How WIRED Designed the Ultimate Smartwatch. WIRED hired Branch to design a smartwatch for our January 2014 cover.
The watch is meant to have apps on it that scroll up and down, like the wheel from Wheel of Fortune Price is Right. Photo: Todd Tankersley The goal was to create a device gorgeous enough that it would become a fashion statement—rather than a simple piece of technology. Photo: Todd Tankersley. Nick Cronan and Josh Morenstein, the founders of Branch. One critical decision involved getting the dimensions right, so that the width of the band was neither too feminine nor too masculine. A sample of the various materials that Branch tried out. The challenge of design a band was tough. One big idea was to have the glasses work in concert with the watch. But unlike Google Glass, the display is meant to simply be a notification layer which only surfaces pertinent or pressing information. Sketches of the watch during development. Un thriller inspiré des recherches de pointe sur le cerveau.
Disney invents touchscreen that lets you feel textures. A user touches a live video feed on a screen designed to transmit not only audio and visual, but haptic — or touch — information.
(Disney) The company that brought you the first animated feature film and the multiplane camera may be at work on its most game-changing invention yet: Flat touchscreens that let you feel the shape and texture of pictured objects, almost like they were actually there. The technology is called “tactile rendering of 3D features,” and an early version of a rendering algorithm has already been developed by engineers at Disney Research in Pittsburgh. The process behind it is, predictably, both technical and confusing, but the basic premise is that small, electronic pulses can trick your fingers into perceiving bumps and texture, even if the surface is actually flat.
Science invente un faux chercheur et berne les pseudo-revues scientifiques. Un journaliste du prestigieux magazine Science, John Bohannon, vient de publier une enquête accablante sur les dérives du système de publication d'articles scientifiques en «open accès» (accès libre).
Inventant un faux professeur de biologie de l’Institut de Médecine d’Asmara, Ocorrafoo Cobange, le journaliste a écrit un faux article scientifique sur une molécule capable de lutter contre le cancer. N’importe quel relecteur avec un niveau supérieur au lycée en chimie et la capacité à comprendre des données basiques aurait dû voir immédiatement que cet article n’avait aucune valeur scientifique. Comment les industriels utilisent la science comme un instrument de propagande. Basta !
: Les industriels ont choisi de tordre la science, dites-vous, pour contrer ce qui pourrait entraver leurs activités. Par exemple les révélations sur les effets sanitaires désastreux de certains produits. Sciences & Techs. Unpatched TRENDnet IP cameras still provide a real-time Peeping Tom paradise. Security is the reason to install a security camera, but if that live-streaming footage is made public for would-be criminals to study, then doesn’t pose a security risk?
If a security camera is installed in a home, whether it is to watch the baby or the babysitter, if everyone who wanted to could also watch the surveillance footage as it happens, then isn’t that a privacy risk? Almost a year ago, we looked a security vulnerability in TRENDnet streaming IP cameras that allow voyeurs to spy in real time into homes and offices. The Google map below shows TRENDnet cameras that still provide a Peeping Tom paradise and allow voyeurs to secretly armchair spy on strangers. The map is part of an awareness campaign. “Lots of TRENDnet cams have a severe flaw allowing access without password. On January 10, 2012, console cowboy identified a security vulnerability in TRENDnet streaming IP cameras. Do you suppose the employees in the images below know that the offices are being watched by cameras?
Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist. Who are the most ruthless capitalists in the western world?
Whose monopolistic practices make Walmart look like a corner shop and Rupert Murdoch a socialist? You won't guess the answer in a month of Sundays. While there are plenty of candidates, my vote goes not to the banks, the oil companies or the health insurers, but – wait for it – to academic publishers. JAPON. Ils parviennent (presque) à décrypter les rêves. Synesthesia: Some People Really Can Taste The Rainbow : The Salt. Hide captionA select group of synesthetes can truly "taste the rainbow.
" Photo illustration by Daniel M.N. Turner/NPR A select group of synesthetes can truly "taste the rainbow. " Plenty of us got our fill of green-colored food on St. Patrick's Day. These people have synesthesia — a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sense (e.g., taste) produces experiences in a totally different sense (e.g., sight). Hide captionFor Jaime Smith, a synesthetic sommelier, a white wine like Nosiola has a "beautiful aquamarine, flowy, kind of wavy color to it. " For Jaime Smith, a synesthetic sommelier, a white wine like Nosiola has a "beautiful aquamarine, flowy, kind of wavy color to it.
" We've covered this phenomenon in the past. Jaime Smith is one of those people. For Smith, who lives in Las Vegas, a white wine like Nosiola has a "beautiful aquamarine, flowy, kind of wavy color to it. " This "added dimension," Smith says, enhances his ability to appraise and analyze wines.