DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist

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 DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF 

By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane

WORLD'S LARGEST DIGITAL CAMERA CAN PHOTOGRAPH A GOLF BALL 15 MILES AWAY



                                                Source:  Standford University & LSST

  • The new Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera will help reveal the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.  Here's what we know:
  • It's a 3,250 megapixel camera, built over the past 20 years by scientists and engineers at Stanford University
  • It weighs 6,600 pounds
  • Front lens measures more than 5-feet
  • Now complete, it will sit in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, on a nearly 9,000-foot mountaintop
  • It will produce a stunning and informative map of the night sky
  • Contains 200 sensors for high resolution
  • Its images of billions of stars could help unlock the secrets of the universe
  • Main job:  to map locations and the brightness of a huge selection of objects
  • Let's hope they don't try to shoot my golf ball...it too often goes off-course!
YOUR NEXT APPLE PRODUCT COULD BE A HOME ROBOT


                                            Source:  Stock


  • Apple is exploring a big, new business line - home robots.  Here are a few key facts:
  • Apple is developing 2 home robots
  • One is mobile and can follow users around the house
  • The other is a robot with a smart display
  • Apple sees home robots as a potentially big business line for the company as it looks for its "next big thing"
  • The smart display robot would sit on a tabletop and rotate its smart display like a human head, presumably to always be in position to be read by the nearby user
  • It would also contain a feature to zoom in on a person during a multi-person videocall
  • This new product line follows Apple's decision to abandon its electric, self-driving car project that it invested ten years into
  • Experts say the Safety OS to autonomously drive the Apple car could be repurposed for the new home robots.


"Daily Innovation Brief"© By Edward Kane

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