University of Washington has created quarter-sized computer that pulls power from the air Even with all our gadgets and gizmos, we still rely on the battery power of our devices to get us through the day. […] .
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This Artificially Intelligent Toy Helps Children With Their Emotional Development
Povi is a connected toy on a mission to sharpen your child’s EQ Povi is a connected toy on a mission to sharpen your child’s EQ With an overwhelming growth of screens and devices surrounding us today, many children born into this computing generation are remarkably tech savvy, but […] .
How Wearable Tech Can Be Used for Social Good
Designs from The New School are helping us disconnect and aiding people with visual impairment The functionality of clothing continues to expand thanks to the concept of wearable technology. Not limited to one use […] .
BackBlaze details new 4U storage pods with a massive 480TB of space
BackBlaze’s business is selling online backup solutions, but it has also been so kind as to release data on hard drive failure rates and the design/specs of its storage hardware. Today is a big day for BackBlaze as it’s announcing a new version of its 4U rack-mounted storage pods. […] .
Facebook is bezig met de ontwikkeling van een standalone camera app
Facebook is bezig met de ontwikkeling van een standalone camera app om de 1,6 miljard gebruikers te stimuleren in het maken en delen van meer foto’s en video’s. Zo weet de WSJ te melden op basis van mensen die bekend zijn met de situatie. Een prototype van de app […]tutorial android .
The Future of Cars Isn’t Just Automated, It’s 3D-Printed
We spoke with creators of first 3D-printed car to uncover future of additive manufacturing From footwear to guns, 3D printing has made tremendous advancements both in the breadth of what can be produced and the […] .
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Game of Phones: Tech Plays in the Quest for the Iron Throne [Infographic]
Winter is coming. Eventually. And while we wait for the White Walkers to inevitably break through the wall and wreak havoc on Westeros, Game of Thrones will no doubt take us on many more twists and turns, with the new season set to get underway shortly. To celebrate the […] .
Your Future Flatware Will Be Forged by 3D Printing
Metal printing brings stunning cutlery to the table. If you’ve been fantasizing about a future where every home has a 3D printer, here’s another picture to add to that daydream. The SETAE flatware set by notable 3D printing wizard Francis Bitonti […] .
What If Your iPhone Had Wheels and a Head?
This tiny bot could be what takes consumer home automation to the next level. A new “Star Wars-esque” house robot could change how we use our phones to do things. It’s called Robit . This […] .
Best of 2015: Glasses Protect from Face Recognition
AVG reveals eyewear to protect your identity from facial recognition programs PSFK counts down our 10 most popular posts of 2015. The Best of 2015 , above all else, illustrate lessons that other innovators, thinkers, and change-makers can […] .
How Wearable Technology Can Quantify the Payment Process
An early tech adopter uses biometrics to streamline checkout and track his spending habits The Future of Digital Safety & Security: A Consumer Guide is a 10-week series from PSFK and MasterCard exploring the key […]tutorial android .
Frank Striefler: The Future of Recruiting Will Be Smarter, Smaller and Faster
The Internet will continue to democratize the job hunting game, making it about what you know—not who you know. There will be a big mind shift from looking for jobs when one is out of work (when it’s too late) or when someone is miserable (also too late) to always being open for better opportunities. People are more loyal to their craft than to their employers these days […] .
British Intelligence Open-Sources its Large-Scale Graph Database Software
UK’s Secretive Spy Agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has open-sourced one of its tools on code-sharing website GitHub for free… A graph database called ‘ Gaffer .’ Gaffer , written in Java, is a kind of database that makes it “easy to store large-scale graphs in which the nodes […] .
Google Fires At Sonos, Adds Multi-Room Support To Chromecast Audio
Back in September, Google came out of no where with Chromecast Audio. The idea: take the Chromecast concept (tap a button, send a video to your TV and control it from your phone) and make it audio-only, letting you add some WiFi-enabled smarts to any stereo system you’ve already […] .
Facebook lets anyone build a social network with its AI hardware
Facebook is for the first time contributing AI hardware designs to its own Open Compute Project , namely the Big Sur modular servers that it uses for complex artificial intelligence tasks. Big Sur is Open Rack-compatible and contains eight high-performance GPUs, which have enabled the company to improve its […] .
5 innovators who want to make your life easier
Nigerian cartoonist and YouTube star. Yagazie Emezi, on a TSTMKRS app experience at Zaina Lodge in Ghana’s Mole National Park. (CNN)According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt , “great innovators and great companies see the space that others don’t.” But we’d also add that innovators demonstrate an awe-inspiring level of […] .
Germany just fired up a monster machine that could revolutionize the way we use energy
On Thursday, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics fired up a monster machine that it hopes will change the world. The machine is called the Wendelstein 7-X, or W7-X for short. It’s a type of nuclear-fusion machine called a stellarator […] .
Will Any City Ever Truly Be Car-Free?
Car-free days have slashed pollution in Paris while new eco-cities are aiming to design out the need for vehicles—but will cars in cities ever be consigned to history? .
Here’s What Developers Are Doing with Google’s AI Brain
Jeff Dean speaks at a Google event in 2007. An artificial intelligence engine that Google uses in many of its products, and that it made freely available last month, is now being used by others to perform some neat tricks, including translating English into Chinese, reading handwritten text, and […] .
Google Says It Has Proved Its Controversial Quantum Computer Really Works
Inside this box is a superconducting chip, cooled to within a fraction of a degree of absolute zero, that might put new power behind artificial-intelligence software. Google says it has proof that a controversial machine it bought in 2013 really can use quantum physics to work through a type […] .