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

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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.

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Hybrid Is Everywhere And Now Making An Appearance In Computing!!

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In 2014 you must come across the hybrid a lot. As the world is looking for more innovative ways to make our lives easier and cheaper, people are combining ideas to make sure this vision is achieved. Anything hybrid is a combination of two unique things to make them one. Nowadays you have hybrid Cars, hybrid bikes even hybrid animals like the cute Liger, isn’t it adorable?

 

Well we are not here to talk about Ligers, even though they are everybody I know favourite hybrid. We are here to talk about hybrid Laptops. These are laptops that can be used as many things, mostly as tablets and laptops. Some even go as far to be used as a phone. (The Asus Transformer Book V is an upcoming hybrid computer that can be used in 5 different modes, including as a phone.) Check out the picture below.

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Asus Transformer Book V

 

Let us not go crazy yet and just talk about the common hybrid computers that can be used as a laptop or detached or folded to double up as a tablet and you can control it with your fingers alone.

 

The upcoming Surface pro 3
The upcoming Surface pro 3

 

What is the use for this? Well first of all, instead of buying a laptop and a tablet. You have a device that can be both, with just a few hundreds more than a laptop. They are generally smaller too, so you can carry them around with you like any tablet. This means you will have a device that can do your heavy work Adobe, Excel, or Google Docs efficiently or just browse the internet and install apps as a tablet. Switching from laptop to tablet is different in each device and can be achieved easily by unique buttons. In the Sony Flip series, you press a button and flip the keyboard under the screen and then you have a tablet

 

The Sony Flip Series

 

In the Asus transformer series you press a button and the screen detaches so you can use it as a laptop. Asus also has a version where when you press a button or detach the screen from the keyboard and it becomes an Android tablet/laptop depending on the mode you are using.

 

The Asus Transformer Book Trio
The Asus Transformer Book Trio

All these sound great but you can only use the full features if you need the of both devices (tablet and laptop) or you want to brag to your peers you have got the latest tech! If not you are better off buying either a laptop or a tablet as they are cheaper. But as a professional, they can be useful as a work and play device. When working you can have it in laptop mode, and when it is time to relax on that plane journey, you can put it in the tablet mode and watch your videos or play your games.