Presented by Jeff Hensel March 9, 2017
Attendees: 19
New Tech in 2017 with Speaker Notes
The struggle here is that one can get so concerned with potential Malware and Viruses that we feel fear or unwillingness to do much of anything with our computer any longer.
Augmented reality blurs the line between what is real and what is computer generated. The basic idea of augmented reality is to superimpose graphics, audio and other sensory enhancements over a real-world environment in real time.
The computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors.
The Karman Stand Up makes a nurse or home aid’s job much easier and safer because they no longer need to worry about manually lifting the user out of their wheelchair and onto their bed, toilet, or another seat, nearly eliminating the chance of transfer accidents.
There are active tests of self driving cars in the US. Uber is testing in Pittsburgh, Phoenix and San Francisco.
Many of the vehicles use what is called Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) – a rotating laser, usually mounted on the roof, that continually scans the environment around the car. Traditional radar is also used for detecting distances to objects and cars, as are various cameras, accelerometers, gyroscopes and GPS, which are all used in conjunction to build a 3D picture of the environment around the vehicle.
Google’s Waymo Uber
Audi
Bishop Ranch, EasyMile, GoMentum Station and the Contra Costa Transportation
Authority (CCTA) announced today that two EZ10 Shared Autonomous Vehicles (SAV) will begin operation at Bishop Ranch, northern California’s premier business park in San Ramon.
Self driving bus in Las Ve
gas, NV Jan 2017. http://fortune.com/2017/01/14/vegas-self- driving-bus/ (please note there is a 30 second commercial at the beginning)
Semi Truck from Otto. Motor Cycle
This self-drivin
g bus began testing this week in San Ramon CA in the Bishop Ranch Business Park.
Who Will Build the Next Great Car Company?
Everything changed in March, when GM spent $1 billion on a tiny self-driving startup called Cruise Automation.
Google’s venture capital arm invested $258 million in Uber in 2013; now the ride- hailing company is poised to directly compete against its investor with its self- driving project.
Toyota struck a partnership with Uber, Volkswagen invested $300 million in ride- hailing company Gett, Apple poured $1 billion into China’s Didi Chuxing, and Google partnered with Fiat Chrysler to outfit 100 Pacifica minivans with self-driving technology. All in the span of one month.
Beyond saving lives, consider the money saved (traffic accidents cause $500 billion in economic damage worldwide each year), the benefits to cities (parking lots become green spaces), the increases in productivity (commuters can work in transit; truckers can sleep without pulling over), and improvements in accessibility (the elderly, blind, and disabled get affordable robot chauffeurs!).
It’s telling that ride-hailing leader Uber got its start while the auto industry was
facing bankruptcy in 2009. Now Uber is worth more than GM and Ford by tens of billions of dollars, despite generating approximately $145 billion less in revenue.
In January they left to launch Otto, a startup that retrofits commercial big rigs with fully autonomous driving systems. After only five months of development, the founders made their first public demonstration, sending an 18-wheeler barreling down California’s 101 highway at 55 mph with no human interference.
Zoox, a Menlo Park, Calif., startup, is firmly on the revolutionary side of things. According to a snazzy computer rendering from the company, it’s building perfectly symmetrical, bidirectional, neon-green-and-black robo-taxis that look like giant remote-control toys. The vehicle is not really a car, founder Tim Kentley-Klay likes to say. “It’s what comes after the car.”
Smaller companies and groups are also developing and testing the technology in the UK, including consortiums running trials in Greenwich, Bristol, Milton Keynes and Coventry. The Transport Research Lab, Arup, the AA, RAC, Atkins and Imperial College London are all involved.
Google has been testing its self-driving cars, which have included modified Toyota Priuses, Lexus RX450h SUVs and a bespoke self-driving bubble car, on public roads in Nevada, Florida, California and Michigan since 2012.
The most complex part of a self-driving system is the software that collects the data, analyses it and actually drives the vehicle. It has to be capable of recognising and differentiating between cars, bikes, people, animals and other objects as well as the road surface, where the car is in relation to built-in maps and be able to react to an often unpredictable environment.
There are several major hold-ups between the developmental prototypes and commercialisation of driverless technology. One of the biggest is the problem of ethics.
When are we going to be able to step into one?
Many experts believe that full adoption of autonomous vehicles won’t happen until 2030, but some vehicles with self-driving capabilities are expected by 2020. Whether they are legal to drive everywhere or to drive without an occupant – to pick up a passenger or park themselves – remains to be seen.
This is Local TV with the regular network channels. ABC, NCB, CBS, FOX, PBS, Univision and others.
Entertainment has outgrown TV as you know it. The content you love isn’t just sent through a cable: It’s streamed, it’s downloaded, and it comes from many different sources. AirTV is here to help you capitalize on the evolution of entertainment while maintaining the same TV experience you know and love.
Available at many retailers including Target and Walmart.
Not a trash compacter but a compost maker.
2.7 mm thin and 65” diagonal.
2.7 mm equates to .106 inches or les than 1/8 of an inch!
No price nor release date just yet.
The breakthrough happened years after the #wearenotwaiting movement started to campaign for the introduction of such artificial pancreas on the market. One of the leading figures of the movement, Dana Lewis also told me how an artificial pancreas eases everyday life. In 2017, this new way of diabetes management will spread around; and it will become a life-changing milestone in many patients’ lives when they first start to use the device.
One fine example is the da Vinci Surgical System. It features a magnified 3D high- definition vision system and tiny wristed instruments that bend and rotate far greater than the human hand. With the da Vinci Surgical System, surgeons operate through just a few small incisions. The surgeon is 100% in control of the robotic system at all times; and he or she is able to carry out more precise operations than previously thought possible. Recently, Google has announced that it started working with the pharma giant Johnson&Johnson in creating a new surgical robot system.
The tech expertise of Google with the healthcare experience of J&J could prove to be a jackpot combination: daVinci will finally have a real competitor. It will definitely give another boost to the surgical robot industry.
It’s important to mention though that none of these will happen without individuals who understand what the technological advances can bring upon as. Those people who discuss the advantages and ethical issues today are the ones who will bring disruption to everyday life tomorrow. Because it’s always more important how we adjust to the changes than what developments will take place next year.
If you have a small child, you know how difficult it is to measure the sweet little baby’s temperature. There are always some movements, plush animals or bodily fluids involved. Now, the struggle is over. TempTraq offers a patch-like smart device, which monitors body temperature 24/7. It continuously senses, records, and sends temperature data to mobile devices so caregivers can keep track without unnecessarily disturbing the child. It is amazing due to its double effect: it will calm the mom down, while letting the baby sleep.
QardioCore promises a discreet as well as easily usable hearth monitor without patches and wires. The FDA-approved, medical-grade wearable uses sensors to record clinically accurate continuous ECG, heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, skin temperature, and activity data, which can be shared with medical professionals or synced to the free Qardio app or Apple’s Health app on iPhone or iPad. It was first introduced at CES 2015, and the first batch of these smart and tiny chest straps will be shipped to their lucky users as early as April 2017.
Later in the spring, the HeartVue wrist monitor releases as the smallest blood pressure monitor Omron has created. While not as small as Project Zero 2.0, it provides the same information in a form factor only slightly larger.
http://www.resound.com/en-US
ReSound smart hearing aids
Last year’s CES saw ReSound win a top award for innovation and the company was back to showcase its incredible wireless stereo headphones which allow people with hearing loss to personalize day to day listening situations on an app. ReSound says that the result is clearer sound and a ‘vivid sense of space’ that can help users better manage the impact of living with diminished hearing. The company’s digital- first stance offers direct streaming from iPhone, iPad and iPod. ReSound says that their device offers more than physical benefits – empowering patients to take control of their own environment and increase their overall quality of life.
