Innovative Technology of the Week | Handsfree Everything

Forget touch screen, how about a screen you manipulate with a wave of your hand? The video below shows the many applications in which touchless interfaces and gesture control could prove incredibly useful and just plain fun. And "Unleash your inner jedi" may be the best tagline we've heard in years. 

Learn more about this handsfree technology here 

Innovative Tech of the Week | Seven Species of Robots

Watch below and try to tell us you don't want to attend a Robot World Cup. 

Innovative Tech of the Week | Robot Restaurants

A restaurant opened in June in China, and the 20 robots that work there, are quickly becoming a marketing piece for the town and a model for robotics replacing humans in the services industry. 

"Upon arrival, Usher Robot welcomes customers to the restaurant and directs them to the seating area. Patrons can then place their order, which is relayed by humans to one of the four the robot chefs who are able to cook various styles of dumplings and noodles. The robot chefs even determine the temperature and ingredients for each dish and usually take about 3 minutes to prepare the average order. These robot chefs are no slouches either. The kitchen staff is able to prepare a menu of over 30 dishes--perfect for a family dinner."

How many more of these restaurants will we see in the coming years? How does such technology lessen or improve the experience of the consumer?

Click here to learn more about China's robot restaurant in Harbin 

The Jobsite of the Future | Construction Executive

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Construction Executive Magazine | January 17, 2012 

The Jobsite of the Future  
By James M. Benham  

Thirty years ago, construction projects involved a great deal of snail mail, phone calls to landlines, stacks of blueprints and a few Rolodexes. Today, microwave-sized desktop computers are a fading memory, and customized project management software comes to the rescue at least once a day. There’s also a 40 percent chance readers will view this article on their smartphones.  

The construction industry wasn’t always so progressive. During the last 10 years, industry professionals started to see the benefit of paperless plan rooms and automated systems. Now imagine what technology will be used in the next 50 years. From holograms to self-sufficient robots, developing technology suggests what a construction site of the future might look like...

Click here to read the full article