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News : Doosan Infracore 5G based remote control - 0 views

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    Doosan Infracore introduced its 5G-based construction machinery remote control technology to the European market for the first time at the trade show. It demonstrated how to remotely control an excavator in Incheon, Korea while sitting 8,500 kilometers away from the 5G Remote Control Station (Control Center) set up in Munich, Germany.
Maria Gurova

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

  • 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.
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    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?
anna_nelidova

AirConsole Is A Browser-Based Gaming Platform Where Your Smartphone Is The Controller |... - 0 views

  • AirConsole is a recently launched browser-based games platform that repurposes players’ smartphones as controllers
  • For a local multiplayer gaming session AirConsole is super simple to use
  • your phone becomes the touch pad to control the goings-on on the other screen
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  • it’s cross platform and cross device — so you don’t need specific hardware to get a gaming session up and running
  • You won’t be able to play the newest AAA games with it, but that’s also not really what we’re all about. AirConsole is to play a few quick games with friends while having a beer.
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    Your smartphone can easily become a controller if you go to AirConsole.com on your computer and phone and enter the link code. It's target audience is not pro gamers community, but the casual social gaming crowd.
Maria Gurova

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

  • 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
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    watch the video in the article, it's really comprehensive in understanding the idea
Olga Bykova

Are mind control toys set to be the next big thing for 2013? Cat ears that react to wea... - 1 views

  • A company has created a set of ears that apparently respond to the wearer’s emotions via a sensor on the forehead.
Irina Marchenko

How Gesture Control And Wearable Tech Will Revolutionize Our Digital Lives - 4 views

http://www.forbes.com/sites/toyota/2013/07/17/how-gesture-control-and-wearable-tech-will-revolutionize-our-digital-lives/ Gesture control is the latest step in the evolution of human/computer int...

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started by Irina Marchenko on 23 Jul 13 no follow-up yet
Olga Bykova

Piggybackr Launches Its 'Kickstarter For Kids' To Let Youth Get In On The Crowdfunding ... - 1 views

  • Piggybackr is a crowdfunding platform that’s specifically targeted to the needs of kids, with educational tools, game mechanics, and age-appropriate directions, and parental controls
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    Piggybackr is a crowdfunding platform that's specifically targeted to the needs of kids, with educational tools, game mechanics, and age-appropriate directions, and parental controls.
Irina Marchenko

Russia starts censoring internet suicide content after passing child protection law - 0 views

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    Last year Russia passed a law giving the government powers to control and blacklist certain websites that it deemed to be harmful to children Outgoing FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has said the legislation signals "a troubling and dangerous direction" for the internet in Russia, and speaking to the Times, journalist Anton Nosik called the laws "absurd, harmful, and absolutely unnecessary" - while playing down the likelihood of a broader enforcement across the web. The government, for its part, argues that the bill was designed to protect children from harm by blocking pages on drugs, suicide, or child pornography.
Maria Gurova

Hand Gestures Could Make Kids Smarter | TIME.com - 0 views

  • Using hand gestures may be important for more than just making a point; they could help children to learn.
  • Once something is learned, however, it’s a challenge to unlearn and inhibit the reflexive response. That’s why it helps to develop good habits early
  • It’s easier to learn something correctly the first time than it is to unlearn ineffective techniques and relearn better ones.
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  • During the task, some of the children instinctively used gestures — making rabbit ears when they knew shape mattered, or moving their palms from facing up to turning sideways when they were sorting by the teddy bear’s orientation — to guide themselves.
  • What’s more, she found that this effect had a stronger effect on successful performance than age — a powerful finding given that children’s skills improve rapidly with age during this stage of development.
  • The toddlers’ gestures could be interpreted as a glimpse of their brains at work, as they figure out how to exert the cognitive control necessary to complete their tasks.
  • Earlier work showed that older children were better able to learn math if taught to use gestures while doing so. And they often found the right answer physically — for example, by making movements to signify the numbers that needed to be kept together to add correctly — before finding it verbally
  • That has implications for improving the way we communicate and think, and could help to address developmental disorders associated with cognitive control issues, such as autism
Oleg Batluk

Studio Wildcard: 'We're the anti-eSports eSport' | Develop - 0 views

  • Multiplayer Online Survival Arena – is something the team believes offers a truly unique experience.
  • ost eSports are really regimented, there are rules you have to know to play the game and there is a much more different mindset behind a controlled match. Whereas for us, there’s not really rules – it’s a sandbox and anything can happen.
  • In our first three tournaments, we watched a lot of people get killed by monkeys and piranhas, and there were all sorts of random things happening. And yet the same person won all three tournaments – for us, that validated everything because there’s obviously a skill to being prepared for whatever scenario happens
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  • t’s much more entertaining to watch a sport like this where you don’t have to know what the rules are
  • We’re starting some VR projects around Ark
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    Multiplayer Online Survival Arena is a new eSport concept with tournament with no fixed rules where anything can happen
Maria Gurova

'Snowpiercer's' VOD gamble is paying off | EW.com - 0 views

  • distributors are usually loathe to discuss VOD specifics publicly. When consumers are used to seeing $60 to $100 million opening weekends for major blockbusters in wide release, VOD numbers, no matter how “good,” look miniscule in comparison. Add on the fact that Snowpiercer is the widest multi-platform release ever, and the tricky exercise of figuring out how to combine theatrical earnings with weekend estimates from digital and cable providers, and the territory gets even more unfamiliar.
  • Snowpiercer earning an estimated $1.1 million from VOD this past weekend, nearly twice as much as the $635,000 it earned in theaters. “From a layman’s perspective these numbers are possibly not that interesting,” admits RADiUS-TWC co-president Tom Quinn. “But from an industry perspective, it’s a game changer.”
  • VOD is both cheaper and more profitable. “That $1.1 million gross is actually worth almost double to me in terms of how it nets out in our bottom line,”
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  • VOD—with access to 85 million homes—doesn’t have the same drastic theatrical drop-offs from week to week.
  • Still, a two-week theatrical exclusive is an extremely short window, especially since Snowpiercer opened in only eight theaters and is currently showing at a mere 356 locations
  • “This is completely uncharted territory but it’s 100 percent within the consumer’s control how you want to see this film,”
Maria Gurova

Google: The new GE: Google, everywhere | The Economist - 0 views

  • Its latest purchase is Nest Labs, a maker of sophisticated thermostats and smoke detectors: on January 13th Google said it would pay $3.2 billion in cash for the firm. Google’s biggest move into hardware so far is its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility
  • With Google’s collection of hardware businesses, the common factor is data: gathering and crunching them, to make physical devices more intelligent.
  • Packed with sensors and software that can, say, detect that the house is empty and turn down the heating, Nest’s connected thermostats generate plenty of data, which the firm captures.
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  • This month Samsung announced a new smart-home computing platform that will let people control washing machines, televisions and other devices it makes from a single app. Microsoft, Apple and Amazon were also tipped to take a lead there, but Google was until now seen as something of a laggard.
  • it is likely to do what it did with driverless cars: take a technology financed by military contracts and adapt it for the consumer market.
asibilev

Will China really dominate? | World Finance - 0 views

  • In the case of Russia, these numbers assume that its current demographic decline is counterbalanced and gradually reversed by the effects of an Arctic windfall, and that it can maintain effective control of its Far East region.
  • Ignoring the effects of environmental change, China will be by far the largest economy, with a GDP that is 40 percent of the total for the top twenty economies. The US will be second with a GDP well under half that of China. India will be third and Brazil will be fourth.
  • Taking environmental change into account, China and the US will be neck-and-neck with 24 percent each of the GDP for the top twenty, Russia will be third, Brazil fourth and India fifth. Most of China’s catch-up will happen early, prior to 2030; before climate change really bites.
Irina Marchenko

How the brain controls a 'mind machine' - 2 views

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22812253

Technology science

started by Irina Marchenko on 23 Jul 13 no follow-up yet
Irina Marchenko

All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed - Esther Entin - The At... - 0 views

  • "Since about 1955 ... children's free play has been continually declining, at least partly because adults have exerted ever-increasing control over children's activities,"
  • It provides critical life experiences without which young children cannot develop into confident and competent adults.
  • Gray sees the loss of play time as a double whammy: we have not only taken away the joys of free play, we have replaced them with emotionally stressful activities. "[A]s a society, we have come to the conclusion that to protect children from danger and to educate them, we must deprive them of the very activity that makes them happiest and place them for ever more hours in settings where they are more or less continually directed and evaluated by adults, setting almost designed to produce anxiety and depression."
evgeny lavrov

#slideid-151570#slideid-151570 - 1 views

  • architectural experiment constructed at MIT, was “3-D printed” using 6,500 live silkworms
  • The project started with experiments to see if the spinning patterns of the silkworms could be controlled by altering the environment they operated in. It turns out they could,
  • a silkworm is a sophisticated multi-material, multi-axis 3-D printer.
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  • Potential applications are varied, but include fashion and architecture, and it’s possible to imagine a system like this being deployed in the aftermath of a natural disaster to build environmentally friendly shelters for refugees
evgeny lavrov

SPHERES bot challenge from NASA and ESA lets teens pilot drones in space. - 0 views

  • Nothing says “science is cool” quite like jet-powered robots in space.
  • The bots are called SPHERES, or Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites. Back on Earth, teams of students write algorithms to control the SPHERES in order to solve a problem astronauts actually encounter
Maria Gurova

Should You Trust Big Pharma With Your DNA? | Popular Science - 0 views

  • In January, the biotech company Genentech reportedly committed $10 million for access to the DNA of 3,000 Parkinson’s patients and their families. A week later, Pfizer made a similar deal for the genomes of 5,000 people with lupus.
  • A trove of data could give scientists the tools they need to develop gene-specific drug therapies for certain diseases. “We are hoping to ultimately develop Parkinson’s medicines, for example, that actually modify the disease as opposed to just treating symptoms,”
  • “this has the possibility of not only helping us find new cures, but it also helps us create a genuine health care system as opposed to just a disease care system.”
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  • Even a small segment of DNA (23andMe looks at 750,000 base pairs out of 3 billion) can reveal a history of illness or predict future risks and be used
  • The 2009 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act makes it illegal for employers or health insurance companies to discriminate based on genetic data. The Act doesn’t address who controls data once it’s out there
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