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Introduced an interactive mouthguard that allows you to control smartphones and wheelchairs

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Scientists from Singapore have presented the world’s first interactive mouth guard that allows you to control electronic devices.

This affordable, lightweight, compact and easy-to-use invention allows bite force to be determined. The device allows users to precisely control devices such as computers, smartphones and wheelchairs.

This first-of-its-kind optoelectronic bite control system was invented by a research team led by Professor Liu Xiaogang from the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in conjunction with staff from Tsinghua University.

In recent years, various assistive technologies such as voice recognition, eye tracking, and brain-computer interfaces have been developed to help people, especially those with limited dexterity or neurological disorders, control electronic devices. However, these technologies have limitations related to environmental noise, control accuracy, cost, and maintenance.

Introduced an interactive mouthguard that allows you to control smartphones and wheelchairs

When creating the device, the engineers were guided by the fact that controlling gadgets with voice, movements, or even the power of thought does not have sufficient protection and does not provide complete user privacy due to the ability to read commands. Then the researchers came up with special caps with pressure sensors that recognize the force of the bite.

The user clenches his jaw or knocks a certain number of times tooth to tooth, after which the system understands what command the gadget should give it. You can assign a script to each bite or knock force. The accuracy of determining the input data is currently 98%.

Each Smart Mouth currently costs about $70 to produce. The team expects the cost to be substantially reduced with mass production.

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Nubia Z60 Ultra will refute the thesis about the uselessness of ultra-wide-angle cameras in smartphones

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Nubia Z60 Ultra will refute the thesis about the uselessness

The Nubia brand today published details about the camera of the future flagship Nubia Z60 Ultra. In particular, we are talking about its module with an ultra-wide-angle lens.

Nubia Z60 Ultra will refute the thesis about the uselessness of ultra-wide-angle cameras in smartphones

With its new flagship, Nubia will try to “refute the theory that wide-angle cameras are useless.” This refers to photo quality: modules with ultra-wide-angle lenses are equipped with low-quality optics, low-resolution sensors and small optical formats, and all this naturally leads to the fact that the photo quality of the ultra-wide-angle camera is much inferior to the photo quality of the main camera.

But this will not happen in the Nubia Z60 Ultra: the corresponding module will have a fast (F/1.8) 50-megapixel 1/1.56-inch optical format sensor, complemented by an eight-element lens and an optical stabilization system. In general, this model will have triple OIS – in each of the three modules.

The official premiere of Nubia Z60 Ultra will take place on December 19. The smartphone will receive Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, a 6000 mAh battery and IP68 protection.

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One UI 6.0 on Android 14 released for Galaxy S21 FE in Europe

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One UI 60 on Android 14 released for Galaxy S21

At the beginning of the week, One UI 6.0 firmware based on Android 14 was released for the Galaxy S21 FE version for the North American market, and now a similar version of the software has been released for the European Galaxy S21 FE.

One UI 6.0 on Android 14 released for Galaxy S21 FE in Europe

Update number G990B2XXU5FWK3, is already being distributed in Europe (particularly in Germany). The software is 2.4 GB in size and includes the November Android security updates.

Let’s remember that the Galaxy S21 FE came out in January 2022 with Android 12 out of the box. Android 14 is not the last for it – Samsung promises to release Android 15 for this model.

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A truly unique smartphone design. Nubia Z60 Ultra turned out to be extremely unusual

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A truly unique smartphone design Nubia Z60 Ultra turned out

The Nubia brand cannot boast of a large assortment of smartphones or good sales, but what cannot be taken away from Nubia devices is the design. Recently, everyone was surprised by the gaming Red Magic 9 Pro with cameras without any protrusion and a flat, minimalistic design, but now images of the flagship Z60 Ultra have appeared on the Internet, which does not look like Red Magic, but at the same time looks no less unusual, if not more.

A truly unique smartphone design.  Nubia Z60 Ultra turned out to be extremely unusual

As you can see, the device does not have any separate block of cameras, while three cameras are placed in an unusual way and each is designed in its own way.

Thanks to this design, the Z60 Ultra does not look like any other smartphone at all, and not even close. Plus, it has the most angular shapes and a screen without any cutouts, since the front camera is sub-screen.

The new Nubia should receive SoC Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, a battery with a capacity of 6000 mAh and cameras with a resolution of 50, 50 and 64 megapixels, including a periscope module.

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