But it has introduced also new Google Chromebook laptops and an experimental new desktop aimed at businesses that runs Android.
the mobile phone and tablet suppliers will switch too. Nice tech advancement we all can benefit from.
#Ostendo Technologies chip to bring holograms to smartphones Ostendo chip that can produce a hologram Virtual reality won t require strapping a bulky contraption to your head in the future.
where startup Ostendo Technologies Inc. has spent the past nine years quietly working on miniature projectors designed to emit crisp videos and glasses-free 3-D images for smartphones and giant screens.
One chipset, small enough to fit into a smartphone, is capable of projecting video on a surface with a 48-inch diagonal.
that like Ostendo, is trying to bring 3d imaging to smartphones. Meanwhile, Facebook Inc. agreed in March to spend $2 billion to buy Oculus VR Inc.,maker of the Oculus Rift headset that pulls users into a 360-degree virtual environments.
Facebook CEO#Mark Zuckerberg#was convinced, in part of the value of virtual reality after he accidentally tried to set down a real world object on a virtual table
while testing the Oculus Rift, forgetting for a moment that the table didn t exist in the real world,
but has raised $90 million from venture-capital firms and Peter Thiel, Facebook s first outside investor,
or Darpa, the government s futurist agency that worked on the predecessor to the Internet and self-driving cars.
The Retina display on Apple Inc. s#iphone, for example, has about 300 dots per inch,
With a lens attached, it will be less than 0. 5 cubic centimeters, roughly the size of the camera in the#iphone.
whether it is a glasses-free 3-D television screen, a smartwatch, or tables that can project hologram-like images.
and breed a wave of business opportunities, on scale with the introduction of the iphone.
and what it does is link your smart rifle s sight to your phone, tablet or Google glass.
By networking your sight and your headset, you see everything your gun does streamed in real time. Basically, when you want to give yourself your gun s POV,
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#Classcraft a new way to teach students by turning the classroom into a giant role-playing game Classcraft Shawn Young,
they ll be able to use their smartphones to keep up with the game too, with an ios app set for release and an Android version to follow.
something he believes is important in a 21st century that s proving a boom time for sharing, not least through social media.
Higuera told me via email. Before, some of my more apathetic students wouldn t care
and your smartphone will find it for you, up to a range of 50 to 150 feet.
But what makes this one different is that it also a social network of sorts. If your lost jacket isn in some mysterious corner of your home
their phones will beep and they can alert you to the jacket whereabouts. That why its creators, Mike Farley and Nick Evans, call it he world largest lost and found.
In 2013, Tile made news for being the most successful campaign to use open source crowdfunding software elfstarter, on its own website to raise funds.
Mason tells us he dabbles in some Angel investing, specifically nternet of Things (Iot) startups, companies making internet-controlled objects t
Set up by two former Google employees, it used remote sensing and other cartographic techniques to map every field in America (all 25m of them) and superimpose on that all the climate information that it could find.
and offers up-to-date data on the wearer mental and physical tiredness by linking the MEME to a smartphone feed.
An aluminium factory used to stand on the site but was closed down in 2007. The freshwater lagoon will be 300m long
you probably think about electronics products like televisions and computers. Thanks to its CT and other diagnostic imaging machines and technology, Toshiba has made a name for itself in the healthcare industry, too.
#25%of patients now read online physician reviews There has always been a love/hate relationship between doctors and the Internet.
using online review sites. A recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan says 25 percent of Americans now look online for doctor reviews before making an appointment.
There are now 40 to 50 doctor-review sites for patients to choose from, the biggest among them being Healthgrades, Ratemds and Vitals.
Also, general review sites such as Yelp also offer ratings for medical practices and specific physicians. It gets better.
And doctors sometimes simply must give patients bad news. Some doctors believe bad news in the exam room can cause bad feelings that turn into bad reviews on sites like Healthgrades. com
. But the review sites are on the minds of doctors. Both the Congress of OBGYNS and the American Psychiatric Association have held panel discussions about online reviews at recent meetings
Pristine, and Google is involved not currently. In August, another 20 to 30 pairs will go to first-and second-year students, for use in anatomy labs, the medical simulation center, the ultrasound institute,
Google self-driving cars are legal and in use in several states at this point. As researchers, we are playing catch up trying to figure out the ethical and legal implications.
and that the same as Google cars as it is for military robots, we should begin now to do the research to how far can we get in ensuring the robot systems are safe
via email. n fact there are no technical and economic obstacles to go first to 20 percent of annual electricity demand penetration rate from a combination of those two technologies,
While lithium ion batteries are the dominant batteries these days for laptops, cell phones and early electric cars,
While neither Kani or Nishina has a long background with battery chemistry (they hail from the telecom
Smartphones, for example, would be able to heal actual cracks in the casing, rather than micro-filling small scuffs and scratches that result from a pocket full of keys.
which was quickly moving to a web-based approach, business software was sold still in boxes.
and wanted to start selling takeout on the Web, you had to either buy a product that was compatible with your accounting software or basically run two sets of books.
there are millions of social media posts, customers filling out comment cards, mentions in mass media and on blog posts.
For a large enterprise, a keyword search would turn up thousands of hits per day. It simply not possible for a human to read it all but now machines can.
So, for example, customer service organizations can monitor the web for complaints in order to intervene and financial analysts can track sentiment on the companies they cover.
but can be accessed by anybody with an internet connection. That a real game changer. One thing is clear.
that will grow exponentially over the coming decades much like an Internet of things in space. It has the potential not only to continuously deliver limitless amounts of solar energy to markets On earth,
as well as offer the convenience of simple apps and websites. Simple provides mobile-first banking with no need to visit a branch, no hidden fees and great customer service.
there is an easy-to-use app or web-based money transfer service. Here in the UK, our challenger bank Virgin Money are disrupting that idea with stunning free lounges,
and sell on the go using smartphones. Clinkle is introducing a mobile wallet for day to day transactions
so rather than put your hand in your pocket for small amounts of cash you can just pay with your phone.
or delayed flights It can be hard to a book flight on an airline website,
Video) efore today, you had to go to our website or app to give us your flight information.
Airhelp CMO Nicolas Michaelsen told me in a phone interview before Disrupt. ow, you connect your Gmail account,
Digging through all your email could take a while. So after connecting to your Gmail account
Youl receive an email with interesting stats and potential claims a few hours later. After that, you have to give Airhelp the rights to handle the claims,
when each technology will be scientifically viable (the kind of stuff that Google, governments and universities develop),
#$150 smartphone spectrometer can tell the number of calories in your food If you wanted to look up the calorie content of a specific food you are eating you could take it to a lab and run it through a spectrometer.
The SCIO is a handheld device that pairs with a smartphone through Bluetooth LE being developed by Consumer Physics
Consumer Physics will offer both Android and iphone apps, and also hopes to develop a platform upon
In a few seconds, the associated smartphone app will take the spectrometer reading, send it to SCIO servers,
It closer to the size of a smartphone camera module, and could one day be included in a variety of forms,
Some details about the evolution of the project over the last few years can be seen on our Glove Project Blog.
#Mayo Clinic s Better turns your smartphone into a personal health concierge The Mayo Clinic is offering unlimited access to the famed hospital nurses through a smartphone app for about $50 a month.
Fast Company has covered previously New york-based medical concierge service Sherpaa and Oscar, a new health insurer which tailors its products for web and mobile use.
or smartphone application is far less than a comparable standalone product, which requires far greater fees for the FDA process.
The Mayo Clinic is entering a crowded market of smartphone-based concierge medicine firms. Beyond Sherpaa, there also Grand Rounds, Stat Doctors, Doctor on Demand,
which offers subsidized concierge medicine services via smartphones for residents of British columbia. For Better, the Mayo Clinic,
the real (and unanswered) question is just how much of a market for their services really exists via smartphone apps s
According to THECB website, students arriving ith no prior college credits should be able to complete the degree program in three years at a total cost of $13, 000 to $15, 000.
#Facebook and Google are drooling over drone companies Last month it seemed as if Facebook would acquire the long-range solar-powered drone maker Titan Aerospace
and use its technology to deliver Internet to remote areas of the world. It was ostensibly a hedge against Google balloon-driven Project Loon and the possibility that Google,
rather than Facebook, would connect the ext billioninternet users. Today that picture is opaque at best.
Google not Facebook is buying Titan Aerospace, and Facebook has acquired a different U k.-based solar-powered drones startup called Ascenta.
And an answer to the question of how exactly the two Silicon valley giants will leverage their new technology?
Still elusive. What is clear is that while delivering connectivity to far-flung parts of the globe is advantageous for both Facebook and Google,
the race to acquire unmanned aerial systems, or UAS, technology is about much more. Exactly what, well, that more difficult to discern. ou definitely have to look at it as part of a broader business strategy,
says Mark Bünger, research director at Lux Research. he two of them are shooting for the strategic high ground here Amazon is obviously doing this, too.
For Facebook, the incentive is simple: catch up. Rival Google has been developing a means to provide Internet connectivity to remote regions of the world for years now through Project Loon,
which uses Internet hubs suspended from high-flying balloons to provide bandwidth to areas of New zealand that are wired off the grid.
Facebook isn breaking new ground by getting into commercialized drone technology, Bünger says, just keeping up. oogle has been working on the autonomous vehicles, the Nest acquisition,
and a bunch of other stuff that surprising if you think of them as a search engine company which hopefully nobody does anymore,
Facebook knows that if it wants to remain a major presence in the emerging Internet of things, it will need to extend beyond software and into hardware.
Drones are one means of doing so. UAS are also a means of bypassing mobile carriers,
which have given Facebook some trouble in parts of the developing world, particularly where the company has attempted to negotiate ero-ratedeals that allow customers to use some of Facebook offerings without it counting against their data plans.
If Facebook does follow through with its ambitious plans to connect the next billion people through Facebook-owned Internet drones
Facebook can not only bypass mobile carriers that don want to play ball, but also push those new users toward Facebook offerings like its recently acquired messaging app Whatapp.
But one oft-overlooked area where UAS technology could really be a boon for Facebook is in data moving the other direction.
Right now, Facebook owns mountains of data on its users, but relatively little on the parts of the world that aren connected already to Facebook.
Comparatively, Google acquisitions and exclusive deals with third parties provide it with everything from the rich trove of geospatial data that powers Google maps to the energy use
and living habits of those using its Nest smart home technology, providing a far more robust picture of the world
and a wider range of services it can provide. With a fleet of UAS in the sky, Facebook could begin gathering its own proprietary geospatial data, aerial imagery, traffic data,
meteorological data information that it could then integrate into new products or sell to companies that need it,
much like Google does and other companies threaten to do, at least with regard to drones. or Facebook and Google and those guys,
they know they need a toehold in this space, Bünger says. here are a hundred other areas like that where theye having to compete now to get a toehold in the technology,
and they can really know right now what theye going to use it for. Nobody really knows.
At $20 million, Facebook found its way into the drone space for a third of
The terms of Google purchase of Titan haven yet been disclosed, but whatever the final figure, it will likely be worth it.
both of these drone acquisitions by Facebook and Google; a lot of this technology that has to do with wearables;
#Google buys Titan Aerospace, a solar-powered drone company Solar-powered drone This week, Google announced the acquisition of Titan Aerospace for an undisclosed sum in a move that sees the technology
Following Facebook s $20 million purchase of U k.-based aerospace company Ascenta which has been working on the development of unmanned,
solar-powered aerial drones for the past few years Google acted fast to usurp an expected bid by Facebook to also acquire Titan Aerospace.
and nonstop for years at a time a technology Google hopes to utilize in order to extend its influence
a source close to Google said that the company offered to top any offer from Facebook for Titan Aerospace.
but as yet largely unproven technology that Google hopes can help beam internet access to areas of the globe that remain unserved by cellphone towers or telephone wires.
Solar-powered drones are an attractive proposition to company like Google and Facebook because of their reliability and stability in often adverse weather conditions.
Google s technical experts will work with Titan Aerospace to advance the material design for the drones wings,
and detail to atmospheric sensors used in many of Google s applications, such as Google maps. It is still early days
and environmental damage like deforestation, said a Google statement announcing the acquisition. Solar s influence Titan Aerospace caught Google s attention thanks to its innovative dragonfly-shaped drones that are powered by its wing-mounted solar panels
and onboard battery storage that allows the planes to fly at night. The drones are huge aircraft the smaller model,
whether the solar technology is advanced currently enough to deliver the kind of long-range reliability that Google will require.
and it takes a lot of power to broadcast internet signals. However, a source close to Facebook has revealed that the social media giants had been reviewing Titan Aerospace s solar-powered drones some six months ago,
and were impressed enough to open talks with the company about a possible acquisition. Google were evidently also eager to speak with Titan
and are believed to have gazumped Facebook s offer r
#Neuroscientists reverse symptoms of Alzheimer s in mice Researchers found that the overproduction of the protein known as p25 may be the culprit behind the sticky protein-fragment clusters that build up in the brains of Alzheimer patients.
The work, which was published in the April 10 issue of Cell, could provide a new drug target for the treatment of the disease that affects more than five million Americans,
and products could travel through the Internet as code, produced on demand at any location,
The files for these products could be sent in an email and then printed out, all in one operation,
which are suitable for our watches, our cars or phones, we can use these robots in life domains,
Below is a U s. Naval Research Laboratory Youtube video explaining the breakthrough Y
#Israeli startup Storedot charges smartphone batteries to full in 30 seconds Storedot It possible that youl be able to plug the smartphone in
and charge it from 0 percent to 100 percent in just under a minute, according to a report by the Wall street journal. An Israeli startup by the name of Storedot revealed the technology at Microsoft Think Next Conference using standard smartphone batteries,
and they claim itl even be portable. video) As the demo was held at a Microsoft conference,
the actual demonstration was shown on a Samsung galaxy S3; however, the technology will almost certainly be available for Apple smartphone.
Fast battery chargers already exist, but theye expensive, unwieldy things for special batteries. Storedot, however, claims that its technology will only cost around twice as much as traditional chargers.
Press it and whatever you say will be stored as a search the next time you visit the Amazonfresh website.
The Dash is currently free but y invitation only, according to its website, and no release date has been announced yet.
#Europe to abolish roaming charges by December 2015 The first move was to slash pricing of mobile phone roaming costs across Europe.
Then calls were made to abolish mobile roaming costs completely, with a view towards afeguarding citizensright to access an open Internet.
Today that vision has become a reality. Neelie Kroes has been one of the main drivers behind this reform, with the outspoken European commission VP a strong proponent if a single ICT and telecoms market,
previously saying she would ight with my last breath to get us there together. Perhaps the most significant nugget from today news is that the European parliament has voted now to banish roaming charges by Christmas 2015.
This headline-grabber constitutes part of the broader move towards the onnected Continentthat would be created by a single telecoms market.
This is an historic day for the open Internet. The finer nuances of the net neutrality law have yet to be ratified,
distinct capacity, cannot be mistaken for Internet, no replacement of Internet services by specialised services. In other words, an ISP can reclassify Amazon Instant Video
or Netflix as a service other than Internet to bypass these new net neutrality laws. It a pretty solid advance for the Internet in Europe,
one that will ensure providers can slow down or otherwise degrade the speed of an Internet connection on a whim.
The European parliament is being very clear about this: the Internet cannot be affected by specialised services.
While there could still be some twists and turns with the finer details still to be ironed out,
and prevent someone from procuring a mobile phone plan in a cheaper EU country, and using it exclusively in another.
while contract rules will also apply to non-telecoms elements of bundles, such as TV. And there will be no automatic extension of contract terms
and Google have attracted much attention and tens of millions of dollars intheir bid to translate increasingly expensive college courses into cheaper online formats.
Apple Inc.,Google Inc.,Microsoft corp. and Cisco systems Inc. are a few major Silicon valley tech companies selling either hardware or software to K-12 educators.
and Internet connectivity to people and villages living off-the-grid. Video) Think of these floating turbines as the wind farms of the future
Underpinning this vision is the provision of high-speed wireless internet connectivity for citizens in all public locations.
The machine sends out an email when it is running low on stock. It also has built-in security features such as cameras
A demo of Spritz technology can be found on the company website. Spritz is set to launch in April as a feature with the upcoming Samsung galaxy S5 smartphone
and the Gear 2 smartwatch. ith the growth of wearable devices, Spritz patent-pending technology will enable Samsung device users to read emails comfortably
and conveniently one streaming word at a time, the company said in a statement. Spritz said it is working on enabling its technology so it can also be used to read text messages
social media streams, web content and digital books. At 1, 000 words per minute, users could potentially read the shortest Harry potter book he Sorcerer Stone,
wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet. When Katie Hall saw a light-bulb glowing in the middle of a room with no wires attached she was shocked.
they are the same kind of fields used in Wi-fi routers. In the house of the future, wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet.
If all goes to Witricity plans, smartphones will charge in your pocket as you wander around,
televisions will flicker with no wires attached, and electric cars will refuel while sitting on the driveway.
Witricity have demonstrated already their ability to power laptops, cellphones, and TVS by attaching resonator coils to batteries
and an electric car refueller is reportedly in the works. Hall sees a bright future for the family without wires:
It great to see so much discussion of this technology on social media and the comments thread.
As Witricity have mentioned on their website the Highly Resonant Wireless power transfer technology they have developed is also distinct from Tesla creations and
#Samsung develops ultrasonic smartphone case to help visually impaired sense their surroundings A smartphone case that helps the visually impaired by enhancing their awareness of their surroundings has been developed by Samsung.
The Ultrasonic Cover for its Galaxy Core Advance smartphone helps owners sense the presence of people and objects up to two meters away.
the phone lets the smartphone owner know by sending a vibration alert or text-to-speech notification.
When the Internet was growing in the 90s it promised a future in which everyone everywhere had access to all the knowledge in the world,
and closer everyday as more people in underdeveloped countries have access to cheaper and cheaper smartphones and Internet access.
Google, Facebook, as well as many others, all keep meticulous track of user data for advertising and other purposes.
On several occasions, the massive amounts of data collected by Internet service and telecommunications companies have been utilized by agencies such as the NSA, under morally questionable motives at best.
The result is a system that has evolved with the ability to track everything you do
The Internet has recently been more reminiscent of Orwell s 1984, rather than the future of individual empowerment that was promised.
and it is these key features within the Bitcoin protocol itself that may be the key to weakening the hold of massive data collecting service companies like Google.
Among these can be email, domain names, and other such systems. Decentralized applications This is only the beginning however,
Because of that, it is conceivable that DAS for payments, social networking, and cloud computing may one day surpass the valuation of multinational corporations like Western union, Visa, Facebook, Google,
and Amazon that are are currently active in the space. At the very least, the ever-growing success of bitcoin thus far candidly illustrates that there is indeed a massive demand for anonymity online,
the Internet, or even to gold 5, 000 years ago. While it does possess similarities with many of these things,
#U s. to give up remaining control over the internet U s. officials announced plans to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet last week.
and others who rely on the smooth functioning of the Web. Pressure to let go of the final vestiges of U s. authority over the system of Web addresses
and domain names that organize the Internet has been building for more than a decade and was supercharged by the backlash last year to revelations about National security agency surveillance.
The change would end the long-running contract between the Commerce department and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California-based nonprofit group.
That contract is set to expire next year but could be extended if the transition plan is not complete. e look forward to ICANN convening stakeholders across the global Internet community to craft an appropriate transition plan,
Lawrence E. Strickling, assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, said in a statement. The announcement received a passionate response,
. and our allies are making to promote a free and open Internet, and to preserve
and advance the current multi-stakeholder model of global Internet governance. But former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.)tweeted:
hat is the global internet community that Obama wants to turn the internet over to?
This risks foreign dictatorships defining the internet. The practical consequences of the decision were harder to immediately discern, especially with the details of the transition not yet clear.
Politically, the move could alleviate rising global concerns that the United states essentially controls the Web
An international meeting to discuss the future of Internet is scheduled to start on March 23 in Singapore.
a trade group representing major Internet commerce businesses. U s. officials said their decision had nothing to do with the NSA spying revelations
and international support continues to grow for the multistakeholder model of Internet governance, Strickling said in a statement.
inclusive process to find a new international oversight structure for the group. othing will be done in any way to jeopardize the security and stability of the Internet,
The United states has maintained long authority over elements of the Internet which grew from a Defense department program that started in the 1960s.
The relationship between the United states and ICANN has drawn wider international criticism in recent years, in part because big American companies such as Google,
Facebook and Microsoft play such a central role in the Internet worldwide functioning. The NSA revelations exacerbated those concerns. his is a step in the right direction to resolve important international disputes about how the Internet is governed,
said Gene Kimmelman, president of Public knowledge, a group that promotes open access to the Internet.
Verizon, one of the world biggest Internet providers issued a statement saying, successful transition in the stewardship of these important functions to the global multi-stakeholder community would be a timely and positive step in the evolution of Internet governance.
ICANN most important function is to oversee the assigning of Internet domains such as dot-com, dot-edu and dot-gov
and ensure that the various companies and universities involved in directing digital traffic do so safely.
Concern about ICANN stewardship has spiked in recent years amid a massive and controversial expansion that is adding hundreds of new domains,
to the Internet infrastructure. More than 1, 000 new domains are slated to be made available, pumping far more fee revenue into ICANN.
however, that con artists already swarm the Internet with phony Web sites designed to look like the authentic offerings of respected brands. o set ICANN so-called free is a very major step that should done with careful oversight,
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