Friday, 25 January 2013
Paper Tablet
The Paper Tab is fully interactive, with a flexible, high-resolution 10.7-inch plastic display developed by Plastic Logic, a flexible touch screen, and powered by the second-generation Intel Core i5 processor, the Daily Mail reported.
“Plastic Logic’s flexible plastic displays allow a natural human interaction with electronic paper, being lighter, thinner and more robust compared with today’s standard glass-based displays,” said Indro Mukerjee, CEO of Plastic Logic.
Researchers plan to launch the screen later this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. They have shown off the concept for a new desktop – using sheets of paper for each app, rather than a traditional screen with windows.
Instead of using several apps or windows on a single display, users have ten or more interactive displays or ‘PaperTabs’, with each being a different app.
They can also be used as e-books, with users simply bending the screen to turn pages.
“Using several PaperTabs makes it much easier to work with multiple documents,” said Roel Vertegaal, director of Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab.
For example, PaperTab allows a user to send a photo simply by tapping one PaperTab showing a draft email with another PaperTab showing the photo. The photo is then automatically attached to the draft email. The email is sent either by placing the PaperTab in an out tray, or by bending the top corner of the display.
Similarly, a larger drawing or display surface is created simply by placing two or more PaperTabs side by side. Intel claims the technology could eventually replace traditional screen altogether.
“Within five to 10 years, most computers, from ultra-notebooks to tablets, will look and feel just like these sheets of printed colour paper,” said Ryan Brotman, research scientist at Intel.
The developers claim it could even replace paper altogether.
“PaperTab can file and display thousands of paper documents, replacing the need for a computer monitor and stacks of papers or printouts,” it said
Monday, 21 January 2013
IBM
Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life….Oscar Wilde
Data collection, analysis and visualization technology available to city administrators is now getting closer to the level that the average SimCity gamer takes for granted. Anyone that has played SimCity (with “No Disasters” checked) has probably thought running a city is pretty easy. Based on what I have learned from SimCity all you have to do to drop crime is build another police station. Need water? Click and build a pump. If your ambulances are slow, build another hospital. Come on IBM…is it really that hard? Just tear down those homes, rip up that road and raise taxes just a little. If it takes too long just speed time up
Real world police chiefs, city planners, engineers, mayors and countless other city workers are likely to disagree with that simulated opinion across the board.
Data collection, analysis and visualization technology available to city administrators is now getting closer to the level that the average SimCity gamer takes for granted. Anyone that has played SimCity (with “No Disasters” checked) has probably thought running a city is pretty easy. Based on what I have learned from SimCity all you have to do to drop crime is build another police station. Need water? Click and build a pump. If your ambulances are slow, build another hospital. Come on IBM…is it really that hard? Just tear down those homes, rip up that road and raise taxes just a little. If it takes too long just speed time up
Real world police chiefs, city planners, engineers, mayors and countless other city workers are likely to disagree with that simulated opinion across the board.
IBM is marketing a new service to cities that seems remarkably like a real world version of game maker Maxis’s SimCity. By analyzing data collected by various city agencies they are creating predictive models that are showing promise in public safety, water usage, transportation and social programs. Some notable numbers being touted by IBM include a 25% drop in emergency response time in Madrid, 28% drop in crime in Memphis and the city of Dubuque, Iowa reduced water consumption by 6.6%.
IBM Smart Cities looks much like SimCity
IBM Smart Cities looks much like SimCity
Maybe if these data models get to be good enough and all the basic city problems are predicted and proactively fixed cities will only have to deal with being overrun by the “excessively cultured”.
SimCity Excessively Cultured
Saturday, 19 January 2013
Microsoft Research
Microsoft’s research lab in Cambridge, UK has developed a new way to interact with the digital world using intuitive hand gestures. “Digits” uses 3 different IR cameras to track the positions of fingers with respect to each other.
One of the applications for this technology includes 3-D spacial interaction with a mobile device. By assigning gestures to certain functions, the user could conceivably control any aspect of a device. This also allows for vision free control of the device. In example used in Microsoft’s video, they assigned the the “thumb’s up” to answer an incoming call.
Other applications include sign language interpretation and endless possibilities for gaming. Could this be the new controller for XBox 720? Guess we will have to wait to find out.
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Flexible Screen Phone
The Samsung Galaxy S4 will sport a 4.99 inch full HD display with 440 pixels-per-inch density when it will come this year.
Brian Klug from AnandTech mentioned in a post wrote “… I also caught a glimpse of what might possibly be the display headed to the next generation Samsung Galaxy smartphone.” He also mentions that the company is claiming a 25 percent power saving using a new material on new AMOLED revisions.
In a private demo during the keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013, the company gave the first look of a prototype of a flexible screen smartphone which might be the Galaxy S4. With the curved side, you will be able to read text messages, stock tickers, and other notifications even when the phone is in the case.
The phone is one of the most rumored and highly anticipated devices of this year. The device will reign on the success of the Samsung Galaxy S3, which has sold more than 30 million units worldwide. This phone is expected to be launched in Quarter 1 of this year. We might see an announcement at the Mobile World Congress in February this year.
Brian Klug from AnandTech mentioned in a post wrote “… I also caught a glimpse of what might possibly be the display headed to the next generation Samsung Galaxy smartphone.” He also mentions that the company is claiming a 25 percent power saving using a new material on new AMOLED revisions.
In a private demo during the keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013, the company gave the first look of a prototype of a flexible screen smartphone which might be the Galaxy S4. With the curved side, you will be able to read text messages, stock tickers, and other notifications even when the phone is in the case.
The phone is one of the most rumored and highly anticipated devices of this year. The device will reign on the success of the Samsung Galaxy S3, which has sold more than 30 million units worldwide. This phone is expected to be launched in Quarter 1 of this year. We might see an announcement at the Mobile World Congress in February this year.
Saturday, 5 January 2013
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