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Monday, July 29, 2019

Contact Lenses Can Help You Zooming In By Blinking

 
Contact Lenses Illustration

Technology never fails to amaze us: it leaves us in awe in every moment pass by. We are now into that stage of the future where the human eye can zoom in by just blinking with the help of a tiny contact lens. Yes,  you heard it right. Few Scientists from the University of California San Diego claimed to discover this fantastic technology. 

The bio-metric lenses will be driven by signals generated by the movements of the eyeballs. In simple words, the eyeballs' movements (left, right, up, down) have been studied and converted into some meaningful signals, called electrooculographic signals. Those meaning signals charge will be fed to the bio-metric lenses, which will respond to those. The polymer-made lenses will expand or contract depending upon the electric impulses fed to them, and when they become more convex, they resulted in zooming in. It is reported that blinking twice of the eye will make the lenses zoomed in.
Contact Lenses Illustration 2

The more advancement of this technology can be used in "visual prostheses, adjustable focal length glasses or maybe in remotely operated robotics in the future," as quoted by a researcher of the said University. Lead researcher Shengqiang Cai further added, “Even if your eye cannot see anything, many people can still move their eyeball and generate this electrooculographic signal.”
For the time being, five electrodes are connected to the lens that will act as muscles. Scientists hope this technology shortly can be used to control mobile cameras remotely. 
Let us hope for the best and greatest. 
Size of Contact Lense
The size comparison of the lens

The photos are for illustration purposes only.

All About Reon Pocket: Wearable Mini AC

An AC that accompanies you wherever you go. Sounds mind-boggling, right? However crazy the idea might seem to be, it is now made possible by Sony, who have come up with an innovative portable AC that can be worn with your clothes. The portable AC, called Reon Pocket, is smaller and lighter than a mobile phone. Sony says it has used the Peltier effect for this AC- a mechanism used in car and wine coolers. This device can be worn on the back or neck with dedicated inner-wears available in S, M, and L.

Reon Pocket


It releases cool air through a small rear panel. The device is equipped with a lithium-ion battery which can last for 90 minutes with two hours of charging. The temperature can be controlled by a smartphone which will be connected to the device via BlueTooth. Reon Pocket supports Bluetooth 5.0. This portable AC will cost about Rs 9000, which includes the price of inner-wears also. Currently, it is available only in Japan. Moreover, the dedicated inner wears are available for men only.
This mini AC might solve the discomfort caused when stepping out in the scorching heat of summer.

image source: designboom.com

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

How To Download WhatsApp Status for Free(Photos, Videos, GIFs) | 2021

Please consider taking permission from the corresponding contacts before saving the photos, videos, GIFs from the statuses.

Photo : WhatsApp illustration

Have you ever liked a video or GIF in somebody's WhatsApp status and wanted to share those with your friends? But then you have to ask that contact to send the Video or GIFs you liked. Those days are over. Now we will share a trick that will show you how to download or save any videos, GIFs, or photos from your contacts' statuses.

What all you have to do is to download a File Manager. You may download any kind of File Manager application. But here we are going to demonstrate it with Google File Manager. You can download it from the Google Play store. The application comes with the name "Files by Google: Clean up space in your phone" by Google LLC. 

For the Google Pixel smartphone, the application comes by default.

Steps:
  1. Open Google Files >> click on the hamburger icon(three small lines) present on the top-left >> then hit Settings.
  2. For Pixel smartphone, open the Files app >> hit the three-dots icon on the top-right >> click on Settings.
  3. On the next screen, toggle and enable Show hidden files. For Pixel users, do enable Show internal storage.
  4. Now close the App and relaunch it. The Files app's main page scroll down slightly, find the Internal Storage option and hit it.
  5. You will get to see so many folders. Go to WhatsApp folder >> Media >> ‘.Statuses'.
  6. You can now see a thumbnail of all the videos, photos, or GIFs present on your WhatsApp statuses.
  7. To save any photo or a video or GIF, long-press on it(Multiple media can be selected by tapping each of them).
  8. Copy option will be popped up. Or else click three dots appearing on the top right corner and select Copy to.
  9. Now you can paste the media file anywhere you want to inside the phone's internal storage.
For reference, see here step by step.



Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Create a Bootable USB for Windows 10 in a Minute

A bootable USB is required when you want to install an operating system. It is basically the installer file of the operating system mounted on a USB drive, which launches when the system is booted. Many of us must have faced the problem of not having a bootable operating system CD/USB when we need one. But don't worry, now you can create one yourself. Just follow the instructions given below.

Note: You must have the ISO file of the operating system.

Step 1:

You need to download an application called "Universal USB Installer." Here's the link. Just download the application. You don't need to install it.

Step 2: 

You need an empty USB drive. To make a USB drive empty, format the drive. It will clear all its contents. Format with FAT32 or NTFS file system. It will not work on other file systems. If you are not sure how to Format with FAT32 or NTFS, please go through this article, Which USB File System to Select: NTFS, FAT, FAT32, and exFAT | 2021.

Step 3:

Insert the empty USB drive and launch Universal USB Installer application. Agree to the license agreement. The following window appears.

Universal USB installer


Step 4:

Open the drop-down menu and select the distribution you want to install.

Dropdown Menu for Universal USB installer

Step 5:

Click on browse and select the ISO file of the operating system.

Step 6:

Select the USB drive on which you want to mount the ISO file to create bootable USB. Click on “Create.” You will get the following prompt. 

Warning Prompt

Click on “Yes.” The process of creating a bootable USB will start. Once the process ends, click on “Finish.” Voila! Your bootable USB is ready to use.

Friday, July 19, 2019

Easiest way to Download YouTube Videos | 2021

YouTube Video Download

Okay. Now, if you are fed up with searching for applications or software to download YouTube videos and could not find anything best, you have come to the right place. Today we will show you the easiest way to download all the videos (or audio) available on YouTube.com. Yes, from this video streaming website, you can download most of the videos available there. Without much beating around the bush, let us straightly come to the point.
  1. Open YouTube.com to any browser (Preferably Chrome or Firefox for a better experience).
  2. Play any video content you want to Download.
  3. Let’s say you opened this Tom and Jerry video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC7kXsnYCWk.
  4. Once the video started playing, go to the URL bar and add ‘ss’(Without inverted commas) just before the word ‘youtube.com’                                                                       Example: https://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=IC7kXsnYCWk.
  5. Hit Enter and the page will be redirected to another website named en.savefrom.net (A very safe website to visit).
  6. Wait for a few seconds, and the page will show you the different formats and sizes available to be downloaded.
savefrom.net
Tips: You can directly open en.savefrom.net and paste(in the Just insert a link box) any YouTube link you want to download.

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