Asus shows Android-based phone/tablet combo and seven-inch 3D device

                     At this week's Computex conference in Taipei, Asus unveiled an Android-based hybrid tablet/smartphone device called the Padfone, embedding a removable smartphone in a 10.1-inch tablet. The company also announced a more conventional seven-inch tablet called the Eee Pad Memo 3D, with Android 3.x, a stylus, and glasses-free 3D video playback.

              The Padfone, which Asus Chairman Jonney Shih termed a "convergent device" in his Computex presentation (see video farther below), combines a 4.3-inch Android smartphone and a 10.1-inch tablet computer into a single symbiotic gadget. The two device are said to share data and 3G Internet access. Final screen sizes may change when they product ships later this year, however.

The smartphone docks inside the tablet to give users an expanded view, says Asus. With the phone docked, it can recharge from the tablet's larger battery. In return, the tablet can make use of the smartphone's 3G connection, says the company. The dual interfaces for both the tablet and phone are said to ensure the layout is automatically adjusted for all activities such as video-conferencing, web browsing, and emailing. 

Padfone with smartphone detached

The concept appears to be very similar to Motorola Mobility's Atrix 4G, which can plug into an optional Laptop Dock to bring the Android smartphone experience to a larger screen. In this case, however, the dock is a touchscreen tablet rather than a netbook.

Asus also introduced a fourth tablet to go alongside the now-shipping Android 3.0 Eee Pad Transformer convertible tablet, as well as its similar, but slide-out style Eee Pad Sliderconvertible and Windows-based Eee Slate. The seven-inch Eee Pad Memo 3D appears to be a revised version of the Eee Pad Memo that was announced with minimal detail at January's CES show.

Asus Eee Pad Memo 3D

Unlike most seven-inch tablets, the Eee Pad Memo 3D will offer an Android 3.x operating system, says Asus. The tablet will also ship with a multitouch screen, but will also offer a stylus, for "note taking in portrait orientation," according to the company. This is similar to the seven-inch, Honeycomb-basedHTC Flyer.

In addition, the device offers a glasses-free 3D display mode that is automatically launched when one flips the tablet into horizontal landscape mode, says the company. No more details appeared to be available. 

Google releases video chat source code

Google has released the source code for a technology that it hopes developers will use to embed real-time video and voice chat functionality in their Web applications.

Google acquired the technology, called WebRTC (Web Real Time Communication), when it purchased VoIP (Voice over IP) software developer Global IP Solutions in 2010, for approximately $68.2 million. The company said it would open source the technology early last month.

WebRTC is a set of voice and video signal processing technologies, which can be accessed by developers through HTML tags and JavaScript APIs (application programming interfaces).

Today, Internet audio and video chat services from companies such as Skype are chiefly proprietary, accessible through plug-ins and client downloads. Last month, Microsoft agreed to purchase Skype for $8.5 billion.

Google wants third-party developers to use the voice and video engines to create chat applications that can be run directly from within a browser. Global IP Solutions has built WebRTC-based mobile clients for Android, Windows Mobile and the iPhone. Ericsson Labs built a videoconference prototype with the technology as well.

Google is working with other browser developers, such as Mozilla and Opera, in hopes they will support the technology in their browsers. The company is also participating in W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) projects for creating real-time communication Web standards. WebRTC is based on the W3C's Web Applications 1.0 API.

Google to dump support for Microsoft's IE7

Google will drop support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 browsers for its online apps, including Gmail and Docs.

"Beginning August 1, we'll support the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis," said Venkat Panchapakesan, who heads Google's enterprise engineering team, in acompany blog Wednesday. "Each time a new version is released, we'll begin supporting the update and stop supporting the third-oldest version."

By that scheme, Google will stop supporting IE7, Firefox 3.5, Apple's Safari 3 and its own Chrome 9, all which have released two newer versions.

IE7, for example, has been superseded by IE8 and IE9; the same goes for Firefox 3.5, which has been replaced by Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 4.

After Aug. 1, users running those browsers may have trouble with some features in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs and Google Sites. At some point, those apps may stop working entirely.

"For Web applications to spring even farther ahead of traditional software, our teams need to make use of new capabilities available in modern browsers," said Panchapakesan. "Older browsers just don't have the chops to provide you with the same high-quality experience."

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Quotes in movie

A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Jennifer Connelly (Alicia): I need to believe, that something extraordinary is possible.

A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Russell Crowe (Nash): Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter.

As Good As It Gets Movie Quotes (1997)
Jack Nicholson (Melvin Udall): I've got a really great compliment for you, and its true.

Helen Hunt (Carol Connelly): I'm so afraid you're about to say something awful.

Jack Nicholson (Melvin Udall): Don't be pessimistic, it's not your style. Anyway, here goes: I've got this, what, ailment. Now, my doctor, this shrink I used to go to all the time, says that in fifty to sixty percent of cases, a pill really helps. I HATE pills, hate them. I'm using the word "hate" about pills. Anyway, my compliment to you is the night after you came over and said that you would never . . . well, you were there, you know what you said. Anyway, the very next morning, I started taking the pills.

Inspirational Quotes

-Attitude determines altitude.
       - Anonymous

-There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

       - William Shakespeare

-Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.

Human head and brain size

The human head contains 22 bones, consisting the cranium and the facial bones. The cranium is formed by 8 bones: the frontal bone, two parietal bones, two temporal bones, the occipital bone in the back, the ethmoid bone behind the nose, and the sphenoid bone. The face consists of 14 bones including the maxilla (upper jaw) and mandible (lower jaw). (The skull has many little holes in its base which allow the cranial nerves to travel to their destinations.)

The cranium protects the brain, which, for an average adult male weighs about 1400 gram (49 oz). The brain of Russian novelist Turgenev, weighed 2021g (71 oz), Bismarck’s brain weighed 1807g (64 oz), while that of famous French statesman Gambetta was 1294g (46 oz). Female average brain mass is slightly less than that of males. The largest woman’s brain recorded weighed 1742g (61 oz). Einstein’s brain weighed 1230 gram (43.39 ounces), meaning Einstein’s brain was smaller than average.

An elephant’s brain weighs 5000g (176oz or 11 lb), a whale’s 10000g (352oz or 22lb). In proportion to the body, the whale has a much smaller brain than man. This seem to give man the edge, until it was discovered that the dwarf monkey has 1g of brain per 27g (0.95oz) of body, and the capuchin monkey has 1g of brain per 17,5g body, whereas man has 1 gram of brain to 44g of body.

Who invented the light bulb?

Who invented the light bulb? No, it wasn’t Thomas Edison. Light bulbs – in particular Starr’s electric lamp – were in use 50 years before Edison applied for the patent in 1879. In addition, British inventor Joseph Swan was awarded a light bulb patent the previous year. Edison went on to make big buck from the light bulb but Swan sued Edison for infringement and won. As part of the settlement, Edison was forced to take Swan in as a partner but later bought him out in the company that was to become General Electric.

In 1883, the US Patent Office ruled that Edison’s patent on the light bulb might have been based on that of William Sawyer and were invalid. It is not that Edison stole the idea: there are many examples of different people thinking up the same concept at more-or-less the same time.