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Samsung has announced it is set to open up purchases for its new television set that doubles as a picture frame and never needs to be switched off.

Called “The Frame,” the ultra-thin TV is encased with wooden trim to look like a picture frame on the wall when in “Art Mode” instead of fading to black like traditional sets.

Consumers can choose between a 65-inch model priced at US$2,799 and a 55-inch model at US$1,999, and bezel* options of white, beige* and walnut shades of red wood.

The South Korean elec-tronics maker fi rst unveiled The Frame in March, noting that the sets are ushering in a new era of television.

“The Frame empowers you

to think about TV in a new way, bringing art and enter-tainment into new parts of your home. This is how television transforms and becomes an essential part of your lifestyle,” said Dave Das, SVP consumer electron-ics marketing for Samsung Electronics America.

As the standards for

interior design shift, people want the look of their homes to refl ect their broader life-style and personal tastes. Samsung is looking beyond the traditional black box and taking an artful approach to TV.

The new television is also outfi tted with Invisible Con-nection and No Gap Wall-

mount, allowing users to hang it virtually* anywhere.

There are also a range of art layers and colors to select, as well as custom-izable accessory options including interchangeable bezels and an optional Studio Stand. Each television set is preloaded with 100 pieces of art, which includes a selec-tion that ranges from land-scape to architecture.

What’s more, owners of The Frame will also have access to Samsung’s Art Store, a growing library of more than 300 pieces of established* and emerging artists, curated by several international organizations, galleries and museums, including Artspace, LUMAS, Magnum Photos, Saatchi Art and Sedition.

(SD-Agencies)

Can you spot the TV? 是电视也是艺术品 三星画框电视来了

Researchers have developed a way of measuring your feet by taking pictures of your feet with a smart phone.

All the smartphone user needs is a standard A4 piece of paper. The user photo-graphs the foot from above as it rests on the paper and then from each side, the left and right.

Juan Carlos Gonzalez of Spain’s Instituto de Biome-chanica said the app works by comparing the images of the feet with large databases comprising three dimen-sional images of feet.

He said: “The pictures are sent to a server that per-forms a 3-D reconstruction of the foot. In a few seconds a 3-D model of the afore-mentioned foot and more than 20 measurements are obtained. Any smartphone can be turned into a 3-D foot scanner.” (SD-Agencies)

Never buy the wrongsize again! 新技术为你量脚制鞋

When traveling abroad, it can be diffi cult to communicate with those who don’t speak the same language as you.

But thankfully, the days of having to quickly fl ick through your translation dic-tionary could soon be a thing of the past.

A technology fi rm has launched a new earpiece called One2One which translates spoken conversa-tions within seconds.

The incredible earpiece, which is powered by IBM Watson’s artifi cial intelli-gence* system, will hit global markets next month.

The earpiece is designed by Lingmo International, a technology start-up based in Australia, and unveiled at the United Nations Artifi cial

Intelligence for Good Summit in Geneva.

The device supports translations across eight languages — English, Japa-nese, French, Italian, Span-ish, Brazilian Portuguese, German and Chinese.

And unlike most translation devices, the One2One does not rely on either Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connectivity, which can often slow down the translation process.

Instead, it uses IBM Watson’s Natural Language Understanding and Lan-guage Translator APIs, which intuitively* overcomes many of the contextual challenges associated with common languages, as well as under-standing the nuances* of local dialects.

The One2One will retail at US$179. (SD-Agencies)

Beach lovers rejoice — you can now enjoy a stroll along the beach without burning your feet on the scorching hot sand.

An Italian company has created stick-on soles that can protect your feet when you’re clambering over rocks and swimming in the sea. Nakefi t’s waterproof and cut-proof soles are avail-able for pre-order now, with 10 pairs costing US$33.

The creators say the

rubber soles are heat resis-tant, making them ideal for walking along sandy beaches.

The alternative to fl ip-fl ops are also anti-slip, and can be peeled off and on for multiple uses.

As well as protecting against the sun, the soles can be worn in the swim-ming pool to protect against infections*.

The shoes are also cut-proof and its creators even

recommended them to people who want to walk down the street barefoot.

A Nakefi t spokesperson said: “We invented Nakefi t to keep your feet effec-tively protected and at the same time support all of the amazing things it can already do.”

The rubber soles come in black, pink and light blue and a range of sizes for men and women. (SD-Agencies)

Stick-on soles protect you when barefoot

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