The end of the year is approaching, and in addition to the list of gifts for the holidays, the list of New Year's resolutions is also filling up. "I will go on a diet, I will start exercising, I will save money, I will stop smoking..." are vows as old as the earth, but the world has changed drastically in the last decade, while vows remain in last century. If you really want changes, add technical ones to them, because we spend an average of 11 hours a day on electronic media.
Your Face is Big Data is a project by a Russian photographer that shows the terrifying power of facial recognition technology. With its help, Egor Cvetkov revealed the identity of complete strangers.
Adobe is known to the general public for Photoshop, an image processing program. But he has a new program up his sleeve that can shake the world. At the AdobeMax conference, he presented a prototype of the Project VoCo program, which they say is Photoshop for sound. Namely, it imitates the color of the voice of the author of the audio recording and can create speech that can be heard as if it were the actual words of the author of the audio recording and not artificially added or changed.
Are the days of classic courtship over? We cannot say this for the whole world, but certainly different forms have displaced the good old "fishing". People now get to know each other to a large extent on social networks, and we also have many intimate conversations there. Now there is even an application available to us, with which we can first ask the person we like or want to spend the night with for sex.
We always read only about the successes of the greatest inventors, businessmen, athletes and other influencers. But their path to success was largely not strewn with roses, and they often had to jump over many obstacles and learn from their mistakes. The father of Apple, Steve Jobs, also broke it quite a few times. We will even be able to use one of these polomias in 2018.
Long drives can be exhausting and especially boring for many people. Audi's latest Holoride technology will put an end to boring drives.
Volkswagen's commercial vehicle division will build and test an autonomous version of the Volkswagen ID model by 2025. Buzz, in the form of an autonomous taxi.
The Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 90 is the ultimate speaker for perfectionists that costs as much as a mid-range car. How much exactly? Sorry, but if you're asking about price, you're missing the point. But so be it. The oddly shaped speaker unit costs 40 thousand US dollars, which is not exactly a balm for our ears, but the quality and the name come with a price, and in addition, the speaker is a jubilee one, as the Danish company will release it on the 90th anniversary of the brand, that is 17 .November 2015.
If the thought of having a baby scares you, how about Embryo 3D, a Russian company that uses a 3D printer to print your unborn baby? Bizarre or…
Every computer game enthusiast wants his computer to be able to display all the latest games in the best possible quality. The Blade Shadow Cloud-based Gaming PC will help you with this. Namely, it will transfer the installed programs to the computer cloud.
For the ultimate Star Wars fan, AC Worldwide has launched a series of bluetooth speakers inspired by the film saga. Here's C-3PO and Stormtrooper playing our favorite music again. …
Sony, in cooperation with the company E-Ink, has developed a special, tablet-like device, Sony Digital Paper, which represents digital paper on which you can write just like on classic A4 sheets of paper.