and zeros in each droplet to the four nucleotide bases in DNA: A, G, C, and T," according to the release.

Twist Bioscience, a San Francisco based DNA synthesis entity, a specialist in converting to biological data from digital data made two molecules out of the list of 72,000 DNA strands send by the above researching organization.

It took two weeks to receive a package holding a speck of DNA molecules.  The school wrote... "To retrieve their files, they used modern sequencing technology to read the DNA strands, followed by software to translate the genetic code back into binary. They recovered their files with zero errors."

According to the researchers, this technique allows for 215 petabytes of data to be stored in a gram of DNA.  How ever this method costs very high monetarily.

  They spent $7000 per 2MB of data to be synthesized and extra $2000 to read it.  So don’t think this will be available in the market in the immediate future.

LET ROBOTS WRITE FOR NEWSPAPERS

In par with the revolutionary changes taking place in the field of media, the journalism also experiencing similar stunning changes.

 ROBOT journalism.  The computers will take care generating articles considerably larger quantities that humans can’t do.  If man can generate 300 articles the computer could generate 30000 or more articles per month.

Google has given US$ 620,000 to Press Association, the publisher to its Data & Robots scheme. (Radar) . The project is aimed to launch on 2018 will see robots (computer) will use the local government database to generate reports.

Pete Clifton, editor-in-chief at PA, said the robot journalism project would benefit "established media outlets" and independent publishers

The implementation of Robo journals does not mean it will end the service of human journalists, instead, Radar provides artificial intelligence to build stories based on the provided data generate articles that would be impossible to provide manually.  “Cost effective way of producing local stories” we can say comprehensively about this project.

Google in a bid to help the local media in the digital age has been working on it since 2 years.

So no, computers are not taking journalists' jobs — not yet, at any rate. Instead, they're freeing up writers to think more critically about the bigger picture. "One of the things we really wanted reporters to be able to do was when earnings came out to not have to focus on the initial numbers," said Patterson. "That's the goal, to write smarter pieces and more interesting stories."

By implementing robot in journalism we can reduce the errors and false stories markedly. The promoters say.

But for sure the stories generated by robots may not be as tasty as the stories produced by Homo sapiens as the former lacks investigation and involvement. 

NOKIA 9 Nokia's first High end Android phone

Nokia once synonym with mobile phone is trying to be in the right track.  The brand name is an advantage in the race. 

Nokia 9 will be first high end mobile from Nokia with Android OS.  The mobile has to compete with Samsung  Galaxy 8S or HTC A1.

The smartphone is coming with Snapdragon 835 SoC. .

Display will be 5.30 inch, .CPU. It is Quad-core   or OCtacore 2,45 GHz,

GPU Aderno 540

Chipset: Qualcom Snapdragon 835 MSM8998

Rear Camera 22 MP

Most probably a dual back camera

Front camera is 12 Megapixel. Resolution is 1440X2560 pixels.

RAM 4GB; OS android 7,1 64GB Storage

Battery capacity 3800mAH

Network support  2G,3G,4G

Sensors: Fingerprint Sensor, IRIS Scanner, Waterproof

OnePlus 5 ; LATEST FROM THE NEWS MAKER

OnePlus have earned a reputation of giving top end specifications and the  company  here also retained that status. 

The SoC of choice is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835, which has eight CPU cores capable of running at up to 2.45GHz. There are two variants, Slate Gray with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, and Midnight Black with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. About the type of RAM and storage it has used for the OnePlus 5 - LPDDR4X and UFS 2.1 respectively,  OnePlus have used top in this series. with a two-lane ROM which is said to double bandwidth for faster app install speeds and loading times.

In benchmarks, the OnePlus 5 put on a very good show compared to its peers.

Other specifications include NFC, Bluetooth 5.0 with aptX and aptX HD support, dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac with 2x2 MIMO antennas, GPS, and USB-OTG. The fingerprint sensor is integrated into the home button. It's very quick at authentication and we rarely ever had a misread. You can use it to access locked apps and your Secure Folder in the File Manager app. You also get the usual suite of sensors along with a gyroscope. Certain features like FM radio and wireless charging are missing.

Other than  OnePlus 5's brand new hardware, another big change is the slick new OxygenOS 4.5.0. It’s built on Android 7.1.1 Nougat and feels a bit more refined than before, with slightly smaller icons and text for the menus. 

OxygenOS also has other cool features like Reading Mode, which turns the display monochrome, making it easier to read text. It also goes a step further and adjusts the white balance to the ambient light around you, so depending on the light, you’ll have anything from a pale white to pale yellow. You can select which apps need to run in Reading Mode, so it kicks in automatically when you launch them, or you can manually engage it for the entire OS. Expanded Screenshots essentially let you take scrolling screenshots of webpages; Night Mode can now be engaged automatically based on time; there are five vibration patterns for incoming calls; and Gaming DnD mode lets you disable the capacitive buttons and block notifications in apps of your choosing.

OnePlus 5 performance, camera, and battery life

With Qualcomm’s  processor velocity  and the slick new OxygenOS, system and app performance is excellent.  Call quality is very good . The speaker is also pretty loud for conference calls

The OnePLus 5 excels at gaming and media playback. . The best part is that the phone doesn’t overheat even when we used outdoors in our humid climate. The back gets a bit warm but nothing that would make you have to stop to let it cool down. The display produces very good colours and deep blacks, thanks to the AMOLED panel.

High-resolution videos played with ease, and the mono speaker belted out pretty high volumes. The phone also supports Dirac HD audio enhancements with earphones. This helps a bit, but we didn’t find the in-built DAC to be anything exceptional.

More than the design and powerful components, the biggest change that the OnePlus 5 ushers in is its dual rear cameras. The similarities with the iPhone 7 Plus extend well beyond just physical design, as even the camera app is pretty much identical. The app has a simple layout and it's easy to find what you’re looking for. Shooting modes are hidden in the hamburger menu in one of the corners.

The primary camera has a 16-megapixel sensor (Sony IMX 398) with a large f/1.7 aperture and electronic stabilisation (EIS). The focal length here is 24mm (35mm equivalent). The lack of optical stabilisation (OIS) is a big disappointment given that the OnePlus 3T had it. While we couldn’t get any official response from OnePlus as to why this decision was made, we think it could be due to the slimmer profile of the phone and perhaps done to keep the overall cost within control.

The other  sensor has a 32mm focal length (35mm equivalent), 20-megapixel resolution and an aperture of f/2.6, but lacks EIS. To switch between the two sensors, you just have to hit the 2x button on the screen. According to OnePlus, optical zoom actually only goes up to 1.6x, and the rest is software but still "lossless". You can then zoom in all the way up to 8x (digital zoom). If the light is anything less than ideal, the phone sticks to the primary camera and basically does a digital zoom instead. What would have been ideal is if the second sensor also had a decently large aperture, like at least f/2.0, which would have made it usable in low light too.

The front 16-megapixel sensor features a f/2.0 aperture which captures very sharp and detailed images in good lighting. It’s not too bad in low light either, as the new app adds a screen flash. You also get Auto HDR and a Beauty mode.

The 3300mAh battery capacity is 100mAh and is almost satisfactory for running the apps including  videos.

Ref: NDTV gadgets. 

AFTER PRISMA ; NOW PHOTO LAB

Selfies started to look boring and thats why apps that edit pics in unique ways gaining popularity now a days.

Notable among those was Prisma. By subjecting the pics to pass through different filters online is the method being used in Prism.

The Photolab also works in the same way burbthe availabiliry of more filters
GIF  animation.face montague. along with a veriety of back ground filters to such an extend that more than 30 various traits make the Photolab more popular
This app is a creation of Vicman software .

ESSENTIAL PHONE TO BRING ESSENTIAL CHANGES IN THE MOBILE PHONE MARKET

You have to slipstream into the ways society works,” Says Andy Rubin , the CEO of Essential phone while talking about the launching of a new Android hardware in an already flooded market of Android phones. 

Essential Phone smartphone was launched in May 2017. The phone comes with a 5.71-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1312 pixels by 2560 pixels.

The Essential Phone is powered by 1.9GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor and it comes with 4GB of RAM. The internal storage is 128GB expanded. Cameras 13 megapixels back and 8 mega pixels front.

The OS is Android.  There is single SIM and is nano SIM.  Battery is 3040mAh and is non removable.
.It measures 141.50 x 71.10 x 7.80 (height x width x thickness) and weigh 185.00 grams.

Connectivity :Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, USB OTG, 3G and 4G

 The Essential is maked with the presence of  Compass Magnetometer, Proximity sensor, Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor, Gyroscope and Barometer.



The most important feature is a pair of tiny dots on the back, up there on the right. It’s a magnetic dock for attaching accessories.  Essential created a modular handset, but not in the build-a-phone sense of the Moto Z or Project Ara. Rubin calls it “a new notion of what an accessory is, and trying to make the accessory as future-proof as possible.”

As other manufacturers ditch headphone jacks and connectors, they render entire accessory lines obsolete. Rubin loves to mention the iPod docks with 30-pin connectors you still see in hotel rooms. He wants to make sure your Essential add-ons never go out of style. “Let’s say I come up with a new phone in the future,” Rubin says. “And let’s say it looks nothing like this. I don’t want the person who bought an accessory to have to throw it out and buy the new accessory for the new form factor.” Accessories for the phone will work on the smart-home hub, through the same connector, and will work with whatever Essential makes next. Rubin believes consumers want a beautiful, usable phone and the flexibility to decide what it does and how it works.