Category Archives: Tech

Let’s talk Google Project Glass (Project X) [Watch Video!]

Would this be a huge hit or huge miss for Google?

For the past few days, Google has drawn tons of attention from the media with the invention of Project Glass (which was also known as Project X). They are augmented reality glasses, which basically transforms your whole smartphone into glasses, similar to what we saw in movies.

Project Glass

There are tons of debate going on about these glasses, and Google has finally responded.

As of today, Google revealed that they are currently in the process of researching and trying to develop a pair of glasses that would allow one to see and carry out tasks that would normally be conducted on smartphones.

Google’s Youtube video for Project Glass is quite hypnotizing in some way. It allows us to see the world completely different, a much more revolutionized world.

The video caused tons of hype, but don’t get carried away by the video clip. The reality is that, based on our technology these days, we are still quite far from there. There are too many factors to consider; how fragile is it, where is the battery located, radiation, just to name a few.

One last point, people are already playing with their smartphones during special events and dinners, instead of socializing with each other. Now imagine we all gather for a dinner and everyone looking through their “glass”. Isn’t that awkward!?
Watch the video!

Nokia Files Patent For Vibrating Your Arm Instead of Your Phone

Nokia just filed a new patent that will vibrate your arm, and alert you if you have a call!
The patent is based on a fabric device that attaches to your skin, fingernail, or anywhere you want to place it on your body. The device would then pair with your phone. After the device is attached and paired, the device would vibrate like your phone does now. You can even customize the vibrations depending on the caller or type of messages received!

What’s more amazing? If you put the fabric on where your tattoos is, then your tattoo will vibrate!

This is still in the patent stage, so Nokia might not produce it at all.

After all, I don’t think Nokia will implement this patent to any of their devices. Who would want another extra piece of fabric attached to our skin? Isn’t it all about simplicity and convenience these days?

What do you think?

Judge: you can’t sue family members over unwanted facebook photos.

Let’s face it. We all have photos of ourselves that we wish it was never ever taken. Everyone of us deals with these situations in a different manner, especially on Facebook. Some of us simply untag ourselves, request it to be taken down, delete it, or report it.

However, Aaron Olson, from Chisago City, Minn, takes it to a brand new level. He sued his uncle, Randall LaBrie for harassment, due to a a childhood picture of Aaron himself.

Aaron requested the photos to be removed or edited, so his image won’t be visible in the photo. Randall, acknowledging Aaron’s request, he only removed the tag, and told Aaron that he should stay off Facebook if he doesn’t like the photo.

So Aaron fights back, with a lawsuit.
After going through the court, the Judge stated, “to constitute harassment, words must have a substantial adverse effect on the safety, security, or privacy of another. Comments that are mean and disrespectful, coupled with innocuous family photos, do not affect a person’s safety, security, or privacy — and certainly not substantially so.”

In other words, You can’t file a lawsuit against your family members just because they posted embarrassing pictures of you on Facebook.

Did Aaron take things too far? Or should law protect us from things like that too?

Facebook did a good job connecting old friends, coworkers together. But Facebook also made a lot of people’s lives more miserable. People getting fired for posting stupid status on Facebook, seeing your ex’s pictures and seeing how happy they are with their life now, and..lawsuits too.
I actually think technology advancements and lawsuits go hand in hand. Before Apple had its huge success, we would still hear about lawsuits, but not as much as now. Patent lawsuits filing everywhere across the world.

Ethical Facebook Hacker Jailed For 8 Months.

Glenn Mangham  is a 26 year old student from UK.

He just received an eight month prison sentence for hacking into Facebook server in 2011′s April and May. He was testified in court, and his defence statement was to exploit the vulnerabilities in the Facebook servers, so that Facebook could improve their security. It turns out, he was not making things up. He previously did the same to Yahoo, and he was rewarded almost $10,000 USD from Yahoo!, therefore he wanted to do the same for Facebook as well. I guess he never expected this reward from Facebook at all.

For this incident, Facebook has spent approximately $200,000 USD, to investigate in this crime. FBI was part of the investigation as well.

On the other hand, the prosecutor for this case, stated that Mangham, “unlawfully accessed and hacked into the social media website Facebook and its computers in April to May last year from his bedroom in Yorkshire”.

Of course, at last he lost.
This time, the reward isn’t rewarding anymore after all…

DRIVERLESS Cars-Mass production 2018: NO MORE ASIAN DRIVERS!

Many years back then, there’s the auto-parking feature, and it was groundbreaking.
Now, the industry is taking things to a brand new level, DRIVERLESS!

We thought we would only see that kind of technology on tv/movies? Definitely not the case anymore.
Depending on where you are located at, you could possibly see people driving one today, but mass production wise-will arrive around 2018. Thats 6 years from now, which is not too far away if you think about it.

Distracted driving is far too dangerous and shouldn’t be tolerated at all times, but it is what we do. Sometimes we eat, we change radios, we talk on phone/ to passengers, all while driving. It is obvious that these distracted behaviours takes away a lot of lives every year. So now, we finally have found a solution to it!!

What do you about this?