Finally, Gates unveiled a research initiative called SPOT, for smart personal object technology.
We had heard this rumor on the internets a little while ago, and now it looks like Swatch is really going to come out with a SPOT watch (SPOT, of course, being Microsoft's Smart Personal Object Technology that uses FM radio signals to send data to watches, like news, stocks, instant messages, etc.).
The homely, unappreciated wooden pallet is scarcely an object of high technology.
The e-commerce platform that UBee plans to launch next month will rely on SOAP, for Simple Object Access Protocol, a technology standard based on using "envelopes" that retailers and uBee use to exchange information quickly enough to make these real-time offers.
With further modifications to the system's image-processing software, the team said it believed the same technology could be used to measure an object's speed and direction.
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From the emergence of the spreadsheet to the era of social media, technology has continued to be that shiny object from which we cannot seem to remove our gaze.
Still, watching a product like this make the transformation from idea to real world object is about as good a selling point for the technology as we've seen.
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To that end, the team developed an iPad app that uses motion tracking technology to "map" a user interface onto different parts of an object.
In another industry first, the Chimera architecture includes persistent tap-to-track technology, which allows users to touch the image of a person or object to focus on within a scene.
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In case you are not familiar with the company, Garmin manufactures navigation, communications and information products based on GPS technology, which relies on satellites to precisely determine the geographic location of a person or object.
The smart bag, called Build Your Own Bag (bYOB), is just one object that can be constructed using computerized fabric patches designed by a team of engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
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