3D Gesture-Based Multi-Layer Remote Control Technique for Smart TV(No remote needed)

Fights over who gets to wield the remote control can get pretty heated, but figuring out whose turn it is to pick a channel is about to get a whole lot more complicated. EyeSight Technologies has introduced a new fingertip gesture-based technology that allows you to control your TV without the need for a remote – you just use your own hands. EyeSight’s technology is kind of like a touch screen but without the screen. They say it is the world’s first gesture- recognition software. It works not only with televisions, but also with laptops, tablets, phones, and in-car systems. The company wants to make gesture-based controls as simple and intuitive to the entire developed world as Apple made touch screen controls. Unfortunately for everyone hoping to install a simple piece of software and start conducting the channels with their outstretched fingers, this isn’t exactly add-on technology. The software would have to be built into the device along with a 2D webcam. Still, it would give both short-range and long-range control that would recognize not only hand movements but gestures as well.

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Revealed:Apple spaceship campus

Watch a drone flyby of Apple's gigantic spaceship campus

When 2.8 million square feet just isn't enough

• By Nick Statt
 
• on September 3, 2015 07:32 pm
 

Apple's new donut-shaped campuswill house 13,000 employees scattered about a mind-boggling 2.8 million square feet, a nearly 230 percent bump over the company's current HQ at 1 Infinite Loop. And that doesn't include the 1,000-seat auditorium, nor the 300,000 square feet dedicated solely to R&D facilities. To help you conceptualize a facility of that magnitude, drone pilot and photographer Duncan Sinfield has released a video showing an aerial view of the site under construction.

176 ACRES AND $5 BILLION LATER

Using narration from former Apple CEO Steve Jobs' remarks at a Cupertino City Council meeting about the construction project, Sinfield's drone fly-by does a neat job of showing you what has been accomplished in the past 31 days of work. He filmed a similar video back on August 1 and overlays the footage as his DJI Inspire 1 quadcopter swings overhead one month later.

The campus, which reportedly cost more than $5 billion and was designed by architectural firm Forster + Partners, is expected to be finished some time next year or in early 2017. One notable perk: The campus is expected to be a "net-zero energy" facility, meaning it will generate 100 percent of its power from renewable energy sources, including 700,000 square feet of onsite solar panels.

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Sony unveils first smartphone with 4k display and scanner: XPERIA Z5

Xperia Z5: Sony unveils first smartphone with 4K display

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Sony has unveiled its latest Xperia Z5 Premium smartphone that is touted to be the world’s first smartphone with a 4K display.

As the IFA 2015 kick starts in Berlin this week, Sony showed off its new lineup of Xperia Z5 smartphones that boast of new features including fingerprint sensor and 23 megapixel cameras.

However, the Xperia Z5 Premium smartphone is the one grabbing the most attention for its 5.5-inch that packs in four times the resolution of Full HD with 806 ppi for ultra sharp viewing experience. A 4K display is sharper and scales up your images or videos to a higher quality.

At the heart of the Xperia Z5 Premium is a 64-bit Octa Core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor combined with 3GB of RAM.

It features a 23 megapixel main camera with Hybrid Autofocus and 4K video recording capability. The front snapper is 5 megapixel with full HD video recording feature.

Powered by Android Lollipop, Xperia Z5 Premium comes with 32GB of internal storage that is expandable up to 200GB via microSD card.

The 3430mAh battery is claimed to provide up to 2 days of battery life. The single-SIM phone is 4G enabled and is waterproof and dust tight.

The Xperia Z5 Premium is available in Chrome, Black, and Gold colour options.

Google introduces driverless cars

What if it could be easier and safer for everyone to get around?

To start, we’re building a prototype vehicle that's designed to take you where you want to go at the push of a button—no driving required.

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Why self-driving cars matter

Imagine if everyone could get around easily and safely, regardless of their ability to drive.

Aging or visually impaired loved ones wouldn't have to give up their independence. Time spent commuting could be time spent doing what you want to do. Deaths from traffic accidents—over 1.2 million worldwide every year—could be reduced dramatically, especially since 94% of accidents in the U.S. involve human error.

How it works

Our self-driving cars are designed to navigate safely through city streets.

They have sensors designed to detect objects as far as two football fields away in all directions, including pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles—or even fluttering plastic shopping bags and rogue birds. The software processes all the information to help the car safely navigate the road without getting tired or distracted.

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What we’re up to

We’ve self-driven over 1 million miles and are currently out on the streets of Mountain View, California and Austin, Texas.

Our testing fleet includes both modified Lexus SUVs and new prototype vehicles that are designed from the ground up to be fully self-driving. There are safety drivers aboard all vehicles for now. We look forward to learning how the community perceives and interacts with us, and uncovering situations that are unique to a fully self-driving vehicle.

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Armed Drones coming soon

A North Dakota police lobbyist worked very hard to change some proposed state legislation, to give his state the dubious distinction of being the first in the U.S. to deploy armed drones. Drones, already used for surveillance, will now be allowed to be armed with less-than-lethal weapons like pepper spray, tasers, and rubber bullets. The latter two weapons can be deadly, despite their less-than-lethal classification.

“The bill’s stated intent was to require police to obtain a search warrant from a judge in order to use a drone to search for criminal evidence. In fact, the original draft of [Republican] Representative Rick Becker’s bill would have banned all weapons on police drones,” The Daily Beast reports.

However police union rep and lobbyist Bruce Burkett somehow hijacked the bill, and thus the provision allowing non-lethal weapons was added. Police using drones as weapons is no longer a conspiracy theory for the Infowars crowd.

Still, the new law, House Bill 1328, also does some good. Now, police need to have a warrant in order to deploy drones for surveillance, whereas before they did not. There was also no policy or laws stopping them from equipping drones with lethal weapons, which is relatively easy to do.

Yet, Rep. Becker has not given up. “I expect that I will probably, in 2017, be submitting a bill that will go back and once again prohibit the non-lethal weapons. But [the bill is] very good, it’s much better than what we had prior,” Becker said to WDAY News.

What do you think? Is this a good or bad thing to put in the police department’s toolkit? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

Bionic device cures blindness!!

Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System

By Todd Leopold, CNN

In the old TV show “The Six Million Dollar Man,” astronaut Steve Austin was given bionic body parts after a horrific crash. Austin gets a new right arm, two replacement legs and a left eye with a zoom lens and night-vision capacities.

The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System isn’t quite that advanced. But for the vision-impaired, the “bionic retina” is a huge leap forward.

The device, which was created by the California-based company Second Sight Medical Products, has been available in Europe since 2011. It received U.S. approval in February – the first visual prosthesis to do so. Second Sight CEO Robert Greenberg has devoted more than 20 years of his life to the invention.

The Argus II functions as an artificial retina, the light-sensitive part of the eye that collects image information and passes it along to the brain through the optic nerve. (It’s often considered similar to the film in a camera.) People with a disease called retinitis pigmentosa (RP) – about 100,000 Americans -- lose the retina’s light-sensitive cells. It’s here that the Argus II takes over.

The device is surgically implanted in and on the eye, according to the Argus II website. It contains an antenna and some electronics, and connects to an exterior system consisting of eyeglasses, a video processing unit (VPU) and a connecting cable. The glasses contain a camera that sends image information through the VPU and to the implant.

The end result is some vision restoration. "The device may help adults with RP who have lost the ability to perceive shapes and movement to be more mobile and to perform day-to-day activities," the FDA’s Dr. Jeffrey Shuren said in a news release.

The Argus II is available for adults 25 and over. It’s currently available at a handful of American eye centers. Though it’s expensive – about $144,000 – Medicare announced it would cover the costs, and other insurers are expected to follow.

And it’s just the beginning, Greenberg told the trade publication Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry.

“It's a computer-based system, so you can imagine in 10 years how much cell phone and computer technology has advanced,” Greenberg adds.

Expect much more light to shine in the future.

"Smart" solar palm trees power Wi-Fi, phones in Dubai

A new species of palm tree has started sprouting around Dubai. But instead of producing dates, the fronds of the Smart Palm harness the sun's energy to allow people to look up city information, access Wi-Fi, and charge their phones, all for free.

Topped with nine leaf-shaped photovoltaic modules, a six-meter-tall Smart Palm can generate around 7.2 kilowatt hours per day, enough to operate without ever drawing off the grid.

The two prototype palms that have already been installed - one at a beach near the Burj Al Arab hotel and other at centrally located Zabeel Park - each carry a Wi-Fi hotspot, eight charging stations for phones and tablets, and a touch-screen panel giving local details on things like weather and transportation.

The company behind the device, Dubai-based D Idea, says connectivity is just the start of the Smart Palm's potential.

"Subsequent Smart Palms will have ATM machines and utility bill payment services," said CEO Viktor Nelepa. "Our team has also started to find new ways in which the Smart Palm can support other forms of sustainable generation, specifically through air and water purification modules."

Over the next 12 months, D Idea plans to install 103 Smart Palms across the city of Dubai.

The next generation of the device, due to be launched in September, will be created by 3D printer and have a different design.

Made from a combination of fiber-reinforced plastic and concrete, the new Smart Palms will also be better able to withstand Dubai's tropical desert climate.

"The device will not only look attractive, but would counter the extreme weather conditions," Nelepa said.

Nelepa would not say how much the palms cost, but said the project is receiving funding from the Dubai Municipality. The company plans to turn to advertising and branding to meet future costs, he said.

GREEN INNOVATION

According to Nelepa, the Smart Palm project is one of several initiatives that are part of Dubai's push to create a greener economy.

Its Smart City plan, Green Economy Initiative, and the United Arab Emirates' declaration of 2015 as the "Year of Innovation" all aim to make Dubai one of the world's most connected and increasingly sustainable cities within the next few years.

Earlier in 2015, the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority announced it was tripling its target share of renewables in Dubai's energy mix from 5 percent to 15 percent by 2030.

Meanwhile, the city has already re-launched Al Khazan Park as the first Dubai park to run completely on solar power and is moving ahead with plans to build the Desert Rose, a sustainable city for a population of 160,000.

In a country where 88 percent of the population uses their phones to access the internet, the Smart Palm already has fans.

"The device is actually useful as we spent almost four hours on beachfront today and that's enough to drain my battery," said Nawaf Al Qinae, a professional photographer from Kuwait, as he rested on a sun lounger while waiting for his phone to charge at the beach near the Burj Al Arab.

But others want more from the solar trees.

"Every evening I run on the jogging track and see hundreds of people doing same to keep fit," said Mohammed Hashim, getting ready for his run along the beach. "I wish there were drinking-water filters attached to the solar panels to help runners." (Reporting by Saket S.; editing by Jumana Farouky :; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, women's rights, trafficking and corruption. Visitwww.trust.org/climate)

Terrafugia TF-X: The vertical take-off flying car

Terrafugia, the Woburn, MA, company developing the Transition flying car, has plans for a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) sibling. The proposed Terrafugia TF-X would be a tilt-rotor flying machine that would take off and land like a helicopter. Instead of a runway, the TF-X could use a helipad or parking lot. That’s important because Terrafugia’s devices aren’t so much flying cars as roadable aircraft that take you from the airport to your destination a few miles away. The closer you land to your destination, the better. Don’t sell your Cessna 400 just yet. The TF-X is a decade away and will likely cost on the high side of a half-million dollars. Maybe a million. The Terrafugia TF-X is a small fuselage with four road wheels on the bottom, along with stubby wings with electrically driven rotors that point vertically for liftoff, then rotate horizontally for level flight. The transition from vertical to horizontal flight is tricky in a VTOL plane. Terrafugia says the TF-X electronics manage that, as well as the rest of the flight. In other words, the pilot decides when to lift off — and how high — before starting to fly horizontally, and the plane actually manages those orders. That’s not unusual; some military aircraft wouldn’t fly without computers controlling stability. Propulsion appears to be a gas turbine for horizontal flight and hybrid electric for ground travel. For liftoff and landing, the rotors would be turned electrically via a generator and battery storage, as would the road wheels.

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Hydrogen can make phones last as long as a week without charging???

A Hydrogen-Powered iPhone Could Go a Week Without Charging
British company Intelligent Energy says it can fit such a cell into the iPhone 6.Phones are faster and thinner and more powerful than ever, but they still suffer from one horribly annoying problem: They can only go for a day—if that—on a single charge. Maybe not for long, if Intelligent Energy has its way. The company claims that its tiny hydrogen fuel-cell can run an iPhone for a week, easy. ​

News of the almost unbelievable device comes by way of The Telegraph, which reports that it saw the device at Intelligent Energy's headquarters. According to The Telegraph, the prototype device can fit inside an iPhone 6 with no cosmetic modifications other than rear vents, which let small amounts of water vapor exhaust escape. Unfortunately there do not appear to be photos.The prototype device isn't just a fuel cell, but apparently a fuel cell and a traditional rechargeable battery in one package. Presumably the cell charges the battery, which in turn charges the device, a system that could allow a modified phone to be charged conventionally if need be and wouldn't require a drastic re-engineering of the rest of the phone's power system. The otherwise unnoticeable fuel cell is apparently refilled by way of a modified headphone jacks. Hydrogen fuel cells are just one of many possible solutions to the problem of short smartphone batteries, and a particularly far-out one at that. Other (perhaps more practical) methods of increasing battery life include shrinking down a phone's non-battery components to fit more conventional battery inside, making phones more energy efficient on the software side, or even switching to smaller batteries that can charge from empty to full in seconds. But while battery advances seem to be perpetually about five years away, Intelligent Energy tells The Telegraph that it's just working on nailing down the pricing for a commercial model in the form of a disposable cartridge model that would hold a week's worth of charge and retail for roughly "the price of a latte."  Intelligent Energy also says its working with a partner on bringing the tech to market, a partner that The Telegraph suggests might be Apple but is almost certainly not Apple.

Still, the existence of a fuel-powered, thin form-factor phone is seriously impressive, even if the challenges of scaling that tech and getting into your hands is a challenge at least as hard as building it in the first place. But the more horses we have in the race to a better, revolutionary, longer-running battery, the quicker someone will actually get there. Hopefully.

Source: The Telegraph

Japan launches first Robotic hotel soon

• A theme park in Japan is planning to open a hotel run mostly by robots
• Other high-tech features include guestroom doors opened by facial-recognition technology
• The hotel will invite travelers to bid for rooms during high season
  
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