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Maria Gurova

A DIY Platform For Building Devices You Control With Your Mind | Co.Design | business +... - 0 views

www.fastcodesign.com/...cts-you-control-with-your-mind

Technology science brain-computer interface kickstarter open source

shared by Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • OpenBCI, a Kickstarter project by Conor Russomanno and Joel Murphy, aims to fill this need by offering makers, hobbyists, and other geeky tinkerers a fully open-source prototyping platform for designing whatever mind-control UIs they can dream up
  • 100 Famous Movie Quotes, Visualized
  • The only thing that will lead to the tipping point of BCI practicality is simultaneous and rapid hardware and software iteration; Joel and I both believe that this type of rapid technological innovation cannot take place behind closed doors, hence our unfaltering mission to keep OpenBCI totally open source and include as many people of varying disciplines as possible
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  • OpenBCI is designing the Lego blocks; someone else will build the castle.
  • Making EEG-controlled novelties is one thing, but designing better medical devices to enable paralyzed people to move their wheelchairs, or locked-in patients to communicate, is a truly noble enterprise
  • Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14
     
    watch the video in the article, it's really comprehensive in understanding the idea
Vladimir Devyatkin

Google chairman: 6 predictions for our digital future - 1 views

www.cnn.com/...eric-schmidt-google-book

technology future

shared by Vladimir Devyatkin on 10 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Vladimir Devyatkin on 10 Jul 13
     
    Editor's note: Doug Gross covers consumer technology and the Web for CNN.com. Follow him on Twitter, and add him to your Circles on Google+. (CNN) -- Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has been thinking a lot about our digital future.
Maria Gurova

Hands On With Tobii's Eye-Tracking Laptop - 0 views

mashable.com/...hands-on-tobii-laptop

Technology KE gaze control software interface

shared by Maria Gurova on 25 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Even if I turned away and turned back, Tobii instantly picked up my gaze
  • Forget waving at the screen, I want my computer to look into my eyes and know what I want to do.
  • I was looking on screen
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  • Tobii
  • building a 3D model of my eyes and could watch and see where
  • Tobii Gaze eye-tracking technology-equipped laptop
  • Even if I turned away and turned back, Tobii instantly picked up my gaze
  • Leaving aside the slightly unfortunate mental image of your eyes touching anything, this does sound like a new form of human/computer interface.
  • Windows 8’s modern design interface seems particularly well suited to gaze control. The screen scrolls from left to right and is comprised of a number of large app squares. I would simply stare at square and then hit enter to activate the app. Tobii never missed my gaze. Whatever I was looking at, the eye-tracking tech would launch it.
  • Tobii has no plans to deliver its own commercial laptops. Instead, it’s working with OEMs on integration.
  • Tobii is also working on eye-tracking control for tablets.
  • Maria Gurova on 25 Jul 13
     
    Are you ready to control your computer with your eyes, or will your hold to your mouse and keyboard for as long as humanly possible?
Maria Gurova

How I Convinced My 8 Year Old To Choose Books Instead Of Minecraft - Forbes - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...ose-books-instead-of-minecraft

Technology KE Social reading e-book

shared by Maria Gurova on 31 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • There’s dissonance between the cultural and psychological associations I have about technology and the associations I have about reading. The popular mythology tells me that words are good while tech is scary.
  • Bottom line: the eReader makes my son read more. And my son is not unique. According to PlayScience and Digital Book World study, the Kids eBook market “has basically tripled from 2011 to 2012, that is 500% growth.”  What’s more, “A staggering number of kids  (85%) e-read at least once a week.”
  • “Which do you like better,” I sent him a message with gChat, “eBooks or paper books?” “ebook” “Why?” “Its a elictrak devise” I forgive the bad spelling. But I should probably correct him. Or, even better, respond with sentences that use the words and model correct spellings. “What have you been reading?” “All the Horrid Henrys” “Cool. Are they good books?” “Ya.”
Vladimir Devyatkin

Surviving the Rise of 'Smart Machines,' the Loss of 'Dream Jobs' and '90% Unemployment' - 0 views

www.computerra.ru/...onnyie-izmeneniya-ryinka-truda

Smart Machines Technology social trade unions robot workload Societal Crisis

shared by Vladimir Devyatkin on 14 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Vladimir Devyatkin on 14 Nov 13
     
    Key Issue - How Will Smart Machines Impact Business and IT Function Through the Remainder of This Decade? Digitization Meets the Workforce - Smart Machines Are the Next Major Technology Market Transitional Scenarios - How Smart Machines Will Develop Through 2020 Smart Machines and the Specter of Destructive Creation Societal Crisis Postcrisis, Toward 90% Job Replacement
Maria Gurova

Google on Its Own Transparency Report: This Is Not Good Enough - Rebecca J. Rosen - The... - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...281473

google Political Technology cyber safety surveillance government big data

shared by Maria Gurova on 18 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • To promote transparency around this flow of information, we’ve built an interactive online Transparency Report with tools that allow people to see where governments are demanding that we remove content and where Google services are being blocked.
  • Though Google would often note that the report was not complete picture of how governments accessed user data online, it couched that admission in the context that the report was growing and improving with each release.
  • Since we began sharing these figures with you in 2010, requests from governments for user information have increased by more than 100 percent. This comes as usage of our services continues to grow, but also as more governments have made requests than ever before. And these numbers only include the requests we’re allowed to publish.
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  • Instead of highlighting the report's strengths, it is using this release to emphasize what it cannot say, but wants to.
Maria Gurova

ВЕДОМОСТИ - «Умные часы - это отличная возможность для нашей индустрии» - 0 views

www.vedomosti.ru/...mozhnost-dlya-nashei-industrii

Technology wearable customisation big data privacy manipulation market Dependency on Technology Health health tracker wellbeing

shared by Maria Gurova on 21 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • по мнению гендиректора Swatch Group,
  • умные часы – это быстро устаревающая бытовая техника и она не станет конкурентом механическим часам, которые служат десятилетиями и передаются из поколения в поколение.
  • В Swatch Group есть компания под названием EM Microelectronic, которая является поставщиком компонентов для многих производителей умных браслетов – Garmin, например, – а также для производителей смартфонов, название которых я не могу разглашать.
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  • Наши умные часы Swatch Touch Zero One появятся на рынке летом. Oни ориентированы на людей, увлекающихся пляжным волейболом:
  • Например, часы можно будет использовать как электронный пропуск для входа в офис
  • Наш следующий продукт, который должен появиться в конце лета, – Swatch NFC: часы, с помощью которых можно будет осуществлять платежи. Мы ведем переговоры с Visa, MasterCard и китайской UnionPay.
  • Следом появятся новые версии Swatch Touch: Zero Two, Zero Three, Zero Four, ориентированные на другие виды спорта – серфинг, горные лыжи, – и не только на спорт, но, например, на кулинарию. А часы Swatch Touch Zero Six, возможно, будут называться «Камасутра». Эти часы считают, сколько калорий вы сжигаете в какой позиции и нужно ли вам менять вашего партнера.
  • А чип часов пользователь сможет конфигурировать сам под собственные потребности.
  • Философия очень проста: это часы-ключ, мы сознательно не стали делать в них дисплей, поскольку дисплеи и так нас окружают повсюду.
  • Сейчас умные часы можно снабдить любыми функциями, но вам придется снимать их с руки и подзаряжать в лучшем случае раз в день.
  • Плюс такие часы открыты для рекламы.
  • А вы хотите получать сообщения от каждой близлежащей пиццерии, что у них для вас спецпредложение?
evgeny lavrov

Holograms Are Coming To The Classroom | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 1 views

www.fastcompany.com/...ms-are-coming-to-the-classroom

classroom technology science

shared by evgeny lavrov on 19 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • an innovative new development by a pair of London doctors, which uses hologram models to demonstrate physical ailments.
  • The holograms could also be used as an aid for teaching surgery.
Maria Gurova

This Self-Cleaning Cashmere Never Needs To Go To The Dry Cleaner | Co.Exist | ideas + i... - 1 views

www.fastcoexist.com/...needs-to-go-to-the-dry-cleaner

Technology environment wearable clothing

shared by Maria Gurova on 02 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • If the fabric is placed in light for 24 hours, any dirt, bacteria, or stain--even coffee or red wine--automatically goes away, thanks to a chemical reaction triggered by the light.
  • So far, preliminary tests have shown that the material is safe. Tests have also shown that the coating is durable
  • We are currently working toward transfer of the technology to the industry." A self-cleaning sweater might only cost 1% more than usual.
  • Maria Gurova on 02 Sep 14
     
    the self-cleaning cashmere can significantly decrease CO2 immersions, produced by laundry and often toxic dry cleaning 
Maria Gurova

«Сегодня домашние 3D-принтеры печатают какую-то хрень» - Технологии - Афиша-В... - 0 views

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Technology entertainment 3D Printer CIS 3D printing service KE

shared by Maria Gurova on 25 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Maria Gurova on 25 Aug 14
     
    Russian on-line service that can print your design on 3D or create the model on demand and print it. Designers are offered a platform to sell their designs to customers 
Maria Gurova

By 2020, you could have an exascale speed-of-light optical computer on your desk | Extr... - 0 views

www.extremetech.com/...-optical-computer-on-your-desk

Technology science CIS optical computing processor efficiency

shared by Maria Gurova on 13 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Optalysys, a UK technology company, says it’s on-target to demonstrate a novel optical computer, which performs calculations at the speed of light, in January 2015. If all goes to plan, Optalysys says its tech — which is really unlike anything you’ve ever heard of before — can put an exascale supercomputer on your desk by 2020.
  • Maria Gurova on 13 Aug 14
     
    Watch the video it explains better than the article 
Maria Gurova

Dawn of the iCar? Apple said to be secretly working on design for an electric people-ca... - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...ic-peoplecarrier-10047349.html

Technology Apple self-driving car autonomous transport transportation market

shared by Maria Gurova on 16 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Hundreds of people at Apple are said to be secretly working on a design for an electric people-carrier which has been given the code name “Titan”. So far, the technology firm has declined to comment on the project
  • The Titan project was reportedly signed off almost a year ago by Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook, who has assigned vice president of product design, Steve Zadesky, to lead the group
Maria Gurova

BBC - Future - Is e-waste an untapped treasure? - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...y-your-old-tech-holds-treasure

Technology environment entrepreneurship sustainability e-waste developing markets Africa conscious consumption open-source affordable tech market

shared by Maria Gurova on 07 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a rapidly growing global problem
  • Yet many are realising that the gadgets we chuck away can be ripped apart and transformed into something new – brand new technology, or even art.
  • In 2012, we discarded 48.9 million tonnes of electrical and electronic products. If current trends continue, by 2017, the annual amount of e-waste produced globally will reach 65.4 million tonnes – that’s roughly 20% of the weight of all the people living on Earth.
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  • Using parts and wires from old computers, scanners and photocopiers (some of it for free, but most bought), and an Arduino electronics card as the brain, they managed to put together a working prototype for a few hundred euros (see below).
  • “In Togo, there are many people who can’t have access to computers, because they don’t have money to buy a new computer,” says Allahare. “But we have many computers that are broken and not working. It’s sometimes just a little piece that is spoiled in it. W.Jies can help people get connected, get information, and help kids learn ICT from low-cost computers.”
  • Maria Gurova on 07 Apr 15
     
    in 2012 china alone produced 11.1 mlm tones of e-waste, what can be considered trash in one part of the world, can indeed become a treasure in the other part of the world
Maria Gurova

FuturePundit: Regulations For Offspring Genetic Engineering - 0 views

www.futurepundit.com/...009750.html

bioengineering Health DNA genetic engineering inequality ethics Political population Future of Talent enhanced offsprings world government Humanity

shared by Maria Gurova on 07 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • The prospect of genetically much altered future generations is no longer in the distant science fiction future but rather in the "some of the people reading this will live to see it on large scale" future.
  • Some more competitive governments might mandate genetic editing to put a floor on intelligence. Want a first class high tech economy? Allow no kid below 120 IQ. The first government to do that will have the highest per capita income economy in the world 50 years later if not much sooner.
  • My expectation is that differences in regulatory response to germ line genetic engineering technologies will cause the populations of the world's various countries to diverge in a variety of ways that will be immediately visibl
  • Maria Gurova on 07 Apr 15
     
    in the highly delicate mater of genetic engineering that might become a reality sooner that one might expect, how would the individual governments react? And is this an internal affair that is to be handled inside the country that might get the first access to the high-end bio engineering technology. 
Vladimir Antonov

Soon, Gmail's AI Could Reply to Your Email for You | WIRED - 0 views

www.wired.com/...ate-automatic-replies-in-gmail

Technology AI Big Data recognition simplification communication emotion manipulation customisation personalisation scanning Social

shared by Vladimir Antonov on 05 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • what’s called “deep learning”—a form of artificial intelligence that’s rapidly reinventing a wide range of online services—the company is beefing up its Inbox by Gmail app so that it can analyze the contents of an email and then suggest a few (very brief) responses
  • The idea is that you can rapidly respond to someone while on the go—without having to manually tap a fresh message into your smartphone keyboard.
  • system learns to generate appropriate replies by analyzing scads of email conversations from across Google’s Gmail service
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  • neural network—a vast network of machines that approximates the web of neurons in the human brain—and this neural network analyzes the information in order to “learn” a particular task.
  • Google’s Smart Reply system doesn’t always get things right. But that’s part of the reason the company provides three potential replies to each email—not just one.
  • The system uses what’s called a “long short-term-memory,” or LSTM, neural network. Essentially, this is a neural net that exhibits something akin to human memory. It can “remember” the beginning of an email as it’s parsing the end—and that helps it, on some level, understand this natural language
  • Vladimir Antonov on 05 Nov 15
     
    This technology could be developed further to other areas, to tailored made games for kids for example, that are adopt to each individual gaming style so kids find that games are actually made specially for them what makes their experience really personal and unique.
Maria Gurova

Disrupting the Playground - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...disrupting-the-playground.html

Technology KE kids learning Play Millennials behavior adulkids entrepreneurship

shared by Maria Gurova on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Maria Gurova on 24 Sep 14
     
    it's not only contains lot's of trends about the shifting behavior patterns among younger generation, it's a fun read and may also be an idea for scenario format - a chain of emails from a nursery school teacher to the parents of a very disruptive and entrepreneurial minded kid 
al_semenchenko

The Next Star Wars Movie Has Recruited a Team of Drones to Protect Its Secrets - 1 views

gizmodo.com/ed-a-team-of-drones-1760542258

drones Technology privacy security entertainment

shared by al_semenchenko on 22 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Accessible drone technology is creating a bizarre future in the world of movie making
  • A Croatian website, MosCroatia first reported the drone detail in a larger update about Episode VIII will be doing some location filming in Dubrovnik, a popular tourist destination in the southern part of the country. Aside from reportedly having six hundred guards being deployed on location to try and prevent the public from snapping any sneaky pictures, the skies above filming will be protected by a team of remote-controlled drones that will target anyone attempting to fly a drone of their own over the set.
alexbelov

Physical web is coming soon - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...roid-bluetooth-beacons-support

beacons NFC mobile Technology IoT advertizing

shared by alexbelov on 26 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Google is moving forward with its plans to allow Bluetooth beacons to broadcast location-based information and URLs to your phone. The Bluetooth-based technology is designed so that a subway can tell you when the next train is coming, or a nearby parking meter can alert you how to pay when you park. This seamless interaction with, what Google calls, the "physical web" has long been promised, but an upcoming update to Chrome for Android will make it more of a reality.
  • alexbelov on 26 Feb 16
     
    Location-based information including URLs can be easily broadcasted to the phone by "beacons" that can be placed onto any physical objects and work for years without battery replacement. This means that every noteworthy physical object can potentially have its web page soon and brings new possibilities to advertising. A deeper link will be established between the reality and the cyberspace.
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