Technology
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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Apple's goal has always been to make powerful technology more accessible, more relevant and ultimately, more personal. Apple Watch represents a new chapter in the relationship people have with technology. It's the most personal product Apple has ever made, because it's the first one designed to be worn.

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An Incredibly Precise Timepiece

High-quality watches have long been defined by their ability to keep unfailingly accurate time, and Apple Watch is no exception. In conjunction with your iPhone, it keeps time within 50 milliseconds of the definitive global time standard. It even lets you customize your watch face to present time in a more meaningful, personal context that's relevant to your life and schedule.

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Microsoft unveils HoloLens as they company envisions a world where technology could become more personal—where it could adapt to the natural ways we communicate, learn, and create. Where our digital lives would seamlessly connect with real life.

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The result is the world's most advanced holographic computing platform, enabled by Windows 10.   For the first time ever, Microsoft HoloLens brings high-definition holograms to life in your world, where they integrate with your physical places, spaces, and things.  Holograms will improve the way you do things every day, and enable you to do things you've never done before.

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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), is an internationally renowned electronics and technology trade show, attracting major companies and industry professionals worldwide. The annual show is held each January at the Las Vegas Convention Center and many of the reviews have been incredible during the 2015 show which took place from January 6-9, 2015.

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The Car of the Future 

Mercedes has taken the idea of the self-driving car to luxurious extremes with the F 015 Luxury in Motion. Since there's no need for a driver, passengers can sit face to face to chat and anyone can control the car through remote units and gestures. There are even color-coded LEDs and, yes, hardwood floors.Mercedes-Benz is far from the first automaker to experiment with self-driving cars, but it's making up for that in style at CES. Meet the F015 Luxury in Motion, a previously hinted-at concept car designed from the ground up for robotic transportation.

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Pilots around the United States have reported a surge in near-collisions and other dangerous encounters with small drones,  at a time when the Federal Aviation Administration is gradually opening the nation's skies to remotely controlled aircraft, according to FAA records.

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Night Vision Drone

Since June 1,2014 commercial airlines, private pilots and air-traffic controllers have alerted the FAA to 25 episodes in which small drones came within a few seconds or a few feet of crashing into much larger aircraft, the records show. Many of the close calls occurred during takeoffs and landings at the nation's busiest airports, presenting a new threat to aviation safety after decades of steady improvement in air travel.   The new generation of drones such as the DJI's Phantom 4 can see the world, dodge obstacles and track humans.

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On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 Apple introduced two new iPhones, its long-awaited Apple Watch and a mobile payment system as part of a marketing blitz aimed at drumming up consumer excitement. 

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Speaking from the Flint Performing Arts Center in Apple's hometown of Cupertino, Calif., Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced the company's new larger, thinner iPhone 6, which features an aluminum body and glass front that curves around the sides. The base model comes with a 4.7-inch screen and the other, dubbed the iPhone 6 Plus, has a 5.5 inch-screen. The iPhone 6 screen has over 1 million pixels, while the iPhone 6 Plus has over 2 million pixels, presented as the devices'  "stunning displays."