FUTURE TENDS TO BE MORE SHARPER WITH ULTRA HD

4k is the new big thing in display tech, and it's coming to a big screen living room TV near you.

Today's 1920 x 1080 resolution Full HD TVs present us with an image of around 2 megapixels, but this new generation of screens delivers an 8 megapixel image from hi-res cameras.

With new Ultra HD 4K TVs arriving this year from the big TV brands, it will soon become a format for both broadcast TV and Blu-ray.

What is 4K?

Technically speaking, 4K denotes a very specific display resolution of 4096 x 2160. This is the resolution of all 4K recordings, though many people use 4K to refer to any display resolution that has roughly 4000 horizontal pixels.

Ultra HD TVs have a resolution slightly lower than that - 3840 x 2160. That's exactly four times higher than the full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080.

Many current movie cameras already film above 4K resolutions, for example the RED Epic which can film at a 5K resolution of 5120 x 2700 and the Sony F65 which films at 8192 x 4320 (8K).

How big is an Ultra HD TV?

So far it's been monster Ultra HD TVs all the way, with Sony's 84-inch 84X9005 and LG's 84-inch 84LM960V leading the way alongside the now-a-bit-old Toshiba 55ZL2, a 55-inch TV whose real claim is glasses-free 3D TV (though there's more where that came from, this time from Philips).

However, this summer Sony is launching 55-inch and 65-inch models in the form of the Sony KD-55X9000A and the Sony KD-65X9000A. Previous 84-inch models cost upwards of £20,000 ($30,000) but the 55-inch Sony will start at $5,000 in the US and £4,000 in the UK.

More models are coming from the likes of Samsung, LG and Panasonic and will likely launch at IFA at the end of August.

        TO  ‘PRINT’ FROM A MOBILE DEVICE   WITHOUT                     STRINGS OR CONNECTION

A fascinating one to hear right!

We need a pc to take print out for our convenience.But yep!here is a different tool to take a print from ur android mobiles or iphone such as by using a wireless network..

Just download an application in ur mobile..itz enough to take print out..but the system is needed (just to click the app and take printout for the particular page which u surfed through your mobile).

Lets see deeply…

I haven't used a printer in my home for the past decade, thanks mostly to my reliance on digital smartphone and tablet screens, along with limited living space. Though paper printouts are far less valuable than they once were, there are still moments when I like to have something printed, like a backup copy of an airline reservation or a map with directions.

TRANSLATE HUMAN SPEECH BY MACHINES

How AT&T Can Translate Your Speech in Real Time

AT&T Translator, a service on the company's teleconference system that translates speech between languages in real time, is currently in pilot testing by some of the company's biggest business customers. PopMech caught up with Mazin Gilbert, assistant vice president for technical research at AT&T Labs–Research, to learn about the challenges of teaching machines to understand human speech.

Q:

Machine-based language translation has been a longtime dream of science-fiction authors. C-3PO, after all, was fluent in more than 6 million forms of communication. What inspired your researchers to develop AT&T Translator? 

A:

Language is one of the largest barriers to communication globally. In the 1980s, we produced a short film of what communications would be like in the future. We had a vision that at some point in our lifetime there would be some intelligence in the network where you could pick up the phone and talk to anyone in the world regardless of the language you spoke. 

Q:

How did you turn that vision into a reality? 

A:

The technology is a product of more than two decades of research at AT&T in speech recognition, speech synthesis, and natural language processing. There's nothing like this in the world of enabling multiparties to converse in real time across languages. It requires tremendous expertise in linguistics, machine learning, speech, and signal processing that we have at AT&T. 

We demonstrated the first prototype of English-to-Spanish translation in the lab in 1988 (and continued to research and refine the technology). But given that we're a communications company, it fits into our business nicely and that's why we're focused on pushing it out to the market. 

Q:

What is the user experience like? 

A:

You call into a conferencing service. Your user and audience (can be any place in the world). You set your preference for native language (or languages), [and] what you hear or read is that speaker in your native language. You can speak in your language and they will receive it in their native language too. It's really very transparent. 

Q:

Which languages does the translating system currently understand? 

A:

English, French, Italian, German, Spanish . . . and Chinese, Japanese [and] Korean, all from speech in and out, [and] 12 other languages from text which we will roll out to speech over time.