Emerging Technology News

For many property seekers, 1 Campden Hill is the ultimate dream home; this London mansion is making waves in the world of property, but not for the reasons you’d expect… the most remarkable thing about the luxury London home is the fact that it doesn’t actually exist yet – all images of the mansion are entirely computer-generated. Looking at the images of the exquisite mansion interiors where every detail is perfectly in place, it’s hard to believe that they’re artificially generated. The incredibly realistic images made possible by today’s CGI technology could soon make it possible for property firms to put mansions and property for sale in Islington and beyond on the market – before they have even been built!

The world of gaming could soon be changing forever with the advent of motion recognition clothing – a Minnesota-based technology company has just been awarded a patent for a motion recognition suit that could act as a full-body game controller for the wearer. Gaming platforms like the Nintendo Wii console and the Xbox Kinect input device brought motion control to the gaming industry and were phenomenally successful. Now, consumers could be stepping out of their high visibility clothing after a hard day’s work and donning a motion recognition suit to enjoy fully interactive gaming.

When travelling in a foreign country, language can be a huge barrier to overcome especially in some more remote corners of our globe. Vocre is aiming to solve those issues with a translation app that will cover a multitude of languages worldwide to assist travellers in asking correct questions to get directions to the bathroom instead of being sent to a gift store. What sets this iPhone application apart from others is that while it starts with a base of information from professional translators, it can be customised through local use to ensure that dialects are taken into account. With a continuously updating translation database for Vocre, it strives for consistent accuracy in its actions.

In the past several years, we’ve seen more technological advances make the transition from the realm of fantasy to everyday reality than ever before. Futuristic fashion is no exception, and now, consumers have the chance to own a pair of Back to the Future shoes – the glowing, auto-strapping boots made famous by the iconic Back to the Future trilogy during the 1980’s.

The many benefits of LED lights have been lauded for years and have resulted in thousands of people converting from the old candescent bulb to LED lighting. In fact, people rarely use calescent and fluorescent lighting anymore because one of the benefits of LED lights is that they can transmit bright and very high intensity light. For this reason they have been found useful to light up areas both indoors and outdoors, and are available in dimmable lights, strip lighting and module lighting, among others. There is sure to be LED lighting to suit your requirements, while simultaneously offering its myriad benefits.

The Smartphone Voice Actions feature has made a world of difference to English speakers; provided they have American accents. English speakers in European countries have been unable to use this technology because it fails to pick up on words and commands unless they have an American twang. However, Google is in the final testing stages of new Smartphone Voice Command technology that recognises British English, as well as French, German, Spanish and Italian.

Logistics technology is something that has been a large area of development in the last decade, with the global market causing mass import and export between ports at higher rates than before. Whether companies are using sea freight, rail or roads, clients always need to know where their goods are and the condition that the goods are in. New technology in the field of logistics enables clients to now check the exact location of their packages as well as any other details through new sensors which are placed in the containers from the supply point, creating greater efficiency in the industry.

Hosting and maintaining your own IT solutions is an expensive burden to any company, especially if you are not even working within the Internet industry. Colocation hosting, is a practical and cost effective solution that has been provided for small to medium sized industries, but what exactly is it all about? What is Colocation hosting and why should my company look to invest in this technology? These managed server hosting solutions take care of everything that your company already does on its own, at a cheaper rate and with many more benefits.

It seems tweets and trades go hand-in-hand these days…

The advent of the Internet broke down plenty of barriers and allowed everyday people to join major players in the world of forex online. This means that forex speculators, in their individual capacity, can in theory trade alongside large multinational corporations, central banks and hedge funds. Of course this all sounds a little daunting, and unless you’re one of those expert forex brokers MT4 you’ll find there are plenty of things you need to learn to make an informed trading decision online. Without the correct knowledge and resources, online forex trading can be a gamble, costing new and inexperienced traders more than they bargained for. However, some traders have started harnessing the power of social media to ensure that they make better forex decisions and can ultimately share their knowledge with fellow forex fanatics online.

Until now CCTV technology has been limited to simply recording a scene for video. However, new technology that can analyse the pitch, tone and intonation of noises is being added to video recording software, which will enable it to determine whether or not the noises pose a threat.

The software goes beyond just inserting a microphone into a video camera. It is able to distinguish whether or not the sound is a threat using sophisticated technology that is not based on just volume. In fact the technology used in the CCTV cameras does not use volume as a trigger at all simply because often the cameras will be placed quite far from actual people and the volume will automatically be lower. Instead the new technology focuses on tone, pitch and intonation to determine the levels of aggression in the voice.