Smart alarms are designed not just to wake you up but also ensure that you don’t repeatedly hit the snooze button; you get out of bed and begin your day. Microsoft has come up with a smart alarm app called the Mimicker Alarm for lazy ‘snoozers’ like me who just hit snooze, sleep in and rush the process of getting ready and leaving to work! (Of course it does NOT happen to me every day! Er..) Traditional alarms usually give you a snooze or exit alarm option that is pretty easy to just switch off and roll back to sleep.…
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The Doki watch is the world’s first smartwatch for kids and is all set to revolutionize the smartwatch market. When I came across the Doki watch and it read smartwatch for kids, I figured it would be some fancy smartwatch with colourful displays and funky designs; I hardly expected it to be so useful to their parents. I was proved wrong when I dug deeper and did some research on it. This smartwatch for kids is AWESOME! The Doki watch is a dream come true for parents who are worried about their children’s whereabouts, so in short, for all parents.…
The iPhone 5SE is a smaller, 4-inch iPhone that is rumoured to launch in March, 2016. It’s an upgrade to the iPhone 5s and is touted to come in Apple’s newest rose gold colour and even has live photos but not the 3D touch feature. 3D touch still remains exclusive to the iPhone 6S users. The iPhone 5SE (the SE stands for special edition) has almost all the features of the 6S like the A8 chip, 8 MP rear camera, NFC to support Apple Pay, the ability to click live photos, and a barometric sensor. Though it is an upgrade to the 5S, it is…
Fitness is the ‘in’ thing right now; everyone wants to be fit and healthy. Fitness is a welcome trend for this ‘smartphone’ generation. There’s a teeny tiny problem however. Not all of us feel like getting up and going to the same gym and doing the same old workout over and over again (unless you have a personal trainer). And not all of us can afford a personal trainer! Variety is the spice of life and we would like that variety incorporated in our fitness regime as well. Some days we feel like doing a bit of Yoga and some…
Kiba is a smart camera that records the moments in your life and edits key moments from it and lets you view and save it. Have you ever had a moment in life that you wish was recorded as it was happening so that you don’t have to recreate it again? Moments like a surprise gift from your parents, a proposal from your loved one, your baby’s first steps, and many more are events that need to be recorded in the moment than rewinding and enacting the same thing again. Presenting to you, Kiba, your very own smart camera that…
Social network blackouts are most unwelcome at a time when Twitter and Facebook have basically become as important as breathing in our day to day lives. Social network blackouts seem to be a real thing nowadays. When Twitter experienced a major outage recently, people turned to Facebook to complain. Technology is very unstable. Imagine a situation where Twitter is blacked out and Facebook servers crash due to the avalanche of complaints about Twitter and Tumblr, shuts itself down for a while to prevent traffic from crashing its servers. Imagine a cave-man like existence where there is complete connectivity but nothing to…
Breast cancer claims the lives of approximately 410,000 women every year but it is highly curable if caught early. Pink Caravan, a pan UAE Breast cancer awareness initiative by Friends of cancer patients, was set up to raise awareness about the importance of early diagnosis and to encourage men and women to perform regular check-ups. If detected early, 98% of women can be completely treated and cured and figures show that 80% of female cases of breast cancer are detected through self-examination. Therefore it is essential for every woman to get herself checked every year to avoid succumbing to this…
Li-Fi could take over Wi-Fi and change our lives forever. Li-Fi is similar to Wi-Fi except that it uses light waves to transmit data rather than radio technology. The reasoning behind this technology is quite simple. The radio spectrum is not as vast as the light spectrum and has every chance of being overloaded in the future. With the light spectrum, the possibilities are endless and the spectrum is larger than the radio spectrum can even hope to be. So why is Li-Fi better than Wi-Fi? The capacity of the light spectrum is nearly 10,000 times greater than the available…
Whatsapp has completely taken over our lives and made it much easier to stay connected! Whatsapp, the world’s most favourite messaging service, has removed its annual subscription fee with the promise that it won’t have ads in its app as well. Earlier, when you register for Whatsapp, you get a message saying that it’s free for a whole year and after that you have to pay a small amount every year (it’s actually nothing for an app that we use and love so much!). Now, never having completed the one year mark with Whatsapp because I keep changing phones, I’ve…
Electric cars have been in the pipeline for quite some time now and after major research and development, Chevrolet has proudly announced Chevy Bolt, the first electric car for the masses. So what’s so special about the Bolt electric car? First of all the sleek design takes us by surprise because an electric car that looks stylish was something that we hadn’t dared imagine in the first few models at least but looks like Chevy’s design is here to stay. While design is important, it is the performance that actually makes a car what it is. According to Chevrolet’s website,…