9 Overlooked Technologies That Could Transform The World - StumbleUpon What I've noticed is that most people don't really pay attention to "science" news, unless it's something that they can see immediately. I think this is at least partially because of the amount of news that comes out daily - whatever we may think about the quality of news, there is just a flood of it, which makes picking out "interesting" items difficult. When I talk about (just for example) the idea of gene therapy, most people think that it is still complete science fiction, as opposed to a very near-term product that will be available. Of course, CSP has been around for years, so it isn't really "new" to the average person. What they don't realize is the way that efficiencies have improved... Finally, of course, for a majority of people, the only science fiction they think of it Star Wars/Trek, or (advanced!) If you are on friendly terms with a non-technical coworker, ask them about any of the subjects mentioned here, you will be surprised at their response.
101: How to use NFC If you’ve purchased an Android phone within the last year and a half, the chances are pretty high that your phone came with an underused piece of technology called near field communication (NFC). Until the payment gateway companies and the carriers can figure out how to get along, it’s going to be a little while before the dominant purpose for NFC chips in our phones are for secure payments. Before we are paying all our bills with our phones, there are still many uses for NFC, you just need to know how to unlock its potential. If you’re trying to figure out how to use NFC, you’ve come to the right place. Reading information stored on NFC NFC tags are paper thin, and are only designed to store just bytes of information. Wondering how to actually use NFC? Once the information is scraped from the tag, your phone will prompt you to see what you want to do with the information. You can choose to continue or stop the process all together at this point.
Shigeru Miyamoto, de Nintendo : « Nous ne sommes pas concurrents dApple » 01net. le 21/11/12 à 12h36 Après la succès colossal de la Wii, qui a ouvert le marché à un nouveau public, en brouillant au passage certaines frontières traditionnelles du jeux vidéo, et inspiré un infléchissement dans la stratégie de ses concurrents, Nintendo tente une nouvelle révolution avec une console atypique à plus d’un titre, la Wii U. Nous avons eu l’occasion d’interviewer Shigeru Miyamoto, géant qui règne sur bon nombre des décisions prises par Nintendo. 01net : Comment est née l’idée de la console ? Shigeru Miyamoto : Elle a suivi un ordre logique. La Wii U... et sa manette à écran tactile 01net : A l’annonce de la Wii U, beaucoup ont estimé que Nintendo copiait Apple et l’iPad. Shigeru Miyamoto : Vous avez parfaitement raison. Mais le problème est qu’ils n’ont pas fonctionné, pour des raisons pratiques évidentes. Alors qu’avec la Wii U, on a créé un écosystème dans lequel les 100 personnes dont je parlais peuvent toutes profiter de cette expérience. Shigeru Miyamoto
Microsoft Research uses Kinect to translate between spoken and sign languages in real time - StumbleUpon 30 October '13, 08:31pm Follow Microsoft’s Kinect is a wonderful piece of technology that seems to know no bounds. As you can see in the video below, the Kinect Sign Language Translator is a research prototype that can translate sign language into spoken language and vice versa. In short, Kinect captures the gestures, while machine learning and pattern recognition programming help interpret the meaning. While this is clearly a massive achievement, there is still a huge amount of work ahead. Guobin Wu, the program manager of the Kinect Sign Language Translator project, explains that recognition is by far the most challenging part of the project. Wu says there are more than 20 million people in China who are hard of hearing, and an estimated 360 million such people around the world. ➤ Kinect Sign Language Translator part 1 and part 2 See also – Amazing: Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice Top Image Credit: Microsoft
Unison File Synchronizer Unison is a file-synchronization tool for OSX, Unix, and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Unison shares a number of features with tools such as configuration management packages (CVS, PRCS, Subversion, BitKeeper, etc.), distributed filesystems (Coda, etc.), uni-directional mirroring utilities (rsync, etc.), and other synchronizers (Intellisync, Reconcile, etc). However, there are several points where it differs: Unison runs on both Windows and many flavors of Unix (Solaris, Linux, OS X, etc.) systems.
Smartphones: Des anciens de Nokia lancent un rival à Android - High-Tech Smartphones Jolla, entreprise fondée par un groupe d'anciens salariés du géant finlandais Nokia, a présenté mercredi un nouveau système d'exploitation devant équiper ce qu'elle conçoit comme «le meilleur smartphone au monde». Image: ARCHIVES/AFP Signaler une erreur Vous avez vu une erreur? Veuillez SVP entrez une adresse e-mail valide Partager & Commenter Votre email a été envoyé. Ce rival d'Android (Google) et Windows Phone 8 (Microsoft), appelé Sailfish, est un successeur de MeeGo, système d'exploitation sur lequel travaillait Nokia jusqu'à ce qu'il noue une alliance avec le concepteur américain de logiciels Microsoft en février 2011. «La plupart d'entre nous travaillaient à l'époque dans la division MeeGo, et nous étions si investis là-dedans, avec l'impression qu'il était si compétitif, que nous voulions continuer à le développer et fonder une entreprise», a déclaré le confondateur et président de Jolla, Antti Saarnio. Produit de haut de gamme
The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies In The Internet Of Things - StumbleUpon 1. Nest (Google) For solving yet another pain point in building the smart home. Following its game-changing "learning thermostat," Nest released the Protect smoke detector, again infusing a previously design-neglected home appliance with modern detail and functionality. 2. For having the bright idea to make smartphone-tethered bulbs. 3. For unleashing simple connected products for the cautious consumer. Monitor your home. 4. For upping the activity-tracking game with a next-gen, supercharged wristband. 5. For opening a platform of Internet-wise devices to let users customize their connected homes. 6. For strengthening its products to stand out among the quantified-self crowd. 7. For giving users control of whatever’s plugged in. 8. For jumping into the IoT fray as only it could—with a superpowered chip. 9. For building out a cloud platform to help make smart machines smart. For racing to establish an Internet of Things accelerator.
50 Open Source Tools to Make Your Life Easier The open source community is vibrant, continually growing, and just loves to create applications and tools to make lives easier. Here are 50 of our favorite open source apps that help us do everything from managing pictures on our computer to learning about Jupiter and Mars. Chandler – An information management application for personal use or small group collaboration. Includes integrated calendaring, data organization tools, and allows backup and data sharing via web access. Tomboy – A cross-platform note-taking application packed with features text highlighting, font styling, inline spellchecking, and more. BasKet Note Pads – More than just a note-taking app, BasKet lets you organize in track data in several different ways, import information from other apps, and easily share your notes with others. Freemind – This free mind mapping app can easily handle maps with as many as 22,000 nodes. Task Coach – A robust todo list tracker. Xchat – An IRC chat client for Linux and WIndow.
Archos confirme sa FamilyPad, une tablette Android 13,3 pouces Alors que Google vient de lancer sa Nexus 10 à 399 euros (16 Go), Archos continue de déployer une gamme bien plus large. Pour 299 euros, Archos présente la FamilyPad, une tablette Android 13,3 pouces (34 cm en diagonale). Avec un écran 13,3 pouces en définition 1280 x 800 pixels, 8 Go d’espace de stockage, un processeur ARM Cortex A8 cadencé à 1 Ghz, 1 Go de RAM, deux capteurs de 2 mégapixels, un lecteur de carte micro SD… Archos positionne une tablette « familiale » capable de gérer plusieurs points pour permettre à 4 personnes de l’utiliser simultanément. Un bon positionnement »prix et usage », néanmoins Archos l’a équipé par Ice Cream Sandwich sans accès au Google Play ni aux applications Google Apps. On peut également déplorer une définition bien trop basse pour cette taille d’écran. Vous pourrez télécharger des applications sur l’AppsLib (market alternatif d’Archos).
Forget WiFi, It's LiFi: Internet Through Lightbulbs - StumbleUpon Whether you’re using wireless internet in a coffee shop, stealing it from the guy next door, or competing for bandwidth at a conference, you’ve probably gotten frustrated at the slow speeds you face when more than one device is tapped into the network. As more and more people—and their many devices—access wireless internet, clogged airwaves are going to make it increasingly difficult to latch onto a reliable signal. But radio waves are just one part of the spectrum that can carry our data. What if we could use other waves to surf the internet? One German physicist, Harald Haas, has come up with a solution he calls “data through illumination”—taking the fiber out of fiber optics by sending data through an LED lightbulb that varies in intensity faster than the human eye can follow. It’s the same idea behind infrared remote controls, but far more powerful. Photo (cc) via otto-otto.com
All the Best Linux Cheat Sheets Linux Security Quick Reference Guide - An awesome security checklist reference IP Tables - If you are interested in Linux firewalls this is a must have TCPDump - Great cheat sheet to an awesome security tool Wireshark Filters - An awesome list of filters for the best packet sniffing utility IP Access Lists - Cheat sheet for IP Access Lists Common Ports - In case you don’t have all common ports memorized netcat - Reference to the swiss army knife of networking
Microsoft, futur géant de la télé connectée ? Après le lot de rumeurs sur une éventuelle télévision made in Apple, c'est au tour de Microsoft d'agiter les esprits. Le site The Verge rapporte, mercredi 21 novembre, que le géant du logiciel préparerait un boitier à relier à son téléviseur pour accéder à des jeux vidéo et des services multimédias (VOD, musique, etc.), dérivés de la plate-forme pour sa console, le Xbox Live. L'ensemble serait contrôlable à la voix ou avec ses mouvements, reprenant ainsi la technologie du détecteur Kinect. Le magazine "The Daily" évoquait déjà en janvier le projet de boitier télé chez Microsoft, déjà surnommé "Kinect Box", "Live Box" ou "Kinect HD". La rumeur semble tout à fait crédible estime l'analyste Philippe Torres, directeur du département Conseil et Stratégie numérique à l'Atelier BNP-Paribas : "A partir des années 2000, Apple a réussi à s'imposer sur la musique, puis sur la téléphonie et les tablettes avec ses appareils, devenant l'acteur qui fixe les règles du jeu.
Acoustic Levitation and the Tractor Beam, the Impossible just became Incredible... - StumbleUpon Levitation and the defiance of gravities surly bond has been a science that struggled to keep up with its own mythology, until now. A team of Japanese researchers have this week demonstrated the first technology that not only brings the mythology of levitation to life but leap frogs it to create a tractor beam, lifting and moving objects across 3 dimensions using sound alone. Presented for your viewing pleasure is the astounding video of acoustic levitation in action, now including tractor beam. Sit back relax and prepare to watch the future arrive, gliding effortlessly. Scientists from the University of Tokyo and Nagoya Institute of Technology are now able to levitate and move any object in 3 dimensions. This latest acoustic levitation technique uses multiple ultrasonic transducers (speakers) arranged in a phased array to create a standing wave that surrounds the suspended object forming a node, or sonic bubble. Reference: Research PapersReference: The Wire
Microsoft making its own glasses? Patent application suggests so Right now tech companies fight about the phone you use. The next battle could be over the glasses you wear. Microsoft is working on a device that delivers information about live events to a person wearing a head-mounted display. One of the drawings included in Microsoft's patent application shows the device could come in the form of eyeglasses. "The information is provided about actions and objects occurring within an event and within the user's field of view," the application says. The Microsoft device would connect to a processing unit that you could wear on your wrist like a band. That's some pretty cool technology Microsoft is working on, but the Redmond, Wash., company isn't alone. Google's Project Glass is developing a similar set of eyeglasses and the company has already shown prototypes to the public via YouTube as well as at conferences. Google put early editions of its glasses on sale at its Google I/O conference this summer for $1,500 a unit.