Besides the elderly gentleman paying in gold coins, the biggest holdup at supermarket checkouts is the cashier finding an item’s barcode and properly scanning. So Toshiba has developed a faster camera-based system that recognises the food, packaged or fresh.
Exmobaby Suits aren’t the only way to wirelessly track a person’s vitals. The Creative Destruction of Medicine by Eric Topol, MD, explores the rapidly-developing field of telemonitoring and how giving doctors instant, real-time patient-status updates can save lives and money.
What will children of the digital age complain about when they are 70? I personally can’t wait to see the shock on my grandkids’ faces when I tell them about the days of dial-up modems and the world before YouTube. Watch this video for a look into the crystal ball.
Google is already testing its autonomous cars on the roads of California, and plenty of other manufacturers are starting to muscle in on the act too. But when they hit the roads, how do you go about policing a city full of self-driven cars?
Any moron can download a movie or album — but torrenting a new pair of jeans? That’s the future right there. At least according to Swedish anti-copyright royalty The Pirate Bay, which declared physical objects to be their next bounty.
Northrop Grumman thinks we all will be flying in oversized B-2 bombers by the year 2025. Who am I to say no to that? Bring them on!
This chrome nightmare was heckling CES attendees, trying to coax them into TP-Link’s booth to check out the company’s wireless network wares. I generally like the lack of ‘booth babes’ at CES, since it means booths are staffed with personnel who actually know something about the products on display.
Windows 8 has a gorgeous Metro and finger-friendly swipe interface that’s perfectly fine but so 2011. All I want in my life in 2012 is Tobii, a company that’s made the future possible: you control Windows 8 with your eyes. Seriously, it knows exactly what you’re looking at when you’re looking at it. It’s instantaneous, it’s amazing, and I haven’t been this excited about technology.
Now that we’re both out of Iraq and money, the US government has to make some very important decision about how it’ll kill its enemies in the future. Obama and his generals have weighed in: cheap war is getting techier.
