The MI Square Smart IP Camera is the result of another crowdfunding project from Xiaomi.

This 5 cm² IP camera is presented to double as an action camera, although it needs an external power source.

Beside being a full featured IP camera with 1080P resolution, 110° wide view, IR-Cut, night vision and 8x digital zoom, it also supports time lapse and is designed to work on the go. The camera can operate as a standalone Wi-Fi access point and a power bank can be used instead of the 5V/1A power supply. It sticks to any metallic surface, or to another MI Square, with its magnetic base.

As part of the original features is the possibility to combine 2 cameras in order to increase the viewing angle from 110° to 180°.

The Mi Square can also react to specific sound patterns, like a smoke detector alarm (it's not specified if it works only with the hard to find Xiaomi Home kit)


Xiaomi MI Square can be pre-ordered at Gearbest and will start shipping on the 3rd of January 2017.

The Nintendo Wii seems to sit in the middle of two worlds: the (old) world of solid interfaces (mouses, keyboards, buttons,...) and the coming world of virtual interfaces where we will interact with devices through gestures in the empty air with our bare hands.

While the Wii still requires you to hold a controller, Microsoft's Natal Project is one first step into the new world...


But there is more:




...and this extrapolation doesn't look too far away after all:


If you want to try the gestural interface for yourself: all you need is a webcam and the software for this site

TI has, for many years, been present inside most technological devices (Speak & Spell toy, TI computers, BOLT-117 laser-guided bomb), and it's nearly impossible to open one without finding the little Texas-shaped logo on a component.

But most of us know the brand for having used their calculators at school. And that's in the classrooms again that the company is about to make a remarkable comeback.

DLP (Digital Light Processing) is already popular thanks to the pocket-sized pico projectors and soon to be cellphone-embedded, but below is an even more spectacular example of the DLP Interactive Projector Technology:



Below is a demo of a possible alternative (for the not-so-well-funded schools):




Related:
- johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
- GestureFX
- SmartBoard
- Gestural interfaces
- Other Pico projector
- WowWee Cinemin Swivel
- eBeam

What if your next PDA would be made of sensitive, self cleaning, self feeding, transparent, waterproof and flexible electronics ?
Nokia is, presenting an attractive concept about what nanotechnology may offer one day.





More on the morph concept: http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/research/demos/the-morph-concept

More on nanoscience: http://www.nanoscience.cam.ac.uk/




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With a price around €10000, I'd stick with my netbook for the moment...unless I manage to repair my donate button ...










To be really irresistible, the next generation should comme with some Holo-chess widget (see more on this on WookiePedia)










More about this:
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
http://www.touchtable.com/