Companies adopting AI keep running into the same trade-off. The most capable models live behind closed APIs, where the provider decides what changes, where the computing happens and what customers may do with the results. Running an open model yourself brings control, but it also brings the burden of hosting it and understanding how it behaves. On November 3, Flower Labs announced a model meant to remove that choice. According to the company's announcement, Endeavor 1.1 is a frontier model that...
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Robo-Kitttens to combat loneliness felt by the elderly.
The Joy For All cats are sold under the slogan, ‘Why should kids have all the fun?’, and are marketed as a relaxation device, designed to make users feel happier and less alone upon hearing the mewing of the cat’s response to their touch. Created by the producers of My Little Pony and Transformers, the cat toys do not requiring feeding or bathroom breaks, and react to affection.
“Joy for All” pets are robotic cats that “look, feel, and sound like real cats,” Hasbro claims on its website, whic...
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New “tricorder” technology might be able to “hear” tumors growing.
A team of scientists from Stanford University is testing a new “tricorder” technology able to remotely detect abnormal matter, such as buried plastic explosives or even early stage cancers in humans, by manipulating microwaves and ultrasound. The new “radio frequency (RF)/ultrasound hybrid imaging system,” the brainchild of Assistant Professor Amin Arbabian and Research Professor Pierre Khuri-Yakub, was designed for remote detection of embedded objects in a number of different kinds of matter, i...
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Tanvas allows you to feel what you see.
Tanvas’ surface haptics technology allows you, for the first time, to feel what you see on a touchscreen, the edges of keys, the snap of a toggle switch, the swipe of a turned page or the direction and magnitude of impacts in a game. The company is poised to change the way people interact with touchscreens across essentially every industry, from automotive to education, from retail to medical, from consumer electronics to industrial applications.
The technology sends ultrasonic sound waves th...
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Latest Intuos Tablets Make Creative Dreams Come True
Wacom®, the world leader in pen-based creative tablets, introduced its next generation Intuos® product family to empower and inspire creative enthusiasts.
The new range of Intuos Pen & Touch tablets consists of four models: Intuos Art, (for beginners with a passion for creativity), Intuos Comic, (more advanced painting and artistic skill) Intuos Photo (for photo editors who want to try new creative techniques) and Intuos Draw. (For comic and manga enthusiasts).
Each model includes free...
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Scientists paint quantum electronics with beams of light.
A team of scientists from the University of Chicago and Penn State University have accidentally discovered a new way of using light to draw and erase quantum-mechanical circuits in a unique class of materials called topological insulators. Researchers may be able to "paint" quantum electronics with beams of light.
The electrons in topological insulators have unique quantum properties that many scientists believe will be useful for developing spin-based electronics and quantum computers. Howev...
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Robo Washer: The All-In-One Sink, Faucet, Soap Dispenser and Hand Dryer
Amazing self-cleaning invention that replaces sink, faucet, soap dispenser and hand dryer all in one, has been just launched on Kickstarter. This gadget may fix one of the worst things about using public bathrooms. In addition to waiting on long lines, one of the worst things about public bathrooms is having to use the same sink faucets and hand dryers that dozens before you have touched. Robo-Washer Revolution cleans and dries hands, then recycles its water after each use.
The Robo-Washer is...
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Cicret wristband turns your arm into a touch screen
The new revolutionary bracelet, Cicret projects emails, videos and games and turns your arm into a touchscreen using a tiny built-in projector. Wearers of the of the Cicret bracelet will be able to check an email or watch a film that’s projected onto their forearm, and control the picture by using their skin like a touchscreen. It will also be possible for users to pair it with an existing smartphone, answer incoming phone calls and activate the speakerphone functionality on their smartphone.
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Interact with real objects by reaching through your screen.
Unreal MIT invention Inform - allows you to reach through the screen and touch things.
Recently unveiled, inFORM is MIT's new scrying pool for imagining the interfaces of tomorrow.
Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away
inFORM can also interact with the physical world around it, for example moving obj...
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