Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Wears Google Glasses


Since Google unveiled its "Project Glass" demo on Wednesday, the futuristic "augmented reality" eyeglasses have become the target of more than a few parodies poking fun at the spectacles' conceptual flaws and ambitions. (See Jimmy Kimmel's take on the glasses below, as well as a parody of Google's promotional video that envisions the glasses with lots of advertising).
But that didn't stop Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin from sporting a real-life version of the glasses this week at a charity event in San Francisco. Photographer Thomas Hawk caught pictures of Brin wearing the glasses and posing with tech blogger Robert Scoble, which he uploaded to his Flickr page:

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Google Glasses First Look: Would You Wear These Augmented Reality Specs?


We first heard rumors about Google's augmented reality glasses a few months ago, and now in a post on Google Plus, the company revealed "Project Glass" along with some early concepts and prototype designs. These specs look like the freaky science fiction concept they are. Would you wear them, though?
Watch this video of what the world would look like from behind these glasses. It's like Iron Man except instead of important world-saving information you're answering your friend's text messages and learning about delays on the subway. The Google[x] team that's working on the project says they've opened it up to the public to solicit ideas about what people actually want from a set of augmented reality specs.
From what we can see in the video, Google Glasses basically seem like a smartphone notification system that allows you to respond to notifications in with your voice. Without actually trying the glasses on, the experience seems like something not only useful, but enjoyable. People might actually wear them if they can get over how nerdy they look.
Google Glasses First Look: Would You Wear These Augmented Reality Specs?

Google glasses, due this year, turn seeing into searching


Google is prepping a pair of augmented reality glasses, which would allow users to receive, via a data connection, real-time information on their surroundings. According to a new report in The New York Times, the glasses – or Google goggles, if you like – will hit shelves by the end of the year, and retail for somewhere between $250 and $600. (The Times describes the glasses as being priced like an unsubsidized smartphone.)

Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses


Photos via GoogleGoogle showed off its first venture into wearable computing, called Project Glass.
If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,” don’t worry. It’s probably just a Google employee testing the company’s new augmented-reality glasses.
On Wednesday, Google gave people a clearer picture of its secret initiativecalled Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first venture into wearable computing.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Google Glasses how works in real life show now in this video


Project Glass: Google Shows Off, Teases Augmented Reality Spectacles

Project Glass
Being a four-eyes has never been so cool.
Google on Wednesday morning unveiled a YouTube video teasing its augmented reality eyeglasses, a pair of spectacles that interacts with what you're seeing and acts as a smartphone, day planner, turn-by-turn navigation system, camera and more.
Here's the video showing off Google's upcoming futuristic specs:
There's no definite timetable for release, though the New York Times' Nick Bilton has said that Google employees will be testing these things in public this summer and that the first-generation Google glasses could be released by the end of the year.
UPDATE: A Google spokesperson has indicated to us that it is unlikely its glasses will be available to consumers by the end of 2012.
The Google team working on the glasses -- in the secretive Google X labs, as part of a project called "Project Glass" -- created a Google+ page so that you can keep up with their work and submit ideas about what you want Google glasses to be able to do; the team also posted photos of employees wearing prototypes of the product. We've got plenty of those photos embedded below, but here's the basic look (an unobtrusive, non-clunky white band with a small white display above the right eye):

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Hyper-fast quantum computers could be reality soon


Hyper-fast quantum computers could be reality soon




London: Hyper-fast quantum computers have edged a step closer to reality after scientists generated 10 billion quantum bits in silicon for the first time.

The achievement in silicon, the basis of the computer chip, has important implications for integration with existing technology, according to a team of researchers.The scientists from Britain, Japan, Canada and Germany believe that such computers, based on quantum bits or qubits, will be able to test many possible solutions to a problem at once, the journal Nature reports.

Conventional computers based on binary 'switches', or bits, can only do one thing at a time, according to the Daily Mail.

"Creating 10 billion entangled pairs in silicon with high fidelity is an important step forward for us," said John Morton of Oxford University.

"We now need to deal with the challenge of coupling these pairs together to build a scalable quantum computer in silicon," said Morton, who led the study.

Quantum entanglement involves the notion that particles can be connected in such a way that changing the state of one instantly affects the other, even when they are miles apart.

Albert Einstein once famously described it as "spooky action at a distance". Other areas of quantum-related research include ultra-precise measurement and improved imaging.



By Kaila Piyush HackingArticles4all.blogspot.com

Quantum computer


Quantum computer

A quantum computer is any device for computation that makes direct use of distinctively quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data.
In a classical (or conventional) computer, information is stored as bits; in a quantum computer, it is stored as qubits (quantum bits).
The basic principle of quantum computation is that the quantum properties can be used to represent and structure data, and that quantum mechanisms can be devised and built to perform operations with this data. Although quantum computing is still in its infancy, experiments have been carried out in which quantum computational operations were executed on a very small number of qubits.

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