The R2-Q5 virtual keyboard is no ordinary virtual keyboard, as it is projected onto the surface by none other than the iconic Star Wars robot that debuted in the franchise in Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. It works like a QWERTY keyboard and makes the original chirping sounds of the R2-Q5 robot during the projection. For the less educated, a warning that this is not R2-D2, his more famous "brother". This one has already been in this role and remains only a collector's item.
The Oaxis inkCase 6 is an e-ink display case for the iPhone 6 smartphone. And no, we're not going to call it smart, because that word has been abused a lot lately. But it is probably the smartest piece of plastic that protects another piece of plastic around. It boasts a 4.3-inch e-ink display with a resolution of 480 x 800, which ensures that even the back of the iPhone 6 has its own screen. And not only that, the autonomy of the phone is also extended.
A good half year after Instagram launched its first standalone Hyperlapse app, here's a new one called Layout. It was created for assembling photo collages, which is not new on the application market, but the recognition of the brand and its 150 million "fan club" will certainly help in dealing with the competition (applications Frame Swagg, Pic Stitch, Image Sizer,... .).
With the Blackphone 2 smartphone, no one will be able to spy on you, not even the US National Security Agency (NSA), for whom phones are an "all-you-can-eat" buffet of personal data, because almost any smartphone can be hacked phone and intercepts almost every conversation. But now she ran into a wall again, as the Silent Circle security company presented users with the second generation of "android" Blackphone 2 smartphones, which, among other things, enable encryption of communication through applications.
The prototype of the smart mirror, Smart Mirror, is not the work of any corporation, but of an independent innovator, Nicholas Nothom. It works via a mobile operating system, which otherwise penetrates into all corners of our lives with exceptional speed and through numerous products. He has already jumped from technological toys to everyday objects, and one of the "victims" was a mirror. Smart Mirrot chose Android.
The Blub Uno is a retro "nixie" desk clock made in Australia. Its beautiful, functional and modern design turns checking the watch from a necessity into a pleasant task.
PancakeBot is the first real pancake "printer". The smart pancake batter sprayer makes 3D prints of sketches and bakes pancakes in shapes we usually only dream of. The result is delicious art that is currently fighting for existence on Kickstarter.
Microsoft returns with a fresh vision of the near future, which is also packaged every year in a video entitled Productivity Future Vision, in which it presents its technological favorites of the future. He will somehow play a big role in it, probably bigger than ever, that is, if his predictions, which he summarized in a 6-minute video, come true. It is clear, however, that new technologies are radically changing our everyday life and work. But what does this mean for the future?
The English mobile operator O2, together with designer Sean Miles, produced an ecologically colored case for the Windows Phone smartphone, which, except for the "skin", is made of grass from the rugby field in Twickenham, home of the English rugby team. He and O2, whose O2 Recycle division buys back old smartphones, are supporting the Rugby Union's (RFU) 'Try for Change' campaign, which aims to motivate people to recycle old devices.
Some computer games are indeed becoming more and more realistic, but what has so far separated them from real life is that we could always start over. But the infinity of lives is over. At least in Robot Loves Kitty's online fantasy game Upsilon Circuit, which gives the player a single, single digital life. When he loses it, it's game over. Forever! Only eight toys can play it online at the same time (two in a team of four).
Motorized skateboards are not new, and most of them are recognizable from afar, as they have a battery or a motor on the back. Monolith is the first skateboard with motors right in the wheels, which means that it will be hard to tell it apart from the usual ones. The only thing that will betray you is the fact that you are not driving, but you are still happily moving. She has already raised enough start-up funds on Kickstarter.
We are all running out of time. We cannot change the fact that we will die. Nevertheless, we tend to forget that every day is a gift, a bonus, because we are all from today to tomorrow. Therefore, the Life Clock (in the Apple Watch body), a clock that counts down the time until our death, is not even as bizarre a matter as it may sound. Because sometimes it is only after a tragedy that we begin to value time and life and consider the fact that we have an expiration date. Beauty or not, the thing is that we don't know when it expires. Well, now we know, so we can make the most of what we have.