The recently concluded CSE 2016 has witnessed demo of a smart motor cycle helmet by BMW Motorrad that is capable of displaying certain information. The helmet will run with two replaceable batteries with a life time of five hours in operation. It is expected to hit the market within a few years and thus BMW approaches to the world of augmented reality.
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Google And Facebook Emphasize on VR Projects, Reshuffle Executives
Google has assigned Cardboard famous Clay Bavor as the head of its virtual reality projects. Facebook has also assigned Instagram’s director of product as Head of Product management in its VR subsidiary, Oculus. The concurrent moves have been analyzed as their keenness for reigning over VR market.
Toyota Mirai: First Auto To Adopt Kymeta’s Flat Antenna Technology
Toyota Mirai has been represented with a flat antenna at this week’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Tuesday. The flat antenna technology is capable of widening the coverage area and shares the same communication standard across national borders. The Mirai trial still appears in the early testing stages and Toyota commits to install data communication modules in a wider range of vehicles.
Apple Sales Grow Amid Down Trending Global Market
Gartner, a technology research firm has represented Apple through a study report as the lone PC vendor to post positive sales growth during 2015. The tech giant currently enjoys a market chunk of 7.5%. Apple’s performance appears to be shining since the worldwide PC market is passing through a negative sales trend for the fourth straight year.
Stanford Develops Lithium-Ion Battery that Shutdown Automatically When Overheated
Lithium-ion battery has a problem when it overheats. Researcher in Stanford University have invented a lithium-ion battery that shuts down when it starts to overheat.
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Researchers from the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom will examine fingerprints and palm prints of people who lived in the 12th to the 14th centuries through a project called Imprint.
Lenovo starts its partnership with Google in project Tango. Qualcomm Technologies also work along with both companies in the project.
A study by the British Medical Journal shows that Mexico’s 10% tax on sweetened drinks implemented in 2014 led to 12 percent reduction in sales. Now, Britain and Canada are planning to follow suit.
Researchers in NASA is moving one step further to introduce a hybrid airplane technology in concluding its ERA project. The airplane will be able to fly on both fossil fuel and electricity, similar to hybrid car technology.
HTC is naming its next flagship phone Perfume instead of O2. The HTC Perfume is expected to launch with Android 6.1 Marshmallow in the second half of 2016.
Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google Inc., has renamed its experimental laboratory and life sciences division as the company is starting to restructure. The division that was originally named "Google Life Sciences" is getting a new name: Verily.
Liquid metal particles created by researchers have shown that they can send chemotherapy drugs directly to cancerous cells and also allow doctors to find cancerous areas.
Scientists at the Unversity of California have created malaria-resistant mosquitoes to eliminate the insects' ability to transmit the disease to humans. Using a gene-editing technology, they also ensure the mosquitoes pass on that resistant gene as they reproduce.
Researchers at Linkoping University Sweden have created the analog and digital circuit inside living plants. Using the vascular system of a living rose as the model, they made the key elements of an electronic circuit inside the living rose and light up ions inside the flower's leaves.
