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Hexo+:gopro Extreme Sports Photography's god partner! Six-axis aircraft hexo+ can automatically follow the camera

There are more and more people who like to play the aerial, but it is not easy to manipulate the aircraft. Before we introduced a ghost intelligent aerial robot, can be completely controlled by smart phones, easy to start. But even so, someone needs to manipulate it.

Recently in Kickstarer online a six-axis aircraft hexo+, can automatically follow the camera, really in the process of freeing hands. Users first need to create their own 3D models on a matching app, follow an aerial camera on an aircraft, and then automatically wait for the aircraft to walk with you.

Hexo+ 's ability to do so is due to the use of the newly developed Mavlink port at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, which allows real-time data to be transmitted between aircraft and drones. In addition, through the GPS and the corresponding sensors so that the aircraft can judge and predict the target location, so as to achieve the results of the following shooting.

hexo+ weighs 980 grams, it can fly to the height of nearly 50 meters, can reach 72 km/h/hour, it is very suitable for the extreme sports shooting, because hexo+ also with GoPro in the sale, the price is 1099 dollars. At present, Hexo+ has raised more than 600,000 dollars in Kickstarter to complete the expected fund-raising plan.

Mankis the knight's cube, cycling can turn fat into electricity.

As a cycling enthusiast, do you always worry about the digital devices you carry without the power to take photos, play mobile phone? Long-distance ride, also need to carry a flashlight, mobile power, backpack more and more heavy? It seems to be a small problem, but it is one of the most important concerns of cyclists.

Mankis launched a bicycle-powered mobile device Knight Rubik's Cube, collecting all the energy in the process, into electrical energy, storage for mobile phones, cameras, tablets and other equipment charging.

The product of the Rubik's Cube is divided into two parts, one is the generator and the other is power. The generator part is fixed in the front of the front wheel fork and the drum, the power supply can be moved, can be fixed on the handlebar, can also be removed. The capacity of the power supply is 5000MA. The speed at which we normally ride can generally reach 20km/h, which can charge about 800MA. The iphone's battery capacity is typically 1400MA and can be filled in two hours.

In the process of cycling, the speed is different, the energy produced is also different. In order not to waste these energies, the Knight Rubik's Cube uses a dual-module input conversion circuit, which can automatically switch working mode according to the speed of riding, ensuring efficient conversion of electric energy without wasting any energy in the cycling.

Nokia in 2010, with the C-series mobile phone released a bicycle charger set, through the induction wheel rotation for power generation, mainly in Kenya and other developing countries, sold for less than 20 euros. Wu Zongji said the two principles are similar, but Nokia's mobile charging device still needs to rely on friction to generate electricity, they are driven by wheel rotation to drive the generator, cutting the magnetic line, more efficient, and will not wear tires, to ensure the safety of riding.

As a curtilage woman, this product I have not tried. But with the likes of outdoor sports friends to communicate, we all feel that this product is highly practical. However, they also point out that it would be inconvenient to take down the wheels of a bicycle when taking a generator. At present, this product has landed Pozible platform for the public, now you can lower than the market price of 199 yuan to make a reservation, and expected July receipts.

There are many areas of daily life that have not been touched by technology, which, once excavated, may contain a large market. Such products as the Knight Rubik's Cube, there is no major breakthrough and innovation in technology, but it captures a segment of the user pain point, to address this part of the user's needs.

Now the threshold of hardware entrepreneurship is getting lower, whether the Giants or small and medium-sized entrepreneurs are scrambling to pour in, smart watches, smart bracelet, tracker, environmental monitors are emerging, but very few innovative ideas, can be robbed of the market is very limited, the profit is a handful. In fact, the specific needs of particular groups in the niche are not necessarily another option in areas where their team understands the deepest. Ithermonitor, which specializes in helping children measure body temperature, Zepp such as golf enthusiasts, also have good development.

Build a soft and hard image service empire, Adobe officially sells electronic pencil

This year software companies do not release a few hardware, it seems to be embarrassed to tell people that they are IT companies, soft and hard combination is becoming a major trend.

From the Adobe website, Adobe officially sold two hardware devices. The two hardware devices on sale are the electronic Pen project Mighty and electronic ruler Project Napoleon, which was unveiled last May. Two equipment must be purchased at the official website, the price is 200 U.S. dollars.

Electronic pen Project Mighty is bluetooth-enabled, sensitive to pressure, can draw lines of different widths, adjust colors, and invoke other tools. The electronic ruler Project Napoleon is used to project different lines and plane shapes to the screen to make it easy for the user to draw the exact lines and edges for the construction project.

Adobe has also specifically developed two supporting mobile-end applications for two hardware: Adobe sketch and Adobe Line. Two applications are targeted at different groups of people.

Sketch is a social, entertainment application that offers a complete set of simple tools (including pencils, pens, mixed marks and erasers) that users can freely play. Users can create their own, you can also call Creative cloud in the picture and then strokes, and then hide the original image. User-drawn pictures can either exist in mobile devices or can be shared by Creative Cloud, which other users can comment on.

Line is inclined to produce sophisticated drafts and drawings, for the construction engineers and designers. Line provides a ruler, T-squares and shape templates and other traditional tools, but also provides virtual three-dimensional space of the horizontal line, to facilitate the designers to draw. However, these two applications do not support the function of filling color.

Add voice function of small Tony-level speakers in addition to control music can also be linked home appliances

A small Tony speaker is a project that has just come online for a roll call, and you can interpret it as a WiFi speaker running the Android system. Since the boundaries with the traditional speakers, it will be different from the usual features of the product features, which attracts me most of the two points.

The first is the Voice control music, through the voice can control the music play and switch, this kind of "listen" the music way in the specific occasion (for example, bath toilet, lie in bed before bedtime bedroom) is actually quite practical.

The second is the Voice control appliance, which sounds sci-fi. Just enter the house, as long as a shout "help me turn on the light + open air-conditioning + TV + Close the curtains", all the traditional home appliances began to start their own. But this is a bit far away, small wisdom is only open the interface, when access to third-party intelligent devices, only through voice control appliances, realize linkage. They are now collaborating with smart hardware such as Euribo and the Dream Future robot dog, and will also bring in other devices.

In addition, the small Tony-level speakers have similar to Siri's artificial intelligence interaction, and every day to work together to ensure that the number of music clouds.

However, the current small wisdom in software is not perfect, such as the inability to recognize a foreign language, instant everyday beautiful music library have these songs can not play.

Speakers will be a new opportunity in the hardware, even if the traditional speakers in the sound quality and brand has an almost unshakable status, but they are not good at intelligent control. Speakers from the traditional "migration" to intelligence, start-up companies are likely to have many opportunities.

The more information to share the more transparent clothes, dare not try to wear?

Do you share obsessive-compulsive disorder? Three minutes do not share the circle of friends, will not feel a bit less sense of existence? Big fast after the meal not to micro Bo Shou, is not the whole person is bad? In fact, the debate about social and antisocial issues has been going on for a while. It's like the pros and cons of a coin, and there's no way to say which is better or worse.

Recently, New York University student Xuedi Chen and his partner, Pedro Oliveira, have come up with a bizarre way of linking the exposure of personal privacy data on the web to real-world nudity.

Xuedi Chen made a stomacher coat with a 3D print technique and inlaid the discolored film on a grid-like garment. The processor Arduino in the mobile app will transfer the current to the film sheet based on the location of the person who dresses and the amount of data she shares in real time, thus making the smart film film Transparent. Every piece of information that is shared on the web, a small chunk of the dress becomes transparent. If you are a "do not share the dead star", it is likely that you will be "naked" exposed to the people.

Xuedi Chen said they made one of these clothes mainly to appeal to people to pay attention to privacy, do not casually personal privacy, data casually exposed to the service provider. Although such clothing is estimated to be very few people dare to wear, but it is a good "anti-social" behavior of art.

When all kinds of wearable devices are popular, camera sensors can be filmed at any time, and privacy issues will inevitably be discussed later. There is no security can not have privacy, before the privacy or security to do, do not know smart home and new hardware at this point is not ready.