Massive Milestones in Mobile - Will These Numbers Change Your Mobile Strategy? In less than 12 months from now, the world will have more mobile subscriptions in use, than humans alive.
That is an unprecedented milestone for any technology but it is also widely expected and is not news to the readers of this blog. (The world had 7 Billion people and 5.9 Billion mobile phone subscriptions in use by the end of 2011, today we are past 6.2 Billion mobile subscriptions already). Yes, on this blog and in my books I have chronicled the rapid rise of mobile. Embedded chips, GPS pacemakers, AI, Oh my — what’s in your health future? Ten years ago, if anyone said that a multifunctional device would one day allow people to play a word game with anyone in the world as well as enable a doctor to get ECG data — many would simply say baloney.
Of course, the iPhone and iPad are no longer a figment of anyone’s imagination. With the same idea in mind, MedCity News asked doctors, digital health experts and healthcare futurists, what is in our collective health future? Google’s Project Glass – Welcome to the Future. By Julie Imagine this if you will, you’re walking down the street engaged in a video chat with your friend, who is 6000 miles away, taking pictures and planning your day when you realize you don’t know where you are, as you look up and to the right a computer screen appears in your line of vision, and you ask it to find the nearest subway station, and it does.
The coolest part of this story is that this technology is out on our streets, right now. Why Google’s self-driving car may save lives — if all cars are computer-driven. Self-driving car (credit: Google) The technology behind Google’s self-driving car represents a potential leap forward in auto safety.
More than 30,000 people are killed each year in crashes despite huge advances in auto safety. The overwhelming majority of those crashes are caused by human-driver error. This Is How You Will Connect Everything in Your Home to the Internet. Teleportation record heralds secure global network - physics-math - 15 May 2012. The distance record for quantum teleportation has been smashed.
Juan Yin and colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui, teleported a quantum state 97 kilometres, 81 km further than the previous record. Back to Basics: How Google’s driverless car stays on the road. Google's self-driving cars are making headlines again, now that they've expanded testing from California into Nevada.
Is this Hover Car the next people's car? Google Glasses (Project Glass) : The Future of Human Computer Interaction? Drools 5.4: Artificial Intelligence, A Little History. If you like the article, please vote up ad dzone: As part of the 5.4 release, going out the door as we speak, I updated the intro docs.
I have tried to give a wider understanding of the field and scope of work. Here is a copy. I'll try and improve the sections over future releases, I ran out of time and the later sections are little rushed and thin. I'm not the best of writers, so please have patience, all contributions welcome :) A Little History Over the last few decades artificial intelligence (AI) became an unpopular term, with the well know "AI Winter". Thinking Machines Corporation was one of the leading AI firms in 1990, it had sales of nearly $65 million. Yet 5 years later it filed for Chapter 11. inc.com has a fascinating article titled "The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines". The 5th Generation Computer project was a 400mill USD project in Japan to build a next generation computer. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Rule Engines and Production Rule Systems Expert Systems. Google's Self-Driving Car Gets a License in Nevada.
It Exists! MIT Creates Tech For Moving Files Across Devices With A Swipe. Last week, we reported on a cool, if seemingly far-fetched, UI concept that’d let you drag files from your phone to your computer with a swipe of the finger.
The idea is “so simple and clever, you wonder why it doesn’t exist already,” we wrote. Hours later, an email appeared in our inbox, subject line: “it exists!” The message came courtesy of Natan Linder, a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab. Linder and undergraduate researcher Alexander List are developers of Swÿp, a piece of open-source software that facilitates “cross-app, cross-device data exchange using physical ‘swipe’ gestures,” they write on their website. Microsoft forges ahead with new home-automation OS. More than a decade ago, Microsoft execs, led by Chairman Bill Gates, were touting a future where .Net coffee pots, bulletin boards, and refrigerator magnets would be part of homes where smart devices would communicate and interoperate.
Microsoft hasn't given up on that dream. In 2010, Microsoft researchers published a white paper about their work on a HomeOS and a HomeStore -- early concepts around a Microsoft Research-developed home-automation system. Software as a Service on Windows Azure. Liquid Wood: 100% Organic Replacement For Everything Plastic - Green Diary. German inventors have developed a new material which holds the promise of replacing everything plastic with something as natural as wood.
The material in question is called the Arboform. It is produced after combining lignin, a discarded element of regular wood with natural resins, flax and fiber. Arboform can be molded into any object form which is normally made using non-biodegradable petroleum products. What shoots up the eco-factor of such products is the fact that once out of use the Arboform products break down quickly organically into eco-safe by-products like water and carbon dioxide. Now almost anything that you can imagine under the sun can be produced using Arboform from simple toys to complex gadgets. Bucky Balls Could Double Your Lifespan. BioDigital Human.
Head Tracking for iPad: Glasses-Free 3D Display.