The SHIELD wireless controller uses a custom Wi-Fi Direct solution that offers incredibly LOW latency and superior performance compared to standard Bluetooth controllers. With support for up to four controllers and a ton of serious gaming per charge, the SHIELD wireless controller delivers all the gameplay you can handle.

SHIELD wireless controller brings voice commands and search to your game controller. Use the integrated microphone to search without typing, ask questions and get answers, open apps, and play songs and movies.

It would be cool to have this because you can take it anywhere. It is big so it would take up space so people might not want it.

HIGH-FIDELITY NGINEERED TO IMMERSE YOU
SHIELD takes mobile sound farther with a unique bass-reflex, tuned-port system designed for enthusiasts who crave high-fidelity audio when playing games, movies, and music. A vibrant 5-inch LCD TABLET display makes text, colors, and images look sharp at every angle in all your favorite apps, games, and movies.

NVIDIA GAMESTREAM™
NVIDIA Game Stream lets you stream games from your GeForce GTX–based PC or GRID cloud Beta and play them on SHIELD's integrated console–grade controller with ultra–LOW latency.  

GAMEPAD MAPPER
Gamepad mapper allows you to add gamepad support to native touch Android games, so you can play thousands of games using SHIELD console-grade controller. Use NVIDIA's default game profiles, or create your own!

 I think that an old person could use that because it is easy to use, from what I have heard. I would want it because I would love to play minecraft on it. I would not like the size of it because it is really big. You would have to use two hands to hold it, it would take up a lot of batteries or electricity. It might be too bright or too heavy.

 For more reading go to: http://shield.nvidia.com     http://www.cnet.com/products/nvidia-shield/

http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml    

Upcoming in Military Technology

Researchers at the University of Minnesota today revealed a drone that can be controlled merely by thought, and that's not even the coolest thing about it. Published in the Journal of Neuro Engineering, the project has implications in everything from unmanned vehicles to paraplegic mobility.The setup here is pretty basic, futuristic though it seems. The drone is a commercially available four-blade helicopter--the Parrot AR quadrotor--which is basically a drone hobbyist's Model T. To control it, the "pilot" wears a funny hat, the sensing end of an electroencephalogram (EEG). EEGs place an array of electrodes over a person's head, in a totally non-invasive way, then pick up on electrical activity in the brain. Clusters of activity, like thinking about making a fist with a right hand, generates a spark in a specific area of the brain. That spark gets translated through a computer into a quadrotor command ("turn right"). The command is then beamed to the quadrotor via WiFi.I think that we should have mind controlled drones because it would be awesome too scare someone. University researchers in Texas say they are designing a new type of drone – one that could be controlled simply and only with a soldier’s mind.If successful, the project would allow soldiers to command future drones in ways beyond simple navigational commands. While troops would be able to order a drone to “move left” and “move right,” it would potentially enable them to command the vehicles to travel over specific geographic installations and send critical data back to their operators.According to My San Antonio, the project is currently underway at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where graduate students recently demonstrated a hovering drone operated via a cell phone app while one researcher sat – his head covered in sensors – and focused intently on the unnamed aerial vehicles’ activity.While the goal of controlling vehicles by way of the mind is still ways off, the hope is that by studying the brain signals and magnetic waves captured from graduate student Mauricio Merino, the researchers will be able link the activity to specific commands that can eventually be received by an advanced drone.

 http://rt.com/usa/184881-us-mind-control-drone/

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-06/thought-controlled-drone-exists-and-everything-you-need-know-about-it

for further reading http://discover.umn.edu/news/science-technology/brain-computer-interface-allows-mind-control-robots

UP COMING IN PHONE TECHNOLOGY

Upcoming in phone technology

Google’s Project ARA: Build Your Own Phone by 2015

During the first Project Ara developer conference on Tuesday, Ara leader Paul Eremenko said that Google's modular Gray Phone, aka Project Ara, will be made available in January 2015 and cost around $50 to build. The phone will be a boring gray because the company wants customers to fully customize the device.

I think that this will be a good phone because you can build it yourself, so people would want to buy it. So people can customize your own phone.

Google works on so many projects, it can be hard to keep track of them all. They've put computers on our faces, sent internet balloons into the atmosphere, and created contact lenses that measure glucose through our tears. Project Ara is another example of trying to take an ambitious idea and make it possible—all while changing the way we think about smartphones in the process. Developing team of Google’s highly-customizable modular smartphone, Project Ara has just announced that they prepared the a custom-made processor for the device. For those who are unfamiliar with Project Ara, it’s Google’s project which aims to develop a modular smartphone that will allow users to customize it and replace its components, just like its the case with PC or Phonebloks.

Chinese chip manufacturer, Rockchip will create the new SoC for Project Ara, that chipset will replace the Texas Instruments OMAP 4660 processors used in earlier prototypes of Project Ara. As the customizable architecture of Ara allows, the new processor will come in the form of native, general-purpose UniPro interface and it is specifically designed to work as an independent module, with no need for a bridge chip.

“We view this Rockchip processor as a trailblazer for our vision of a modular architecture where the processor is a node on a network with a single, universal interface – free from also serving as the network hub for all of the mobile device’s peripherals,” head of Project Ara at Google ATAP, Paul Eremenko, said.

Besides the announcement of the new component for Project Ara, Eremenko revealed that those who won units at the Google I/O will have to wait a bit to get their devices. The reason for that is planting the boards with an incorrect material, which caused a mess in the schedule.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-smartphone-project-ara-modular-customizable,26562.html

http://gizmodo.com/google-partners-with-rockchip-to-power-project-ara-1626158001    

http://gigjets.com/09/18428-google-project-ara/