Tech Article 5/20

Recently Uber has began testing its first self driving car in Pittsburgh. The self-driving car on the streets right now is a Ford Fusion. The car has a trained driver who is monitoring its autonomous capabilities. The car has sensors, radar, laser scanners, and a hi-res camera which are all collecting information for mapping purposes. Uber is in competition with Google, Tesla, Apple, and Gm to see who can make autonomous driving a reality first.

Tech Article 3/24

Sony announced that they will soon be putting playstation games on smartphones. They will form a subsidiary called ForwardWorks to develop games for IOS and Android in Asia soon. Sony will be the latest game console company to move into smartphone games. Sony will be using existing games and existing characters. We are not sure when Sony is going to release games at the moment.

3/18 Tech Article

Nike has finally unveiled their own self-lacing sneakers. They are called the Hyperadapt 1.0. and they were introduced at the Nike Innovation 2016 event in New York this week. When you step in the shoe your heel will hit a sensor and your shoes will tighten automatically. There are also buttons on the sides to tighten or loosen the sneakers so you can adjust them to how you want them to fit. Nike has not revealed the price for the sneakers yet.

Tech Article 2/26

California's Nascent Objects is coming out with a new project called Droppler. Droppler is able to measure the amount of water you consume everyday. It measures to how much noise a household's tap makes throughout the day. The device costs $100 and syncs with an app where users can see the amount of water they take in per day.

 

Tech Article 2/19

Tapplock is a new and updated version of the padlock. Tapplock has a sensor on the front of it that unlocks the lock after it reads your fingerprint. It can read your fingerprint and unlock in 0.8 seconds. The price of a normal one is $29 and the larger model is $49. The larger one can charge your phone if it is dead and it allows your phone to unlock Tapplock. The battery of Tapplock is able to last three years on one charge.

MyShake

Seismologists and app developers have created a new app that transforms smartphones into earthquake detectors. By using the phones accelerometer, MyShake can pick up nearby earthquake activity. It can estimate the earthquakes location and magnitude. MyShake could eventually be used as an early warning system for all earthquakes. An iPhone version of the app will soon be included in future plans.

Augmented Reality Earbuds

Imagine if you were able to turn down the volume of a screaming baby on an airplane. New earbuds from Here Active Listening are now able to do so. The Here system consists of a pair of earbuds that use Bluetooth to wirelessly connect to a smartphone app. A microphone on each earbud captures incoming sound waves. The earbuds can modify the volume, bass, treble, reverb and other aspects of live sounds in a person's surroundings. The earbuds have not only complex internal air spaces, but also have active noise-cancelling technology. These are the first earbuds that can actually alter the way you hear sounds.

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