February 22, 2010
Written by Gadget Gurus
iPad app for Crestron home automation system
Apple iPad has got a number applications ready before it actually lands on the shelves. One of them is the Crestron Home Automation application for the iPad, which allows you to use the iPad to remotely control various household appliances and gadgets including lights, temperatures, media and even open and shut the curtains.
The Crestron app turns your iPad into a full touch panel to control a range functions around your home. It works similarly to Crestron’s iPhone app. To have the iPad Crestron Home Automation App to do what were mentioned, you’ll need additional hardware. This additional hardware could be very costly.
iPhone 4G is rumored to include front-facing camera for video calls
Rumors claim that the iPhone 4G would hit the stores sometime in summer. Bit by bit of its features are also surfacing over the Internet and the latest we have here is the iPhone 4G likely to include a front-facing camera that makes it useful for video calls and shooting of your self-portrait shots.
The rumor was based on the newly revealed Apple patent application, entitled “Apparatus and Method for Compensating for Variations in Digital Cameras,”, which discusses the quality of the camera modules found in current iPhone or iPod models and with details on how to improve those cameras in future models.
A very interesting picture (below) that was taken from the patent shows a device, which could be the iPhone 4G, has a front-facing camera. Anyway, this is just a rumor and don’t put too much hope on it. As similar rumor ever claims the iPad would come with a front-facing camera but finally it was just a disappointment as it didn’t.
Ramos T11 TE, a 16GB full-HD PMP
The Ramos T11 TE is a PMP capable of video playback at full HD 1080p resolution. It features HDMI port which you can hook it up to an HDTV to enjoy the full HD (1080p) video quality.
The Ramos T11 TE has a 5-inch screen that is touch-enabled, maxes out at a resolution of 800×480, is packed with 16GB internal memory and a Telechips TCC8900 CPU that delivers great quality of audio.
This little PMP supports various video formats including AVI, RM, RMVB, MPG, FLV, VOB, MKV. It also includes photo frame function and the USB-OTG function allows it to read your clips directly from a USB drive.
iPhone app scientifically proves you wrong (or right) on climate skeptic arguments
Many people these days simply put blames on certain heavy industries, scientists or researchers over climate change or global warming without any scientific proofs. Thanks to the Australian solar physicist John Cook of Skeptical Science, who has created a little nifty iPhone app that lets you stay more aware of what claims or arguments on climate change are right or wrong. And it also includes scientific counterarguments to those misinformed climate skeptic arguments.
Once the Skeptical Science iPhone app launches on your iPhone screen, it shows you 10 of the most common misinformed climate skeptic arguments as well as showing the scientific counterarguments to them. The arguments are also categorized into three main categories, which are “It’s not happening“, “It’s not us“, and “It’s not bad”, to help you find more claims and the scientific counterarguments more easily.
The iPhone app has included 90 climate skeptic arguments so far and each comes with the scientific response. The app also shows you with graphs and links to scientific papers or other related sources. It also has a feature that allows you to report any skeptic argument that you’ve just encountered.
The Skeptical Science iPhone app can be downloaded from iTunes and it runs on your most ubiquitous gadget iPhone or iPod Touch. So, while you’re on the run, and hear of any climate skeptic arguments, you can easily find the scientific responses on this iPhone app and prove to them whether they’re right or wrong.