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Honda and Ford separately launching smart home demos

Green Car Congress

will create the Honda Smart Home US, a showcase that demonstrates Honda’s vision for sustainable, zero-carbon living and personal mobility, including the use of solar power to charge a Honda Fit EV battery electric vehicle. High-efficiency HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) and Lighting System designed by UC Davis.

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When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off

Cars That Think

The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no Internet connection required. Flanked by on-stage demos, Gelsinger announced the coming of “AI PCs” built to accelerate all their increasing range of AI tasks based only on the hardware beneath the user’s fingertips. Because when you look at it, what is driving AI?

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Hologram-in-a-Box Can Teleport You Anywhere

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In both cases, a person in a studio—the presenter—can appear in full-size, lifelike 3D form and interact with people anywhere in the world where one or more booths are hooked up to the companies' networks via the internet. It was as if Haba was standing in the booth as the two conversed.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert. For over 40 years I have organized demos and exhibited EVs, especially light EVs, at in-person EVents to thousands of people.

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Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

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Leland is gradually losing his vision due to a congenital condition called retinitis pigmentosa , which slowly kills off the rods and cones that are the eyes’ light receptors. If you think about the blind person, you know having a mouse isn’t very useful because they can’t see where the pointer is.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert. For over 40 years I have organized demos and exhibited EVs, especially light EVs, at in-person EVents to thousands of people.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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