I have been using for a few months, just out of curiosity, an app that by looking at my face (through my cellphone camera) was able to pick up my heart beats and tell me the pulses per minute. It worked on the principle that when the heart beats (systolic …

8. Automotive Industry The automotive industry has always been striving to provide a user interface that is both informative and not distracting. You want the driver to focus on the road and get at the same time all the information that can help in taking decision. It turns out that …

7. Collaboration and remote assistance I started to work 48 years ago and I still remember the hope of using technology to let people cooperate independently of their physical location. The progress I saw over these 50 years have been both amazing and delusional. Every day I am “collaborating” with …

I don’t know about you, but when I saw this image on IEEE Spectrum (read the article, it is really worth your time) it reminded me of teeth radiography… It is not.  It is actually an image of a novel type of transistors whose gate size is 3nm, the smallest size …

6. WebAR 2019 will probably be remember for the birth of WebAR, a set of API (mostly developed and pushed by Google) that would allow any content on the web to be used for augmentation. There are already, of course, several software developers experimenting with WebAR although the official release …

5. AR augmented by Artificial Intelligence Connecting AR ro AI (and the other way round) is a no brainer. AI (and Machine Learning) are becoming basic tools in exploring the huge data sets that are available and connecting them. The emerging information can be made visible, and graspable, by using …

Xiaomi, one of the big Chinese smartphone makers, has announced its intention to deliver a 108 MPixels smartphone in 2021 (and a 60 MPixels one in 2020, both sensors are produced by Samsung). I looked around at comments and most of them are pointing out the absolute nonsense of pushing …

4.  AR powered solutions for the enterprise Google Glass were aimed at the mass market but they were probably too soon too little (both in content and in battery power). Additionally, they generated a strong wave of potential privacy violation concerns that contribute in their marginal uptake. However, several professionals, …

3. AR for indoor navigation Getting around in large department stores, airports, hospitals … may be confusing: I still remember some 40 years ago getting out of the metro in Tokyo at one station and discovering that I was actually inside a multi-story mall with all signs in Kanji. Finding …

It was September 12th, 1958, when the first integrated chip was demonstrated by Jack Kilby at Texas Instrument (for the record, that first chip was using germanium, not silicon. Robert Noyce few months after that first chip was able to create one based on silicon). It took 12 more years …