Are wearables all they’re cracked up to be? As convenient as a smartwatch is for providing alerts, or a fitness band for keeping us in the loop on how far we’ve walked, do we really want to wear these devices? Some are bulky, some have poor battery life, some make us itch — and eventually, most Americans just stop wearing the wearables they’ve purchased. At least, according to a new...
If you've ever been frustrated while trying to repair your car, Metaio may have just the Google Glass app for you. Metaio, a company specializing in augmented reality technology, has come up with an app for Google Glass that will help you navigate the parts of your engine to allow you to do more of your own car maintenance. In a video published by Metaio, and currently turned to...
At Disney’s fan convention, D23 Expo, attendees were given an overview of Disney’s new wearable technology that will eventually be rolled out to all guests that visit Walt Disney World, MyMagic+. We’ve covered Disney’s MyMagic+ wristbands before here on TechnoBuffalo, and the technology itself seems pretty neat. A wearable wristband that park visitors can use for pretty much everything...
There were rumblings that Google Glass would be ready for a late 2013 release, and that was certainly the presumption that most of us in the tech biz had. But now new remarks from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt are pegging a later timeframe in 2014. Schmidt dropped that bomb when he spoke with Martha Kearney on BBC Radio 4 over the weekend for The World at One. In the middle of the...
It's unbelievable, what a tech genius has to go through these days just to get a chicken wrap: Professor Steve Mann said he and his family were at a McDonald's in Paris when employees accosted him, trying to rip his camera away from him before kicking him out. Problem was, the unit he was carrying was physically installed in his head. A University of Toronto professor of Electrical and...
Today’s touchscreen devices are great for a number of reasons. It certainly makes manufacturing easier, as there’s little to no hardware buttons involved. For end users, we don’t have to fiddle with pesky plasticky bits getting stuck or breaking off, nor do we need to worry about huge sausage fingers trying to hit an itty bitty set of keys. And these aren’t static inputs — software...
Once upon a time, consumer tech shoppers were stranded in The Land of Blah, locked in on all sides by a sea of big boxes and bulky CRT monitors, huge cellular bricks with jutting antennas and unwieldy consoles that inspired the masses to hide them in TV cabinets. But then something happened. A transformation took shape, as tech went from ugly ducklings for basement-dwelling geeks, to...