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A Cat Inspired This Start-up’s ‘Internet of Lost Things’

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Pixie’s Augmented Reality-connected location technology in action (Photo credti: Courtesy) There’s the Internet of Things (IoT), where everything from a car to a refrigerator turns “smart,” with sensors that vacuum in data and upload it the cloud for analysis. Now, an Israeli start-up called Pixie has a new twist on that idea – a system that… Continue reading “A Cat Inspired This Start-up’s ‘Internet of Lost Things’”

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Tech Check: Princess LEIA and Smart Cycles

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Star Wars tech coming soon? Remember that scene in Star Wars (the original trilogy, not the more recent money grab) where R2D2 projects Princess Leia’s hologram to plead for help from Obi Wan Kenobi? That technology could be on its way. A Menlo Park, Calif., company, which aptly dubbed itself LEIA, showed off a 3D display… Continue reading “Tech Check: Princess LEIA and Smart Cycles”

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Project Anywhere: A Virtual Reality Out-of-Body Experience

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It’s what dreams are made of for any avid gamer – controlling an avatar with your body in real time. Project Anywhere is the brainchild of Constantinos Miltiadis, a student at ETH Zurich, who claims to have created the most advanced virtual digital avatar, which allows multiple gamers on different continents to compete in the same… Continue reading “Project Anywhere: A Virtual Reality Out-of-Body Experience”

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LEGO Fusion Is Augmented Reality for Tweens

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Augmented Reality (AR) is not just the stuff of wearable displays (like Google Glass and Microsoft’s HoloLens), ghostly virtual assistants, and floating keyboards any more. In a perfectly appropriate blend of real and virtual innovation, LEGO has found a way to use AR that embellishes the building blocks and increases creativity and real-world play (rather than take away from it) with the LEGO Fusion group of sets. Continue reading LEGO Fusion Is Augmented Reality for Tweens

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Implant Could Give People Terminator-like Augmented Reality

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Chuck Bednar for redOrbit.com – @BednarChuck Leave it to the US Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create something that makes smart glasses and augmented reality headsets seem passé: the team behind some of the military’s most cutting edge technology is creating implants that can give people Terminator vision. According to CNET, the DARPA boffins are… Continue reading “Implant Could Give People Terminator-like Augmented Reality”

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IoT Is Making You Its Business, Maybe You Should Make It Yours

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It’s not going to happen tomorrow and maybe not even within the next 5 years, but soon purchasing a good of almost any kind that isn’t ‘connected’ will be a challenge, or perhaps even a touted feature of a product. The simple reason for this encroaching reality lies in the rapid trend of IoT getting its… Continue reading “IoT Is Making You Its Business, Maybe You Should Make It Yours”