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Ringing in new technology
This ring allows you to write text messages by simply drawing in the air. The same technology can access your apps by drawing shapes in the air. For example, drawing a music note could access your music player, while drawing an envelope shape would allow you to access your email: Post by InnovationEdge.
Defining the Insight-Driven Scoutable Need
Integral to more advanced company’s open innovation initiatives is a robust technology scouting function. Technology scouting can be regarded as a capability or resource to identify emerging technologies, funnel technology related information into the company and support the acquisition of technologies. The technology scouting function often deploys seasoned research and/or technology professionals to conduct research…
Digital oven brings the heat
Here’s an interesting innovation for your kitchen: an oven that is so automatic, it seems to have a brain. Actually, it does have a brain, sort of. The IChef is a touch-controlled computer that has an icon-driven touch screen. The oven is manufactured by European appliance-maker Gorenje. This unique computerized oven was featured this past…
Could hologram technology change how wars are fought?
Hologram technology is going even more sci-fi, in this report from the Boston Business Journal: It may sound like something from “Star Wars,” but Waltham-based defense contractor Raytheon Co. is developing hologram technology that could change how wars are fought. In a patent application published last week for “digital infrared holograms,” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) said…
Nintendo wins big with “Pokémon GO” mobile app
If you see young people wandering through your city looking for digital creatures to catch, don’t distract them! These are Pokémon fans, who are intently playing a brand new location-based mobile app game called Pokémon Go. How big of a deal is this? It’s huge: The Apple and Android app debuted last Wednesday evening in the…
Innovative earbuds can translate languages in real-time
This is an amazing story: Science Alert says: “As anybody who’s ever tried to get by in a foreign country without much grasp of the local language can tell you, oversized hand gestures and speaking English loudly and slowly will only get you so far. But a nifty new wearable technology could soon make conversing…