March 2016 – Tech Replies

A notebook to write, erase in the microwave and rewrite

March 27, 2016March 29, 2016 admin

The notebook is called RocketBook Wave. And it is intended as a temporary scorer, relied on technology to protect their content, rather than in a notebook that is preserved for years and years: it is a twist to the classic scorer that we carry from one side to another and that once depleted its pages, we throw away or not return to open ever. The idea of Rocketbook is not that what on its pages is noted down remains written there for years, but that task falls to a smartphone:…

iPhone SE: How it compares with the iPhone 5S

March 23, 2016March 29, 2016 admin

While most manufacturers opt for models with increasingly large phone display, this time Apple decided to restore the original size of their smartphone introducing the iPhone SE, a model with 4 inch display which will cost $400 (US for the 16GB model). In exterior design it is identical to the iPhone 5S, a device presented in 2013 that the company decided to discontinue and is no longer available in its catalog of products. To justify this decision, Apple said that in the past year have sold about 30 million smartphones…

Portable Arms Reduce Human Error on the Floor

March 12, 2016June 26, 2018 admin

As metrology moves increasingly closer to the production floor, portable coordinate measuring machines like the ROMERare becoming must-have instruments. Portable arms live up to their name: they are lightweight and easy to transport from one site to another or through factory floors. Unlike large footprint metrology equipment, it easily fits through doors and can work around the activity of any shop. Its latest version, the ROMER Absolute Arm, has improved on previous models by including an encoder that assigns an absolute value to the position of the tool’s joints. This…

Typing on the air, the proposal of Google to interact with technology

March 9, 2016March 12, 2016 admin

You will soon be able to write an email with simple gestures on the air without touching buttons or screen. That is the proposal of Google for Project Soli, a prototype that the company presented last year at its developer conference, and already has a group of engineers who are experimenting with this new system. Alex Bravo is one of the developers who received one of these kits, and recorded in a video the capabilities of Project Soli when writing a text in Gmail simply by moving their fingers above…

Toyota develops a collar which serves as a guide for the blind people

March 8, 2016March 12, 2016 admin

As if it were a GPS for people in indoor environments, Toyota aims to develop a platform for assisting blind people with Project Blaid, a wearable device focused on urban mobility inside buildings. Among its outstanding features, the system can detect objects and posters, identify where the toilets, stairs or elevator and the emergency exits are. Project Blaid allows blind users to better explore the interior spaces of airports, offices or shopping malls. At the same time, Toyota plans to that device in the future add a mapping system and…

Plans to unite medical and smartphone technology

March 1, 2016August 17, 2020 admin

While researchers and scientists try to sprinting in their effort to achieve more effective vaccines or drugs to overcome various diseases, health centers face a changing scenario where telemedicine is opening up step. There is not to talk, only displays and more agile management of primary care systems. The consumer technology has strongly taken the scalpel of the future. It is time for innovation. And that some firms seeking scratch presence arising from consumer technology sector like Apple. During an interview, its CEO Tim Cook reeled off some of the…