Nixie – The first wearable camera that can fly.
With a gesture, Nixie takes off, captures the moment, and comes right back.
http://flynixie.com/
Samsung revealed a 360 camera for shooting 360° videos, which are also viewable in VR. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also announced, that Facebooks 360 video would be available for the Samsung Gear VR within the next few weeks. Samsung users would then be able to create and share content over the world biggest social network. This will be a huge step in the direction of a complete VR ecosystem.
Stewart is an interesting proposal for communicating with an autonomous car. Its movement let the driver (or passenger?) feel what the car is going to do, thus helping gaining trust in the machine. On the other hand, the integrated sensors allow to disagree with the car’s decisions and to suggest a different path or behavior.
It was developed by Felix Ros as a graduation project at the Eindhoven University of Technology. The hardware is driven by an Arduino and the software is based on Processing.
More info at felixros.com
The best way to catch a drone? The only way to catch a rogue drone is a crime fighting drone! Tokyo police have put together the nation’s first drone squad in response to a security breach earlier this year.
A team of the University of Michigan has been working on a braille-device and found a solution to handle the refreshment and update of braille with more than one line (which is still common). This enables blind people to read books on an “e-reader” not only line by line but as complete pages.
More information: http://www.engin.umich.edu
Clay Bavor, formaly known for Google Apps like Gmail, Drive and Docs is now the head of the new google VR department.
More information: recode.net