What were the celebrity Halloween costume choices of 2013? Check out this round up of some of the best costumes celebrities are donning this year.
Stars had no problem sharing their creations on social networks like Instagram over the past few days as they prepared to head out to Hollywood parties celebrating the end of October holiday.
Angela Kinsey as ‘Top Gun’s’ Maverick
Al Roker as Mr. T
Derek Hough, Julianne Hough and friends as ‘Orange is the New Black’ characters
Jesse again with ‘Modern Family’ co-star Eric Stonestreet
Aaron and Thea Tippin
Jessica Alba as Cher from ‘Witches of Eastwick’ with friends
Josh Duhamel and Fergie celebrating The Day of the Dead
Lea Michele as a pirate
Lea Michele as a pirate
Miley Cyrus as Lil’ Kim
Naya Rivera as Carmen Sandiego
Neil Patrick Harris and family as ‘Alice in Wonderland’ characters
Nina Dobrev sporting a mask
Paris Hilton as Miley Cyrus
Paris Hilton as Miley Cyrus
Adam Lambert as a genie, Lance Bass and boyfriend as ‘Wayne’s World’s’ leads
Chris Colfer as R2D2
Jesse Tyler Ferguson and boyfriend as Batman and Robin
Simple functionality and a low-key design make ION optical and sun smartglasses a great idea. Customizable LED lights in the frame provide notifications while bluetooth capability allows you to control a smartphone or tablet remotely.
The first-ever SMART-Glasses sunglasses and eyeglasses that interact with your tablet and smartphone.
ION Glasses are the first prescription glasses and sunglasses that interact with your smartphone or tablet, offering several functions: Notifications, Remote Control, Alerts in case of loss and Customization.
The importance of design
By definition, "Wearable Technology" has to earn the right to be worn by its design. This is why we have been extremely demanding when it comes to the design of our ION Glasses. They have been designed with the help of one of the leading eyewear design manufacturers to come up with the eyeglass frame that you would have naturally chosen. ION Glasses are available as mount lenses or sunglasses, with green-tinted or mirror glass. The frame is made with a very flexible and tough revolutionary new material: TR90, also known as "Plastic Titanium".
All this in a size so compact that only you will know your glasses are different. The ION Glasses are indistinguishable to the naked eye from any fashion eyewear in the market.
Don't ever miss a notification.
Phone calls
Messages
E-mails
Calendar
Social media updates
Battery status
With ION Glasses, you'll never miss a notification. Thanks to its built-in LED that can be configured with 256 colors and blinking frequency, you'll be able to choose the alert that you want to identify with what is happening on your smartphone or tablet: a chat message, an SMS, an e-mail, a call, a social media update, an appointment or meeting. If you like, you can even hear audible alerts. You can program it yourself very easily with the application available for iOS and Android.
It controls all your technological gadgets.
Camera
Music control
Slide presentations
Voice recording
ION Glasses has two buttons you can use as a remote control to activate the camera, video recorder and voice recorder on your smartphone. You can also remotely control the music player on your smartphone or tablet, turn the volume up or down and skip a song. You can even control your presentations slides! Don't ever lose your glasses or your smartphone / tablet.
When your ION Glasses and mobile device separate beyond a distance you have chosen. both will ring! And through the radar application on your smartphone or tablet you will know where your ION Glasses are at all times. If you do not find your smartphone or tablet. Press one of the buttons on the ION Glasses and your device will ring.
Customize your ION Glasses
With your ION Glasses you can choose your preferred color every day. You can very easily choose the logo color of your ION Glasses. or if you prefer, you can turn it off.
Intelligent technology
we have developed tiny technology for the ION Glasses without affecting design. The following components are embedded inside the right temple of our ION Glasses:
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"
Peter Higgs
Born: 29 May 1929, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Arieh Warshel
Born: 20 November 1940, Kibbutz Sde-Nahum, Israel
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
3) The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 was awarded jointly to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells".
James E. Rothman
Born: 3 November 1950, Haverhill, MA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Field: cell physiology
Randy W. Schekman
Born: 30 December 1948, St. Paul, MN, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Field: cell physiology Thomas C. Südhof
Born: 22 December 1955, Goettingen, Germany
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Field: cell physiology 4) The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 was awarded to Alice Munro "master of the contemporary short story".
Alice Munro
Born: 10 July 1931, Wingham, Canada
Residence at the time of the award: Canada
5) The Nobel Peace Prize 2013
The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 was awarded to Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons".
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
Founded: 1997
Field: arms control and disarmament
6) The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013
The 2013 Prize in Economic Sciences has not been awarded yet. It will be announced on Monday 14 October, 1:00 p.m. CET at the earliest.
No one likes to be awoken from their slumber, least of all a sleeping baby but just because you’re a little infant, doesn’t mean you’re going to let the culprit get away with it. And so begins an epic chase of fast and furious proportions as a disgruntled baby in a moustache chases down a speedy and cunning Samsung Motion Sync vacuum cleaner. Justice will be served! Or, at the very least, the floor will be cleaned.
And so plays the new, clever viral marketing campaign for the new Samsung Motion Synch vacuum. It’s a bit of marketing genius on how do you get the masses to watch a video about a vacuum cleaner and share it with their friends.
But now onto the tech stuff.It’s easy to tell when hardwood floors are clean, but it’s not so obvious when it comes to carpets. Who knows how much dust, dirt, and debris are hidden amongst those fibers?
So instead of randomly running a vacuum over every inch of your living room, hoping it’s clean, Samsung’s new Motion Sync vac tells with an impossible to misunderstand red light/green light approach.
Using the company’s tried-and-true dust sensing technology that monitors the amount of particles being drawn into the vacuum’s storage chamber, the Motion Sync—or SC20F70 if you want to get technical—reports back the conditions under foot. If the area of the floor you’re working on is clean, you get a green light.
If it needs a few more passes, you see red pretty straightforward.
The vacuum’s canister also benefits from a set of oversized wheels angled in at the top to prevent it from rolling over at every corner in your home. That alone could be worth the vacuum’s $800 price tag, but a feature that guarantees you don’t have to do housework a minute longer than necessary?
One of the wonders of the human body is that it heals itself. The damage might be self-inflicted, like an accidental fall, or it could be caused by an attacker. Either way, the human body is tremendously adept at repairing cuts, scrapes, bruises, and other ailments. HP is taking that same concept and applying it to the PC's Basic Input/Output System, otherwise known as the BIOS.
It's called BIOSphere with SureStart technology, and according to HP, it's the industry's first and only self-healing security solution created to help organizations better mange risk and protect user and IT productivity. Developed with HP Labs, the self-healing BIOS can return to a previously safe state if attacked by malware or otherwise corrupted, such as by a failed BIOS update.
Protecting today’s computers against sophisticated malware requires more than just an up-to-date antivirus app. HP is ramping up protection on its PCs by integrating self-healing BIOS chips that will be able to fend off firmware-level infections.
The process is simple enough. At boot time, the active BIOS is checked against a pristine BIOS image (presumably read-only) that’s securely stored on a machine. If there’s a discrepancy, the system assumes tampering has taken place and the questionable BIOS is overwritten. Any malware that tried to go resident in the BIOS is wiped out, without any intervention by users. HP’s self-healing systems simply shrug off the infection and restart as they normally would.
HP and Google has built similar functionality into Chrome OS. Chromebooks and Chrometops can, however, heal the entire OS if something nefarious is detected at startup not just the BIOS. Gigabyte, too, has been doing this for nearly a decade. Dual BIOS was designed more as a way for hardcore PC enthusiasts to recover from failed firmware updates or overclocking mishaps.
A secondary BIOS chip provides an easy way to get things back to normal and today that even includes repairing damage from a firmware infection. And just like HPs new tech, Gigabyte’s Dual BIOS setup can heal itself silently in the background.
So why has one of the world’s top PC manufacturers decided to introduce self-healing BIOS now?
HP’s Michael Park says that Microsoft has made Windows much more secure, but that “there’s a lot of malware will come in under the OS and take over the underlying BIOS.”
“A lot” is an exaggeration. Malware that targets a system’s BIOS does exist, but it’s not very common. The bad guys never stop looking for ways to exploit a system, however, and BIOS is a very juicy target.
HP BIOSphere with SureStart technology, a self-healing security solution created to help organizations better manage risk and protect user and IT productivity.
HP has added the HP SureStart solution to its multilayered HP Client Security solutions portfolio to provide customers with an even stronger security protocol that defends against unauthorized system access.
“The security landscape has become more complex as threats become more sophisticated and employees require device flexibility to coincide with their changing working environment,” said Lorri Jefferson, director, Tablets and Software Strategy, HP. “These breakthrough security offerings are simple, seamless solutions that address these converging trends by delivering enterprise customers the ultimate fighting mechanism for mitigating risk, threats and negative business outcomes.”
HP BIOSphere with SureStart technology is the first solution of its kind to enable virtually uninterrupted productivity for enterprise users by preventing corruption and providing self-healing from malware or unlikely failed PC BIOS updates. Regardless of reason— intentional malicious attack, unknown cause, a failed update or other accidental cause—HP SureStart recovers the PC BIOS for continued user productivity and reduced IT help desk requests.
With HP SureStart, customers no longer need to worry about the safety of their PC BIOS updates. Security and reliability improvements are delivered straight to the customer, via the web or customer’s internal web site. This out-of-the-box solution is based on the HP BIOSphere, HP’s industry-leading firmware ecosystem that includes the HP BIOS and a secure embedded controller. The HP BIOSphere enables both HP’s Client Security and Client Management Solution offerings by automating the protection of data as well as robust configurability and manageability for HP business PCs.
HP SureStart technology provides the ultimate protection against malware attacks of the PC BIOS, preventing user downtime and IT support requests. When combined with HP BIOS Protection,(2) the solution detects, prevents, reports and allows auto recovery of advanced persistent threats (APTs).
Initially HP will roll out its SureStart technology globally on its EliteBoks beginning this fall. Referred by click here 1:
Official website: A Portland based company has launched a Kickstarter project that is looking to change the way families manage their internet usage in the home.
Elamenco Inc. is a startup which has created a device called Circle, which allows internet usage to be managed via an iPhone app.Circle connects via Wi-Fi to a router, with no ethernet cable required. The device is powered by a micro USB cord, and contains an internal battery to keep the device humming without being plugged in.
“As a parent, we have an obligation to learn how to live with technology and help our children explore the internet in a balanced, safe and smart way. Circle empowers me to stay on top of and effectively examine my household’s internet habits, and provides tools to improve our family’s online experience.” – Circle founder and CMO, Crystal Wiley
Circle provides a number of features to users, such as time management, smart filters, notifications,safe mode and ad blocking. The device pairs with any iOS device to allow users to configure the desired internet management parameters.
Check out Circle’s Kickstarter campaign and help the device reach it’s $250,000 goal.
New Kickstarter Campaign Helps Families Redefine Internet Use
Circle’s beautiful new product design is the first to empower families with the choice of how and when they spend time online
A beautiful new product design managed by an iOS app, Circle connects seamlessly to computers, tablets, smartphones, TV streaming devices, and MP3 players—to help parents manage kids’ internet use, tech enthusiasts understand their own online habits and small business owners increase employee productivity.
Providing balance to the digital age, Circle helps navigates life in the screen-driven world by allowing people to choose how online time is spent with smart filtering, time management systems and informative overviews. There is nothing like it on the market – a brilliant device managed by a smartphone to help families reconnect each and every day.
“The internet is an invaluable resource and we created a smart network tool to ‘talk’ wirelessly with your router and each household device to filter and manage content based on personalized settings for each device and each individual,” said Circle founder and CEO
Jelani Memory “With a strong market need for Circle, Kickstarter backer contributions will help fund engineering, parts and tooling and finalize the iOS application so Circle can be brought to life.”
Not to be confused with a router, Circle wirelessly connects to a Wi-Fi router and there is no need for an Ethernet cable to provide connectivity. Circle works from anywhere in the home or small office, to help anyone connected to the internet locate appropriate content and build desirable online habits.
Key features
TIME MANAGEMENT: Circle can manage online usage by allowing timed access based on by category (i.e., two hours for social media, one hour for gaming, etc.) SMART FILTER: Set individual filtering levels by category for each device on a network to ensure only age/user-appropriate content comes across INFORM & NOTIFY: See at a glance the amount of time kids and users spend on certain sites or a category of sites. Set customizable notification schedules for both positive and negative internet activity on devices in the home or business from the Circle app PAUSE MODE: Temporarily restrict online access to every device on a network; schedule a device-free dinner in advance, or set Pause Mode manually at any time BEDTIME MODE: Set downtime for individual devices on the Circle network SAFE MODE: Safe mode automatically recognizes and adjusts filtering settings for network devices when operated by children under five years old; an adult or older sibling can easily unlock Safe Mode when they resume using the device AD BLOCKING: Toggle off web advertisements so they don’t show on any devices within the network IMPLIFY: Easily activate Circle via the circular button on the back of the device, creating its own Wi-Fi network and ability to add users, tag the devices Circle recognizes and set up filtering, time management and notification setting preferences SECURE CONNECTION: Circle remains active even when unplugged and has no off button; the only way to adjust or change Circle’s filtering and time management settings is through the iOS app, which is password protected and can only be downloaded on a single smartphone.
“As a parent, we have an obligation to learn how to live with technology and help our children explore the internet in a balanced, safe and smart way,” said Circle founder and CMO, Crystal Wiley. “Circle empowers me to stay on top of and effectively examine my household’s internet habits, and provides tools to improve our family’s online experience.”
The Circle device was designed with the home and business in mind. Its clean, understated design pairs beautifully with any decor and intuitive iOS app allows easy filtering, notifications and access even when away. The app features user profiles, device activity reports, access to device modes, network pause mode, ability to add guest devices and descriptive time management overviews.
Anyone can support Circle’s Kickstarter campaign, but a limited number of early bird backers with a $150 pledge or more will receive a Circle device as soon as it hits the market in 2014. Visit Circle for more information and to place an order.
Technical Specification:
Dimensions: 3” tall x 3” wide x 3” thick Weight: approx. 1 lb Materials: HDPE (High Density Polyethylene), special edition bamboo body for Kickstarter campaign. Center Sleeve: ABS Front and Rear Face: HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) Rear Rubber Button: Santoprene TPE Main PCB: 2" square, 4-layer, masked WiFi Chip 802.11n: Atheros AR9331 Processor: Atheros AR7240 White LED array
Triple Axis Accelerometer
Ambient Light Sensor Battery: 2200 mAh Lithium Ion Storage: 4gb flash memory Charge Cable: Micro USB to USB-A Charger: 120VAC to 5VDC USB Patent pending
