Catégorie : Veille Technologique
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The Pentagon compiled research into invisibility cloaking, wormholes, and warp drive
A document released this month revealed a secretive multimillion-dollar Department of Defense program from the late 2000s compiled research into invisibility cloaks, warp drive, and many other areas of fringe space science as part of a now-defunct program aimed at detecting and potentially explaining strange sightings in the Earth’s atmosphere. The five-page document includes a list of papers written for…
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MIT Creates Antennas for Wearables That Harvest Energy From Wi-Fi Signals
Once of the biggest challenges in developing wearable devices is energy storage. Wearables, like any other mobile device, need to be as small and light as possible. That means that bulky, heavy batteries are a major constraint in their design. This new antenna design created by researchers at MIT, as well as many other institutions, solves that problem by harvesting…
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Google’s Project Soli radar is sensitive enough to count sheets of paper and read Lego bricks
What does the computer interface of the future look like? One bet from Google is that it will involve invisible interfaces you can tweak and twiddle in mid-air. This is what the company is exploring via Project Soli, an experimental hardware program which uses miniature radar to detect movement, and which recently won approval from the FCC for further study.…
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This awesome homemade jukebox is controlled by swipeable song cards
In an era where everything is controlled by touchscreens and oblique voice commands, there’s something incredibly satisfying about a gadget with simple, tactile controls. That’s probably why designer Chris Patty’s homemade jukebox looks so charming: it’s controlled by physical cards, each printed with an artist and album art on the front, that you swipe to play a song. Patty created…
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Steppingstone VR Uses Multi-Platform Electromagnetic Propulsion To Fight Sim Sickness
Steppingstone VR thinks its new approach to VR locomotion might be the one to solve simulation sickness. The company is working on a motion platform that uses electromagnetic propulsion to physically move players around as they stand/sit on a platform. You can see it in the early prototype video below; the platform gets its power supply from a specialized floor,…
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Samsung’s stylish The Frame and Serif 4K TVs will soon come in more sizes with better picture quality
Ahead of CES, Samsung is announcing upcoming refreshes of its two most stylish 4K TVs, The Frame and Serif. These are lifestyle pieces that aim to make people rethink what a TV can and should look like. They don’t offer Samsung’s best picture performance — that’s still reserved for the proper QLED lineup — but they’re definitely good for attracting…
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These are the Planters You are Looking For!
Etsy user RedwoodStoneworks uses silicone molds and a little plaster to make what have to be the most awesome planters that have ever been created. Don’t believe me? Check those out: From RedwoodStoneworks: Each piece is finely finished, I make each one from scratch, sanding and beveling all rough edges for a smooth finely finished look! All details for realistic…
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These face-generating systems are getting rather too creepily good for my liking
Machine learning models are getting quite good at generating realistic human faces — so good that I may never trust a machine, or human, to be real ever again. The new approach, from researchers at Nvidia, leapfrogs others by separating levels of detail in the faces and allowing them to be tweaked separately. The results are eerily realistic. The paper,…
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Salesforce Opens Up Lightning Platform to World’s 7 Million+ Javascript Developers
In a move that will open its platform to the more than 7 million worldwide Javascript developers, Salesforce today announced its Lightning Web Components Framework; a technology that makes it possible for developers to use the Javascript programming language to customize browser-based web applications built on top of Salesforce’s core capabilities in the same way they might use Javascript to…
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Trello acquires Butler to add power of automation
Trello, the organizational tool owned by Atlassian, announced an acquisition of its very own this morning when it bought Butler for an undisclosed amount. What Butler brings to Trello is the power of automation, stringing together a bunch of commands to make something complex happen automatically. As Trello’s Michael Pryor pointed out in a blog post announcing the acquisition, we…
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