Omni Touch Turns Any Surface Into A Touchscreen

Technology comes a touchscreen onto your hand, clothes, a wall, or any surface, thus you'll operate your phone while not removing it from your pocket but this technology is still un-invented :( .

Imagine a world wherever any surface might potentially become a touchscreen for your phone: your hands, clothes, a wall or table. that is the vision behind a replacement Kinect-like technology known as Omni Touch, a wearable system that comes any multi-touch interface onto everyday surfaces, reports New mortal.

Perhaps the foremost convenient facet of the technology is however it may be operated on the go, requiring no special standardization for every new surface it's used on. The system adapts simply to surfaces of most textures in 3D area, thus it works even once the surface isn't flat, like together with your hand, or maybe a bole.

The technology, that is primarily composed of a shoulder-mounted depth camera and a Pico-projector, was developed by researchers at Microsoft and could be a immense improvement over previous prototypes that would solely work on skin. A user study of the technology showed that dragging performance and bit accuracy approached the sensitivity of standard touchscreens.

The device conjointly permits for user flexibility so much on the far side the aptitude of your phone or pill. as an example, users will opt for the position and size of the projected interface, that means that they'll alter the scale of the screen to higher suite their wants and sight. Omni Touch is additionally itself capable of showing intelligence selecting the simplest show setting, that the user does not got to readjust with every new surface.

The only inconvenient facet of the paradigm is that the bigness of the camera and projector, that area unit mounted on a user's shoulder sort of a massive parrot. the nice news, though, is that future prototypes area unit expected to be a lot of smaller, nearer to the scale of a box.

An explanation video for Omni Touch

Google's Project Ara To Reveals Modular Smartphone

Google’s phone firm Motorola has declared a brand new project which will permit users to make their own standard smartphone. Project Ara can let users get a plastic phone structure, named endoskeleton, so add-on modules like a keyboard, battery or alternative sensors, giving them flexibility to customize the phone.

Motorola is functioning with the Dutch designer Dave Hakkens, who has created Phonebloks, a standard phone plan. during a web log post Motorola disclosed it had been engaged on the project for quite a year and added: “We need to try to to for hardware what the automaton platform has in deep trouble software system – produce a spirited, third-party developer system.”

“To provide you with the facility to choose what your phone will, however it's, wherever and what it’s product of, what proportion it prices and the way long you’ll keep it,” the post continued.

The endoskeleton or the frame of the phone will hold all the chosen modules in place.

“A module will be something from a brand new application processor to a brand new show or keyboard, an additional battery, a pulse measuring instrument – or one thing not nonetheless thought of,” the firm aforesaid.

A “Gimmick”

Although some are viewing Project Ara as a breakthrough, there also are those that feel it's all somewhat pointless.

Principal technology analyst at Davies white potato cluster, Chris inexperienced, feels the project is simply a “gimmick”.

“I don’t see this as being a giant deal. it's not responding to any specific demand and there's no real profit to aggregation your own device,” he said. “The days of DIY IT, individuals building their own desktop computer, are gone as a result of falling prices of hardware.”

Motorola’s next step is to ask developers to make the modules, which can be followed by a module developer’s kit.

iPad Mini with Retina display, iPad Air launched in India

By: iPadfanzz staff on December 8, 2013

After a long wait, Apple has today introduced the iPad Air as well as the iPad Mini with Retina display in India.

The new iPad Mini will be available with Retina display at a starting price of Rs 28,900 for the 16GB Wi-Fi only model.

The new iPad Air, which is the thinnest iPad ever, will have a starting price of Rs. 35,900 for the 16GB Wi-Fi version. The iPad Air features a 9.7-inch Retina display in a body that weighs just 453 grams. It is 20 per cent thinner and 28 per cent lighter than the fourth generation iPad.

The earlier versions will continue to sell alongside the new devices.

iPad Air Pricing

16GB, WiFi only – Rs. 35,900 | WiFi + 4G – Rs. 44,900
32GB, WiFi only – Rs. 42,900 | WiFi + 4G – Rs. 51,900
64GB, WiFi only – Rs. 49,900 | WiFi + 4G – Rs. 58,900
128GB, WiFi only- Rs.56,900 | WiFi + 4G – Rs. 65,900

iPad Mini with Retina Display

16GB, WiFi only – Rs. 28,900 | WiFi + 4G – Rs. 37,900
32GB, WiFi only – Rs. 35,900 | WiFi + 4G – Rs. 44,900
64GB, WiFi only – Rs. 42,900 | WiFi + 4G – Rs. 51,900
128GB, WiFi only-Rs. 49,900 | WiFi + 4G – Rs. 58,900

Hacker Drone to Hijack Other Drones To Take Full Control

Hacker Samy Kamkar has engineered a changed Parrot AR Drone 2.0 — which, coincidentally, can be purchased on Amazon — that may hijack different Parrot drones within the locality, taking full control of them. Basically, it is a drone that produces zombie drones.

Kamkar dubbed his creation pirate and printed a close clarification of however it are often reproduced on his journal Tues. All you would like could be a Parrot AR Drone 2.0 equipped with a little Raspberry Pi computer device, a battery, 2 wireless transmitters and Kamkar's software package.

His software package is wherever the hacker magic happens. It makes the drone fly around, craving for the wireless signals of different Parrot drones within the locality. once it finds a match, it cuts the affiliation to its owner and takes over.

For now, the hack solely affects Parrot-brand drones. however as Ars Technica points out, "the software is built in a way to easily target different types of drones that have communication systems that are similar to Parrot."

Given the poor record of non-military drone manufacturers once it involves security, this appearance to be an added obstacle Amazon can got to overcome before the Prime Air drones will become a reality.

To find out additional regarding however this drone turns different drones into zombies, cross-check the video higher than.

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