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10 Things About Google's New Android Design That Will Have iPhone Owners Drooling With Jealousy

Aditya Prakash 0 Android, Android L, Technology 5.7.14

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If you're an avid Android user, your phone's software is about to look a whole lot different in the next few months.</div>
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Google is billing the redesigned user interface as the key feature in its next major mobile software update, Android L. </div>
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With Android L, Google is introducing some aesthetic tweaks as part of its Material Design overhaul.</div>
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Material Design is a sleek, neat, and colorful new interface that's meant to make the user experience seamless across devices on all screens — whether you're using a smartwatch, phone, or tablet. </div>
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In addition to a leaner overall look, Material Design adds a few subtle nuances that make the Android experience seem more interactive and visually pleasing. </div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google says it studied paper and ink to achieve the shadowed and textured look you'll find in Android L. </span></div>
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Here are some of the best visual components Android users have to look forward to. </div>
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A big part of Material Design is the way colors are portrayed. Google developed a color palette specifically to highlight shades and tints, which adds more life to user interface elements.</h3>
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Notice how the generic form above is highlighted in purple and looks slightly larger than the rest. That effect is meant to draw your eye to information that's more important, such as the title in this case. </div>
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App icons in Android L are based on geometric shapes, which make them pop and appear more symmetrical.</h3>
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Google says that Material Design is based on the same design principles as paper. This means app icons are designed to rise up when you tap them rather than sink down.</h3>
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10 Things About Google's New Android Design That Will Have iPhone Owners Drooling With Jealousy

If you're an avid Android user, your phone's software is about to look a whole lot different in the next few months. Google is...

Honda Dream CD 110 Price Declared As Rs. 41,110 - The Most Inexpensive Bike In The Series

Aditya Prakash 2 automobiles, Bikes, Honda 5.7.14

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.933334350585938px;">Keeping in mind an ever-growing class of 'mileage-oriented' bike commuters, Honda had launched the 'Dream' series in the budget bikes segment by launching the 'Dream Yuga' in January 2012. After the enormous success of Dream Yuga, Honda then launched Dream Neo in 2013 and has now launched the Dream CD 110 which is the third and probably the last bike in this series. The Dream CD 110 is priced Rs. 5000 below the Dream Neo and Rs. 7,000 below the Dream Yuga, making it Honda's most affordable two-wheeler in India.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.933334350585938px; margin-top: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.933334350585938px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.933334350585938px;">Boasting the formulaic 110 cc engine used throughout the 'Dream' series, Honda has made no significant changes to the engine specs in this bike. The engine spews out a maximum power at 7,500 rpm and 8.63 Nm of torque at 5,500 rpm. Perhaps the most striking performance of this vehicle is in the mileage category, an impressive figure of 74 Kmpl, as reported in Honda's internal test rides but not yet verified by any external reviewer. Once again, the company's flagship Honda Eco Technology (HET) has been put to use to achieve this mileage. The engine specifications are exactly the same as its companion in this series, the </span>Honda Dream Neo<span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.933334350585938px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.933334350585938px;">CD 110 Dream will feature only a manual start. Body graphics, silver-coloured engine sleeve, silver toned alloy wheels and matching meter console make up the style quotient of the bike. Buyers will have an option of buying spoked wheels if not alloy ones. The bike also features tubeless tyres, maintenance free battery, viscous air filter as its plus points. Continuing the tradition of the Dream series, disc brakes won't be added to the bike and the safety of the CD 110 Dream will rely on traditional drum brakes, perhaps the only down point in the bike.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.933334350585938px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.933334350585938px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.933334350585938px;">The Honda CD 110 Dream, a more economical version of the Dream Neo is priced at Rs. 41,100 ex-Delhi, making it the most inexpensive two-wheeler by Honda in the country. Honda will be starting dispatches across the country from mid-July and sales will start from August '14. CD 110 will be available in 3 colours- Black with Red stripe, Black with Blue Stripe and Black with Grey stripe and in the kick/drum/spoke variants.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.933334350585938px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.933334350585938px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.933334350585938px;">Hero Honda's CD 100 had found a large Indian fanbase and some of them can also be seen running today. The nomenclature “CD” is a mnemonic for Honda’s mass motorcycles in many countries since 1966 while Dream evokes the legendary success of Honda’s first mass motorcycle “Dream D” launched in 1949 in Japan. Do you think the CD 110 Dream will live up to its name? Let us know in the comments.</span></div>

Honda Dream CD 110 Price Declared As Rs. 41,110 - The Most Inexpensive Bike In The Series

Keeping in mind an ever-growing class of 'mileage-oriented' bike commuters, Honda had launched the 'Dream' series in the bu...

Xolo Launches Play 6X-1000 and Q500s IPS With Android 4.4 KitKat

Aditya Prakash 0 Smartphone, Technology, Xolo 5.7.14

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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Xolo has launched two new smartphones, the Q500s IPS and Play 6X-1000, which have been priced at Rs. 5,999 and Rs. 14,499 respectively. Both the smartphones run Android 4.4 KitKat out-of-the-box, and have been listed as new arrivals on the company's site.</span></span><div style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline: none;">
The Xolo Q500s IPS is a dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) device that comes with a 4-inch WVGA (480x800 pixels) IPS display offering a pixel density of 233ppi. The Q500s IPS is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582M processor coupled with a Mali 400-MP2 GPU, and 512MB of RAM.</div>
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It sports a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, while there is a secondary 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera also onboard. The Xolo Q500s IPS has 4GB of inbuilt storage, which is further expandable via microSD (up to 32GB).</div>
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On the connectivity front, the Xolo Q500s IPS includes 3G, Wi-Fi, Micro-USB, GPS/ A-GPS and Bluetooth. It packs a 1500mAh battery, which is rated for up to 16.1 hours of talk time on 2G and up to 7.6 hours of talk time on 3G networks. The Xolo Q500s IPS measures 125x63.2x8.98mm and is available in Black, Blue, Green, Red and White colours.</div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The Xolo Play 6X-1000 is a dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) device that comes with a 5-inch (720x1280 pixels) HD IPS display offering a pixel density of 294ppi. The Play 6X-1000 is powered by a 1.5GHz hexa-core MediaTek MT6591 processor with a Mali 450 GPU, comes with 2GB of RAM.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">It sports a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and BSI sensor, while there is a secondary 2-megapixel front-facing camera also onboard. The Xolo Play 6X-1000 has 8GB of inbuilt storage, which is further expandable via microSD (up to 32GB).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">On the connectivity front, the Xolo Play 6X-1000 includes 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS/ A-GPS and USB OTG. It packs a 2100mAh battery, which is rated for up to 24.68 hours of talk time on 2G, and up to 14.75 hours of talk time on 3G networks. It measures 139.9x70.2x8.5mm.</span></span></div>
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Xolo Launches Play 6X-1000 and Q500s IPS With Android 4.4 KitKat

Xolo has launched two new smartphones, the Q500s IPS and Play 6X-1000, which have been priced at Rs. 5,999 and Rs. 14,499 respectively...

Watch Wars: Apple Snags Tag Heuer VP of Sales and Retail

Aditya Prakash 0 Apple, Technology 5.7.14

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If there was ever any doubt that Apple is working on some kind of fancy digital wristwatch — insert your own speculation about what it might be called here — then a new bit of news is adding just that much more fuel to the manufacturing fire.<br />
<a href="http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/315498-apple-logo.jpg?thumb=y" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Apple logo" border="0" src="http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/315498-apple-logo.jpg?thumb=y" /></a>According to multiple sources, ranging from Jean-Claude Biver over at luxury goods conglomerate LVMH (which counts luxury watch manufacturer Tag Heuer among its subsidiaries), to unnamed sources speaking to 9to5Mac, to unnamed Tag Heuer sources talking to Reuters, Apple has poached Tag Heuer senior executive Patrick Pruniaux. Formerly Tag Heuer's vice president of sales and retail, Pruniaux had allegedly been with Tag Heuer for a number of years. His last day will be this coming Monday; after that, he'll join Apple in a yet unknown capacity.<br />
Given Pruniaux's background, however, it's likely that he'll find a home among Apple's sales and marketing efforts for its likely-to-be-named iWatch. Interestingly, 9to5Mac reports that Apple was allegedly attempting to poach more people from Tag Heuer. However, Pruniaux is the only one who agreed to jump ship over to the budding digital watch manufacturer.<br />
It's widely thought that Apple's wrist-based efforts — the speculation around which is doing a great job of instilling fear into various other smartwatch and fitness tracking manufacturers so far — are expected to produce a tangible product by September or October of this year.<br />
The big unknown is just how Apple might merge together fashion and technology in its device, and how recent hires from the fashion world might help Apple make, market, and sell its to-be-unveiled watch. That includes Pruniaux, as well as Burberry's Angela Ahrendts (now Apple's senior vice president of retail and online sales), and Paul Deneve, former CEO of fashion house Yves Saint Laurent who is now working on "special projects" at Apple (and reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook directly). In other words, the iWatch — as many have been speculating.<br />
Apple senior vice president of technologies Bob Mansfield is said to be leading up the iWatch project over at Apple HQ, alongside Apple vice president of technology Kevin Lynch and Apple's senior director of engineering, James Foster. Apple's overall "iWatch team" also pulls in a number of design, fitness, sensor, and engineering experts (to name a few categories), which gives a little more weight to the idea that Apple's wrist-based device will be as much a luxury item as it is a working fitness accessory.<br />
"The iWatch will have the same status symbol power as many other Apple products, especially at the beginning. I personally believe it has the potential to be a threat for the industry, and it should not stay with its arms crossed," said Biver, in an interview with Reuters.</div>

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New Pavlok wristband shocks you into good work and fitness habits

Aditya Prakash 0 Pavlok, Technology, Wristband 5.7.14

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The Pavlok wristband is a ‘habit-forming’ wearable band which will literally shock you into exercising, waking up on time and what not by administering mild electric jolts to your wrist area when needed. Mind you, developer Maneesh Sethi is the same guy who hired a girl on Craigslist to slap him each time he went on Facebook when he was meant to be doing work.</div>
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Designed by Sethi and Behavioral Technologies, the Pavlok is meant to force you into a routine whether it involves going for a jog every evening or waking up early for starters. Apart from taking cues from the ‘Slapping Experiment,’ Sethi also got inspiration for the device from another habit-forming method he uses which has him paying $50 to his friend as a self-imposed penalty each time he eats a cookie or skips the gym.</div>
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The wristband in question will be embedded with sensors to detect whether users are following the routine they’ve set for themselves and it will even incorporate certain social aspects. The last mentioned will be integrated with techniques to let friends help each other out of their bad habits by checking in on each other’s productivity or exercise status, for example.</div>
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The Pavlok administers electric shocks that set off triggers to change users’ brains and in turn, their bad habits. You may say it’s just negative reinforcement which will have people cheating by simply not wearing the band or conveniently forgetting to charge it. But the developers have also hinted about positive support without offering any specifics.</div>
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You can see the full interview with Maneesh Sethi concerning the Pavlok wristband on this TheLipTV YouTube video we posted below. The wearable might cost around $250 once Sethi manages to earn enough in crowd-funded backing to push it through the production process.</div>
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New Pavlok wristband shocks you into good work and fitness habits

The Pavlok wristband is a ‘habit-forming’ wearable band which will literally shock you into exercising, waking up on time and what not by ...

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Watch Wars: Apple Snags Tag Heuer VP of Sales and Retail

New Pavlok wristband shocks you into good work and fitness habits

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