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Google's Smart spoon reduces hand tremors by 76 pc and will help people suffering from Parkinson's disease. Google has introduced a "smart spoon" aimed to help people suffering from essential tremors and Parkinson's disease. The company states that the product can reduce shaking of the spoon bowl by an average of 76%. Internet giant Google has started promoting its Liftware spoon, a high tech device that employs hundreds of algorithms to sense how a hand is shaking and makes instant adjustments to stay balanced. The spoons have been launched for $295. Parkinson's disease affects more than 10 million people worldwide, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin's mother. According to reports Brin has also said he has a genetic mutation associated with higher rates of Parkinson's. He has donated more than $50m to research for a cure. "We want to help people in their daily lives today and hopefully increase understanding of disease in the long run,"...

For first time buyers, Google has featured a special section that features every product at Rs. 299. Google is also conducting several contests before the annual shopping festival. Google's annual online shopping festival, also known as Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF), is scheduled to be held between December 10-12. This year's GOSF features over 450 partners with brands ranging from Motorola Nexus 6, HP, Lenovo, Tata Housing, Karbonn, Van Heusen, Asian Paints For first time buyers, Google has featured a special section that features every product at Rs. 299. The section has brands such as Uber, JBL, Benetton, Alia Bhatt collection, EverPure water purifier. Google is currently running several contests and games on the official websites to promote the festival. Customers stand a chance to win 14 minutes of free shopping hosted by leading brands. Users will be able to participate in this contest across leading social media platforms from 25th November till 8th of December 2...

Not too long ago, Google introduced Material Design, a brand new set of guidelines for designers and developers alike. Material Design introduces a fresh perspective on user interfaces, motion, and interaction states, and are a great foundation for you to build a product upon. Introduction In essence, you can summarize Google's Material Design by two components: Material Motion Material Material provides context in design, the surface and edge of a "material" provides us visual cues. Let's compare this to real life. We understand the dimensions of a room, because we see walls. At the same time, the interior provides us an understanding of the context of the room. Your kitchen looks very different than your bathroom for example. The same is applied in Material Design. The combination of style and content provides context to the user in a digital space, much like physical walls and interiors. A user has a better understanding of the user interface, because the designed ...

Theme Frameworks can be extremely powerful. For non-technical WordPress users, they make it possible to create a unique site which looks like it's running a bespoke theme, and for WordPress developers they can help you apply the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle and give you the ability to build custom sites fast. If you've been using a third party framework for a while and have become frustrated with the bloated code or lack of flexibility, or you just want to have complete control over your code, then building your own theme framework could be the best approach. In this series, you'll learn how to create your own WordPress theme framework which you can use to build sites for yourself or your clients, or even release for other users. You'll work through the stages involved in creating the parent theme which forms the basis of your framework, adding extra functions, hooks and more. You'll also learn how to leverage these in your child themes and plugins and ...

By integrating your Android apps with the Google Play Services, you can access Google services, such as Maps, Drive, and Google+. Once you have your apps set up to use these services, accessing them is typically straightforward. The setup process does require a few steps, but you only need to carry them out once. In this tutorial we will go through the process of integrating Google Play Services with Android apps. Introduction Throughout the tutorial, we will outline what you need to do to integrate apps with Play Services in both Eclipse and Android Studio. You will need access to the Google Developer Console and to the Keytool utility. Once you are set up with Play Services, the development process itself will be determined by what you want your apps to do. The the setup procedure, however, remains the same. By using the client library to access platform services, your apps will benefit from automatic updates through the Play Store. 1. Install Play Services in your IDE Step 1 Open yo...

Google I/O is without a doubt one of the highlights of the year, for myself as well as many other developers. The event is always sure to inspire and surprise, and, on occasions, it provides a glimpse into the near future and the potential of that point in time. This year was big, possibly the biggest to date, and the volume of announcements was staggering. Android L Android is getting a major overhaul with its next version, which is currently being referred to as Android L. The new version will tout more than 5,000 new APIs, multiple new features, a new runtime engine, and a major user interface makeover. Android L was very much a preview, like a lot of announcements during the keynote. The release date is unknown, but it will appear some time in the fall. The Android SDK has been released and, for the first time, you will be able to preview the new version on a Nexus 5 or 7 device. Material Design Android L will be sporting a brand, new user interface that Google refers to as Materia...

Google Maps evolves to better compete with Yelp, TripAdvisor. Google continues to evolve its Maps for mobile. It has gone well beyond the rudimentary local search and navigation product it once was and become an increasingly sophisticated local discovery tool with an array of content types and improved functionality. Now Google has made Maps more “actionable” with OpenTable reservations and Uber pickup and price estimates built into the app. For the Uber functions to work users must have the Uber app pre-installed. The entire Google Maps app (for both Android and iOS) has also been redesigned to be consistent with the new look of Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and Material Design. It’s a richer visual environment and provides more opportunities for engagement and content discovery. On the one hand Google Maps competes with “local search” apps such as Yelp, Foursquare, YP and others but it’s also competing with TripAdvisor in travel, as well as myriad other ve...

Every time a new version of Android rolls around, there are undoubtedly plenty of applications that for some reason or another simply stop working. While some of these may be minor inconveniences to some, that isn’t always the case. If you’re a Type-A personality and you like micromanaging exactly when your mobile data is on and off, you most likely noticed that existing mobile data toggle widgets simply stopped working when Android 5.0 Lollipop came around. Luckily, there is now a suitable replacement that even packs a few extra tricks, thanks to Toggle Data 5.0. Toggle Data 5.0 comes courtesy of XDA Senior Member cygery. This application is, for the most part, a simple home screen widget that does exactly as it says: It toggles your mobile data on Android Lollipop. In addition to the standard home screen mobile data widget functionality, Toggle Data 5.0 also offers Tasker / Locale integration, which allows you to use one of the aforementioned automation apps to toggle your...

Google search engine is best known for bringing up relevant web pages to the search terms you type in, due to its page rank algorithm. However Google has built in some other lesser-known features. The Telegraph has scoured Google's search function for some of those elements. Some of them are just quirky: try typing in "do a barrel roll" or "tilt" into the search bar for instance. Others include useful functions such a translator function which enables you to type in a word in one language to find its equivalent in another. There are also homages video games, such as from the 1980's brand Atari and the so-called 'zerg rush' feature in many titles. Atari Breakout game on Google search There are also useful functions such as a calculator and weather forecasts. Google's calculator function is far more powerful than most people realise. Watch the video to find out more about Google search's features.

You pick up your phone and say “OK Google”... and then what? Your phone is listening. The microphone icon is pulsing. What do you say to your phone? What can you say to it? Google Now’s voice function has become surprisingly robust over the years. Here’s a list of just about everything you can say to Google Now. Try experimenting with different phrasing, you’ll be surprised how much it understands. The part of the phrase in [brackets] can be replaced with any similar term you choose. If Google Now doesn’t get your spoken commands right, you can correct it by saying “No, I said...” and trying the phrase again. General information How old is [Neil deGrasse Tyson]? Where was [Louis C.K.] born? Define [colloquial] (Or “What does [colloquial] mean?”) What time is it in [Tokyo]? Search for [photography tips] Show me pictures of [the Leaning Tower of Pisa] Do I need an umbrella today? What’s the weather like? What’s the we...

210 Tweet This is the New Calendar 5.0 for Android The new Google Calendar 5.0 update is now available on Android for Lollipop users (everyone else over the coming weeks). This is the the best Google app redesign I have seen yet, and I’m not sure that it is even close (that includes the Gmail 5.0 update I just wrote about). And so you know, this is coming from someone who lives and breathes in a calendar all day, every day. I have tried all the good calendar apps, even settling on Sunrise for months. Sunrise is awesome. But it’s not as awesome as this new Google Calendar. I have been playing with it for a few days now on the Nexus 6, trying to form some opinions on it as we led up to today’s launch. Here they are. The old Google Calendar always felt a little forgotten and clunky. That is absolutely no longer the case with 5.0. You get a full Material Design makeover, that includes a re-designed slideout menu, action bar, and floating “new event” button. It...

Still waiting for an Inbox invite? If so, Google is hosting a special Inbox Invite Happy Hour, where anyone can email inbox@google.com between 3 and 4pm PT, then receive an invite by 5pm PT tonight. Up until this, the only way to gain access to Inbox, Google’s new priority-based email service, was to either receive an invite from Google directly or from someone who already gained access. While the rollout of invites has been smooth, it appears Google is just about ready to open the floodgates for all users. Have you still been waiting for an invite? Via: @InboxbyGmail