Beam Remote Presence Operations

1.   Recently watched the Snowden Interview/Interaction at TED here as seen below



and got curious to know about the device used and he interacted vide.....and so got this video link with details of the BEAM remote presence operations...a very interesting device to say

2.  More details at https://www.suitabletech.com/

New Generation Biometrics : YOUR EYE MOVEMENTS ARE UNIQUE

1.   New generation Biometric Techniques have always raised appreciating eyebrows across.Like when I discussed about EARS SPEAKING at http://anupriti.blogspot.in/2010/01/ when-ears-speak.html.Although there are so many unheard unique and being used biometric in the offering this is certainly that I read on simply on curiosity.The complete post is at http://www.techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/Soon-eye-movements-can-be-your-new-password-15633.

2.   Now in brief goes like this :

-   This biometric system identifies people by the way they flicker their eyes while looking at a computer screen. 

-   Discovered and innovated by Oleg Komogortsev, a computer scientist at Texas State University-San Marco, is making use of the fact that no two people look at the world in the same way . When looking at a picture, different people will move their eyes among points of interest in different sequences.

-   Even if two people trace the same paths, the exact way they move their eyes differs, the 'LiveScience' reported. 

-   Eye movements could become part of the next generation of a more established biometric iris scans.

3.   More at http://www.techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/Soon-eye-movements-can-be-your-new-password-15633

SAMSUNGs GALAXY BEAM - Projector meets Mobile

1. Imagine one single mobile handset offering the following features :

(a) Miniprojector at 640 x 480 pixel resolution.

(b) 3.7-inch Super-AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode)

(c) An 8-megapixel camera.

(d) Can be used as a wireless access point.

(e) FM.

(f) Wi-fi.

(g) Bluetooth 3.0

(h) GPS

(j) Inbuilt 16 GB storage

(k) TV out

(l) MP3,MPEG4,WMV,DivX & H.264

(m) Touchscreen

(n) 3G/EDGE Connectivity

(o) 530 hours Stand By

(p) 7 hours talktime

2. Thats Samsung Galaxy Beam to be launched on 17th July 10

3. More at www.samsunghub.com

MOST AMAZING TECHNIQUE TO TRANSFER DATA:SLURP

1. This is by far the most amazing thing I have seen in recent years....we have all seen ways to transfer data from one PC to other including bluetooth,wifi,cable and so on.....but this one involvesslurping up (extracting) information and squirting out (injecting) pointers to digital objects. Hence, information can be transferred from machine to machine without any kind of wired or unwired connection.It will be really clear when you see the above video.....you use a dropper like object to pick up a folder from one desktop to other......AMAZZZZINGGG!!!!!!

2. This clever innovation comes in from a former MIT Media Lab student, Jamie Zigelbaum.

3. Thanks http://zig.media.mit.edu/Work/Slurp

IT meets HIGH TECH TAPS : Renshui Faucets

1. Water Taps with in-built chips , the Renshui high-tech faucets, allows customised control of the flow and temperature of the water . All it takes is a simple touch and one can change these parameters to prepare a perfectly tailor-made lovely bath.The water’s temperature is also displayed on the cool body of this faucet that’s totally different in style and form.

2. With a simple touch, one can go from hot to cold water, on or off. Another great feature is the intelligent light, which shows the water’s temperature to cut down the risk of scalding accidents. All these features come wrapped in a contemporaneous design that will add sleek , style in additions to reducing your wallet weight.

3. Thanks http://www.trendir.com/

Intel meets Car : Makes it SMART CAR

1. In an earlier post here about Intel's Bike,I discussed about how Intel had plans to get IT into Bike.Now they have gone a step further.....I mean from Bike to Car...yess..they have graduated to Car.

2. Intel is currently working on a smart car that will register desired information about the speed, steering, braking while also recording video footage from the outside.This would work well enough as a black box since all the information can be used in case of crashes and if possible, even thefts. Safety features like an on-board camera system, sensors to monitor the road condition, distance sensors to warn the driver of closing in distances and mobile control to lock or unlock the car.

3. Thanks http://www.newlaunches.com

Google and Caffeine : The Secret Link

1. A little over year ago ,Google unveiled a “secret project” of “next-generation architecture for Google’s web search“ which was supposed to include crawling, indexing, and ranking changes. While the biggest visible changes in Microsoft’s relaunched search engine, Bing, was user-interface related, Google’s secret project was supposed to be only infrastructure related and proposed no UI changes.

2. Thus after an year of the unveiling,Google is now getting faster and more comprehensive with a new Web indexing system called "Caffeine.As per the Google Blog Post's , the project now stands on completion stage and now "provides 50 percent fresher results for Web searches".

3. The old indexing architecture was based on several layers, some of which were refreshed at a faster rate than others; the main layer would get updated every couple of weeks.To refresh a layer of the old index, entire web was analysed, which meant there was a significant delay between when we found a page and made it available to the user. With Caffeine, the web is analysed in small portions and search index is updated on a continuous basis.Thus more improvement on existing setup....that I say "there is no end to improvement"

4. Thanks http://www.trustedreviews.com

MPEG vs H.264

1. A not so techie person like me knows MPEG as the extension of videos also known with the extension name of .mpg,.mpeg,.mp1.We have been seeing this name since the birth of CDs in late 90s(...i m speaking in Indian gali context,thats when this term evoluted to a common man ).

2. Any one who has followed up the term MPEG would know or would have heard names of various versions that followed MPEG1,MPEG2, MPEG3, MPEG4 and lately some thing known as H.264 comes up in the context of video compression technology.So this term aroused my interest to know in some detail about what has been the change and value addition over these various versions that keep following up every 2-3 years.

3. Moving Picture Experts Group(....expanded form MPEG) also known as  ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 WG11 evoluted from MPEG 1 to H.264 2day.

4. MPEG 1 : The earliest standard for compression of video and audio was designed to compress VHS-quality raw digital video and CD audio.This included many severe shortcomings in form of a lower resolution,less efficient audio compression system,lack of flexibility,access control issues,unsuitable for HDTV,did not support interlaced footage.

5. MPEG-2 : Successor tO MPEG 1 Standard that describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods also permitted storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission bandwidth.This overcame the shortcomings of MPEG-1 mentioned above.

6. MPEG-3 : A coding standard designed to handle HDTV signals but it was soon discovered that MPEG-2, at high data rates, would accommodate HDTV.Thus, in 1992 HDTV was included as a separate profile in the MPEG-2 standard and MPEG-3 was rolled into MPEG-2

7. MPEG-4 : About this I will give a point wise summary in days to come.In brief otherwise it absorbs many of the features of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 and other related standards adding new features such as support for 3D rendering.MPEG-4 is still a developing standard and is divided into a number of parts. Companies promoting MPEG-4 compatibility do not always clearly state which "part" level compatibility they are referring to. 

8. The key parts to be aware of are MPEG-4 part 2 and MPEG-4 part 10 used by the Nero Digital AVC, by Quicktime 7, and by next-gen DVD formats like HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

9. Now comes the talk about H.264.In short H.264 is a standard for video compression, and is equivalent to MPEG-4 Part 10, or MPEG-4 AVC (for Advanced Video Coding). It uses motion-compensation-based codec standard.Now whats motion compensation?Will speak on this in few days after I get 2 know what it is?

10. Thanks wiki for sharing this.

RFID

1. Here's an old thing in a new bottle...i mean old wine with a new meaning altogether.Radio-frequency identification (RFID) as would anyone know is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders.

2. This is not a new invention ..but the usage certainly has made it something like new.The vast usage of RFID 2day includes a big scope from controlling inventory to controlling limited access to vehs and pers to new generation security systems.

3. Big guns of the manufacturing industries across the globe have already exploited the usage of this technology and now the technology is gradually making way in the Indian industry in the form of Daphene systems,ESSL to name a few that come to my mind instantly.

4. The good thing is that even as the technology is introduced to the consumer for the first time,it comes cheap...and i mean dirt cheap.Imagine controlling an inventory of a lakh plus item at just under 25K...ie less then 25 paise per item and now body would ignore at such a low cost in bulk for the benefit of organisation.This would not only maintain the inventory but would also avoid any theft being carried out in some body's pocket....so this is just the beginning of another technology revoloution...all u guys who keep looking for some technical buzz word...keep a track of this.....