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05/08/2015

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To all of my family, friends, and supporters, I am thrilled to share that I have been accepted to the University of Barcelona! I will be participating in the Master’s Program in Management for Tourism Companies with a specialty in Events Planning. This experience will give me the opportunity to f...

07/24/2014

Whatever it is, it appears to be made of a very hard, very flexible, and amazingly engineered material.

06/24/2014

Glassperiment, a Google Glass Experiment

Getting involved with latest technologies is a common thing here at Making Sense. As professionals you can say that it’s our obligation to know what happens in software and hardware and yes, you’re right. But, that is only a percentage of the truth. We are users and consumers of the latest things on the market. We want to know, we want to use, we want to discover. We are developers.

We want to discover
At the beginning of this year, the company gave us the opportunity to develop software for a generous list of really new devices and gadgets. Google Glasses immediately caught my attention but I have to admit that the Leap Motion device too. The rules were simple:

Choose a device
Form a team (or not)
Define a scope
Develop something
Breaking news through the Glass
Google Glass Experiment

When I finally figured out that I wanted to try out the Google Glasses, I started to think about what I could do. At that moment, Rosario Mensi joined as a developer partner. After a long list of outstanding-dream-like-applications we chose a simple (and possible) one: a glassware to display breaking news and let users stay informed any time they wanted. That was the idea, an experiment using Glass, a Glassperiment.

Don’t lose your mind
Google Glass Experiment

Counting on two months to get a prototype or at least something working, we started to get deeper into the Glass world. Unfortunately that didn’t go very well because of the lack of documentation, forums, examples, and community in general.

That was the first thing learned, how important becomes the community in these days. Also there is no emulator and the Glasses took us a lot of time to get recognized by the OS and Eclipse IDE – If you are interested, go to this page where I explain how to sort out these kinds of difficulties without losing your mind.

Inspiration: those who gave birth to computer science
Some thoughts came to my mind through the process. How intelligent were the people behind the computer science in the beginning? I mean, those ones were lonely, without the information that we us have access today and they figured out how to solve very complex stuff. They didn’t have to only code, they had to build too. My congratulations go to all of them. We owe them much.

After a month of fights with the environment, I finally get a “Hello Glass” working and things begin to smooth out. I start coding and the result is a glassware that shows breaking news in a card at given appointed intervals. Of course there is a lot that we could do or add to make it reliable. For that case, I’m sharing the code through GitHub and you are welcome to just read it or continue glassperimenting. Also, if you want to see some screenshots or know more about the project, please visit my page.

I’m not sure if this is the right time to start using Google Glasses or a similar technology. However, I think it would be great to find a way to use this technology for the good or for helping people. Maybe this is the tip of the iceberg regarding something better.

06/04/2014

Hologram Projectors: Coming Soon to a Smartphone Near You

When Coachella’s organizers decided to have a hologram of late rapper Tupac appear onstage during the 2012 dates of the music festival, they used a high-powered projector to create the uncanny "performance." Now, in 2014, a startup called Ostendo is taking that kind of technology and shrinking it down until it’s small enough to fit inside your iPhone.

Ostendo is working on computer chips capable of projecting 3D holograms that will be tiny enough to fit inside a smartphone. The Carlsbad, Calif.-based company, which has raised $90 million from Peter Thiel and venture capitalists, is already prepping 2D project units for sale in 2015. But the company wants to start manufacturing a version of the chip with 3D capabilities for the second half of 2015, with an expected price of $30 a pop. The chip, which the Wall Street Journal describes as the size of a Tic Tac, can project an image on up to 48 inches of display; multiple chips working together can project far larger and more complicated images.

Founder Hussein S. El-Ghoroury has big plans for his company, which is currently 115 employees strong. He sees his chips becoming commonplace in all sorts of electronic displays.

This headwear-free version of 3D imaging may ruffle Facebook’s feathers, considering the social media giant spent $2 billion buying virtual reality company Oculus, which created a phenomenal but undeniably clunky VR headpiece called the Oculus Rift. While the Rift and its ilk may still provide better 3D immersive gaming experiences, Ostendo’s far less invasive smartphone projections could offer a sleeker alternative for non-gaming 3D imaging purposes.

This holds immense promise (which is probably why the the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is already awarding the company government contracts). But if this means an uptick in will.i.am holograms or ghoulish personalized Michael Jackson performances, I’ll hold Ostendo responsible.

05/27/2014

Bebop- The First Person Drone That Can Hover On Autopilot

The newest drone to the Parrot family is Bebop, a model that focuses on providing the pilot with a tripod quality video feed by utilizing handy tools like accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer. This technological wonder features a 14-megapixel fisheye HD video camera, GPS, and the ability to use Oculus Rift headset- which gives the pilot a first person view of Bebop’s flight via HDMI cable in the controller. Parrot is proud of Bebop’s ability to be paired with Skycontroller- they’re offering Bebop and Skycontroller as a bundle.

This drone can be patched into a smartphone or tablet for flight controls and all video can be viewed on the same device. With the Skycontroller add-on the drove gains four antennas and a range of 2km, not to mention the ability to send the feed to a TV or monitor. The GPS allows the drone to hover on “auto-pilot” in absence of pilot command. The major downside of this model is the short battery life- only 12 minutes. Despite the short battery life this drone is amazing. Bebop will be available sometime in the fourth quarter of 2014, price is unknown but has been hinted to be over $300 per CEO Henri Seydoux.

05/23/2014

These Insect Sized Drones Are A New And Scary Addition to Army

PD-100 Black Hornet was just an experiment back in 2009, developed by Norwegian company Prox Dynamics AS. And now it has been put to work by British infantrymen in Afghanistan, exploring possible routes for enemy ambushes or secretively flying over enemy compound walls for a look inside. The pocket-sized drones were exposed at the Association of the U.S. Army Expo for the first time last week and are meant for a soldier’s personal use, with simple and easy operating system.

Black Hornet can fly 20-25 minutes before needing to recharge, meaning the drone can travel nearly 4,000 feet in one go using GPS. Visual information is sent to a mobile device supplied in the PD 100 kit, which also includes a docking recharging station and a remote controller. The drone is invisible at 30 feet high, making it ideal for secret military attacks and to keep an eye on the enemy.

The U.S. Army has purchased two Black Hornets, while the British military already has 324 of these tiny monsters.

05/20/2014

Apple Faced More Patent Lawsuits Than Any Other Company in 2013

People always like to take a swing at those on top. Apple — the highest-ranked tech company in the Fortune 500 — faced more patent lawsuits in 2013 than any other company in the United States.

Apple received 59 patent lawsuits last year — nine more than the next company, Amazon, according to a report by Lex Machina, a legal-analytics company in Menlo Park, California.

It seems the entire tech industry is being chased by patent lawsuits. The top 10 most-sued companies for patents are tech giants The top 10 most-sued companies for patents are tech giants, Lex Machina reports.

AT&T, Google and HTC are next on the patent lawsuit rankings after Apple and Amazon. The number of patents doesn't fall sharply after the first few either. The tenth company, HP, was listed as the defendant in 34 patent lawsuits last year; Google, No. 4 on the list, had only five more lawsuits (39 in all).

If you're not an expert on patent legislation, you might think California's district courts — where patent lawsuits are filed — are overwhelmed with cases. But the Northern District Court of California and the Central District Court of California actually saw decreases in the number of patent cases filed between 2012 and 2013, Lex Machina reported. Although many tech companies are geographically located in those districts, legally, they're in Delaware.

Many corporations — not just technology-oriented businesses — incorporate in Delaware because the state has fairly low corporate tax laws and regulations. Apple, Amazon and Google are all incorporated in Delaware. Several corporations only have a P.O. box in a building in Delaware to avoid paying higher taxes in another state.

The incorporation law silver lining for local consumers: because Delaware earns so much revenue from its corporate taxes, there's no sales tax in Delaware. You can shop till you drop and pay Uncle Sam nothing.

As for Apple's legal travails, it turns out that at least one major patent dispute will be coming to an end. Apple and Google recently decided to end an ongoing legal dispute over an array of smartphone-related patents.

04/30/2014

There's a Place in the Utah Desert Where People Pretend to Live on Mars

Outfitted in bright orange spacesuits and a full pack of oxygen, three astronauts push open the foot-thick door and step outside onto the rusty red landscape. Though it's zero degrees Fahrenheit outside, they're pouring sweat as they push their way toward the plunging cliffside a half mile away. With civilization a world away, the astronauts have only one mission this very moment: stay alive.

We're not on Mars. We're in the middle of the freezing desert of southeast Utah in December, where Mashable followed a six-person team living in a tiny habitat called the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS). Every two weeks during the winter, crews like this pay $500 each to rent the module and conduct experiments as though they were living on the Red Planet.

The MDRS is operated by The Mars Society, a group of volunteers around the world who support the idea of putting humans on Mars. Robert Zubrin founded The Mars Society in the 1990s after NASA rejected his “Mars Direct” proposal laying out a lower-cost plan for a manned mission to the Red Planet.

This simulation isn’t perfect. You have to suspend your disbelief quite a bit in order for it all to make sense, but that’s exactly what Zubrin wants—an experience that the pros can eventually build upon.

04/28/2014

Wishing we were at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival all this week some great music and food, but we’re looking forward to watching the AXS TV broadcasts from Carlos Santana, John Fogerty, Alabama Shakes, Arcade Fire, and more through McIntosh system!

04/28/2014

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04/28/2014

The End of the Car Wash? Nissan Develops 'Self-Cleaning' Vehicle

Nissan unveiled a new prototype on Thursday that could potentially do away with car washes.

The car maker is experimenting with a special super-hydrophobic paint called Ultra-Ever Dry that it's billing as "self-cleaning" for cars. It has been specially engineered to be extremely water- and oil-resistant by UltraTech International.

"By creating a protective layer of air between the paint and environment, it effectively stops standing water and road spray from creating dirty marks on the car's surface," the car maker said in a statement.

The company says the paint, which is currently being tested on the Nissan Note, has "responded well" to normal weather conditions, including sleet, frost, snow and standing water. Nissan said its engineers will continue testing the paint over the next few months at Nissan's Technical Center in Europe.

Nissan added that is has no current plans to offer the paint as a standard feature, but that it is considering eventually offering it as an aftermarket product.

04/24/2014

Travel Back 50 Years to 1964 New York World's Fair

In 1964, the New York World's Fair opened with radical technologies and dazzling futuristic displays.

Fifty-one million visitors descended on Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, N.Y. over two six-month seasons in 1964 and '65 to experience innovations like "picturephones," lunar crawlers and Belgian waffles. The Ford Times called it "a lively and lavish concoction of spectacular entertainment."

Though a conflict with the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE) stripped the fair of an official sanction, the event represented an exciting time in American scientific advancements.

While we still aren't jetting to the moon to visit grandma in her space colony retirement village, technologies like robotic animation continue in special effects productions today.