Recently, I was in a situation where Facebook asked me to enter some CAPTCHA code. I usually don’t have problems with it, but when I got asked to enter some characters that I don’t even have on my keyboard, I was stunned. How am I supposed to do that? Thanks to the spam bots all over the world, today’s CAPTCHA codes are so much complicated that you can hardly read them. We, as a society, will soon need some new methods to identify as a human and not a programmed bot. MotionCAPTCHA might be a great candidate for replacing the standard
Read MoreIn case you didn’t notice, you are living two separate lives. You’ve created an alternative, digital persona- a persona that can be judged as a Facebook profile or a Tweet or in LinkedIn. Tru.ly,founded by Ashish Datta and David Gordon a Boston-based startup presents launched an officially verified identification platform for digital personas. Translation: It’s your official ID for the Internet era. Tru.ly's new age verification API authenticates the age of an online user based on government issued data and is the first available solution to the problem of Internet age-gating. Sites with age-restricted information can now guarantee the authenticity of
Read MoreTablets are ideal for gaming, surfing, movies and any multimedia activity which you can think of but programming aaaah is not typically among them. Much like writing text, you can write code on the iPad, but it's more cumbersome without an external keyboard. Yeah you are not going to see developers ditch their laptops anytime in near future but a new breed of apps for the iPad help make the device more coding-friendly. Coders, geeks, developers welcome Codify ($7.99, iPad, iOS 4.0 or later) which lets you build simple games and simulations using a combination of hand-coding and touch-based visual
Read MoreFuturistic BlackBerry - RIM and Porsche have taken the official wraps off of the Porsche Design P'9981 BlackBerry, a frighteningly beautiful new slab that offers up a forged stainless steel frame, hand-wrapped leather back cover, sculpted QWERTY keyboard, and "crystal clear touch display." It'll ship with an exclusive Porsche Design UI and a bespoke Wikitude World Browser augmented reality app experience, not to mention the "premium, exclusive PINs that help easily identify another P'9981 smartphone user." As for specs, it's boasting - a 1.2GHz processor, - HD video recording capabilities, - 8GB of onboard memory, - Liquid Graphics technology, -
Read MoreWatch how future technology will help people make better use of their time, focus their attention, and strengthen relationships while getting things done at work, home, and on the go. In 5-10 years, how will people get things done at work, at home, and on the go? Watch the concept video to get a glimpse of the future of productivity, then explore the stories and technology in more detail. Microsoft Vision
A team at the Media Computing Group at Aachen University figured out how to put a series of electromagnets underneath a display to provide haptic feedback for touchscreens. They showed off their tech at the 2011 UIST conference and made their paper available. FingerFlux, a bed of tiny electromagnets is placed underneath a panel display. The user wears a ‘thimble’ with an attached permanent magnet. Driving the bed of electromagnets slightly moves the magnet and provides a little bit of sensation to the user. FingerFlux is a haptic output technique that provides near-surface haptic feedback on interactive tabletops. It combines an
Read MoreThe Nokia N9 journey. A story about the making of the most beautifully simple smartphone.
Gmail has got a new look, newly redesigned Gmail in a video was accidentally posted to YouTube today by Google, offering a tour of the revamped email service. Conversation views now more closely resemble IMs (with profile pictures) and the advanced search options are more easily accessible and prominently displayed. The themes are also getting updated with higher resolution wallpapers to better match the spartan UI. Not that you need any encouragement. Jason Cornwell, user experience designer for Gmail, unveils the new version in the video. The Google Operating System blog spotted the video and it has since been made private
Read MoreWednesday morning in Hong Kong—together with Samsung Google unveiled Galaxy Nexus, the first phone designed for the latest release of Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich. Galaxy Nexus is the next generation of Nexus devices co-developed by Samsung and Google. Nexus combines innovative hardware with the newest version of Android, 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, and the latest Google mobile services. Here’s the specs rundown - 4.65-inch 1280×720 Super AMOLED HD display - 0.01 MS response time - 1.2 GHz dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP4460 processor - 1 GB of RAM - 16 or 32 GB internal storage - 5-megapixel camera, capable of 1080p video - Built-in image
Read MorePhD student Chris Harrison et al at Microsoft Research have created a new system that allows touchscreen interaction on hairy and uneven surfaces. It uses a short-range depth camera instead of the infrared sensor we've seen on similar devices, which allows it to gauge the viewing angle and other characteristics of surfaces being used and it can even handle pinch-to-zoom. OmniTouch is a wearable depth-sensing and projection system that enables interactive multitouch applications on everyday surfaces. Beyond the shoulder-worn system, there is no instrumentation of the user or environment. Foremost, the system allows the wearer to use their hands, arms and
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