MYO, the next generation of gesture control
Wired controllers. Wireless controllers. Hands free motion controls. So naturally what would be next? How about another kind of motion control, but one that doesn’t confine you to a single area.
Wired controllers. Wireless controllers. Hands free motion controls. So naturally what would be next? How about another kind of motion control, but one that doesn’t confine you to a single area.
Just a few days ago Code.org released a video with several world famous people, who all code or have coded in the past such as Bill Gates (Microsoft), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Will.I.Am (Black Eyed Peas), Chris Bosh (Miami Heat) promoting Code.org’s initiative that everyone should have the chance to learn how to code.
How awesome is this kid? Well, I shouldn’t say kid, but a 14 year old teenager. Santiago Gonzalez is an exception to the rule. He is fluent in many different programming languages, and by the time most teens are learning to drive he will have graduated from college and will be finishing up his masters degree. He says when he dreams at night, he figures out solutions to all the programming problems he might encountered during the day. A true prodigy.
One of the most recent high-profile cases of a security breach happened to a reporter named Mat Honan. Mr. Honan’s accounts were hacked when malicious hackers were able to convince technical support representatives for both Apple and Amazon that they were, in fact, Mr. Honan himself.
One word can sum this up: strange. The founder of the well known anti-virus computer software McAfee, is wanted for murder in Belize. Apparently John McAfee moved away to Belize some time ago so he could pursue his second love aside from being a programmer: drugs.
Cloud technology has allowed many businesses to expand and work more efficiently and effectively. The power of The Cloud allows businesses to access data from any location, at any time.
Earlier this year Code Academy launched their free online classes to help anyone learn to code. Learning to code is invaluable for several reasons. Even for the average person, knowing basic coding is becoming essential.
I don’t think there is anything more appropriate for illustrating how the Internet has evolved in the past ten years than an animated .gif graphic. The infographic created by Best Ed Sites creatively and interestingly shows us the evolution of the web, and how much it’s grown from users, tech, design, trends to where we are today.
Bigger may be better when it comes to the size of your television, your bank account and your pizza, but the same can’t be said for the drives in your electronic devices. When it comes to electronics, devices just keep getting smaller and better with every generation of device that’s produced. One of the biggest changes on the tech scene in the coming years will be the move from hard disk drives to flash drives. Among the benefits of flash are its speed, its durability and, of course, its size.
Creating digital artwork is no easy task without the right tools. Many still compose art in a non-digital world, then use Photoshop or similar image manipulation tools to digitize their work. What if you could use a touchscreen device which encompassed all your artist design needs to create videos, art and animation, all in one beautiful user interface?
Wait, fried gadgets? Yes, that’s right. Henry Hargreaves is an art and fashion photographer who likes to create new mediums for his photography. One of which was to fry up some gadgets like iPhones, iPads and laptops to see how they fair and post the results on his Tumblr blog. The results, well you can see for yourself. The gadgets look so good I think Colonel Sanders would even be proud!
How freaking cool are these Avengers USB drives!? The flash storage drives are made by InfoThink, which is a company in China. They are selling the drives for around $899 Yuan, which is about $140 USD. The drives can hold 4GB or 8GB each, are made from metal alloy, are waterproof and only weigh about 2 ounces.
Most geeks have some sort of toy accessory by their computer. Maybe it’s a robot, gadget or some sort of knick knack, and they are cute, but wouldn’t it be neat to have something that has personality and a life of it’s own?
With a good data recovery plan in place, you can recover from a data disaster with your files and folders intact and recreated. Without a data recovery plan, you have the potential to lose weeks or even years of data in one fell swoop. There’s no all-in-one solution for data recovery.
The days of the computer mouse could be coming to a slow end. First the Kinect came out, which changed the thought process on how we can interact with devices, namely the Xbox. However, even newer technology developed by Leap Motion takes it ten steps forward.