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There are many people, who have the fantasies to see the driving cars in the air. This fantasy will no longer be confined to your to your imagination as Airbus is planning to develop flying car prototype at the end of this year.

Traffic jams making us late to the work is not a new problem. The gridlock because of the myriads of vehicles in the road is also inviting an environmental (sound and air) pollution. Moreover, the investment for making roads and bridges is devouring the budget of the nation and hindering other developments. Keeping all the problems in mind, Airbus is going to develop a flying car as the solution to all those problems.

“One hundred years ago, urban transport went underground, now we have the technological wherewithal to go above ground,” Airbus CEO Tom Enders unveiled his enthusiasm to the DLD digital tech conference in Munich.

For the sake of shaping the self-piloted flying car plan into reality, Airbus formed a division called Urban Air Mobility last year. The division primarily focuses on discovering concepts about the transportation through the air media. The Airbus has conceived the vehicle to be helicopter-styled capable of carrying multiple riders.

Hoping to be the pioneer in the flying vehicle business, Jorg Muller, from Airbus’ corporate development department said, “This market will develop quickly once we are able to deploy the first vehicles in megacities and demonstrate the benefits of quiet, emission-free air transport at competitive prices.”

CEO Enders implied that Airbus, being the world’s largest commercial helicopter maker would always be focused on inviting technology to its traction system. Enders also showed his interests to invite autonomous driving and artificial intelligence in order to usher the humankind to the epoch of flying cars. According to the Enders, the “sky taxi” would be 100 percent electric and he further implied to bring the vehicle until 2021 if the prototype gets ready at the end of this year.

Andy Rubin, the 53 years old New Yorker, co-founded Android in 2003. He then sold it to the Google in 2005 and started working with them. He worked at the Google for 8 good years turning his tiny project to World’s most dominant OS for smartphones. Before stepping out from the Alphabet Inc’s Google, he was working at its Robotics unit. He then started working with Playground Global targeted at Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and AR projects.

What is Essential Products Inc.?

We haven been hearing about Andy Rubin coming with a new phone a lot lately. News of him being in a talk Sprint executives at CES left many scrubbing their heads. Andy has founded his own Essential Products Inc. and has recruited good 40 employees who happen to be ex-employees of Apple and Alphabet Inc.

Rubin registered Essential Products Inc. with California regulators in November 2015, and in late 2016, the company registered ‘Essential’ with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The company has included smartphones, accessories, and OS as its goods and services.

How will the first phone from Andy Rubin look like?

The phone that Andy Rubin is said to be working on will be a high-end one that will be priced similarly to Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Pixel. The phone’s design sounds interesting already. It’ll sport edge-to-edge screen with no bezels. It’ll come in bigger screen size though the overall phone size will be as equal to current 5.5-inch screen phones. The phone will have metallic frames around the edges. Plus, the back will be made of ceramic.

Foxconn is reported to be the one behind its manufacturing. Andy Rubin will be formally announcing the Essential Inc. very soon. After the formal announcement, He’ll be working as the CEO. He is among very few creative minds. So, many people have high hopes regarding his next product.

The phone will be of a modular type. It’ll be letting third-party accessories to be connected through its charging port. As far the modular accessories are concerned, what is confirmed is a 360-degree camera.

Moreover, Essential Inc. will be making AI-powered home and mobile products. Well, can the creator of Android come with a Killer hardware that is the question we all have till the phone gets released somewhere this year?

Yes, you read that right! Fitness tracking devices, undoubtedly, have multiplied in magnitude over the past few years. But Motiv has taken this to an entirely new height at the CES, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The ring even won the Best of Innovation for Wearable Technologies at the CES, 2017.

Motiv has released a sleek and smart wearable designed to help monitor your activities and keep track of your health. The titanium plated ring, that comes in either slate-grey or rose-gold, contains everything that you need in a compact, discrete wearable fitness tracker- minus a display, of course.It’s 8mm wide and 2.5mm thick, comes in seven standard ring sizes The ring is waterproof and has three sensors – an optical heart rate sensor, a 3-axis accelerometer, and a smart LED sensor.

The 3-axis accelerometer to monitor when you’re moving, and then activates the heart-rate monitor automatically.The heart- rate monitor sits at the bottom of the ring. And there is a small band that houses a tri-colour light that activates when the device is syncing to your phone or charging.

The ring uses the wearer’s pulse rate to keep track of his/her activity and health.The ring automatically logs things like active minutes, heart rate, distance, calories burned and activity type to be synced to your phone later. The ring is said to hold up to three days’ worth of activity data on the device. And thus, you don’t need to open the app every day to sync the record. It will also measure when you go to sleep and your resting heart-rate.

The device has 3-5 days spanning battery life and thus is hassle free when it comes to charging. The ring’s boxed package also contains two minuscule chargers that plug into a USB port or charger and hold the ring magnetically while charging. It only takes an hour and a half to fully charge. For emergency cases, the second charger, which is about the size of a USB memory stick, can be used as you can keep that on your keyring, too.

All the data stored in the device is to be beamed to an app. The app is particularly well designed, blending accurate stats with beautiful imagery that shows you how you’re spending your day. Each activity is well segmented and one can also drill down into more data and graphs for them. The app, though, is currently only available on iOS.