The world's first full-colour 3D desktop printer

London and New York-based company bot-

Objects recently announced the ProDesk3D,

which they claimed to be the first full-colour 3D

printer small enough to fit on a desktop. In

addition to its colour abilities and compactness,

they confirmed that it would print at 25 microns –

some four times more accurate than its

competitors (Makerbot's Replicator 2 has a

resolution of 100 microns).

This gives an extremely smooth finish,

overcoming the issue of srface grooves which

often appear in 3D-printed objects. The machine

uses different-coloured cartridges on the fly, just

like an inkjet printer, instead of requiring single-

colour spools of raw plastic to be swapped out.

This includes a palette of new "translucent" PLA

colours for some impressive blending effects,

customisable with software on Windows 7 and

Mac OS X. There is no complex or tricky set up,

as the ProDesk3D arrives out-of-the-box

complete.

The company has received over 100,000 enquiries and expects to ship its first orders by 1st October 2013. The standard and limited edition models both have a somewhat hefty price tag of nearly $3,000 each, making them high-end products. However, the cost of 3D printing has fallen rapidly in recent years and if this continues, it is expected to become a mainstream consumer technology by 2015. Following their recent announcement, the company has now released a video of the product in action:

Faced with growing environmental and economic pressures on transportation, cities are reexamining how and where parking is provided, and developing a more balanced view to better manage parking supply and demand.

Enabled by new technologies, innovative approaches to parking are becoming a cornerstone of cities' mobility strategies. According to a new report from Navigant Research, the installed base of on-street smart parking spaces will surpass 950,000 worldwide by 2020, with a six-fold increase in annual revenue

Smart parking spaces

will number almost a

million by 2020

MasterCard, in collaboration with Standard Chartered Bank Singapore, has unveiled Singapore's first interactive payment card, or security token card, using MasterCard's Display Card technology, heralding the next generation of payment cards.

The MasterCard Display Card, manufactured by NagraIDSecurity, looks and functions almost exactly like a regular credit, debit or ATM card, but features an embedded LCD display and touch-sensitive buttons which allow a cardholder to generate a One-Time Password (OTP) as an authentication security measure.

MasterCard introduces next

generation 'Display Card'

technology

California has become the latest state to allow self-driving cars on the roads.Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law this week, which comes into effect next year, though only with a human passenger along as a safety measure. The hi-tech cars will use a combination of GPS, cameras and advanced computer software to navigate their way around streets.A number of companies have already begun to develop these vehicles – including Google, with a fleet of Toyota Prius hybrids that have logged over 300,000 miles. Earlier this year, the company pushed through legislation that allowed self-driving cars in Nevada.GM's Cadillac division will have partially autonomous cars in significant numbers by 2015, with fully autonomous cars available by 2020. Audi and BMW have also revealed concepts for self-driving cars.The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) released a report this month, predicting that autonomous cars will account for 75 percent of vehicles on roads by 2040, with speed limits of up to 100 mph (160 km/hour) being possible.

High-definition CCTV cameras are ubiquitous

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) has improved hugely in recent years with a shift from analogue to digital equipment. The vast majority of cameras now record footage in high definition, with some capable of gigapixel resolution. Although discouraging crime and helping to identify more offenders (made easier with facial recognition software), this mass proliferation of security is raising a number of privacy and civil liberties issues, due to a creeping sense of "Big Brother". For instance, governments are using them to keep tabs on people to stifle protest, free expression and assembly.* This is especially notable in the UK – a country renowned for its surveillance culture –with more CCTV cameras per capita than anywhere else on the planet, and where the average person is filmed over 300 times each day. In 2012, there were 1.85 million CCTV cameras in the UK, 129,000 of which were high definition. By 2016, there are 3.7 million HD cameras, a 29-fold increase

Eye Tribe

Eye tracking has been actively discussed by technology enthusiasts throughout these years, but it’s really challenging to implement. But Eye Tribe actually did this. They successfully created the technology to allow you to control your tablet, play flight simulator, and even slice fruits in Fruit Ninja only with your eye movements.

It’s basically taking the common eye-tracking technology and combining it with a front-facing camera plus some serious computer-vision algorithm, and voila, fruit slicing done with the eyes! A live demo was done in LeWebthis year and we may actually be able to see it in in action in