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Google Vision concept
So this new concept proposed by UK designer Callum Peden, called Google Vision, really excites me. It's a concept for a new googling device that will provide you with information about real-world objects based on the pictures that you take of the objects and feed into the device. In my case, if I could feed the photos of the fruit into this device, it would map the fruit with its actual name, origin and other relevant information (similar to Wikipedia) based on built-in image recognition mechanisms. The information would then be displayed on its roll-out LCD screen. The device will only make use of already existing technologies and building it would just mean putting all the parts together. Cool, huh? If Google (or anybody else) would sponsor this device, it would take google search out of the computer and into your hands. Literally......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source A Splash With Robots
High school students who had been working and living together at MIT for six weeks maneuvered their underwater robots through the Alumni Pool, picking up weighted markers and delivering them to a goal. The event was just one in a daylong program that rounded out Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES). The students, who will be seniors in the fall, also presented web site designs and a poster session on genomics to an appreciative audience in Room 34-101. The robot contest -- co-directed by Marc Graham (Ph.D. 2006), veteran competitor and teaching assistant in MIT's famed 2.007 robot contest, and Ed Moriarty, instructor in the Edgerton Center -- was broadcast to the room live on closed-circuit TV. MITES was created in 1974 to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the engineering professions by exposing students to engineering courses during their high school years. The program is 100 percent scholarship-based. Funding from industry, foundations and individuals covers all expenses for each student. This year's 62 high school juniors participated in a rigorous academic program at MIT, studying biology, calculus, chemistry, physics and engineering design among other science, engineering and computer science courses......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source The Unidyne PC
The Shure 55 Unidyne microphone is a classic Machine Age design from the thirties. It is so popular that it still being produced and sold today. This custom built computer is my tribute to this great piece of industrial art......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Wireless Mighty Mouse
Laser-guided Precision The wireless Mighty Mouse's tracking engine is based on powerful laser technology that delivers 20 times the performance of standard optical tracking, giving you more accuracy and responsiveness on more surfaces. It works just as well on your office desk as it does on a table at your favorite coffee spot. So leave the mouse pad at home. Mighty Mouse is one smooth operator. Spry and Mighty In the beginning, there was one button. Then there were two. Then there were clickable scroll wheels and programmable toggles and solid-state slides. But nobody made a mouse as easy to use as your Mac. Until now. Mighty Mouse combines the capability of a multibutton mouse with Apple's signature top-shell design for the best of both form and function. Use it any way you work: Stick with single-button simplicity or click with multibutton efficiency. Get Around........ Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Sony Ericsson W950i
The W950i has an impressive 4GB of flash memory. 3G makes surfing the Web on the go a fast and satisfying experience. The Opera- 8.0 Web browser gives you the internet browsing experience you're used to and you have everywhere access to your favourite websites......... Posted by: Ashley Permalink Source Improving Breast Cancer Diagnosis
For hard-to-diagnose cases, it could save a woman from a mastectomy by pinpointing the dimensions of a cancer and giving doctors the option of a lumpectomy. It also could save a woman's life by finding cancers too small to show up in regular detection methods. "There are a number of cases when you get a suspicious feeling from a mammography but you don't have a definitive diagnosis," said Roger Goldwyn, a mathematics professor at Florida Atlantic University who helped develop the new technology. "This enhanced MRI allows you to really determine what is there". The software, technically called contrast enhanced dynamic imagining, is being used at Boca Raton Community Hospital's Center for Breast Care on high-risk patients and those recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Eventhough the Food and Drug Administration approved the software in 2004, officials are just now asking for $10 million in federal money to help continue the research and package the program to allow more hospitals to use it......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Perception Into Robots
We are sitting in a soccer stadium and discover our neighbor sitting in the 10th row. We recognize him with no difficulty at all, even though he is wearing sunglasses and a cap in his club colors. Complex recognition processes like this work because the brain, sensory organs and nerve pathways are able to pick up stimuli and process them. The ability to classify things (categorization) appears to be a fundamental characteristic of human intelligence, and one that gives robots a real "headache". In situations in which a robot has no access to knowledge of a pre-defined environment, and pre-programmed control is therefore not possible, the robot will tend to fail miserably in its task. But it is precisely autonomous robots capable of acting in response to a given situation that could be of great use to humans......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source SeisMac
The resizable, real-time scrolling display shows an enormous amount of acceleration information. Place your laptop on a table and see the seismic waves from tapping your toe on the floor. Lay your laptop on your chest and see your heartbeat. And of course, if there is a real earthquake, SeisMac will be displaying full seismic information while you drop, cover and hold-on. When running on the MacBook or MacBook Pro, SeisMac has a range of plus or minus two gravities of acceleration, displaying 256 values per gravity, sampled two hundred times per second for each axis. SeisMac is also compatible with older Sudden Motion Sensor-equipped iBooks and PowerBooks......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source O2 unleashes mighty Atom
As hype-stirring previews go, the site's generous with details, revealing the fact that the new Exec is a palmtop-phone with Windows Mobile 5.0, Blackberry-esque push e-mail and built-in Wi-Fi. Heads will rightly be nodding in approval at this point, but there's more. The Exec sports a nippier 520MHz processor than its predecessor - which never made it to our isles - allowing it to juggle several Office applications at once. There's a bolstered 192MB memory and a 2MP camera too. The main difference between the black-coated Exec and rivals like the forthcoming Motorola Q is the input system: instead of a QWERTY keyboard, you get a 2.7in QVGA touchscreen and stylus. Email addicts, it's time to choose your weapon......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Semiconductor Outperforms Chips
The finding, which represents the first time a so-called "wet" semiconductor device has bested traditional, more costly grown-crystal semiconductor devices, is reported in the July 13 issue of the journal Nature. "Traditional ways of making computer chips, fibre-optic lasers, digital camera image sensors - the building blocks of the information age - are costly in time, money, and energy," says Professor Ted Sargent of the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and leader of the research group. Conventional semiconductors have produced spectacular results -- the personal computer, the Internet, digital photography -- but they rely on growing atomically-perfect crystals at 1,000 degrees Celsius and above, he explains. The Toronto team instead cooked up semiconductor particles in a flask containing extra-pure oleic acid, the main ingredient in olive oil. The particles are just a few nanometres (one billionth of a metre) across. The team then placed a drop of solution on a glass slide patterned with gold electrodes and forced the drop to spread out into a smooth, continuous semiconductor film using a process called spin-coating. They then gave their film a two-hour bath in methanol. Once the solvent evaporated, it left an 800 nanometre-thick layer of the light-sensitive nanoparticles......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source |
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