Tech & Gadgets for Law Enforcement

Keeping knowledge and information safe is more important than ever.The way our security industry works has changed significantly over the last decade. There are a number of emerging concerns like crime,theft, murder risks that need to be addressed in order to remain efficient and secure. However, as the market evolves and the threat becomes more complicated, greater security needs to be ensured. Here are few technologies and devices helping police forces in different situations:

StarChase GPS Tag Launcher:

StarChase is a Virginia, USA based company specializing in giving tech solutions for law enforcement. Its unique product called StarChase GPS Tag has made quite a wave as this technology helps drastically reduce fatal situations for police officers, general public as well as offenders or criminals on the run. as one must have watched numerous crazy runoffs by criminals and juveniles in countries like USA, the offenders really go crazy and in the melee many innocent lives are lost as they keep hitting unspecting vehicles.at times, even police officers meet with fatal ends.


To minimize fatalities, danger and empower law enforcement ,StarChase has come out with a device called‘StarChase GPS Tag Launcher’ which is mounted on the front grille of police car and when activated launches big darts fitted with a GPS tracker which goes and sticks on the rear of offenders’ vehicle. Once that is done,there is no need for Hollywood style of chase and all the dangers accompanying it. Police can take it easy as GPS keeps informing about real time location of the guy on the run. The officer remains on the street, a potentially dangerous pursuit is avoided, and the offender can then be safely apprehended giving a go by to high risk flight situations.


Law enforcers have also noticed that once police stops chasing the vehicle,there is a quick return to sanity in the offenders too as they also don’t want to die. The cooling time actually makes it easier for police officers to comprehend the offender easily. This is one device which is yet to make a mark in India as US style of chase rarely happens in India. But as roads get better, vehicles and people crazier, this is one device that would of real help to law enforcers here.

Oncam 180 Degree Outdoor Camera:

For a really wide and comprehensive view, the Oncam 180-degree camera range meets the needs of customers in a variety of markets that require a purpose-built wall mounted camera with Panoramic+ views from a single sensor.


Environments that benefit from this unique view include education,hospitality, casinos, banking, retail and transportation, which demand monitoring large walkways, open spaces and corridors without blind-spots. and Oncam is certainly a leader in this category.

Staqu AI SmartGlass:

The AI powered smart glass is good for personal security as it is capable for both, speech and image recognition, and thus, can be used to identify potential threats to the civil society, such as criminals, intruders or terrorists, lurking around or amidst us. The smart glass has an in-built camera which captures input to trigger Facial Recognition. Once the face is identified from within the given databases, the Smart Glass projects the results on the glass screen. The entire process happens in real-time as the user simply glances over the vicinity. Even in wild scenarios, the Smart Glass by Staqu first-of-its-kind technology fuses together speech and image recognition to utilize a hybrid identification technology and uniquely identify anyone.

H Robocop:

H-Bots Robotics Pvt Ltd is a company which specializes in the field of robotics and automation. The company has developed smart policing robot. The “Robocop” will help police handle law and order. The robot can file complaints, detects bombs and answers queries.He is named after 26/11 martyr Hemant Karkare. It is designed to protect private and public areas like malls, offices, airports etc. It can also be used as an assisting in database handling, surveillance, and space security.

How can we stop web companies harvesting our private information?

Any online platform you use collects information about your behavior, location and interests. Browsing history may be combined with physical location, shopping purchases with watched TV shows, commute to work and so on. Basically, you’re tracked from the moment you wake up until you go to sleep.

It’s difficult to completely avoid being tracked – and the data that has already been shared cannot be taken back.However, there are a few proven privacy protection methods that can easily be implemented by anyone using the internet:

Download all your Facebook data if you are deleting your account.

If you have decided to delete your Facebook account, first download all your data that is held by Facebook – just to see the extent of what they have been collecting.Go to Settings, General Account Settings and click‘Download a copy of your Facebook data’.

Delete all suspicious apps.

It’s important to revoke access to Facebook applications that are no longer in use, as well as suspicious apps that offer users ways to get ‘likes’,followers or view private accounts on Instagram and other types of social media.

Delete cookies, which are one of the most common ways to track your online behaviour.

These are small pieces of code that are downloaded to your browser when you visit a website. When you visit that site again, this will be recorded through the cookie, so you can be targeted with ads. You should regularly clear your browsing data to get rid of cookies.

Use a VPN to encrypt data between your device and the internet, and make sure your browsing history remain confidential.

NordVPN is fast and easy to use, and is known for focusing on privacy,security and having a zero-logs policy. It reroutes and encrypts all web traffic by hiding your IP address.

 

Club 3D Radeon HD 6570 1 GB DDR3

Club 3D announced the intro-duction of the AMD Radeon HD 6570 video card based on the Turks Pro chipset, AMD’s second generation DirectX 11.

The Club 3D Radeon HD 6570 1 GB DDR3 video card features now the AMD HD3D technology which allows you to have faster access to multimedia applications and gives you all tools to enhanced productivity. Furthermore you can enjoy the latest 3D Blu-Ray movies with EyeSpeed technology.
The new card comes equipped with a nice single slot cooler which makes you enjoy your new video card without compromising on your perfect computing environment.

The card is available from now on for an estimated end-user price of € 55 excl. VAT.

Features

- Second generation Microsoft DirectX 11 support
- PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
- “Eye-Definition” graphics
- AMD EyeSpeed visual acceleration
- UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator
- AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing technology
- DirectCompute 11
- OpenGL 4.1 Support
- AMD HD3D technology
- Blu-ray 3D support
- AMD CrossfireX multi-GPU technology
- Integrated HDMI 1.4a with support for stereoscopic 3D
- Integrated HD audio controller

Specifications

Item Code	CGAX-65724ZI
Interface	PCI-E 2.1
GPU Clock	650 MHz
Memory Type	DDR3
Memory Clock	1333 Hz
Memory	1024 MB
Memory Interface	128 bit
API Support	DirectX 11 / OpenCL
Max. Digital Resolution	2560 x 1600
Max. Analog Resolution	2048 x 1536
DUAL LINK DVI OUT	x 1
HDMI	x 1
CRT	x 1
EAN Code	8717249409472
Cooling	Active Single Slot

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3G and Samsung Galaxy Tab Wi-Fi

A mini-PC, media player, and e-reader all rolled into one incredible device, the Samsung Galaxy Tab is a powerful entertainment device and business tool. Premium features include Google Android 2.2 (Froyo), a 7-inch touchscreen for mobile computing, watching videos, and browsing the Internet, a rear-facing 3MP camera and camcorder and flash, and a front-facing 1.3MP camera and camcorder for video chat, and flexible access to the World Wide Web with 3G or Wi-Fi versions.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab supports Adobe Flash Player 10.1, providing an enhanced content experience by allowing access to thousands of websites with complex Flash-based applications and content while the Samsung Galaxy Wi-Fi allows you to connect with friends and family faster and easier through the Samsung Social Hub. This allows users to integrate social networking services, messages, personal and business e-mail, calendars, and contacts. Information from web calendars, such as Google Calendar and Facebook, are merged into a single interface for easy organization, too.

Source: Samsung

Nintendo reveal New Wii U Console at E3

Good news for Nintendo fans - the company has revealed a new Wii U console that boasts of HD gaming to match the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. The new console will also have a touchscreen based controller, which looks rather like a large tablet with a 6.2-inch screen and the usual buttons that one finds on a game controller. What's more, it seems that you can play games on the controller itself, without the TV, with the game content streamed wirelessly to the controller.

Engadget - Coming in 2012, Nintendo's next home console will deliver "deeper game experiences" that aim to offer "something for everyone." And it'll be called the Wii U! A variety of new controls will be made available by that crazy new controller with a 6.2-inch touchscreen embedded in it. Most importantly, you'll no longer be tied to a TV to enjoy your home consoling action -- the Wii U controller can handle your gaming session when the television is needed for other purposes, while a built-in front-facing cam will let you video chat from anywhere too.

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Apple iOS 5 features

Among the big news about storage clouds and desktop operating system announced by Apple yesterday was also the expected new iOS 5 operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Steve Jobs didn't have any new hardware to show us this time, so we have to wait until autumn for the next iPhone announcement.

Some of the new features in iOS 5 are

• Twitter integration directly into the OS
• Opening the camera application right from the lock screen
• New photo enchancements such as red-eye removal, auto-enhance and simple edit functionality
• Improved Safari web browser with one-click button for page saving with ads for later viewing.
• Mac and PC Free.
• iOS update over the air without the need of iTunes
• Split virtual keyboard (iPad)
• Wi-Fi Sync. Automatically backup and sync to iTunes wirelessly when connecting the device to a power source.

The MobileMe sync service previously offered by Apple are not accepting new subscribers from today. Instead Apple announced a similar iCloud storage service for all iOS5 devices. 5GB of storage is free for saving documents, email, contacts and more. Everything is automatically syncronized between your iOS 5 devices. If you buy a song from iTunes, it will be stored in iCloud and made accessible to your iPod, iPhone and iPad.

A closer look on Apple's iCloud music service

Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs has unveiled a new service for people to store their photos, music and other data online. Termed iCloud, the service challenges Google's cloud-based offerings, which already use services like Gmail, Calendar, Picasa, and Google Docs to let users see and edit the same document or photo across multiple devices.

Here's looking into what Apple iCloud is all about.

iCloud storage and more
With iCloud, files will be stored by Apple in remote data centers -- known as the “cloud” in technology parlance -- and automatically synchronize. This means the same content is available from any Apple gadget, without it cluttering up users’ hard drives.

The feature will include 5GB of free storage for users’ files, plus unlimited room for purchased apps and books, and recent photos.

iCloud will be supported by new versions of applications like Calendar, Mail, and Contacts, and if information is changed for one contact, the new data goes to Apple's servers and is then pushed to the other devices.

Replaces MobileMe
Apple iCloud replaces the company's MobileMe service. Unlike MobileMe, iCloud will also allow users to sync their apps, documents, music and photos along with contacts, calendar and mails. This means that users will be able to use apps purchased using iPhone on iPad as well as restore them using the cloud service if something goes wrong.

MobileMe allowed users to sync their contacts, calendar, and mail with a virtual harddisk for anywhere, anytime access.

It's free
Unlike MobieMe with iCloud, Apple revamps its approach and is offering the content-syncing service for free. iCloud will be available as a free download when Apple releases iOS5 later this year. MobileMe costs users $99 per year.

Music biggies on board
Ever the showman, the Apple CEO announced that the company has struck licensing agreements with all the major recording labels on the new music synching system.

The company has signed deals with Warner Music Group Corp, Universal Music Group, EMI Group and Sony Music Entertainment.

Goes wireless
All future iTunes purchases also will be automatically sent to all the devices. None of the transfers will require devices to be plugged into a single computer. It will automatically happen over wireless connections.

iTunes Match

Apple has also introduced a new service called iTunes Match. The $25-per-year service is meant for music not bought through iTunes. Apple iTunes Match matches music ripped from CDs in a subscriber's personal music collection and makes it available online.

The service will scan every song in users' libraries and match it with a copy in the cloud. This way customers don’t require to upload all their music song by song -- a requirement on services introduced by Google and Amazon.

The limit of "iTunes Match" is 25,000 songs, and the service will update lesser-quality song files to iTunes standards. Also, iTunes purchases do not count against this limit.

Photos

iCloud offers an app called Photo Stream which will keep users' photos synchronized across devices. This means a photo taken on a yser's iPhone will automatically be downloaded to his computer and iPad. The feature also means that users will not have to do anything new to sync their photos.

Acer Iconia smartphone review

The high-end smartphone space is dominated by premium brands like HTC, Samsung and LG, with a smattering of different form factors and screen sizes ranging from the standard 4-inch Samsung Nexus S and to the relatively bigger 4.3-inch HTC Desire HD. To really make an impact in a market that’s dominated by high-profile brands and devices, you need to be a little bit different. The Acer Iconia Smart is certainly that. Sporting a massive 4.8-inch, 480×1024 resolution capacitive sceen, the Iconia Smart is an imposing smartphone, at least physically.

In a time where smartphones are shedding hard keys and moving into touch-sensitive controls, the Iconia Smart does the opposite. Housed directly below the gigantic 4.8-inch screen lies the home, search, back and option keys.

The volume rocker and camera shortcut keys are all located on the right side of the unit.

The left side holds the USB slot that pulls double duty as a USB charging port and the HDMI out port if you want to export video to your HDTV.

There’s an eight megapixel camera located on the back, as well as a smaller secondary camera on the front. The whole thing weighs in at a hefty 185 grams – which is a bit heavier than your average smartphone. Some may see this is a negative, but I actually didn’t mind the added weight as it gave the unit a bit of heft. Of course, your mileage may vary. The battery is located at the bottom of the unit, and Acer seems to have taken a few design cues from HTC’s unibody devices when it comes to accessing the battery. You have to take off the bottom cover first, and then open the compartment via a small latch to access the battery.

The Iconia Smart uses Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS with UI enhancements courtesy of Acer. The unlock screen slightly differs in that you’re presented with 3 initial home screens that you can scroll through without unlocking the phone – great for checking how many unread SMS messages and missed calls you’ve received, checking to see what track is playing and so on. As with anything on Android, that screen is customizable.

Once you’re past that, you get 7 home screens that you can customize depending on your needs.

The first and seventh screen has Acer’s own quick-access solution that acts like a mini-rolodex of sorts for your media (music, photos and video) for the first screen and websites in the case of the second.

The Iconia Smart is powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255-1 Snapdragon Scorpion processor. While I was slightly disappointed that something this large wasn’t powered by a dual-core procie, the performance of the unit made up for it – the device was pretty quick, and it was capable of decent graphics. To scientifically gauge performance, we ran a couple of benchmarking tools on the Iconia Smart – Neocore, a graphic benchmarking tool, AnTutu, a system benchmark that stresses the entire phone from graphics to memory, and  Quadrant Standard, which gives another benchmark perspective into the performance of the phone.

Because of the unique size of the Iconia Smart, the Neocore benchmark only ran in the maximum 480×854 resolution, and not the 480×1024 the screen was capable of. Nevertheless, the Iconia Smart came in at a zippy 57.6 FPS.

For AnTuTu, the results were 1992, which were decent.

Quadrant Standard on the other hand, gave the Iconia Smart 1480 points, which was a bit higher than what the benchmark gave the Nexus One on Android 2.2.
For something that has a huge screen, battery life wasn’t as bad as I’d initially thought. The Iconia Smart needed a sip at the end of every workday (with moderate to heavy use), but considering the screen size I think that’s pretty good. Call quality was good.
Two issues stop me from recommending the Iconia Smart to Android freshmen. Ironically, its biggest appeal is also its biggest stumbling block: size. While the Iconia Smart is easy enough for someone like me to use, anyone with dainty hands (which constitute a majority of Filipinos) is in for rough ride. It’s mainly a personal thing, and as such your mileage may vary. Sound isn’t as loud as I’d hoped, which is a major let down since the device sports Dolby Mobile sound enhancement. The huge screen is such a nice place to view movies, unfortunately the disappointing sound makes headphones a necessity if you want to hear what the actors are saying.

What’s Hot:
Large, 4.8-inch capacitive touchscreen
Large screen makes it a natural for watching movies
Good performance, ok battery life

What’s Not:
Large screen makes it a challenge for people with dainty hands to use
Sound could be better

Bottomline:
The Acer Iconia Smart is certainly different, and if you don’t have issues with a large screen, it just might be your next Android smartphone.

Creative Rolls Out ZEN X-Fi Style Portable Media Players

Creative Technology Ltd. comes back to the PMP market by releasing the new Creative ZEN X-Fi Style and Creative ZEN Style series. Available in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB of storage capacities, the Creative ZEN X-Fi Style comes equipped with a bright 2.4-inch TFT display, the Video Out in X-Fi audio quality for watching movies on the TV, lossless audio support (FLAC), and a built-in speaker for music sharing. The gadget also adopts the X-Fi technology for crystal clear music. Its battery provides up to 25 hours of audio playback or 5 hours of video playback. Additional features include an FM radio, an alarm clock, a calendar and a voice recorder.

The Creative ZEN Style has a bright 1.8-inch TFT display, a built-in speaker for music sharing, an FM radio (Only with Creative ZEN Style 300), an alarm clock, a calendar and a voice recorder. Its battery provides enough juice for up to 32 hours of music playback from a single charge (@128kbps MP3). The Creative ZEN Style Series is currently available in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB of storage space.

The Creative ZEN X-Fi Style is currently up for pre-order and will be available from April 14th onwards from $79.99 to $169.99, depending on storage capacity that you choose. Meanwhile, the Creative ZEN Style will retail for between $49.99 to $79.99, depending on the storage space.

Sony’s Portable 2-way Speaker Dock

The Sony RDP-NWV500 speaker is specially designed to fit in your car’s cup holder. The portable 2-way speaker dock can dish out 16W of 360 degrees audio from its 56-mm woofer and 20-mm tweeter. The speaker can be managed via top-mounted controls or the included remote control. It draws its power from the car’s accessory socket. The RDP-NWV500 is priced at 20,000 Yen or about $214 each.

New Sony Cyber-Shot Camera With Rhinestones

Sony has recently released the spanking new Cyber-Shot DSC-W350D digital camera for the Japanese market. Designed for women, the 14.5MP camera is decorated with sparkling rhinestones. The Cyber-Shot DSC-W350D features a 2.7-inch LCD display for previewing your captured photos, a 4x optical zoom, a 45MB of internal memory, the BIONZ Image Processing Engine, a high-resolution wide-angle 26mm lens, an optical image stabilization, an ISO Sensitivity of up to 3200 and a memory card for storage expansion.

People Of Lava Google Android Powered HDTV

People Of Lava has developed the Scandinavia HDTV that runs on Google’s Android OS. The Scandinavia HDTV will be available in a variety of sizes such as 42-inch, 47-inch, and 55-inch. Each HDTVs is powered by an 833MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor and Android 1.5 OS. Additional specs include a couple of USB 2.0 ports, a DVB-T digital TV tuner, HDMI and the ability to playback video in Full HD and 1080p. The 42-inch model is priced at $2,500.

Mitsubishi Launches New 23-inch Eco-friendly LCD Monitor

Mitsubishi Electric has released a new addition to its Diamondcrysta WIDE family of monitors in the form of the RDT232WLM. This new model features a 23-inch TN panel and an ECO Mode that can lower power consumption by 35%. Available in black or white model, the RDT232WLM has a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, a 5ms response time, a brightness of 250 cd/m2, a 1000:1 contrast ratio (5000:1 DCR), D-Sub, DVI and HDMI outputs, and a couple of 1W speakers. The Mitsubishi RDT232WLM will be released in Japan on April 23rd, 2010.

MSI Readies N220GT-MD1GL/D3 Low-Profile GeForce GT 220

MSI is preparing to launch another low-profile GeForce GT 220 graphics card to its range in the form of the N220GT-MD1GL/D3. Designed specifically for HTPC users, the card integrates 48 Stream Processors, a 128-bit memory interface, a 1GB of GDDR3 memory, an active cooling system and factory overclocked frequencies – 625MHz for the GPU, 1360MHz for the shader and 1580MHz for the memory. It also comes with D-Sub, DVI and HDMI outputs, and supports DirectX 10.1. The N220GT-MD1GL/D3 should be available very soon for unannounced price yet.

Tongfang Q5 Android MID Shipped

Chinese-based company Tongfang has begun shipping their latest Android MID ‘Q5′ in China. Measuring 120mm x 80.7mm x 9.9mm and weighing 209g, the device boasts a 4.8-inch 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen display, a 866MHz RK2808 processor, a 4GB of storage, a 128MB RAM, a music/video player, a web browser, email support, WiFi, a 3.55mm headset jack, a 2200mAh battery and is pre-loaded with Android OS. The Tongfang Q5 is now available for purchase in China via Amazon.cn for a retail price of 1,999 Yuan (about $293).

WD Scorpion Blue Hard Drive For Laptop

Newegg has started selling the new Western Digital Scorpion Blue WD7500BPVT HDD for laptop. Priced at $119.99 each, this 2.5-inch HDD is currently available in 750GB of storage space, which is the highest on this form factor. The WD Scorpion Blue WD7500BPVT has a 2-platter 9.5mm high HDD with SATA 3GB/s interface, a 5400rpm spin rate, and an 8MB of cache. Additionally, the HDD also adopts the Advanced Format Technology[Newegg]

Golden Xbox 360

The folks at Computer Choppers just love dipping consoles in gold ,like this 24-karat Xbox 360. With a plain jane Xbox you just have to worry about the Red Ring Of Death. With this $5,000 purchase, you have that to worry about and plus you might die at your wife’s hand.

The Xbox and its controller have both received the beautiful golden sheen. You don’t have to be filthy rich, but it helps. In which case, it goes well with all of your other blinged out stuff.

Samsung To Unleash U250 And U200 All-In-One Desktop PCs In UK

Samsung is about to unleash two new all-in-one desktop PCs for the UK market in the form of the U200 and U250. The U200 offers a 20-inch 1600 x 900 touchscreen display, a 2.2GHz Intel Pentium T440 dual core processor, a 512MB GeForce G310M graphics card, a 2GB RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a DVD drive, a web camera, a multi card reader and runs on Windows 7 OS. Meanwhile, the U250 boasts a 23-inch 1920 x 1080 Full HD touchscreen display, a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 dual core processor, a 512MB GeForce G310M graphics card, a 3GB RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a DVD drive, a web camera, a multi card reader and is pre-loaded with Windows 7 OS. Both all-in-one desktop PCs will hit UK next month, however, there’s no word on pricing yet.

iWeb - 6.5'' Notebook - Transformer

What would be advanced, lightweight, compact and beautiful were not laptops and netbooks, one they will always lag behind the desktop, and it is - a full keyboard. I think few would argue with the fact that the printed text of 10-15 pages on a laptop is not so easy, then as a netbook, this procedure becomes suschuyu torture. The concept, proposed by designer Yang Yongchang is based on quite a successful idea: since we are dealing with a scanner, why not make a big crooked number? In fact, such solutions have been proposed in the concepts of external keyboards for the Tablet PC, in addition, collapsing real keyboard used in conjunction with the CPC in those days, when smart phones are not dragged to a consumer handheld computers. For example, if you implement this concept in any netbook, you can get quite a decent keyboard size of an average laptop. In turn, the netbook with such a design would have differed little from the desktop PC in terms of convenience of the press.

Yamaha releases first line of in-ear headphones

Yamaha has just launched its first line of in-ear headphones which comprises three models' the EPH-20, EPH-30 and EPH-50.
As indicative by the naming, the EPH-50 is the flagship pseudo-audiophile variant with 13.6mm drivers, sturdier construction and includes a quarter-inch adapter for home stereos. These come in black or white.

The EPH-30 is the more mainstream positioned model with 9mm drivers and a more conventional design, whilst the EPH-20 sits at the entry-level with slightly larger drivers (10.7mm), aimed at buyers who don't want to spend a premium whilst still getting satisfactory quality. These come in five colors of your choice.

The new EPH series is designed to work fine with iPhones, iPods and all other devices with 3.5mm jacks. Pricing starts at $30 for the EPH-20s, whilst the EPH-30s and EPH-50s come in at $50 and $100 respectively.