Over the last months, Google has been doing a full house clean. That’s meant leave behind a bunch of products like Aardvark, Notebook, Wave and more. On the other hand, it that’s also meant updating its look and the user experience. Starting from the first page published in 1997, Google started a long work of [...]
According to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, starting from March there will be robotic guards in a South Korea jail. We already spoke about progress of the use of robots in Chinese manufacturing environments. These new prototypes will show up in a jail in the city of Pohang the next spring. Although their friendly look, they will be useful to monitor the inmates during the [...]
Following the post about future productivity visions of Microsoft, here there are 4 other concepts of technology that we could possibly see in our everyday activities in the near future. Like in the Microsoft concept, there is nothing in these video that isn’t possible already. It is just innovative design of physical objects, user experience [...]
Microsoft has just released a new envisioning about the future productivity and connectivity capabilities. According to Microsoft official page we expect to see these technologies in about 5 to 10 years and this will let us make a better use of our time, focus our attention, and strengthen our relationships. We can recognize actual Microsoft Research [...]
In the last days Microsoft Research presented 3 new interesting technologies for human interaction: OmniTouch, PocketTouch and Holodesk. Microsoft has been really fervent in these years researching about new forms of human computer interaction. If Kinect is already an innovation, adding a tiny projector to it can open to a wide set of new applications. OmniTouch [...]
Isaac Asimov outlined nearly 50 years ago the increasing use of robots in industrial chains and the birth of humanoid robots like Aibo , Parrot orAsimo. What we had not seen yet is a real attempt of replacement of man … until now. In the last hours two news announce us this fact. The first one is about Foxconn. In 2010 the [...]
Who among us, as a child, has never drawn on a fogged window? Those who did not play with the shapes in the passing scenery outside the car? What if the window could be interactive and respond to our actions? This question lead Toyota to present the Window to the World concept at the ACEA “Our [...]
Google joked about it on April 1st, presenting a funny Motion Gmail. In his video Google showed how this hypothetical instrument could let you send email, attach files, read e-mail, and so on just moving awkwardly in front of the screen.
More than one year ago I was writing about the newly begun tablet war. Right now I’m here with the same purpose, not to review but to present you the most interesting tablets. I let you watch these videos to figure out the feeling they give to you. One more note about operating systems: in [...]
“Where are you thinking?” – the car asks. We’ve already seen gaming peripherals used for different applications and this is a really interesting one. It breafly consists of an helmet that detects brain waves and an intelligent software that interprets the patterns. The idea of german researchers at the Freie Universität of Berlin is connecting [...]