Xiaomi TV box debut at MWC

On the evening of February 26, the official account of the Xiaomi box posted a news saying that the overseas version of the Xiaomi box appeared in conjunction with the Xiaomi television 4 in the MWC. I found out that the overseas version of the Xiaomi box is different from the previously released MI BOX, and a new upgrade of the box system has been realized.

At the Google I / O 2016 conference in May 2016, Xiaomi and Google launched the Mi box, the first product to enter the United States. Featuring Android TV 6.0 and 4K Ultra HD quality, the box comes standard with a Bluetooth voice remote for voice search and offers users thousands of popular apps like Netflix, HBO, Showtime and VUDU. Users can enjoy tens of thousands of movies and TV shows. With superior hardware configuration, massive content resources, Xiaomi box just hit the US market, the first batch of products sold out within 6 hours. Followed by that, the Xiaomi box launched in Spain and other countries and regions, but also highly sought after, frequently out of stock.

After almost two years, the appearance of the overseas version of the Xiaomi box appeared in MWC, although the appearance design still has no change, but the system has been upgraded to a new Android TV 8.0 system, and has the built-in Google Voice Assistant, so Xiaomi box and Google have further In-depth cooperation, the function is also more powerful.

In the Chinese market, the Xiaomi box is the pioneer and leader of the entire OTT box industry. Therefore, since its launch, the xiaomi mi box has been marching forward in the market with sales leading the way. The overseas version of the system, the full upgrade of the Xiaomi box, reflects the Xiaomi television for international business attaches great importance. Not long ago, on February 14, Xiaomi TV 4 was officially released in India and was sold out in 10 seconds on the day of sale. Even the prototypes were sold out. As a result, the internationalization of Xiaomi television business has been fully launched and the momentum is fierce. I believe, in the future, Xiaomi television and box products will also enter more countries and regions, let people around the world can enjoy these great products.

Flying robot Cimon is about to board the International Space Station

According to the British "Daily Mail" reported on February 26, the space station's astronauts will welcome a new passenger this year: a talking floating robot Cimon, which is short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion. He is a spherical robot with a smiling face, weighing 5kg, with an artificial intelligence brain and an 8-inch large screen. With propeller-driven thrusters, he was able to move in a weightless environment, he knew how to listen to music, and mastered more than 1,000 sentences. In addition, he is able to float around the International Space Station, provide technical assistance, warn of system failures and dangers, and provide astronauts with a range of entertainment.

Cimon has another special friend at Space Station, the German geophysicist Dr. Alexander Gust. As part of a collaborative human-computer experiment, Cimon recognizes Dr. Gust's voice and face and even plays his favorite music. Gust and Cimon will collaborate on crystal experiments, Rubik's cube challenges and completing a medical mission. Among these, Cimon will act as a smart flight camera.

According to reports, the floating robot Cimon means the members of the interactive mobile partners. As the name suggests, its role is to accompany the astronauts to spend "boring" space life. As it also knows how to enjoy music, and mastered more than 1,000 sentences, it can easily communicate with astronauts. In addition to companionship capabilities, Cimon is also able to fly around the International Space Station, providing technical assistance to astronauts and related personnel, alerting system failures and more.

As time goes on, Cimon will slowly evolve. In the future, Cimon will be equipped with high power laser pointer, robotic arms and hands and will be able to read their moods from astronauts' statements.

How will the 2018 Winter Olympic torch be light up?

The 23rd Winter Olympic Games will be held on the 9th in PyeongChang Olympic Stadium, South Korea. This is the first time since South Korea hosted the Olympic Games again in 30 years, it is also the first time that the Winter Olympics be held in Korea.

PyeongChang Winter Olympics has a total of seven major events, 15 sub-events, 102 small events. The current Olympic Games has a total of 12 venues, located in Pyeongchang, Gangneung, and Jeongseon. The opening ceremony, the closing ceremony and most snowboard games will be held in Pyeongchang. The alpine skiing competition will start in Jeongseon, and all ice sports will be held in Gangneung. As a four-year worldwide sports event, to ensure the success of the event, the organizers used a variety of high-tech technologies both inside and outside the stadium, including the time-keeping technology and the pointing robots at the train station, the bus terminal, and the race course.

How to ignite the main torch?

The Olympic flame arrived in South Korea on November 1 last year. After passing through Jeju, Busan, Gyeongnam, Jeollanam-do, Gyeonggi and other places, the Olympic flame will arrive in Pyeongchang today. It is reported that the torch relay total distance is about 2018 kilometers. In Daejeon, the torch had been passed between two robots; in Jeju, the torch relay had been carried out in the sea; in Gangwon, the Olympic torch was passed through hot air balloon in the air... The torch relay process can be described as creative. Ignition ceremony has always been a major part of the opening ceremony. After so many creative torch passing ways, how the Olympic torch will ignite the main torch? This will be the biggest suspense at the opening ceremony tonight.

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Amazon Alexa learned these 10 things in 2017

Currently, Amazon Alexa has taken a leading position in the voice assistant market, and Echo's sales have been ahead of other products in the smart speaker market. In 2018, Alexa will face more challenges and threats: Apple's HomePod, Samsung, and Facebook will also launch smart speakers. Amazon Alexa how to maintain its advantage, continue to lead Google and competitors such as Microsoft Cortana? What can Alexa can offer? Let us show one by one:

1. More expressive voice

Alexa introduced the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), which made Alexa's sound system more expressive. Alexa developers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany can make Alexa's language more natural.

2. Music alarm

Alexa added a music alarm before releasing Echo Spot. This means that users can choose millions of songs as their morning alarm.

3. Alexa no longer just applies to Echo

Alexa no longer applies only to the Amazon platform. We'll see Alexa from Sony, Harman Kardon, Lenovo and other brands of smart speakers. And to be able to work on more smartphones, Alexa began serving Amazon shopping applications in March of last year and serving Amazon music apps in September. And they also plan to bring Alexa to Sanbot's Nano family of robots, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and Hyundai.

4. Create a calendar reminder

Alexa merges with Office 365 and iCloud calendars with calendar reminders.

5. Make a call and send a message

Alexa is now free to call in Canada and the U.S., and users can also use Alexa to send messages to other users using the Alexa application or Echo device.

6. Home intercom function

Alexa adds the ability to play voice to other Alexa devices, much like home intercom systems as Alexa device owners buy more than one Alexa device on average.

7. More than 25,000 voice applications

At the end of 2016, Alexa had about 5,000 features. But in the past year, this figure has more than doubled to more than 25,000.

8. Personal game assistant

Amazon began publishing Alexa's game skills and hopes parents will be able to allow kids under 13 to use the games they developed, such as SpongeBob and Sesame Street.

9. Unique voice recognition

With Alexa's unique voice recognition capability, it can already identify up to 10 unique sounds. And Alexa remembers the interactions that have taken place over time and provides users with a personalized experience.

10. Better smart home voice control

Alexa gained the ability to change the color of a room using voice-activated smart bulbs and learned to control smart home cameras.

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"Black Panther" will be the best movie in the history of Marvel?

Produced by Disney, Marvel latest superhero giant system "Black Panther" will be shown on February 16 this year in the United States. Recently, a few "Black Panther" first wave of publicity shock the media and audiences.

The film is mainly about T'Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king and as the new "Black Panther". But when two enemies conspire to bring down the kingdom, T’Challa must team up, as the Black Panther, with CIA agent Everett K. Ross and members of the Dora Milaje - Wakanda's all-female special forces - to prevent a world war. He was in a dilemma and watched Wakanda and the world in jeopardy. In the face of betrayal and danger, the young king must unite all his forces, release all the power of the "Black Panther," and strive to defend his people and the country.

As the first black superhero movie of Marvel, "Black Panther" is one of the biggest fans' anticipation. It is reported that special effects action scenes will be the movie highlights, extraterrestrial black technology plus "Black Panther" and its beauty guards fly away violently crit the villain. Even the Wakanda Kingdom itself is a big screen spectacle, a strong future technology style will be extremely cool and amazing.

With the release date approaching, many film critics and viewers have been enthusiastic praise in the social media, recognized "Black Panther" is not to be missed top audio-visual and acoustical experience. The current film rotten tomatoes reached 100% freshness, Metacritic score reached 87 points, creating the best reputation Marvel movie record. Critics from the entertainment site SlashFilm praised the "Black Panther" is "completely different from the past, a new audio-visual entertainment Marvel movie, many of the shots are awesome". Critics of the Collider website, for example, are full of praise for the villain played by Michael B. Jordan as "the best villain of Marvel after Loki." There are many critics quite "Black Panther" is "so far the best of Marvel." And the audience is more impressed by the audiovisual effects, "the Wakanda Kingdom is too cool, almost cooler than the Thor extraterrestrial fairyland and even more gorgeous!"; "Action scenes are very excited, the king is really like the leopard, fierce and sexy! "

As the IMAX picture and the sound effect are so extraordinary, when enjoying this incredible movie, you should not just equip yourself the best 3d glasses but also the hifi mini speaker so that you can have the best experience at home feeling yourself was in the Wakanda Kingdom and fight with the soldiers. 

Snowboard revolution: Capita leverages 3D printing technology

Snowboarders must be familiar with the brand Capita. Capita, a US-based snowboard maker, is constantly innovating its snowboard manufacturing process. Most recently, this brand uses 3D printing technology to make rugged ski boards and save board materials that are both environmentally friendly and of high quality. If you do not know what brand of snowboard is better, you should know more about this famous American brand.

Capita has dealers around the world, so snowboarders around the world can both have the opportunity to try this new type of snowboard. Its new manufacturing technology, FUS3D, uses wooden cores that are recycled thermoplastic to wood panels. These sidewalls are firmly connected to the wooden core of the board and are manufactured and connected faster than previous methods.

The traditional method of making snowboards is to mill the wood board and then bond the sides of the ABS to reinforce it. This takes a long time and produces a lot of material waste. There are other alternatives in the industry that use polyurethane PU resin sidewalls to help ease the manufacturing process, but the snowboard made from this material is not durable.

Capita's new patented technology FUS3D uses 3D printing technology to customize the ABS side of the snowboard and install it on a wooden board. The benefits of this new technology are the perfect shape of the body that surrounds, a reduction in material waste, and the ability to extend the durability of snowboards to make them more durable. This is undoubtedly good news for ski lovers. Capita said the 3D Printer Supplies will not damage the durability of wood core, in fact, make the core more flexible, so as to bring better performance for the users.

Recently, Capita's FUS3D technology has won an Innovation Award at DigitalTrends, which led to the optimization of product production process and product performance improvement, but at a lower cost, it can be said that a model continues to innovate and improve in the industry.

The 52nd Super Bowl! How much does this biggest event actually earn?

The 52nd Super Bowl in 2018 was officially launched on the evening of February 4. On the Super Bowl day, Americans will eat 1.25 billion chicken wings, 11 million pizza, 11.2 million pounds of chips and 50 million boxes of beer. For all Americans, the annual Super Bowl has become an unofficial legal holiday.

Epic-level reversal, the historically low ratings

On February 7, 2017, the New England Patriots led by Tom Brady completed an epic 25-point turnaround in the 51st Super Bowl. The third quarter, the Patriots were behind 3 to 28, but in the end, they overtime in 34 to 28 victory over their opponents, achieving the best in the history of the Super Bowl counterattack. However, the fact that the NFL league has to face is that the Super Bowl's ratings have been declining in the United States year after year.

The previous Super Bowl has 111.3 million viewers, while the Super Bowl's ratings have dropped for three years running from 2015 onward. Of course, from a larger perspective, rating decline seems to have nothing to do with the Super Bowl's own wonderful degree. According to statistics, the ratings of the four major television networks of the same period of last year, including ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX, dropped by 9%. The popularity of mobile phones and the Internet is slowly killing the TV, which is one of the main reasons for the decline in ratings. Although ratings are declining year by year, television broadcasters such as FOX, CBS, and NBC are not in a hurry as the annual Super Bowl advertising revenue make them earn full profitability.

Business value like the astronomical figures, advertising prices soaring

The Super Bowl is the most valuable single-sport event in the world. The Forbes data shows that the Super Bowl tournament is valued at $663 million and is worth even more than the Olympic Games ($230 million) and the FIFA World Cup ($120 million). According to Sports Illustrated, the Super Bowl 30-second advertising costs about $5 million. Wonderful competitions, the midfield show of the world superstar as well as the creative comparable to blockbuster advertising make this sports + entertainment feast has a huge money-making and exposure abilities.

Do your family still keep the tradition of watching the Super Bowl together? If you can’t get the tickets you want or you do not want to pay the high fares, it might be a more comfortable choice to enjoy your home mini led projector for exciting matches. Through the huge screen, it is not only clearer than the scene, you can also play back the highlight parts. At the same time, you can connect the projection and audio, so the shocking sound is absolutely comparable to the atmosphere of the scene.

Youtube TV application officially landing Apple TV boxes

In early April, Google officially launched YouTube TV, after which the service expanded rapidly. Google wanted to challenge Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, Hulu Live TV, DirecTV Now, and Fire TV. YouTube TV has only been available to the mobile and desktop sides before, and can push content to the TV, but YouTube TV has not launched a stand-alone App for TV viewers.

October 2017, Google launches a YouTube TV App for Android TV Devices with Supported Devices including Nvidia Shield and other TVs with built-in Android TV such as Sony TV; also supports the Xbox One product line including Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X. In the ensuing weeks, Google TV App will also enter other smart TVs, such as LG, Samsung, Sony TV, and also including Apple TV.

Today, Youtube TV application finally officially landed on the Apple TV set-top box, Apple TV's AppStore is now available for free download of this application. The launch of YouTube TV on AppleTV is catching up with the eve of the 52nd Super Bowl, which will attract more platform users to subscribe to YouTube TV service. YouTubeTV costs $35 a month and offers live broadcasts of U.S. cable channels such as ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN and more.

YouTube TV includes over 40 channels, including live sports and news shows, unlimited recording space for DVRs, access to places across the United States, and YouTube Red services. In a recent interview with media The Verge, Christian Oestlien, a Google product manager, said although YouTube TV was initially "mobile first", it was found by later follow-up surveys that more and more consumers liked to watch in the living room through the Google Cast product Preferred video. To this end, Oestlien said that in addition to Apple TV, devices such as Roku, as well as smart TVs such as Samsung, Sony and LG, will natively support YouTube TV. If you don’t own an Apple TV, maybe you can try the more affordable TV Receiver Box to enjoy the YouTube live.

Create your virtual reality world with Lenovo Mirage

At the 51st International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, Mirage Solo, the world's first Daydream VR all-in-one, and Lenovo Mirage Camera, which enables users to easily create virtual reality content, were debuted globally. The two products are able to work together to allow users to view the virtual reality content produced by Lenovo Mirage Camera via Lenovo Mirage Solo. In addition, listed and acclaimed Lenovo Mirage AR smart helmet set was also exhibited at this CES, attracting a lot of attention.

Lenovo Mirage Solo - the world's first Daydream VR all-in-one

Lenovo had depth cooperation with Google Daydream platform, introduced the world's first technology equipped with WorldSense technology independent head-mounted virtual reality equipment - Lenovo Mirage Solo. Users can take the lead to enjoy the potential of new technologies in the field of virtual reality and enjoy the immersive virtual reality experience. The Lenovo Mirage Solo comes with a QHD clear display up to 110 degrees. A wider perspective and a more realistic picture make it possible for the user to feel more of the wonderful scenes of the virtual world without turning around. In addition to bringing a free virtual reality experience, Lenovo Mirage Solo pays attention to the user's comfort. The device balances the weight distribution as a whole.

Lenovo Mirage Camera to share your own virtual reality

Lenovo with Google, launched the Lenovo Mirage Camera, designed to allow ordinary users to easily create their own virtual reality content. When using the Lenovo Mirage Camera, you can choose photos, videos and live modes. The front of the camera is equipped with two 13-megapixel fisheye cameras that deliver excellent 3D effects. In addition, the two lenses also have 180 x 180 degrees viewing angle, allowing users to broaden their horizons. At the same time, users can download the Google VR180 APP from their smartphones, preview the viewfinder with the mobile phone screen, shoot 4K quality 2D images, stereo images, and record 3D live broadcasts. Lenovo Mirage Camera preloaded with Google Photos and YouTube, and has WiFi capabilities. Users can upload their shots directly to Google Photos, or YouTube VR accounts. Simply wear Google Cardboard, Lenovo Mirage Solo and other 3D VR Glasses, users will be able to reproduce the good memories of the past.

Make your Moto Z smartphone a UAV and SLR

Moto Z Series with modular interface Moto Mods, no one can play the games better. Recent media broke the news that there is a new wave of new accessories coming soon, including photography, drones, and video module.

The most anticipated of these Moto Mods is the camera lens adapter module. Cell phone camera quality is getting higher and higher, but not yet as high as SLR, in this case, Motorola thinks of a way to mount the camera lens to the Moto Z series phone. Sony, Canon, Nikon and other traditional camera manufacturers will have cooperation with Motorola to complete camera lens adapter module, comes with sensors, shutters and at least one set with the knob.

UAV module is also very interesting part of this breaking news. It is said that the drones connected to the back of the phone can control take-off and take pictures with the phone. The UAV is only 1.9 centimeters thick and can fly about 10 minutes to automatically return. However, the drone module development company has announced the product was abandoned, I do not know whether Motorola will personally take over.

In addition, two aspects of Moto Mods audio and video modules will be upgraded. The existing projection module is only 50 lumens of brightness and 1100mAh battery, the new projection module will have 35% increase in brightness and equipped with a larger capacity battery. At present, the speaker module provided by JBL, priced at $80. It is said that there will be a cheaper speaker module to fit the Moto Z series phones.

Compared to the UAV module and video module upgrade, the camera lens adapter module will obviously be the most expensive and most anticipated. To protect your SLR module better, you’d better use something like a GoPro Lens Cover to cover your lens when you are not using it. Thinking of professional camera lens and sensor coupled with the phone's processor and optimization algorithms, the future is bright.