Microsoft Augmented Reality HMD may have Wifi and 4G enabled communication

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Microsoft Augmented Reality HMD may have Wifi and 4G enabled communication.

Microsoft lays out a roadmap for its “Fortaleza” Kinect Glasses — which appears to be a research project the company is working on. There’s little mention of the hardware involved, but the glasses appear to be Wi-Fi- or 4G-enabled and incorporate augmented reality in a way that’s similar to Google’s Project Glass augmented reality glasses. Described as a “breakthrough heads up and hands-free device,” Kinect Glasses is marked as a 2014 product that won’t launch alongside the Xbox 720 console. Microsoft doesn’t provide any specifics about how the glasses will work on the Xbox, but they do appear to be designed to be mobile for use away from the console.

Secrets of Banquet with Shanghai Professors.

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On my final night at Shanghai’s East China University of Science and Technology I was treated to a banquet dinner. There was about 40 professors and students, and the professors came from other universities also such as Shanghai Fudan and Shanghai Jiao Tong universities which in the China system are like the Stanford’s and MIT’s in China. I was told to sit at a table next to the Dean. I hadn’t met him before so I asked the normal safe questions such as what are the schools departments, research, etc. Which I am sure he has been asked thousands of times before. The food started to come out and in typical Chinese styles it was an amazing banquet of many delicious foods. But what interested me is that everyone did a “cheers” to each other individually. So it was almost one hour of cheering. When people came to me I did click my glass and say cheers. But what I soon realized is that in Shanghai they have the custom to cheer lower than your glass (to show respect or friendship I guess). At first I didn’t realize but I soon figured it out. Basically you should try to do a cheers with your glass lower than the other. What was amusing is that I realized this led to “lowering glass escalation” and even when people were standing up they clinked their glasses together lower and lower below the hip in the attempt to be lower than the other person. I found this custom to be sweet and humble, I appreciate such humble style, even with these top professors, leaders in society. Next was something to me amazing. Suddenly one of the party, a university ab tech got up and started singing Italian opera – they said it was for me as I was a foreigner. Her singing was amazing and I felt so touched at this act of kindness. Please see the video I took of the lady singing. I had been to many Chinese banquet dinners in Singapore as part of delegations, visits to the university, some Ministerial dinners. Now I realize our visitors must have thought Singapore was so incredibly boring. Almost all the banquet dinners I attended to in Singapore were so quiet, dull, and frankly boring. I used to dread having to go to them, and I always couldn’t wait to leave. I wondered, Singapore culture derived from Chinese culture. How did it become so boring and sanitized? The banquet ended and everyone was warmly smiling and saying their farewell. I really appreciated the happy warmth of the people in Shanghai.

Brilliant Advice! Startups, life, learning and happiness: Are you interested?

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Brilliant Advice! Startups, life, learning and happiness: Are you interested?

Sal Khan’s 2012 MIT commencement address

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Remember that real success is maximizing your internally derived happiness. It will not come from external status or money or praise. It will come from a feeling of contribution. A feeling that you are using your gifts in the best way possible.

Khan Academy founder Sal Khan’s 2012 MIT commencement address, a fine addition to the season’s best and a complement to some of the most timeless graduation speeches in modern history, including David Foster Wallace, Ellen DeGeneres, Aaron Sorkin, Barack Obama, Ray Bradbury, J. K. Rowling, Steve Jobs, Robert Krulwich, Meryl Streep, and Jeff Bezos.

Start every morning with a smile — even a forced one — it will make you happier. Replace the words “I have to” with “I get to” in your vocabulary. Smile with your mouth, your eyes, your ears, your face, your body at every living thing you see. Be a source of energy and optimism. Surround yourself with people that make you better. Realize or even rationalize that the grass is truly greener on your side of the fence. Just the belief that it is becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

View stressful, political interactions as nothing more than a deeply immersive strategy game. One that can be won if you stay focused on what matters most and your emotions and ego are not tied to your argument. 

If you find yourself arguing with someone whom you respect and love, try to surrender your own ego to the shared identity you have with that person. In the heat of an argument, do the opposite of what your pride tells you to do. If you have the self-control, stop talking and give your opponent a random, intense minute-long hug.

Make people feel that you care about them. And here’s, a well, a little secret, the best way to do this is to actually care about them.

Make people feel that you are listening to them. Another little secret, the best way to do this is to actually listen.

When you gain or lose material things, remember how silly they really are. How little they mean relative to your health and relationships.

When you feel stressed, look up at the night sky and ponder the distance to the next star and the age of the universe. Think of all the other stressed sentient creatures from other star systems and galaxies looking out in the vastness of space in wonder and awe and take comfort in your shared experience. 

When you feel overwhelmed, walk alone through the woods and forget your name, your title, your education and view yourself for what you really are — another mammal wondering why it is here but appreciating the fact that your civilization has not as yet been evaporated by a supernova. 

Try to build true empathy. Regardless of your actual spiritual beliefs, it is sometimes helpful to imagine that time is not linear; that in past or future, or I guess parallel life, you literally are, have been or will be every person. That after this life, you will go back in time and be reincarnated as the person you are arguing with, or passing judgment on (and will then have to put up with the current version of you). 

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Innovators prefer a more liberal climate than China’s, and no wonder — they are usually the product of one. They need the freedom to explore, without being yoked to the responsibility of nation-promoting and world-transforming.

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Innovators prefer a more liberal climate than China’s, and no wonder — they are usually the product of one. They need the freedom to explore, without being yoked to the responsibility of nation-promoting and world-transforming.

Searching for a Chinese Steve Jobs

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While American parents have been concerned with their lack of tiger discipline, the Chinese are looking for tips on raising their young from this side of the Pacific. China wants its own Steve Jobs, and it’s not sure how to find—or create—one. At times, the quest has reached the level of national campaign, with the government promising its prioritization and vowing to spend four per cent of the country’s G.D.P. on comprehensive education reform aimed, ultimately, at producing a Jobs to call its own.

Click-through to read more from Jiayang Fan on China’s search for the next great genius: http://nyr.kr/Looaw0

Even straight Japanese “salaryman” have heartfelt sweet and soft moments.

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I was on a flight from Shanghai to Tokyo. Unfortunately I accidentally chose the middle seat in the last row so I was feeling stuck in the Middle. It was a Saturday flight so the flight was full seemingly of two types of people. Business people returning home after a week of work and tourists eagerly starting their holiday on the weekend. I was in between two Japanese salarymen, one in particular looked the very typical salaryman type. Maybe early or mid 40’s. Even though it was Saturday he was dressed in his black suit with white shirt. He didn’t show any expression or smile. He really was the archetypal “sarariman”.
However just before take off I saw him take out a piece of paper from his satchel. It was a folded slightly crumpled paper. He looked at it intently for a while. I couldn’t help to look at it. It was a lot of hand drawn writing in Japanese, and even a cartoon style drawing of him. I saw in big Japanese letters the words “Papa”. I thought maybe he was passed this letter by his children because of fathers day. I felt so heartfelt sweetness to see this salaryman tenderly looking at the letter written to him. About half way during the flight I also noticed he took out the paper and look at it tenderly again.
Somehow the fact that this world weary overworked Japanese salaryman would carry this letter and look at it tenderly really touched my heart. I wish I could tell his family what I saw. But although he may have little time to see them in his busy schedule I saw that this father loves and is loved tenderly by his family.

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