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Apple’s highly anticipated* iPhone X is known to be packed with a slew of advanced features but it isn’t all that serious. The fi rm also revealed a feature known as Animoji, which will allow users to communicate with as their favorite emojis.

Animoji relies on the iPhone X’s TrueDepth camera system, which can capture facial movements and translate those expressions to the animations. Animoji users can then send 3-D animated emojis that they can control with their face.

According to Apple, the TrueDepth camera captures and analyzes over 50 different facial muscle movements. It will be pre-installed on the iPhone X’s Messenger app, allowing users to record and send Animoji messages that talk with their own voice.

The iPhone X’s new TrueDepth camera system includes an infrared* camera, and other new technology.

In a bid to take on Apple’s Animoji, Snapchat has added 3-D Bitmoji to its World Lenses feature. Users can place their 3-D cartoon avatar* on a surface,

move it, scale it and walk around it, as if it’s really there.

A spokesperson for Snapchat said: “Bitmoji World Lenses put a playful and quirky spin on life’s everyday moments by depicting them as humor-ous dramatizations, either gone swim-mingly or sideways, like a mini-play in the Lens carousel that’s as fun to play with as it is to send to friends.”

To use the feature, tap the rear-facing Snapchat camera screen to unlock World Lenses in the Lens carousel.

3-D Bitmoji appears in the carousel alongside face and World Lenses, and can be identifi ed by an icon that rep-resents each scene.

Point the camera at a surface to place your Bitmoji, and then see it animates with a short scene. The Bitmoji can then be scaled or moved to your liking.

When you’re happy with your cre-ation, you can then send the photo or video directly to your friends, or post them on your Story.

(SD-Agencies)

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If you’re always complaining you’re too hot or too cold, researchers have created a personal air-conditioning unit, named the Aircon Watch.

The device allows users to heat or cool their wrist, which its inventors claim makes your whole body feel warmer or cooler.

The watch has been designed by experts at Hong Kong-based Aircon Watch, and is based on the premise* that changing the temperature of a patch of skin can in turn change the temperature of the whole body.

The strap of the watch contains a device that delivers pulses of heat and cold. These pulses interfere* with signals that the nervous system sends to the part of the brain that regulates* temperature. By confus-ing the nervous system, the watch is able to make small changes to body temperature.

The designers based their design on a study by researchers at Stan-ford University in 2012 that looked at temperature regulation.

When you’re in a rush, it can be easy to forget your travel card on the way out of the house. But for around 3,000 commuters* in Sweden, this isn’t something to worry about.

The brave commuters have futur-istic* microchip implants embedded into their hands to pay for their journey. The train conductor can read the chip with a smartphone to confi rm the passenger has paid for their journey.

In June, SJ Rail, the Swedish train operator, announced that around 100 people were using microchips to pay for their journey. But the BBC revealed that an estimated 3,000 people now use the service.

Stephen Ray, who is overseeing the SJ Rail project, told the BBC: “You could use the microchip implant to replace a lot of stuff, your credit cards, the keys to your house, the keys to your car.”

Microchip implants are not new in Sweden, and an estimated 20,000 people already have them.

But the technology raises security and privacy issues, as the data gener-ated could be used to track people.

When it was launched in June, one fl aw in the system meant that rail staff would sometimes be shown a passenger’s LinkedIn profi le instead of their ticket information.

(SD-Agencies)

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In the study, the researchers showed that a device called “the glove” could lower the body’s tem-perature by drawing blood to the surface of the palms and cooling the blood with cold water.

The watch itself features an OLED display and contains a battery that can provide four hours of cooling or eight hours of heating.

The designers see it being used by a range of people, including offi ce workers, athletes and women going through the menopause*.

The designers said: “Menopause often has hot fl ashes which can be annoying and painful. But what if you could get some relief from a small device that emits a soothing cool temperature.”

The watch is expected to cost US$75. (SD-Agencies)

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