Here is the link to Amazon’s new grocery service….Dash. Order groceries from home and have them delivered to you at you house….fresh from Amazon.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/04/amazon-dash-amazonfresh/

Here is the link to Amzon’s new TV/Video service which will compete with Roku and Apple TV.

For all the things we can dream…..we will do…..

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/stories/empoweringusall/index.html

This is a new manufacturer from China that is going to start supplying Walmart with high quality but low priced products. These tablets are the first of those products. My understanding is that Hisense products are very good quality.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/23/hisense-sero-7-lt-pro-tablets/

Here is how new computer technology crosses over into medicine…..

http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/23/3d-printed-tracheal-splint/

Long hailed as one of the safest car producers in the world, Volvo hopes to retain that reputation by introducing vehicles that can avoid passenger injuries on their own by the year 2020. Its plans hinge on eliminating the largest cause of road accidents — the drivers themselves. The head of development for the program is convinced that driver-less cars are the future and that Volvo will be the first one there. The main technology underpinning Volvo’s autonomous automobiles is wireless internet, which would enable each car to be assigned a certain point on the road and give different vehicles the ability to interact with each other. The company is preparing to release an initial batch of autonomous vehicles, capable of speeds of up to 31 miles per hour, in 2014. We know from the SARTRE project that the automaker has been able to achieve autonomous speeds of 53 miles per hour in traffic for long distances, though they aren’t disclosing when those higher-speed prototypes would be publicly available.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324556304578116392091283994.html?mod=dist_smartbrief

SEOUL—As the battle for dominance in the smartphone and tablet-computer market intensifies, South Korean conglomerate Samsung is pushing ahead with plans to start mass production of displays using plastic rather than glass, a move that will make mobile devices unbreakable, lighter and bendable.

Samsung’s display unit, Samsung Display Co., is in the last phase of development of so-called flexible displays for mobile devices, which are expected to be released in the first half of next year, a person familiar with the situation said.

It is still unclear when devices using the technology will be available commercially, and Samsung declined to …