The augmented reality technology can enhance and streamline assembly processes in factories. So I assert from Software AG, IT firm of German origin who has presented at the CeBIT technology trade fair being held this week in Hannover a solution to apply this technology to industrial processes.
"Augmented Manufacturing" which is the name the solution has a certain video game. As the operator performs the assembly, you can see on a screen, which reproduces the parts and tools before him, what is the next step to be taken. As you collect the stars in Super Mario.
Obviously, this is not play, but, as the company has shown at CeBIT in Hannover, make processes more and more efficient and, at the same time, simple for those performing in a world where job rotation is becoming more prevalent and workers need quick training.
"Augmented Manufacturing" works with a camera and a tablet from the job, collect and send information to a server connected. All application code is XML, to allow easily be modified and adapted to any assembly process.
For now, some of the objectives of this product are maintaining factory lines, training of their workers, assembly and assistance to those doing detailed tasks of an assembly line, sometimes by hand.
The worker who works with the current version Augemented Manufacturing must press a button to advance to the next step, but Software AG plans go through to get this application automatically detects the movements of the worker, forward or backward in the assembly based on mistakes for him to make. Software AG also aims to integrate the new Google Goggles in implementing this product.
Like many of the paths to efficiency, "Augmented Manufacturing" also has a more competitive side. It works integrated with ARIS BPM manager of Software AG, so that stores the execution times of the processes and provides rankings of speed, which can be classified by region and be viewed by workers.
Some of the companies already working with "Augmented Manufacturing" are Siemens and Baasf. Currently, Software AG invites us to take a look at the assembly in which the application has implemented augmented reality through your webcam online.
Whoever gives first gives twice, and South Korea's Samsung decided on Sunday not even waiting for his own presentation to publicize the launch of its highly anticipated Galaxy Note 8.0, a "tablet" of eight inches to occupy the gap between the Note II and its "tablet" of standard measures.
A space, by the way, in which Apple is getting stronger that your iPad Mini. Equipped with an S Pen, a pen that adds many features, the new device weighs just 338 grams. This guarantees the convenience in use with a single hand. The processor is a quad-core A9 at 1.6 GHz and RAM is 2GB, which guarantees outstanding power and the ability to run multiple applications at once without feeling a decline in the performance of any of them.
The battery of 4,600 milliamps, ensures that we can work quietly with the "tablet" for a full day. As for memory storage, we have two versions of 16 and 32 GB, expandable with micro SD cards.
"In 2010, the launch of the first Samsung Galaxy Tab 7-inch opened a new chapter in the industry. Now, almost three years later, Samsung is revolutionizing the industry with a proposal that meets the needs of modern life ", said JK Shin, President of IT and Communications Division of Samsung Electronics Mobile.
"Note 8.0 is a breath of fresh air for this category, because it embodies a perfect fusion between portability and productivity for the day. The result is a pioneering solution that enhances and enriches our daily lives, whether in a professional or entertainment, "he adds.
Among the salient features of the Galaxy Note 8 is multiwindow function, which allows you to split the screen and have two applications open at once. Integrated into the "tablet" S Pen stylus has evolved and supports a range of new features. Once extracted, are activated as Pen Detection characteristics, suggesting menus adapted to the needs of the user, or Page Buddy intuitively showing the startup screen S. Note
A few days ago I read an article in the prestigious IEEE Spectrum and after making a free interpretation of the text, I have more questions than answers. In short (which is interesting in the article), I can anticipate that the foundation of the text revolves around the uncertainty in the labor market creates the appearance (increasingly) of robots replacing humans in positions work, until a short time ago, did not conceive otherwise than "made by humans". Not shrink away too much in this introduction and thinking the same phone line that brings Internet today, a generation ago was working to billions of women in charge of communicating with each other destinations around the world. Thousands of millions of jobs lost and if we start the article, we discuss what can be together soon.
The article is a transcript of a conversation between a journalist and a distinguished faculty member at Rice University who also runs the "Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology" at the University, where they both address the issue we announced in the header of the article: "humans are being displaced from their jobs by robots." In the article mentioned activities already leaving many (but many) people on the street without a future hopeless labor. Automated boxes with RFID tags in department stores, the machines clean the floors, transportation systems, GPS-guided, robot maids who bring order to the table, the menu is being replaced by tablets (tablets), the plants like Foxconn electronics manufacturing, assembly or automotive parts and a huge list of jobs that are not just statistical numbers. They are people, like your father, as you and with your children in future generations.
Many are excited, in some parts of the world, demonstrating that auto run themselves and are able to park without human intervention, where loaded GPS information with the vacant parking lots and take the car only up there to you do not waste time looking for a place to park. To start the comments: how can we call this if it were a newspaper headline: "Efficient and secure automatic handling system, demonstrates the technological advancement of our industry." Or it could appear stating, "Millions of taxi drivers and truck drivers, around the world lose their jobs after the adoption of the new vehicles with automatic handling systems. Global shock. "Both headlines were talking and informing the very triumph of technology?
The article talks about the advances and replacement of people in work in the field, with planters and harvesters that run unattended, enabling higher yields with fewer people and, as mentioned earlier, the list could be endless. Although it seems to be a maze with no exit, we all know that there are things that machines can never achieve. Can you imagine a TV series made by robots cool all the same? It would be just awful, right? However, that does not mean that at that time, the world population has been decimated as far as work is concerned. It will take a significant and radical cultural change to realize that there will be jobs (job specific) labor market will disappear and will be exclusive of the machines. And workers moving from machines to machines that can give us pleasure, is addressed in a talk time of technological advancement that has taken the automotive industry. Performance and comfort are exceeded every day while competing brands every inch, offering the best but, are not we creating monsters that pollute more, made more difficult to recycle materials? That is, (following controversial comments) got out of the vehicles, abandoned its use and opted for transportation means more "green"? What are we doing? Are we moving towards a technology harmful to ourselves?
The conclusion of the talk focuses on that article expresses a concern about the legacy we are leaving to future generations in terms of moving forward with technology, no matter where the end of this great Tower of Babel. Regardless of how many will be displaced and how big will the gap between those socio-cultural master technology to come and those who can not even access them as consumers. And on this particular topic, in the comments of the article, there is a realistic analysis presents the following suggestion: "If machines will keep the jobs of the people, who will become consumers, how the machines ? If there is a consumer public that you can choose between product A or product B, there is no competition, only a monopoly. The evolution of AI (Artificial Intelligence) between machines will grow to levels capable of meeting data ignore the consumer products, reason why, always buy the same product, bankrupting the other companies. And the destructive spiral will continue until they are ... alone? "
Where do we take the AI and the evolution of the Robots? Is it open further the gap between powerful companies (who have the most efficient machines) and the poor or marginalized by the system? Without reaching the end of the article, surrounded by paranoia that may not exist in 2045, is unhealthy understand today that a machine can do the work of one or more operators, will not work for one or more families. From a sidewalk, a business is not to be missed, while from the other lane, the opposite, is losing the dignity of a job and a future. For one production line that requires only one or two maintenance technicians, why another? A market without consumers, jobless and penniless? Does the man know put an ethical limit to this crossroads ahead? What do you think?
Since the design was confirmed on Wii U GamePad, many rumors suggest that Sony will present a check with a design similar to the Nintendo console for PlayStation 4. It also assumes that next Wednesday will receive tangible information on the design of the PS4, but in the European Patent Office appeared a document which establishes the concept of "EyePad" format control having touch pad tablet, motion tracking and wireless communication. Is it just a set of ideas on paper, or are we about the future of the "pads" in Sony?
The theory stated that the gamepad on the Nintendo Wii U would be one of the keys that would allow the Nintendo achieve reasonably successful sales. The numbers indicate that this was not so: The Wii U just surpassed the barrier of three million units (so far), and has already cut its sales expectations in the month of March. Obviously, Nintendo is not solely responsible for this situation, but the "magic" of a revolutionary control with the Wii was sold out, and console, to succeed, requires much more. Now, all heads turn toward Sony. The PlayStation 4 almost can feel in the air. Wednesday's event is full of expectations about the specifications and design of the console.
And recently, it appeared just seen: A patent from Sony, with the concept of a new control called EyePad. Anyone who wants to can fully explore the full PDF of seventeen pages of text and some images isolated, but summarizing a little the EyePad is a control with a format similar to a tablet, brings a touch pad, motion sensors in six-axis joystick controls and conventional illuminated edges that deliver functionality similar to the one with the PlayStation Move. However, there's more: The EyePad also features stereo cameras, which generate a kind of "virtual space" on the control, in which you can enter, and most likely track objects.
The patent was filed in July 2012 and published on Wednesday. The text has direct references to the PlayStation 3, therefore, it is possible that at the time of preparing the patent, the more EyePad was imagined as an accessory for the PS3 as a new control to the next generation of consoles. Perhaps the patent EyePad simply be resting until someone develops a similar device and Sony can exercise "legal leverage" enough. Personally, the idea of ??a tablet format control does not convince me. The control must pass "trust" in the grip. be robust and responsive offer as high as possible. However, I am willing to change my mind if the design and performance are correct. We'll see what we teach Sony on Wednesday, 20.
We are doomed. Again we go to bed with that feeling of "But what kind of black magic is this?" Is that we go on YouTube and we witnessed in action running a layer that transforms any solid in a water barrier. Ever Ultra Dry (Ultra always dry) is a nanotechnology coating with which you cover a surface and become a super hydrophobic materials, which has nothing to do with your nephew allergic to the showers.
A new product has beaten the market by offering a kind of paint that covers an element and makes this repels liquids are spilled on it, regardless of the amount. The liquid which is covered handles are water and refined oils, the most typical liquid contacting walls of buildings and machinery. Ultra-EVERDRY uses patented nanotechnology to coat an object and create an air barrier on its surface. This barrier repels water, oil and other liquids, coating unlike any seen before. The other development associated with Ultra-Ever Dry is the superior coating adhesion and abrasion resistance, allowing it to be used in all applications where durability is required.
The nanoscale coating process usually involves spraying a coating substance on perfectly dry and then a double-dry application, and use of silicones and contact angles creations strong. As long as you do not wear, scratch or damage the surface of the spraying, the coating protects the surface of what is applied, preventing corrosion, freezing and wetting. Before the inevitable smartass of anonymous comments will declare, Super hidrófobosno coatings are new, but this state of the art now saw depicted in this video. Just close your eyes and think of all the possible applications for both heavy industry and for the development of consumer electronics or furniture, surfaces providing us immune to spills. In fact, imagine having clothes with a treatment like this, repelling all attacks that you become self with splashes of different foodstuffs. What other uses can you think of? Is the death of the napkin?
Many operating systems have increased their level of portability thanks to the magic of "Live USB". You can have an operating system to run directly from a flash drive, without relying on any file stored locally on the computer. StormFly uses a similar concept, but the main differences are in the persistence of data, using a USB 3.0 interface for speed, the presence of a shared folder for easy file transfer, and data encryption.
Facilities "live" operating systems are very useful to test the basic functions of each, or to access their tools in case there is a problem with our main facility. But the major limitations of these systems are in the speed of the medium used, and in the absence of persistence. In the first case, a DVD or a USB pendrive 2.0 usually test the user's patience, persistence WHILE that can be achieved, but requires some configuration commitments that may affect the final yield. The alternative would be something like StormFly.
StormFly is based on a USB 3.0 installed on a bracelet, whose chip is robust enough to withstand all read and write operations that demand an operating system, including persistence, application installation and why not OS upgrades. In total, the space on a drive is 16 gigabytes StormFly, eight for the operating system, four for the user's local folder, and the four remaining gigabytes for the "Shared" folder. This last folder allows the user to transfer data easily between StormFly and other operating systems. For example, if you create a document within StormFly and save it in the shared folder, you just need to connect the drive to another operating system as if it were a simple flash drive to access the document.
StormFly also has a 128-bit encryption (password protection), and its leaders will also offer general support system, at a cost of twenty dollars per year. As StormFly himself, his entry into Kickstarter reveals that to get one you have to pay about $ 59, plus another fifteen for international shipments. The highest option delivers a custom StormFly green, online backup for life, and a free replacement in case of loss or theft, but you have to invest about $ 200 for it. The project requires a hundred thousand dollars, and got fifth in less than a week, so it is likely to come to market successfully.
We want to make that computer speed up, never loosen the battle against unwanted software! Should I Remove It? not only help you remove any program that is no longer simply a wave, but it also suggests you where you want to begin the extermination, with data coming from prior decisions taken by other users. What is eliminating the rest of the world on their PC?
I found Should I Remove It? mildly interesting this weekend, trying to give a respite to the disk operating system (which is now taking about 15 seconds to make my pitiful certain directories, say). Instead of being the typical uninstaller overwhelming with all the crap and crap that is on your computer, Should I Remove It? orders programs as the trend away from general users. If others choose to ignore these applications, you may also have to review its presence in your team.
Should I Remove It? it takes seconds to do a scan on the disks and display software uninstalled from what you have. Right here I disagree a bit, being that there is no possibility that it will remove uTorrent, or 7-Zip or JDownloader, sorry. The uninstall data rates and qualifications are supposed to come from a proprietary database, elections from the same program users. Neither this speaks volumes about the reliability of the references, what if you put 2 stars to 7-Zip and then removed it simply had no idea what it was?
If managing computer applications you come across something you do not know, clicking on the program will come to "What is this?" By the uninstall button, and send you to an external link with information on it quite varied, with statistical data and relevant information if you want to make a decision. For configurable options: nothing. Just set it to start once a month, check for updates and remind us that we could have things they do not really want to be there.
Should I Remove It? not searchable or has another use that as discussed above. On the upside, is a lightweight, low power and no additional installs unexpected, as it did Toolbar Cleaner, for example. The uninstall suggestions may serve more or less, depending on the case. Anyway, the concept is interesting. And it is definitely much more attractive to Add or Remove Programs. For Windows, from XP
Rodrigo Silva-Ramos, CEO of Geeksphone, together with Telefónica company and Mozilla have developed two "smartphones" with Firefox OS, has said that the bets with this operating system "is total." The young company based in Madrid earlier launched two Android devices.
- Why have you opted for a still unknown?
- We love the idea of an operating system that puts the focus on the web. The thing to understand is that these terminals are a super browser. Each page of the phone is a website, and that's great because it means that the browser is inside the phone. And that's great because it breaks the mold of the app stores. We say that, until now, there was a large city with two stores. And now there will be a city with two department stores and lots of tiny shops. It's great for both developers and users who are "developer friendly". This idea of freedom that anyone can make their application and sell it when and how he wishes, without relying on AppStore, is fantastic not only for developers but to the idea of mobile telephony.
- What price will start selling these devices?
- We are talking about prices breakers. Is below two hundred euros.
- You said you had the intention to lose 400 euros ...
- Yes We always say that a "smartphone" high-end cost as a personal computer is crazy. It makes no sense, and we think that can be done quality handsets at very affordable prices. And it's no miracle is simply planteártelo. We have now an industrial development that allows us.
- Have you abandoned Android then?
- The stakes are clear for Firefox OS. Our users like to get their hands on the equipment. A developer will buy the phone and it will, and do what you want with it. Somehow this system are very supportive because we like the idea of an operating system dump anywhere.
- Develop a system itself is sensed impossible ...
- No, it's true that every shoemaker ... but we are talking about the Mozilla Foundation is a reference.
- The One and Zero were well received too.
- Yes, we sold many phones, we can not give figures, but we sold several thousand phone and Zero doubled the previous sales.
- Do you think the mobile technology revolution has corseted?
- Frankly, yes. Increasingly closed roads seem to be that large companies have a concept of customer property, the user. If you develop one's operating systems as they are owned by the operating system. And that's not a value of freedom. Somehow the big brands who control operating systems have very harsh rules, create very strong positions, margins that make them feel like ... So we like the freedom of the phone is a browser and that anyone can make an app that does not rely on an application store. You make an application and works on these phones because it is a browser, but that same application until you work just on Android. We have considered that maybe corporations will block access to websites that do not feel like that all the movement go around. For example, Facebook. Have an iPhone, you download the application ... but you can get from the browser. Except that with these phones (with HTML5) walk through the browser better than from applications.
- Is it expensive to develop phone?
- It is difficult to talk about figures. We think that a terminal is a puzzle of many pieces. This puzzle is a research process that takes many months of work by engineers ... Importantly, more than money, is time. Such a project is a year of work. The alliance with Telefónica has been strengthening over time. We have six months with the deal secured and working hard. And the operator has had a great elegance and not ask any exclusivity. We have not demanded anything. We can sell from our website. Welcome to freedom.
- Why do you insist that there are both a mark "low cost"?
- Not at all. In the electronic world, the concept of "low cost" is the brainchild of low quality. We want to have competitive prices, but we have the same quality compared with high-end products. And this phone [Teaches Geeksphone Peak] if you compare it to an iPhone 5 has nothing to envy in quality. I think electronics can not give low quality because some low quality is something that will not work well, it will not last long ... then we do not like that idea. We have quality products comparable with any high-end equivalent product and try to have competitive prices. And we're doing and that's possible, so imagine the margins which will sell phones to 600 euros we know all that from the factory worth 120 euros. We are in the middle of it. We are a small structure, a "startup" working hard with a team of 15-20 people. And we have discovered one thing that can greatly streamline supply chain.
Pollution, savings and certain international obligations to comply with the maximum reduction of pollution levels lead nations to spend large sums of money in the development of environmentally sound technologies. Japan is a country that makes a considerable effort to balance the pollution generated by its ultra concentrated urbanization, so now it is proposed to build a wind farm at sea to generate energy that will be the largest in the world when completed.
The urgency lived in March 2011 with the Fukushima nuclear power plant was a warning to the Japanese nation, one of the most prepared for emergencies and tragedies with technology in every field. Still, the uncertainty experienced before the event surpassed them and luckily no problems were triggered in the short term consequences were long, as the three major Japanese reactors plummeted (54 reactors unusable in total) and the island nation now looking to reduce its dependence on nuclear energy. To this has sought refuge and renewable energy solution for what is to build the offshore wind farm in the world's largest.
Located 16 kilometers off the coast of Fukushima, the plan consists of the installation of 143 wind turbines that generate one gigawatt of energy once they are completed in, hopefully, 2020. Wanted to be a record, so that the wind farm will surpass Japan 504 megawatts generated by the 140 turbines farm Greater Gabbard off the coast of Suffolk, UK, which is the largest wind farm in the world at the moment. Even when the end will be surpassed this year pass the Thames Estuary, where 175 turbines and will produce 630 megawatts of power. According to the Japanese magazine gave the notice, the first stage of Fukushima will build a 2 megawatt turbine, substation and a submarine cable installation. The turbine will be maintained at 200 meters high and if successful, additional turbines will be built progressively subject to the availability of funds.
Something very interesting about this news is to understand how to do to solve the cost problem, and in this case to solve the total expenditure turbines anchored to the sea bottom, floating frames are constructed of steel ballast stabilized with anchored platform 200 meters deep around the Japanese coast via mooring lines. Once it is running at full steam (no, not use steam to run), the intention is to supply electricity to the extensive network that two of the Fukushima reactors They provided. In Japan they are interested in expanding offshore wind farm if things go as expected, although the inhabitants of the coast and the fishing industry showed antipathy for not knowing how this construction will affect their source of income. We hope to solve a problem not generate another, which is typical in environmental intentions of the careless.
Google is the leader of the Fortune of the hundred best companies to work for in the United States for the fourth time, followed by SAS, an expert in software and services, and CHG HealthcareServices, company research on health issues. Apple and Facebook are the big absences.
The list is drawn up by the results of a macro employees from hundreds of companies randomly selected and a questionnaire that the company responds. Thus, one third of the note corresponding to the responses from the company while employees correspond to the other two thirds.
Despite data showing no job growth, according to data published in the list, Google has 34,311 employees, a number that increases to the same rate as income, which came to be around 38,000 million dollars in 2011, that makes it the best choice to work on it. SAS, enterprise software expert, up positions in the ranking positioned second after occupying the third position in the last list.
Your income, about 2,700 million dollars and its emphasis on creativity make take second place on the list. This ranking also highlights big pharma technology among which are Ultimate Software, NetApp, Qualcomm, World Wide Technology, Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation or TEKsystems, according to the list published by Fortune.
Ultimate Software has starred in a big jump in the rankings as it sits at No. 9 while last year was ranked 25 in the list. NetApp is maintained in the ninth year of the list because, according to his own Fortune, "sometimes employees have the opportunity to receive special recognition."
Intel and Microsoft are manufacturers of computers that are on the list and occupy the lowest positions (68 and 75 respectively). In both cases, the concern for the health of their workers making them appear in the table.
For Microsoft, good health insurance and facilities to keep fit, make it stay at 75 in the standings. Meanwhile, Intel fell 22 places in the rankings from last year due to his interest in the health of workers has decreased from last year. Finally, the absence of large companies in the field of new technologies like Facebook or Apple, not reflected in the list despite being among the 50 best technology companies to work according to a ranking made by Glassdor popular.
Widespread expectation in the technological guild on delivery on Tuesday. Specialized media have speculated in recent days about what will make known social network. A phone? An OS? For now, the social network shares closed Monday above $32, a situation not seen since last July, in anticipation of upcoming products present in California. The industry and Wall Street have renewed confidence with interest the largest social network in the world.
It is the largest performing presentation from initial public offering last May, causing a guessing game among observers of technology 'online' and bloggers about what they might reveal. Shuffle all kinds of options, from a "smartphone" to a search engine. Last August ABC echoed the social network could be working in the operating system of a phone manufactured by the Taiwanese company HTC.
"There is much speculation. Nothing seems to me true, "said Jefferies & Co analyst Brian Pitz. "If I had to bet, I'd say it's something related to their advertising platform. I am convinced that not a phone, "said Pitz, citing previous comments Advisor thin Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, who said making a smartphone would be a" wrong strategy. "
The invitation to the media social network said: "Come and see what we are building," without elaborating. Some analysts said recent gains, the shares have risen about 17% since the beginning of the year, may have more to do with financial results for the last quarter of 2012, to be released on January 30. "The stock is up because they have driven a dramatic increase in the burden of ads mobile application is giving investors expectations," said BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield.
Facebook surprised Wall Street in the third quarter of last year to announce that mobile ads accounted for 14% of total advertising revenue. Some analysts had expected the company to report higher growth in its nascent mobile advertising business for the fourth quarter.
Zuckerberg has always insisted that the motive is the "most misunderstood aspect" of Facebook. But again has avoided entering the rumors that are going to present their own "smartphone" to compete with Apple's iPhone and Android-based smartphones. During an interview on stage at a conference in September, Zuckerberg himself said he believed that the searches could be an area ripe for growth for Facebook.
The Korean firm Samsung has begun to update the software for the Galaxy SIII to correct a vulnerability affecting the Exynos processor. Device Users Galaxy SII, Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note were reported equipment failures, noting that remained obsolete and a "worm" controlled them.
This update is the I9300XXELLA and, for now, only available for the UK, although it is expected that in the coming days to reach most countries, as announced by the portal "Sammobile".
The failure occurs in Samsung phones on processors running Exynos codes 4219 and 4412, so that the American versions Galaxy S problem would be safe.
