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Apple in China with first research and development center

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Jules Wang

Apple has once again expanded its development footprint with a new R&D center in the heart of Beijing, according to Digitimes.The company has invested about $15 million into the venture and it is expected that Apple will add another $30 million of capital. Apple will move in 500 employees into the Zhongguancun Science Park to work on “computer software and hardware products, communication, audio and video devices, as well as advanced technologies for consumer electronics and the information industry.” According to the website for the park,

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Press, pan and twist: university researchers extend Android Wear interaction methods

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Jules Wang

What if every Android Wear watch was more than just about pressing a button and swiping on a screen? Universities have been looking into creating new interaction methods with our mobile technology for years now and it seems like the University of St Andrews holds the lead in wristwear at this point with its WatchMI interface.Much unlike

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Meet Queen University’s HoloFlex, a flexible smartphone that produces holograms

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Jules Wang

The Human Media Lab at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, isn’t a stranger to mobile innovations — it made the ReFlex flexible smartphone concept after all. But in light of holograms (heh) becoming more and more popular in consumer technology, students at the school have decided to take it up to the next step with a

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GfK: the smartphone market has turned cheap

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Jules Wang

Samsung and Apple have likely been feeling the effects of a consumer trend concerning to their bottom lines.German market research group GfK believes that smartphone sale revenues for Q4 of 2015 have dropped at annual rate of 0.2 percent to $115.2 billion. That said, a record 368 million phones were sold, up 6 percent ...

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Carnegie Mellon and Disney team up to figure out what you’re touching with a smartwatch

Posted on November 11, 2015November 11, 2015 by Jules Wang

Magnets. How’s that to start a story?In the case that we have here, it’s actually cheating. We’re talking about electromagnetism, native to almost all technologies we use every day from door handles to cars and toasters. All of these objects have naturally-emitting and unique EM noise signatures. Just by touching them, those signals pass through your body.It’s not often (I believe never before on ...

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