A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
LG has revealed a phone that takes wide-angle selfies and an updated 4G smartwatch, now running on Android. The high-end V10 phone has not one but two front-facing cameras allowing the device to take 120-degree shots. It also has two screens - one as an inset display above the main one, which can show information such as the date, weather or battery life at all times. An Android smartwatch, the first to feature 4G connectivity, has also been announced. The V10's dual cameras on its front each has a five megapixel sensor.
They are capable of capturing 80-degree selfies or wide-angle ones,
of 120 degrees, with one shot. For this, the phone actually takes two pictures at once which are then stitched together by an algorithm. The ability to take group selfies without a selfie-stick has never been easier," LG said in a statement. The smaller of the two screens on the V10 has a 2.1 inch (5.3 cm) display designed to show useful information such as battery life or the current time even when the main screen is turned off.
The V10's rear camera boasts 16 megapixels and users will also be able to make use of the video app's manual controls for tweaking shutter speed, frame rate and white balance among other settings.
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