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Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=897002&CategoryId=13936 MADRID - Fashion models that emerge from clothing labels and inform customers about an article's fabric, vehicles in a print ad that drive around and open their doors, characters in a book that smile at the reader: all of this is already possible with Google Glass, which could hit the market in 2014. Murcia, Spain-based Droiders, the company behind the application that enabled the first live streaming of a surgery using Google Glass and performed by a Spanish physician, Dr. Pedro Guillen, has announced the development of Empowar, the world's first augmented-reality application for the hi-tech headset. One of the individuals responsible for this application, Ignacio Navarro, told EFEfuturo that the inclusion of this software in the Google Glass device provides access to a broad range of functionalities that will make a three-dimensional reality available to any user. The application is ideal for visualizing images in three dimensions and interacting with them in various fields, including art, education, advertising, marketing and commerce, Navarro said. You might want to read: http://stephbolhm.deviantart.com/art/Newport-International-Group-Review-376645779 He added that Empowar already is showing that it can be used successfully, for example allowing students to view images from their textbooks in motion and in three dimensions. It also allows users to walk visually through a natural park and enjoy its flora and fauna from different angles of vision, as well as enable people to view videos or images of singers while listening to their music. In the advertising field, companies will be able to offer their customers the ability to view their products in motion and even interact with them. According to Navarro, the ability to augment images with computer-generated elements was already possible through smartphone cameras, but using Empowar with Google Glass makes for a much more com

Source: http://www.thenational.ae/business/industry-insights/markets/ipos-back-in-fashion-as-investors-warm-to-uae-stocks A flurry of initial public offerings is planned for the coming months amid ripe valuations and investor appetite for UAE stocks. This month, the Bank of London & The Middle East announced an intent to list its shares on the Nasdaq Dubai in October, the bourse's first listing in almost five years. The news was then followed by two IPO revelations this week - Just Falafel is considering a 25 per cent listing of the food chain's shares on the Nasdaq Dubai and Damac Properties is eyeing a London share sale. The renewed confidence among UAE companies illustrates a marked change in attitude towards raising capital from equity markets. "More investors are turning to investment banks to take their companies public," said Mohammed Ali Yasin, the managing director at National Bank of Abu Dhabi's brokerage arm. "Valuations have become much more interesting and give room for founders to realise good value from selling their companies." UAE shares traded at 10 times earnings about a year ago. For a company to go public, they would have to be valued at five to seven times earnings, "which is not exciting or interesting for founders of those companies", said Mr Yasin. Today, the ratio is 12 to 13 times earnings. "That means IPOs can come to the market with 10 times earnings. It gives the founders incentive to spin off their shares." Equity markets have rallied over the past year, as the nation's laggard stocks have come to better reflect the UAE's strong economic fundamentals. The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange General Index has gained about 45 per cent this year. The Dubai Financial Market General Index has risen almost 65 per cent. There have been few new listings from UAE companies in recent years as low valuations and thin trading volumes deterred companies from going public. "Since the 2008 global financial crisis, t