Motorola DROID Turbo 1st Gen - Review

Pros

• Long battery life
• Attractive Quad HD screen
• Powerful performance
• Camera a clear improvement over the Moto X's

Cons

• Less charming design than the Moto X
• No expandable memory

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NETWORK	Technology	GSM / CDMA / HSPA / EVDO / LTE

LAUNCH	Announced	2014, October
	Status	Available. Released 2014, October

BODY	Dimensions	143.5 x 73.3 x 8.3 - 11.2
	Weight	169 g (5.96 oz)
	SIM	Nano-SIM
		- Splash resistant

DISPLAY	Type	Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	5.2 inches (~70.9% screen-to-body ratio)
	Resolution	1440 x 2560 pixels (~565 ppi pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes
	Protection	Corning Gorilla Glass 3
		- Moto Display

PLATFORM	OS	Android OS, v4.4.4 (KitKat), upgradable to v6.0 (Marshmallow)
	Chipset	Qualcomm Snapdragon 805
	CPU	Quad-core 2.7 GHz Krait 450
	GPU	Adreno 420

MEMORY	Card slot	No
	Internal	32/64 GB, 3 GB RAM

CAMERA	Primary	21 MP, f/2.0, autofocus, dual-LED flash
	Features	Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, panorama, HDR
	Video	2160p@24fps, 1080p@30fps
	Secondary	2 MP, 1080p

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes
		- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

COMMS	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot
	Bluetooth	v4.0, A2DP, LE
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
	NFC	Yes
	Radio	No
	USB	microUSB v2.0

FEATURES	Sensors	Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
	Browser	HTML5
	Java	No
		- Fast battery charging: 60% in 30 min (Quick Charge 2.0) - Qi wireless charging - MP4/H.265 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player - Photo/video editor - Document editor

BATTERY		Non-removable Li-Po 3900 mAh battery
	Stand-by	Up to 675 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 48 h (3G)

MISC	Colors	Black Ballistic Nylon, Metallic Black, Metallic Red, Blue
	SAR US	1.39 W/kg (head)     0.50 W/kg (body)

What more do you need? Oh, benchmarks? Here you go:

	MOTOROLA DROID TURBO	SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 4	MOTO X (2014)	IPHONE 6 PLUS
Quadrant 2.0	23,706	24,425	22,721	N/A
Vellamo 3.0	3,803	1,808	2,093	N/A
3DMark IS Unlimited	20,030	20,692	19,568	17,902
SunSpider 1.0 (ms)	807	793	787	388
GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen (fps)	18.1	18.8	11.9	18.2
CF-Bench	48,861	43,234	39,018	N/A
SunSpider: Lower scores are better. Motorola DROID Turbo 1st Gen Full Specs. http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_droi... Video Reviewed By Aqueel Firdausi https://www.facebook.com/univercell.pk/ aqeelferdowsi@gmail.com Camera & Shooting equipment Provided By Mohammad Asad Masroor asadmr3@gmail.com

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Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 2013: Earth's Shadow To Fall On Full Moon On Friday, Oct. 18

A penumbral lunar eclipse -- so called because only the incomplete outer portion of the Earth's shadow, or penumbra, falls across the moon -- is expected to reach its deepest point at 7:50 p.m. ET on Friday, Oct. 18.
Unlike total eclipses, in which Earth's umbra -- the central region of its shadow -- darkens the moon entirely, a penumbral lunar eclipse involves only a slight dimming. Skywatchers should expect to see a much more subtle sight -- with a shadow on the lower half of the full moon -- like the eclipse pictured below.

 

Weather permitting, viewers in the eastern part of the North American continent should have a decent chance of seeing the end of the eclipse. But the best show will be visible in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. For skywatchers in these parts of the world, the celestial phenomenon will be observable during the overnight hours when the full moon should appear brighter in the night sky. As PlanetSave noted, the penumbral lunar eclipse is expected to take place between 9:51 p.m and 1:50 a.m. GMT.

A map illustrates the expected visibility of the penumbral lunar eclipse during the October 2013 full moon.

 Viewers along North America's West Coast may be out of luck, as the eclipse will occur during daylight hours there. The next lunar eclipse isn't expected until April 2014.

'Bionic Man' Walks, Breathes With Artificial Parts

 

Artificial pancreas

The term "bionic man" was the stuff of science fiction in the 1970s, when a popular TV show called "The Six Million Dollar Man" chronicled the adventures of Steve Austin, a former astronaut whose body was rebuilt using artificial parts after he nearly died.
Now, a team of engineers has assembled a robot using artificial organs, limbs and other body parts that comes tantalizingly close to a true "bionic man." For real, this time.
The artificial "man" is the subject of a Smithsonian Channel documentary that airs Sunday, Oct. 20 at 9 p.m. Called "The Incredible Bionic Man," it chronicles engineers' attempt to assemble a functioning body using artificial parts that range from a working kidney and circulation system to cochlear and retina implants.
The robot making appearances in the U.S. for the first time this week. Having crossed the Atlantic tucked inside two metal trunks — and after a brief holdup in customs — the bionic man will strut his stuff at the New York Comic Con festival on Friday.
Walker says the robot has about 60 to 70 percent of the function of a human. It stands six-and-a-half feet tall and can step, sit and stand with the help of a Rex walking machine that's used by people who've lost the ability to walk due to a spinal injury. It also has a functioning heart that, using an electronic pump, beats and circulates artificial blood, which carries oxygen just like human blood. An artificial, implantable kidney, meanwhile, replaces the function of a modern-day dialysis unit.
Although the parts used in the robot work, many of them are a long way from being used in humans. The kidney, for example, is only a prototype. And there are some key parts missing: there's no digestive system, liver, or skin. And, of course, no brain.
The bionic man was modeled after Bertolt Meyer, a 36-year-old social psychologist at the University of Zurich who was born without his lower left arm and wears a bionic prosthesis. The man's face was created based on a 3D scan of Meyer's face.
"We wanted to showcase that the technology can provide aesthetic prostheses for people who have lost parts of their faces, for example, their nose, due to an accident or due to, for example, cancer," Meyer says.
Meyer says he initially felt a sense of unease when he saw the robot for the first time.
"I thought it was rather revolting to be honest," he says. "It was quite a shock to see a face that closely resembles what I see in the mirror every morning on this kind of dystopian looking machine."
He has since warmed up to it, especially after the "man" was outfitted with some clothes from the U.K. department store Harrods.
And the cost? As it turns out, this bionic man comes cheaper than his $6-million-dollar sci-fi cousin. While the parts used in the experiment were donated, their value is about $1 million.

Watery Asteroid Remnants Around Distant Star Boosts Chance Of Life Outside Solar System

Now, scientists have discovered evidence that a white dwarf known as GD 61 was once orbited by a rocky, water-rich asteroid—just the kind of thing you’d need to build a habitable alien world.
Most stars (including, in about 4 billion years, our sun) end their lives as white dwarfs, after they have burned all their nuclear fuel. These super dense stellar embers exert such strong gravity that any element heavier than helium will immediately sink to the dwarf’s core. So imagine astronomers’ surprise when they discovered that some white dwarfs are cloaked in layers of “pollution” made up of silicon, oxygen, and other elements much higher up on the periodic table.
t GD 61 has “shredded” a rocky asteroid that was 26% to 28% water. About the same size as Vesta in our solar system’s asteroid belt, the asteroid likely orbited the white dwarf’s precursor, an A-type star slightly bigger than the sun. After that star died, the white dwarf’s stronger gravity probably dragged in the asteroid and tore it apart.
Water-rich asteroids are considered to be important for the formation of habitable planets, crashing into them and supplying them with life-giving liquid water. Although “we certainly can’t rewind the clock completely” to discover what GD 61’s original solar system looked like, Farihi says, the discovery of the asteroid reveals “the building blocks of Earth-like planets were there.” In the future, he hopes to look at the system with a powerful telescope like the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array radio array in Chile to see if any of the original planets survived the death of their star, or whether anything remains of the asteroid belt where the water-rich planetesimal was born.
Finding a water-rich asteroid near a white dwarf bolsters the long-shot idea that life might rise again around these dead stars, says John Debes, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, who wasn’t involved in the research. After their stars’ violent deaths, white dwarfs remain remarkably stable for billions more years, which would mean “they’d actually be really good places to live,” Debes says. The problem, however, is that a planet would have to be extremely close to a dim white dwarf to be warm enough to support life—as close as the devoured asteroid was to GD 61, in fact. Still, Debes says, if a rocky planet managed to settle into a stable orbit that close to a white dwarf, Farihi’s team’s discovery shows that “there might be some hope of getting water onto those planets” via asteroids—just what happened on Earth so many billions of years ago.