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The shout of mom to wake us up for morning classes or the sound of our alarm warning you to discontinue the company with our bed, the result is always bitter. No matter the amount of time of sleep, waking up with such ways mostly invites grogginess in our body. The grogginess remains adhered in our body diminishing our enthusiasm, agility, and productivity. So, in order to solve this problem, a smart eyeshade has been developed. Naptime is the device, developed to enhance the quality of sleep and kill the feeling of drowsiness after waking up.

What is Naptime?

Naptime simply is a smart eyeshade with EEG technology. This device is an eye mask, which when worn prevents light from entering your eyes from any angle. The device also endows a set of digital earphone, which plays music from your smartphone music library. Contrary to the normal way of listening music from your smartphone, this device senses the brainwaves and mood, and plays music matching those aspects. The music played from this device lulls you inducing the sleep. So, having this device on, even with a short nap of 10 or 20 minutes, the drowsiness will not come to nudge you.

Construction of Naptime

Naptime consists of three layers. The first layer, which remains in contact and closest to the eye is made up of memory foam. The construction of memory foam employs billions of temperature-sensitive particles. This layer fits well in the upper part of the face and provides comfort to the eyes. The middle layer consists of breathable fabric. The exterior or outer layer of the device is enveloped with the leather finish. The manufacturer has claimed that no animals have been slaughtered to provide the leather finish. According to the manufacturers, high-quality artificial leather is used to provide that leather finish.

How does this smart eyeshade works?

The inner layer of the device also employs a silver fabric. When worn, the silver fabric touches the skin through which the brainwaves are transmitted to the device. The device employs an EEG technology, where the EEG stands for electroencephalogram. The EEG senses the electrical signals from the brain and records it. According to these brain signals, the device will play music from your smartphone, matching your mood and induces the sleep. When the user falls asleep, the device intellectually plays white noise to block the sound from the outside.

This device does not need an external battery source to power it. It gets powered when connected with your Android smartphones or iPhones. However, it requires Naptime app on your phone, which is responsible for playing music corresponding to your mood. The device will figuratively poke you to wake up when you are in a light sleep. Waking up at the time of light sleep will not invite drowsiness in your body. This app also keeps track of the amount of time slept, the time taken to fall asleep and also sketches a sleep cycle curve. This app also provides the score of your sleep reading the frequency of brainwaves and also gives necessary tips to enhance the quality of sleep.

This development itself sound astounding as well as alluring. With so much of people suffering from insomnia and having sleep-deprivation, This device seems to be a cool alternative. However, this device has not yet been released. This device is set to launch in May of 2017.

In 2016, we witnessed some very serious and powerful DDoS attacks that caused big websites like Twitter, Netflix to go down. And, now that 2016 is almost over, experts are predicting that the whole Internet might shut down for 24 hours in 2017, looking at how good attackers have become.

According to LogRhythm ( a security intelligence company that organization like NASA, US Air Force trust), we might see a cyber doomsday in 2017. James Carder, the company’s chief information security officer and vice president said:

“In 2017, we’re going to see it hit big sometime, somewhere.”

Similarly, if the Internet goes down this time, it won’t be just normal users experiencing unavailability of certain online services. Rather, if the whole Internet goes down for 24 hours, experts say, the financial market will collapse.

According to security experts, the DDoS attacks we saw in 2016 were just samples. The hackers were simply shooting missiles into the ocean to test them.  Therefore, we could expect more serious attacks in 2017. James Carder also said,

“If you can prove that you can take down massive sites and a large chunk of the US internet for a few hours, a 24-hour outage seems pretty easy to do.”

Since most of us depend so much on the Internet these days, not being able to use the Internet for 24 hours might cause a serious panic around the world.

Therefore, we should frequently check our devices for malware, to make attackers weak. Don’t know how to check if you are infected? We already have written a post about it.

Read more about the news here: BusinessInsider

iPhone leaks never get old, there’s always something interesting news about what’s going to be the next big innovative change on the iPhone. Following the rumor stream, the new leaks are about the upcoming iPhone 7s or the iPhone8. According to a Japanese blog, Macotakara, the upcoming model of iPhone will have a vertical camera instead of a horizontal one and will have a couple of new features integrated.

Looking at the history of Apple, the only changes in the ‘s’ model used to be the specs bump, we rarely saw a significant hardware change. But this new change in camera position could mean something different, a different use of dual lens maybe. Leaks also suggest that the new iPhones would come with a size of 5 inches and the plus model would come in the size of 5.8inch. Unlike the 7 models both the new variants will come with a dual camera set up.

As next year (2017), is the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, so Apple is preparing something grand for the iPhone 8. Leaks suggest that the Apple has more than 10 iPhone 8 prototypes and the leaked one could be one of them which means he leaks will continue restlessly. Also, the rumors claim, the iPhone will come in an all glass body to support wireless charging and finally remove the home button for on screen buttons and will incorporate an edge to edge OLED display. Apple introduced the Rose Gold(Pink) color and it was an instant hit, now the leaks suggest the Apple will come in a bright red color which might set the trend of Red in 2017.

The next iPhones will launch in September 2017 and it is still a long way there, so we might get a clear idea of the new iPhone when it gets closer to release. But the 10th year anniversary iPhone 8 will sure hold a lot of stake for Apple, for now, let’s keep our finger crossed and hope Apple does everything right this time.