Gadgetory

well it's been a good news day because we had good stuff on not only the s8 but foldable devices and a smart jacket so why is it that uncle Sammy decided to put the fingerprint sensor on the Samsung Galaxy s8 on the back in that awkward position right beside the camera well it turns out that they wanted to put it on the front screen but they ran out of time the decision to switch to a rear-mounted sensor was reportedly made at a last minute which would explain the somehow awkward design if it wasn't for lack of trying the report says that Samsung poured resources into synaptics and made all-out efforts to finish it in time but Samsung is trying to make time for foldable devices will that be a gimmick or a practical according to E t news Samsung's long anticipated foldable smartphone is finally getting close to production the Korean company plans to position this new form factor at the top of its production line above current flagships unnamed industry sources told ichi news that samsung electronics and samsung Display aim to start prototype production in the third quarter of this year several thousand units will be made and seated to major partners including carriers the goal is to gather feedback and further test the foldable smartphone design ahead of mass production it seems kind of gimmicky to me I guess it depends on the actual design but hey I'm the guy who thought that big phablets were only for power users and geeks now let's talk levi's commuter trucker jacket I don't know why they call it that it's basically a smart jacket at Google i/o last year the innovative Levi's commuter trucker jacket was officially announced made in partnership between Levi's and Google's a top division the product was scheduled to hit the market this spring the good news if you want to call it that is that we know the price of this jacket it's not cheap it will set you back 350 bucks the other news is that you'll have to wait a little longer before you can buy it the jacket is scheduled to go on sale sometime this fall what makes it unique is that it uses conductive fabric to transform clothes into connected devices it's very simple to use all you have to do is tap the sleeve of the jacket in order to activate certain functionalities of your smartphone play music answer calls use Google Maps etc now some of you may be thinking that's kind of just a button on the sleeve no big deal but it's the beginning of something that has a lot of potential for medical and security reasons just as a parent imagine that if you're in a mall or a Disneyland theme park or something like that and you lose your kid which happens almost every day that shirt or jacket can begin to flash and make sounds and alert everyone else around them that hey this kid is lost and needs to find their parent and of course it's connected to your own shirt and can help you you know play hot and cold game where the closer you are together it changes a certain color when you're farther away it changes color it's an easy way to make things more secure like that you could also transfer health information to an ambulance driver that's picking you up there's countless applications for law enforcement medicine the whole shoot shebang what do you think what are the possibilities of smart fabric let me know in the comments below now if you are a developer or an aspiring developer code is your world you create it tweak it and lovingly obsess over it so picking the right repository management tool is super-important that's why our sponsor at Atlassian created bitbucket bitbucket is the git solution for professional teams helping over five million developers build with a purpose bitbucket gives teams of all sizes free private repositories with state-of-the-art features like the world's best pull request algorithm built in continuous delivery and integrations with your favorite tools like docker AWS and Azure and because bitbucket comes from Atlassian you get the best JIRA integration available bitbucket is for the code that takes us to Mars decodes the human genome or drives your next car visit bitbucket org and use the coupon code for the code to start your free account that's bitbucket org for the code try bitbucket today what will your code do you