NAVIG is a multidisciplinary and innovative project aiming at augmenting the autonomy of visually impaired people in their basic daily actions the most problematic: navigation and object localization. This video presents the different components of the systems (artificial vision, 3D sounds rendered by binaural synthesis, pedestrian GIS, vocal interface,...) and the prototype being developed.
It's the new AECT web presence front door and it's currently under development. Over the next month or so, it will be taking on different shapes and colors as we experiment with how the site works.
Yuval Noah Harari speaks with Impact Theory host, Tom Bilyeu. Yuval and Tom explore the potential implications of hacking humans, both the benefits and the r
On October 10, 1957, the world's first major nuclear accident took place. The Windscale fire happened in Cumbria, U.K. and was Great Britain's worst nuclear accident in history.
Today 206 years ago, engineer John Augustus Roebling was born. He was best known for the design of the Brooklyn Bridge. Sadly Roebling passed away 14 years before the famous bridge in New York City was opened.
Tim Berners-Lee should know what he is talking about, when he says 'Celebrity damages private life'. The person who is considered to be the inventor of the World Wide Web was born today 57 years ago.
61 years ago today, on June 14th 1951 the very first electronic computer produced in series (and in the United States), the UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer) was delivered to the US States Census Bureau at the price of $1.6 Mio.
Have a story you want to share about the role of technology in your life? Want to rant about a particularly unfair policy at your school surrounding internet use? Want to share your favorite new technological tool with us? Related to the book Born Digital and the initiative of the Digital Natives project, an interdisciplinary collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen.