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Le projet Ara sera disponible en beta en janvier 2015 à partir de 50$-Hier se tenait la première conférence autour du projet Ara de Google, le fameux smartphone modulaire développé au sein du Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) qui appartenait à Motorola Mobility.

Le Journal du GeekPour l’instant aucun modèle fonctionnel n’a été montré,

mais cela devrait être le cas au cours des deux prochaines

conférences programmées en juillet et septembre.

Cependant Google a lâché des infos sur ce projet Ara,

qui sera finalement disponible en janvier 2015 dans une

version beta. L’endoSquelette (trois tailles différentes

entre 3 et 6 pouces seront disponibles), pièce centrale du

projet, devrait être commercialisée à partir de 50$ (cela

comprend l’écran), le reste des pièces sera en vente dans

une boutique type Play Store et les personnalisations seront

très nombreuses aussi bien au niveau des composants

(APN, batterie, mémoire, processeur, capteurs…) que de

leur « design » (couleurs, matière…) ! Pour un smartphone

haut de gamme entièrement personnalisé, il faudra donc

compter environ 500$.

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Will Wearable Technology Be The Next Office Tool? -Forbes TechThere was little argument among the experts in Las Vegas this past January about who – or rather what – was the scene-

stealer at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. It was all about the wearables.

This year’s CES conference was “the real inflection point for wearable devices,” John Curran, a communications and tech

consultant, told the Financial Times. “It’s about these devices moving from niche applications and early adopters into much

more mainstream products.”

Wearable computers include a variety of devices, from eyewear such as Google Glass to smartwatches such as the Samsung

Gear. In general, though, wearables are defined as miniature electronic devices that are worn somewhere on a user’s body

and enable users to more tightly integrate computing experiences

into everyday life.

That makes sense when you think about a runner being able to look

down at her smartwatch to find a new route or check her pulse, but

what does this look like in a business? Companies–and IT depart-

ments–are just starting to figure that out.

The promise of these devices will start to be seen in businesses in

2014,” said JP Gownder, a Forrester Research analyst who follows

wearable computers. “Enterprises need to start putting together a

road map for thinking about how wearables can improve their busi-

nesses.”

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CarPlay s’intègre chez Alpine et Pioneer-Journal du GeekCarPlay, le système d’affichage et d’optimisation d’applications iOS d’Apple dans les écrans des tableaux de bord, ne va pas

se limiter à une poignée de véhicules neufs – et hors de prix, les premières voitures équipés CarPlay cette année devant

sortir des lignes de production de Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz ou Volvo.“Une fois l’iPhone connecté au système de divertissement d’un véhicule compatible, CarPlay affiche sur l’écran du tableau de bord une série d’applications mobiles optimisées”

Les possesseurs de véhicules plus anciens ne seront pas laissés sur

le bord de la route. Deux constructeurs de consoles de voitures ont

annoncé le support de CarPlay dans certaines gammes de leurs

produits.

Chez Alpine, on annonce officiellement l’intégration de CarPlay dans plusieurs

unités du catalogue, avant la fin de l’année. Le fabricant n’annonce aucun tarif,

et n’indique pas non plus si certains systèmes déjà sortis pourront bénéficier du

support de la plateforme intégrée d’Apple.

On se fait plus précis du côté de Pioneer, en annonçant une mise à jour du firm-

ware pour les consoles AVIC-F60DAB, AVIC-F960DAB, AVIC-F960BT, AVIC-

F860BT et AVH-X8600BT. Déjà disponibles dans le commerce, ces stations

multimédia sont équipées d’un écran LCD tactile. Leurs prix varient de 679 à

1.190 euros; la mise à jour sera disponible cet été.

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DARPA is turning drones into wireless hotspots-

The VergeGoogle and Facebook aren’t the only ones trying to beam down connectivity from the sky: DARPA, the US Defense

Department’s advanced research agency, is trying to turn drones into hotspots for high-speed wireless networks, and

it recently completed an initial testing and development phase on the program working toward that goal. The major

developments were in the creation of steerable antennas and efficient radio amplifiers for the hotspots. DARPA also

created a housing for the hotspots, which will eventually be mounted on drones that have traditionally been used for

surveillance.

DARPA’s hope is to have the hotspot’s communication speeds rival those of a 4G cell network, eventually allowing the

drones to easily extend connectivity into remote locations where the military may be otherwise unable to access intel-

ligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance data. The hotspot program began back in 2012, and it just started its second

phase last month, in which it will begin to integrate the wireless radios onto ground vehicles. The hotspots will eventually

be tested on a network of multiple drones in the third and final phase.

Though it’s not stated how the hotspots are currently communicating, DARPA stated back in 2012 that it expects to take

advantage of commercial technologies, such as Wi-Fi, WiMax, or LTE. The hotspots will be compatible with military pro-

tocols too, however. “We’re pleased with the technical achievements we’ve seen so far,” DARPA program manager Dick

Ridgway says in a statement, referring to the program’s work on antennas and amplifiers. Though DARPA clearly has a far

different goal than Google and Facebook, their similar ideas suggest that this type of project could become an increasingly

easy one to get off the ground.

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Athos Base Series : les vêtements connectés de fitness-Athos Base Series est une ligne de vêtements connectés pour le fitness qui mesure l’activité de 16 groupes musculaires distincts et de prodiguer des conseils en temps réel.

Connected-Objects.frLes textiles connectés suscitent un doux rêve parmi les

passionnés d’objets connectés : celui de pouvoir porter

des vêtements anodins qui mesureraient notre état de

santé, et nous renseigneraient sur notre activité physique.

Les vêtements connectés sont véritablement à la croisée

du quantified self et de l’ingénierie textile. Et les concepts

de t-shirts connectés ne manquent pas : nous vous avons

déjà parlé du t-shirt Hexoskin, du D-shirt mais aussi des

vêtements OMSignal.

Le nouveau concept qui nous intéresse ici est l’oeuvre

d’étudiants brillants de l’université de Waterloo au Canada

qui ont mis au point Athos Base Series, une ligne de

vêtements connectés dédiés à la pratique du fitness.

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APPLICAtIoNS

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Cups App : For $45 Per Month, All the Coffee You Can Drink-New York caffeine junkies, look alive: A new app called CUPS allows subscribers to pay $45 per month for unlimited coffee from almost 40 independent coffee shops around the city.

Bloomberg BusinessweekDesigned by a small team from Israel, the app is intended

as an alternative to the smartphone loyalty cards offered

by the likes of Starbucks (SBUX). “It’s a similar service,” says

Gilad Rotem, a co-founder of the startup, which is also

called CUPS. “We’re offering a mobile app, prepaid plan,

but it’s for independent, higher-quality coffee.”

New Yorkers will pay $45 a month for brewed, drip, pour-

over, or filtered coffee (or tea). Latte drinkers will pay more:

The unlimited espresso subscription costs $85 a month.

Rotem says the prices are equivalent to about 22 cups, or

roughly one java beverage per workday per month. On

average, Americans consume 1.7 cups of coffee a day,

according to Studylogic, which means a CUPS subscription

may not be a bad deal.

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Scanbot Scans and Uploads Multipage PDFs Directly to the Cloud-LifehackerAndroid: In the future, paper (much like running) will only exist for recreation, for fun. In the meantime, we still have to deal with

annoying contracts, memos, and receipts. All of which can be scanned instantly and uploaded directly to Dropbox, Evernote,

and more with Scanbot.

This app isn’t the first of its kind, but its one of the simplest. Simply point your camera at a document and it will scan it, and

do some automatic perspective correction. From there you can upload it to a number of cloud services, including Dropbox,

Evernote, Box, Google Drive, and OneDrive.

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This Google App Lets You Control Your Computer From Your Phone-Remote desktops are nothing new, but Google has now released a slick app that makes the process a pleasure rather than wildly frustrating. The new software will let you control your Mac or PC from any Android device.

GizmodoChrome Remote Desktop app for Android—snappy!—is an

extension of existing Google software that allows to control your

desktop remotely from within Chrome. But this is way more useful

for those on the go. Getting it working is simple enough: download

the helper app for your computer from the Chrome Web Store (XP

and up, OS X 10.6 and above, and Linux, too) and install the remote

desktop app on your Android from Google Play. Then, you should

be able to open the app and connect to any of your computers and

do, well, whatever you need to do.

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DESIGN

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What is User Experience? (UX)-

Now it’s time to dive deep into the second ocean, User Experience or UX. Basically, the term user experience is usually tagged with the word “design” which makes it user experience design. So, you get it…this is the reason why many of us gets confused between UI and UX design.

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Examples of Well Designed Contact Pages-WDLOften, with websites, the contact page is one of the most

neglected pages on the site. Once everything else has

been designed it’s pretty easy to just put up a contact page

with an email address on it and let the user do the rest

of the work, but that’s an approach that lacks elegance.

Good contact pages solve a purpose – they guide the

user to contact the correct department and give the right

information. In the case of freelance designers and small

design shops, contact pages can aim to coax information

like what sort of budget range the visitor has, what sort of

work they want doing and the scope of their project. Of

course, design agencies also need to make sure the page

is also visually appealing, as it helps to show off the work

they can do.

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Website Designs that are People-friendly are Google-friendly-Google has always had the goal of making sure that their search engine provides the most relevant results to searchers.

Through the use of algorithms, Google determines how related a site is when an Internet user completes a search for a

certain keyword or keyword phrase. Recently, though, Google has made some very drastic changes to its algorithms. These

updates have left many unaware website owners wondering how to make their sites appear on Google searches.

Interestingly enough, these changes actually help website designers and developers. As a designer or developer, hopefully

you know about adding keywords to meta data within a website design. Even though many are crying “SEO is dead”, this is

only partly true. What is dead are non-organic methods of link building. Websites still need to optimize their designs with

keywords in meta data simply as a way to help Google better know what a website offers. However, now, as Andrew Smith

in his article on Usabilla points out, the website design, the content as a whole, and social media activity now all have very

large parts to play in Google algorithms. In other words, usability is key in creating a Google approved website.

Websites need to have designs that are built for those who are interested in their content – their target audience in market-

ing terms. Designers need to have a clear picture of their client’s target market and know what appeals to this market, what

is the trend, and how to create a design that Google can easily crawl.

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MAGASINS CoNNECtéS

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Quelle expérience client pour ce concept store O2 à Berlin ?-La Minute RetailEn route pour l’Allemagne et plus précisément la ville de Berlin aujourd’hui avec ce concept store très interactif de l’opérateur

de télécommunication o2.

Dans ce point de vente physique, force est de constater que la technologie digitale est à l’honneur, renforçant au passage la

relation des clients aux produits et aux services ainsi que l’expérience vis-à-vis de la marque plus globalement.

Une grande valorisation de l’expérience client

Ce magasin O2 propose donc un environnement

particulièrement interactif où le digital trouve une

place de choix. Notons qu’O2 a également porté

une grande attention au design de ce point de vente

ainsi qu’aux aspects plus inspirationnels.

A la façon de ce qui se fait actuellement dans les

magasins de ce secteur (voir notamment le nouveau

concept des magasins AT&T et les Smart Stores de

Verizon), l’expérience de shopping in store s’articule

autour de plusieurs zones...

Lire le reste de l’article ici.

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Barbie et son dressing virtuel aux Galeries Lafayette-Le billet d’aujourd’hui est dédié à une initiative interactive en magasin dont vous avez peut-être entendu parler ces derniers jours car elle a lieu en ce moment aux Galeries Lafayette Haussman à Paris et qu’elle met en scène une poupée bien connue dans le monde entier.

La Minute RetailEh oui, le Dressing Virtuel de Barbie a ouvert ses portes le

11 avril 2014 (l’initiative se termine le 19) et invite les clients,

petits et grands, à venir essayer virtuellement différentes

tenues via un écran digital.

Le principe est simple, les utilisateurs entrent au sein de

cet espace et font face à un miroir d’essayages virtuels

avec lequel ils peuvent interagir via la technologie de

reconnaissance des mouvements Kinect.

Comme avec les autres dispositifs de ce genre, le système

permet de superposer sur l’image de l’utilisateur des

éléments additionnels comme des tenues portées par la

célèbre poupée.

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RéSEAUX SoCIAUX

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Facebook Launches ‘Nearby Friends’ Location Feature for Meet-Ups IRL-Facebook has always encouraged you to share with your friends — your favorite movies, pictures, and life updates. Now Facebook wants you sharing your location, too.

MahableThe social network on Thursday announced Nearby

Friends, a new feature built into Facebook’s mobile app

that allows you to see which of your friends are close by,

and even share your exact location with others.

The new feature uses the geolocation technology in your

smart phone to determine when you are close to one of

your Facebook friends. When activated, the feature will

send periodic notifications alerting you to friends who are

nearby. Users have been able to check in on Facebook for

some time, meaning you can already share your location as

part of a post, but Nearby Friends allows you to broadcast

your general location to Facebook friends without posting

at all.

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RFID

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Thales shows off airline seat with NFC-Thales Group has unveiled its Immersive Business Class Seat, an airline seating concept that uses NFC to enable passengers to use their mobile phone to set their comfort and entertainment preferences before boarding.

NFC World“The NFC technology we use in the concept seat is used

to transmit seat preference from the passengers’ mobile

phone to the seat,” Thales explained to NFC World.

“Essentially, the passenger would be able to choose the

seat configuration, entertainment selection and services

directly on their mobile phone prior to boarding.

“They would then board the plane, place their NFC-

enabled devices on the seat receptor and the seat would

recognise them and introduce their saved settings. It

would also save the settings for the return journey or the

next time the passenger travelled on one of the seats, by

offering to continue movies or entertainment at the point

they had previously stopped.”

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Checkpoint Partners With Mojix to Offer Passive RTLS in Stores-RFID JournalIn response to retailer customers seeking real-time RFID

solutions to free employees from having to conduct audits

via handheld readers, Checkpoint Systems is partnering

with passive real-time location system (RTLS) technology

provider Mojix to offer a “hands-free” RFID system using

Checkpoint’s software and Mojix’s OmniSense RFID reader

hardware. The two companies announced their global

partnership at the RFID Journal LIVE! 2014 conference and

exhibition, held last week in Orlando, Fla.

For much of its history, Checkpoint Systems focused on

providing electronic article surveillance (EAS) stickers and

hard tags that retailers attach to merchandise, as well as

the antennas that detect those stickers and tags. In recent

years, however, demand has been growing not only

for Checkpoint’s EAS products and services, but also for

RFID technology, says Alan Sherman, Checkpoint’s senior

director of global marketing for merchandise visibility and

RFID.

Lire le reste de l’article ici.

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7 Ways to Use N.F.C. at Your Event-BizBashFrom digital ticketing to cashless payments, planners are turning to N.F.C. for a variety of applications at their events.

Near field communication, or N.F.C., is one of the hottest topics when it comes to wireless communication. It allows

smartphones to communicate with readers and other N.F.C. devices across a short range of no more than a few inches

and has application for mobile payments, lead retrieval, social media strategy, and more. Research firm I.H.S. Technology

predicts the number of phones equipped with N.F.C. technology will surge in the next few years, reaching 1.2 billion units by

2018.

N.F.C. was one of several communication systems explored at RFID Journal Live, a conference and trade show held April 8

to 10 at the Orange County Convention Center. Anthony Palermo, co-founder of consulting and engineering firm Connect

& Go, shares these examples of how his company is incorporating N.F.C. tags into wristbands used at conferences, concerts,

promotional events, and other large-scale experiences.

1. Access Control

Place N.F.C. readers at the doors to your event to digitally track guests as they enter and exit, eliminating the need for

guests to show a paper ticket or an email with a bar code. As a tag is scanned, it also stores a time stamp so planners can

understand when people arrived and departed. That data can be even more specific if the tag is associated with the guest’s

demographic information, for example to sort arrival times by age. “It’s all the things we think we know, but when we have

this data, it starts to make it concrete, and we can use it to make decisions,” Palermo says. “Let’s say if your sponsor is specific

to an older demographic, you can say, ‘I’m only going to advertise your stuff between this hour and this hour because that’s

when you are going to get the biggest bang for the buck.’” Unlike non-digital wristbands, N.F.C. bands also can reduce fraud

since they cannot be reused by multiple guests.

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