Levi's launched a new denim smart jacket with Google's Project Jacquard technology. The Trucker Jacket allows users to interact with an Android device with a gesture or touch to their sleeve. Jacquard is a Google project built to experiment with fiber electronics. The Trucker Jacket looks like an average jean jacket but it contains a small electronic tag which connects to a section of conductive fibers, all built into the sleeve. The tag connects by Bluetooth to an Android smartphone, and the conductive fibers act as a touchpad. The Jacquard app lets users determine what the four different gestures, brushing in, brushing out, double-tapping, and covering the area, do.

Saykara today announced the release of Kara 2.0, an AI-powered healthcare assistant that further simplifies the documentation process for physicians. Now featuring Ambient Mode, Kara 2.0 is a breakthrough AI-powered voice application for healthcare, allowing physicians and patients to interact as they normally do, all while Saykara listens, transcribes to text, parses text into structured data, and intelligently completes each form in a patient's electronic health record (EHR or chart). Saykara then automatically generates a clinic note including patient history, physical, assessment, plan, orders and referrals. With the release of Ambient Mode, Saykara is the only virtual healthcare assistant that can be used passively'in the room' during physician-patient appointments with no voice commands. Ambient Mode builds on Saykara's versatility and agnosticity, allowing it to better serve up to 18 disparate healthcare specialties, including primary care, pediatrics, internal medicine, orthopedics, urology and more.

Chromecast, the Assistant and Android Auto get useful new features and the blob emoji are back. Here are some of the changes Google rolled out recently. Back in the day, Google Now provided a daily collection of reminders, weather and traffic reports, events on your schedule and more. It was extremely useful if you took the time to customize it so it brought you just the information you needed to navigate through your day. Google Now is gone, but the purpose it served has returned via the Assistant with a new feature called "Visual Snapshot" that is rolling out now.

Samsung has figured out a way to almost make your TV magically disappear. The Korean tech giant unveiled its new line of futuristic smart TVs on Wednesday and one model can blend in with your wall -- just like a chameleon. Its next generation QLED TVs include a feature called Ambient Mode, which enables the TV to blend in to the background whenever it's turned off. Samsung uses a color and pattern matching technology to mimic the QLED TV's background, making it appear nearly invisible. To turn on Ambient Mode, open Samsung's SmartThings app, which is its connected home hub.

Cozmo, the product of San Francisco-based startup Anki, received plenty of press when it made its July debut. Since then, the firm has demoed the artificially intelligent little robot's SDK, formally launched pre-orders, and prepared thousands of the AI-powered companions for shipment later this year. A few "escaped" early, though, including one that found its way to the New York offices of Digital Trends. For the better part of two weeks, we've been playing with it to find out just what makes it tick. The answer is simpler than it might appear at first glance.