Author: Shalu Pillai

  • Create animated videos with the new 3D scanner iPhone application

    Create animated videos with the new 3D scanner iPhone application

    Now you can take 3-D scans of faces and objects on your iPhone 4, iPad 2 or the iPod Touch for just 99 cents. A iPhone app developer, Grant Schindler, research scientist in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, has created Trimensional, the first app that allows users to take 3-D scans of faces or other…

  • Tall predictions for the new Nintendo Wii

    Tall predictions for the new Nintendo Wii

    Our friends over at Game Informer have reported that a new Nintendo Wii device is expected at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June. Since that news broke out, there have been all kinds of assumptions on what to expect and the top preditions are: 1. A controller with an HD screen – Acc to Keith…

  • Blackberry Playbook torn apart

    Blackberry Playbook torn apart

    iFixit, is the little child in us who likes to take things apart only to fix them back. The latest device to fall into their hands is the PlayBook, who’s been given the iFixit treatment. And what did they discover? The usual components like radio and cameras stay. Also found was a gyro and accelerometer,…

  • iPhone 5 expected this September

    iPhone 5 expected this September

    It won’t be an iPhone 5, but the next generation iPhone, is expected to begin shipping in September. But according sources speaking to Reuters, the new smartphone will have a faster processor but will look largely similar to the current iPhone 4. The iPhone is one of Apple’s most successful products, with more than 16…

  • Robots sent into Fukushima reactor building, ahead of workers

    A pair of remote controlled robots stepped into a reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Sunday morning for the first time. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power is hoping the iRobot Packbots will be able to provide data on the current condition inside the buildings and find out dangerous radioactivity zones that…

  • HP to launch its smallest smartphone Veer on May 2nd

    HP to launch its smallest smartphone Veer on May 2nd

    HP’s smallest smartphone Veer, which was initially announced in February, is expected to be launched on May 2nd according to PreCentral. Though we don’t have a price, we can presume that Veer will be available from AT&T at less than $100 and maybe even free. The Veer comes with a screen that measures a measly…

  • Giveaway – Take home the Lune colour changing LED mood light

    Giveaway – Take home the Lune colour changing LED mood light

    It’s giveaway time at Newlaunches.com. Remember the Lune mood light, that emits shades of the seven primary colors; two automatic color-fading modes; two rainbow modes, each with an adjustable light intensity giving you varied choices across the color the spectrum. Well this mood light can be all yours now. All you have to do is…

  • The Room where the Internet was born, at UCLA

    The Room where the Internet was born, at UCLA

    This is the beginning. This is where is all began … this surfing the net, chatting with friends, upload pictures, downloading music, it all started (more or less) in a room at UCLA in 1969, when Professor Leonard Kleinrock’s lab sent out the first ARPANET message (“lo,” intended to be “login”). A UCLA history PhD…

  • World’s Biggest Pac-Man goes on the internet

    World’s Biggest Pac-Man goes on the internet

    If you’re a Pac-Man fan, fire-up – here’s a real game. The world’s biggest Pac-Man is now on the internet. Created by Soap Creative to show of the HTML5 capabilities of Internet Explorer 9, the massive map is made up of thousands of interconnected Pac-Man mazes. So you move from one maze to another and…

  • Plug in your 35mm film 4GB USB flash drive

    Plug in your 35mm film 4GB USB flash drive

    It is with great pleasure that we announce the union of film and digital photography, and in an impressive 4GB capacity! The re-purposed canister of 35mm film is now home to a 4GB USB flash drive – we should have seen this coming. The 4GB flash drive retails for $23.99, there is also the 2GB…