The document contains summaries of various technology news articles: 1. A coding kit called the Avenger kit allows kids to create superpowers using electronic blocks to attach to a sleeve with buttons and lights. 2. At a festival in San Francisco, augmented and virtual reality art was displayed using tablets and other technologies like projection mapping and 3D printing. 3. An insurance company created a robotic stuffed duck companion called "My Special Aflac Duck" to help comfort children with cancer. 4. Researchers are developing a wireless body tracker using AI to monitor things like tumor movement, heart rate, and deliver drugs inside the body.

1. Tech Briefing

2. A coding kit to become a superhero
The Avenger coding kit is a collaboration
between LittleBits and Marvel. It allows kids
(or not) to create their own superpower; the
kit contain electric building blocks that you
can attach to a transparent sleeve: button,
sound effects, round led etc. It's available
since the 24th of August.
Entertaiment
#parenting

3. When augmented reality meets Art
The festival of the impossible that took place in
San Francisco earlier this summer, oriented the
conversation around "how augmented and virtual
reality change our perspectives and interaction
with artworks.". Tablets were available for the
attendees to see the augmented reality art pieces,
but the festival also included projection mapping,
3D printing, Generative design all those
technologies that disrupt our art approach.
AR
Art

4. Virtual companion
Aflac an insurance company based in the
United States, created what the named "My
Special Aflac Duck", a smart robotic
companion in from of a stuffed duck. It was
conceived to provide a virtual companion,
to help comfort children coping with cancer
and it was distributed to nearly 16,000
children in the US free of charges.Robot
Health

5. Robot personification
A team of German researchers recently
published a study on human and machine
interaction, especially on what discourage
people to switch a robot off. It appeared that
the participants, after interacting socially with
the robot, were less likely to turn it off when it
was asking not them to. You can see the
reasons why the participants didn't turn it off.
Please don't turn me off!
Robot
Virtual
companion

6. A GPS for the body
Researchers from the MIT computer
science Lab are developing an AI powered
wireless tracker for the inside human body.
With this technology, it will become
possible to track the movement of a tumor,
track the heart rate, or to deliver drugs
directly to a specific part of the body.
Health
Wearable tech

7. A magic mirror
Naked is a Smart Mirror that does 3D body scan
targeting individuals, It has been developed by
Naked Labs. It tracks through an app your body fat
percentage, Lean mass, fat mass and create a
graph with your historical data. It is still in a
Research and development phase but already
raised $14 million with pre orders!
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who's the most beautiful
in the land? Congratulation you have less body fat
that 60% of the Us population!
Computer vision
Health & Sport

8. Not to be or to be a potato
Created by Burrow, a couch company, Couch
potato is an anti step tracking app. It rewards
you for chilling. It uses your motion and activity
fitness tracker inside your phone and reward
you for your inactivity, level 2: 50 dollars off on
a 1,000 dollars Burrow purchase. It is
remarkable because it takes the obverse to
the actual activity tracker trend and
encourages you to indulge.
Indulgence
Mobile app

9. Zapping chopsticks
Dr. Nimesha Ranasinghe of the Multisensory
Interactive Media Lab of Maine, integrated
Electrodes to Chopsticks and Miso Soup Bowl that
zap your tongue while you are eating. It seems
painful, but it is not, it permits to add the
impression of seasoning to your meal without
adding any. The chopsticks can stimulate the taste
of sourness, bitterness or saltiness when in
contact to the tip of the tongue. I can not wait for it
to make Broccoli tastes like pizza!
Food & beverage
Assisted
development

10. Another facial recognition system
Tokyo decided to use facial recognition to up
the security during the Olympic Games. The
first technology of its kind to be used at an
Olympics has been developed by NEC. It uses
IC chips and computer vision and decreases
waiting time for athletes strengthening the
security. It works 99.7% of the time, and the
number is not supposed to change depending
on the nationality of the morphology of people.
Security over
privacy
Computer vision

11. A jersey 2.0
Nike developed NFC-replica sport jersey for the
Chelsea soccer team. Buying their 90 dollars
Jersey and scanning the label, you can with the
Nike connect app, access Exclusive content:
playlists, video, lottery to win a ticket, etc. On the
video you can see the NFC-enabled replica shirt
that Nike created one year ago for the NBA. In
addition to create an exclusive experience, it
permits to fight against counterfeits.
Entertaining tech
Sport

12. AI and Economies
For the technology skeptics, and haters, according
to a Mckinsey Global Institute's simulation model:
AI could trigger 13 million dollars in additional
economic activity in the next decade. For the
countries able to surf the wave, that position
themselves as AI leaders, they are expecting an
additional GDP growth of 20-25%. I have my
preference but for you, USA or China ?
AI
Economics

13. Clean up the Ocean
The Ocean Cleanup is a foundation that raised
multi million of dollars, as its name indicates, to
clean up the ocean. For big problems, big
solutions, they developed an autonomous and
energy neutral floating vessel to free the ocean
from plastic pollution. This giant 2,000 foot, U-
shaped collection system had been unleashed last
Saturday off the Californian coast. Can tech fix our
mistakes? I would like too!
AI
Purposeful tech

14. Thank you
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