Made for sports man: Apple Watch Series 2

Everyone is staring the new iphone and the bluetooth headphone which hasn’t released yet. There was another interesting model releasing at the same time with iphone 7. The new apple watch which called Apple Watch Series 2 has a great leap from the first model released at May last year.

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Although there’s a 100 dollars difference, the new series of iwatch is still dragging people’s heart. I’ll talk more details below.

The size will be same with two model of 43mm version and 39mm version. The display size and the revolution will keep the same from the last model. Display type will remain the OLED and the material is still using lon-X glass sapphire but the display brightness will be twice the brightness of the previous model in order to let users see more clearly outside under shinning day light. This is the first reason I said this is made for people who likes sports.

Heart rate sensor will still be activated on the new model with a GPS chip added in the devices. What does it mean that there will be a GPS chip in there? It means that you don’t have to take the phone with you while you running outside but you still can use your new iwatch to track the path you ran. I am the type of a person who don’t want to take my phone with me while running outside but still want to track my path. This new model will be the best fit for those people who have this requirement.

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One more thing is that iwatch 1 used to be waterproof under 1.5 meter. This a little bit awkward because that for those swimmers and divers, they are still worried about their iwatch might get some water in it. No more worries now! The new iwatch can survive under 50-meter-water pressure! This might be the biggest improvement of this series and attracts a lot of swimmers and divers including me. I am very interesting to buy one of that because just this improvement.

Another fancy thing is that Apple is working with Hermes and Nike to produce special edition using Hermes or Nike band. This smart move is made for those people who want to make their iwatch fancier. Here is a picture of Hermes iwatch.

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More details you can find in this video.

Future Home: the smart home

After IOS 10 had been released last week, the idea of the smart home appears in front of people’s view because of the new app called “Home” which has been added to IOS 10 system.

Actually, the smart home idea had been proposed years ago. Here is the video of Samsung’s smart home at 2014. Samsung makes this prototype of smart idea with simple use of Internet Of Things. It was pretty simple of smart house back to 2014 with just few of smart equipments. You just need to speak to your galaxy gear some orders like coming home. The equipments will response as the way you set up to.

After IOT has been developing these years, the smart home is becoming more and more humanized. Based on the new app on iphone, you can easily add a new scene with all the order you want your smart equipment to do. As you can see in this screenshot.

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The benefit of using apple home is that you can easily edit all your scene and you can even adjust the lightness of the room and the temperature of the AC.screen-shot-2016-09-16-at-2-12-57-pm

Hope this video will get you better understand of Apple home.

As the IOT is developing amazingly fast, our home will getting more and more smart. Enjoy smart living!

IOS 10: wins my heart back

After iphone 7 was released last week, there’re a lot of comments online about this new product which has been followed by apple fans for almost a year. Most of the comments are negative because of the removal of the headphone jack. Although this might be a brilliant idea of new revolution of smartphone. It must takes sometime for people to accept a phone without headphone jack. Some voices say that iphone 7 has very little difference with iphone 6. Less people want to buy iphone 7 to replace their iphone 6. Many people  thought iphone’s market has already gone because of lack of innovation.

Everything changes in my heart after I upgrade my iphone system to ios 10 yesterday night. Screen lock voice and typing voice have changed. Most surprising features of new system are the imessage and the band new app “Home” which has been automatically installed to the new system.

Let’s talk about new feature in imessage first. You can write messages by your hand nowadays. Amazing thing is that the receiver not only can see the thing you wrote, but also the trajectory of your writing which is really cool. Also you can send picture with invisible ink which means that the picture you sent is original blurred. After you touch a point on the picture, the picture starts being clear from the point you touched. Many other effects can be selected to attach on the message which is so cool. Some other cool feature like sending a heart, fire ball, kiss and heart-break can easily be sent by just some combination of one to two fingers. Here is the orientation video of the cool thing in imessage.

The other cool thing of ios 10 is the “Home” app. Although this app looks not as fancy as the new imessage. I trust this app will affect the whole world in the future. We just learn about the Internet of Things in class and IOT must be the future. At the beginning of IOT, more and more company starts doing research on smart things which can be connected to other items. More and more smart equipments will appear in front of people’s eye next days. And iphone with this “Home” app will be the terminal device of your smart equipments. This is a brilliant move of apple. Because the IOT is starting to attract people’s eye. The sooner apple let people know’s that apple will manage this stuff in the future. The more market apple can take over when IOT becomes popular.

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IOS 10 satisfies me so far. Therefore, I believe apple still holding the future.

No more parking issue: Spherical wheel

Anybody watched the science fiction film which called “I, Robot” at 2004 can’t forget the fancy Audi car Will Smith drove in the movie. Here is a short video of the movie.

Although the film was filmed more than 10 years ago, the car market changes a lot in this ten years. The future car in this movie is still one of the direction to reach future transportation system. Audi company plan to release the model Audi RSQ which appeared in the movie in the future but this is just a rumor because this will change the whole car market.

Goodyear, the tyre giant, spend a lot of resource on this future tyre. People will ask if the tyre is spherical, how does the car control the tyre without any bearing. Actually, there won’t be any physical connection between the car and the tyre. The spherical wheel car will use magnetic suspension technology. The car will be floating in the air in order to reduce friction. Goodyear calls this tyre “eagle-360”. The company says these multi-orientation tyres would provide superior manoeuvrability to today’s mechanically aligned wheels, letting each tyre independently respond to potential hazards, such as ice on the road or sudden obstacles.

The most advantage of the spherical wheels car is that it can go through those sharp turn easily without any scratch may happen on the normal cars. Because the car can go every direction while the car body remains the same direction. This can be used on parking cars. Most of the scratches happened in the parking lot while trying to do some sharp turning. After spherical wheel technology applied on the  future cars, less accident will happened and the efficiency  of the parking will increase in order to make more profit. Here is the video from Goodyear introducing their product.

Will spherical wheels car be the future? We’ll see.

 

Future butler: Jibo

Talking about the Internet of Things, the main area of IOT will be used in transportation and daily life. Today, I’ll mainly talk about a high-tech house robot: Jibo.

There were some robot in the market selling to family. But those robots are just for swiping floor or helping people do some simple stuff. Jibo, a revolutionary invention in family robot market, will be released this October for customer just in US and Canada because of the performance issue. The advertisement of Jibo covers the whole internet making people really looking forward to it.

Jibo can took photos of you and your family without clicking. You just have to tell Jibo to take a picture for you like asking a real people. Two hi-res cameras recognize and track faces, capture photos, and enable immersive video calling.

You can give Jibo orders like speaking to Siri in your iphone. Jibo is equipped by a 360° microphones and natural language processing which let you talk to Jibo from anywhere in the room. Jibo can do everything Siri can do. Most of people use Siri for reminder but the thing is you have to keep your phone with you and the message can just shown to you by appearing on the screen. Imagine you are making dinner at home with both of your hand messy, there’s no way you can check your phone. But Jibo is here! When Jibo receive a message, you can ask him to tell you the message without any clicking and he will remind you whatever you ask him to tell at that time. Like when you have to take out your cookie in the stove. He is a very helpful assistant in your home.

Here is a video of asking Jibo to order a pizza. The amazing thing is Jibo looks like a person who relates a lot of things of ordering a pizza such as asking somebody else to join the dinner and he can remind you this pizza contains something which your friend is allergic to. You’ll be shocked by how amazing this robot after this video.

Taking about IOT, Jibo can connect to some smart devices like smart light, smart TV, and smart AC. You can just tell Jibo to open the light in the bedroom while you are in kitchen. This make me thinking about the future life with these IOT around. Here is the testing video of Jibo opening the lights.

Be ready for this smart guy coming! And of course, new life is coming with world-shaking changes.

VR: a revolutionary product which will change the world

Virtual reality (or VR) is a computer technology that uses software-generated realistic images, sounds and other sensations to replicate a real environment or an imaginary setting, and simulates a user’s physical presence in this environment to enable the user to interact with this space. VR develops really fast this two years and already cover a lot of region. More and more technology company starts to make their own VR, such as Sony will release a brand new VR equipment for Play Station which is one of the biggest video game system.

Because of VR is one of the newest technology, that’s why those professional VR equipment are really expensive. But there’re some simple equipment just cost about 15 dollars. The left one is the simple version of VR which can be found in most of architectural studio. It is just made by a piece of chipboard and a piece of glass with special curve. What you need is using a professional application to make a video and put it into your phone then put your phone in this equipment and you can experience the video as you are actually in that scene. The one on the right is the professional VR from Sony that will release this October which can attached to Play Station and launch video games. But the price is over 800 dollars. I think the price will drop down as the technology getting maturer and more popular in the future.

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As we talk about the usage of the video game, this equipment change the whole world of video games. From the first video game on the gameboy to the video games nowadays on PC or Play Station, all video games are in two dimension. But VR changes all of this. We can visualize all the scene which is shown in the video games. For example, you are playing a shooting game with VR on. What you feel is that you are standing in the game with enemies surround you. This is not a video game anymore. This becomes an experience of game life which can’t feel as real as it with VR. This is a picture of a player playing a shooting game with his VR on.1297649399006_ORIGINAL

VR using in Architectural firms actually started few years ago. One of the reasons of why develop an equipment like this is for the architecture preview. Because of the high cost of changing design during construction, architects always want to preview how the building looks like before give the design to the construction manager. In the past, architects just can render pictures or a walkthrough to see the building from some chosen angles. There will always be some parts which were not noticed during designing. After the real building builds out, the architects are not comfortable of some details and will cost millions to fix a very small problem. But nowadays, designers and owners can use VR to see how the building looks like before it starts building. VR saves a lot of money for these companies.2U_HoloLens_Studio216_Building3-800x450

There’s a rumor that Alibaba will work with Microsoft to create a VR for shopping! The problem that people can’t see how the clothes and products look like while shopping online. This will rewrite the whole online shopping market. Just imagine how shock it will be.

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I am really expecting VR will popularize every region in the future. This is a big break of the combination of the virtual world and the real world.

Tesla autopilot: the future!

Autopilot, when people hear this, they always think about the aircraft autopilot. But now, we start to have the autopilot system for cars. Tesla, as known as the electric car, already made the storm in the car market recent years. The autopilot system makes the Tesla even more popular. Here is the video of testing drive of the Tesla autopilot. We’ll talk about the details of this system below.

After I visit Tesla’s website, I notice that Tesla company didn’t use the word autopilot. However, they use “autosteer”. Function of the autosteer is based on variety of measures including steering angle, steering rate and speed to determine the appropriate operation in order to make the driving experience easier. This is a small system of internet of things. All sensor around the car will give some information back to the main processor of the car. And the processor will give exactly the operation order to the car.press01_autopilot

Another ability is called auto lane change. The driver doesn’t have to turn the steering wheel. The system will automatically calculate when and how much angle should make to change lane.

The side collision warning will appear on the control panel to alert the driver when the car detects an object close to its side. The warning will try to warn the driver long time before the collision in order to leave some time for him to make some operation to avoid the accident. However, some people thought the car will operate the car out of the danger without doing anything themselves. The only thing this system will do is after three time of the warning, the car will automatically slow down to safety speed. press02_autopilot

The accident occurred May 7th in Williston makes everybody start think the safety of the autopilot system. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, says that Autopilot has been used for more than 130 million miles, noting that, on average, a fatality occurs every 94 million miles in the US and every 60 million miles worldwide. From this information, it’s not hard to see that actually autopilot is safer than the original way.

From my point of view, autopilot is getting better all the time, but it’s not perfect yet. People who is using this system should still pay attention on the road. But I strongly believe autopilot will be the future of the car.

Cool tips for ipad users

A lot of people owns a tablet nowadays. The most popular tablets are Microsoft surface and ipad. Most of people choose to buy the ipad because that ipad is lighter and simpler while using it. Today I will teach you some tips of ipad that just few of ipad users know about it.

First of all, we need to go to the settings and choose “General” at the left category. Then  find the first item at the right part of the screen which is “multitasking gestures“. Enable it! Now you can use the coolest thing of ipad.

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The first tip is that use five fingers touche the screen simultaneously and do the gesture like you are catching something. This will close the current app and return to the home page without using the home key. We all know that home key has the maximum of clicking. So this is a very convenient way to close an app and save the life of home key.close-app-gesture

The second one is that using four of five fingers vertically swiping up to open the multitasking app bar. This can also be done by quickly clicking home key twice. But as long as we want to keep your home key last longer so we are avoiding using home key. This is an old pic of older IOS system. But the trick is still working at the new system.swipe-up-multitask-bar

Last trick is amazing that you can switching apps immediately without open the multitasking app bar. Just use four or five fingers horizontally swiping to access the previous app or next app.

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One more incredible thing of the ipad is that you can do picture in picture feature. I remember using this feature on TV when I was young. I can watching two channel at the same time. This feature of ipad is way more amazing than that in TV. I can watch video on ipad while I am send the e-mail to my professor. It’s pretty easy to do this. First, open the video app and play the video then click home key while the video is still on play mode. Now you can see the video app shrink down to a little window still playing. You can easily change the window size and you can also close it without get into the multitasking app bar. Pretty cool, right?

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These tricks can just use in ipad equipment. iphone is too small for five fingers to touch together. I hope you enjoy your ipad with these nice tricks.

There will be no headphone jack in iphone 7 ?

One of the biggest news at the beginning of the September every year is the new release of iphone. There is no exception this year and the Apple company announced that the new iphone which is iphone 7 will be on market at September the 16th.

Based on the confidentiality rules and regulations of Apple company, Although they started assembling the new products month ago, there is still no reliable information of the new iphone. But the stunning rumor of the iphone 7 is that there will be no headphone jack.

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Why is Apple company abandoning the headphone jack? And how can people use headphone with the new iphone?

Apple company is doing the great job on making things lighter and thinner these years. Such as the new imac and the ipad pro. Things are getting thinner and thinner. I found my old iphone 4s when I am cleaning my shelves and I compare that to my recent phone iphone 6 plus. iphone 6 plus is almost half of the thickness of iphone 4s. And now, Apple company decided to ditch the 3.5mm head phone jack in order to make the new phone even thinner. This must be a sacrifice to make them thinner. My perspective is that even there will be a headphone jack on iphone 7, there will not be one in the future model.

In order to take place of the old headphone jack, Apple Company decided to make the headphone connecter to be exactly like the charger. Here is some pictures of the headphone might look like.

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But the problem is that, as long as there is just one pot, there is no way to listen to music by the headphone while charging, except you want to use the bluetooth headphone. I think Apple company should really consider this problem that might give costumers inconvenience.

All in all, I am really looking forward to see the new iphone 7. I expect it will surprise me.