Gadgetory

now you guys know I am all for tech innovators thinking outside the box but this is bananas banana phone is a bluetooth-enabled mobile handset that connects to your smartphone so you can talk to your friends and family on a banana and awesome this banana shaped device is available on IndieGoGo and can be had for as low as 40 bucks this is a very low price for a phone right that's because it isn't exactly a phone the banana phone essentially works as a Bluetooth communicator it connects to your phone wirelessly and doesn't work as a standalone device it really doesn't do too much but it is fun in fact it only has three buttons volume up volume down at home it can receive calls as well as make them using voice assistant of course battery life is estimated at 10 hours of talktime making it a handy gadget for those who'd rather not pull out their phones to make a call and prefer to do it with a fruit now why does this banana phone have appeal especially because it needs more apps no my friends it is actually serious monkey business it's for endangered gorillas check that link out there below proceeds will go to help endangered gorillas it's for a good cause all right so moving on to rumors surrounding a Motorola tablet that may have a long for feature the report comes from android police who received a slide show that shows off this feature from an unnamed but trusted source the slide show shows that the tablet will have a Productivity mode which will allow for Android apps to be pinned on the navigation bar the slide indicates that users should be able to switch between those apps by tapping on their icons in the nav bar in theory this should allow people to switch from a word processing app to a note-taking app quickly without having to go through the normal Android homescreen don't keep in mind guys we know nothing else about this rumored device we don't have a release date specs nothing like that but it is a feature that does begin to close the gap between tablets and laptop so let's talk about what could be the next generation of fingerprint scanners the Fraunhofer Institute has demonstrated a brand new OLED micro display that can identify even the smallest sweat pores of your finger the institute's new invention might mean that we are one step closer to a highly advanced and secure under glass optical fingerprint scanning technology now if you guys remember what are the rumors surrounding the Samsung Galaxy s8 before it was launched was an under screen a fingerprint scanner now of course that didn't actually come to fruition but the question is what does this new invention actually mean for people like you and me in short increased security the Institute States and I quote we have used an extra thin encapsulation for the chip of this fingerprint sensor thereby the distance between finger and image sensor has been minimized and the fingerprint can be captured excellently thus an additional imaging optic is not necessary for this application what this means is that despite the thinness the high spatial resolution can identify even the smallest sweat pores on top of your fingers meaning these OLED based optical fingerprint scanners are extremely secure optical fingerprint scanners are the oldest method of capturing fingerprints and because they rely on optical images of your finger it's not as difficult to manipulate them the Fraunhofer institute's new sensors therefore address this major drawback and for all my Indian friends out there Wi-Fi hotspots may be coming to you Facebook and Indian carrier Barta Airtel have joined forces to bring millions of Indians online with 20,000 Wi-Fi hotspots the program called Express Wi-Fi has been created in partnership with 500 local businesses in the states of Gujarat and Rajasthan and these two places that I won't try and pronounce it's rolled out thus far to 700 hotspots with the remainder to follow in the coming months according to BuzzFeed news the cost of access to the Express Wi-Fi hotspots is decided by the partners not Facebook and they're said to range from 10 rupees for 100 megabytes to 300 rupees for 20 gigabytes of per day in the statement Facebook's head of connectivity solutions in asia-pacific munis Seth said quote Xpress Wi-Fi is designed to complement mobile data offerings by providing a low-cost high bandwidth alternative for getting online and accessing apps download and streaming content hey you geeks out there who are also dreamers and visionaries who want to put your stuff out to the world consider our beloved sponsor Squarespace why well I have used them several times before no jokes show school how to become TV some of you knew me from there no regret TV The Tao of dad all ran on Squarespace why well besides looking great I can tweak it until my heart's content I can make that website look how I want to look with no coding necessary that's fantastic it's also an all-in-one service so no plugins no upgrades no updates none of that 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