Moverio

If you think Google glasses are the only smart glasses having outsmarted the tech world hold on... there is another product by Epson Moverio BT-100 glasses. Unlike the Google glasses that display the information in a small corner, this displays the content directly in front of you. It runs on Andriod and is Wi-Fi enabled making it easier to download certain apps like Facebook and Netflix. Moverio is capable of navigating a whole virtual page with just the tilt of the head. The additional features are the web browser and a image/movie viewer. The Moverio glasses fall under the binocular and transparent display category rendering it the advantage of  a real augmented reality feature. The product is targeted for developers and for commercial purposes.

Cognitive technology

With today's technology replacing almost everything with its electronic counterpart, cognitive technology is indeed one definite pioneer initiative in the modern world. In science "cognition" is a mental process that involves attention, memory, understanding, learning, reasoning and decision making. So cognitive technology is an application that inculcate these activities in electronic devices and tools for extended performance in a range of products. Experts say that many times, distributed cognition entails that the human and technology are performing tasks that are beyond the capacity of the other. Thus, a vital cooperation is formed, whereby each contributes specific and unique capabilities. This means that it is not a matter of mere convenience and efficiency, but that such distributed cognition with cognitive technology is necessary. 

Now the news is that IPsoft is ready to disrupt the BPO industry with its cognitive technology. "By Christmas you will see it in action in one of the largest media companies", founder and chief executive officer Chetan Dube told ET in an exclusive interview. IPsoft's cognitive technology assimilates information just like the human brain and processes it with reliability of computers to solve problems, he said.

Though this technology is a welcoming one it does have its own profound impact on human race!

Smartphone wave

When it comes to smartphones, the world remembers two giants - Apple and Samsung. But analysts say that buyers are more willing to look at alternatives because the difference among smartphones are less pronounced these days. Some of the companies that are trying to make a comeback in smartphone market are the familiar names - Sony, Nokia and HTC. Individually, none of these companies pose a threat to the top two. However, collectively the three companies have showed an excellent growth over the past years. The proportion of phones running Google's Android system keeps rising and technical specifications are converging.Chinese smartphone makers have an edge and this is an increasingly important selling point. What happens in China is also important because success there help smaller companies develop the strength to move into emerging markets around the globe. While most smartphones are made in China, Chinese handset makers have so far struggled to export phones under their own brand. So if Samsung and Apple does not maintain a strong position in China, other players, mostly Chinese players, will do that instead, and then use that as a springboard to attack them in other markets. However the smartphone market is still a rising tide waiting to lift many other smartphone vendors across the globe.

Fingerpoint-enabled Touchscreen

Have you ever wondered of a touchscreen display identifying finger prints? If so, wait for some more time as it is almost closer to reality. In a way it would redefine online security and revolutionize human and computer interaction. To make the current touch screens identify fingerprints, it is essential that a supplement sensor needs to be accommodated. Researchers Christian Holz and fellow researcher Patrick Baudisch have modeled a prototype that uses a glass screen, made of millions of 3 millimetre-long optical fibres that are bunched together vertically. From an  image projector that is mounted below the glass, each fibre is able to pipe out visible light rays. Meanwhile, from a source adjacent to the projector, an infrared light bounces off the fingerprints and back down to an infrared camera.

Wait and watch for this about-to-come new technology!

Dexetra's App - FRIDAY

Dexetra is a privately owned start-up organization developing innovative products targeted at the mobile market. They had built an application Iris that mimicked the iphone's voice recognition software Siri. Since then, the three-year-old company, founded by a group of software engineers, has gone to build more applications that personalize data to suit a user's need. Bangalore-based Dexetra uses artificial intelligence to build apps. With nearly four million downloads on the Android platform so far, Iris was the product that built the team's reputation.

Dexetra team is now betting on their new product FRIDAY- a mobile application that almost functions as a second brain. The app captures events happening around the user, the people he talks to, places he visits, images he captures, and the songs he listens to. Using this raw data, it then anticipates the user's mood and initiates actions such as playing the right song. The app has received over two lakh downloads. Friday is not just a backup service, on the contrary, it collates all the information and presents you with a digitized form of memory which is searchable or may be you can consider it your best friend !

Hack India 2013 : 2-day hacking event in Hyderabad

Programmers, developers, designers across the industry and students from top-tech universities will gather at Hyderabad for a 2-day hacking event. For the first time, Yahoo! Hack India is being organised in Cyber city, Hyderabad. This will be Yahoo's first event in India hosted outside Bangalore. These hackers will now participate in the two-day event which brings forth a series of technical workshops, followed by a nonstop 24-hour coding Hackathon on July 13 and 14. The two-day event involves a hacking competition using a great collection of new web tools, services and geo-location and Flickr APIs (Application Programmable Interface). Hackers team up to turn their ideas into working prototype, or hack, as it's called in just 24 hours. It gives developers a chance to work together and build applications and product ideas using market-leading technologies.

Yahoo! Open Hack was started as an internal event in 2006 at Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, US with an aim to bring Yahoo! developers together. So far, Open Hack has been hosted in seven countries with representation over 30 countries. This year Yahoo! is planning to host another event in Bangalore too. So watch out for this!

Apple iOS 7 unveiled

Apple recently unveiled its latest mobile operating system for iPhones and iPads called iOS 7. It comes with a completely redesigned interface with new colors, icons and much more. Here are some of the key features of this new mobile OS. 

• Apple is experimenting with an easier way to move back a screen in apps - a swipe up from any screen including the lock screen instead of tapping a "back" button. 
• Browsing is now bigger and better with Safari. Buttons and bars like the unified smart search field stays hidden (until a sharper scroll reveals them) thus allowing optimal use of the available viewing area.You can go back and forward a page and work seamlessly, making for a much improved browsing experience.
• The iCloud keychain stores and encrypts your passwords and credit card information.
• Passbook app, which stores virtual coupons and tickets, has been drastically improved and users can add cards by scanning a QR code.
• Multi tasking has always been a smart way to switch between apps. Now it's even smarter - you can control which apps you want to run in the background using the settings menu. So the next time, you tend to check your social app at 9:00 a.m everyday, your feed will be ready and waiting for you.
• iOS 7 has introduced smart groupings of photos and videos based on time and place. Tap years and all your shots fill the screen. With iCloud, you can share your favorite moments with your favorite people by creating a shared photo stream. They can post photos, videos, and comments to your stream, and it all appears in everyone's iOS devices -automatically.

These are just a few highlights of the iOS 7, but there's so much more to see and do in the new mobile OS. Stay tuned for plenty more news on iOS 7 before it sees its release date.