The launch of a newly developed BMW Group interface technology will provide BMW and MINI drivers with an easy-to-operate, intuitive way of using their iPhone and iPod touch in future BMW Group vehicles.
ENGADGET: BMW supports iPod Out, fills your 2011 auto with 2001's finest user interface
So now for something completely different: advanced technology for the last sixty years has meant computing power and its application but the interface with much of the 3 dimensional world is still extremely feeble because mechanical technology has been mostly overlooked since the mindset has been that mechanical has all been done plus it was never and will never be flashy.
The new interface technology was developed by an international cooperation of the BMW Research and Development Centre in Munich, Germany and the BMW Group Technology Office Palo Alto in Silicon Valley, California.
ENGADGET: BMW supports iPod Out, fills your 2011 auto with 2001's finest user interface
From the outside in, as befits a magazine about technology, Wired seems to understand the importance of little user-interface touches.
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.
The University of Delaware is selling licenses to its proprietary aggregator technology to companies to interface between individuals and RTOs or ISOs.
Simcoe, an assistant professor at Boston University, adds that such policies might also resolve a type of coordination problem often seen in the diffusion of technology standards, such as the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface or a new video game console.
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His team at the Neural Systems Laboratory, University of Washington, hopes to take brain-computer interface (BCI) technology to the next level by attempting to teach robots new skills directly via brain signals.
The new interface technology developed for this purpose by the BMW Group enables continued availability of iPod Out features of iPhone and iPod touch in vehicles and represents a new milestone in consumer electronic device vehicle integration.
ENGADGET: BMW supports iPod Out, fills your 2011 auto with 2001's finest user interface
Ultimately he welcomes technology going beyond what nature intended, exploring the full range of possibilities in the human-machine interface.
For example, all of our hardware now comes with a software interface that allows you to use the technology as a portal.
Google Glass has transmitters and receivers, cameras, a decent whack of a CPU to run the user interactions and interface, and the nifty screen technology.
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"Search technology is valuable but the next generation of search is going to be about premium content and the interface that users have to that content, " he said.
Mr. Zuckerberg provided few details on two of Facebook's recent big technology initiatives: its revamped Graph Search tool and its Home mobile interface for Google Inc.
"As OEMs adopt 3-D motion control technology, they're spurring a rapid evolution in computer interface innovations and helping free the full power and potential of computing for consumers, " said Leap Motion co-founder and CEO Michael Buckwald.
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