MIT researchers have created a wearable device called AlterEgo that can recognize nonverbal prompts, essentially ?reading your mind.? We can't live without our digital devices. But at the moment, the use of those devices is very disruptive. MIT is experimented with new technologies to develop something that would allow us to benefit from the information offered by these devices, but in a way that allows us to "remain in the present." https://www.dezeen.com/2018/04/09/mit-media-lab-alterego-device-technology/
This car vending machine in Guangzhou, China, lets you test-drive Ford vehicles you?re looking to buy. You select the model you?re interested in, put down a deposit electronically, schedule a pickup time, and snap a selfie so the vending machine can recognize you when you pick up the car for a test drive. The test drives are up to 3 days and free, as long as you have a very respectable credit score of 700 or above.
www.theverge.com/2018/3/26/17163478/ford-alibaba-cat-car-vending-machine-china
Hushme is a personal acoustic device that protects speech privacy and reduces noise pollution when you are speaking on your phone in an open space environment. www.gethushme.com
Having a driver?s license on your phone is part of the digital transformation where everything is available electronically and on your phone. It?s a digital, secured rendering of your driver?s license that is dynamically connected back to the system of record. It will mean less tension in approaches to your vehicle because identities will be known. Iowa is the first U.S. state that will offer digital driver?s licenses following pilot testing.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/qa-digital-drivers-licenses-go-digital
