ANDROID 4.1- Jelly Bean : Feature List

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has just been officially launched, and it'll start rolling out next month, July 2012. But what does it offer over Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich? Let's take a look at its new features.

Project Butter
Strange name, excellent idea. Project Butter's aim is to make Android run at a solid 60fps, complete with triple buffering and forced vsync. Basically, if it works as intended, Jelly Bean will run as slick as butter on a summer's day in the Seychelles.

Butter also aims to improve touchscreen responsiveness, and how the system tracks your finger. It does this by predicting where your finger will be.

Project Butter is more about feel than features, though, and should hopefully get Android feeling as quick as iOS and Windows Phone.

Browser
Chrome has now been made the standard browser for Android 4.1 devices. It's a significant upgrade to the inbuilt browser of both Honeycomb and ICS. Chrome is available for Android devices now if you want a taste.

Google Now
A brand new feature, Google Now is best summed-up as a tool to help you organise what you're doing at any point faster and more effectively. How? It's based around a Siri-like voice recognisation system that's equipped with information from your search history, calendar and location data to provide useful answers in seconds.

It's accessed as a slide-up bar from the home screen (as opposed to the slide-down notifications system) that will provide some info without you even asking anything too - because it knows who you are.

Notifications
The notifications system of Android has been given an overhaul. You can now select which apps have the right to splurge notifications your way. They'll also be much more useful. Developers can now have a hand in how notifications behave, so you'll be able to - for example - comment on a social networking message right from the notification itself.

Better Camera App
The integrated camera app has been given a tweak, although it relates much more to viewing photos than taking them. You can give the screen a quick swipe to view any photo just taken, and the pinch-to-zoom gesture turns the gallery into a film strip-style quick view for faster photo browsing - and deleting.

Android Beam
Beam has been a part of Android since Ice Cream Sandwich was introduced, but Jelly Bean sees it get some much-needed improvements. Beam is an NFC file sharing interface - which is rapidly becoming useful as more phones start to adopt the tech.

You can now hook-up with another NFC-enabled Android Beam phone much more easily. All it takes is a tap of the phone against the device, according to Google. Once hooked-up, information is now transferred over Bluetooth rather than NFC - because it's a good deal faster.

Tap-to-pair Speakers
We review a lot of wireless speakers at TrustedReviews. And the most annoying part is getting the things setup. Android 4.1 wants to make it simple, letting you pair with Bluetooth speakers simply by tapping them - just like the NFC-powered Beam features. We'll have to assume Android is able to extrapolate distance from the Bluetooth connection itself, because otherwise quite how this would work has us stumped.

3D TV Without Glasses Technology - POST (2)

3D TV Without Glasses Technologies :

1. Parallax Barrier Technology

Parallax barrier 3D TVs work by using tiny lenses which are integrated into the TV screen - layered liquid crystal displays. Each layer contains small stripes that hide specific pixels so that some can only be seen by your left eye, while other pixels can only be seen by your right. The result is the two images our eyes need to see to send a 3D image to our brains. With the lenses being built into the screen, there's no longer a need for 3D glasses. The biggest drawback is that parallax barrier only works if the viewer remains in the same spot, hence the reason why the early Toshiba sets are on the small side. Screen brightness is also a possible problem.


2. Lenticular Lens Technology

Another method of delivering no glasses 3D TV is by the use of lenticular lenses , which are shaped and designed so that a different image is displayed to each eye depending on the viewing angle. This is achieved by building small lenses on to the display screen and then refracting the left and right images that are emitted. This gives slightly less reduction in brightness than parallax barrier displays and a wider range of viewing angles.


3. Head Tracking 3D Technology

Head tracking works by using a webcam that locks on to a viewers eyes and adjusts the images sent from the display as the viewer moves so they see in 3D. Clearly this only works for one viewer at a time and seems best employed with small screen devices such as mobile 3D TVs or laptops. In fact a Toshiba 3D laptop has already been demonstrated using this technology.


4. The 3D TV Box

The 3D TV Box is another recent development in 3D TV without glasses technology. The Hungarian company iPont originally demonstrated a Tridelity 65 inch LCD 3D autostereoscopic 3D combined with the prototype version of their 3D TV Box. The technology works by taking a standard 3D image and transmitting it to the Box to be displayed. The 3D TV Box takes the image and projects it on to the TV display at the same depth you see when using 3D glasses on most 3D sets, and can take content from Internet, satellite, cable or any other services that currently offer streaming 3D content solutions.

There were some limits in viewing angles, which is to be expected, but in general the technology offers no worse results than any others seen so far and in fact does offer an improvement in quality to the extent that the depth of imaging at least equalled that achieved with glasses. There was an added bonus achieved in brightness because glasses are not being used.

Since their first demonstrations, iPont have continued a push forward with their promising technology, aiming to show that it's reaching a good level of maturity and hence acceptability to a buying public who are keen for without glasses 3D TV.

IPont seem to be working towards pushing their Box solution into venues such as shopping centres and airports, plus other entertainment venues such as sports bars and amusement parks.



5. The MIT Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Solution

Known as the HR3D development, this concept was first shown at at the SIGGRAPH Asia graphics conference in 2010. The technology works in similar fashion to the double LCD layer used in the Nintendo 3DS. Researchers at MIT have demonstrated a prototype where the top LCD can display an image which is customized to the one shown on the bottom layer.


6. Sony's OLED 3D TVs

Manufacturing giant Sony has long range plans to produce a no glasses 3D TV solution using OLED TVs. These promise to produce enhanced picture quality - around four times that of regular HD - which takes less power too. Sony claim to already have without glasses technology ready in their camcorders, and rumors are they'll be ready to deliver commercially viable 3D TV models within a few years. They're focusing on OLED as the technology that will become prevalent in TVs in coming years.



         The Disadvantages Of 3D TV Without Glasses: For parallax barrier viewing to work, one of the drawbacks is that the angle from which you watch the screen and your distance from the screen can be critical. So, to get a full and high quality effect you need to be sitting directly and squarely in front of the TV at the optimum viewing distance.

HOW TO CONVERT 2D TO 3D -POST (1)

How to Convert 2D DVD to Anaglyph 3D?

DVDFab has powerful 3D apps for 3D video creation. Normal 2D DVD, Blu-ray, video and 3D Blu-ray can be converted to 3D video in various formats and types. DVDFab 2D to 3D Converter, when works with DVD Ripper, can convert 2D DVD to all sorts of 3D. Let's take the anaglyph 3D output for example to see how it works.

 

2D DVD to Anaglyph 3D > Step 1: Run DVD Ripper, choose "2D to 3D" option

Run DVDFab DVD Ripper at first, next thing is choose a mode for this 2D to 3D conversion, like "to MP4". Then you need to import in the source DVD movie, and you need to specify a region code for the movie before it is opened. When open, the movie is placed in the program with all movie titles. OK. Now, the "2D to 3D" option is eventually enabled for checking. Just check it to active DVDFab 2D to 3D Converter for the next conversion task

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2D DVD to Anaglyph 3D > Step 2: Flexible settings and customization

Now that the movie is imported in, it's the time to set something for conversion. Choose the title(s) you want to convert, if you don't want to convert all content of a title, just click "Title Start/End Settings" button to arrange the title's start and end chapter. Then choose audio tracks and subtitles for the title on your right hand side. And you can specify a profile among the optimized profiles preset in Profile drop-down with ease. Then go to preview the title in real time in the bottom left corner to see if what you chose is what you want.

"Video Effect Settings" on the main interface is a cool button, which can lead you to freely set the 3D type, format, etc. in the 3D page. As showed in the below screen, you can choose any mode in the "Anaglyph output" according to your need.

 

And in the Crop page, you can crop the playback region of the output automatically or manually.

 

In the Resize page, the source aspect ratio and frame resolution can all be resized as you like.

 

If you want, you can do some further editing for the video and audio. Click "Edit" button to come to the Conversion Settings window, where nearly all video/audio parameters appear and can be changed, like bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, and much more.

2D DVD to Anaglyph 3D > Step 3: In the converting process

If everything is OK, just hit "Start" button on the main interface, then the converting process begins. You can view detailed progress information and preview source movie.

And you can set auto shutdown for the PC when process completed.

 

That's all about 2D DVD to anaglyph 3D video conversion. 

Top 5 low cost Android 4.0 in the market

In just three months after Google’s launch of its latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a number of low-priced ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich)  tablets have hit the market. 

Everyone of the chosen 5 is loaded with maximum features to the delight of the customers.I am just giving here a small list. Details will be uploaded soon.

1. iBerry Auxus AX02 at             -Rs 9,990.00
2. XTAB A10 Android 4.0         - Rs. 6490.00
3. Zenithink ZT280 – C10 Zepad C91         -Rs 10000.00
4. Zync Z-990                            - Rs.8,500.00
5. Ainol Novo 7 ELF         - Rs. 7990.00

Comparision between iberry AX02 and Zync Z-990:

First look of  iBerry Auxus AX02 :

 First look of Zync Z-990 :

 First look of XTAB A10 :

  First look of NOVO 7 ELF :

  First look of Zenithink ZT280 :

JAMES CAMERON : To The Deepest Point of Ocean-Mariana Trench

      Filmmaker and ocean enthusiast James Cameron became the first solo explorer to reach the deepest point of the ocean — almost seven miles down,when his custom-built one-man submarine touched down in the western Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench at 7:52 a.m. local time Monday (5:52 p.m. Eastern time Sunday).

His depth on arrival: 35,756 feet (10,898 meters)—a figure unattainable anywhere else in the ocean.

The trip is the first attempt by humans to reach the Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the Mariana Trench, since two Navy lieutenants touched bottom in January 1960. On that trip, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard spent just 20 minutes on the bottom inside the bathysphere Trieste, the only humans before Cameron to visit the spot. The sub kicked up so much silt that the pair saw virtually nothing outside their porthole.

Cameron’s dive was expected to last about eight hours. According to plan, the innovative “vertical torpedo” — A lime-green submersible called Deepsea Challenger that Cameron helped design — was to plummet nearly 36,000 feet in just over 90 minutes, the swiftest deep dive with a human pilot. At the end of the dive, Cameron was to release 1,100 pounds of metal ballast, sending the vehicle shooting to the surface. 

High-tech “syntactic foam” that forms the core of the vehicle was designed to be compressed by the immense pressures, while a metal sphere less than four feet across kept Cameron safe. The sphere is pressurized, so he was not at risk for decompression sickness. 

An unmanned test dive Friday proved the sub worthy of surviving the crushing pressures of nearly eight tons per square inch — like an elephant standing on your toe.

 Folded into a sub cockpit as cramped as any Apollo capsule, the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker is now investigating a seascape more alien to humans than the moon. Cameron is only the third person to reach this Pacific Ocean valley southwest of Guam (map)—and the only one to do so solo.

Cameron returned to the surface of the Pacific on Monday morning, said Stephanie Montgomery of the National Geographic Society.

His return was a "faster-than-expected 70-minute ascent", according to National Geographic.

Redundant safety systems were designed to detach the sphere and send it toward the surface if problems arose. There was enough oxygen on board for 56 hours. And if the sub got stuck in bottom muck, ocean saltwater would eat through straps holding the sphere inside the vertical torpedo, releasing it in about four days. 

Four high-definition cameras recorded the trip for a television special and a 3-D theatrical film, with an eight-foot-tall bank of high-intensity lights illuminating the depths of the trench, which lies far beyond the reach of sunlight. The Mariana Trench is a gash formed where one of the Earth’s huge tectonic plates, the Pacific plate, plunges under another, the Mariana plate.

Besides filming the journey, Cameron aimed to collect rocks, soil and any deep-sea creatures he encountered, using hydraulic arms attached to the sub. Biologists and geologists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and NASA will scrutinize the samples for exotic microbes and clues to how the slippage of the two giant tectonic plates can cause earthquakes and tsunamis.

Cameron is a longtime ocean explorer. Besides his films, he produced a documentary in 2003 about the wreck of the Titanic, “Ghosts of the Abyss,” and in 2005 released “Aliens of the Deep.” This was his 73rd trip into the ocean in a submersible, including 33 dives to the Titanic.

DEEPSEA CHALLENGE, then, may be anything but a one-hit wonder. To Bartlett, the Mariana Trench expedition could "Represent a turning point in how we approach ocean science."