Gadgetory

the emotive insight is a 5-channel portable wearable device that allows you to capture and understand what's going on in your brain in real time with the emotive insight you can optimize your cognitive performance you can measure and monitor your own or your family's mental health and fitness and you can develop amazing new applications with the technology we're pioneers in this field we've listened to our user base and we've redesigned the product from the ground up we're now reaching out to our community to help make this a reality the Emotiv EPOC our first generation device has been adopted and used in more than 100 countries worldwide across a broad spectrum of different application areas everything from being able to allow a child to create a 3d monster just with the fantasy of his or her mind or allow people to create music just with the power of their thought or to allow a patient to be rehabilitated by being able to control an electric wheelchair or allow them to experience the ability to type or to communicate again there have been so many amazing application areas and uses that have been transformative and life changing for anyone who loves the epochal love this product even more because we feel like we've taken not just one generation or leave but we've taken many generational leaps we've looked at the sensor technology we've looked at the electronics design we've looked at the wireless communication protocol we've looked at the overall mechanical design we've looked at the form factor how do we make it more affordable how do we make it much more skeletal much lighter weight much easier to wear we're really excited to offer an api and sdk locals and researchers wanting access to the raw EEG data or to the detection algorithms to make it possible for anyone to take this innovation and create amazing new applications with the technology the emotive insight is slated to be released in 2014 and by being an early supporter you'll be among the first in the world to receive it as soon as it's available and you'll have a head start in creating amazing new applications for the technology I've been believing in this for almost the last decade and we've learned so much from our community I mean they're a very vocal community they care passionately and deeply about what we've created they've given us so much valuable insights and and feedback around what works what doesn't work and we've taken all of that into account and we've really tried to reassess our assumptions and push that much harder push it at that much further to try and create something that's completely revolutionary yet again there's magicians that do sleight-of-hand and then they call it magic stop motion is animations it is Magic have something this is inanimate lifeless object and then having an opportunity to get in there and bring it to life is that is Magic sticky bones is highly articulated precision poseable animation public you have the functionality of a skeleton armature but then you have the form of puppet as well it can eat up a lot of time when you're in that exploration phase of exploring poses so what sticky bones does sort of bridges the gap between your ideas to the computer just focus on what we as and there's not to do and that's just you know enemy in great stories as an animator our job is to breathe life into characters that were given with sticky bones I thought wow this is a great way to explore a pose not just in a flat 2d plane but I can actually explore in 3d to pose a character in 3d is a very time-consuming process so much easier to a little sketch and with something like sticky bones you can quickly cause you the way you want there you had all your perspective it makes the job really easy being able to hose it out you know maybe I need to push it more those are sorts of things that you can like work out pretty quickly it's going to give you a different perspective on what you're doing but sticky bones attack it would just speed up that planning process to get me animating that much quicker ever since Eric pitched the idea I know I would have been using it throughout my entire career holding a character that we get to pose well in our hands kind of magical I love fabricating and making the puppets and things like this but I wish there was a faster way to have the animation puppet like just already ready for me to go like right out of the box I take it out and just start Hannah me so that's when the first like seed an idea happened I start realizing all the other ways you could use it besides just animation I saw as a real tool where you can create really cool poses to help animators and artists tell their stories faster raise Lee sometimes you just want to play around we just want something that you can dad the first way I don't look like I 11 things sicky bones would definitely speed up my process sticky bones just seemed so accessible and deceivingly simple with sticky bones it can help like a people who aren't too familiar with stop motion get more into it it's kind of more intuitive just so fun to just quickly and easily put it into fun storytelling emotive imposes sticky bones can change the way people work we envision a world where sticky bones could be a part of every animators toolkit and we're really excited to make sticky bones a reality it's time to have real control over your audio to guide sound directly to your ears without headphones by focusing audio directly where it is wanted and reducing noise pollution in the process the a speaker targets your music as a composer and researcher and acoustics and audio engineering since my youth I believe the directional sound control is the audio challenge of the 21st century two years of research have led us to this amazing technology to listening to audio content without spillover and noise pollution the a from acoustic arts is a directional audio device offering high fidelity sound it emits a narrow beam of sound similar to the light of a laser and enables us to target a very specific zone our goal was to have the science of VA disappear behind a clean functional design our technology was achieved through the work of many different specialists in acoustics electronics signal design and industrial design we defined the A's functionality and possible uses before considering any technical limits so that we could better adapt the science to the need our first patent was registered in april 2014 we released the a at international CES this year won the best starter prize at the la vallée international virtual reality conference as well as winning at Santa Clara augmented world our most recent installation was at the presidential dedication ceremony for three resistance fighters at the Pantheon in Paris VA is a solution to the noise pollution that we all experience each and every day it will allow you to listen to your music videos and other content and privacy without distracting or annoying those around you the A's development phase is finished now we need your help to launch the first production series of the a speaker and bring you the most extraordinary audio experience join us today introducing alpha to the newest member of your family okay Joyce let's move to the next pose okay with 20 joints replicating human motion he's as flexible as a yogi good job Joyce alpha 2 is smarter than your smartphone rise and shine and he makes a great tutor Oh what's the word for orange juice in Spanish Google a neuron huh whoo Gordon naranka sea muy bien hahaha you're cute no you're cuter alpha 2 is like an in-home nurse or a veterinarian there boy Helen Oliver is due for a spleen medication thanks alpha alpha 2 is the perfect office assistant police male 3 joy if city paterson again I just got a cake and it only has five tiers instead of seven alpha call city cakes and print a copy of that contract okay Joyce drinking he's a weatherman by alpha good nike if you're going out there's a 75 percent chance of rain pink sofa and a handyman all right i got the flange off what's next alpha step four is a small screwdriver to attach the adapter flange thanks often alpha let damn ok alpha 2 is the humanoid robot that makes a fun friend for the whole family hey alpha take a picture to Facebook and with an expandable platform his skills keep growing alpha download a storyteller am downloading story killer app alpha wats f star a star is a sphere of plasma held together by its own gravity pairing is a fixed luminous point in the sky would you like to hear a bedtime story blah good night room goodnight stars goodnight to moms and dads good night light and good night loves goodnight David alpha to make him a member of your family today in a world filled with technology we have all been looking for something with the robots we have dreamed of since we were kids the wall school could be our friends members of our family at ub tech it's our mission to make these dreams come true we have a proven track record of bring innovative technology to market and alpha 2 is our latest and best innovation please support us today and help make Appa to a reality because together we can dream of robots hello alpha hello I think the key problem is is you walk into a meeting room with a for a presentation and instead of worrying about your pitch about what you need to get across you're worried about can i connect can I get it working that's a problem that you shouldn't have to worry about I was trying to do a presentation to basically our entire company including the CEO but I wanted to turn my laptop around to show people actually what was on my laptop screen and as I was doing that the hdmi cable actually broke off in my computer and I went oh this is not good but now is the end of the presentation here we are demoing their airtime technology where we're basically cutting cables and streaming wirelessly from all platforms you basically just walk in an air team into the screen and then it's one click from here we're connecting to I have a stream and as you can see there's nothing flocked in to the computer and the latency is also pretty great so that's that's what we were doing here at CU week air tame cunning cables work better wirelessly and that's it I was an intern in an office last summer I was responsible for setting up the presentation I always had confusion with the wires and when it wasn't working it was on my back and I was trying to figure it out and I think something like this would make that so much easier they're a pain he had to put these on through these stupid things and so they're kind of garbage pretty pretty old school actually my roommate in college did and have one of these rip alphas the side of his computer and we kind of use it anymore so yeah put it away yeah I don't like cables it's cool because I mean you can use it on any device any OS I think that's that's the beauty of it you don't need to worry about anything interesting plugging it in and then it's being mirrored I think it's cool you know in the office you're not going to bend 15 minutes setting up wires and fumbling around and trying to connect the most important thing is to do is if you can eliminate them you can live without that it's one less thing for you to worry about your life