Harman Kardon Launches New Wireless Bluetooth Speakers In India.

Harman Kardon has launched two new wireless speakers for the Indian market. The Harman Kardon One which is priced at Rs. 14,999 while the Esquire 2 is priced at Rs. 19,999. Both are wireless speakers and can be purchased from the company's website and its stores across the country. 

Harman Kardon One

Harman Kardon One connects via Bluetooth and HTC connect (for HTC devices). It even features a speakerphone with noise and echo cancellation technologies. Company claims that, the speaker delivers impressive sound quality with  2 x 6W stereo Bluetooth streaming set up. 

Harman Kardon One can deliver upto 5 hours of playtime with rechargeable battery. The body of speaker is made up of  unibody aluminium housing with an anodized coating for a smooth finish. 

Price : Rs. 14,999

Harman Kardon Esquire 2 

Esquire 2 also comes with Bluetooth connectivity which  delivers better sound with its 4 professionally tuned sound drivers.  It comes with  microphone VoiceLogic noise and echo cancelling technology with 360-degree voice pick up for crystal clear conferencing. 

The speaker sports  3200mAh rechargeable battery that delivers up to 8 hours of playback time. Harman Kardon made Esquire 2 available in  black, gold and grey color varients.

Price : Rs. 19,999

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Nike HyperAdapt 1.0 : The Self-Lacing Shoe

Fulfilling every Sneaker lover’s dream Nike has officially announced self-lacing shoe called the HyperAdapt 1.0, bringing in reality the concept given by Back to the Future 2 almost 30 years ago.

“When you step in, your heel will hit a sensor and the system will automatically tighten,” explains Tiffany Beers, Senior Innovator, NIKE, Inc., and the project’s technical lead. “Then there are two buttons on the side to tighten and loosen. You can adjust it until it’s perfect.” It challenges traditional understanding of fit, proposing an ultimate solution to lacing & tension preference.

The Athlete can do swift micro-adjustments and it solves the problem of over tightening or loose laces problem for good. Precise, consistent, personalized lock-down can now be manually adjusted.

“Innovation at Nike is not about dreaming of tomorrow. It’s about accelerating toward it,” says Tinker Hatfield. “We’re able to anticipate the needs of athletes because we know them better than anybody. Sometimes, we deliver a reality before others have even begun to imagine it.”

In short Nike HyperAdapt 1.0 is the first step into the future of adaptive performance, the manual controls provides the great level of comfort with this tech-shoe.

Though the product is ready for market, it is currently available only to members of Nike+ and its available in three colors. 

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Microsoft Announces Xbox and PlayStation Cross-Play.

Microsoft has announced support for cross-network play that will allow Xbox and PlayStation gamers to play together. It will not only allow Xbox and PlayStation gamers to play together, but will also allow PC gamers to join the fun. Chris Charla, Director of ID@Xbox said on Xbox Wire, “Players on Xbox One and Windows 10 using Xbox Live will be able to play with players on different online multiplayer networks including other console and PC networks.”

Although there currently aren’t many games that support cross play feature but Microsoft is hoping that more developers will support the feature in this future and release games that allow users to play multiplayer games with their friends who use different consoles. Currently, Psyonix’s Rocket League is one of the first games to support the feature that allows Xbox One and PC gamers to play together.

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Researchers Fool Smartphone Fingerprint Sensors Using Inkjet Printer.

Researchers, Kai Cao and Anil K. Jain at Michigan State University have found a way to unlock a smartphone protected by a fingerprint, by using an inkjet printer. They used a special conductive ink and paper made by a company called AgIC. To unlock the smartphone the fingerprint of the user has to be scanned at a resolution of 300dpi or higher. Before printing, the image of the scanned fingerprint needs to be reversed.

The researchers used Samsung Galaxy S6 and Huawei Honor 7 smartphones for testing, and managed to unlock both of them by using this technique. As per statement of Kai Cao and Anil Jain, "Honor 7 was slightly more difficult to hack than the Galaxy S6". 

How these reseachers managed to fool smartphone fingerprint? Watch in this video.

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Samsung Galaxy S7 Specifications | Release Date and Price in India

Samsung has officially announced launch date of its next flagship smartphone the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge in India. These two Flagship killers will be available in Indian market from 18^th of March. Pre-booking has started already for these two devices & those who will pre-book this phone will be receiving Samsung Galaxy VR headset bundle for free.

Samsung is better known for its innovative ideas and massive specs in its flagship devices. Previous year flagship the Galaxy S6 & the Galaxy S6 Edge rocked the market and it fulfilled customer's requirement at its best.

This year’s S7 will have more amazing specs with little smaller but better display of 5.10 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors and Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection. The display resolution will be 1440 X 2560 with ~577 ppi Pixel density. The display will have Motorola’s unique feature i.e. Active Display. The phone will be awake for you always to show you notifications at glance without pressing any physical keys.

The Samsung Galaxy Edge will come with larger display of 5.5 inches with same features like Galaxy S7 with curves on both sides. Both devices will be available with single sim (Nano sim) or dual sim version with memory card slot (Which was not available for Samsung Galaxy S6) expandable up to 200 GB. The phone will be available in 32 GB & 64 GB variant.

The device comes with Android Marshmallow (6.0) with TouchWiz UI. S7 & S7 Edge have 12 Mega-Pixel Camera with Optical Image Stabilization, f/1.7 Aperture, Phase Detection Autofocus with ability to shoot 4K videos@ 30 fps & 1080p @60 fps. The secondary camera is 5MP wide angle, it have f/1.7 aperture and dual video call feature. Though camera features seems little old still it captures absolutely stunning pictures and amazing selfies.

The S7 have additional features of Fingerprint sensor, heart rate sensor, Fast battery charging (60% in 30 mins), Wireless charging, S-voice natural language command and dictation for touch-less control and One Drive 115 GB free cloud storage. In addition to this the phone is also now waterproof and dust resistant.

To rock all these features S7 have Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820 quad core processor (Dual-core 2.15 GHz Kryo & Dual-core 1.6 GHz) it also comes with Octa core Exynos 8890 processor (Quad-core 2.6 Ghz Mongoose & Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex A-53) with Adreno 530 GPU and Mali-T880 MP12 GPU.

The Galaxy S7 have non removable Li-ion 3000 mAh battery and Galaxy S7 Edge have non removable Li-ion 3600 mAh battery, both devices will have fast and wireless charging feature. The Samsung Galaxy S7 has been priced in India at Rs. 48,900, while the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge will be available for Rs. 56,900 both prices are for 32GB variant. The 64 GB variant price is not yet announced. Both devices will be available in four colors Black Onyx, Gold Platinum, Silver Titanium and White Pearl.

Let us know what do you think about these two devices down in the comment section!

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