The Nod, A Full Gesture Control Ring Wearable Tech

The gesture controls tech is now becoming a big area of interest for hardware making startups. The gestures are works on sense technology which will be connected wirelessly with help of NFC or via Bluetooth. For now it is possible to control your TV, computer and even your gaming console through the wave of your hand. The Nod is a device which is capable to give you the power of controlling all of your devices through your hand. The company is the advanced phase of prototyping and backed hugely by several ventures including the Menlo VC and Sequoia to the name of the few and the mountain views company has engineers from Apple, Google, Jawbone, Samsung and some other tech giants.

The Nod says “We came together with the idea of trying to solve something that we think could possibly be the next computing revolution around input,” explained Nod Labs CEO and founder Anush Elangovan in an interview. “We took a step back and looked at how we’ve progressed from plug panels and dip switches to the mouse in the PC era, and then touch in the mobile era, and we were like ‘what’s next?’ Speech has always been one part of it, but speech doesn’t work in a crowded room for example, so the next obvious one is gestures.”

This technology is not expensive and anyone can get this device with a preorder $149 and the shipping will start from the end of the summer. Nod labs will provide an app “discovery portal” to help the hardware to help users to find the particular software of any specific hardware. The device is big enough to wear on you index finger, metal rim with transmission friendly plastic outer case. It comes with the charging cradle that looks bigger than the ring holder. 

E-Waste to Exceed 93.5 Million Tons Annually

The use of electronics good in our life is increasing every year and people can’t give up the feeling of using the electronics in daily use for example, your Smartphone, TV, Headphones, Computer and accessories, which are releasing ton of carbon in the Environment . Electronic recycling is forecasted to grow to 24 percent through all over the decade and newly made report, which states that, the global recycling business which works under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipments directive, was valued about $9.84 billion back in 2012. The WEE legislation is proposed in order to maintain the proper dump the electronic waste without hurting the Environment. It really helping the technological and illegal issues in the IT and Non IT sectors where the electronic equipments are at high use and it helping to grow to the market because lack of the recycling consciousness and authoritarian has caused us a threat of 4 percent of global landfill mass which contains the 75 percent of environment hazard material.

Geographically, Europe dominated the e-waste recycling market followed by North America in 2012. The European recycling rate is slightly higher than North America due to efficient approach to recycling guided by two directives; RoHS Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive and the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). Most of the e-waste from developed countries was imported to developing countries such as India, China and Pakistan due to cheap labor and no mandatory recycling regulations.

A safe recycling is very important in order to protect our environment because Developed countries like US and UK are dumping their E-waste illegally in growing countries like India, China and Africa are facing the heat generated by these Equipments but the reports say that the awareness in the dumping E-waste in increasing.