Hands on With Leap Motion's Controller. AUSTIN — The future of desktop computing is here. Leap Motion's powerful controller, which lets you control 8 cubic feet of virtual space in front of your computer, is, as promised, impressive. I took it for a test drive at South by Southwest 2013 and can tell you, it feels like the real deal. I've seen photos and videos of the device before, but didn't realize how small it was until I tried it out for myself.
The controller fit in the palm of my hand, and is light and elegantly designed — much like, well, an Apple product. In fact, with its wraparound aluminum body, and black top and rubber base, it'd be easy to mistake the device for one made in Cupertino. From a hardware perspective, the controller has a proprietary jack on the body that snakes back to the USB port on a user's desktop or laptop.
At one point during my hands-on review, one of the Leap Motion execs casually unplugged the working device, handed it to me and then plugged it back in. Image by Mashable. Protean Payment | How do Dynamic-Stripe Powered Cards Work? 5 tips for establishing a Hardware MVP A common and often effective practice in software development is to release a “minimum viable product” (MVP) as soon as possible in a development lifecycle.
A MVP is a V.1 product with basic functionality and unrefined usability. Getting out a MVP early in the development process makes it possible to begin learning from users sooner, iterate faster, and more effectively establish product-market fit. This MVP concept applies well to hardware development, but requires a slightly different approach. Companies building a physical product need to get it right the first time. A typical product cycle is 12-18 months, which means there ‘s no room for bugs, and the initial design and usability must be excellent. Here are five things to consider when developing your MVHP (minimum viable hardware product): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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The EyeRing, which includes a tiny camera, a processor, and Bluetooth connectivity to connect to a smartphone, is worn (where else?) On a finger, and can take a photo of an object and then return information about that object to the user using both audio and visual clues. “EyeRing is a wearable intuitive interface that allows a person to point at an object to see or hear more information about it. According to Technology Review, the researchers have used EyeRing together with a smartphone running Android software, with an iPhone app in the works. Stick-On Censor Detects a Bike Crash as it Happens. Riding a bike in an urban environment is great for health, great for the environment, and in many cases faster and easier than driving.
But let’s face it: Taking a bike to the mean streets of the city can be a dangerous proposition. Thankfully, technology is stepping in to make riding a little more safe. The latest entry is this incredible censor that sticks to a helmet like a sticker, then links to a smartphone via bluetooth. When it detects a crash, it uses the phone to call preselected emergency contacts and sends GPS coordinates.
The most amazing thing is that it actually works. Check out the video of the tech in action at TreeHugger.com. WATCH VIDEO: ICEdot Sticker Detects Cycling Accidents, Notifies Emergency Contacts. Latest Cool Gadgets. Spray-On Batteries Could Turn Graffiti Into Power. Google. Inbox - niramayee.s - National Institute of Design Mail. INCHworm Shoes Grow With Your Feet.
By Chris Scott Barr I remember as a kid having to go to Payless Shoes a couple times a year (depending on my age) and picking out new shoes to replace the uncomfortably small ones on my feet. I was hard on shoes anyway, so I really didn’t mind picking out a nice new pair. My parents, on the other hand, weren’t usually as happy when they had to pay for yet another pair of shoes that I’ll outgrow. Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a shoe that grew with your foot? There is, it’s called the INCHworm. These shoes have an accordion-like material around the arch of the foot, which can be pulled outward to increase the length of the shoe.
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Mind Blowing New Technology. Smart Home Tour - IBM Smart Home - Cloud Computing. Luminae Keyboard. Coolest Gadgets - reporting on the latest cool gadgets - Page 2. Today’s 10 Most Mind-Blowing Tech News Items. Is it just us, or did technology accomplished a higher-than-average amount of epic things in the last 24 hours? By Adrianne Jeffries 6/29/12 10:16am Share this: Painted battery. (Photo: Rice University) Sometimes we get swept up in the breathless reports about RIM shares, Twitter ads, the relative sizes of Pinterest and Tumblr, and other such minor tech news items that some might call “incremental,” and so we forget that insane shit is happening with science. We’re not even talking about Google’s sky divers. For example: Texas: Some students invented a spray-on rechargeable battery. Texas: Some other students hacked into a flying drone’s GPS. California: Google’s take on the modern personal digital assistant a.k.a.
California: A new telescope will be able to predict asteroids 50 to 100 years in advance. California: Enzymes from mutant sponges are evolving semiconductors. Boston: Researchers have invented microparticles that, when injected into the bloodstream, replace the need to breathe. Undo. 10 Mind-blowing Sci-Fi Technologies That Really Exist. Technology Science fiction is one of the oldest genres in literature, with its roots tracing all the way back to the days of mythology. Sci-fi can be fanciful, extreme, even downright insane, but what separates it from fantasy is that it commonly relies on technology which, in at least some respects, could actually be feasible.
That’s not to say that you’ll be drafted for the next lightsaber battle on Mars anytime soon – but if there’s one thing we’ve learned from history, it’s that “real” science often does take its ideas straight from the pages of sci-fi. For example… Automated Driverless Cars The 2002 film Minority Report was futuristic sci-fi at its sleekest.
The Google Driverless Car was the first real-world attempt that gained widespread public recognition, even after those videos of it running over traffic cones. We don’t remember this being in any sci-fi movies – but dang it, it totally should have been. Data That Lasts Forever Or can it? And relatively speaking, that’s old news. Tactile Interaction. Index. 9 Tritium Batteries - The 10 Coolest Technologies You've Never Heard Of - The Future of Tech. Ever heard of bacterial photography—it's not as gross as it sounds—or chaos computing? 9 Tritium Batteries After years of advances in battery technology, many of our mobile gadgets still peter out before sunset on any given day.
Several high-profile efforts are under way to fix this pesky problem, but one of the least pursued and yet most profound developments in energy technology is the battery that virtually never needs a recharge. Known as the BetaBattery, this little powerhouse could provide continuous power for years. For now, the technology is just for offbeat applications such as sensor networks for monitoring traffic and for communication satellites, not for consumer electronics. The BetaBattery is not based on chemical reaction. BetaBatt is also designing battery casings that are extremely resistant to heat and cold, so that the batteries can power sensors and electrical equipment in the most hostile environments—even in space.
Luminae® by TransluSense | Multi-Touch Keyboard and Track Pad. 2 Chaos Computing - The 10 Coolest Technologies You've Never Heard Of - The Future of Tech. 2 Chaos Computing The word chaos, as any Get Smart fan will tell you, tends to evoke negative connotations—it's a disordered situation we want to avoid. But if William Ditto is right—and both the U.S. Navy and private investors are betting he is—the word may soon be seen in a whole new light. Ditto, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida in Gainesville, is exploiting the principles of chaos to build a revolutionary computer chip that just may prove faster, cheaper, and far more flexible than traditional designs. Ditto's chip is like the microelectronic version of a stem cell: It's a device that can assume all sorts of different functions. But a chaotic chip goes one step further: It can morph over and over again.
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