Google provides means for customers to add its AI-powered vision to the Raspberry Pi-- the AIY Vision Kit, a package consisting of a circuit board, computer vision software and additional accessories.
The AIY Vision Kit allows one to turn the Raspberry Pi into a more hackable version of Google's own Clips smart camera. The main component is the Vision Bonnet, a circuit board packing a Movidus MA2450 vision processing chip acting as a "neural network accelerator." It does not need to connect to the Google Cloud, meaning all images are processed locally on the device.
On the software side the kit offers 3 neural network models-- one able to recognise 1001 common objects, one able to recognise faces and expressions, and a "person, cat and dog detector." Google hopes bolder users will further improve on the neural models, for instance by adding the ability to recognise rabbits for a project used in a rabbit hutch.
Disney chooses accessory maker HEX to reveal official Star Wars cases for the iPhone, ahead of the 15 December premiere of the latest film in the series, The Last Jedi.
According to unnamed sources from the upstream supply cheain, the price point allows Apple to maintain its current quarterly 10 million unit iPad shipments. It also provides a weapon against the price competition from first-tier players such as Samsung, Amazon, Huawei and Lenovo. It should ship from Q2 2017, and will be aimed at the industrial and service sectors and as well as the consumer market.
Already in use in Europe, the KardiaBand is a strap with an integrated metallic sensor able to push EKG readings to a companion app. It can detect abnormal heart rhythm and atrial fibrillation (AF), making it similar to the KardiaMobile iPhone accessory. However it takes readings in real-time instead of having to be held in both hands for 30 seconds to register a reading.
