StoreDot Super Battery Will Charge Your Phone in 30 Seconds

 

StoreDot, an Israeli tech startup, unveiled a prototype that can charge your smartphone battery in 30 seconds. The company hopes to start producing consumer-ready chargers in late 2016.

 

StoreDot uses biological semiconductors to store and deliver power in batteries far more quickly than current systems. The company has been constructing semiconductors built from peptides, which are organic amino acids that, when linked together, create proteins. Peptides have become popular among body-builders because of their protein creation and have been found to have a wide range of applications.

 

Demonstrated for the first time at Microsoft's Think Next symposium on Monday, the battery prototype only works for now with Samsung's last-gen handset. But StoreDot says that its technology will work with other phones, too.

 

       

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Amazon Introduces FireTV

                           

Amazon has joined the battle for the living room, introducing the Amazon Fire TV, a small black box that connects your HDTV to a world of online entertainment. It is designed to stream the company’s catalog of free and paid shows and movies and let users play online video games on their large-screen TVs.

 

Amazon will compete with Apple TV and console makers like Microsoft and Sony. One feature that distinguishes Fire TV from at least some competitors’ offerings is its ability to bring casual games to televisions. Owners can play games with either the remote control or Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet. There are far fewer games in Amazon’s app catalog than in Apple’s or Google’s. Although Fire TV owners will find King.com’s (KING) ingenious Candy Crush Saga in Amazon’s Appstore, they won’t find such popular time-wasters as the mobile shooting game Bioshock, the second-most popular game on the Apple App Store. Amazon hopes to rectify this imbalance by making its own games like combat game Sev Zero, which will make its debut on Fire TV.

Moreover, Amazon’s fireTV has a couple unique features, including a remote control with a voice recognition search feature, so a user can speak the name a show, actor or topic and find that content.

 

More fireTV features:

 

— Over 200,000 TV episodes and movies, millions of songs, and over a hundred games

— Unlimited access to thousands of popular movies and TV shows including exclusive titles like

     Downton Abbey and Under the Dome.

— Voice search
 

— Fast quad-core processor, 2 GB of memory, dedicated GPU

 

— 1080p HD video

 

— Dolby Digital Plus surround sound

— Instant streaming

 

Amazon's FireTv device will cost $99.

 

 

 

 

 

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Facebook acquires WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stocks

 

 

Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook is going to buy popular mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $ 19 billion.  

 

Zuckerberg's social network can't be acused of ignoring the trends. Their technologists have developed new platform apps for photos and messaging, but other companies were actually doing a better job (Instagram, WhatsApp).

 

Everyone's now talking about Facebook's mobile strategy but what I think is that we should be prepared to see more acquisitions like this in the future.

 

 

 

 

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