MCDONALDS LOCKS UP YOUR PHONE

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1 OCTOBER 2017

2 MCDONALDS LOCKS UP YOUR PHONE The fast food chain has recently introduced mobile phone lockers in one of its branches in Singapore, encouraging families to make time to talk while dining.

3 VOLVO (POLESTAR) SUBSCRIPTION ONLY Volvo has spun of its in-house performance dept. Polestar. Its new electric car can only be rented. The payment includes insurance, maintenance and pick-up.

4 THAT MEGA BOT FIGHT HAPPENED The USA challenged Japan to a giant robot fight. It finally happened and was streamed live on Twitch.

5 DUBAI POLICE GET HOVER BIKES Dubai Police are taking delivery of hover bikes! They also have autonomous cars and electric bikes. Provided by Hoversurf.

6 TREEPEX Breathe clean air as you work. Also has a connected app to check cartridge status. Totally not weird. Nope.

7 CHINSTAGRAM ADVENTURES Michelle Liu travels the world taking chin selfies in front of landmarks. It s a stab at the overly manicured high selfie trend on Instagram.

8 SEARCH BY COMPOSITION Shutterstock uses AI to perform search images based on composition. Enter search tags and move them around to change the image results.

9 TWEETS PREDICT FOOTBALL MATCH RESULTS New research shows that Twitter activity can help predict the result of football matches. When overall tone was positive, teams were more likely to win.

10 CAMERAS CAN SEE AROUND CORNERS MIT have shown a technique that analyses shadows to reconstruct objects and movements around corners. Interesting to see how OOH (or MI5) could use this.

11 NEW EMOJI The recent emoji 5.0 set released by the Unicode foundation have been updated in Apple s recent 11.1 ios update.

12 SPRAY-ON TOUCH Simply spray on the conductive paint, attach the electrodes and anything can then be used as a touch pad.

TEENS REBEL AGAINST SOCIAL MEDIA A survey of almost 5,000 students aged 14-16 found a growing backlash

13 TEENS REBEL AGAINST SOCIAL MEDIA A survey of almost 5,000 students aged found a growing backlash against social media. 71% admited to taking digital detoxes to escape it.

14 GOOGLE PIXEL BUDS TRANSLATE IN REALTIME Google s new wireless in-ear headphones can translate languages in real time. When used with a phone, the other person can hear your voice translated too.

15 MOTION REACTIVE COMIC Protanopia is a digital comic that reacts to the motion of the tablet or phone. It uses a mix of 2D and 3D techniques to enhance the story. *Available for free

16 AI CAMERA SHOOTS CLIPS BY ITSELF The Google Clips camera uses AI to recognise when certain people, pets or objects are in shot and automatically records a clip so you can be in the moment too.

17 CHINA FINES JAYWALKERS USING FACE RECOGNITION The system captures the faces of offenders then sends them to police to be fined. It also displays the photos on big screens at the locations to publicly shame.

18 SNAPCHAT ART Snapchat launched a worldwide art project inviting artists to have their art displayed via AR. It launched with Jeff Koons shiny balloon sculptures.

19 CRISPR-GOLD CURES DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY A major step forward in the cure for genetic diseases such as muscular dystrophy using CRISPR gene editing. Symptoms in mice were reversed or cured.

20 SHOES THAT GENERATE POWER SolePower shoes generate power when you walk. They can be fitted with sensors to help track workers or just charge up your phone on the go.

21 AR WINE TELLS A STORY Treasury Wine Estates in thr US brought their wind labels to life with AR and told the stories of 19 criminals exhiled to Australia.

22 WECHAT CHANGED THEIR STARTUP PIC It s a subtle change but WeChat, Chinas largest social network swapped out NASA s image for one taken my the new Chinese FengYun-4A satellite.

23 ANIMATING STILL FACES A team from the University of Tel Aviv show off a technique to animate still portraits to make them come to life.

24 RECONSTRUCT 3D SCENES FROM PHOTOS An updated algorithm can reconstruct seamless, interactive 3D scenes from a series of images taken from different angles.

25 FACEBOOK LIVE DELAY MUSIC VIDEO The Academic released a bonkers music video that used the delay in Facebook Live video as a feedback loop to play their new track. Hard to explain!

26 EXPLORE FONTS WITH SIMILAR TRAITS An experiment using machine learning (Google s Tensorflow) to show a new way to explore the relationships between fonts.

27 PAINTBALL MONALISA Totally NOT from 2017 but from way back in 2008 from the Nvidia conference but it s still cool. Jamie and Adam from Mythbusters recreate the Mona Lisa using 1100 paintballs.

28 FINGERPRINT 2.0 Fingerprint technology can now detect the brand of hair gel used by a suspect or whether they have handled a condom. How long until this tech is in your phone?

29 2D CARTOONS IN AR A test of The Amazing World Of Gumball in AR. That s all.

30 KLM VR HEADSET A KLM PR stunt that gave VR headsets to passengers on rival budget flights. They could pretend they were on KLM, watch movies and stare at people eating.

31 I AM THE FART The new South Park game Fractured But Whole ran a completion to record the fart noises for the game. It uses an X-Factor parody.

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VIRTUAL WEARABLES. https://www.inverse.com/article/42830-virtual-wearables-augmented-reality MARCH 2018 https://www.inverse.com/article/42830-virtual-wearables-augmented-reality VIRTUAL WEARABLES Leap Motion have released a demo of their augmented wearables concept adding tech and information