Monthly Archives: August 2015

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You Can Now Take Selfies With Honor In A Flash!

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Smartphones have definitely brought about change in the way we interact with each other and the environment. We should also acknowledge that many companies are now raking in on our love for these little devices destined to take over and control our day to day activities.

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One big use of smartphones is taking pictures! it is estimated billions of pictures are taken a day all around the world, helping us to document our world as we know it. Hence,  smartphones are vying to be the best in recording our lives.

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Most smartphone users will agree selfies have always been dull because of the low end camera on the face of these phones used to record or take our self-taken pictures. Many phones have tried to up the front facing camera to increase the quality of these pictures but this is not easy as they need to strike a balance between price and functionality to sell more!

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Meet the Honor 7i by Huawei. Huawei, a communication giant has finally got the balance right. With the swivel camera, your selfies can finally come to light with flash and a high quality camera to impress even you yourself and your social media site profile readers. This innovation definitely gets a thumbs up from us at the Computer Potato

 

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Student Invents GPS Rape Alarm

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In these days of Tech! Everyone is busy inventing devices to make themselves richer under the guise of helping us do more every day! Now and again however, there comes a an idea born from a genuine need to help the people next door.

A student Rebecca Pick was so concerned when a woman in her apartment block was attacked that she brainstormed to come up with an ingeniuos idea.

The tiny GPS Rape Alarm  called the Personal Guardian uses your phone to send a distressed signal with the exact location to the Police when activated.

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The website claims “The Personal Guardian can be worn discreetly on a bra strap and concealed under clothes, on a trouser belt loop or clipped to a workers lanyard. When activated, the alarm will send the Police to the exact location of the incident. It will also send a text to pre-determined phone contacts (friends and family) alerting them and also providing the location. Simultaneously, when the alarm is activated, an internal microphone and the microphone on the user’s smart phone will record. This will record all dialogue which can then be used in court to get a conviction.

This alarm can not only stop an attack but also gather evidence to get a conviction”

We still have to wait a while before this becomes a commercial reality. However, we at The Computer Potato think this is another great invention and hope to see more of ideas that will actually make the world safer!