On Fridays I post here my favorite stories about emerging technologies, experiential activations, interactive art, advances in scientific research, and other things I find inspirational.
Apple now has an official permit to test driverless cars in California:
Image: Lexus
A look at “adversarial machine learning” tricks that can fool image & facial recognition AI systems:
Image: William Joel / The Verge
Farfetch is working to bring the data knowledge of online shopping to the retail store of the future:
Image: Farfetch
Project Portal is a proof of concept semi truck that runs on Toyota’s Mirai fuel cell system:
Image: Toyota Motor NA
Tonight (April 19) there’ll be a projection show on the north side of the Empire State Building – if you’re in midtown look up:
Image: Obscura Digital
Facebook developed a brain-computer interface that turns thoughts into text at 100 words per minute:
Image: Chief Photographer/MOD, OGL
Mastercard introduced a biometric credit card with a fingerprint sensor to recognize its owner:
Image: Mastercard
Lilium had a successful test flight of the world’s first electric VTOL jet:
Image: Lilium
Bridgestone has developed air-free bicycle tires that totally avoid punctures & changing flats:
Image: Bridgestone
AeroMobil showed off the production version of its flying car in Monaco, available in 2020 for $1M+:
Image: AeroMobil
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