Will 2014 be remembered as the year wearable computing took off? Upstart entrepreneurs and major manufacturers such as Samsung, Qualcomm and Sony certainly hope so. Gadgets that you snap, buckle or fasten to your body are already ...
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Virtual reality has been hyped as the next big thing for decades—and yet,it never seems to deliver.Despite the potential,particularly in the world of gaming,numerous attempts have left players dizzy with disappointment,and just plain ...
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Silicon Valley based venture capitalist, Asha Jadeja initiates to boost developer community in India. She organises a Google Glass hackathon at Maker Fest, a non-commercial event, free and open to the publi. The event will be held on ...
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Sullivan Solar Power, a leading renewable energy company, is the first solar firm in America to utilize Google's latest invention, Glass, to improve company processes. Sullivan Solar Power received the prototype device, the Explorer ...
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Leslie Wu, a doctoral student in computer science at Stanford, took an appropriately high-tech approach to presenting her poem "Say 23" at the first Stanford Code Poetry Slam. Wu wore Google Glass as she typed 16 lines of computer code ...
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Wearable gadgets, curved smartphones and new game consoles defined technology in 2013. That's why it's no surprise they make up the bulk of our top 10 devices of the year. Some of these devices are essentially much better versions of ...
Google Glass announced updates to the software in its Internet-linked eyewear to allow users to snap pictures by winking. The new feature, which promises to escalate privacy concerns already being voiced about the high-tech gadget, came ...
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Taking a picture on Google's smart glasses is now as easy as winking.The newly official feature allows Google Glass wearers to capture images without resorting to the drudgery of pressing a camera button above the right eye or speaking the ...
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Despite significant headwinds, several medtech companies flourished in the past year while several stumbled. Here are five of the most successful: DexCom, a glucose monitoring specialist, has seen the value of its stock nearly triple in ...
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Apple recenetly was awarded patent apporval for an Oculus Rift style headset with 3D video capabilities, foreign media reported. The product also seems to have a lot in common with Google Glass. The patent shows that the headset could have ...
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For many suffering from blindness, the perfect Christmas gift has arrived. Next month, the Argus II Retinal Prothesis System by Second Sight is slated to go on sale in the United States. The Argus II by Second Sight can restore sight for ...
Tags: Bionic Eye, blindness
In what could be a game changer in the field of medical imaging, an Israeli firm known as RealView Imaging enables physicians to manipulate and analyze a patient's internal organ anatomy in midair in real time. A physician can, for ...
As the mobility innovation pool continues to run suspiciously dry, today brings another couple of wacky tidbits from two major technology firms. The first is a reported "curved glass" screen from Apple which, according to a Bloomberg ...
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The Nissan 3E web-enabled eye display has been teased in another expression of the Japanese car maker’s experimentation with non-automotive technologies. While a teaser video gives us a preview of the technology, few details been ...
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Google Glass and other smartglass technology will force CIOs to take a fresh look at their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) schemes as wearable computing begins to make headway into the workplace as early as 2017. That's according to ...
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