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Adaptive Noise Cancellation From Sony
In a world where important sound and background noise can feel indistinguishable, noise canceling headphones can sometimes create more problems than they solve. If you’re waiting at the airport, you’d rather hear your boarding announcement than lose yourself in the music. What about a busy street? You can’t ignore the honks and rings that alert you to possible danger.
Fortunately Sony has created a line of products that solves that problem. Called Adaptive Sound Control, Sony created a companion app with their headphones to allow you to control the amount of ambient, voice and music you allow to come through their headphones. Their Smart Listening feature even allows the headphones to learn about your activity, and adjust the sound settings to what you need at the moment.
Keep an eye out for Sony’s Adaptive Sound Control lineup in September.
Acer Releases 360 Degree, 4K Dashcam
If you’re looking for a way to capture, edit and share your special moments, Acer’s Holo360 might be what you’ve been waiting for.
The Holo360 is an Android-powered camera that stitches together 360-degree 4K videos in real time and with it’s LTE technology, livestream the videos.
Aside from the Holo360, Acer released the Vision360, a dashboard camera for your car. The device detects collisions, and records video of the incident, as well as the GPS coordinates, and uploads the information to the cloud. Since the camera is 360-degrees, it not only records what’s going outside the car, but records what’s going on on the inside.
Asus Making Their Mixed Reality Headset… A Reality
Asus took advantage of their IFA 2017 Press event to give some more details about their upcoming Mixed Reality headset, and apparently, it’s got some unique features that puts it ahead of the pack.
Apart from sporting a 1440x 1440 display, an ergonomic strap, and an easy-flip display, it’s got an easy setup system that uses cameras and LED’s on the headset itself to get information about the room, instead of depending on external sensors. Asus claims this allows for a setup time of under 10 minutes.
Together with the Mixed Reality headsets, Asus is refreshing their lineup of laptops to have a compatable set up products for this holiday season
The LG V30 Phablet Shown Off At IFA 2017
As expected, the V30 features a dual-lens camera. The camera includes a fast f1.6, glass lens.
The V30 is meant for video, its CineEffect can apply a tone to videos automatically to give the user’s video a cinematic effect that helps share the mood of the scene.
Improving ambient audio
To improve audio recording, LG developed a feature called RAM, or Receiver as Mic, which uses the phone’s receiver to record loud sounds such as live music with more accuracy.
A better display
LG has been manufacturing OLED TVs for many years, and they claim to have used that experience to fine tune the always-on screen.
The screen quality is supposed to bring better VR experiences when used with devices like Google’s Daydream.
Panasonic Unveils Smart Speaker At IFA 2017
The GA10 Smart Speaker
The Panasonic GA10 is a smart speaker to be released in the winter that features proprietary drivers and an AI assistant.
Google Assistant
Panasonic did not develop their own digital assistant and instead chose Google Assistant to power their speaker.
As is the case with Google’s own speakers, the GA10 responds to voice commands, including requests to stream music.
Multiroom
Several GA10s can work together as a whole home system, or the user can request that music be played by a specific speaker.
Samsung Updates Its Fitness Trackers At IFA 2017
Gear Sport
Samsung’s Gear Sport is a circular smartwatch featuring a 1.2-inch AMOLED screen and military-level ruggedness.
As with recent Gear watches, the bezel can be used to cycle through menus and the screen is touch sensitive.
The Gear Sport can control Samsung IoT devices through Samsung connect, work as a remote for PowerPoint presentations and Samsung Gear VR, and be used to pay at NFC terminals using Samsung Pay.
Gear Fit2 Pro
While Samsung pitches the Gear Sport as a device that can transcend the gym and be worn at work and while out on the town, they also showed off a purely fitness-centric smartwatch.
The Gear Fit2Pro features a curved, square 1.5 inch AMOLED screen, GPS tracking for runs, water resistance, and the ability to track swims.
Gear IconX 2018
The IconX are Samsung’s cord-free sports earbuds that can access Bixby, and control music and make phone calls using voice commands.
The earbuds can play up to 5 hours of music streaming, or up to 7 hours worth of locally stored music. The music can be stored in 4GB of internal storage.