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Embracing big brother: How facial recognition could help fight crime

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From fighting terrorism to processing payments in the blink of an eye, facial recognition is set to change our ideas on privacy.

The technology bringing Sinatra, Tupac back to life

<strong>Hovering holograms!</strong> Take a look at some of the incredible 3D creations made possible by Musion's <strong><a href='http://musion.co.uk/' target='_blank'>Eyeliner</a></strong> projection system.

Musion Eyeliner was famously used to resurrect rapper Tupac in 2012

Frank Sinatra is back, crooning 'Fly Me To The Moon' live in his trademark suit and fedora as if he had never left the stage. A decade and a half after Ol' Blue Eyes passed away, this unexpected new appearance has been made possible with an optical technology called Musion Eyeliner.

Solar lasers, ocean power and volcanoes: unusual energy sources of the future

From volcanoes to wave power and even algae, researchers are looking far and wide for viable energy alternatives to power the planet after oil, gas and coal reserves run out. We take a look through some of the more interesting, promising and downright unusual possible energy sources of the future. <i>Gallery by Matthew Ponsford</i>

Fossil fuels are going to run out. This much we know. No one is entirely certain when they will run out exactly, but we know it will happen eventually.
Some estimates suggest we have about 70 years of coal, gas and oil left; the fossil fuel industry itself insists that we have significantly longer. But everyone agrees they will run out in due course.
So how will the world be powered when we can't rely anymore on fossil fuels? Why with volcanoes, waves, wet wood and solar power from space.
To compensate for the decline of traditional energy sources, researchers around the world are developing innovative new technologies that -- between them -- may provide a long-term solution to our rapidly growing energy needs. Some are familiar, some may seem far-fetched, and some could potentially pose as much of a threat to the environment as fossil fuels themselves....

The coolest things technology has up its sleeve in 2014

<strong>New year, new technology</strong>.<strong> </strong>Take a look through our gallery of the biggest tech stories we're likely to see in 2014.

From wearable technology to space tourism, 2014 will be a year of significant technological leaps. We take a look through some of the most ground-breaking developments of the year ahead.
Electric cars take to the track
As the name suggests, Formula E is all about electric power. The arrival of this new petrol-free motor racing competition is a significant step for both the car and the environment. Two years ago motorsport's international governing body, the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), announced its ambitious plan for an electric car race that would mimic the hugely popular F1 series. As the arrival of Formula E looms, experts predict that it could have a big impact on the future of car manufacturing.
Initially, the cars in the competition will be powered by enormous battery engines. Each battery weighs 200 kilograms, producing around 200 kilowatts of power. Depending on the speed, the electric engines will last anywhere from a few hours to just 25 minutes and the cars can reach speeds of up to 220 kilometers per hour.
"If you look in the past, a lot of development in the car industry has come from racing," said Formula E CEO Alejandro Agag. "The transfer of technology is potentially very big."

Get ready for a shock: The world's fastest supercar might soon be electric

A new generation of cars are coming. <strong>Take a look what's lurking under the hood...</strong>

full speed, the Rimac Concept_One is little more than a cherry red blur, flashing from one corner of the horizon to the other in the blink of an eye.

Latest News On ASUP Strike [A Must See For All Poly Students]

Breaking News: Meeting to resolve ASUP strike turns rowdy as lecturers accuse Nigerian Government of Insincerity.
ASUP Latest News On ASUP Strike [A Must See For All Poly Students]

The meeting between the Federal Government and the leadership of polytechnic lecturers, ASUP, went rowdy on Tuesday amidst various accusations.
The meeting was called by the federal government to resolve the three-month-oldstrike embarked upon by ASUP nationwide.
The government’s delegation to the meeting, held at the federal secretariat in Abuja, is led by the Education Minister, Nyesom Wike, while ASUP is led by its president, Chibuzor Asamogu.
The meeting went rowdy when the leadership of the National Association of Polytechnic Students, NAPS, invited as observers to the meeting, accused the lecturers of fighting for selfish interests.
The ASUP representativesfumed and accused the federal government of inviting students to such meeting in order to harass lecturers.
The NAPS president, Ogbonnaya SUnday, however, also accused the government of insensitivity to the plight of students.
As the meeting got rowdy and a shouting match ensued at about 1:15 p.m., journalists were walked out of the venue and the meeting continued.
ASUP has been on strike since October demanding among others, proper funding of polytechnics, and an end to discrimination of polytechnic graduates in the labour market.

WATER DISCOVERED ON MARS

The Mars rovers have discovered new evidence of water on Mars, suggesting the planet could've supported life http://cnn.it/1eHLbsX

Justin Bieber DUI Arrest Report:

Justin Bieber DUI Arrest Report: Read It 

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'What the f--- did I do?' Bieber reportedly asked police 

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  2. Hours after Justin Bieber was arrested early Thursday
     morning (January 23) in Miami Beach on suspicion of
     posted a copy of the report on the incident.
    Bieber, who was also accused of driving on an expired
    Georgia license, reportedly admitted to police after his
    arrest that he had consumed alcohol, prescription medicine and
    smoked marijuana before taking the wheel.
    The responding officer said he observed two Lamborghinis
    (one yellow, one red) driving north on Pine Street 
    Drive shortly after 4 a.m. with "two black SUVs behind 
    both vehicles as if to stop traffic going northbound. 
    This facilitated open road for the two Lamborghinis to 
    race." The officer said he did a U-turn to catch
    up and saw the two cars start a drag race in which
    they reached approximate speeds of 55-60 m.p.h. in a
    residential 30 m.p.h. zone.


Mafikizolo & Davido

Mafikizolo & Davido?

Oskido hints at collabo.

Yesterday, Oskido tweeted and posted on Facebook about the latest Mafikizolo collaboration heading our way and it is with none other than Davido! After the summer anthem that was “Happiness” with May D, we’re sure this new project between these South African and Nigerian stars is going to be amazing.



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SALAH TRANSFER AGREED


SALAH TRANSFER AGREED

Chelsea Football Club can confirm an agreement has been reached with FC Basel for the transfer of their 21-year-old attacking midfielder Mohamed Salah.
The move is subject to the Egyptian international agreeing personal terms and completing a medical examination.

LASU Shut Down Indefinitely!

LASU RIOT UPDATE LASU Shut Down Indefinitely! [PHOTOS]

As a Result of the Riot And Uproar, the School Management Has Closed Down The University Indefinitely!
'The school management shared the bulletin Below asking all students to vacate the school premises until further notice. 
On-Going Exams have also been Suspended till further notice 


Hundreds of Lagos State University (LASU) students protesting

Hundreds of Lagos State University (LASU) students protesting a dispute over schools fees halted second semester examinations today. 
The dispute involves schools fees the students were being asked to pay in the amount Naira 250,000 - 350,000. 
When a handful of students couldn't find the fees as early as the schools demanded, students said the Vice Chancellor, Mr. John Obafunwa, was unsympathetic and closed the University portal against late registration for the examination.
The students appealed the decision through the Student Union but the Vice Chancellor said the late registrants would not participate in examinations.
A student leader told Sahareporters the banks were still receiving payments from the students even after the registration portal had been closed, and they thought the management would re-open the portal for them to do their registration.
"The Vice Chancellor is now telling us that we will have to carry the courses till next session by deferring them. That means those in final year will have extra year. Nobody will respond well to that of course."
Students began mobilizing Wednesday night. Anticipating the disruption the School drafted policemen to prevent students from rioting.
A source told SaharaReporters policeman fired shots in to the air to disperse the students who arrived at this School this morning.
Gathering numbers the students chased the policemen out of the zone.
"Maybe now is the time we will force them to bring down the unreasonable fee," said some of the students during the protest.
The Vice Chancellor was said to have left the school by foot after students mobbed his car and broke its gadgets.
As we file this report, students are carrying placards and have taken over the school.

STUDENTS ON RAMPAGE! SEE Live Photos From the riot At Lagos State University, LASU today!.[PHOTOS]

STUDENTS ON RAMPAGE! SEE Live Photos From the riot At Lagos State University, LASU today!.[PHOTOS]


They disrupted the university’s second semester examination, destroying properties in the process and even stoning their University Vice Chancellor Prof. John Obafunwa as he made to escape their wrath.
According to reports, the riot started when their VC decided not to open the registration portal for over 2,000 students who were yet to register their second semester courses as exams was to begin Thursday.
A cross section of students chasing the Vice Chancellor
According to the students, only 708 were able to register before the portal was shut again leaving, 1292 students to their fate.
When the students union government went to plead on behalf of the students, the VC was reported as saying those yet to register are insignificant and would automatically have to carry the session over, a statement which infuriated the students and they decided to take laws into their hands.



They started a riot, destroyed properties in the school and threw sticks and stones at the Vice Chancellor’s convoy as he made to escape through an alternative route beside Conoil Filling station.

 LASU VC's car vandalised by protesting students



The riot heats up




VC's PA's car upturned. VC's office was broken into and vandalized by students
  

Injured student during the protest

Why wearable tech needs fashion to survive and to thrive

"You can imagine a scenario where advertisers pay you to have adverts running across the back of your jacket"
Dita Von Teese launching the 3D-printed dress

In the future, our clothes will replace our devices. They will light up with social media alerts, producing holograms to read those updates wherever we choose. We'll never need to remember umbrellas or coats again either -- sensors will read humidity levels and tell the conductive fibres of our customised 3D-printed clothes to release waterproof chemicals, while a shift in their nanoparticles will pull fibres together for insulation. Sensors will send our biometric data to doctors, while the antibacterial fabrics protect us from viruses.
These are most definitely designs of the future but that future is not so distant: all these technologies exist in some form today. Products like Google Glass and Apple's rumoured iWatch represent the early stages of the wearable technology market, a market that Credit Suisse  has predicted will have "a significant and pervasive impact on the economy". The "mega trend" stands to be worth up to $50 billion over the next three to five years, fuelled by the wellness and fitness sector and advances in battery and sensor technology. However, unless these technologies converge with the fashion industry, there's a danger they will fail to become popularised and remain unaffordable.
Cornell University's Textile Nanotechnology Laboratory is a hotbed for this sort of convergence; between the chemical and biological engineers, fibre scientists and physicists, there's more than a few designers. "They have a very different way of thinking from scientists," Juan Hinestroza, who leads the research team, told Wired.co.uk. "This interaction between people is extremely productive, with incredible outcomes that aren't possible if only one discipline works there." The fruits of this convergence are self-explanatory. We can see it in Cornell's solar-powered dress, which uses conductive cotton to charge smartphones, or their nanoparticle-coated outfits that change colour when light and matter is manipulated in the spaces between those particles. The team has used nanoparticles to engineer natural fabrics to be conductive, bacteria-resistant and to filter toxic gases. Importantly, natural fibres are used throughout. "I chose cotton because it's available all over the world so can be easily replicated," said Hinestroza. "The idea is to have these technologies embedded into existing material, so we won't need to build multimillion dollar factories. We're also developing transistors made of cotton so the electronics will not be attached to the textile -- the textile will be the electronic device."
Hinestroza is thinking big from the offset. There's little point creating these incredible processes if they never find a practical application. As an academic, he's all too aware that unless big companies can get onboard easily, he and his team will continue to work in 1cm x 1cm swatches.




Solar-powered jacket


At the other end of that struggle are groups like Cute Circuit, founded by designer Francesca Rosella and artist Ryan Genz. Their imaginative designs blend fashion and technology specifically for self-expression, whether it's a custom made dress for Katy Perry that flashes to the beat, or the Twitter dress worn by Nicole Scherzinger at EE's launch last year, that spun illuminated tweets round her body in realtime. Yet despite being focused on all things that make a design replicable and popular -- comfort, style and ease of use (the pair spent two years machine-washing their motion-reactive LED T-shirts to make sure they wouldn't break) -- even Cute Circuit's concepts were initially met with resistance from manufacturers.
"When we first started there were no materials to make it look and feel good, rather than just work technically, so we made our own," explains Rosella. "Convincing manufacturers it would be a good thing to do our specifications, making certain things gold plated etc, was a painful process. It was the same convincing companies to give us materials. We came across this strange material used for rocket boosters, like embroidery threads. There was 1km of this conductive thread and we asked them, 'didn't you notice, it's very pretty?!' Sometimes they're so taken up with it, they don't realise it could have other applications. You have to convince them of this awesome idea -- but once they get it, they become very collaborative."click for more

Wearable devices: where fashion and technology collide

O2 recently unveiled a series of designer handbags that double as phones as part of a project that illustrates the possibilities of gadget recycling. While these pieces are a light-hearted take on the category of wearable technology, they illustrate how the whole notion of wearable technology is growing.

"The key to good product design is having a need for something, not creating something because you can," said designer Sean Miles, who created the bags.
"We’re moving closer to a point where we want 24/7 access to whatever bit of technology or data we need to get access to, and the most obvious way to do that is to integrate it into an accessory or a piece of clothing. That means taking the technology out of its own environment and putting it into your environment."
The wearable technology revolution is being driven by the fashion industry as well as the technology industry. This week in Milan, Italian Vogue's editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani is hosting a global forum for fashion and technology called Decoded Fashion, which aims to connect major clothing brands with start-ups to explore how cutting-edge technology is changing the retail and fashion worlds.
Speaking to The Telegraph ahead of Decoded Fashion, Renzo Rosso, president at clothing company Diesel, said that technology is a key ingredient for all processes within the company, "from the way we design collections and the way we rework hand-made designs digitally, to the way we present collections to the sales force and to clients".
Wearable computing devices are projected to explode in popularity over the next year and with a wave of new gadgets set to hit the consumer market, ABI Research predicts that they could soon become the norm for most people within five years.
However, Mariel Brown, head of trends at design and innovation company Seymourpowell, said that wearable technology will only take off if it is designed with an eye for fashion.
Google Glass, for example, has been designed around sci-fi aesthetics because Google wants the device to be viewed as futuristic, but Brown pointed out that a fashion designer might have approached the project very differently, perhaps tapping into the vintage style that has been popular over the past five years.
"The fundamental truth behind wearable technology is it has to look good or we just won’t wear it, we need a reason to put it on," said Brown. At the moment we see it being pushed really hard by the big tech manufacturers, but a lot of the big clothing manufacturers and brands are also starting to show an interest.
She pointed to Philip Treacy’s collection for Spring/Summer 2013, which featured a kinetic LED hat called 'Virtual Reality'. The hat appeared to be a continuous band of light sweeping around the model's head, but was in fact created with a carefully positioned propeller headpiece.
Fashion brand Hermes has also said it is dedicated to working out how to make technology the "craftsmanship of the future", and has experimented with augmented reality and creating novel materials, like transparent leather.
Brown said that the technology needed to create wearable devices is becoming smaller, more durable, more flexible and more affordable. This is allowing fashion brands and design agencies to experiment much more with wearable technology.
For example, flexible screens allow the technology to become part of the fabric, so rather then thinking of wearable technology as a separate device that you wear like a piece of jewellery, in the future it will could fully embedded into the fabric.
This is not just about turning your T-shirt into a screen, but creating a whole new range of 'smart' fashion technologies, according to Brown.
"This could be technology that is anti-bacterial so you don’t have to wash your clothes as regularly, or nanotechnology that can change colour – so you might go to a rock concert and your t-shirt can come up with the logo of the band, and the next thing you’re at a football match and it becomes the colour of the team you’re supporting," she said.
She added that when fashion designers engage with technology, they tend to focus on the emotion rather than the technical functional elements. For example, Studio Roosegarde in the Netherlands recently showed off a dress called Intimacy 2.0 that turns from opaque to transparent as the wearer's heart rate increases.click for stories

5 Things You’ll Be Able to Do With Your Mind by 2050

Neuroscience and computing are advancing faster than ever. Here’s what we can look forward to.
Science Fiction Life

1. Store Your Thoughts on an External Device

Scientists have long known that seeing, imagining, and remembering look similar in the brain. When you see or remember an apple, the part of your brain that knows what an apple looks like will become active, whether or not there’s an apple in front of you.
This activity is strong enough that scientists can even scan for it in patients who are in a coma.Several patients who were thought to be in a persistent vegetative state, meaning doctors believed that they would never wake up again, were seen to be imaging pictures during brain scans.
Theoretically, a recording device could also read brain activity and play the pattern back to you, causing you to see, think, or feel whatever was on your mind while it was recording.
Micah Lee at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sees some practical problems with this sort of technology. “While cyberpunk fiction makes it seem like cybernetic implants will be all the rage in the coming decades, this sort of implant has a huge problem,” he told Heathline. “They're expensive and hard on your body to upgrade, and of course we're all going to want to next big thing as soon as it's released.”

By recording your memories on an external device, you’ll be able to protect them from the problem of human memory: forgetting. As long as your storage device remains intact, the memories will never fade, and you’ll be able to retrieve them anytime you please.

2. Learn New Things from a Brain Implant

Dr. Theodore Berger has developed a prosthetic hippocampus, a region of the brain that allows us to form new memories. He removed the hippocampus from rats and replaced it with his prosthesis, then taught the rats to run a maze. When he turned the device off, the rats forgot they'd ever seen the maze before, and remembered again when he turned it back on.
Future tests will reveal whether memories can be transferred between rats using these devices. Berger hopes to begin human testing within five years.

3. Telepathically Send Messages to Your Friends

Dr. Miguel Nicolelis has used electrodes to remotely connect the brains of two rats. One rat had to learn a task, while the second rat could only learn from the brain signals it received from the first rat. Very quickly, the rats learned to cooperate, with the first rat sharpening its brain signal, and the second rat learning to interpret it. The second rat even began to map the first rat's whiskers to sensory regions in its brain.
Such brain sharing is only as accurate as the technology behind it, but Dr. Bettina Sorger is working on it. “These possibilities made me wonder whether fMRI could be used to form letters, and thus make communication possible without any form of movement,” she said in a press release.  She’s invented a scanning technique that lets subjects send out 27 unique brain signals, each mapped to a letter of the alphabet.
And why stop at sending words? Dr. Nathan Spreng wants to know what you’re feeling, too. He ran a study in which he taught participants about four people with different personalities, and recorded how they felt using fMRI. "When we looked at our data, we were shocked that we could successfully decode who our participants were thinking about based on their brain activity," said Spreng in a press release.

4. Remotely Control a Robotic Body

While you won’t be controlling any of the giant robotic "jaeger's" in Pacific Rim anytime soon, you might get to control a surrogate body within your lifetime. Robots can already run and jump, and prosthetic hands grow more dexterous every year.
But a robotic body is only half an experience unless you can also see and feel what it does.Bionic eyes are improving as scientists install cameras or light sensitive, retina-like layers in the eyes and send the signal to the visual processing areas of a subject’s brain.
And scientists like Dr. Takao Someya are working on thin, flexible bionic skin that can detect changes in temperature and pressure. This skin could be wrapped around a prosthetic limb to allow for a sense of touch, or implanted directly into a person suffering from skin or nerve damage.

5. Hack into Someone Else’s Mind

If you use a brain implant, a hacker might be able to turn it against you. Dr. Jack Gallant has developed a scan to tell what you’re looking at just by viewing your brain activity. And a hacker might not be there just to look. Dr. Rajesh Rao and Dr. Andrea Stocco released a study earlier this month, showing that Rao was able to directly control Stocco’s hands using a shared electrode network.
“There are definitely serious security issues with this type of technology, and some of these issues are already a reality,” says Lee. “Some pacemakers come with wireless devices so that the firmware can be upgraded without requiring surgery, and it turns out that hackers can use this to remotely trigger heart-attacks. As people begin to use robotic hearing aids that can run apps, malicious hackers will turn them into eavesdropping devices and listen to everything you listen to.” 
While hackers and computer security will always remain in a Red Queen race, the next half-century will yield more breakthroughs in bionics and cybernetics, as the line between science and science fiction continues to blur.

10 amazing things you never knew a smartphone could do

10 amazing things you never knew a smartphone could do

1. Smartphones forecasting the weather

Networking expert OpenSignal has discovered something interesting: the sensors in Android phones designed to measure battery temperature, light, pressure and so on can be used to generate surprisingly accurate weather reports.
Get enough phones involved and you've got a weather sensing network. Today the data just reports, but prediction is the logical next step.
There are medical applications too: "Imagine your doctor could instantly access data on which countries you've been in, the extremes of pressure and temperature you'd experienced, the amount of exercise you are getting, even the humidity where you live," OpenSignal says.
OpenSignal reckons that smartphone networks could analyse and predict the weather

2. Smartphones powering satellites

In February, a Google Nexus One went into orbit - not in an astronaut's pocket, but as the brains of the STRaND-1 satellite.
A joint project between the University of Surrey's Space Centre and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, the smartphone-powered "nanosatellite" will run experimental apps to collect data from space
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3. Smartphones saving the rainforests

Detecting chainsaws may sound like a novelty app, but it's a serious business: in Indonesia, the non-profit organisation Rainforest Connection wants to use donated Android phones to detect illegal logging.
As New Scientist reports: "The phones are outfitted with solar panels specifically designed to take advantage of the brief periods when light reaches the forest floor. Their microphones stay on at all times, and software listens for the telltale growl of a chainsaw, which triggers an alert."

4. Smartphones as mobile medical labs

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed an iPhone cradle and app that turns the device into a fully featured mobile medical lab that uses the phone's camera to detect toxins, proteins, bacteria, viruses and other organisms.
As RedOrbit reports: "The cradle contains a series of smaller versions of the optical components found in much larger and more expensive lab devices... although the cradle only holds $200 worth of optical components, it is just as accurate as $50,000 models in the lab".

5. Smartphones driving cars

Google's self-driving cars carry around $30,000 of high-tech hardware and sensors - but students at Australia's Griffith University reckon they can get the job done with a single smartphone.
Rather than LIDAR sensors and stacks of cameras, the students have built a prototype that relies mainly on the phone's camera and built-in GPS.click for more

How To Get 999,999,999 Coins And Gems On Your Temple Run 2



HOW TO GET 999,999,999 COINS AND GEMS ON YOUR TEMPLE RUN 2

1. Download the gamedata.txt game file with 999,999,999 Diamonds and Coins hack!


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3. Delete your current Saved gamedata.txt file if necessary or Replace It (its the same thing!)


4. Copy the downloaded gamedata.txt file using your file manager to: /sdcard/Android/data/com.imangi.templerun2/files/


5. Paste if you deleted the old one or Replace existing file! If its still there!

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18 great uses for an old Android device That outdated Android device in your closet still has a lot to offer -- if you know what to do with it. Here are 18 excellent ways to give new life to an old phone or tablet. By JR Raphael

Got extra smartphones sitting around your house? How about tablets? As we move multiple generations into mobile technology, more and more of us are building up collections of old, dated devices. And more often than not, those devices do little more than take up space and gather dust.
Here's a little secret, though: Your abandoned Android gadgets are actually virtual gold mines. You just have to find the right way to tap into their potential and give them new life.
So grab the nearest DustBuster and get ready: Here are 18 ways to make your old phone or tablet useful again.
(Note that some apps mentioned here may require your device to have a minimum Android version in order to run. In some cases that might be 2011's Android 4.0 or later, but we also include many apps that work with Android 2.2 and above. See each app's Play Store listing for details.)

1. Turn it into a home media controller

Even the junkiest old Android device has ample power to serve as a high-tech home entertainment controller. There are several ways you can make it work:
  • Pair the phone or tablet with one of Google's $35 Chromecast streaming sticks. You can then keep the Android device on your coffee table and use it to wirelessly cast content from apps like Netflix, YouTube, Hulu Plus, HBO Go and Google Play Movies to your TV over your Wi-Fi network. You can also use it to wirelessly cast audio from such services as Pandora, Songza and Google Play Music.
  • Set up a full-fledged home media server using Plex, then use your old device as a dedicated remote to stream your own local content to your TV. (The Plex media server software is free; premium subscriptions with added features start at $4 per month.)
  • Connect the device directly to a TV or audio system -- using the appropriate cable and/or adapter -- and then use it to control playback.
  • Comcast remote control Android app
    This Comcast app is one of many options for controlling entertainment devices from an Android phone or tablet.
  • Install an app to make your device a dedicated remote for your various home entertainment components. If your device has an IR blaster, odds are it already has programmable software in place to do the job -- or try the universal Smart IR Remote app.

    If the device doesn't have an IR blaster, try searching the Google Play Store for specific apps to control your components. A variety of apps are available to remotely control products developed by LG,PanasonicSony,ComcastDirecTV,RokuGoogle TVand other manufacturers.

2. Turn it into a kitchen command center

Hard to believe, but my ancient Motorola Xoom tablet is now one of the most used devices in my house. That's because I converted it into a multipurpose command center for our kitchen.
Using a third-party launcher -- Nova Launcher, to be specific -- I simplified the tablet's home screen down to a single panel with shortcuts to a handful of relevant apps. I also added in some easy-to-perform gestures, like double-tapping anywhere on the screen to launch Android's Voice Search function for on-the-fly Web searches and other voice-activated commands.
Android tablet as kitchen command center
An old Motorola Xoom tablet provides info and entertainment right in my kitchen.
In terms of the apps, Netflix is what gets used the most; between that service and a basic docking stand, the tablet has effectively become our cooking-time television. Pandora and Google Play Music are also favorites for stove-side streaming.
Android-based recipe apps can be useful in this sort of setup, too, as can cloud-connected note-taking services -- like Google DriveTasks or Evernote -- for easy viewing of personal recipes or always-synced shopping lists that your family maintains from multiple devices. A Google Calendar shortcut or widget can also be convenient, especially if you have a calendar that's shared among multiple family members. click for more