Catégorie : Veille Technologique
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Industrial E-Stop Button Becomes Novel Computer Interface
When typing away at your computer, there are likely times where a few keystrokes just don’t cut it, and a big red emergency button would be more appropriate. This, you might assume, is the type of thing that only appears in a cartoon, perhaps featuring an elaborate trap to catch a very fast bird. This assumption, however, would now be wrong…
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How Augmented Reality Soothes Kids Scrapes and Cuts
Japanese toymaker Bandai has developed a digital spin on mom or dad kissing your boo-boo to make it all better: augmented reality band-aids. Targeted at kids aged 3–6, these digital band-aids are designed to soothe a child with some consoling words from their favorite animated characters. Right now, this augmented reality technology is limited to the Japanese kids’ market and…
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En Chine, Starbucks a lancé une tasse à café insolite en forme de patte de chat
Mais jusqu’où ira la folie et la passion pour les chats ? Les chats sont extrêmement populaires, notamment sur le web, et ça, les marques l’ont bien compris. Elles sont nombreuses à jouer sur cet attrait des chats pour proposer à leurs clients des produits insolites qui sauront satisfaire leur passion pour ces adorables boules de poils. La dernière marque à…
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How Amazon took 50% of the e-commerce market and what it means for the rest of us
Jun-Sheng Li Contributor Jun-Sheng (Jun) Li is an Executive in Residence at Canvas Ventures and was the former senior vice president of Walmart’s global e-commerce supply chain. As SVP of Walmart’s global ecommerce supply chain for five years until 2018, I had a front row seat to how brick-and-mortar retailers were responding to Amazon’s dominance in e-commerce. Most of us…
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HoloLens 2’s Field of View Revealed
At MWC yesterday Microsoft announced the $3500 HoloLens 2 augmented reality headset. On stage the company boasted the headset’s “more than 2x” field of view compared to the original. However, no specific values were given. Today on Twitter Microsoft’s Alex Kipman clarified the details. The headset provides 52 degrees of augmented viewing when measured diagonally, according to Kipman. Given that the Microsoft website…
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A DIY E-Ink Calendar Powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero W
E-ink displays are fantastic to look at, but come with two serious caveats. Most of them are monochrome, and they’re very slow to refresh. Multicolor e-ink displays are available, but they refresh even slower. That means they’re only suited to a handful of specific applications, like in e-readers. Another device that they’re perfect for is a digital calendar, and Redditor…
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Vocalize.ai Acquired by Sensory
Vocalize.ai, a speech recognition benchmarking company, announced today it has been acquired by Sensory, a company known for on-device speech recognition, biometric security, and natural language understanding technology. Joe Murphy, the founder and CEO of Vocalize.ai, formerly worked at UL and saw an opportunity in the summer of 2017 to launch an independent testing and benchmarking company focused on the performance…
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Baidu made a smart cat shelter that uses AI to tell cats and dogs apart
China’s top search engine company Baidu made a smart cat shelter in Beijing that uses AI to verify when a cat is approaching and open its door. The cat shelter is heated and also offers cats food and water. Besides running China’s main search engine, Baidu also works on AI tools in general and owns iQiyi, a Netflix-like rival that…
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Google Docs gets an API for task automation
Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically do manually in the company’s online office suite. The API has been in developer preview since last April’s Google Cloud Next 2018 and is now available to all developers. As Google notes, the REST…
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Waterproof Chemical Sensor Collects Biometric Data During Water Sports
Researchers from Northwestern University’s Rogers Research Group have developed a wearable biometric sensor that collects and analyzes athlete’s sweat, even while they are swimming underwater for prolonged periods. Our sweat carries a host of chemical information about our bodies, such as salt, sugar, hormones, drug, alcohol, and electrolyte levels, which are indicative of our overall health. Just like other demanding…
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