Nvidia came forward with an exciting announcement earlier today; news which should have gamers everywhere jumping for joy: the graphics card manufacturer has, in essence, eliminated screen tearing from gaming altogether. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Nvidia G-Sync.
The judges have selected their favorite innovations from each of the 20
participating nations shooting for the James Dyson Award, and as
brilliant as all of the finalists are, I challenged myself to pick out
the five new goodies that truly deserve the grand prize:
Scotty won’t be beaming you up anytime soon. According to the U of L’s Journal of Special Physics, even if it were possible, the amount of time it would take to download and re-upload a human brain would be equivalent to over four quadrillion years. Looks like we’ll have to invent time travel first.
When Valve laid off around twenty-five employees, Founder Gabe Newell assured everyone they wouldn’t be cancelling any projects. As it turns out, one got away – a pair of augmented reality glasses. Those glasses are still being built; they’ve just blown past their Kickstarter goal in a day.
Tao Xiangli – the same inventor that built his own homemade submarine back in 2008 – just recently came forward with something even cooler: where most of us would be lucky just cobbling together a few tools; he’s constructed his own working robot entirely out of spare parts.
Latency has always been one of the biggest problems with motion tracking hardware. It’s something most gamers have just learned to live with – systems that don’t have any noticeable input lag are usually quite expensive.That may change, thanks to Disney and Carnegie Mellon.
With Wi-Fi devices we can watch our pets from afar, we can call them and tell them to come
home, and we can even play with them from a distance. Starting this
November, we’ll be able to feed them from wherever we are with Pintofeed, The Intelligent Pet Feeder. Our pets can now have virtual
owners….
Our mobile devices are our lifelines; when they die, we feel it. Keeping them charged (and operational) is thus a huge priority. Unfortunately, this isn’t always possible – one doesn’t always have access to an outlet.
Ravpower’s got a solution to that problem – the Dynamo-On-The-Go Power Bank.
Paul Allen – "The Idea Man" – has some lofty ideas brewing. The Microsoft co-founder’s latest venture is an institute which he hopes will expand the frontiers of artificial intelligence; this will also help him to explore his own fascination with the human mind.
A worthy cause, if ever I heard one.
Artificial Intelligence has made some downright incredible leaps and bounds over the past few years. It’s actually a little difficult to believe that only a few decades ago, the notion of a human-like, intelligent robot seemed wholly the realm of science fiction. Is that still the case?
Just how intelligent IS AI, really?
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