Category: Tech

A new form of construction helmet has been developed by a group of engineering graduates at Hyderabad, which provides inbuilt Air conditioning to the user. The new innovation could be a blessing for the workers as well as traffic police personnel, who are working under extreme heat, mostly during summer. The company, Jarsh Innovations is behind the rechargeable Helmet, which can last for two to eight hours based on the battery capacity. Meanwhile, most of the parts used to make the helmet, is developed in India. “A few changes have been made with respect to the feedback received and the company aims ... Read more

Zambia tourism board launched their latest mobile app with the name Zed Tourism Mobile App on play store, the app opens up the possibility of exploring Zambia in a hassle-free manner with the latest technology. Photo Courtesy: google play The contents of the app include featured places, tourist destinations, food and drinks, hotels, entertainment, sport, shopping etc. The app opens up the exploring attribute of Zambia with all the detailing for major destinations that an unknown traveller demands. It also includes details regarding the destination, reference pictures, ratings, descriptions, GPS tagging and much more. For more info visit  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.zedTourism&hl=en   ... Read more

Photo Courtesy: socialmediaweek.org Nigeria, commonly know as ‘Giant of Africa’ with larger population and economy, currently plans to introduce Virtual Reality in marketing their destinations. Most of the countries have already come up with this technology, as such it helps to generate more attention from the stakeholders as well as the travellers. Virtual Reality uses various algorithms that stimulate more realistic visual extravaganza for the users. The terminology Virtual Tourism thus comes into play with video montages, still images, and 3D effects including music, background score and voice over. Photo Courtesy: techcabal.com Managing Director of Sky View communications, which is ... Read more

Da Jiang Innovations Science and Technology, commonly known as DJI, has come up with their brand new drone named as ‘DJI Mavic Air’ on Tuesday. The new design is a technological expertise towards the practicality of portability, with the new convenient foldable feature that helped the drone to be backpacked much more conveniently. Photo Courtesy: www.dji.com With more flight time and performance, the device has all the potentials to give the user countless possibility of fun and exploration. Photo Courtesy :www.dji.com Some of the new features of Mavic Air includes: 32 MP panorama shooting mode (The Mavic Air combines 25 photos ... Read more

With an aim to promote its tourism sector among Chinese population, the Spanish island of Ibiza, located in the east, has launched a new website in Chinese language. The island, which is the third largest of the archipelago of the Balearic Islands, launched the website the FITUR event being held from January 17 to 21. The Chinese travellers, who wished to travel in groups earlier, are now turning to individual travellers and this is the right time to attract them to the destinations. Conversing with a non-English speaking Chinese traveller is a bit of a difficult task for the destination ... Read more

Social Media giant Facebook is analysing its latest feature to add stories from desktop  in order to boost its stories section like that of Instagram. Facebook engineers are constantly researching on latest updates to generate more revenue through advertising. Photo courtesy:facebook.com “We are testing the option to create and share ‘Stories’ from Facebook on desktop and are also testing moving the Stories tray from the top right corner to above News Feed, just like on mobile,” said Facebook spokesperson. This feature could also add more prominence to group admins, event creators who are constantly in touch with a desktop. The ... Read more

Social media giant Facebook-owned platform Instagram introduced the active status to users through the new feature showing “Active At” of the user’s Insta friends. The new Instagram feature is very similar to the “Last Seen” on WhatsApp. photo courtesy:instagram This feature is available with the people whom we frequently message as well as people whom you don’t follow. Anonymous reports state that Instagram is now testing text-only stories as well as screenshot alert that notifies the user about an unidentified privacy breach. Text-only stories are gaining more popularity nowadays besides multimedia contents, as Instagram is currently testing new filters to ... Read more

Kawasaki introduces their futuristic electronic three-wheeler (J -3 concept model) of their new bike, which was aired recently through their European YouTube account. The speciality of the model includes its ability in choosing riding positions by changing its geometry preceded by a comfort mode that gives upright riding environment for city use and a sports mode that changes to aerodynamic adjustments for cruising. The three-wheeler is powered by a battery cell that pulls the front two wheels. Photo courtesy:youtube.com The three-wheeler genre is rapidly growing in such a way that the segment is going to get a couple of new ... Read more

Web Desk The digital world is ever changing and it’s very difficult to keep up with the pace of this ever changing world. Travellers are no exception. People are searching for new technologies which can satiate their needs. Realising this, ixigo launches TARA, a voice-enabled, AI-driven travel assistant of the future that helps users discover, plan, book and manage their travel. TARA helps travellers make planning and booking hassle-free as well as reduce the time spent in researching. TARA has features like emotive voice-based assistance, pre-emptive trip planning, automated frequent flyer programme management, seamless flight search and booking and automated ... Read more

Everybody wants to be that smart traveller. What you pack for your trip decides how smart you are. We are always looking for gadgets that will make our life easier and better. And, many of them are life savers for today’s travellers. Here are some cool gadgets that will help you travel better in 2018… Solar powered power banks Having a solar powered power bank would be a blessing when it comes to uninterrupted power supply throughout the trip. Among all power banks, tech journals selects Zendure A2 6700Mah power bank as the best companion as it enables to charge ... Read more

Web Desk Casio plans to launch world’s first solar powered GPS navigation smartwatch called the G-Shock Range man (GPR B-1000), which is water, dust and mud resistant. The solar panel recharges the batteries while you are far away from a power socket. image courtesy : @gshockcentral twitter The watch comes with Casio’s triple sensor technology that brings compass bearing, atmospheric pressure, altitude data, with a wireless charging facility that would take around 5 hours to charge completely. It is designed to withstand temperatures for about -4 Fahrenheit and a depth low as 200 meters. Casio states that its standard GPS ... Read more

Marketing is one of the hardest businesses in the world. On  an average companies used to spend thousands of dollars each year in order to market their products. Thanks to the development of new technology such as drones that have limitless visual marketing potentials. From aerial mapping to real estate drones, they have made huge impact in the field of tourism too. Tourism services, being an intangible product for the customers, visual experiencing towards it adds up a kind of integrity towards it. Some of the major trends in the field are: image courtesy : YouTube Drones add style to ... Read more