Here comes Jarvis, the artificial intelligence for every home

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After a year of hard work, Mark Zuckerberg has revealed to the world some details of the #artificial intelligence #Jarvis, a personal assistant for the home that the founder of #Facebook had wanted to develop as a "personal challenge". Mark, pleasantly, gave the AI ​​the name of Iron Man's butler, and integrated it into the home automation system of his house. Jarvis does everything, or almost everything: it independently manages lights, temperature, appliances, music from both PCs and mobile devices and much more. Jarvis can be commanded with… Read more

The new smartphones will be indestructible

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Are you the type who always drops your cell phone or smartphone on the floor, and who breaks one a week? Well, the #future of smartphones has thought of you too, given that the next mobile phones will have a practically indestructible screen. The change is due to the new smartphone glass just launched by Corning, which promises to withstand drops up to one meter and 60 centimeters high. It's called Gorilla Glass 5, and we'll be able to test it soon. On the other hand, recent research… Read more

Smart contact lenses are coming

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The future in which we all have a technological implant in our eyes, which will allow us to send messages and take photos, is not that far away. In fact, today we are talking about nothing other than the new Sony patent, which is based on a sensor that is activated by measuring the pressure of the eyelid and which allows you to take photos thanks to intelligent contact lenses. And thanks to the movement of the eye it will also be possible to adjust the lens aperture and zoom. To check the image quality… Read more

A smartwatch that reads the veins

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Will Samsung's new smartwatches be able to do everything, even read our biometric data with extreme precision and our veins? Apparently, yes. And so after fingerprints, facial features, voice and iris, in the future wearable electronic devices such as smartwatches could recognize the owner by his veins. The idea is part of a Samsung patent published by the US patent and trademark office. … Read more

Google is the virtual reality viewer

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Will 2016 be the year of virtual reality, or augmented reality? Many analysts believe so. And Google doesn't want to miss the opportunity. Already in mid-January the company announced the launch of a new division, which will focus exclusively on the development of projects related to virtual reality. In fact, the strong competition from Facebook and its Oculus should not be forgotten. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has named Clay Bavor to head the division, which previously ran Gmail and Drive. Being… Read more

Flexible sensors: a revolution. Our life at a glance.

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The best medical devices for measuring blood pressure today require a prolonged stay of the patient in the clinic. An experimental sensor can adhere to the skin almost like a tattoo and monitor this parameter in real time 24 hours a day. Why is a wearable sensor a revolution? A flexible and wearable sensor marks the difference between a simple 'photograph' of the patient and a constant path that allows us to perfectly understand what correlations exist between daily activities and the variation... Read more

Within three years wireless electricity on the market

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That immense, gigantic genius that was Nikola Tesla built a tower, the Wardenclyffe Tower, in the middle of Long Island: an installation, he said, capable of transmitting electricity without the need for wires. The project (with the associated mysterious fire) foundered among a thousand mysteries even though Tesla had already transmitted remote energy in other experiments, and since then the project was shelved. More than a century later it's still a big hunt: big companies (Toyota, Intel, Samsung, Foxconn) and small startups (WiTricity, ProxybyPower) have... Read more