The Covid-19 continues to punctuate the “techno” news and this week, a robot appears in an American hospital to help the nursing staff. For those who use Zoom on a daily basis, software allows them to take on the appearance of a celebrity and the effect is guaranteed! If you have time in front of you, a user offers instructions on how to make their own Switch game console. As for Apple, it launches a new product at 849 euros.
A robot dog with the nursing staff
Now well known, the Spot robot dog has become a doctor since the start of the epidemic . The Boston Dynamics quadruped accompanies medical staff at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The objective is to reduce the exposure of doctors and nursing staff, or even to take over from the sick. In this case, Spot is equipped with an iPad and a radio that allows hospital staff to communicate with patients who enter the hospital for the first diagnoses . A kind of telemedicine which relieves staff, but that’s not all since the objective is also to integrate it into cleaning teams to disinfect surfaces in hospitals but also metros.
Take on the face of a celebrity during a video conference
Compatible with Zoom and Skype , two of the most used applications in telework and family during confinement, Avatarify allows you to take on the appearance of a personality during the videoconference session . Free, this software is a consumer version of “deep fake”, and it works on Windows and Mac. Among the eight personalities already integrated into the software, we can take the face of Obama, Einstein or Ronaldo and the Mona Lisa. You can also be assigned a face at random. Behind this process, there is artificial intelligencebut also and above all a lot of calculations and it is advisable to have a very powerful PC to impress your friends or colleagues.
Overpriced casters at Apple
In June 2019, Apple shocked the high-tech microcosm by unveiling the Pro Display XDR, a superb 32-inch screen, capable of displaying images in 6K. His price ? 5,000 euros. The most shocking thing was that his foot alone cost 999 euros! This year, rebelote with the marketing of casters for the Mac Pro, the most expensive of Apple computers , reserved for image professionals. For the modest sum of 849 euros, you can add wheels to the Mac Pro, and thus more easily move it, but also increase it by 2.5 centimeters. Good news: if you buy them with a computer, they will only cost 500 euros.