Weekly roundup: Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Gear, Xperia Z1 and other gadgets launched in India this week

While Sony introduced its new waterproof smartphone Xperia Z1 and the SmartWatch 2 in India, Samsung, on the other hand, announced the launch of the Galaxy Note 3 and the Galaxy Gear smartwatch in India this week. Here is a list of the gadgets launched in India this week. 

18 Karat Gold Headphones from Happy Plugs

By Classy Girl

14.5K for headphones?!

They’d want to be made of gold or something! Oh wait… they are.

18 karat gold in fact. Well now that’s music to my ears!

 Forget private jets and mansions in The Hills, real wealth is determined by how many every day inanimate objects you can purchase in a solid gold version. First we heard about the solid gold Ray Ban Aviator glasses and now Happy Plugs have brought us gold earphones with a price tag of $14,500!

What’s next? Gold toilet paper?! Hold on… that’s already been done?! Now that’s what I call throwing money down the toilet!

 Oh and someone might want to give Happy Plugs a heads up about the design of their earphones… Apple don’t even make them like that anymore! The latest Apple earbuds are much more, how should I say, ‘EARgonomically’ designed to fit more comfortably in your ear and stay in place a whole lot better than the old ones. And Happy Plugs have gone and made the old style in solid gold… Awkward! I mean, that’s so 2012!

Anyway, they’re still kind of ridiculously and extravagantly cool, so if you want some, you can get them here.

Eclipse Dash Across the Earth’s Face From Space

There it goes: the shadow of the moon zipping across the continent of Africa. The animation above shows this weekend’s hybrid solar eclipse event from an amazing vantage point, the Meteosat-10 satellite, which tracks weather patterns.

The sequence was put together by climate scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and shared on their CIMSS Satellite Blog. The full-resolution version in all its glory is worth a peek as well. The video below from EUMETSAT, a European weather-monitoring organization, gives another view of the eclipse racing across the Earth from Meteosat-10.

Solar eclipses occur when the moon passes between the Earth and sun, casting a shadow over our planet’s surface. A total solar eclipse happens when the moon is at the right distance to completely block the sun’s light while an annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon is slightly farther than normal from the Earth, making it appear smaller in the sky and unable to entirely obscure the sun. A hybrid eclipse is a rare event that transitions from a total solar eclipse to an annular one, when only a glowing ring of the sun can be seen.

Images: 1) CIMSS, University of Wisconsin – Madison 2) EUMETSAT

Glow – Innovative concept Light without batteries

Light is a basic need. Millions of people around the world don’t have access to efficient and effective lighting sources in their home. This concept gadget uses phosphorescent powder flask in a transparent flask and does not require a power supply..During the day, the device stores energy and then lights up to 6 hours.

 Designer: Jon Liow

Innovations in technology for the visually impaired

Technology is improving day by day and many of theinnovations are being planned for various segments of people. Many of the innovations are also invented for people with various ailments. Like the new Voice Stick, a text scanning device for the visually impaired. As the name suggests, the stick when scanned in the printed letters, the OCR function recognizes the text and converts the information into voice. The voice is then read back and thus helping the visually challenged. It is a quite innovative and practical product. So whatever be the matter, like letters, E-mails etc, it works out to be a perfect solution and companion for the visually challenged.

Braille is on of the most important ways that visually impaired individuals acquire their information. The problem is that it is hard to find braille books due to the high costs involved to published them compared to common books.

Voice Stick is a portable text scanning device for the visually impaired. When it scans printed letters, the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) function recognizes the texts and converts the written information into a voice. The portable stick, Voice Stick, can be used to convert any words or letters found in our daily life, such as in books, newspapers, contracts, mail, etc., into voice information.

World’s Most Beautiful Trees

World’s Most Beautiful Trees are here again, we present some  pictures before but these are simply amazing no other words we can think of such stunning photos.

If Oxygen Will Disapear From Earth

This is very dangerous, But may be you don`t know the fact if something happens like this, what will be the circumstances. Oxygen the most important thing for our world, Life which is completely dependent on Oxygen, here is the strange fact……..