Present in Brazil for about a year, the US company iRobot announced
just this Wednesday, 04/27, its official arrival in the country during
an event held in São Paulo.
With this, the company brings to the Brazilian market its new lines
domestic robots that can dodge stairs and carpets with the help of GPS
and its more than 20 sensors.
Manufactured in China, the iRobot products have prices ranging between
2,000 reais and 9,000 reais in Brazil, depending on the model.
The input version, the Braava 380 has a smaller and simpler design compared to other company devices. The robot uses dry or damp cloths to clean hard surface floors, and interesting for wet and dry roads. The suggested retail price is 2,000 reais.
Roomba
Already the Roomba line, better known company and stands out with a
circular design, arrives in Brazil with a variety of handsets and price.
The simplest models, which include the Roomba 620 and Roomba 650, cost 2,100 reais and 2,700 reais, respectively. Counting with a remote control as a differential, the Roomba 880 intermediate goes for 4,600 reais. Already the top of the line Roomba 980, which allows control and
scheduling cleanings via smartphone, has an even saltier price: 6,600
reais.
Pool
The most expensive robot released by iRobot in Brazil is also what draws the most attention. Designed specifically for cleaning swimming pools, Mirra out for no less than 9,000 reais. Aside from Mirra, the other equipment of iRobot can not come into
contact with water - it can spoil the products, says the manufacturer.
Exclusivity
Finally, the company said it is also launching the country Roomba 780,
intermediate model between the lines 600 and 800. Already with remote
control, the device is unique network Fast Shop and has a suggested
retail price of 3,500 reais.
Maintenance
In addition to this initial investment, you should know that you need
to spend extra to continue using the futuristic cleaners from iRobot.
All robots must have their filters changed every three months, according to the company. Kits with 3 filters have prices of 120 reais to the line 600, and 179 reais for all lines from the 700.
Another important point to take into account is the battery, which has shelf life of about two years, according to the manufacturer. To buy a new one, you need to shell out 550 reais. Accessories are sold directly by iRobot.
Brazil
IRobot says it sold about 10 thousand units in the country since May 2015, when it began to operate here. Nevertheless, the company does not open how many units expected to sell in the local market going forward.
The new lines of business in Brazil start being sold this week a variety of authorized resellers, including major retail chains such as FNAC, Fast Shop, Submarino, Giraffe with Ricardo Eletro, Americanas.com and Sam's Club.
The company also points out that its products have 1 year warranty and local technical assistance unit return within seven days.
The SIMET Mobile application, the Center for Information and Coordination Point BR (NIC.br), now allows users to test the performance of 3G networks, 4G and Wi-Fi.
With this, you can use the application to compare the operators of connection quality - and not by total sets of tests.
Another new feature is the possibility of measuring the quality of Internet access by region. For this, the app takes into contact test results made by other users in different types of activities, including web access, VoIP calls, watching videos, among others.
The application is the first aimed at end users who conducts tests using IPv6 in Brazil, says the NIC.br.
In addition to these new features, the SIMET Mobile gained a new design. The app is available for iOS and Android devices.
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Dropbox has a futuristic vision on how its users can share large amounts of files and access them quickly on their computers without overcrowd their hard drives.
The storage cloud service announced this week a new initiative during its Open conference in London, called Project Infinite.
The idea is to create a new Dropbox interface that allows users to view all your files stored in the cloud directly into the folder on your computer without requiring to keep local copies of each document, image, table, or other type of file.
With Project Infinite, users can manage their files in the cloud to move them by the Mac OS X Finder or Windows File Explorer, just as they would any local file that was taking up space on HD.
Currently, Dropbox users who want to see the items that have the service from your other files need to have these downloaded files to your PC or Mac - as needed when Dropbox launched its service to end users for seven and a half years .
Users can save storage space on their PCs with a selective sync feature that downloads only a few files, but the data that people leave out can not be viewed on their computers.
Project Infinite'd get the basic concept of Dropbox to create folders to sync with the cloud and ease of use with a huge amount of files.
This is part of the company's emphasis on helping users to share files, especially corporate usuearios who pay for the service platform.
However, there is still much that Dropbox said on the news.
The company did not say when to include the Project Infinite in the public version of its desktop applications, or even which users have initial access at launch.
The lack of investment and security concerns did Brazil again suffer punishment internationally. The International Pilots Association (IFALPA, the original acronym in
English) officially downgraded the country in a very respected index
over the airspace of a region.
Now, Brazil has an airspace considered Critically Deficient ( "critically poor"). This classification is usually given to sites that are in danger of war or conflict in progress. Worst of all? As this is not the case, the lowering of the reason is the lack of
attention of the authorities in relation to a simple problem, but
dangerous: balloons.
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The high amount of balloons unleashed in near airports or in the Brazilian sky regions in general can cause fatal accidents. The
low level can have serious consequences for airlines: in addition to
flights decrease if the company find it is not safe enough to fly over
some territories, they may have to pay more for insurance of vehicles if
the risk of flight is very high. The price, of course, may end up translated into increased cost of air tickets in the future.The Brazilian side
The
IFALPA warned the Department of Civil Aviation for some time that the
drawdown would happen and even notified the cause, but nothing was done
to convince the court to change the decision. Speaking
to the season, the Air Force said he did not know the evaluation
criteria of IFALPA, claiming that "the Brazilian airspace was considered
by a UN body as one of the four safest in the world." However,
as the index is quite important in the area, it is possible for
national authorities to contact the association to try to change that
soon.
From 2017, feature phones and smartphones should have recourse.assault rate against women and rape growing in the Asian country.
The phones sold in India should have from 2017 a "panic button" to warn of danger, the government said on Tuesday (27). The goal is to prevent sexual assaults in a country with many problems of violence against women.
"Pressing the button, the police, family members and designated friends will be alerted. With it, you can give an immediate response to issues related to cases
of danger, "explained the Minister of Indian Communications, Ravi
Shankar Prasad, on Twitter.
The minister stressed that the main goal is "to help the endangered women with the power of technology." The cell should furthermore count in 2018 with a GPS system for your location "in case of harassment or danger," said Prasad.
The
Indian Minister of Women, Maneka Gandhi, described as "historic step
for safety" legislation passed by the Department of Telecommunications,
which states that the new phones will include the "panic button" from
January 1, 2017 and the old will have to install it.
The button will correspond to keys 5:09 on any device. In smartphones, it will be set on the power button on and off, to send the warning when played three times.
"The goal is to provide a safety net for millions of women who face
danger in their daily life," said Gandhi, as it expects the alert button
acts "as a deterrent to criminals."
Gandhi said that the new legislation is part of the Narendra Modi
government policy to combat violence against women in the country, where
complaints of aggression only increase, though largely by greater
social awareness.
According to the National Bureau of India Crimes Register (NCRB, the
acronym in English) in 2014, complaints of aggression against women
increased 18% and rapes rose by 31%.
The
case occurred in December 2012, when a young woman was raped in a group
on a bus in progress in the Indian capital and died days later from his
wounds, unleashed a wave of outrage across the country that led to
toughen penalties against aggressors and improve measures to protect women.
Present in Brazil for about a year, the US company iRobot announced
just this Wednesday, 04/27, its official arrival in the country during
an event held in São Paulo.
