Since 1974, the Rubik's cube has fascinated people all over the world. The Israeli company Particula has decided to rekindle nostalgia and launch a special cube with a modernist touch.
The British company Gocycle presented the latest electric-powered folding bike that impresses with its ease of use. First of all, it is intended to shorten the travel time between the public transport station and the final destination.
The most expensive car model is the Golden Lamborghini, an Aventador sprinkled with gold and diamonds. They're asking a whopping $7.8 million for it, or 20 full-size Aventadors.
Google has announced Project Tango, a prototype Android smartphone that can perceive the 3D world around it in real time. The ambitious project comes from Google's ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects) division headed by Johnny Chung Lee. According to Lee, the goal of Project Tango is to give a mobile device a human-like ability to understand the scale of space and movement.
Google has officially stepped into the world of smartwatches by introducing Android Wear, an operating system designed for wearable devices. Initially, the system will be available to manufacturers of smart watches, but we can conclude that Google wants primacy in this field, as evidenced by all its projects in the field of wearable technology.
Google's Project Ara shook up the world of mobile phones a year ago. Although Google has encountered quite a few unexpected technical problems in the meantime, a modular phone in which the user can change individual components, such as the camera or the processor, is now becoming a reality. Google predicts that it will be on the shelves at the beginning of 2017, and already in the fall the first versions will be in the hands of the chosen ones (read: module developers).
The era of selfies is firmly rooted in modern history, and maybe even our children will learn about it in schools. Considering the speed of changing trends and the progress of technology, it is possible to conclude that they will be eradicated in a decade or so. But for now, we can still enjoy them. Now that we have a phone full of them, we can use them for another fun thing or app.
A smartphone can help you with many things. It can translate things for you, give you directions, use it to record a movie, measure your pulse, start the car, turn on the lights, etc. The problem arises when we want to draw something. Drawing on a small screen has been a rather thankless task until now, and most of us - hands on heart - do not know how to draw very well and turn to others for solutions. From now on, this will no longer be necessary, as Google has introduced the web application Google AutoDraw, with which you will create a superb drawing in no time.
Let's face it. When we open the "door" of our "room" with bookmarks, it's like walking into a teenager's room. Everything is lying flat, nothing is organized, anarchy reigns, but surprisingly we usually know exactly where to look. But time slips out of our hands. A little here, a little there. That's why Google is trying to put this disorganized flock of sheep in order with the "Google Bookmark Manager" extension for home Chrome.
Google has introduced a revamped Google Calendar App that promises convenient help in managing and organizing schedules and events.
Into virtual reality with the help of cardboard? No, MacGyver has nothing to do with it! A strange but excellent combination comes from Google, which will bring the experience of virtual reality even closer to more people with the Cardboard VR Headset.
Many applications simplify our lives to a great extent, but they have unfairly taken the cream of the crop in the digital field, because the same, if not more, add-ons for web browsers, which have long been more than just surfing the web, contribute to this. And who but Google's Chrome, the cybernetic "Swiss army knife", has everything mobile apps have. And more.