Monthly Archives: June 2016

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The Landline Has Got A New “Home”!

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Are you in love with your landline number? Or financially, it just makes sense for you to make and receive calls on your landline? Well, that is all reasonable, but you are never at home because you spend most of your time on the road or at work! You really need that landline and you can’t do without it!!! The landline is wired at home, that is why it is aptly called a fixed line. So how do you get those valuable landline calls when you are not in the house? Luckily, there is now a solution for you. Here comes voice bridge.

If you understand the video then you know what the nifty devices does, it diverts your landline calls to your mobile devices (tablet or phone) via the internet! Which means as long as you have internet on your phone and your WiFi at home is fine, you will be able to take the calls on your mobile device!

No more fixed line, your landline calls are now free to roam with you without wires! Handy!

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Solar Power Is Moving Up!

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Scientists have always researched into alternative ways to do away with “unclean” energy for cleaner ones. Clean energy or renewable energy, being energy derived from natural sources without destruction to the environment that comes with producing energy nowadays. Think the batteries in your smart devices that poison the earth if not disposed of carefully.

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The solar power panels have always been sought for an alternative way to harness energy. Why? The sun is abundant and will always be there, as long as there is life on earth. But the most efficiency we ever got from this form of power generation was 17%. This has changed now. Sol Voltaics, a Swedish start-up has seen a breakthrough that will help ensure change.

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They claim to have created a film that can boost solar power efficiency to 50%. This is good news for both us, the end users, and mother nature. One thing is certain, the more we look, the more we find. Soon, we might just have a renewable energy source that will make the “poisonous” batteries we have all around us now obsolete, amongst other things. We might never need to charge our mobile devices any longer, it will charge itself by fuelling on the sun. See video below!

We say well done to the researchers of this discovery and hope for an even better result on clean energy in the future!

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Watch YouTube Without Ads! – Updated

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We all know those times when you want to show your friends, or loved ones a video on youtube and then there is an advert. You would be very lucky to get those ads you can skip after 4 seconds, if you are less lucky, you get that 14 seconds video that you just have to wait for!

Well this could finally be a thing of the past without breaking the bank. One word; Adblock.

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Adblock is a portmanteau of the words advert and block, and it means what it looks like, it is a “software” that blocks ads. Some websites actually ask for a premium so that those annoying adverts will stop holding up your entertainment. However, recently many tech companies are researching into making an adblocker to stop them all. This has been slowly introduced into some web browsers and one of these is Opera.

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Without futher ado, Opera web browser has cracked it finally. No more adverts on most websites, and with time, we only think this process will be perfected. So go on here, download the new opera browser by choosing your device, install it, turn on adblock, and browse and watch with freedom and peace! At least until websites learn to counter these adblockers.

Update: Websites are fighting hard to make sure they can bypass adblockers. However, so are the adblockers themselves. You might notice it is a continuous battle between the two sides, but all in all, adblockers still work and get updated regularly to give you that stress free browsing, or entertainment!

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Pixium Helps The Blind To “See”

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Whichever way you look at it, technology has always helped us learn more about the environment, and in the long run, help us defeat some of our impediments, pushing us to some times live longer! Of such innovation came a company: Pixium.

Pixium – founded by José-Alain Sahel, a scientist and ophthalmologist- has created an artificial “retina”: IRIS II – to help the blind regain their sight

IRIS II mimics the mechanism our natural eyes use to make out shapes in black and white.

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According to the makers’ website “The above chart is an illustration of the rehabilitation process where patients progressively identify shapes. It is not indicative of final outcome.”

Also the video below is also an illustration of how the device would be implanted.

We at thecomputerpotato think extremely savant research such as this is a blessing to earth, and hope to see more people giving up their valuable time to make the world a better place!