Nuts and bolts are one of the most traditional human tools but have never been fully standardized. Size and shape are different from one country to another. This fact requires households to have several sets of drivers but still cannot cover all possibilities. However, Gator Grip, inventor of Endeavor Tool Company, aims to replace all the drivers in your house. Its innovative shape fits almost any nut or bolt, and even other screw-like things.
Rather than jointing to a nut with a certain shape, it grabs a whole nut with collective thin metal bars. Its simple but innovative design will certainly be a great hit capturing customers; not only in households but in factories as well.
The car of the future will be more personalized than ever before. Picking up the new trends in mobility like car sharing and the driverless car a group of students of the International MBA at IE in Madrid picked up the trends and designed the most personalized car in the world. The car is targeted at a new type of customer. A customer who values
personalization, who wants to be expressive and is savvy with the
concept of the shared economy.
The car makes the user the designer. It features a fully digital interior design that is changeble with the use of a mobile application. Interior designs can be downloaded from and shared on an online plattform. Whenever the user enters the car with the application, the car personalizes the interior of the vehicle to the user’s settings. The customization includes saved automatic seat and mirror position adjustment to ensure secure driving, settings of the entertainment system and automatic updates of preferred radio stations, music from the cloud and user playlists from streaming services like Spotify. But above all the selection of interior design colors.
All special interior design elements like buttons, strips and other facings will be based on colored ePaper technology. A similar technology like it is used in Amazon’s Kindle today on a black and white basis. The interior design elements are fully digital and therefore changeable in any desired color or pattern. The technology makes the car not only the most personalized car but also the most shareable car in the world. Shareable in the sense that designs can be published over the online platform, but also shareable in regards to sharing the car with family, friends or as part of car sharing ring. As the car adjusts to the user's settings all drivers have a truly unique experience tailored to their individual preferences.
With a car like this the options become infinite. Unfortunately that it only exists on paper so far, but we hope to see more of it in real life soon.
Robot receptionists are now a reality at this Tokyo department store thanks to Toshiba - where "Aiko Chihira" (the Robot) through interactive systems engineering, deals with people who are interested in inquiring anything from where are the women's footwear, to can you please indicate where the nearest cash machine is.
The system uses technology developed by android pioneer Hiroshi Ishiguro, from the Osaka University of Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. Aiko it seems "interacts" with the customers by reading out programmed scripts, but soon will be getting upgrades in the languages she speaks.
I don't know what's more hilarious about the article, the fact that one of the "real" receptionists are giving an opinion about how the robot's smile is very stiff, (you go girl, protect your job post!) or the fact that the store manager believes that this is a better user friendly interaction for customers, vs using a touchscreen panel for general information! All the same, Judgement Day, here we come!
The retail market is embracing digital technology and trying to further blend offline with online experience. New trends are changing the way we might shop in the future.
A women's dream comes true. Sephora is pioneering an augmented reality digital mirror. With real time 3D face recognition the software keeps track of the position of your head and adds your preferred eye shadow to your eye lids. You can move your head and lock at the result from various angles.
3D scanning is also the tool to find your perfect pair of jeans at a department store. By creating a full 3D model of the customer's body it is able to recommend the best fitting pants for your personal measures
The technologies combined were presented on a Toshiba show where you can take a full body scan and use it as a virtual fitting room.
As you can see from the videos the concepts are truly amazing. However, the executing of the augmented reality feels still somehow stiff and not fully tailored to your actual body proportions. However especially in online retailing I can see a large application of the technology. In the online business where about 20-40% of all purchases are returned there is a valid business case for the investment in technology that helps consumers find the right products in the right size.
The future looks bright, but it also is still a couple of years away.
By understanding now how a user is touching the screen, FingerSense elevates the user experience of touch-enabled devices, making them more intelligent, more powerful, and easier to use.
Makes Smartphones Smarter. FingerSense’s patented technology is the first to know whether you are using your finger pad, knuckle, nail, or passive stylus to touch the screen. FingerSense moves beyond just counting the number of fingers by giving mobile devices the intelligence needed to identify what is touching the screen, revolutionizing the way we interact with touch-enabled devices.
More Power, Less Work. Everyday tasks like copy and paste, launching a context menu, and note taking are incredibly tedious on today’s mobile devices. By distinguishing between different parts of the hand FingerSense takes the pain out of performing these actions, making mobile devices easier to use than ever.
Platform Agnostic. FingerSense is compatible with any operating system, giving all mobile device manufacturers the ability to elevate the user experience of their products.
Software Only. FingerSense is software only, and can run on today’s mobile devices without the cost or space required for additional hardware.
Zurich based start-up Noonee’s invention Chairolution could be the solution for hard working conditions in factories. Chairolution allows its users to sit like you can do with chair. Only without the chair. Its appearance and function is totally different from traditional chair. You can wear it and therefore you can continuously sit down, stand up, and walk whenever you want to.
As you see in the video, Chairolution particularly benefits the manufacturing industry. In this industry, increasing competition and continuous streamlining removed chairs on factory floors. This created hard conditions for workers. Chariolution is one possible be the solution. Audi and BMW have already announced plans to implement this innovation on their prototype production line.
Other companies are also working to offer a solution to manufacturing industry. Honda has announced walking assistance instead of sitting assistance. Let’s see which solution meets the industry requirements.
Sexbots might be the solution for a
lot of people around the world. It is amazing how technology can supply every
human desire. Now is possible to find on the market dolls that look like women
customized according to every customer preferences (ex. Hair color, skin color
or breast size).
True Companion is responsible of
Roxxxy, one of the first “sex robot” in the market. The doll has synthetic skin
and an especial programmed that learn the owner´s preferences. At the same time
has an articulated skeleton that allows to be positioned as a human being. The
interesting part of this product is the extra features like touch sensors and
the ability to talk and “carry a conversation”. The model is still very
rudimentary on its design, but it gives a hint on the direction that the
technology is moving forward. Sooner that later we’ll find sex robot that looks
like real women with the technology that allows imitating every single female movement
and talks.
This kind of innovation makes blurry
the future of human interaction and the relationship among us.
