10 New Breakthrough Technologies 2015. Eye-Control Comes To Tablet Devices. Le monde digital, une révolution pour l'organisation des entreprises, Points de vue. Superfast rock-paper-scissors robot wins every game it plays. Nov 05, 2013 superfast rock-paper-scissors robot wins every game it plays superfast rock-paper-scissors robot wins every game it playsall images courtesy of ishikawa oku laboratory take a look at the video below to see the mechanical hand win every game of rock-paper-scissors it plays against its human opponent: janken (rock-paper-scissors) robot with 100% winning rate: 2nd version video courtesy of ishikawa oku laboratory diagram showing how the high-speed vision recognizes the shape of the human hand the evolution of the janken rock-paper-scissors robot h/t nina azzarello I designboom.
Tech history. Augmented reality. FRAMED* — A Platform for New Art Forms. Square – Accept credit card payments with your mobile phone. Twimal: Super-Cute Twitter Toy Pet Reads Tweets For You (Video) Japan is crazy about Twitter, and today local toy maker Takara Tomy has announced Twimal (short for “Twitter Animal”) [JP], a super-cute toy “pet” that can reads out tweets loud for you. The white version does this with a female voice, while the blue Twimal uses a male voice. Takara Tomy says that once connected via USB to a computer (Windows XP/Vista/7 only), the Twimal is able to track and read your own tweets, replies, up to three hash tags, tweets coming from users on lists, tweets coming from specific users etc. It’s also possible to operate two Twimals at the same time and change the way their voices sound. Promo video (in Japanese): The Twimal will be available in Japan starting March 31 (price: $31) – if you’re interested ask specialized online stores like Rinkya or Geek Stuff 4 U (I am not sure how good the Twimal is in reading tweets in English though).
8 Bright Concepts for Portable Gadgetry [Slideshow] | Co.Design. Technology helps you have what you need with you at all times. Computer, phone, iPod, keys, wallet, e-book? By now, all of these items can fit in a small bag (or maybe even a pocket of some XL pants). Wires and "workstations" are outdated; we know that electronics don't need to be stationed at your desk, locked in a maze of wires. They're tools to be kept in your pocket or your handbag, whether your goal is to answer an email, or read a 1,000 page book.
But why be satisfied just because our digital essentials are portable? What if everything you used throughout your day was portable? Objects we accept as being bulky and having to be "stationed" in one spot don't have to be. This gallery, designed by Creative Professionals on The Behance Network, stretches the limits of what can be portable, tackling notoriously bulky items like Projectors and Turntables, or more conceptual items like light sources and search mechanisms. MORE/REAL Stylus Cap by Don Lehman. Hi Internet! Thanks for checking out my project. I'm super excited to share with you what I have been working on for the past couple months. I think you will like it a lot and hopefully together, we can make it a reality. Note: When pledging, please remember to add the cost of shipping to your overall total.
Shipping in the US is $5, to Canada is $10, and International is $15. Questions? Works with iPad 2. The MORE/REAL Stylus Cap turns a Sharpie, a Bic, or a Pilot Fineliner into a touchscreen stylus that works with any capacitive touch screen. Unfortunately, using your finger to do those tasks feels more like finger painting than doing something that requires more precision. On the flipside, the more I used the iPad, the more I realized I didn't really want to fully walk away from using paper.
In all seriousness, what drove me forward was I was dying to get one of these into my hands. The MORE/REAL Stylus Cap consists of two parts: the Cap and the Tip. So where do we start? How Can I Recover Data from a Dead or Erased Hard Drive? China Could Supplant U.S. as the Supercomputing Superpower | Wired Enterprise. China’s Tihane-2, the world’s top supercomputer. Photo: Jack Dongarra Two weeks ago, Jack Dongarra flew to Changsha, China for a meeting with researchers at the National University of Defense Technology, home to the country’s top supercomputing program.
He expected an update on their plans for a new mega-machine, but they had a little surprise for him: The system was already up and running. It’s called Tianhe-2, and with more than 3 million processor cores, it’s the world’s most powerful supercomputer. It can perform more than 30 quadrillion calculations per second, easily dwarfing the runner-up, an Oak Ridge National Laboratories machine known as Titan. The Oak Ridge system can do 17.59 quadrillion calculations per second, according to its most recent published benchmarks.
On Monday, the folks who keep track of the world’s biggest supercomputers will release the latest rankings, called the Top500 List, and the smart money is betting Tianhe-2 will be on top. That matters a lot. Chinese Supercomputer Is Still the World's Most Powerful | Wired Enterprise. The world’s fastest supercomputer: the Tihane-2. Photo: Jack Dongarra The Chinese supercomputer Tihane-2 still tops the list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The latest Top500 list was released today, and the Tianhe-2, developed at China’s National University of Defense Technology, was the fastest system on the list by far, reaching speeds of 33.86 petaflop per second — quadrillions of calculations per second — on the Linpack benchmark.
It initially topped the second fastest machine — the U.S. -based Titan — in the last set of rankings, released in June. This time around, the Titan — a Cray XK7 system installed at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory — held on to second place with 17.59 Pflop/s worth of computing power. Although the Chinese are still sitting in the top spot, the U.S. is the leading consumer of supercomputers, with 265 of the top 500 systems.
The TOP500 list began in 1993. But supercomputing research continues apace. Your Next Computer Will Live on Your Arm | Wired Business. Thalmic Labs co-founder Stephen Lake building the Myo. Photo: Thalmic Labs Forget about robots rising up against humans for world domination. In the future we’re all going to be robot-human hybrids with the help of wearable computers. We’ve already seen Google Glass, the search giant’s augmented-reality glasses, and now the latest Y Combinator startup to come out of stealth, Thalmic Labs, is giving us a wrist cuff that will one day control computers, smartphones, gaming consoles, and remote-control devices with simple hand gestures. Unlike voice-detecting Google Glass, and the camera-powered Kinect and Leap Motion controller, Thalmic Labs is going to the source of your hand and finger gestures – your forearm muscles.
“In looking at wearable computers, we realized there are problems with input for augmented-reality devices,” says Thalmic Labs co-founder Stephen Lake. The finished Myo wristband. Thalmic Lab’s timing is spot-on. Introducing the Leap Motion. NASA remotely controls Athlete rover with Leap Motion: 'let's bring a billion human beings into a holodeck' "Just for you guys today we're going to do something special, something that's never been done before" said Victor Luo, NASA human interface engineer. "We're going to drive this robot, on stage at GDC, with a Leap Motion device.
" In an unexpected demonstration at the 2013 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, scientists from NASA used the Leap Motion to control a six-legged, one-ton Athlete rover located at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. Using his hands in front of a Vaio laptop on stage, Luo raised one of the Athlete's legs as the crowd at the Moscone Center watched along via a live Google+ Hangout. And while this demonstration was impressive in its own right, NASA's ambitions reach much further than the 383 miles to Pasadena.
"It happened in this hallowed ground of the living room, a place we'd like to be again. " "I want us to build a future of shared immersive tele-exploration. " "I am overwhelmed with hope, but also impatience," Norris said. Nouvelles interfaces - Les Echos. TKR＠tumblr.