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Bleeding edge: the best of emerging tech

NINTENDO’S CARDBOARD LABO VR kit for the Switch wasn’t quite good enough to make a comfortable VR experience and Google’s Duplex hasn’t seen much development after a year of real world testing, so things might seem a little slower in the emerging tech space, but they’re not. This month Facebook showed off some work on full body VR avatars that let you interact and play games in real time and Nike has made genuine progress in smartphone AR measurement tools. If you think that’s impressive, then you’ll have to agree that the world’s first AI written research book that summarises the important findings 54,000 research papers written on lithium-ion battery technology since 2016 is a revolutionary new application for AI. But if that’s not enough there’s also a never ending death metal performance by an

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