"Hey Siri, Who is VIV ???

I guess your Rival...

Viv is an artificial intelligence platform, developed by Siri co-founders Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer, that enables developers to distribute their products through an intelligent and conversational interface. It’s the simplest way for the world to interact with devices, services and things everywhere. Viv is taught by the world, knows more than it is taught, and learns every day. 

What makes Viv different is in its desire to be truly multi-platform. The team wants Viv to run not just on all mobile devices (no matter the platform), but to tackle home hardware, appliances and other gadgets with its always-listening interface, a la Amazon’s ‘Alexa’.

And most fascinating thing is that the program is always learning, means unlike Siri, which defaults to a Web search when it doesn’t understand — or can’t find — an answer, developers can teach Viv new concepts and intents and watch its speech recognition improve over time. What makes Viv's AI truly unique, though, is a patented computer science breakthrough called dynamic program generation—it's software that writes itself and this is where Viv stands apart from other digital assistants. In 10 milliseconds, Viv can write a 44-step program figuring out the context around a query. All that dynamic code generation in the background makes for a faster, more natural conversational UI.

Reference:

http://viv.ai

HEY!!! I GOT A PLANE STANDING UP MY ROOFTOP

Well, not yet but very soon !!!

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A start-up company hosted in an ESA business incubator is developing the world's first vertical takeoff and landing (VOTL) aircraft for personal use.

Founded in February 2015 by four engineers and doctoral students from the Technical University of Munich in Germany, LILIUM has already proved the concept with several scale, 25 kg prototypes and is now developing its first ultra-light “vertical takeoff and landing aircraft”.

 

Although taking off and landing like a helicopter, by swiveling its engines it also functions as a very efficient aircraft that can travel at up to 400 km/h.

The plane is classed as a Light Sport Aircraft for two occupants, with the pilot's license requiring 20 hours' minimum training almost like taking a driving license.

Using computer control for vertical takeoff and landing the aircraft target at the consumer market for personal transportation.

Here are the Product Details:

Reference:

http://www.esa-bic.de/index.php?anzeige=lilium.html

http://lilium-aviation.com/