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IoT
Nearables Wearables: Connecting Beacons with Smartwatches for Indoor Positioning
Beacons are great for indoor positioning, but Estimote took them one step further with nearables. One can say the step is towards IoT-ization of simple objects, and we were excited to see how far they can go. This article is all about squeezing the juice out of Estimote Nearables and combining them with mobile & […]
IoT
Apple Watch vs Android Wear. Time to Drive Tesla Further
DISCLAIMER: Tesla Motors Inc. was not involved and did not endorse neither the authors, nor Eleks Ltd. in the experiments and the application described in this article. When our Apple Watch Tesla App spreaded out, we were asked by Google, some Tesla drivers and lots of other folks to perform something similar with Android Wear. […]
IoT
How we Made a Killer Behance Portfolio Review with Microsoft Kinect
Behance Portfolio Review is a significant event and a wonderful opportunity for designers of all shapes and sizes to interact and share experience locally. With our strong UX team, ELEKS has already hosted Behance Portfolio Review last year, and this year we wanted to make it really memorable. But here’s the problem: hundreds of Behance […]
IoT
Apple Watch. Tesla Car. How Far Can We Drive Them?
DISCLAIMER: Tesla Motors Inc. was not involved and did not endorse neither author, nor ELEKS Ltd. in experiments and application described in this article. TESLA logo and brand name were removed from this article under request of Tesla Motors Inc. Developers have always had an irrepressible desire to learn something new, interesting and useful, especially […]
IoT
Programming on a Keyboard… a Piano Keyboard
How can you tell a programmer from a musician? Ask them what C# is. Since the early 1950s, when the humans finally managed to make an electronic machine sing, the computers have been gradually becoming a helpful and versatile tool in audio production. Nowadays, thanks to digital synthesizers, VSTi instruments and digital audio workstations, you […]
Google Glass
Embrace your #Tesla #throughglass
Have you ever played “Need For Speed”? As far as I can remember, I got acquainted with this absolutely marvellous gaming series when “Need For Speed 3: Hot Pursuit” was out. That was a great and crazy time. I spent literally hours riding through cities, mountains, deserts and all the awesome virtual locations there. Funny […]
Android
Google Glass in Warehouse Automation
Imagine that you operate a huge warehouse where you store all the awesome goods you sell. Well, one of our customers does. For instance, if you run a supermarket, your process consists of at least 4 major modules: Online order management & checkout. Order packaging. Incoming goods processing and warehouse logistics. Order delivery. Here’s an […]
Android
Google Glass Development Without Glass
Here are the slides of my “Google Glass Development without Glass” presentation. As I promised, here is the follow-up blogpost with some code samples. If you haven’t seen my presentation, I strongly suggest clicking through the slides! 0.Intro Technologies emerge. Extremely. Wearable trend takes over the world. It seems like every week we start with […]
CUDA
Speeding up MR Image Reconstruction with GeneRalized Autocalibrating Partially Parallel Acquisitions (GRAPPA)
This time we would like to share some details about realization of one of our projects in medical imaging. Currently one of the bottlenecks in MR image reconstruction is speed improvement. Improving the speed of image reconstruction is difficult from algorithmic point of view. But it’s becoming more popular to improve algorithm performance using GPU. […]