5 Sci-Fi Technologies You Didn’t Know Already Exist Around You

Most of us think that science fiction (Sci-Fi) is only confined to movies, books, and people’s imagination. But within the course of time, we didn’t realize that some of the Sci-Fi technologies actually became reality.


Here are 5 Sci-Fi technologies that already exist in the real world.

Most of these things do not actually exist in the real world. Maybe because we are technologically backward to actually create such things.

Movie series Star Wars has depicted the existence of extraterrestrial life. We have also seen robots with human-like consciousness in Chappie. In the movie, an armor-plated attack robot starts understanding human emotions after his creator does some changes in his code. In reality, it might take years for our robots to understand us.

Sci-Fi technologies seem to be a thing of the future. We didn’t release that we’re living in the future and many of the Sci-Fi technologies actually exist around us:


1. Star Trek Communicator –> Mobile Phone




Early Sci-Fi flicks and tv shows of the often featured actors using some sort of devices to wirelessly talk to each other over long distances. For instance, the Communicator from Star Trek. We already use these communication devices and call them mobile phones. Yes, the future tech of the past has become a necessity for the common people now. And it is available as cellular phones. A popular name is a smartphone.

Interestingly, the Star Trek Communicator was actually more advanced that our modern smartphones. It didn’t rely on satellites to establish communication between the starships.


2. Fingerprint And Eye Scanners –> Biometrics



Remember those movies featuring secret locations of security agencies which could only be accessed using fingerprint recognitionor by scanning the face of a person. Now, do you feel anything special when your laptop scans your face to check whether you are the owner or not? It only allows you to access it if you’re worthy enough or you’re a hacker.

Other than fingers, there were eye scanners. Steven Spielberg’s Minority report showed Tom Cruise replacing his eyes to hide his real identity. He also kept his original eye so that he could get past the eye scanner system. But that’s not possible in the real world even if you manage to remove your eyes or fingers. This is because modern eye scanners can detect whether the eye is alive or dead.



3. Batmobile –> Autonomous Cars




There was a Batmobile in the 1960s Batman tv series. Batman used a remote control to call it to pick him up. We could think of it as a self-driving car. The 2002 Tom Cruise movie Minority Report also featured a self-driving car which was custom designed by Lexus. Though, in reality, the car was a computer-controlled vehicle which also had manual driving options. Now, we have the Google Self-driving cars and the Tesla Model S with the autopilot feature


4. Food Replicator –> 3D Printers



I can easily recall The Jetsons and their amazing tech devices. How their machines threw food at the press of a button. And now, we have 3D printers which can be used to make houses, bicycles, prosthetic limbs, etc. We can expect a food making 3D printer in the coming years.

Barcelona-based Natural Machines is working on a 3D printer that can throw delicious dishes at the push of a button. Known as Foodini, the 3D food printer is based on an open capsule model in which the user has to put ingredients inside the capsule and place it inside Foodini. It’ll figure out the rest.


5. Rosie – The Robot Maid –> Robots


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Another Jetsons tech was Rosie, the robot maid. Self-sufficient robots have been visualized in movies since the early 1900s. But no one would have thought that the robots would actually come to reality and will have human-like characteristics. Thanks to the development of AI that these robots can interact almost like normal humans. But it’s a long road for them to understand human emotions. Movies like Ex Machina are a significant depiction of the advancement in robotics and AI. We can’t say that the technology could overpower us or not.

Like its self-driving cars, Google also works on the development of humanoid robots. A Google subsidiary named Boston Dynamics has made a number of humanoid robots.

ATLAS is one of their robots which is very popular. Unveiled in 2013, the DARPA-funded 6ft robot is efficient in performing search and rescue tasks. ATLAS can also perform household chores.

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7 Ways to Improve Your Smartphone’s Battery Life

Smartphones have come a long way in terms of design, camera, or even processing power. However, we have not seen much breakthroughs when it comes to battery technology.






That said, here we have listed out some lesser known tricks that will help you get the most out of your smartphone battery:


1. Turn off vibration and haptic feedback

We like the mild viB.rations while typing on the smartphone keyboard. But they absorb a good amount of battery because we spend a lot of time on typing throughout the day.

Besides, if you don’t need to get notified by viB.ration, then turn the `haptic feedback’ off as it actually takes more battery power to viB.rate your phone than it does to ring it.


2. Go for Black coloured wallpapers

If your smartphone boasts an AMOLED display, then applying black coloured wallpapers will help you save battery life. This is because pixels that make the AMOLED displays only utilize battery power to illuminate light colours and don’t need any energy to show black colour. Simply put, the more dark or black pixels you have on your AMOLED display, the less power it consumes to illuminate them, thus saving the battery.


3. Don’t miss on Android updates

Updating apps might seem to be a cumbersome task, but it actually helps in improving the overall smartphone performance and battery life. This is because developers keep updating apps to improve on battery and memory optimisation. So make sure your smartphone has the latest version of apps installed.


4. Turn on airplane mode

This is not an everyday solution, but can help you cut battery usage. Turning on airplane mode will cut you from the outside world, but will allow your smart phone to last longer for multimedia apps such as videos, music player or games that don’t need any connectivity.

It can do wonders if you are travelling in a poor network zone where your smartphone antennas consume a lot of power to register on the available networks. Simply turn on the airplane mode if you don’t want to receive any calls, messages or use the internet.


5. Remove on-screen widgets

Android operating system is all about widgets that offer tons of information on your smartphone displays. It is a good thing to have everything on screen; however, it plays havoc on your smartphone battery. Delete the widgets that are placed to offer information not required throughout the day and still fetch data from internet such as weather apps etc.


6. Turn off auto-sync

Apps such as Gmail, Twitter, calendar, constantly refresh themselves to offer the latest information. This is required if you just cannot afford to miss important information, but also takes a toll on battery life.
Go to Settings > Google account and turn off auto-sync for apps you don’t need constantly updated.


7. Check GPS, Bluetooth, NFC

Also, don’t forget to check on Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi, NFC and mobile data if you are not using them. Switch off the Wi-Fi if you are connected on mobile data and vice versa. The NFC feature may get turned on if you restart your NFC-enabled handset, so keep a check on this too.

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6 Tips to Boost the Speed of Your Mobile Phone

 



Smartphones are no different from computers when it comes to maintenance and long-term performance. Just like a desktop computer, a smartphone especially Android and iOS phones also goes through a diminished performance after being used for a long time. Mobile operating systems also get clunky the longer you use them, just like a computer's. On that note, it also means mobile phones need regular software maintenance in order to get it working at its 100% all the time. Also, the storage space of a mobile phone is no different from a computer's, the files you store in it, the more effort it requires to index all of them and run the phone smoothly. The more files, the heavier your hard drive gets, the more weight your phone's hardware will be bearing, the slower it will get. With that being said, here are 5 tips on how to boost the speed of your mobile phone.


Software Updates
One of the reasons why smartphone makers provide updates for their phone every now and then is to ensure that their performance is optimized to the best that they could and fix bugs if there are any. Every release is expected to work best towards the phone's performance boost, of course. Aside from that, these updates are meant to fix all other issues that users experience with the phone according to their feedbacks. These issues are mostly about app performance (or non-performance - crashing) and the phone's speed. So, if ever your phone notifies you of a firmware or system update, make sure that you don't miss out on that no matter how big of a size it is. In fact, the bigger the update the better.


Clear Cache Data
Cache data can be considered as the leftover files from your previous browsing session, app usage, or residue of apps you've once installed. These files usually hide inside the system folders of the phone and are not easily detectable through the phone's native file scanning capability. In order to get to these sneaky junk files lingering within your phone is to install a performance optimizer or file cleaning app, the most common in the Android market is the Clean Master and Dr. Cleaner for iOS. Apps like these two will make a thorough system scan of your phone and will determine files and folders which are no longer in use and have been that way for a period of time already. Once done, it will give the users a run-down of these files and option to remove them entirely. On the average, releasing a month's worth of cached files will give your phone more or less 1GB worth of storage memory. Not only will it give you more room for your files, it will also make your phone' software lighter does boost its performance.


Deleting Unnecessary Apps
As mentioned earlier, the more storage space in your phone is consumed, the clunkier it will get. One of the ways to optimize storage space which will lead to a performance boost is to delete unnecessary apps especially bloat wares. Bloat wares are preinstalled apps that phone makers decided to throw into their phones in order to achieve the actual features that they want to emphasize on their phone. Some of these bloat wares are useful but most often than not they're useless. Also, many of these bloat wares cannot be uninstalled but there's still a good sum of them that can be removed from your phone.
On the other hand, uninstalling apps that you no longer use will also be beneficial in optimizing your phone's performance. They will free up more space and will allow the phone to have a much lighter storage system to process.


Force Close All Background Apps
Most of the time, smartphone users press the home button once they're done with an app. By doing so, the app is not entirely shut down, instead, they're just paused until they're launched again. These apps become background app and will continue to consume your phone's RAM until they are entirely shut.
In case you are not aware of what the RAM is for here's a what it is about in a nutshell: Random Access Memory better known as RAM is basically the virtual memory that accommodates the phone's real-time activities. The more RAM your phone has, the more files or applications it can accommodate at the same time. Compared to a storage space, the RAM is a temporary memory allocated to a device in order to process real-time activities. Once these activities are done, they also free up the RAM that they consumed. Think of this way: The RAM is a bowl and the apps are your cereal. The bigger your bowl (RAM) is the more cereal (Apps or files) you can pour into it without spilling. Once you've finished eating your cereal (or doing your activity), the bowl will be free again for more cereal.

With that being said, in order for you to fully end an app session here's how to do it:

iOS

· Double click the home button. It will zoom out from the home screen and showcase all the running apps side by side.

· Flick the app that you want to end upwards.


Android (KitKat, Lollipop, and Marshmallow)
· Press the multitasking (overview) button or long press the function key for phones with buttons like the Samsung Galaxy S series. It will open all the running apps in the phone which you can't see.
· Flick the apps sideways in order to force close them.
 

Clean Up You RAM
Apparently, cleaning up your RAM by closing your recent apps is not enough sometimes. The most efficient way of making sure that there are no more sneaky files or apps that are eating it up is by using a RAM cleaner app. These apps will not only make sure that your phone is no longer slowed down by background apps, but it also optimizes your battery. The fewer apps and files making your phone move a muscle, the lesser battery it will burn.

Apps such as Clean Master for Android and Dr. Cleaner for iOS comes with this feature. For Android phones, its widget really comes in handy, you can instantly free up your RAM with just a click of that widget.


Do Not Use Animated Wallpapers
Animated wallpapers look attractive, but they also eat up a lot of RAM. The Same principle applies to animated wallpapers as with the apps because they usually take as much RAM as an actual app. Unless you have a phone with high-caliber specs, animated wallpapers are a no-no if you want to optimize your phone's performance.

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How To Control Anything on Your PC with Your Android Phone

Too lazy to get near your own laptop/PC!

Control Anything on Your PC with Your Android Phone

Too lazy to get near your own laptop/PC! Well how about a remote control for your laptop or PC too. As your TV, Blu-Ray player, and DVR all come with remote controls, then why not a remote control for your PC. Fortunately, if you have an Android phone, you can control just about everything on your PC.

Getting Started: Download Unified Remote

The cornerstone of this guide is Unified Remote. The full version of the app (which is required for some of the functions we’ll go over) costs around just Rs 100, but for what it can pull off, the price should not be an issue here. At the moment, only Android is supported, though you can sign up for an iOS beta here. The server application only runs on Windows and will need to be installed on any PC you want to control.

To establish a connection, install the app on your phone, the server on your PC, and connect both to the same Wi-Fi network. The Android app can then scan your network for any active servers. Select the PC you want to control. That selection will stay as the default until you change it.

Control Apps with Pre-Made Remotes

Out of the box, both the free and the paid versions of Unified Remote offer a selection of pre-built custom remote controls. The basics are covered here like a virtual keyboard, mouse and system volume controls. However, a few others provide custom controls for certain apps and sites. Here are a few of the most common remotes and the functions they provide:

• YouTube – Play, pause, next and last playlist track, and volume.
• VLC – Play, pause, volume, next and last video, video scrubbing.
• Spotify – Play, pause, next and last track, and volume.
• Spotify Advanced (Paid) – Playlist control, search, volume, shuffle, and repeat.
• Hulu Desktop & Web (Paid) – Volume/pause for web, navigation controls for Hulu Desktop.
• Netflix (Paid) – Play, pause, back and forth scrubbing, fullscreen and volume.
• Pandora (Paid) – Play, pause, volume, thumbs up and down.
• XBMC (Paid) – Navigation control, play, pause, volume, media file navigation.

There are plenty others that offer some form of control for a variety of other apps including Boxee, Chrome, Firefox, iTunes, MediaMonkey, PowerPoint, and even Winamp (rest its soul). For most things you’ll need, these can already be a breath of fresh air—muting your HTPC over Wi-Fi feels like magic—but for the tinkerers, we can go deeper.

Create Custom Widgets

In addition to the stock remotes, you can create custom widgets with compilations of your most commonly used actions. To begin setting it up, open up the widget selection menu on your phone and drag one to the home screen. You can choose from one of the preset configurations, but any of them will allow you to add or remove rows and columns of B.uttons as you see fit.

Each B.utton is highly configurable. You can choose from a variety of colors or symbols and all of that is up to your personal preferences. However, the fun part is in choosing the action each B.utton will take. While creating a widget, tap the B.utton you want to configure, then select “Change Action.” On the next screen, there’s a drop down labeled “Select Target.” There are three categories of targets you can choose from:

• Remote: This is where you can choose any of the B.uttons associated with any of the premade remotes. You can create a widget that controls your system volume, pauses Netflix, skips tracks on Spotify, and thumbs up or down Pandora songs.
• Device: These functions run actions on the device you’re using, which will probably only be useful for advanced users.
• Server: If you have more than one PC connected to the network, you can use this action to assign a specific server to a B.utton.

Most of the action will happen under the Remote section. Every function that’s built into the regular remotes can be accessed here, which means you can use a single widget to create a super remote of all your most frequently used tasks.

So, let’s say we want to create a widget with system volume controls, pause and fullscreen B.uttons for Netflix, and thumbs-up/thumbs-down B.uttons for Pandora. To create this widget, follow these steps:

1. Create a 3×3 widget on an empty home screen.
2. In the layout section, long-press one B.utton in each of the two bottom rows. Your widget should now have one row with three B.uttons and two rows with two B.uttons.
3. Tap the first B.utton in the first row and select “Change Action.
   1. Choose “Remote” under “Select Target.”
   2. Choose “Media” under “Select Remote.”
   3. Choose “Volume Down” under “Select Action.”
   4. Tap “OK.”
4. Tap “Change icon” and “Change color” to give the B.utton a symbol and color of your choice.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each of the remaining B.uttons (from left-to-right), using the following Remote actions:
   1. Remote > Media > Volume Mute.
   2. Remote > Media > Volume Up
   3. Remote > Netflix > Play Pause
   4. Remote > Netflix > Fullscreen
   5. Remote > Pandora > Thumbs Up
   6. Remote > Pandora > Thumbs Down
6. Once you’ve finished configuring each B.utton, tap the checkmark in the action bar. (Optionally, you can deselect “Show ‘edit’ B.utton in widget layout if you don’t want to change the widget later and prefer to give yourself some more space.)

When you’re finished, the widget should look like the one above.

Pressing B.uttons isn’t everything. There are a number of features that are a bit beyond the scope of this article, but we can point you in the right direction.In most cases, Unified Remote has dedicated functions that can do most of what you need. However, for the bits in between, you can still use the Basic Input remote to use regular mouse and keyboard controls.

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Apps that Turn Smartphones to TV Remote Control

This is a list of smartphone apps that could deputize as a remote control used in controlling household appliances.

 

In the 1950s came the first remote controls for TV. They were initially connected to a cable, but soon became completely wireless.

 

Then came the VHS player, the DVD player, the DTT, the Blu-ray, among several others. The universal remotes saved us from needing a remote control for each device, but will it not be easier to control everything from a mobile phone? Of course. The best thing is that there are quite a few applications for this.

 

LG TV remote, VIERA remote and other TV manufacturers’ apps

 

Although the apps offered by TV manufacturers were not the first applications available, these are a safe option. Realising that mobile phones are today part of the very television experience for users everywhere, manufacturers decided to launch specific apps for their own TV sets.

 

LG, for example, has been offering since 2010 its LG TV remote for Android and iOS. LG has recently launched a new version that includes features allowing searches and interacting with Internet content through the Korean brand’s Smart TVs.

 

Sharing this same philosophy, Panasonic launched its remote, while Sony did the same with its media remote. Others, such as Samsung and HTC, have also their own applications but are increasingly committed to other systems included in their own phones with infrared, like WhatchOn in the Samsung Galaxy S4 or Sense TV in the HTC One.

 

The greatest benefits coming from these solutions provided by manufacturers are, in the first place, the inclusion of almost all the functions of original remotes and, second, that compatible models tend to work quite well, partly because of the reviews users post on the various app stores. The main drawback is that these solutions don’t work with all TV models and that these need to be connected to the Internet.

Roomie and Beacon, apps imitating universal remotes

 

Roomie may be one of the most comprehensive solutions on the market. It does not only allow you to remotely control from your tablet or smartphone your TV, your Blu-ray and media players such as Apple TV or DVR systems, but also allows you to play media content from sources such as iTunes and Netflix.

 

To control a device compatible with Roomie, you need to connect it to the local home network or use an infrared adapter. This way, it is possible to remotely manage other electronic devices without IP connectivity included, such as sound systems, CD players, lighting, etc.

 

An alternative very similar to Roomie is Beacon, even if its approach is different. This application uses a central device emitting infrared that can be controlled with your phone. If for instance you press ‘1’, the application informs immediately the device Beacon. This latter device is then responsible for translating the command into infrared for the television to understand it.

 

A long way ahead

 

Unfortunately, most of these applications have their limitations. Those that do not use adapters or additional devices are only available for specific models and require TV sets connected to the Internet since most of the current mobile devices do not have an infrared port (the one used by traditional remotes).

 

Another option for unsupported devices will be buying adapters, as in the case of Roomie, or other devices enabling us to translate IP traffic into infrared as does Beacon and other converters in the market. In these cases, the drawback is that you need to install additional hardware.

 

With the rise of tablets and smart TVs, it is not farfetched that in the near future we will see new proposals and developments in this field. For the time being, Samsung and HTC have included infrared in their handsets for this purpose.

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2 Ways On How To Download Any Instagram Videos In Less That 5 Minutes

 



Instagram has being a very lucrative and fanimorous media, whereby sharing of Video And Pictures Are Allowed.

Some folks has been busy inquiring from me on how to download videos there.

Here are the two methods or ways in which you can extract or download videos from Instagram.


METHOD 1

Go to http://www.downloadvideosfrom.com

Then paste the instagram video link to box and extract it.


METHOD 2:

Go to http://savedeo.com
Then follow the above step.


Thats all!


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