If you want to transfer a file from your phone to another phone, or a phone to a computer, and so on, usually you’d use a cable. This has been the default method for data transfer over the years and while it works, we guess it’s not the most efficient, but that could soon change as companies such as Samsung has backed a technology by Keyssa called “Kiss”.
The idea behind Kiss is that it will help facilitate wireless data transfer, and we’re sure that some are wondering what is the difference between this feature and other features like Bluetooth, AirDrop, and so on. The idea is that it will be faster, much faster, where you could transfer HD movies within seconds, or as you can see in the video above, you could even instantly stream video from one device to the other without the need for cables at all.
Disney Research has revealed a new concept augmented reality project they have been creating which is pushing the limits of the current AR technology to its limits and allowing digital characters and real-life participants to interact together.
A new project by Disney Research presented at SIGGRAPH 2017 recently showed a way to produce a similar but more immersive effect using a regular camera, a depth camera, audio, and even haptic effects.
AR tech is on the rise with Apple’s ARKit expected to enable fairly convincing insertion of digital objects into scenes as seen through the iPhone camera. The effect from Disney Research, however, is set apart by the haptic feedback and the use of the depth camera that can make interactions between the real world and digital elements more nuanced
Watch the video below to learn more about the Disney Magic Bench presented at SIGGRAPH 2017 which uses a regular camera, a depth camera, audio, and haptic effects to create the awesome effects
Below is what upload VR said
"Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) create exciting opportunities to engage users in immersive experiences, resulting in natural human-computer interaction. Many MR interactions are generated around a €first-person Point of View (POV). In these cases, the user directs to the environment, which is digitally displayed either through a head-mounted display or a handheld computing device. One drawback of such conventional AR/MR platforms is that the experience is user-specific. Moreover, these platforms require the user to wear and/or hold an expensive device, which can be cumbersome and alter interaction techniques.
We create a solution for multi-user interactions in AR/MR, where a group can share the same augmented environment with any computer generated (CG) asset and interact in a shared story sequence through a third-person POV. Our approach is to instrument the environment leaving the user unburdened of any equipment, creating a seamless walk-up-and-play experience.
We demonstrate this technology in a series of vignettes featuring humanoid animals. Participants can not only see and hear these characters, they can also feel them on the bench through haptic feedback. Many of the characters also interact with users directly, either through speech or touch. In one vignette an elephant hands a participant a glowing orb. ThŒis demonstrates HCI in its simplest form: a person walks up to a computer, and the computer hands the person an object."
A new report just arrived that their is a possibility that Apple will apparently launch a new color version for the iPhone 8, the handset will come in a new color which is more copper in color than the Rose Gold of the current iPhones.
According to Benjamin Geskin this new copper gold color for the iPhone 8 will be known as Blush Gold, you can see what he had to say about the color on twitter below.
Numerous video from different sources concerning the iPhone8 have been released and now we have a video which shows a dummy version of Apple’s new flagship.
The video we just come across was put together by MacRumors using a dummy model from mobile accessories sites Mobile Fun and Olixar.
The video gives us a look at what the design of Apple’s new iPhone 8 will look like. The handset has had a completely new design over the existing models.
More on the video video is that the mobile phone use is possibly what we should expect when the iPhone 8 is released
From what we are able to summarize from the video, the new iPhone 8 will apparently come with an edge to edge display and will feature a stainless steel chassis and a glass back. The handset will also come with a new Apple A11 processor and more RAM than the current devices.
The Apple A11 processor is said to give a performance boost of around 30 percent over the Apple A10, the handset will also feature Apple’s new iOS 11. Apple have also update the cameras for this years iPhone. The handset will come with a dual camera setup which will be vertical rather than horizontal like the current handsets.
Apple will introduce facial recognition with the new iPhone 8, this will be used to unlock the handset and also for Apple Pay. It is not clear as yet on whether Apple’s new iPhone will have a fingerprint scanner. The home button on the handset is gone and the scanner will not be on the back of the device. It is possible that the fingerprint scanner will be under the display, although rumors have suggested that this will not be available in this years iPhone.
We are expecting the iPhone 8 to be made official some time in September, along with a new iPhone 7S and 7S Plus.
Samsung Electronics announced the expansion of Valve’s Steam Link to all of its 2016 and 2017 Smart TVs, including the recently released QLED TV line. Samsung is the first TV manufacturer to have this application live on its Smart TVs, The company tends to always bring us new features and functionality.
Artificial intelligence is now a common but Powerful aspects in technology, that tends to make changes to life, most especially because of the automation and their learning curve.
These year we heard of the report of artificial intelligence beat the world’s best Go players and still on same aspect as AI-powered bot has beaten the world’s best Dota 2 players. During Valve’s yearly Dota 2 tournament there was a surprise segment which introduced the AI-powered bot from OpenAI, an artificial intelligence startup backed by Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk.
According to what the OpenAI engineers says that the bot learned fast enough in two weeks to beat the world’s best Dota 2 players. In this training period, the engineers say their bot amassed “lifetimes” of experience.
Elon Musk obviously tweeted about this achievement on twitter. Pointing out that the OpenAI bot is the first ever to defeat the world’s best players in competitive eSports, he also mentioned that Dota 2 is “vastly more complex” than traditional board games like Chess and Go.
OpenAI first ever to defeat world's best players in competitive eSports. Vastly more complex than traditional board games like chess & Go.
The demonstration was limited to a few variables of gameplay, nevertheless, the crowd was excited to see Dota 2 professional Danylo “Dendi” Ishutin being beaten badly by the bot in the live 1-vs-1 match.
Ishutin lost two matches in succession to the bot and forgeited future matches to it. He was a bit surprised to see that the bot could perform at a level comparable to that of a human. He said that the bot “feels a little like human, but a little like something else.”
Watch the video by OpenAI below for better understanding
OpenAI engineers now want to work on expanding the bot’s capabilities so that it can compete across the entire game in a 5-vs-5 match by next year.
Which means that the intelligence bot will be perform better by next year.
consumer-grade batteries always have a problem which is their rigidity and they are fixed in terms of their shape, meaning that there are limitations when it comes to designing products based around them, although we have seen companies try to work around those limitations by creating different shapes or stacking them.
Apple announces that by next month its new mobile operating system in the form of Apple iOS 11 will be launched and the new iOS will come with variety of new features , tweak, enhancement and hacks. Most especially the new iOS is to come with the feature to Native screen recording.
In a new video released today more details about the new Apple iPhone 8 and specifically the colours the new smartphone is expected to be launched with, when Apple announces the iPhone 8 officially early next month.All this was revealed in this new video
US Army Creates Powder That Can Be Used To Recharge Devices
Gadgets in no doubt solve a lot of problems in our lives, even after problem solving another problem arises, which is our reliance on these gadgets, meaning that we are usually left in an inconvenient state when our phones or laptops run out of battery, but this is a problem that the new successful research US might have solved.
The Internet users should be aware that higher percentage of online scams are through the use of Phishing Links, the same is applicable to account compromising and hacks.
Internet users are not too save again if Phishing Links are still around.
In a report from The Sun, it can be predicted that China is working on what is being called a “repression network”, which is really research done by the Peking University that is working towards creating a camera system with “unprecedented accuracy”.
CORSAIR has unveiled the latest addition to their range of PCI Express storage solutions in the form of the Neutron NX500 NVMe PCIe SSD AIC, capable of providing 3,000MB/sec sequential read and 2,400 MB/sec sequential write speeds, or 300K/270K IOPS random read/write.
Below is the specifications gathered
Mozilla that has rolled out a new update to its Firefox browser this week week has included a new feature WebVR support enabling users equipped with high-end virtual reality hardware such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift to experience VR content directly from the web.
Intel has just kick off by announcing that Intel’s 8th generation Core processors will be unveiled on August 21st.
Even though the Intel’s 7th generation Core processors are good enough but the Intel company is a company that tends to want to bring new things and keep working on advancement
It’s going to stream the proceedings live on Facebook so that the world can tune in. Intel hasn’t shared any technical details about the new processors so far, why would it, seeing as how the event is just over a week away.
Sony currently unveiled new interactive Xperia Touch projector earlier this year, Sony has now made it available to purchase allowing you to interact with its projections on almost any flat surface.
The Xperia Touch Turns any wall, table or floor into an interactive screen using short throw projection technology. The compact projector also equipped with wireless connectivity and an internal rechargeable battery.
After watching the video below you will understand in details the concept of the new release and some basic uses
It's is also reported that the Xperia Touch Projector is now available from £1,300.
Read full details from the official vendor using the link in the source below
Micron has unveiled a new addition to its range of solid-state drives this week with the unveiling of the new Micron 9200 SSDs with NVMe, which are the company’s largest capacity hi performance enterprise NVMe SSDs to-date.
Read what Micro say about the new Micron 9200 Series PCIe NVMe SSDs. Source: Micron
Meet the demands of your biggest enterprise workloads head-on with the Micron 9200 series of NVMe™ SSDs, and enable true enterprise storage innovation. With blazing fast performance and low latency, combined with terabytes of storage, the Micron 9200 SSD enables faster analysis and decision making based on ever-growing data sets. The Micron 9200’s innovative architecture combines the performance advantages of NVMe technology with the cost efficiency and reliability of high-density 3D NAND storage.
Available in capacities from 1.6 TB up to a massive 11 TB of storage the new drives offer transfer speeds up to 5.5 GB/s and read IOPS up to 900K during steady state testing. Features of the new solid state drives (SSD) include :
– Accelerate Applications – Micron 9200 SSDs deliver sequential read/write transfer speeds up to 5.5 and 3.5 GB/s. Random read/write transfer speeds reach up to 900K and 275K IOPS to turn data into information with low latency and high performance.
– Optimize Existing Infrastructure – Micron’s purpose-built flash solutions are easy to deploy and deliver bottom-line value and efficiency to business and IT operations.
– Be Large and in Charge – Optimize and scale out server and storage design with capacities up to 11TB, in industry standard volumes, for even the most storage hungry use case.
– Get Peace of Mind – Offering full enterprise end-to-end data path protection and power loss protection to keep your data safe.
– Reduce Your Cost/IOPS – Micron 9200 SSDs deliver low cost/IOPS along with its low latency and faster performance. Compared with a typical high-end HDD cost over $1/IOPS, the Micron SSD with NVMe delivers a substantial cost saving at roughly $0.01/IOPS.
– FlexCapacity – Allocate storage to meet both application and budget requirements.
– Meet Workload Endurance Requirements – Micron 9200 offers a broad range of endurance levels for today’s most demanding workloads.
There are plenty of apps out there that lets users add filters to their images, but if you’d rather save yourself the trouble of using multiple apps to filter an image before sending it off, you might be interested to learn that it has been discovered in the recent beta of WhatsApp that the company could be testing out built-in photo filters.
The feature showed up in the version 2.17.297 of the WhatsApp beta for Android, but as Android Police notes, the developers were quick to remove the feature in a follow up version 2.17.298. We’re not sure why they removed the feature, but presumably it wasn’t ready for primetime yet.
However based on what is known about the feature while it briefly existed, it is pretty straightforward where users choose the photo they want to send, and then they are presented with filter options. The filters appear on the same image editing screen that lets you add emojis, crop the image, or doodle on them. Once the filter is selected, users can send it off and they’re done.
We’re not sure when WhatsApp plans on rolling out the feature, but as we have seen in the past, it does take a while for features from the beta to become mainstream, so we could be in for a wait.
Over the weekend a few new developments in the ongoing iPhone 8 rumour mill have developed with the Foxconn vice president posted to his public social feed that the iPhone 8 will not be cheap.
This high price point is due to the failure rate of the OLED displays which apparently is currently hitting 40% due to the ‘special design’ of the new iPhone 8 screen, which takes the form of the notch/forehead display already leaked by Apple itself earlier this year.
Pictures of also been published which apparently show the new iPhone eight copper gold casing although validity of the image pictured above is not clear. So please as always take everything with a pinch of salt until Apple unveils their new iPhone 8 next month during September 2017.
Rumours are suggesting that alongside the black and white case Apple will also be creating a new copper gold finish for its iPhone 8. As soon as more details are made available we will keep you up-to-date as always.
Practical Plantoid Robotics on kickstarter has unveiled new easy to build organic robot kits it has created which cleverly combine both organic plant matter and electronics into one Plantoid cyborg system.
Watch the video below to learn more about this exciting project launched via Kickstarter in the source, looking to raise the $5,000 it requires to go into production.
David Ultis is raising funds for Practical Plantoid Robotics: Easy to Build Organic Robots on Kickstarter! Let's make organic plant-robot cyborgs together. Plantoid Robots are here!
Be ready humans! The Plantoid robots have arisen, ready to conquer wild territories such as mildly cluttered carpet or lawns, and courageously… err safely avoid top-tier predators such as house cats and honey bees. Our Plantoids are practical. We actually build plant brained robots (no more abstract models), and approach the educational topics from a mindset of building a model with real hardware and code that results in physical experiments. Your plant-robot cyborg dream can become reality.The key is using sensors and data to expand and support the survival of the plant specimen on the robot. When you can achieve that, the robot can perform interesting experiments and missions to expand life to new environments–previously devoid of life!
Using an Arduino-based sensory suite to provide data on the quality of life of its plant center, a Plantoid can autonomously explore its environment in search of the best location for its own prosperity. Modeling the extension of life can lead to literacy that may inspire new solutions to big problems that we face today: send life to other planets, change food production, or model survival and sustainability in harsh environments.
