‘Rival Rig’ -BMW’s New Gaming Chair

Posted on July 24, 2021July 24, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

BMW in collaboration with subsidiary Designworks recently unveiled gaming chair of the future. It has sensors built into the seat that measure the user’s exact body size and posture for an ideal fit BMW’s Rival Rig is equipped with motors capable of giving users small massages, as well as a Micro Climate Control System that cools or warms the seat in various places based on readings taken by temperature sensors. https://youtu.be/mbpyASlpQeE It has sensors to ensure max comfort...

Edge Innovations – real size robotic dolphin. Real-time Animatronics Reimagining the marine park industry.

Posted on July 11, 2021July 11, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

Edge Innovations specializes in the design, development, and production of complex, highly integrated technology-based systems. Working with many of the world’s top visionaries, including James Cameron, Steve Wynn, and Frank Gehry, the Edge team has delivered some of the world’s most innovative technical and artistic creations. Blending live puppeteering, programmed behavior, and artificial intelligence to create a unique guest experience. The goal of this initiative is to reimagine t...

‘Kano Kit’ – A computer anyone can make and even A 5-Year Old Can Learn To Write Code

Posted on June 13, 2021June 13, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

Build your own computer. Comes with step-by-step book, Raspberry Pi 3, programmable LED lights, DIY case, power button, wireless keyboard with track pad, memory, HDMI and power cables, stickers, Kano unique operating system, 100+ coding challenges, and 100+ apps. Kano lets kids build their own PCs and learn to program with a nice combination of simplicity, education and even charm. https://youtu.be/lRWub7BY-I0 Kano is a new kind of computing. It lets Kids Build Their Own Computers a...

Science Experiments Subscription Box for Kids

Posted on June 13, 2021June 13, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

MEL Science - Next-generation science sets for kids MEL Science boxes are for children aged 5-14+ depending on the line. Their MEL Kids range is for younger children aged 5-10 years old. https://youtu.be/EagzNomxTYg A child is able to learn science experimentally with the help these kits. Educational science kits are designed to supplement formal classroom education. These kits contain lab equipment, materials, manuals, and references to be hands-on to provide a holistic learning to ...

Pizza Huts smart shoes that allows you to order Pizza and pause & restart your TV mid-program

Posted on May 30, 2021May 30, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

Pizza Hut has experimented with limited-edition tech sneakers that can order pizza. Pizza Hut has released 'Pie Top II sneakers' that allows you to order pizza and another restart your TV mid-program, directly from your shows. Pie Tops shoes was developed by partnering with sneaker designer - 'the Shoe Surgeon', it's second iteration of the first-and-only shoe ever created that orders pizza at the push of a button. “The Pie Tops II were created to showcase its focus on giving cust...

‘Snapdragon’ Qualcomm chip enabling OEM mobile manufacturers to build industry-leading smartphones and in-demand apps.

Posted on April 24, 2021April 24, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

Snapdragon is a suite of system on a chip (SoC) semiconductor products for mobile devices designed and marketed by Qualcomm Technologies Inc. The Snapdragon central processing unit (CPU) uses the ARM RISC instruction set. Smarter, faster, better. Meet the latest Snapdragon mobile platforms. From high-megapixel camera functionality to immersive virtual reality capabilities, to blazing-fast download speeds and incredible connectivity, Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ mobile platforms enable OEMs to b...

Turn your iPhone into a smart universal remote

Posted on January 30, 2021January 30, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

Your smartphone can be used as a universal remote control for your home devices. App on your smart phone communicates via Wi-Fi with the base station / hub / IR - InfraRed Transmitter, which then translates the command into IR for the devices. Many products are available that allow you to use your smartphone as a remote. You can build your own using 'arduino'. https://github.com/e-tinkers/esp32_ir_remote Some Sample products - Pronto is a small hub that's able to turn your iPhon...

KFC – Game Console with 4k, 240fps & Intel Nuc 9 Extreme Compute Element

Posted on December 26, 2020December 26, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

KFC has launched a new gaming console called 'KFConsole'. It has built this in partnership with hardware manufacturer Cooler Master. It has number of key features; - First-of-its-kind hot-swappable GPU slot - Intel Nuc 9 Extreme Compute Element -Asus-powered graphics -Performance of PCIe NVMe speeds that are 6× faster -Two Seagate® BarraCuda® 1TB SSD -VR READY - Virtual Reality out of box -RAY TRACING -Rays of light individually simulated creating true to lif...

Apex Game Tools – delivering next-generation artificial intelligence tools for games within all genres.

Posted on December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

Apex Game Tools develops software components for pathfinding, AI, and utility functions. Apex Game Tools creates artificial intelligence solutions and tools for a variety of game genres. In addition to working with other research institutions and universities to enhance AI, Apex does its own research in machine learning, algorithms and cybernetics. Apex's many products include Utility AI, a scoring-based framework for computer games. Utility AI provides multiple decisions, scores each...

Hover Camera Passport – Self-Flying Camera

Posted on August 5, 2017 by adminedit

The Hover Camera Passport, a drone designed for taking selfies. Hover Camera Passport is an autonomous self-flying camera that follows you and records your travel moments in 13MP photos and 4K video. You can now buy the flying camera today and ask for an in-store demonstration at select Apple stores. Passport is a flying camera in a class of its own, that’s portable, safe, truly easy-to-fly right out of the box, and lightweight at just 242 grams (0.55 pounds). Take it on your wanderlust so...

Microsemi AcuEdge™ Development Kit to build your own version of Amazon AVS creating a voice-activated system (Alexa voice service)

Posted on June 7, 2017 by adminedit

Microsemi AcuEdge™ Development Kit for Amazon AVS The success of personal assistants that you interact with via the spoken word, such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Home, has made voice control a hot-ticket item in system design. Getting started in this technology, though, has required significant audio and signal processing expertise to address issues in background noise and the speaker’s location. A new development kit from Microsemi, in partnership with Amazon’s Alexa voice serv...

‘Little Fish’ is a AI home assistant robot with tablet like screen, developed by Baidu, China’s leading search engine.

Posted on May 16, 2017 by adminedit

Baidu's new voice-controlled home robot is like an Amazon Echo with a screen called 'Little Fish' Conversational Computer - Baidu+"Little Fish" home assistant robot. Baidu, China's leading search engine, and Ainemo Inc., China's top technology driven consumer electronic company, jointly unveiled "Little Fish" (Chinese name: Xiaoyu Zaijia), a voice-controlled family robot powered by Baidu's AI at Digital Experience. With the partnership of these two industry leaders, "Little Fish" is posit...

Lego is set to release educational and inspirational Lego Ideas set “NASA Apollo Saturn V” in June 2017

Posted on May 9, 2017 by adminedit

This year is the 45 years Apollo 11 Moon-landing anniversary. What a perfect time to present you the Saturn-V rocket which took the Apollo 11 crew to the moon out of Lego! The whole Lego rocket is about 1 meter/130 studs high (aprox. 1:110 scale), has 1179 bricks and lots of features: removable 1st rocket-stage with the main rocket engine removable 2nd rocket-stage with rocket engine removable 3rd rocket-stage with the Apollo spacecraft Apollo spacecraft with the "Eagle" ...

Tapdo is a smart button that lets you control technology with single-touch, personalized biometric interactions.

Posted on March 11, 2017 by adminedit

Tapdo button is a shortcut to control all your favorite apps and devices more comfortably by just tapping a button. A Fingerprint Sensor helps to assign dozens of functions to one button simultaneously. New wearable fingerprint scanner called Tapdo now allows users to map different parts of their hands to a variety of shortcuts for different smart devices. The tapdo button is connected to your smartphone via bluetooth. In your tapdo app you can choose compatible apps and assign singl...

Rover Land & Sea is a app-controlled amphibious kids toy vehicle (RC car) with camera and speaker

Posted on March 1, 2017March 1, 2017 by adminedit

The Rover Land & Sea is a powerful and flexible app-enabled RC car that works with iOS and Android devices. As shown in the images, the RC car sports a compact and streamlined appearance design, and it features uniquely designed wheels that not only allow it to run on a variety of terrains, but also propel the vehicle through the water with fins on the wheels. Moreover, the rubber ridges in the center of each wheel provide traction and protect the fins on land. Indoors or outdoo...

Researchers at Nottingham Trent University (UK) have developed smart balaclava with electric-conductive yarns that can help athletes stay warm and avert chest infections in cold weather

Posted on February 25, 2017 by adminedit

Researchers have developed a smart balaclava which warms oxygen before it’s inhaled to reduce the risk of athletes contracting chest infections in winter. Nottingham Trent University and German advanced knitting machine manufacturer Stoll GmBH created a prototype to help runners and skiers who can be exposed to increased risk of infections when exercising in the cold. The technology centres on a knitted patch of electric-conductive yarn over the nose and mouth which emits heat when cha...

Cardiff Innovative three wheel skates

Posted on February 15, 2017 by adminedit

Cardiff is a three wheel skates that can be worn on top of your shoes. Because of its ergonomic design it provides great deal of balance and comfort. These skates are not only unique in design, but also in the approach to skating itself. The whole tightening depends on the micrometric buckle on the instep and on the automatic adjustment of the skates' length. Take the time to wedge your shoe into the structure so that the heel isn't let loose. Then you can skate in confidence. In our humble o...

Wingsuit flying (or wingsuiting) is the sport of gliding through the air using a wingsuit which adds surface area to the human body to enable a significant increase in lift.

Posted on February 9, 2017February 9, 2017 by adminedit

Wingsuit flying (or wingsuiting) is the sport of gliding through the air using a wingsuit which adds surface area to the human body to enable a significant increase in lift. The modern wingsuit, first developed in the late 1990s, creates a surface area with fabric between the legs and under the arms. Wingsuits are sometimes referred to as "birdman suits", "flying squirrel suits", "bat suits". WINGSUIT FLYING is a skydiving discipline and extreme sport which relies on the use of a specialised...

Amazon’s ‘Echo’ Virtual Assistant Has Many New ‘Skills’ to Voice Control All Walks Of Your Daily Life

Posted on January 29, 2017January 29, 2017 by adminedit

Amazon's 'Echo' is a hands-free Virtual Assistant with speaker that you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide information, news, sports... Amazon Echo (known in-development as Doppler or Project D and shortened and referred to as Echo) is a smart speaker developed by Amazon.com. The device consists of a 9.25-inch (23.5 cm) tall cylinder speaker with a seven-piece microphone array. The device connects to the voice-controlled intelligent person...

‘GAME GOLF’ is a golf performance tracking, GPS rangefinder, and scorecard platform

Posted on January 26, 2017 by adminedit

GAME GOLF is a golf performance tracking, GPS rangefinder, and scorecard platform. It is a comprehensive system designed to seamlessly capture and display your golf game in a dynamic interface with stats and trends. GAME GOLF was created and founded by John McGuire, CEO and Founder of Active Mind technology GAMEGOLF uses GPS technology and NFC technology to track your location on the course and every club used during a round. The GAME GOLF Tags are assigned to specific clubs by the golfer ...

Epson’s augmented reality smart glasses

Posted on January 24, 2017 by adminedit

MOVERIO. Explore how the Epson MOVERIO family of smart eyewear is transforming today's activities with tomorrow's vision. The Epson Moverio BT-300 is the third iteration of the company's smart eyeglass lineup. It comes with a new lightweight form factor - 20% lighter than the BT-200 range - that has a 'Google' feel and is equipped with an OLED display, which projects an image in front of the eyes that feels around 80 inches in size. https://youtu.be/hhYPqF3aHUs Battery life on...

‘Royole Moon’ – 3D Virtual Mobile Theater

Posted on January 24, 2017 by adminedit

Royole has developed a 3D virtual mobile theater for movies, gaming, and more. Combining unique proprietary optical and system technologies that recreate a giant, scalable 800" curved screen with realistic 3D effects and high-fidelity noise-cancelling headphones, Moon provides the viewer with a truly immersive, amazingly realistic entertainment experience. Combining unique proprietary optical and system technologies that recreate a giant, scalable 800" curved screen with realistic 3D effects ...

Razer’s New Projector ‘Ariana’ can display your game across the entire room

Posted on January 10, 2017January 10, 2017 by adminedit

Immersion into virtual reality is a perception of being physically present in a non-physical world. Razer’s new Projector 'Ariana' displays your game across the entire room and makes you feel you are part of it. The world’s first video projection system designed for immersive gaming, Project Ariana is a cutting-edge video projector which uses an ultra-wide fish eye lens and advanced processing capabilities to take your game beyond your setup, extending it to your entire room. Ariana projec...

‘ e-paper display’ – a new generation of electronic display mimicking ordinary ink on paper

Posted on January 10, 2017 by adminedit

Electronic paper and e-paper are display devices that mimic the appearance of ordinary ink on paper. Unlike conventional backlit flat panel displays that emit light, electronic paper displays reflect light like paper. "E Ink" is a Taiwan based electronic ink technology company, it recently announced a 32" flexible and extremely lightweight display. These two features make the display an ideal solution as a drop-in replacement for digital signage applications in transportation and other public...

LEGO launched ‘Boost’, an easy to build and program ‘robot kit’ that can operate using iphone

Posted on January 10, 2017 by adminedit

LEGO Group announced LEGO® BOOST, a supercharged building and coding set that lets children bring their LEGO creations to life by adding movement, sound and personality. Lego Boost is a programmable set of motors to bring your bricked creations to life. LEGO® BOOST combines the endless play opportunities of a traditional LEGO set with an endless variety of movement and sound capabilities made possible through an easy-to-use, app-based coding environment. LEGO BOOST has been developed for chil...

‘Minecraft.Print’ – Making the Virtual Real – take virtual creations, and bring them into the real world

Posted on December 17, 2016 by adminedit

Minecraft is a video game focused on creativity and building. Players build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world–everything from a hut, to a train station, to a fully functional computer. Why can't we take those virtual creations, and bring them into the real world? Minecraft.Print() is our attempt to do so by creating a bridge between Minecraft and the real world, via 3D printers. A Minecraft player defines a 3D space to be printed, after which the software extracts the object, ...

Create tomorrow’s innovators and idea-makers with littleBits electronic building blocks, a platform for large and small inventions for kids

Posted on December 10, 2016 by adminedit

'LittleBits' is a platform for large and small inventions for kids. The kit includes electronic building blocks that snap-on with magnet and allow kids to build projects in minutes. We spend more than eleven hours a day with technology, but most people don’t know how it works, and spend the majority of their time consuming media. We believe people are born creative, and our electronic building blocks help to unleash the inventor within by engaging them in an incredibly powerful, exhilarating ...

NASA Rover Game Released for Curiosity’s Anniversary

Posted on August 12, 2016 by adminedit

As Curiosity marks its fourth anniversary (in Earth years) since landing on Mars, the rover is working on collecting its 17th sample. While Curiosity explores Mars, gamers can join the fun via a new social media game, Mars Rover. On their mobile devices, players drive a rover through rough Martian terrain, challenging themselves to navigate and balance the rover while earning points along the way. The game also illustrates how NASA's next Mars rover, in development for launch in 2020, will us...

‘Botiful’ Skype based telepresence robot

Posted on June 27, 2016 by adminedit

Botiful is an Android powered robot revolutionizing the way you communicate with distant people. The telepresence robot was created by Claire Delaunay, an engineer working for SRI, a non-profit research and development company in southern California. Botiful Lets You Remotely Keep Your Skype Pal's Face in Frame. Delaunay plans to release a software development kit to expand the applications of the robot even further once it hits the consumer market. The Skype remote control interface al...

‘EyeForcer’ glasses monitor wearer’s posture and alerts when slouching

Posted on June 22, 2016 by adminedit

The EyeForcer is a medical tech wearable for kids who use smartphones and tablets. It monitors posture to prevent Gameboy Disease. It helps to stop slouching over their smartphones and tablets every day. Posture is one of the fundamental things when it comes to muscle activity and fatigue. However, a minute strain can lead to very serious problems. And, for sports professionals and athletes, even a minute injury can lead to serious consequences. One of the major reason which leads to posture ...