NASA has gotten a glimpse of how the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover or VIPER would fare on the Moon. It put an engineering model of its golf cart-sized rover to the test at Glenn Research Center's Simulated Lunar Operations Laborator...
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As the esports industry gain a massive following, every gamer in the world dreams of becoming known as one of the greats in this line of professional sports tournament.Esports, or electronic sports,...
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I’ve always been a proponent of new technology, but if you’ve read my previous pieces on bone-conduction headphones, you’ll know that I’m a skeptic. The technology has a long way to go before it can replace the airpods in your ear. The earphones I’ve tried before made great promises, but failed to deliver, with expensive price tags and an audio that clearly didn’t match up to the hype. Bone conduction earphones are messy, tinny (with a very higher-frequency-focused sound), and often don’t even align with the bones in front of our ears because they’re designed as regular headphones, when they should be designed completely differently from the bottom up.
That’s where Zungle sparked my interest. Adding bone-conducting headphones to eyewear seemed like an innovative strategy, because on paper, it made sense. Headphones come undone and slip out of place, but spectacles barely budge from their position. Spectacles are also a much more covert way to listen to your music without having everyone know, and besides, the wayfarer styling looks rather cool. People with prescription glasses can easily get their powered lenses fitted into Zungle’s bone-conducting musical spectacles.
With its cool-boy wayfarer styling, the Viper 2.0 from Zungle is a complete looker. As far as the aesthetics go, there’s little to complain about, with its reliable build quality, mercury-mirror lens coating, and impressively lightweight design. The sunglasses come with the bone-conducting earpieces that rest rather reliably against your sideburns, delivering audio to you through your temple-bones, allowing you to hear music as well as ambient sounds around you. Given the way the earpieces are integrated into spectacles, they A. seldom slip out of place, and B. don’t need a manual to teach you how to wear them (a problem most newbies face with bone-conducting earphones, oftentimes placing the earpieces INSIDE their ears instead of in front of them). The audio quality seems to be remarkably better than other earphones I’ve tried out, which can only be a good thing, although the low-end frequencies are still weak because of the technology’s constraints as well as the fact that you’re also listening to a lot of ambient noise around you.
While, like I said earlier, bone-conduction has a long way to go before it replaces those airpods people wear, Zungle’s Viper 2.0 is capable of functionally matching up to them. Right near the hinge you’ve got controls that let you toggle playback as well as volume, but Viper 2.0’s pièce de résistance is its Voice A.I. button that lets it trigger Siri or Google Now right in your spectacles, allowing you to use voice search from your sunglasses (#SiriInYourSunglasses), while an in-built microphone picks up your voice commands, seamlessly letting you talk to your phone’s native AI the way you would with your smart wireless earbuds. In-built Bluetooth 5.0 helps the sunglasses connect and communicate rather swiftly with your phone, so there’s absolutely no lag or any chance of your device getting disconnected.
The Viper 2.0 comes with proprietary chargers that fit on the ends of the sunglasses (they use rather classy contact-points rather than the plebeian MicroUSB solution) and boast of a battery life of 4 hours. A probably under-appreciated detail is the charging accessory that can attach to your spectacles rather comfortably even while you’re wearing them, sitting around the back of your head, obscured from view.
Aside from surreptitiously listening to music while traveling, or at the beach (the Viper 2.0 is sweat-resistant), the Viper with its Voice AI triggering switch quite easily replaces the need to wear your airpods (or android earbuds) and your sunglasses separately. The audio quality is well suited for mid and high-frequency audio, working rather well with human voices (simply perfect for podcasts and audiobooks), although one must solemnly swear to never walk into an exam wearing these! The Viper 2.0 also makes a great case for navigation, making it perfect for wearing while riding a two-wheeler and having audio navigation from your maps app narrated to you. The obvious pro there is that not only can you hear cars and other vehicles around you, but you also don’t have to look away from the road and down at a mobile display for guidance… and you can turn the Zungle Viper 2.0 into a makeshift boombox too, by simply placing its bone-conducting modules against materials like boxes or containers, allowing it to work like a rudimentary echo chamber. Let me know when your truly wireless earbuds (or your sunglasses) are capable of being this fashionable, functional, or multi-purpose!
Sky Rocket will unveil a new drone at the Toy Fair 2018 in New York this month. The Sky Viper Drone series deliver hobby-grade performance with easy-to-fly features at low price points. The new Sky...
Sky Rocket will unveil a new drone at the Toy Fair 2018 in New York this month. The Sky Viper Drone series deliver hobby-grade performance with easy-to-fly features at low price points. The new Sky...
Don’t be easily deceived by the Viper’s rugged exterior. The roller is made from high-grade German foam, and it houses a precise vibrator that you can set to 3 different frequencies. The roller can be then used during your exercise routine to work on your muscles, posture, and flexibility. The Viper is touted by some eminent athletes as the possibly the most effective fitness roller out there. Expect to give your pet cat a run for its money when it comes to being lean and flexible!
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I have always wondered why car manufacturers didn’t go the extra mile and make it so keyless entry systems are actually keyless and fobless. Sure, it’s more convenient to press a button on the door or grope yourself looking for a remote than to have to put a key in the door. That said, it would be much more convenient if the car would just unlock itself when you walk up and lock itself when you leave.
It can’t cost much more for automakers to implement that sort of tech. Until that tech becomes common on cars sold around the world. Viper has a system that will bring that functionality to the aftermarket. The system is called the Viper Smartkey and it uses your iPhone to lock and unlock your doors.
The cool part is that you don’t have to take the smartphone out of your pocket or purse to make it work. All you need to do is get out of the car and walk away, the doors will lock, and the Viper alarm will arm. When you walk back up to the car, the doors unlock and the alarm turns off. Smartkey does require a Viper alarm or remote start system to function. If you have one of those systems, you can get Smartkey for $149.99(USD) right now.
Dodge has made a decree that won't sit well with car guys and gals around the world no matter what brand you prefer. Dodge gave a bunch of vipers to community colleges and schools over the years for...
NASA has gotten a glimpse of how the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover or VIPER would fare on the Moon. It put an engineering model of its golf cart-sized rover to the test at Glenn Research Center's Simulated Lunar Operations Laborator...
Before NASA takes humanity back to the Moon, it'll first send a golf cart-sized robot to the lunar south pole where the crewed Artemis mission will also land. The machine, called Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover or VIPER, will look for...
No matter how great a gaming mouse is, there's always going to be some sort delay from when you click a button, to when your computer registers it. Razer is hoping to shave that delay a bit with its latest mouse, the Viper ($80), which uses optical s...
