Google’s Project Jacquard: Textile-Based Device Controls

I remember my father building some innovative plastics blow molding machines where he added a central processing control device to the machines so that all adjustable controls could be changed from one place. He would have loved seeing what is going on at Google these days, and the hardware that they are working on developing, […]

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New Visual Search Photo Features from Google

These details come from an anonymous source who also gave us a bit more details on the project. The report states there will be a new feature integrated, allowing users to outline specific areas of the image in order to directly target their searches. In Google Goggles, one can only search the whole image, which … Continue reading New Visual Search Photo Features from Google

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Google Files Patent for Wearable Nanotechnology Anti-Cancer Technology

A Patent Application Published at WIPO today from Google, with the name Nanoparticle Phoresis by inventor Conrad Andrew Jason. The patent’s description begins by telling us how this wearable device would work: A wearable device can automatically modify or destroy one or more targets in the blood that have an adverse health effect by transmitting … Continue reading Google Files Patent for Wearable Nanotechnology Anti-Cancer Technology

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Some Patents Behind Microsoft’s Personal Assistant Cortana

In January, Microsoft introduced a new build of Windows 10, which it will be giving away for free for non-enterprise users running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. One of the features on this update is a personal digital assistant that goes by the name Cortana. It’s one of the most anticipated features of the new … Continue reading Some Patents Behind Microsoft’s Personal Assistant Cortana

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All Hands on the Microsoft Holodeck: A Look at Some of the Hololens Patents

I’ve written about some of the patents involved in Google’s Project Glass in the past, and very recently about the Google Ventures’ funded Magic Leap. Project Glass still exists, but it appears to now have new leadership and a new direction. And then seemingly out of nowhere Microsoft announces a pair of goggles that they’ve … Continue reading All Hands on the Microsoft Holodeck: A Look at Some of the Hololens Patents

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Magic Leap and Their Augmented Reality Semantic Robots

The temptation was to write this blog post mostly in pictures, since it’s about visual representations of things, based sometimes on a combination of objects that were understood based upon object recognition, and virtual semantic images superimposed on those, learned of from a knowledge base. Google Ventures and a couple of partners funded the company … Continue reading Magic Leap and Their Augmented Reality Semantic Robots

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Google’s Telepresence Patent

Telepresence is not science fiction. We could have a remote‑controlled economy by the twenty‑first century if we start planning right now The technical scope of such a project would be no greater than that of designing a new military aircraft. Double Robotics’ Double Telepresence Robot A genuine telepresence system requires new ways to sense the […]

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Nest Not Google’s First Big Home Automation Purchase

News came out in a Google Press release yesterday, Google to Acquire Nest, that Google had purchased Nest, a company focused on connecting things found in your home to the internet, including the Nest Learning Thermostat, and recently released Protect, a Smoke + CO Alarm.

It’s exciting to see Google venturing out into business lines […]

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