Luxurious iPhones

1. Desert Edition:

This lavish iPhone is made of alligator leather. The perfect leather is clubbed with the excellence of artisans making it a marvel in itself. This model also comes in different colors to grace your individual personality and flavor. The cost of this edition starts from around  1,11,430.

2. Gold Edition:

This edition has a gold mirrored back and comes in two options, with 24ct-gold plating or with 120 grams of 18ct gold. The back of this phone is so finely polished that it gives a gold mirror-like reflection. The starting price of this edition is 1,20,361.

3. Full Diamond Edition:

This is a masterpiece phone which is studded with 4057 diamonds. This apex of luxury comes in Gold, Rhodium or Black Chrome finish. If you have some specific preference you can also order for blue sapphire, rubies, black diamonds and emeralds versions. The price of this edition is available only upon request.

New iPad In Indian Stores on April 27

Apple’s third generation iPad which has a stunning Retinal Display will be available in India from April 27, said the company on April 16. The basic model of this best selling tablet will be costing 30,500 and depending on the variants the price can reach up to 50,900.

The new iPad which got launched on March 16 this year has been in news for both good and bad. This new tablet comes with an advanced AX dual-core processor, new display with 2048x1536p resolution, 5 megapixel rear camera, a back-illuminated sensor, a 5 element lens called iSight and a front camera named Facetime camera. One disappointing factor in this new iPad is that it doesn’t have the full functional Siri software which is one of the most popular element in iPhone 4S and all Apple fans expected that the new iPad will be having this interactive tool.

The new iPad will be available in black and white colors, the Wi-Fi only model will cost 30,500 for 16 GB, 36,500 for 32GB and  42,500 for 64GB. The Wi-Fi+4G models will cost you  38,900 for 16GB,  44,900 for 32GB, and 50,900 for 64GB.

Nissan Reveals Self-healing Smartphone Case

Nissan, the world-class carmaker has decided to change some tracks and is now associated with smartphones too. The company has announced the world’s first self-healing iPhone case which claims to heal itself from any scratches or cuts by using a scratch-healing paint that’s used on Nissan and Infinite models.

Nissan self-healing iPhone case is made of ABS plastic shell which is coated with ‘Scratch Shield’ paint; the case has a craggy texture, it is rigid, robust, and tight-fitting and doesn’t have a glossy, slippery finish like other cases.

The magical paint used in this case is polyrotaxane-based; the polyrotaxane has the ability to react to changes and can repair its chemical structure to original state. Nissan claims that small scrape will heal in an hour while deeper cuts may take a week to glue up.

The use of this Scratch Shield paint is already done on Japanese mobile phones like Style Series N-03B of NTT DoCoMo. Nissan is now trying to bring up this technology to other mobile devices and products. The new iPhone case is still in its beta testing stage, the company says the product will be available in the market by the end of this year.

Google Project Glass also has a Competitor

The innovative Google Project Glasses is not even available in the market, but it has already got some potential competitors. Oakley is developing an eyewear that can project information onto the eyewear lenses, which is somewhat similar to the concept of  Google Project Glass.

The technology would let Oakley, a division of Italy’s Luxottica Group SpA (LUX), make hardware that’s comparable with Google’s Project Glass, an experimental effort to build smartphone features into eyewear, Oakley CEO, Colin Baden said to Bloomberg in an interview.

He also said that the technology will work when connected with a smartphone using Bluetooth and can also use voice commands like Siri in the iPhone 4S. The company is working on technologies like head-up displays since 15 years and has 600 patents.

The craze of wearable gadgets is on the raise and future of these interactive glasses seems to be promising but quite ahead of time.

HTC One Series Smartphones Unveiled In India

 HTC unveiled its new HTC One series of smartphones that represent its most premium mobile experience with a new level of iconic design, consisting of an amazing camera, authentic sound and state-of-the-art media link HD Display. The all new HTC One series is now available in India and comes with an exciting offer for Airtel mobile customers across the country.

“One of the key objectives for the HTC One series, was to enable the user to remember their best moments in life easily, whether it be capturing a photo or listening to a song, so it was crucial for us to improve these emotional experiences with an amazing camera and authentic sound experience,” said Faisal Siddiqui, Country Manager of HTC India. “We are much focused on creating an invaluable camera and audio experience that is user-friendly, so customers will love using it and we believe that the HTC One series will deliver this like never before.”

As part of the Go-To-Market strategy for this launch, HTC has joined hands with India’s largest mobile service operator Bharti Airtel to introduce exciting limited period offers on every purchase of HTC One X and HTC One V. Airtel mobile customers purchasing these all new devices till June 30, 2012 will be able to enjoy free download of 100 full songs, 500 MB data for three months and 200 minutes of Mobile TV.

With HTC’s most premium experience, the HTC One series integrates Android 4.0 (ICS) with HTC Sense 4, the new version of HTC’s branded user experience that is introducing HTC ImageSense, a new suite of camera and imaging features that set HTC One apart from other phones.  HTC Sense 4 also includes broad enhancements to audio quality and simplifies how people listen to music on their phone.

Google Glasses Gives Glimpse of Virtual Reality

The highly rumored Google glass project has now become the reality with the launch of its official video teaser in the company’s official Google+ page. The video shows one day life of a person wearing the Google glass.

"We think technology should work for you -- be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don't," Babak Parviz, Steve Lee and Sebastian Thrun, members of the project team posted in Google+. "A group of us from Google X (Labs) started Project Glass to build this kind of technology; one that helps you explore and share your world."

The video teaser gives the glimpse of how the Google’s glass can be used. It is internet enabled, can be used for map directions, calendar reminder, updating status in Google+, send text message or Email, and even for video chatting.

While the company hasn’t disclosed the final designed eyewear, but along with the teaser video, the company has also posted some pictures of people wearing the glasses.

“We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input. So we took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do” described in the Google+ post.

The glass comes with stylish silver frames with tiny camera, on-lens display and built-in microphones for commanding the internet enabled glass by speaking. There is no other official information when the product will be available, as it is still in the testing stage.

How to Make a Mouse Pencil Sharpener

Make your own mouse pencil sharpener with 62 Projects to Make With A Dead Computer! Scroll down for the full project instructions from the book.
After removing the electronic innards of the mouse, drill a hole in the mouse at its highest part.
Glue the pencil sharpener to the inside of the mouse so that the hole in the sharpener and the drilled hole align.
After some touch-ups to the track wheel, reassemble the mouse. You’re ready to sharpen!

Disappearing Google Logo, a Magic Trick

Here’s a magic trick to surprise your friends with. What they will see is this: you are at the Google homepage, and you casually ask someone to watch the Google logo. Then, you move two of your fingers to completely cover the “o”s in the Google logo. When you remove your fingers, to much surprise, the letters “o” will be missing from the logo.

Now you ask your friend to move her fingers over the missing “o”s. After your friend removes the fingers, the logo will be complete again! The trick here? It’s not really the Google homepage you and your friend are looking at – it’s a fake page (darkartsmedia.com/Google.html).

And when you click on the page, the letters of the logo will disappear after five seconds. Clicking again will make them reappear after five more seconds. So when you move your fingers to cover the Google logo, simply click anywhere on the page, and wait a bit before you remove your fingers… and when your friend covers the letters, you click again. (A third click, by the way, will change the page to an actual Google homepage so you can perform searches to “prove” the page is real.)

HCL Launches 3 ICS Tablets at 7999

HCL infosystems launched its first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich based tablets in India. The Me Tab U1 is price at 7999 and will be available soon in the market.

HCL has also announced two student focused tablets named MyEdu Tab K12 and MyEdu Tab HE with pre-loaded educational contents like NCERT content, quizzes, solved examples, problem solver, education applications and other selective interactive contents for students. These two tablets have a price tag of 11,499 and 9,999 respectively.

All these tablets are powered by 1 GHz single core processor, has 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of internal storage, 7 inch capacitive display, MicroSD card slot for expandable memory and for connectivity it has USB, micro USB 2.0, Wi-Fi and supports 3G via USB modem.

Top 5 Indian Music Streaming Portals

1. Saavn:

South Asian Audio Video Network-SAAVN-has over 9 million active users and 1 million daily streams. The site gives a wide range of music option (in some regional languages also) for all Indian music fans; it has songs from 80s and 90s, and you can also find the latest Bollywood hits here. The portal has a mobile app for Android and iOS users, you can also find it in the Google Chrome Web Store and on the social networking site Facebook.

2. Dhingana:

This interestingly named music site lets you enjoy lots of regional music covering Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Sindhi and many more along with the hits numbers of Hindi movies, Hindi Pops and Hindi Remixes.  The app version of this portal is available for Android, iOS and blackberry users; the app also allows you to be connected with others who has similar taste of music. The best part of this portal is its smartly labeled music list under different categories.

3. Raaga:

This online music streaming portal site has the best name which makes Indians understand what it holds. The site has different categories like Hindi, Devotional, Punjabi, Bengali, Fusion, and World music. One unique service of this portal is its musical e-greetings card section which lets you send favorite tunes to your lovely ones. The site lets your share music with others and you can even watch music videos here.

4. Gaana:

Gaana, as the name says has all the ‘gaanas’ for Indians, this site is quite social with is incorporation with Facebook where it lets your friends know what you are listening to and lets you share some likes and unlikes. Its neat listing of songs into New Releases, Most Popular, Playlists, Genres, Artists, Albums and Radio stations makes the site very easy and swift to use. The alpha state of the HTML5 for iPad of this portal has been recently launched.

5. Musicindiaonline:

This is a multilingual music steaming site which has music covering Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Himachali and many other languages.  The songs are distinguished into fields like pop, fusion, ghazals, remix, classical and more. The portal allows you to make playlists, upload songs, set favorites and also comes with online Radio.

Charge your Kindle in the Sun

 A solar Kindle case lets readers "top up" their gadget simply by leaving it in the sun.The case has a built-in solar panel and battery, which is guaranteed to provide three months of reading time in "normal" sunlight, without dipping into Kindle's own power.

The gadget goes on sale this week, priced at $80, Daily Mail reported Tuesday.Once the gadget's topped up, the SolarKindle diverts power to a backup battery.

Eight hours will fully charge the backup, which offers roughly three weeks' use. The battery also powers an LED light, which can run for 50 hours.

Given that Kindle is built for wireless use, with books and gadgets delivered to the gizmo via wi-fi or cellular networks, it's likely many SolarKindle-equipped e-readers may never be plugged in at all, the newspaper said.

The leather-clad pouch with charger panel and battery comes at quite a premium, though - it's $80, only $30 short of the price of Kindle itself.

Mercury Launched mTab Neo 2

Mercury launched its fourth generation tablet mTab Neo 2 in India at an affordable price of 14,999.

The mTab Neo 2, the fourth generation tablet from the company is powered by 1.2 GHz Cortex A8 dual core processor, 512MB RAM and runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. The company says the tablet will be upgraded to Android 4.0 in coming months.

The tablet sports a 7 inch multi-touch capacitive screen, has 8 GB internal storage- expandable up to 32 GB using microSD card and dual camera. As it predecessor the tablet also comes with SIM functionality for voice calls and text messaging. For connectivity it has 3G, Wi-Fi, HDMI, Bluetooth and GPS.

Mercury’s previous tablets couldn’t make a big hit in the market, but the mTab Neo 2 is expected to be a huge hit, because of its dual core processor and by being an Android tablet under 15,000.

Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus Launched

Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus, the sequel of company’s mid-ranged smartphone Galaxy Ace has got launched in the Indian market with a price tag of  18,150. Galaxy Ace Plus is engineered with 1GHz processor and runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread along with Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface.

The device also features a 3.65-inch display, a 5MP rear camera, 3GB of internal memory, 512MB RAM, 32GB expandable memory via microSD card, 3.5mm headset jack, FM Radio with RDS and 1300 mAh battery. For connectivity it has Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v 3.0, USB 2.0 and aGPS. The smartphone is also clocked with a Bluetooth headset (BHM1000) worth 1,299.

Samsung has unveiled Galaxy Ace Plus in the month of January this year. Russia was the first once to get this new breed in the company’s most popular Galaxy range followed by other world markets and now with the launch in the Indian market Samsung is trying to expand their market share and popularity.

World's Top 5 Female Hackers

 Hackers are a very diverse bunch, a group simultaneously blamed with causing billions of dollars in damages as well as credited for their significant contributions to the internet world. We have always heard of male hackers and the fact is that majority of hacking experts are predominantly men. But what about female hackers? Who would have thought that women could as well enter into this field and master the skill of hacking? When the term “Hacker” was invented in the 60s at MIT, it was definitely an honourable title. Hackers were known for their resourcefulness and their persistence in solving software-related problems. But today the mindset of common people has totally changed when they come across the word Hacking.

Hacking has traditionally been a man’s world, but women are quietly breaking into the hacker subculture. Take a look at top 5 female hackers in the world

Kristina Vladimirovna Svechinskaya

Kristina Svechinskaya, a New York University student is one of the most common names in the hacker’s world. She is Russian money mule maker who was arrested on November 2010 and accused of breaking into millions of dollars from several banks in Britain and America and for usage of multiple fake passports. Svechinskaya was dubbed "the world's sexiest computer hacker" for her raunchy, but casual appearance.

Svechinskaya used Zeus trojan horse to attack thousands of bank accounts along with nine others and opened at least five accounts in Bank of America and Wachovia to disburse the theft money. For all her hacking activities and for using the passports fraudulently it is said that she may have to pay huge penalty of 40 years of imprisonment. It is estimated that with nine other people Svechinskaya had skimmed $3 million in total.

Joanna Rutkowska

Joanna is a polish security specialist, she is popularly known for her research on low-level security and stealth malware and for her contributions to Windows vista. She became a known personality and rose to fame after the Black Hat Briefings conference in Las Vegas in August 2006 where Rutkowska demonstrated to the world two ways to hack Windows Vista Beta 2 kernel protection mechanism and also a technique dubbed Blue Pill, that used hardware virtualization to move a running OS into a virtual machine.

She is named ‘Five Hackers who Put a Mark on 2006’ by eWeek Magazine for her research on the topic. Rutkowska also gave an open advice to Vice President of Microsoft's Security Technology Unit to further tighten security on Windows Vista system. She is an elite hacker who an entrepruener who launced her own security services startup Invisible Things Lab in Warsaw, Poland.

Ying Cracker

Ying is one of the most beautiful hacker and an educator from Shanghai, China. She teaches people the basics of how to start hacking; things like changing your IP address or wiping Office passwords.

How did she climb the popularity ladder? It was in an online forum "Chinese Hottie Hackers" posting that got Cracker noticed by gawkers on the internet and created a huge fan base for her. One cannot deny the fact that her work is impressive as well. She's an expert in hacker software writing and charges good money for courses on simple hacking tools, she also charges for helping other people crack software.

Raven Alder

Raven graduated from high school at the age of 14 and college at 18. She was the first woman to give a presentation at the DefCon hacker’s conference. Adler an half ISP engineer, half security geek, is a contributing author to several technical books, magazines and a frequent speaker at conferences She designs, tests and audits intrusion detection systems for large federal agencies. She has worked as a Senior Backbone Architect and Senior Security Consultant in IT security. Her interest in securing networks end-to-end has led her to examine and pioneer standards in the security of network infrastructure.

Xiao Tian

Xiao Tian, just out of her teenage became famous after forming China Girl Security Team, a group of hackers especially for woman which is China's largest today, the group has over 2,200 members. Tian created the now-infamous hacking team because she felt that there was no other outlet for teenage girls like herself in the male-dominated world of hacking. Its time to Move over male Asian nerdy computer geeks, female Asian nerdy computer geeks are here to stay.

HTC One X to Arrive in India

HTC’s flagship smartphone-HTC One X, will be launched in India by April. The company announced its availability in India by updating its status in its official Facebook page. One X was debuted last month in Mobile World Congress 2012 at Barcelona and will hit the Indian market with high hopes.

The smartphone has a 4.7 inch HD display with 1280x720 pixels of resolution, is powered by 1.5 GHz Nvidia quad core processor and runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system with HTC’s Sense 4.0 user interface.

It also features 8 MP camera with LED flash, capable of recording 1080 pixels HD video recording, 32 GB of expandable memory, 1 GB of RAM and for connectivity it has HDMI ports, NFC capabilities, Bluetooth and 3G. It also has built in Beats Audio and a powerful 1800 mAh battery.

The unique feature of this phone is; it can capture continues photos with just a touch and is capable of taking four photos per second. It is expected to be price around 30,000.

Extract Gold from you Discarded Mobiles

Beijing: Believe it or not, 1,500 kg of gold, one million kg of copper and 30,000 kg of silver can be extracted from the 100 million discarded mobile phones in China.

People's Daily reported on Thursday that about 400 million mobile phones were discarded each year, China accounting for nearly 100 million.

According to the daily, a mobile phone has various precious materials including 0.01 percent of gold, 20-25 percent of copper and 40-50 percent of recycling plastic.

A study shows that 150 grams of gold, 100 kg of copper and 3 kg of silver can be extracted from one tonne of discarded mobile phones.

Under current situation, 100 million discarded cell phones in China weigh 10,000 tonnes.

And this would fetch a bonanza of 1,500 kg of gold, the daily said.

Half of US Homes Own Apple Products

Half of all US households own at least one Apple product, a survey has showed.According to CNBC's All-America Economic survey, the Apple-buying household on average has a total of three Apple products.

Overall, the average household has 1.6 Apple devices with almost one quarter planning to buy at least one more in the next year, Xinhua reported.The survey, collecting answers from 836 Americans, found that Apple buyers tend to be male, college-educated and younger.

Ownership is strongly related with household income. Only 28 percent of those making less than $30,000 a year own at least one Apple product, compared with 77 percent of those making more than $75,000.

Households on the higher end of the income own an average of about three Apple devices, while the average number of Apple products for lower-income homes is only 0.6.

Meanwhile, the age gap in purchasing Apple products is not as wide as people usually think.Some 63 percent of people between 18 and 49 said that they own an Apple product and 50 percent of people between 50 and 64 owned one. Among those at the age of 65 or older, Apple owners still reach 26 percent.

Families with children are also more likely to own an Apple device. Around 61 percent of households with children own Apple devices, compared with 48 percent of homes without kids.

"It's a fantastic business model -- the more of our products you own, the more likely you are to buy more," said Jay Campbell, a vice president of Hart Research Associates, which conducts the CNBC survey.

"Planned obsolescence has always been a part of the technology industries sales model, but Apple has taken it to a whole new level," Campbell added.