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Real Life Iron Man?

We might be seeing an Iron Man in real life soon? Well not quite. Many companies are working on suits that will make the human body stronger and capable of doing what it won’t normally be strong enough to do! DARPA’s exoskelton program said that units enabling soldiers to “run faster, leap further and carry more will be delivered for Army testing in 2008 coincidentally the year the first Iron Man movie was released. That was 6 years ago!

 

Things have gone far beyond that now, with many exoskeleton systems being tested to enhance humans to do more.  Companies like Daewoo, eksobionics  and university researchers have been testing and trying out the feasibility of these devices

 

Conclusion; This doesn’t mean we will all be in iron suits and flying to work soon. One thing I am glad for is that physically challenged people can do more with the help of these artificial skeletal structures and depend less on helpers.

A worker wearing an exoskeleton suit at the Daewoo plant in South Korea Photo: Daewoo

Reading On The Screen Without Your Glasses Is Slowly Becoming Reality!!!

Do you need glasses to read? Do you use tablets and phones? Is it annoying that you have to pick up your glasses each time to read your text messages or read your favourite book on your tablet? If you answered yes to the three questions, then soon you will not need to reach for your glasses to read your mobile devices. No, I am not going to heal your sight with these texts you are reading, neither will you need to go for laser surgery for this!

Your mobile devices will adjust to your eyes! Yeah, you read that correctly! Your tablet or phone will adjust to your eyes in the nearest future so that you would not need your glasses.

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Some UC Berkeley researchers teamed up with other researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to develop their latest prototype of a vision-correcting display. Like always the Computer Potatoe is here to simply how it works for you!

How it works; it uses light and some other technologies to present the images on the screen to the reader following their glasses prescription.

 

A prototype has been built and will be presented to the world soon. This doesn’t mean it will be available on all devices in months. We can only be assured that this will be very useful to many people and it will get into the markets as soon as possible.

For: It will help any visually impaired reader to use their devices without glasses or squinting.

 Against: This will mean that two people can share at the same time with the prescription on because to one person, it will look sharp but to the other it will look distorted.

Robot Transformers Are Becoming Reality!

If you thought the movie Transformers was mere science fiction, you might have been correct last year. It has turned out team of researchers from Harvard and MIT have developed a new kind of robot – one that is capable of folding and unfolding itself, much like origami.

 

“Getting a robot to assemble itself autonomously and actually perform a function has been a milestone we’ve been chasing for many years,” researcher Robert J. Wood said in a press release

 

 

Even though they don’t look like much, this is actually a great achievement and first of its kind.

 

What is the use for this? Well, first thing to come to mind is that they will make great toys. But in a world where space is becoming less and less, we can build machines that can fold up to smaller bits and tuck themselves away when not in use. For me, I still think it is cool to see a real life Transformer. Autobots!

The Rumoured Samsung S5 Prime

You must have heard of the Samsung S5 as it recently was launched a few months ago and have already sold many millions. Someone around you must have a Samsung phone I am sure. With this new S5, Samsung promises even more features and a phone to love. Not long after, Samsung are now wanting to give you another phone that will top the all new Samsung S5. It is nicknamed the Samsung S5 Prime and will be available in South Korea, the homeland of Samsung. According to Samsung, the phone will have a better screen and a faster processor.

 

The rumours out about the Samsung S5 Prime are as follows

So what is this Prime about? A premium version of the Galaxy S5

When does the rumour mill say it will be out? Sometime in 2014, perhaps this month or next

Thanks to @evleaks

What is the cost damage? At lot – more than the current S5

The main selling point of this phone is you will be getting a QHD (Quad High Definition) so you can watch your videos even in richer quality.

It is said to be coming with a metal body as opposed to the Samsung S5

It will spot a 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 805 chip unlike the 801 in the S5 so you can run your apps faster

The S5 prime is also tipped to come with 3GB of RAM and 1GB more than the S5 again so your apps can run faster and seamlessly

The last of the rumours which can only be logical is that it will be running the newest available Android 4.4.3 system nicknamed KitKat that promises more features for your phone.