#Pi-powered Kinograph makes preserving film heritage affordable As the Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) has worked to make computing more accessible,
Epler's thesis project for NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, the Kinograph uses software to stabilize a series of captured images and extract optical sound.
and a few components that can be cheaply sourced over the internet. This means that a decent DSLR will be the most expensive part of the setup,
"the cost of digitization is prohibitive for anybody with more than a few films.""This is as true for individuals with private collections as it is for libraries, museums and other public institutions.
and embedded Linux on a Raspberry Pi, while Opencv, Processing, and AEO Sound applications are used for image and audio processing, with batch processing of crop rotation and color correction all possible.
As part of the recent Google Science Fair Texas teen Alex Spiride recently showed off his own bio-inspired Squid-Jet underwater vehicle e
"In particular, the GEDI data will provide us with global-scale insights into how much carbon is being stored in the forest biomass.
This is data that's missing from the current picture of how trees fit into the carbon cycle."
filters directly onto the pixels. The new design enables smaller less complex and more organic designs for CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) sensors
and blue color data determined by separate filters (or especially in low-end cameras a single filter array that uses a mosaic pattern to interpret colors).
One issue for small hold farmers in the developing world is access to information and according to the United Nation development and humanitarian news website, IRIN,
The Economist reported last year that Ethiopia lags behind its neighbors in terms of cell phone penetration;
only 25 percent of its 90 million people use cell phones compared with the regional average of 70 percent."
geographic or demographic data captured when farmers first register to use the system.""Given the dozens of languages spoken,
which is comprised of individual microscopic tablets that interlock in a fashion similar to Lego blocks.
The researchers noticed that the boundaries between the tablets aren't straight but instead are wavy like the edges of jigsaw puzzle pieces.
#Snake Monster robot can be easily reconfigured to suit user needs Carnegie mellon University (CMU) has created a new robot that has six legs, looks creepily like a spider when it walks,
wheels and tank-style treads that will allow users to modify the base structure into a selection of totally different robots suited to a range of tasks."
"Using the hardware knowledge gleaned from their many years of snake robot construction, Choset and his team have created small, powerful,
"The architecture is built on Ethernet computer networking technology, "said Choset.""Ethernet doesn't require that the computers connected to it be of a specific type,
but that they all communicate with each other in the same way. The interfaces used in the modular architecture allow robot designers to focus on specific capabilities without having to worry about detailed systems issues
and software analysis that could have uses both On earth and in space. The ultimate goal is to produce zero-emission proof-of-concept vehicles capable of self-navigation in difficult situations,
and they're going to be the headset's core audience at launch. But in the long run we believe the product has the potential to transcend gaming.
Let's take a look at eight future uses for the best virtual reality headset. The Oculus Rift could ultimately transform movies at least as much as it does gaming.
but why couldn't we eventually have movie theaters full of Oculus headsets? What you'd miss in communion with your fellow moviegoers would be made more than up for with a feeling that you were standing in the middle of the movie's action.
Of all the companies to buy Oculus VR why Facebook? Well perhaps Mark Zuckerburg saw a little of himself in the young innovators running the hot startup
because he saw a new future for social media. Imagine a future version of Facebook where instead of posting photos of your lunch on your wall you have a Second life-like avatar
and can mill about with virtual versions of your high school class or family members who live on the other side of the world.
So why not pimp your ride with a few Oculus headsets? Then instead of staring at miles
but imagine a future world where we each have telepresence robots that we control from home using virtual reality headsets.
That slick, smartphone-sized portable looks like a design-forward mouse or set-top box but is actually a go-anywhere isometric exercise gizmo.
like the countless fitness monitors out there, TAO tasks its device with actually exercising you at home, work and on the go.
and supports for working what TAO identifies as the main male and female target areas arms, core, thighs and butt.
The display on the prototype was either out of battery power or a dummy so we didn't get to play with it.
so they can contain a lot of data that according to LLNL acts like an invisible barcode. Applying DNATRAX is simply a matter of spraying it on fruits vegetables and meats or mixing it in with bulk commodities like honey olive oil flour or rice.
The idea is to use the DNA to record a code sequence with data such as what the product is where it came from
and along with an LED lighting array features photovoltaic panels, a wind turbine, a battery pack, and an electronic control system that manages the flow of energy between those components.
#Scientists find that exposure to nanoparticles could impact cardiovascular health Due to its huge potential in applications ranging from cheaper vaccinations to energy-storing car panels there's plenty of excitement surrounding the emergence of nanotechnology.
The scientists from the Technion Rappaport Faculty of medicine Rambam Medical center and the Center of Excellence in Exposure Science and Environmental Health (TCEEH) worked with cultured laboratory mouse cells that resemble the cells of arterial walls
"The approximately 5, 680 total global patents break down into roughly 3, 350 fuel cell system software control patents, 1,
#Prototype system paves way for huge glasses-free 3d displays Using red/blue filters (anaglyph),
Every 3d-Pixel (or"Trixel""as the team calls them) used by the prototype system consists of lasers
so that different laser flashes are sent into different directions.''Unlike current large-scale 3d projection systems, such as those used at the cinema where only two different pictures are projected, one for each eye,
but we expect that new footage will be created especially for our displays perhaps with a much larger number of cameras,
According to the research team, compared to a movie screen, the display is also very vivid
and can be used easily outdoors, even in full sunlight. As a result, the new technology lends itself to applications such as 3d electronic billboards that could display different ads at the same time, dependent upon the angle of the viewer."
"Maybe someone wants to appeal specifically to the customers leaving the shop across the street,
On the downside, the current prototype only has a resolution of five pixels by three and,
which split the image for a 3d effect without the user having to wear glasses,
the viewer must be positioned at a certain distance from the screen for the effect to work.
"But the crucial point is that the individual laser pixels work. Scaling it up to a display with many pixels is not a problem."
"From first design to working prototype took three years, and the technology behind the system has now been patented.
but they suffered a loss of active site surface area. Panasonic has found a way to bind the Tio2 to another particle zeolite (a commercial adsorbent and catalyst)
which solves that problem by enabling photocatalysts to maintain their active site. And the method requires no binder chemicals
#A new type of glass could double your smartphone's battery life The batteries inside our smartphones
and laptops are fighting a losing battle when it comes to keeping these devices juiced up
He added that the vanadate-borate glass compound his team has developed could extend smartphone battery life by 1. 5 to 2 times
This may be about to change thanks to the Voxel8 a printer presented at CES that makes it much easier to blend plastic conductive ink
Special conductive inks and the right kind of printers already make it possible to build simple parts with embedded electronics.
The idea is that this new ink will enable users to easily wire together chips
Thanks to its unique software (which was developed specifically by CAD software giant Autodesk and is hosted in the cloud) the printing can also pause at predetermined points
so that users can manually insert the components that will be embedded in their 3d printed objects. As printers go this one appears to be on the higher end of the spectrum with features including a 4. 3-inch touchscreen USB
and Wi-fi connectivity and a kinematically coupled bed that uses magnets to ensure high-precision printing even after the various components are inserted manually.
The XY resolution is 15 microns layer resolution is 200 microns and the device can reportedly print objects up to 4 x 6 x 4 inches (10 x 15 x 10 cm) in size.
The only two printing materials currently supported are standard PLA plastic and the silver conductive ink but the startup has said users will be able to upgrade their printer in the future as more functional
and matrix materials are released. Voxel8 printers are set to begin shipping late this year. The US$8999 standard price tag includes two PLA filament spools and five conductive ink cartridges.
Should you choose to pre-order which entails a $500 deposit you'll get double the printing materials.
The video below demonstrates what the printer can do? including printing a working quadcopter r
#BMW VW join forces to build fast-charging stations for electric cars in US German car companies, BMW and Volkswagen are teaming up with Chargepoint to install a network of fast-charging stations for electric cars in the U s. The companies plan to install nearly 100 Chargepoint ports on the U s. East
and West Coasts by the end of 2015 as part of an effort to promote greater sales of EVS such as the BMW i3 and the VW e-Golf.
Chargepoint operates one of the leading EV charging networks, with more than 20 000 charging ports in North america.
#Roll to roll manufactured decorative solar panels to be 10 times cheaper Based on printing technologies, VTT Technical Centre of Finland has developed
Freedom of design increases the range of panel applications on the surfaces of interior and exterior building spaces.
VTT is also studying the feasibility of printing technology in the mass production of solar panels made from inorganic perovskite materials.
The panels can for example, be placed on windows and walls and on machines, devices and advertisement billboards.
Until now, it has only been possible to pattern OPV panels into a form of stripes.
and screen printing technologies is only around 0. 2 mm thick, and includes the electrodes
VTT is also currently examining how well the roll-to-roll printing methods are suited to the manufacturing of inorganic solar panels made from perovskite materials.
The research scientists have tested the feasibility of the method by printing leaf-shaped photovoltaic cells. Active surface of a one leaf is 0 0144 m2
The solar panels are manufactured with printing machines based on conventional printing methods using the roll-to-roll method,
and after use, the OPV panels can be recycled. The market for organic photovoltaic cells is developing,
The operating life of panel is few years which is enough for many applications. VTT is also developing a method to utilize light in wireless data transfer by using solar cells as data receivers.
This will open new application possibilities to utilize printable solar cells e g. in Iot (Internet of things) type applications, in
University of Illinois researchers and colleagues in South korea led by U. of I. electrical and computer engineering senior research scientist Hyungsoo Choi and professor Kyekyoon#Kevin#Kim published details about the gelatin
#Abusive Spouses are Using Spyware to Track their Victims The use of surveillance software by abusive spouses to monitor the phones
and computers of their partners secretly has reached pidemic proportionsand police are ill-equipped to tackle it,
Helplines and women refuge charities have reported a dramatic rise in the use of spyware apps to eavesdrop on the victims of domestic violence via their mobiles and other electronic devices,
The Independent has established that one device offering the ability to spy on phones is being sold by a major British high-street retailer via its website.
The proliferation of software packages, many of which are marketed openly as tools for covertly tracking a heating wife
or former partner, using Christmas or birthday presents such as phones, computers and toys pre-loaded with spyware to infiltrate a target home.
Polly Neate, chief executive of Women Aid, told The Independent: omestic abuse is about control and perpetrators will use any means available to maintain
and increase their control. e increasingly hear stories of abusers adding tracking software to phones,
placing spyware on personal computers and using the internet to gather information about their partner. Many software packages are marketed openly as tools for covertly tracking a heating wife
or girlfriendand cost less than £50 Many software packages are marketed openly as tools for covertly tracking a heating wife
or girlfriendand cost less than £50 (Rex) owever, in many cases the police are trained not to recognise
and understand the impact of online abuse, including tracking, and action is taken rarely against abusers.
which once installed on a computer or smartphone is virtually untraceable to the user. Nearly all offer a GPS tracking function,
allowing the user to pinpoint an individual to within a few metres, as well as covert access to keystrokes, texts, pictures and emails.
The Independent has been told of a case where a woman had a conversation she had held with a friend on her mobile played back to her by her partner,
who had bugged her phone with spyware. He then told her he had connections with criminals
and had had killed people. In another incident an abusive husband managed to gain access to his spouse ebay account using spyware
and found a delivery address. He then lay in wait and attacked his wife in an assault so vicious that she lost sight in one eye.
The software is being used routinely to exert psychological pressure or for harassment, allowing controlling or potentially violent men to confront their victims over their movements.
In failed relationships, tales are rife of email accounts being hacked to send abusive messages to a spouse friends or employer.
The tracking packages are widely available on the internet with many marketed as ways for employers to monitor the movements of their workers
or for parents to check electronically on the whereabouts of their children. But others openly boast that they can detect infidelity.
lexispy lets you conduct pycalls remotely activating the phone microphone to listen in on its surroundings. This is particularly useful once you confirm she not actually where she told you she was.
the eavesdropping technology is also available in Britain through specialist retailers and also the website of the high-street electronics retailer Maplin.
The company has been marketing a ell phone spy softwaredevice sold for £99. 99 with the ability o monitor SMS text messages,
emails and calls and also keep track of a mobile phone location The website of the manufacturer, Cell Phone Recon,
states that the user of the targeted mobile device will not see the application running. The product listing featured a question from a customer stating she wanted to use the software to spy on her partner texts.
Maplin reply stated: nstalling on the phone is very fast and simple, you will be able to read all texts sent
and received in full. After it was contacted by The Independent, Maplin changed the description of the device to ell phone backup softwareand amended the answer to the customer question to make it clear that it should only be used with the permission of a phone owner.
In a statement, the company said: his product is a brilliant piece of innovation and,
gives users peace of mind. Maplin does not condone using any of its products surreptitiously or as a means of tracking people without their consent and recommends that the product is used legally. hilst
the data in housing is probably the strongest. The country is building more apartment buildings than at any time in decades,
American Community Survey data, crunched by City Observatory, reveals that the number of college-educated young adults (ages 25 to 34) living within three miles of city centers has risen 37 percent since the millennium.
Delaware, 66 percent of jobs were located in the core city in 1940. By 1970, its share had fallen below one in four.
Over a period of 25 years, between 1955 and 1980, more than 50 corporations left New york city, including IBM, Gulf Oil, Texaco, Union carbide, General Telephone, Xerox, Pepsico and U s. Tobacco.
Corporate giants like Motorola, Coca-cola and Yahoo have made well-publicized moves toward downtown Chicago, Atlanta and San francisco (respectively) to attract
But in large, the boom in core city employment hasn materialized. The result of this mismatch between urban living
is a design element in everything from Android phones to car steering wheels. Because the technology is currently relatively primitive in the mass market,
it mainly used for more day-to-day purposes like simulating the feel of a tactile keyboard on a smartphone
or simulating the shaking of an explosion in a specialized video game controller. Check out Youtube Video Article by Neal Ungerleider Article Source:
#Tesla motors#Destination Charging#:#Fast-growing Network Beyond Superchargers One of the most commonly cited arguments against electric cars is range anxiety.
The Destination Charging network Youl find these charging locations on Tesla website listed as Charging Partners.
and even mobile phone stores. In the U s.,Wall Connectors are showing up at well-known names like Costco, Hyatt, Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton, Best western, and Westin.
the company sells the contraption on its website for $650. And the installation of a 240-volt circuit isn expensive probably no more than $3, 000 and as little as $500.
Besides the aging simulation exercise, they viewed a Powerpoint presentation defining dementia and were trained, in the hall Dementia Experience Center, to perform hand massage in nursing homes. hat did
I do with my phone? It in the refrigerator, said one instructor, explaining memory loss. ave you seen someone like that?
And a government dementia database allows families to register relatives and receive iron-on identification numbers.
he would rather flip open his laptop in his room to watch the lecture, streamed live over the campus network.
But it also raises questions that go to the core of a college mission: Is it possible to learn as much
when your professor is a mass of pixels whom you never meet? How much of a student education and growth academic and personal depends on face-to-face contact with instructors and fellow students?
and watch through a computer. Across the country, online education is exploding: 4. 6 million students took a college-level online course during fall 2008, up 17 percent from a year earlier, according to the Sloan Survey of Online learning.
She said an advantage of the Internet is that students can stop the lecture and rewind when they do not understand something.
and students join a virtual classroom once a week using a conferencing software called Wiziq. i, everyone, welcome to Week 9. Hello!
her laptop open on the dining room table. As Dr. Joos lectured, a chat box scrolled with studentscomments and questions.
then automatically relays the information to a forest station through mobile phone technology. he heat sensors are programmed to detect temperatures which are over 45 degrees Celsius,
That immediately triggered a call to his mobile phone. his is how the system is expected to work,
#Wave and Paymobile Phone Payment system Launched in the UK Orange and Samsung have teamed-up with Barclaycard to provide mobile phone payments with the new uick Tappayment technology.
Like the abolition of the £1 note or the introduction of the £2 coin, yesterday was a historic day for British money.
Courtesy of Barclaycard, Orange and Samsung, consumers across the UK can now pay for goods and services with nothing more than a mobile phone.
Yougov research, commissioned by digital payments provider Intelligent Environments, says 42 per cent of smartphone users want to use their phones as mobile wallets.
Owners of the Apple iphone are keenest, but significant proportions of Blackberry and Google phone users want to take advantage of it too.
That not because technology built into mobile phones is the way that everything, from cameras to translators, seems to be going.
It down to the fact that this new mobile-based method is quick simpler and crucially, more secure than anything wee got available at the moment.
Barclaycard has quietly been rolling out so-called ontactlesspayment systems across the UK for several years
Now that means there are devices in shops up and down the country that require users, for transactions up to £15,
With a mobile phone data connection, however, all transactions can be authorised and completed instantly. In due course, transactions over £15 will be permitted
if a pin is entered on the mobile phone. That, too, is more secure than the traditional keypad.
however, is that for now only one phone, one payment provider and one network operator provides this whizzy technology.
Even though the ear-field communicationstechnology is built into a wide and growing number of phones already,
Using an app on the mobile phone, customers can top up their wave and pay account from a connected credit
even if rumours that NFC payments are to be built into the forthcoming iphone turn out to be untrue,
Google is working with Mastercard and a host of other manufacturers have similar plans. Indeed, as with almost all significant new technology, the appeal is mainly in the simplicity of NFC.
online games that act as camouflaged advertisements, social media, product placements in movies, the use of movie characters in cross-promotions and fast-food children meals.
Jeffrey Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy, a group that focuses on Internet marketing to children, said the F. T. C. proposal had broader implications. he youth obesity issue has placed all
vast amounts of new data are being generated about the complicated path that food takes from field to supermarket shelf.
who in some stores can wave a smartphone above an apple or orange and learn instantly where it was grown,
consumers could tap into through their computers or cellphones. The ne step forward, one step backtraceability requirement for processed food and produce is designed to make it easier for the Food
and manage the data. Some are experimenting with radio frequency identification and other sophisticated methods, including etching identification codes on produce with lasers
or micro-percussion markers that make tiny indents. hey each believe they have the holy grail product tracking solutions sitting in their laptop,
said David Acheson, former assistant commissioner for food protection at the FDA. omebody is probably going to make a bundle of money out of this.
Paul Chang, who leads the traceability initiative at IBM, said the company is basically taking the tracking system it uses for the pharmaceutical industry
instrumented data, he said. Segments of the food industry have been required since 2005 to be able to trace ne step forward, one step back,
Shoppers can scan the sticker with a smartphone or go to the Harvestmark website and enter the number from the sticker to learn the path the food has taken
and other information the farmer chooses to share, such as the harvest date. here been a very rapid sea change in consumer behavior,
said Elliott Grant, the chief marketing officer for Harvestmark. ith very high-profile food recalls, cellphones and iphones,
use e-mail or have Internet service. Harvestmark provides him with a laptop computer and preprinted bar code stickers for his melons.
And during harvesting, he takes the laptop to a bank or some other place with Internet service to upload the data to Harvestmark.
One day he was surprised to get a letter from an unhappy customer who had tracked down his address from the Harvestmark sticker.
Using the code, Bauman traced the melon and discovered it had been picked in August but purchased by the customer in October. e called him back
This system gives the end user the customer the option to be more aware of their products
It has infrared two monitors mounted on the trunk that record any numbers it sees##such as license plates and addresses.
The 13-page report describes initiatives ranging from the high-tech (500 officers have received Samsung Rugby smartphones equipped to deliver real-time crime data) to the bureaucratic (new guidelines for recruiting
then check the results against a database that contains the plate numbers of cars that are stolen,
The data is stored for an indefinite period, though that will likely change, Mr. del Pozo said.##
is to create an online public database for accessing accident reports. In terms of personnel, the department will begin closely tracking the experience
and microprocessors that monitors the body s internal changes and alters the flow of blood as needed.
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