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The Suitsy
At the end of last year, a crowdfunding campaign to create the Suitsy, a onesie designed to look exactly like a buisness suit, became an instant meme; the Suitsy embodied everything that everyone love hated about Silicon Valley.
Greg Ferenstein from the Ferenstein Wire wore one for a week – ONE WEEK, one WHOLE WEEK and no one noticed.
Get this guy a beer – He wins!
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UAV Forecast
We have found the perfect app to tell you when it is the best time to fly your brand new expensive, shiny drone – UAV Forecast!
“When will it be good to fly your quadcopter? See the weather forecast, GPS satellites, solar activity (Kp), No-Fly Zones and flight restrictions, all in one convenient tool. Perfect for DJI Phantom, DJI Inspire, 3DR Solo, Parrot Bebop and many other Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.”
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Facebook wants to read your mind!
F8, Facebook’s annual developer conference, they unveiled a proposal of “Brain to Computer” Interface – that would allow us to send thoughts to a computer.
Regina Dugan, Head of Facebooks secret hardware R&D division “Building 8” asked “what if you could type directly from your brain” – As she showed a video of a woman typing 8 words per minute from her brain.
“That’s five times faster than you can type on your smartphone, and it’s straight from your brain…..Your brain activity contains more information than what a word sounds like and how it’s spelled; it also contains semantic information of what those words mean.”
Facebook is proposing a world where we’re connected all the time by thought alone.
Similarly Dugan also highlighted a video that showed the ability to listen to human speech through vibrations on skin. Aiding disabled people to hear, it works like braille, that you feel with your body rather than fingers via the use of actuators and sensors via an armband.
The end goal is to build an online world that feels real:
“Our brains produce enough data to stream 4 HD movies every second. The problem is that the best way we have to get information out into the world — speech — can only transmit about the same amount of data as a 1980s modem…..We’re working on a system that will let you type straight from your brain about 5x faster than you can type on your phone today. Eventually, we want to turn it into a wearable technology that can be manufactured at scale. Even a simple yes/no ‘brain click’ would help make things like augmented reality feel much more natural.” – Mark Zuckerberg said via Facebook post.
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Zap Zap VR!
VR Researchers have found a use for electric shocks – to make you feel walls that don’t exist.
Researchers at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany have been hard at work finding ways to make you feel like you have bumped into a wall in the virtual world and make you feel it in the real world by giving you a bit of good old electrical muscle stimulation – a shock of electricity basically.
You wear the usual headset/tracking gloves, but you have an additional muscle stimulator and computer in a back back, then electrodes attached to your arm activate muscles causing them to twitch and move by themselves if they hit a wall in the VR world.
As well as highlighting when you have ‘bumped into something’ it can also eventually be used to stimulate the feeling of lifting something. By shocking opposition muscle groups in a users arms it makes them feel resistance, simulating gravity. More electrical simulation, the heavier an object feels.
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CATS Crash Arena!
From the creators of the hit games Cut the Rope and King of Thieves, comes the most ingenious and stylish battle bot constructor!
Build your own battle robot and unleash its power in this new PvP fighting game!
Fight your way up from backyards to the World Championship. Win new parts and use them to design an unbeatable fighting robot. Make every opponent bite the dust!
To download CATS Crash Arena please click here Apple / Android
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Elon Musks Underground Road
Elon Musk hates LA traffic so much he has proposed an underground road……stating that he wants it to be the future of city driving.
How would it work we hear you ask! Well by a series of multi-layered underground tunnels, beneath a city, travelling along a scalextric like platform.
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Apple Store flying drones!
If you visit an Apple store in the not too distant future you may see the Hover Passport Drone flying around!
Apple have signed a deal with ZeroZero Robotics to exclusively sell their drone for $100 dollars cheaper than their own site for $500 dollars, for which you will receive (one drone, two batteries, a charger, an adapter, and a carry bag)
It has face /body tracking, orbit mode where it circles around you, a 360-degree “Spin” for panoramic video shots & protected propellers, too!
Apple Stores in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., China, and Hong Kong are kicking off the demonstrations with other stores expected to follow suit not long after.
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Nintendo Switch 1Million SALES! (Almost)
Nintendo have already sold 1 Million (almost) Switches in the US.
According to Nintendo and NPD the computer game giants have sold a total of 906,000 units in it’s first month.
With the Wii U, sales hitting 890,000 units in its first six weeks in the Christmas period of 2012 (November Launch)
Although both consoles have been slated for a poor lineup of launch titles – however, the Wii U didn’t have a monster of a launch title Zelda Breath of the Wild. Which has sold 1.3 million copies since it’s launch, 925,000 of those being Switch copies with Wii U copies hitting 460,000.
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To buy your own copy of Zelda Breath of the Wild please click here: Switch / Wii U
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