Free iOnRoad Augmented Driving Application For Android Promises A Third-Eye On The Road

Augmented Reality is no longer a science fiction or lab-technology, thanks to augmented reality applications like Atol les opticiens, Kinect Magic Mirror or AR Business Cards the technology is increasingly making it's way to the mainstream usage into our daily lives.  To get the ball rolling forward, an uber-cool augmented reality application for Google Android is now available for free to users (free during limited period beta) - named "iOnRoad Augmented Driving". The winner of 2011 Mobile Summit App contest allows users to make use of their device camera, processing the captured data via an real-time image recognition algorithms to auto recognizes the vehicle in front, measuring the time-gap and warn the user in-case a danger is detected....

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Intel Haswell CPUs Could Pack Multiple GPU Cores

In 2013 Intel will introduce a new processor architecture known under the code-name of Haswell and a recent report has come to suggest that chips built using this new technology could include more than one graphics cores.  According to an unnamed source cited by VR-Zone, Intel believes that such an approach would enable it to create more flexible processors that could cater to the needs of both the mobile and the desktop market. Details about how these GPUs will be interconnected with eachother and about the specific configurations used are scarce at this time, but the Website suggests Intel's processors could pair 4 CPU cores with 2 GPU cores or even dual computing cores with three graphics cores to form a chip. Intel's Haswell processors...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab Might Get Banned in the US Too

Samsung has definitely not been going through the best of times lately, at least as far as its tablet business goes, as Apple might just get the Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in the US too.  The scuffle between Apple and Samsung has spread more or less around the whole world, as the two have been suing each other in multiple countries.  Apparently, Apple has been doing better in court, winning injunctions in Germany and Australia, while Samsung failed in its own court actions.  Though Samsung pleaded with a Dutch court to ban some of Apple's own devices, the request was ultimately denied.  Meanwhile, the Galaxy tab 10.1 tablet got truly banned in Australia and things aren't looking too much better in Europe either.  Additionally,...

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PIN Entry Devices Modified to Copy Card Information

A sophisticated cybercrime was recently uncovered by UK law enforcement officials in which a German electronics engineer was arrested for helping out an organized crime network in the process of cloning cards. The Metropolitan Police informs that Thomas Beeckmann, aged 26, was involved in an intricate operation in which PIN Entry Devices (PEDs) were altered seamlessly to record and transmit data from the cards that passed through them. After the machines were stolen from shops all around Europe, they were brought to the UK where Beeckmann could rig them up to become data stealing devices. He would place a circuit board inside them which contained a small memory that would store info.  What's even more interesting is that after the PEDs...

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NVIDIA Launches New 3D Vision Products, 3D LightBoost technology

NVIDIA decided it was a good time to move its 3D platform forward, so it revealed both new hardware and software for people who want 3D Vision.  NVIDIA's 3D Vision platform is a package made up of software and glasses for when users want to see a movie or play a game in 3D.  As it happens, the Santa Clara, California-based company decided it was time for a revamp of 3D Vision altogether.  As such, it prepared a new pair of 3D glasses and invented the NVIDIA 3D LightBoost technology, which improves brightness and sharpens colors in the 3D mode.  "Gorgeous, bright, crystal-clear 3D worlds are created by NVIDIA's 3D Vision 2 glasses with 3D LightBoost monitors and notebooks," said Phil Eisler, general manager of 3D Vision at...

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Nokia 710 Specifications Leak

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is gearing up for the release of new handsets in the near future, and one of them has just emerged on the company's website as the Nokia 710.  Some specifications for this device are also available, although not all of them are as consistent as one might have wanted them to be, MyNokiaBlog notes. For example, the new device was listed at Nokia with the Maemo OS on board, which is quite strange, since the platform was dumped not too long ago, when Nokia announced the alliance with Intel aimed at the release of MeeGo.  Even so, the rest of the phone's specs show that it is a pretty appealing device, and also put it in line with some of the currently available Windows Phone devices out there.  Nokia...

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28nm AMD GPUs Arrive on December 6 and 9

AMD is making the news for something somewhat less unfortunate now, as rumors appear about the likelihood that some new graphics processing units will show up before this year's end.  Recent rumors involving Advanced Micro Devices say that December 6 or December 9 is when a new GPUs is expected to show up.  This will belong to the first-generation of 28nm series and, if this report proves valid, will precede NVIDIA's own 28nm products.  Since the latter's GK107 will appear in the first quarter of 2012, AMD will have the holiday shopping season as an advantage.  Unfortunately, there is a high chance of the AMD unit to be in short supply, so sales might not skyrocket as much as one would like.  Little is known about the...

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BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 Unveiled

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is getting ready for the release of new devices running under the BlackBerry 7 OS, and the company has just unveiled some info on them, even if it did not make an official announcement on these smartphones.  We're referring here to the BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 smartphone that should become official soon, and which have just got simulators available for developers to test their applications on.  Boasting a 480 x 360 pixels resolution, the handset will arrive on shelves with touch support, as well as with the popular QWERTY keyboard that other Bold handsets include.  As for the Curve 9380 smartphone, is should land on shelves with a 3.2-inch touchscreen display that boasts...

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