Tech Top 10, Dec 2013
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Issue 6: December 2013
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1. Xbox One: What’s new? Xbox One had a huge launch, the biggest ever in Xbox history as a matter of fact, and here’s the device’s new features:
First, the Xbox console itself is almost as massive as the launch, which is strange in a time when the general trend is to make devices smaller.
The device comes with new and, supposedly, improved controllers for added comfort and ease of use, as well as a cleaned-up more user-friendly interface. Microsoft also claims that it has significantly improved the multi-tasking abilities of its new device.
In addition, the Kinect cam is supposed to be drastically improved, as it now has two lenses to monitor players better, and voice command that allows players to access all of the device’s functions hands free.
http://goo.gl/3o6Xve
2. Google opens doorway to Glass
app developers announced opening
Mirror API through which app
developers can start creating apps
for Google Glass. Earlier this
month the company had invited
developers to a two-day
‘hackathon’ in San Francisco to
reveal its Glassware Development
Kit that is needed to develop apps
for Glass.
http://goo.gl/oLmEju http://goo.gl/XZf6jy
4. Sweet Dreams:
So, users can manipulate their imagination, and even subconscious, to decide what they do in a dream, whether it is to fly or meet a celebrity.
In a promotional video, developers ask, “what would you do in a dream?”, and here we ask the same.
http://goo.gl/yrwA6A
Remee is a sleep mask that allows you to control your dreams, Well, kind of.
What Remee actually does is it flashes a series of light patterns that notify its user that he or she is dreaming, thus allowing them to lucid dream.
5. Twitter: ‘Perfect Forward
Secrecy’ • Twitter aims to improve privacy with this update to its
data encryption.
• In its blog, the company said, “Forward secrecy is just the
latest way in which Twitter is trying to defend and protect the user’s voice.”
http://goo.gl/dP28Wg
More Protection
6. Heads up!
• This product projects phone features, such as texting, voice calls and email, onto the windshield of a car, and then allows users to control those with touch-free swiping and voice command.
• Do you think this will make driving in Qatar
better or worse? http://goo.gl/xbGqMy
7. Meet Nao, The Emotionally
Intelligent Robot
Most recently, Aldebaran, the Paris-
based company, claimed to have made Nao
smarter than ever by teaching him 19 languages, and
equipping him with access to a cloud of
information.
Nao should be able to pull up information from the cloud
as he goes along, which creates a learning process for
him to grow and develop personality.
The robot is also said to be emotionally intelligent now,
and will be able to detect moods and react accordingly.
http://www.aldebaran-robotics.com/en/
http://goo.gl/zibj0d
8. New Garmin GPS
Garmin says its new GPS has significant changes and new
features. The most advertised is the
“PhotoReal junction view,” which shows
drivers a real-view of junctions to make navigation easier.
Other changes include new predictive text to
make typing easier, record locations
searched previously and a multi-route
option, allowing users to select route based
on least traffic, shortest distance or
fastest time.
However, given the increasing growth of
free smart phone apps such as Google Maps, that contain
similar features, would such updates
be sufficient for traditional GPS
devices to survive?
http://goo.gl/HyQiZF
9. Fully Automated Ad Management
http://goo.gl/wdmKQ6
How
• does it work?
Users
• Users must setup a channel for their respective company on the software platform. They need to enter previous advertisement campaigns the company ran. The software does the rest. It automatically makes recommendation on new ad placements, places bids and asks permission to run new ads.
Software
• The software is also said to be guarded against “click fraud” which sometimes can lead to artificially inflated rates.
10. WD Showcases World’s First
SSD+HDD Hybrid Drive
claims that its new
storage device is a unique
innovation, as it fuses a 2.5-inch
120 GB solid-state drive, with a 1
TB hard disk drive to form a dual-
drive solution, all in a small
portable form. This is meant to be
the first device of such size to hold
such capacity and speed.
http://goo.gl/8pQZJc
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