Verizon's New Completely Insane Droid

Verizon's latest Droid smartphone is totally nuts. It's innovative in an extreme way:

• Gigantic battery: It has the biggest battery ever put into a smartphone, and with more than twice the size of the iPhone 6 battery, it gets 48 hours of battery life (though, charge longevity depends on how much you tax it). Also, it comes with a rapid charger that gives you 8 hours of battery life after just 15 minutes of charging.
• Insane screen: The Droid Turbo has a 5.1-inch screen with 565 pixels per hinch, which is 31% more than the Galaxy S5 and 41% sharper than the iPhone 6 plus. Moreover, the screen is "QUAD HD", or 4 times the screen resolution of a typical HDTV.
• Huge storage capacity: The phone starts at 32 GB of storage for $199 (with a 2 year contract), and at 64 GB for $249.
• Lightning-fast processor: It's the fastest phone with the Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon processor, which has been built to dazzle when you're playing games and watching videos.
• Enormous camera: The Droid Turbo has one of the biggest smartphone cameras, which includes light sensors and software.

Everyone May Have a Personal Air Vehicle

We are going to have personal air vehicles that are both cars and planes. Here's what Missy Cummings, associate professor at Duke University and director of the Humans and Automation Laboratory at the MIT, think about our future. It's basically the intersection of a drone with a robotic car, so that your plane is also your car, but the big leap in technology is that you are actually DRIVING NEITHER.

We are terrible drivers, says Missy Cummings: humans have a half-second lag in almost any quick response that they need to have, while computers and automated systems have microseconds. There really aren't any technological hurdles to this idea, just psychological and cultural, in terms of giving up the car. But NO TECH NEEDS TO BE DEVELOPED to have your own personal flying car. What we have to do is improve production and reduce manufacturing costs. Hence, we need more robots.

We shouldn't worry about the machines rising up and taking over, says Cummings, but hackers and terrorists who want to do wrong. At the moment she's working on trying to develop technology that allows any flying robots to be able to fend off any attack and to navigate itself without any external signal.

It promises much in terms of safer travel, so when she looks at globalising this concept of personal air vehicles, it means we will see the quality of life improve dramatically for everyone around the world.

Google Glass Addiction

Doctors report first case of desorder

What our parents tell every time we use electronic devices for too long is true: It will drive you crazy!

A 31 year old man checked in to the U.S Navy's Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Program (SARP) this summer for treatment of alcoholism. He showed symptoms that doctors initially thought were solely related to alcohol, but they found out that even Goggle glass was a problem for him.

The patient had been wearing Glass for up to 18 hours a day, using it at work and taking it off when he went to sleep or bathed. Dr. Andrew Doan, head of addictions and resilience research at Naval Medical Center San Diego, told that the withdrawal symptoms from glass were much worse than withdrawing from alcohol: when the therapist asked him a question, he had this repeated movement of placing his index finger to the right sight of the face, similar to try to turn on the Glass, and he even began dreaming as he viewed through the eyeglass-like smart headset.

Internet addiction is not included in the latest version of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but Doan insists it's a real malady. Nowadays more and more technological gadgets are proliferating and he expects to see more cases of behavioral disorders connected to technology. One of them in the Nomophobia, or the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. 

Do you want to know if you have nomophobia? Check this site!

Is demoted planet Pluto making a come back?

Pluto was discovered by the astronomer Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, on Febrary 18, 1930, and it was the ninth planet in our solar system.Then, in 2006 the International Astronomical Union, the group that gets to name planetary bodies, came up with some rules for what is and is not a planet. As a result, Pluto is not considered anymore as a planet, because it's too small to knock other space rocks out of its path as it orbits the sun.

The group's definitions sparked lots od debate. On September 18th the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics jumped into a debate, where some experts discussed the definition of a planet. They voted that Pluto as "the smallest spherical lump of matter that formed around stars or stellar remnants" is a planet. Also, if you put Earth where Pluto is, it would be excluded according to IAU rules.

What we used to know about the number and variety of planets was very data limited before the 21st century. Now we know that there are lots of types of planets. At present, a spacecraft is directed to Pluto: the New Horizons. Within 7 weeks we'll have much more information about Pluto, and it will finally come into focus.

Hello Ello

Hello Ello (Peace out, Facebook!)

Nowadays, the world of social networks is getting more and more competitive. Even Facebook is risking with the coming of Ello, the new ad-free social network that's told the "Anti-Facebook".

In fact, while Facebook is suspending the accounts of several gays and transgender entertainers, Ello doesn't ask the name, gender or sexual orientation; you just must respect Ello's rules.

The social network, born a little more than a month ago, is accessible just by invite and during this week it's getting 40.000 requests and approvals an hour. It started one year ago as private where friends could share their artwork and communicate. Therefore, more and more people wanted to join and, the producers decided to make it public.

However, it's not easy to create an ad-free social network that can compete with the big Facebook, that earns 90% of the total profit with advertising. Instead, Ello's business model is like an app store: people can customize their experience on the platform buying special features, so that the producers will be able to monetize the social network.