10 Upcoming Technology That May Change The World

  1. Google Glass

 

Augmented Reality has already gotten into our life in the forms of simulated experiment and education app, but Google is taking it several steps higher with Google Glass. Theoretically, with Google Glass, you are able to view social media feeds, text, Google Maps, as well as navigate with GPS and take photos. You will also get the latest updates while you are on the ground.

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It’s truly what we called vision, and it’s absolutely possible given the fact that the Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin has demo’ed the glass with skydivers and creatives. Currently the device is only available to some developers with the price tag of $1500, but expect other tech companies trying it out and building an affordable consumer version.

2. Form 1

 

Just as the term suggests, 3D printing is the technology that could forge your digital design into a solid real-life product. It’s nothing new for the advanced mechanical industry, but a personal 3D printer is definitely a revolutionary idea.

Everybody can create their own physical product based on their custom design, and no approval needed from any giant manufacturer! Even the James Bond’s Aston Martin which was crashed in the movie was a 3D printed product!

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Form 1 is one such personal 3D printer which can be yours at just $2799. It may sound like a high price but to have the luxury of getting producing your own prototypes, that’s a reaonable price.
Imagine a future where every individual professional has the capability to mass produce their own creative physical products without limitation. This is the future where personal productivity and creativity are maximized.

3. Oculus Rift

 

Virtual Reality gaming is here in the form of Oculus Rift. This history-defining 3D headset lets you mentally feel that you are actually inside a video game. In the Rift’s virtual world, you could turn your head around with ultra-low latency to view the world in high resolution display.

There are premium products in the market that can do the same, but Rift wants you to enjoy the experience at only $300, and the package even comes as a development kit. This is the beginning of the revolution for next-generation gaming.

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The timing is perfect as the world is currently bombarded with the virtual reality topic that could also be attributed to Sword Art Online, the anime series featuring the characters playing games in an entirely virtual world. While we’re getting there, it could take a few more years to reach that level of realism. Oculus Rift is our first step.

4. Leap Motion

 

Multi-touch desktop is a (miserably) failed product due to the fact that hands could get very tired with prolonged use, but Leap Motion wants to challenge this dark area again with a more advanced idea. It lets you control the desktop with fingers, but without touching the screen.

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It’s not your typical motion sensor, as Leap Motion allows you to scroll the web page, zoom in the map and photos, sign documentss and even play a first person shooter game with only hand and finger movements. The smooth reaction is the most crucial key point here. More importantly, you can own this future with just $70, a price of a premium PS3 game title!
If this device could completely work with Oculus Rift to simulate a real-time gaming experience, gaming is going to get a major make-over.

5. Eye Tribe

 

Eye tracking has been actively discussed by technology enthusiasts throughout these years, but it’s really challenging to implement. But Eye Tribe actually did this. They successfully created the technology to allow you to control your tablet, play flight simulator, and even slice fruits in Fruit Ninja only with your eye movements.

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It’s basically taking the common eye-tracking technology and combining it with a front-facing camera plus some serious computer-vision algorithm, and voila, fruit slicing done with the eyes! A live demo was done in LeWeb this year and we may actually be able to see it in in action in mobile devices in 2013.
Currently the company is still seeking partnership to bring this sci-fi tech into the consumer market but you and I know that this product is simply too awesome to fail.

6. SmartThings

 

The current problem that most devices have is that they function as a standalone being, and it require effort for tech competitors to actually partner with each other and build products that can truly connect with each other. SmartThings is here to make your every device, digital or non-digital, connect together and benefit you.

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With SmartThings you can get your smoke alarms, humidity, pressure and vibration sensors to detect changes in your house and alert you through your smartphone! Imagine the possibilities with this.
You could track who’s been inside your house, turn on the lights while you’re entering a room, shut windows and doors when you leave the house, all with the help of something that only costs $500! Feel like a tech lord in your castle with this marvel.

7. Firefox OS

 

iOS and Android are great, but they each have their own rules and policies that certainly inhibit the creative efforts of developers. Mozilla has since decided to build a new mobile operating system from scratch, one that will focus on true openness, freedom and user choice. It’s Firefox OS.
Firefox OS is built on Gonk, Gecko and Gaia software layers – for the rest of us, it means it is built on open source, and it carries web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.

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Developers can create and debut web apps without the blockade of requirements set by app stores, and users could even customize the OS based on their needs. Currently the OS has made its debut on Android-compatible phones, and the impression so far, is great.
You can use the OS to do essential tasks you do on iOS or Android: calling friends, browsing web, taking photos, playing games, they are all possible on Firefox OS, set to rock the smartphone market.

8. Project Fiona

 

Meet the first generation of the gaming tablet. Razer’s Project Fiona is a serious gaming tablet built for hardcore gaming. Once it’s out, it will be the frontier for the future tablets, as tech companies might want to build their own tablets, dedicated towards gaming, but for now Fiona is the only possible one that will debut in 2013.

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This beast features next generation Intel® Core i7 processor geared to render all your favorite PC games, all at the palm of your hands. Crowned as the best gaming accessories manufacturer, Razer clearly knows how to build user experience straight into the tablet, and that means 3-axis gyro, magnetometer, accelerometer and full-screen user interface supporting multi-touch. My body and soul are ready.

9. Parallella

 

Parallella is going to change the way that computers are made, and Adapteva offers you chance to join in on this revolution. Simply put, it’s a supercomputer for everyone. Basically, an energy-efficient computer built for processing complex software simultaneously and effectively. Real-time object tracking, holographic heads-up display, speech recognition will become even stronger and smarter with Parallella.

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The project has been successfully funded so far, with an estimated delivery date of February 2013. For a mini supercomputer, the price seems really promising since it’s magically $99! It’s not recommended for the non-programmer and non-Linux user, but the kit is loaded with development software to create your personal projects.

I never thought the future of computing could be kick-started with just $99, which is made possible using crowdfunding platforms.

10. Google Driverless Car

 

I could still remember the day I watch the iRobot as a teen, and being skeptical about my brother’s statement that one day, the driverless car will become reality. And it’s now a reality, made possible by… a search engine company, Google.
While the data source is still a secret recipe, the Google driverless car is powered by artificial intelligence that utilizes the input from the video cameras inside the car, a sensor on the vehicle’s top, and some radar and position sensors attached to different positions of the car. Sounds like a lot of effort to mimic the human intelligence in a car, but so far the system has successfully driven 1609 kilometres without human commands!

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“You can count on one hand the number of years it will take before ordinary people can experience this.” Google co-founder, Sergey Brin said. However, innovation is an achievement, consumerization is the headache, as Google currently face the challenge to forge the system into an affordable gem that every worker with an average salary could benefit from.

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Secrets and shadows: The world’s most mysterious places

1. Republic of Yemen, Socotra – Indian Ocean
Four islands in the Indian Ocean. Considered one of the strangest, most alien-looking places on earth, a third of its plant life can’t be found anywhere else on the planet and it is famous for its umbrella-shaped “dragon blood” tree.

2. Nazca Lines – Peru
The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert of southern Peru. Designated as a world heritage site in 1994, the figures range from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, orcas, llamas, and lizards. Some claim they are connected to rituals for summoning water, some believe they were once irrigation channels, while others suggest a cosmic visitor connection.

3. Richat Structure (Eye of the Sahara) – Mauritania
An amazing natural formation in the western Sahara Desert. Spotted by astronauts on early space missions, the formation has a diameter of about 48km. Scientists initially thought it was the result of a meteorite impact, but it’s now believed to be a deeply eroded geologic dome.. We’re yet to discover why it’s circular in shape though…………..

4. Fly Geyser – Nevada, US.
This three-metre high geyser in Nevada is located on private land and owned by a millionaire who won’t let anybody else enjoy it. So cautious about the mysterious Fly Geyser is owner Todd Jaksick that he only allows a few researchers and photographers up close every year.

5. Racetrack Player – California, US
No one knows how, but the stones in California’s Racetrack Playa have managed to move from their original position in the ground, leaving a mysterious track behind. It’s been said that the strong valley winds are responsible for this shift, although we prefer the idea that aliens landed and moved them for kicks.

6. Easter Island – Chile
Easter Island off the coast of Chile couldn’t be more mysterious. 50-foot high warrior statues loom large and tall and beg the question why the island’s Polynesian people built such structures – or did they?

7. Lake Vostok – Antarctica
Could it be possible that under the icy thaw of Antarctica’s Lake Vostok are some species that have managed to survive 15 million years of isolation? Some scientists believe so, although the mystery is what these species would be like, as they’ve evolved in total darkness. Any confirmation of life in Lake Vostok could potentially strengthen the prospects of life on the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter

8. Spotted Lake – Osoyoos, British Columbia
Spotted Lake is a remarkable natural wonder located northwest of Osoyoos in British Columbia. Containing high quantities of magnesium sulphate, calcium and sodium sulphates, much of the lake water evaporates over the summer leaving behind all the minerals. The minerals harden to form natural walkways between the soft spots.

9. Akodessewa Fetish Market – Lome, Togo.
If you think the idea of Voodoo is a thing of the past, you need to visit to the world’s largest fetish market in Lome, Togo. Selling a vast array of creepy talismans, bones and animal parts, Voodoo merchants gather from all over West Africa claiming their products offer solutions to any problem.

10. Capela Dos Ossos – Portugal.
Skull wallpaper and two skeletons hanging from chains welcome visitors to the Capela dos Ossos “Chapel of Bones” in Evora, Portugal. Built in the 16th century by a Franciscan monk, visitors must first pass the warning at the entrance that translates as “We, the bones that are here, await yours”.

11. La Isla De la Munecas – Mexico City.
If creepy dolls make you think of “Chucky” from the movie “Child’s Play”, you ain’t seen nothing until you visit La Isla de la Munecas – The Island of Dolls. Not one tree on the island, located south of Mexico City, is spared from decorative, mutilated dolls, and legend has it that the hermit Don Julian Santana collected them to enshrine for the spirit of a little girl who had died in the city’s canal – he claimed he was haunted by her ghost. Sadly, Don Julian was discovered dead by his nephew in the same canal the girl had perished in.

12. Beelitz Military Hospital – Berlin
The Beelitz Military Hospital is where Adolf Hitler spent time recovering from a leg wound following the Battle of the Somme in 1916. It was occupied by Soviet Forces in 1945, and although some sections of the hospital remained functional, wings holding the surgery, psychiatric ward, and a rifle range were abandoned in 2000, and remain unsecured. This creepy site was the set for films “The Pianist” and “Valkyrie”.

13. Pripyat – Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
The left-over scenes of what was once the home town for workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant are chilling. Now a ghost town within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in northern Ukraine, Pripyat once housed 49,400 residents before the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in 1986. The area is considered relatively safe these days and guided tours of the town are in operation.

14. Hill of Crosses – Lithuania
Individuals who take place in a pilgrimage in Lithuania place a religious cross atop the hill at the end of their journey. Known as the Hill of Crosses, estimates suggests there are more than 100,000 crosses at the site.

15. Paris Catacombs
Known as the “municipal Ossuary”, the Paris Catacombs have been around since the end of the 18th century. With the remains of about 6 million people sleeping snugly amongst caverns and tunnels of Paris’s stone mines, the Catacombs are the ultimate “underground” creepy experience.

16. Aokigahara – Japan
Aokigahara, also known as the “Sea of Trees”, is an eerily quiet natural forest associated with demons in Japanese mythology, and is the destination of choice for suicide. Japanese say the forest is haunted by “Yuri” – angry spirits of those left to die. Each year police, volunteers and journalists set off to search for new bodies.

17. Mary King’s Close – Edinburgh, Scotland
Tales of ghosts, murders, and plague victims locked up and left to die put Mary King’s Close in Edinburgh, Scotland, on our list of creepy visits. An old Edinburgh Close under buildings in the Old Town, it is believed that victims of the 1644 plague were quarantined here until their death. Now Mary King’s Close is a popular tourist attraction.

18. Sedlec Ossuary – Czech Republic.
Housing the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, it’s not so much the feeling of death that will make your blood curl at Czech Republic’s Sedlec Ossuary than the artistic arrangement of the bones. . There’s a chandelier made from bones and skulls, a cherub angel sporting a skull on his lap, and even the Schwarzenberg coat-of-arms made entirely of bones.

 

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New Gadget

TOMTOM GPS SPORT WATCHES

TomTom, the company behind the popular in-car GPS systems, has revealed new GPS sports watches with extra large displays and simple one-button control.
The TomTom Runner and TomTom Multisport GPS watches both have larger, high resolution and high contrast displays that are easy to read even in bright sunshine.
This makes it easier for users to read information like distance, time and pace.
Also on board the devices is a Graphical Training Partner which helps get the most out of your workout.

 There are three modes – race, goal and zone – which lets you race against a personal best, set a distance time or calorie goal or set a target for pace and heart-rate respectively.
The intuitive one-button controls makes the TomTom GPS sports watches easy to operate while you’re exercising and in any weather conditions.

The button allows users to easily navigate up, down, left and right and can even be used while wearing gloves.
The TomTom Runner and Multisport GPS are 11.5mm thick and are suitable for men and women.
Other features include an indoor tracker which can still track runs and movement indoors using sensors to count steps and even register pace and distance on a treadmill.
The QuickGPSFix feature lives up to its name and can quickly find your precise position so the GPS receiver can accurately record your distance and speeds.

Of course the devices are weatherproof and waterproof up to a depth of 50m.
Also on board is Bluetooth to connect wirelessly to sensors and heart rate monitors.
Information gathered by the TomTom Runner and Multisport GPS can also be shared and analysed on multiple platforms including TomTom’s MySports website, MapMyFitness, Runkeeper, TrainingPeaks and MyFitnessPal.

The TomTom Multisport also includes a dedicated bike mount to convert the device into a cycling computer complete with a cadence sensor and built-in altimeter.
It can also be used while you’re swimming and can capture swim metrics like laps, strokes, time and speed.
The TomTom Runner and TomTom Multisport GPS will be released in mid 2013 with pricing to be revealed closer to launch.

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             The real Blue Lady, and other ghost stories

Classics like Mallory Towers and St Tinian’s had led me to romanticise the idea of boarding school from a very young age. I imagined a sisterhood fuelled by torch lit ghost stories and midnight feasts. So when I was packed off to boarding school with a tuck box and a lacrosse stick at the age of thirteen I could not have been happier.

And to my utter delight, my new school friends not only enjoyed ghost stories, but the school had a resident ghost of its own. Her name was The Blue Lady. I can’t remember if we knew who The Blue Lady had been, how she had died or why she haunted the school, but every girl knew her name. Legend had it that she always appeared on the last night of term. We faithfully upheld the end of term tradition of sleeping the wrong way round in our beds so when The Blue Lady came to chop our heads off in the night she’d only find our feet. This tradition, however flawed in logic, was something we continued into sixth form. I remember one school story of how a bunch of girls had stolen a blue choir robe from the chapel – one girl then donned the robe and shrouded her face in a blue chiffon scarf. She’d waited until midnight, when all the first years were fast asleep – their heads lined up in a row at the foot of their beds. The girl walked down the central aisle of the dormitory, sweeping her cloak over the girls’ heads as she walked, waking them up one-by-one and ensuing mass hysteria.

Some of the episodes that feature in my book, The Blue Lady, are an undisguised nod to my time at boarding school – the Ouija board in the abandoned dormitory being one of them. My friends and I went through a period where we were obsessed with Ouija boards and séances, trying to summon the spirit of The Blue Lady and other long-dead school girls we could muster up from the Other Side. Sadly – or fortunately, depending on your love of the dramatic – we never managed to contact a spirit. Still, we persisted in trying.
I remember one Halloween we all filed in to one of the disused dormitories with our matron in tow to tell our favourite ghost stories. By that age I was an expert in urban legends, conspiracy theories and all things spooky. A steady literary diet of Point Horror and any classic with a mere sniff of a ghost had seen to that. Wuthering Heights, A Christmas Carol, Rebecca, The Turn of the Screw – all books I devoured as a school girl and put me in good stead for a little spooky storytelling of my own. As I listened to the other girls tell their stories, old favourites such as Humans Can Lick Too, The Killer in the Backseat and Babysitter with the Murderer Upstairs, I prepared to tell mine. Let me just indulge you with a little information about my teenage self – I was incredibly dramatic. In fact I wanted to be an actress; I loved any opportunity to put myself centre stage, so a ghost storytelling session was right up my street.
The story was this…
A weary traveller returns to the deep dark countryside to visit his family. His car breaks down and he is forced to hitchhike. A woman picks him up and agrees to take him to his family home, but first she offers to take him to her house where she’ll make sure he gets a warm drink and something to eat – the man looks frozen. Too polite to decline the woman’s offer, the man reluctantly agrees.
She drives him to a splendid manor house. The windows glow with warm and inviting light and the sound of music and laughter dance to the man’s ears. As the woman leads him into the house he is amazed by the scene – glamorous party guests draped in luxurious fabrics, fashions which he hasn’t seen in his lifetime, he assumes the party is period fancy dress. The woman leads him up a grand staircase and into a sitting room on the first floor, pours him a brandy and they stand and exchange pleasantries by a roaring fire whilst the other party guests come and go.
Never too fond of brandy, the man leaves most of his drink, placing the glass on the mantelpiece as he makes his excuses to depart. The woman then graciously drives him to his family home. The next morning, over breakfast, the man recalls the strange tale to his family. “But no one has lived in that house for years,” his father says with confidence. Determined to prove his father wrong, the man insists that they pay a visit to the house. Sure enough, the windows are boarded up and the walls crumble with age and decay. Lost for words, the man leads his father into the house, up the grand staircase and into the sitting room he’d been in only hours before. The fireplace is cold and bare, cobwebs cover every surface and wall. But sure enough, on the mantelpiece, is his half-drank glass of brandy.
The story went down a treat, much to my great satisfaction. It was around this time that I began to harbour the secret desire to write. I’d fill notebooks with bad poetry and stories and scribble down ideas for novels and characters that I’d one day write. So it seems fittingly full circle that I have now given The Blue Lady her own book, complete with a story as to why she died and why her spirit just won’t rest. I wish I knew the real Blue Lady’s story, but regardless of what it might be, my imagination has thankfully filled in the gaps. I hope you like her story when you read it, I hope it chills you and makes you wonder what’s lurking just on the Other Side. Enjoy.

the best hotels in the world

1. Hotel Singita Grumeti, Tanzania

Hotel yang terletak di Tanzania ini menawarkan pengalaman dan nuansa yang berbeda saat tamu tinggal di dalamnya. Hotel seluas 340 ribu hetktar ini akan memanjakan tamu panorama hotel yang menghadap langsung ke sungai Grumeti. Selain itu tamu juga bisa berenang di kolam renang terbuka sambil menikmati sunset yang begitu indah. Bahkan jika beruntung, tamu mungkin bisa melihat sekawanan gajah yang asyik bermain di tepi sungai. Fasilitas modern juga bisa di dapat di hotel yang berada di kawasan taman nasional ini seperti lapangan tenis, spa, yoga center. Lagi-lagi kesemuanya menghadapkan tamu pada hewan -hewan lucu seperti zebra, gajah dan hewan-hewan lainnya. Jika berminat, tamu juga bisa berpetualangan mendaki bukit dengan kuda atau sepeda.

2. Hotel Triple Creek Ranch , AS


Hotel yang terletak di gunung Montana, Bitteroot, ini menyuguhkan suasana khas cowboy dan pegunungan. Tamu bisa menghangatkan diri di depan perapian tradisonal sambil bersantai di alas yang terbuat dari bulu angsa.

Pengunjung juga bisa melakukan aktivitas menarik seperti memancing sampai jalan-jalan dengan helikopter. Jangan lewatkan juga petualangan berjalan-jalan di sekitar hotel ini saat musim salju.

3. Hotel Southern Ocean Lodge, Australia

Terletak di pulau yang terpisah dari Australia hotel ini menjadi indah karena konsep 'green' yang mereka tawarkan. Uniknya hotel ini tidak menyediakan AC karena angin yang didapat langsung dari udara di sekitarnya yang sejuk.

Si pemilik, Jame dan Hayley Baillie hanya memanfaatkan 1 persen dari seluruh lahan di pulau ini. Oleh karena itu mereka memberlakukan beberapa peraturan untuk tamu, dengan harapan para tamu tidak merusak vegetasi alami yang tumbuh di sekitarnya. Untuk ke tempat ini Anda hanya perlu waktu 30 menit dari Adelaide dengan pesawat.

4. Hotel Oberoi Udaivilas, India

Hotel ini berdiri di tepi danau Pichola di Udaipur, India. Dengan mengusung konsep dinasti India di zaman dahulu, hotel ini sukses menarik minat para wisatawan untuk tinggal di sana. Tamu di sini diperlakukan selayaknya raja dengan pelayanan kelas satu. Dekorasi yang menghiasi hotel ini juga hampir semua terbuat dari sutra.Selain menyuguhkan panorama danau, tamu juga bisa menikmati panorama gunung Aravalli.

5. Hotel Discovery Shores, Filipina

Bertempat di salah satu pulau, tamu bisa menikmati keeleganan hotel dengan banyaknya dekorasi dari kaca. Tapi jangan khawatir, selain elegan, hotel ini juga punya panorama pantai 'White Beach'yang terkenal cantik. Jadi tamu bisa menikmati sepuas-puasnya rekreasi air. Mulai dari jetski, diving, snorkling dan lainnya. Sajian kuliner tropis juga menjadi daya tarik hotel ini.

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