Rufus Cuff, Wearable tethering smartphone accomplice

Earlier today Google released it's much anticipated Android Wear, an operating system for smart-watches and almost immediately announcements emerged from an assortment of technology companies, with a number of new 'wrist-wear' devices. 

Most of these devices are called smart-watches and are at most 'in-between' devices, that function in accompaniment with a smart-phone. Similarly the Rufus Cuff has emerged as a real life Star-Trekesque 'wrist communicator'

The Rufus is a wrist communicator that can pair either with an iphone or Android smartphone, The cuff has an exceptionally large screen although the band that attaches to your wrist appears to have a fairly normal looking size band!

100,000 Stars A Google Chrome Experiment

is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood of our region of the universe, which was created within the Google Chrome web browser environment.

"It shows the location of 119,617 nearby stars derived from multiple sources, including the 1989 Hipparcos mission. Zooming in reveals 87 individually identified stars and our solar system. The galaxy view is an artist's rendition based on NGC 1232, a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way."

One can choose to navigate automatically by clicking on the Tour button at the top of the page. Alternatively one can choose to manually pan the map with one's mouse. With a mouse button held down and arcing the mouse around one swing the whole complex and or moving the mouse in or out enables zooming. The tall vertical bar on the right of the screen allows one to push towards the focus of the map our sun and solar system or sliding the bar towards the bottom of the length reveals an edge of the Milky way galaxy.

The creators of this interactive map warn that accuracy is not guaranteed and does not comply with reality standards of interstellar navigation. this stimulating web toy was programmed by some space enthusiasts at Google. The delightful music is by Sam Hulick, whose work you may be familiar with from the video game, Mass Effect. The track is entitled “In a Strange Land” and is used with his permission.

A complete list of references used in conjunction with making this interesting star chart our found by clicking the question mark in the bottom right hand corner.

Delightful Animated Document tour of an email

High tech company Google delivers the goods again by showing us exactly the path an email takes after one clicks the send button. And wow what a maze of tubes and paths interpreted every now and again by a server farm exchange and sent on its way to the next.

I was dutifully surprised as you surely will be by the sheer number of twists and turns and blocks of servers every one's single email takes and some emails are delivered within some instances seeming to appear in some ones inbox in less than a second.

"Google is creating a better web that's better for the environment. We’re greening our company by using resources efficiently and supporting renewable power. That means when you use Google products, you’re being better to the environment."

So go watch the journey your email gets delivered with an equally delightful minimal set of sound effects through their animated document. It's worth noting that your interaction is required as each browser window traverses the width of your browser window with each arrow to the right, requires clicking to continue, (otherwise described as intuitive browsing).

Although the amount of green energy displaced by Google servers might in some cases seem negligible, it's generally enthusing to notice they're asserting the need to switch to carbon neutral technology, albeit there're also likely receiving lower costs benefit in doing so!

Gramfeed; locality based photographs search engine convenience

The old adage; 'Seek and ye shall find', has up until recently one entirely relied on Google to search for everything and or anything, Be it websites, blogs pictures, video's and heaps of other reasons. Lately though, and probably more so with the advent of Apps and in particular with your smartphones, tablets or what other smart pocket gadget beholdens you. Now we find things with our favourite App or in this case via our computers or other 'smart' devices.

Gramfeed was until recently only been available to smartphone users as the Instagram app - a once upon time dedicated a stand alone app but now an integrated Facebook app, which makes, taking storing and indexing one's instant photo's, as quick an easy as one captures them. Gramfeed now provides a location based search of untold numbers of localities all around the world, where we can now get instant results from locations that we have an inkling or desire to search for. The significance of these searchers are made by those interesting people who snap, tag with location identifiers and upload for all to see and contemplate.

The beauty of your search results, are firstly determined by the map referenced information one provides, secondly by the photographs snapped by willy tourists or local hipsters. Thirdly, one has to remember that the photos available in there have a wide and divergent quality about them, some snaps have a grimy polaroid camera quality about them. like the curious image in the upper right, of an inner suburban street in Valdivia, Chile. 

Thus begin your search here, but it will be more beneficial for you if you want to upload your own locality photographs to sign for an account, here.

Google Demo's Glass Project AR Concept Eyewear

We can all surely attest to the notion of how in the last few years computers are getting smaller so much so, that smart-phones and tablets are taking over the realm of the average user. Largely speaking more people are becoming more switched onto the idea of ditching their computers since discovering their smart-phones and tablets can perform all the functions their computers did plus much more.

The iPhone and iPad provided the main sources for this switch and as we all know Apple never releases a new product until they're satisfied that it's finished, whereas Google introduces their products well before their ultimate conclusion more so as ongoing developments such as their Chrome operating system.

True to Google's intentions they have recently unveiled their concept AR (augmented-reality)  Glass Project, in which the user can control music, get directions, take pictures, give voice commands and do video chats. The glasses are really just a band that rests on the nose, so it seems like the wearer does something like look up to engage with the display, as can be seen in the following video.