What could Instagram do with $1 billion it got from Facebook’s acquisition? Perhaps a camera that combines the goodness of the photo sharing app with the retro, hipster-ish, use of Polaroid cameras.

The Instagram Socialmatic Camera concept from Italy-based ADR Studios is quite a large device. Modeled after Instagram’s logo, which is actually a play on Polaroid, the back of the camera has a printer capable of producing photos from sticky strips for fast and easy sharing. The device comes will come with 16GB of storage, a large 4.3-inch touch screen, interchangeable lens, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity.



We can see great potential on this device. All it need is Instagram’s and Facebook’s permission. If not, ADR Studios can turn it into a Kickstarter project.

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While questions about whether Nokia would venture into tablets remain unanswered, the Finnish smartphone maker has released something close to turning the handsets into tablets.

Nokia rolls out the Reading, a Windows Phone app used for reading e-books on Lumia devices. This app works with all four Lumia models: the 610, 710, 800, and 900.

The Nokia Reading features some discoverability elements, wherein Nokia provides users information about top-selling e-books and new releases. It also comes with predictive search function, text re-sizing, audio book functionality, news feed aggregation, and fonts that are friendly to small screens.

According to Nokia, the countries that will get the first taste of Nokia Reading include France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, and United Kingdom, with others following later this year. The Nokia Reading will be launched with a selection of book titles in local languages (French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and English), compared to Amazon that took its sweet time rolling out the Kindle and its Kindle bookstore in languages other than English.

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Just when you think that more and more people would embrace LED bulbs as a more cost effective alternative to power hungry incandescent bulbs, the opposite seems to be true. Many people don’t seem to be too keen on replacing their incandescent bulbs just yet. If the reason is that most of the LED bulbs available just can’t seem to compare to those incandescent bulbs in terms of brightness, this new development from GE might just change their minds. The company has just come up with a 27-watt LED bulb that can come up with light comparable to that of a 100-watt incandescent light.



GE has recently announced that it has come up with a new LED bulb able to create bright light equivalent to that of 100-watt incandescent. But what makes it even better is that it has been able to cram up all that new technology in a LED bulb that is also as big as an A19 incandescent. The new LED bulbs come with better cooling systems developed by Nuventix to make it more efficient. The new GE Energy Smart LED bulbs come with a 25,000-hour service life as well. The new LED bulbs are expected to be available by June of next year. No word has yet been provided on how much a LED bulb will cost.

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