Project Tango Tablet Development Kits coming to select countries

Posted by Larry Yang, Product Manager, Project Tango

Project Tango Tablet Development Kits are available in South Korea and Canada starting today, and on August 26, will be available in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The dev kit is intended for software developers only. To order a device, visit the Google Store.

Project Tango is a mobile platform that uses computer vision to give devices the ability to sense the world around them. The Project Tango Tablet Development Kit is a standard Android device plus a wide-angle camera, a depth sensing camera, accurate sensor timestamping, and a software stack that exposes this new computer vision technology to application developers. Learn more on our website.

The Project Tango community is growing. We’ve shipped more than 3,000 developer devices so far. Developers have already created hundreds of applications that enable users to explore the physical space around them, including precise navigation without GPS, windows into virtual 3D worlds, measurement of physical spaces, and games that know where they are in the room and what’s around them. And we have an app development contest in progress right now.

We’ve released 13 software updates that make it easier to create Area Learning experiences with new capabilities such as high-accuracy and building-scale ADFs, more accurate re-localization, indoor navigation, and GPS/maps alignment. Depth Perception improvements include the addition of real-time textured and Unity meshing. Unity developers can take advantage of an improved Unity lifecycle. The updates have also included improvements in IMU characterization, performance, thermal management and drift-reduction. Visit our developer site for details.

We have a lot more to share over the coming months. Sign-up for our monthly newsletter to keep up with the latest news. Join the conversation in our Google+ community. Get help from other developers by using the Project Tango tag in Stack Overflow. See what other’s are saying on our YouTube channel. And share your story on Twitter with #ProjectTango.

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Tablet Android Murah Harga Terjangkau Dari ASUS Memo 370T

spesifikasi ASUS Memo 370T | review | kelebihan kekurangan | ASUS Memo 370T terbaik | tablet android terbaik 2012
Tablet Android Murah harga Terjangkau dari ASUS Memo 370T muncul pertama kali di khalayak umum pada ajang pameran Consumer Electronic Show di Las Vegas. Keunggulan yang disediakan ASUS Memo 370T di bungkus dengan berbagai spesifikasi canggih sebagai tablet high end, yang cukup unik penjualan Memo 370T akan datang dengan harga yang terjangkau untuk keuangan yang terbatas. Harga penjualan ASUS Memo 370T yang mengusung OS Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, diperkirakan sangat murah dan terjangkau. Daftar harga tablet terbaru ASUS Memo 370T mulai di jual sekitar seharga $249 dollar. Dan saya sendiri terkejut jika harga ini tidak mengalami kenaikan di masa depan.

Daftar keunggulan tablet android ASUS Memo 370T yang murah dan terjangkau, dipersenjatai dengan prosesor Quad Core Tegra 3 yang memberi kinerja tinggi untuk bisnis dan hiburan. Dukungan sistem operasi Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich sebagai sistem operasi terbaru 2012, dimungkinkan untuk menambah aplikasi lewat Market Android yang tersedia pada situs resmi.

Tablet Android Murah harga Terjangkau dari ASUS Memo 370T diperkirakan sudah mulai dirilis pada kuartal 2 tahun 2012.

Spesifikasi Asus EeePad MeMO 370T
Support prosesor Quad Core Nvidia Tegra 3 1,3GHz, 12 core Tegra 3 GPU
Mendukung memory RAM 1GB, Memori internal 16, 32, dan 64GB
Built in layar 7 inci beresolusi 1200×800 piksel
Kapasitas resolusi layar 215.63 piksel per inci
Operasi Sistem baru Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
Konektivitas Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB, Mini USB, HDMI, earphone jack 3,5mm, SD, microSDHC
Support kamera 8Mega Pixel dengan LED flash
Menyediakan kamera depan 2Mega Pixel untuk video call
Kemampuan baterai mampu digunakan hingga 10 jam

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PiPad is a Do it yourself RaspBerry PI Linux tablet which you can basically make with plywood

Meet Michael Castor – a DIY enthusiast, who thinks that tablets are unnecessarily overpriced, dont provide a lot of customization options to the user, and actually "look about the same and accomplish roughly the same thing". So, he decided to create something unusual and different – his own homemade tablet.

Called the PiPad, Michael Castors homebrewed creation is one of a kind tablet prototype. The device is powered by the minimalistic Raspberry Pi, a $35, credit-card-sized, fully-functioning computer that is very popular among DIY fanatics. However, the Raspberry Pi SoC is not very powerful (it comes with a 700MHz ARM11 CPU and 512MB of RAM on board), so the PiPad doesnt offer stellar performance and cant rival the iPad or the Galaxy Note 10.1, for example. But, according to Castor, the device does everything he needs it to do. The PiPad runs Raspbmc – a custom Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi. Although minimalistic, Raspbmc is quite multimedia-oriented and supports both 1080p video playback and HTML5. Thanks to Raspbmc, the PiPad can also access the Raspberry Pi Store, which has a small number of open-source apps and games.

According to Castor, it was very difficult to find a display for the PiPad, because it had to run at 5V, just like the Raspberry Pi SoC. Eventually, the enthusiast laid his hands on a 10-inch capacitive touchscreen, which met the important requirement. Due to the excessive thickness of the PiPad, Castor has managed to fit a large 10,000mAh external battery pack in his tablet. This battery provides roughly 6 hours of life and can be charged via a cell phone charger. The insides of the tablet also house a bunch of Raspberry Pi heat sinks, a Wi-Fi adapter, a Bluetooth dongle, several USB ports, a microSD card slot, a headphone amplifier and an audio jack.

But the most interesting thing about the PiPad is its enclosure. Michael Castor says that he wanted to use the homemade tablet during flights without attracting unnecessary attention from the TSA, so the PiPad had to look like it came out of a factory The sides of the PiPad are made of polished baltic birch plywood, while the back is actually a large sheet of scrap carbon fiber. Thanks to two hinges on one of the sides, the tablet can be opened just like a chess box, exposing the inner layout and providing easy access to the tablets hardware. The PiPad is significantly bulkier than most tablets – the device is 10.75 inches long, 7.5 inches wide, and 1 inch thick.

"I like simplistic, functional design. I don’t like extra crap that doesn’t do anything and I enjoy fun, hidden features. I also like for my projects to look as “sexy” as possible. I thought about hollowing out a book and putting it in there (like Penny’s book computer from Inspector Gadget) but decided to go with a stand-alone tablet form-factor." - said the PiPads creator.

Castor says that the whole project cost him about $350. He claims that he "could have bought an iPad or an Android tablet for that (or less) but what’s the fun in that?”. Of course, the PiPad is not for sale, but Michael Castor has provided a full step-by-step guide for people who want to create a similar gadget on their own. The guide can be found here.

Source-PhoneArena

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