Ready to watch the movie HD (high definition) via smartphone HTC? Technology called HTC Connect has been designed specifically to allow users to perform Wirelessly stream audio and video from HTC devices. This means that users can play high quality video and audio from the smartphone to the device in the home (television) or on the vehicle.
Indeed, the HTC Connect brings the same technology as Apple airplay. Which differentiate only on connected devices. If airplay, this feature connects between the handset iOS (iPhone and iPad) to Apple TV, Airport Express, or other compatible Apple hardware. Meanwhile, HTC Connect can be used only for HTC devices. Currently, HTC One series became the first smartphone that can take advantage of information through software updates later.
HTC hopes to collaborate with various electronics manufacturers to be able to connect wirelessly to other devices for streaming audio and video.
Quoted from PRNewswire, there was Pioneer Electronics which became the first partner of the HTC Connect. This feature will be a part of Pioneers 2012 lineup with the ability of the recipient brilliant audio/video DLNA and wireless speakers, so as to provide streaming audio a smooth and stable.
So far, the HTC Connect only supports connectivity DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) only. However, the company seeks to include advanced technologies that offer support for Bluetooth, NFC, and wireless speakers. HTC has been no official statement regarding the details of price and availability date. But is expected to slide this year as well.
2013 saw the Oxford English Dictionary vote ‘selfie’ as it’s Word of the Year. (‘Twerk’ and ‘Binge-Watching’ filling in the other top spots). Supposedly, use of the word selfie has increased 17,000% in a year! Now, whilst that sounds like an unfeasibly large number grabbed randomly out of thin air, apparently, the OED uses a research programme that collects 150 million words used in English texts from around the web each month. The software can then pinpoint the emergence of new words and their frequency of use.
As with painting, since that first selfie in 1839, photographers have often used themselves as subject matter for their photos. Famously, (from 1976 onwards) Cindy Sherman has used herself as the subject of nearly all of her work. In the seminal ‘Film Stills’ series (1977-1980) she depicted herself in a variety of roles and settings. Each single image alluded to a longer narrative and had the feel of 1950s American Film Noir cinema. All of the images remained ‘Untitled’ to avoid directing the viewer in their interpretation of the scene.
Recent times have seen everyone from the Pope to the rulers of the world’s most powerful countries to astronauts taking selfies. (Or being photographed by others taking selfies). And such is the currency of selfies, that artists with a sense of humour have taken to making fake selfies out of other pictures.
