BLIND GAMER WINS STREET FIGHTER V MATCH

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1 JUNE 2017

2 BLIND GAMER WINS STREET FIGHTER V MATCH Sven van de Wege of the Netherlands has been blind since he was six years old and surprised everyone when he won a match at the Capcom World Tour in Madrid.

3 PIX 2 FACE Online neural network Pix2Pix webtoy visually translates your drawings into style of portrait images.

4 PHONE ASSISTED GRAFFITI SprayPainter is a technology that allows an artist to use their phone to tell them when to paint and when not to - creating a picture dot by dot.

5 REVERSE GLOBAL WARMING PROJECT Ogilvy and Greenpeace Australia Pacific, demonstrate a cool use of lighting to freeze and reverse water droplets when people interact.

6 QUANTUM SATELLITES China launched and tested the world s first quantum satellites. If you observer the data, it becomes useless so is a big step forward in data security and encryption.

7 VENICE GLOBAL WARMING SCULPTURES This sculpture was created by Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn and placed in a Venetian canal to highlight climate change.

8 CGI RENDER ACCEPTED AS PHOTO ID Project by French artist Raphaël Fabre submitted a photorealistic 3D rendered image of his face for a national ID card and it got accepted:

9 LUCOZADE CONTACTLESS BOTTLES Lucozade created limited edition contactless bottles which could be swiped for entry to London s tube network as well as offering a refreshing drink.

10 APPLE S ARKIT ANNOUNCED Apple launched it Arkit that allows developers to create immersive experiences directly within the iphone s camera, No app needed.

11 ARKIT DEMO Another ARkit demo using real people scanned using 4Dviews colour lidar to create realistic, animated models.

12 BRAINNO SENSOR Brainno measures brain activity and heart rate to help you monitor health, concentration and recommend music or content to match your mood.

13 MAN LETS LIVE GAMERS BUY HIS SHARES StockStream was invented by Amazon engineer Mike Roberts to let gamers invest his $50,000 live on the Twitch gaming platform.

14 BINKY, THE SOCIAL APP THAT DOES NOTHING Binky is a social platform for people who don t like people. You can discover content, like, post comments but nobody will care... or see them.

15 CREATE SNAPCHAT GEOFILTERS IN THE APP Geofilters can now be created and submitted in the Snapchat app. Just create one, define the area and the dates and submit it. It costs 4-5 for a few hours.

16 APPLE KEYNOTE LAUNCHED THE HOMEPOD It s not trying to be Google Home or Amazon Echo yet. It s a smart speaker with Siri as a voice assistant to control music etc. Watch this space...

17 APPLE MAPS NOW SHOW INDOORS When ios 11 becomes available in autumn, it will have 30 international airport floorplans mapped out. These include Heathrow and Gatwick.

18 APPLE CAN BLOCK MESSAGES WHILE DRIVING The upcoming ios 11 with have a do not disturb while driving mode that will blank out the screen completely as you drive.

19 APPLE S HEALTHCARE FOCUS Apple is rumoured to be focusing on making the iphone a centre for health information. This could help unify notoriously sketchy hospital and doctor data.

20 SELF DRIVING RACE CAR NAILS A LAP The upcoming RoboRace series revealed footage of a prototype doing a lap of the Berlin eprix course.

21 AMAZON S DRONE PATENT Amazon have filed a patent for a high-rise multilevel fulfillment centers for unmanned aerial vehicles as well as feathered rotor blades to make flying quieter.

22 NEURAL NETWORKS GENERATE FACES Google researcher Mike Tyka s person project to generate faces using AI. Also check out: a.com/xg/example s/eyes_gaze3.html

23 FACE FEEDBACK Experiment by Mario Klingemann generating faces using neural networkd.

24 SELF MAKING DUVET SmartDuvet uses a series of air tubes that are retrofitted to your normal duvet. Filling the tubes with air triggers the duvet to make itself!

25 ELECTRO DOUGH UNIVERSE FOR KIDS A playful way to learn about science. The dough conducts electricity and comes with a variety of kits such as sound and light.

26 FLOATING PROJECTIONS The seemingly holographic experience is projected onto a Perspex screen. The user is tracked and the projection is constantly regenerated to match their new perspective.

27 TIME FOR SUSHI Time for sushi is the latest in a series of short films inspired by an obsessive passion for nonsense. Indeed.

28 CUSTOM LED FIDGET SPINNER Will there be no end to this madness!

29 EMOJI DOMAIN NAMES ARE A THING The winner of the GoDaddy internal hackathon was an Emoji Domain Registration search engine. It allows people to purchase emoji domain names.

30 SHAPE SHIFTING PASTA Programmable Material project from MIT Tangible Media Group can design flat pasta which changes its shape whilst being cooked.

31 METALIMBS Project from Inami Hiyama Laboratory provides additional robotic limbs with articulate hands which can be operated using your feet.

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