Month: June 2017

Predicting Personality Traits from Content Using IBM Watson

James Robinson
Predicting Personality Traits from Content Using IBM Watson
Would you like to know what your customers want before they do? Of course. Every business wants to be able to anticipate the needs of their customers. And that starts by understanding customers in a deep and meaningful way. Unfortunately, that is getting harder and harder in our digital world… Consumers are increasingly less trusting and loyal Consumers have more... Read More

Sci-Fi Sundays: The Original Science Fiction Stories, March 1957

James Robinson
Sci-Fi Sundays: The Original Science Fiction Stories, March 1957
This is such a wonderful cover. The look on the lady’s face, the ridiculous zero-G fighting, and the bullets in the ray-gun are all fantastic. As I was looking over all the details on this cover though, I began to see a different story. Look at their clothing. The style is about what you’d expect from 50’s science fiction, with tight boots... Read More

Smart leggings by Wearable X vibrate to correct imperfect yoga poses

James Robinson
Smart leggings by Wearable X vibrate to correct imperfect yoga poses
These responsive leggings by tech brand Wearable X use gentle pulses to give instant feedback to the wearer on their yoga postures. The Nadi X leggings has five sensors embedded into the fabric. These connect via Bluetooth to an accompanying smartphone app to determine what yoga position the wearer is in. The app displays the pose and uses vibration to... Read More

Oxford University’s driverless car guru wouldn’t trust his kids in one…yet

James Robinson
Oxford University’s driverless car guru wouldn’t trust his kids in one…yet
The University of Oxford’s driverless car guru Paul Newman has admitted that he wouldn’t trust his kids in an autonomous vehicle yet, but remains bullish about a near-future where we wonder why we ever drove ourselves. Newman, speaking at the recording of ‘The Engineers: The Rise of the Robots’ a BBC Worldwide production hosted at London’s Science Museum, is Professor... Read More

Would you let a drone fly a ton of bricks over your house?

James Robinson
Would you let a drone fly a ton of bricks over your house?
Two weeks ago, a GoPro Karma drone crashed into the audience at a Major League Baseball game in San Diego. The pilot was identified, but local police weren’t familiar with the Federal Aviation Authority’s newly minted rules regarding safe use of drones, so he was let go without charge.  Accidents like this tend to receive lots of media coverage, with... Read More

Driverless cars and an automated future are a big problem for unskilled youth

James Robinson
Driverless cars and an automated future are a big problem for unskilled youth
In the United States there are around 3.5 million truck drivers, and when you combine that with all the cab and ride-sharing employees, that number creeps closer to 4 million, which is just over 1% of the country’s population.  Meanwhile in the UK there are 600,000 truck drivers, over 200,000 cab drivers, and we haven’t even gotten into more niche... Read More