The last application for Android OS camera 4.2 allows not only to pan as the company, but also upload them to Google Maps. Thus, users of Google can help in mapping platform with 360 degree views, the style of which offers Google Street View.
Google Photo Sphere is an application that created with great precision at 360 degree panoramic images by automatically overlapping the edges of each frame. Photosynth is similar to the popular Microsoft application.
Taking Photo includes a plurality of views, comprising the sides, up and down and around, to create an authentic experience in 360 degrees. The result is similar to that obtainable with other panoramic apps designed to create, as the equivalent of Microsoft, Photosynth.
But this app is included in the latest version of Android, JellyBean, includes the ability to upload the image to Google Maps. The images appear on the platform of virtual maps of the world most important as blue circles.
When you click on them, open the user's photo, with the shooting date and signature. Can also access a virtual gallery displaying the catalog of all the images shared by internet users.
The difference to the images that users upload from Panoramio, is that Photo Sphere integrates a 360 degrees, similar to that provided in Google Street View. With this tool, photo enthusiasts can share more realistic images of various parts of the world with others.
But, in addition, may compete directly with some of the 360-degree panoramic offered by Google Street View. To do this, you must be a user account on the social network in Mountain View, Google+, through which the image will be loaded in Google Maps.
The application is available in the latest version of the Google OS, Android 2.2. The Californian company at an event yesterday presented their latest gadgets, tablet Nexus 10, along with a 32GB version of the Nexus 7, 4 and the Nexus smartphone latest JellyBean, and other applications.
Granted: It's like someone trying to announce a perpetual motion machine, but before preparing the pyre, explore a little more. According to the announcement of the British company Air Fuel Synthesis, have managed to produce five gallons of fuel through a process that removes carbon dioxide from the air, and hydrogen from water vapor. Although the experimental sued about three months, with improvements in the mechanism and the use of energy from renewable sources, fuel could create a much larger scale, to be used in activities that require a more balanced carbon footprint.
This kind of news will probably form the nightmares of senior executives of companies involved in the oil (not to mention Arab sheiks): What a brilliant mind with a couple of test tubes able to avoid making holes in the ground for fuel. So far, these nightmares have not materialized, and our dependence on oil remains intact, but that does not mean there are not people trying to change things. And that's how we find these developments. Get water and air fuel looks like something out of a science fiction novel, but a small company called Air Fuel Synthesis apparently has become reality.
The result was just five liters of fuel, and the whole process took three months, a level of efficiency that makes it impractical for commercial application in the short term. However, the potential is huge. The small pilot plant intake air carbon dioxide and hydrogen combined with steam from forming methanol (or methyl alcohol) which is subsequently converted to gasoline. The principles used are well documented, and the process was checked visually by members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London. According to Peter Harrison, CEO of Air Fuel Synthesis, the final product looks and smells like gasoline, but it is much cleaner and clearer than the petroleum.
What is the next step? Now that the proof of concept is complete, those involved will concentrate on increasing production capacity to around 1200 liters per day, using energy from renewable sources, and enter into production by 2015. Some possibilities have been considered, such as providing fuel to racing teams for greener activity, and not ruling out the possibility of developing jet fuel. The gas obtained in this conversion may be applied directly to internal combustion engines without modification. Efficiency is key, and oil has several decades of government insured, but we have to monitor Air Fuel Synthesis closely.
The Galaxy SIII Mini is a compact version of Galaxy SIII, the flagship of the brand, and meets some (but only some) of the qualities of his older brother, as the appearance, easy and intuitive, the design or colors . But the similarities end there. The new Mini has just been introduced worldwide for the Korean company, although prices are not known.
For starters, its features, except for the fact that it incorporates Jelly Bean (Android version 4.1), closely resemble those of other terminal of the midrange Samsung, such as the S Advance. But the advantages of Jelly Bean could be reduced because of the processor, a dual core to a GHz, far from embodying the Galaxy SIII (four cores at 1.5 GHz).
The screen is four inches (it's funny how it has changed the concept of "mini" in the mobile phone), and although it is Super AMOLED with a resolution of 800x480 pixels, the density of which has fallen from the providing the S III (Mini gives 233 pixels per inch, while the S III has 305.96).
The new terminal weighs 111.5 grams and measures 12.1 inches high by 6.35 cm. wide, with a thickness of only 99 mm. Neither the camera, which drops to 5 megapixels, is the same as the S III (which is 8 megapixels). And the front, a VGA camera, is also far from the S III Original, 1.9 megapixels.
It is, in short, a new mid-range terminal of the Korean company adorned with the appearance of Galaxy S III but with far fewer benefits. That said, the new Mini perfectly fulfills the requirements of this category. It also has the Voice of Samsung S system, the voice assistant that allows you to unlock the handset with a simple command, or take action with the voice as play songs, raise or lower the volume, or start organizing calendar automatically the camera to start taking photos.
The new Mini also features other interesting features of the original S III, as Smart Stay, by which phone's camera tracks the user's eyes and keeps the screen on while looking. Or Call Direct, which allows calls automatically with just holding the phone to your ear from a text message or contacts.
I recently saw how it worked closely Touché, the system was developed for Disney Research highlight a new generation of tactile surfaces and detection based on capacitive sensors. In a new development project, Disney showed Capacitive Fingerprints, a technology that uses electricity to create ydetectar multiple users to each have a particular detection when using a multi-touch screen and interactive activities for different altogether.
Founded on the idea of sharing technological devices with which we have around, the new tablets are betting on a system that is multi-touch. Least embarrassing clearer wording and concept, the multitouch is the format that is thought and developed to be standard in the coming years. Of course this is as much, but the idea of multi touch is designed not for the fingers of one person, but to tell who is doing a touch on the screen and who is performing another. Multiplayer games, artistic collaboration and other uses overlook with a tablet that, by reading fingerprints instantly difference could two or more users playing surface. Disney Research has hands on the project and showed us anything in this video.
Capacitive Fingerprint is the name given to the project that tries fairy remodel the capacitive system changing physical detection by AC frequency to account for the exact electrical impedance of the fingertips in contact with the screen. As seen in the video, when a user touches the display surface, an electric capacitive sensor crosses the body thereof to the floor to measure the impedance is. What makes testing different frequencies within milliseconds, and the data provided will be used as the user profile in question. As all have a different impedance (small groups), our data will be associated with, for example, given a stroke color.
Capacitive Fingerprinting system created by Disney Research Pittsburgh has many implications for interactive design, including personalization and collaborative interaction in the contact surfaces, security and others. While still, and it shows that the delay between action and reaction is quite annoying and almost useless for fast games and activities, the evaluation of this new approach to detection shows that the technique has considerable potential and further research is needed to resolve small obstacles that are generated on the way to a final product.
We have seen in the past some of the things being cooked in the ovens of Microsoft Research. Augmented reality, virtual reality, advanced mapping and interfaces in alternative spaces have a common goal, and that is to put aside the keyboard and mouse. This time, it comes Digits project. In order to obtain the highest sensitivity and ability to detect possible Digits uses a bracelet with an infrared camera and a laser line generator, which enable gesture recognition in real time.
Gesture recognition has a much larger presence than we imagine. You may automatically think of Microsoft Kinect, but a digital camera make your shot when it detects a smile is also a way to recognize a specific gesture. If we let our minds float a little more, eventually reach the recurring example of "Minority Report" and the famous gesture driven interface. It may take many years, and may not even be available between home systems, but in the same way that the touch screen is displacing keys, advanced gesture recognition will return the favor to the touch screen. In regards to our hands, the Kinect lacks the resolution necessary to detect them correctly, however, Microsoft Research have created something with much greater precision: Digits.
An infrared camera, a laser scanning and inertial measurement unit is all you need the Digits to run as long as the package is installed on a bracelet at a reasonable distance from the user's hand. Although this is just a prototype, Digits can detect and recognize gestures in real time, to the nearest hundredth of an inch. In part, this is reminiscent of the great Leap Motion, but one of the most important differences is that Digits not need to be at the computer to work. In fact, do not even need to look at the device. For a smartphone, with simple gestures the user is able to tune to a different radio, change the volume or skip to the next song.
By itself, Digits can probably get a place among the game as follows control, but things get even more interesting when you consider the possibility of combining the Digits with some Google-style Glass. Dynamic gesture recognition and augmented reality is presented as a great combination, and who finds a way to "do better", you will get a substantial advantage in a market waiting to be exploited. The next step will be to evaluate methods to miniaturize the device. Will this development to remove once and for all to the keyboard and mouse? Given the status of the project, will have to wait a while to find out.
In 1956 the U.S. Air Force (USAF) developed what is known as "Project 1794". Contemplated the design and development of an aircraft unlike any known aircraft or helicopter designed to be able to take off and land vertically. It was capable of speeds of up to three and four times that of sound, at altitudes up to 30,000 meters. It has been over 50 years and finally the National Archives and Records Administration has declassified documents related to this project: we can see how it would have been a flying saucer earthling.
There are few who claim to have seen a "flying saucer". There are thousands of alleged photograph of dish shaped aircraft many of which are obvious frauds, and it is possible that some of them correspond to aircraft prototype developed by the great powers, or even remain secret, or whose development was abandoned decades ago and ever we will learn of its existence. However, every so often, any document related to these developments is "declassified" by governments and their content reaches the public. This is the case of so-called "Project 1794," the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States just to publicize.
As you can guess seeing the photographs, it is the design of an aircraft unlike anything we're used to seeing at airports. It has the unmistakable shape of the "flying saucers" that have been reported many times over and wide, and was developed in the mid 1950s in the United States Air Force, Air Force there. According to authorities, never became a mass-produced vehicle, but it is known that the project "reached at least the initial phase of research and development", and had been assigned to the Canadian Avro Aircraft company.
It seems that, at least on paper-this flying saucer model child of the Cold War was capable of speeds of up to three to four times the speed of sound (Mach 3 or 4), had a range of nearly 1,850 kilometers and could Flight reach heights of up to 30 thousand feet above sea level. Only a few have declassified images and an internal memorandum, so not many details of the project. However, their very existence forces us to reflect on the amount of "toys" that have tried similar (or managed) build over the last 50 or 60 years, of which may never have any news. The "Project 1794" may be one that was abandoned in the early stages of development, it has been declassified. But it is likely that other, more advanced, sleeping in a remote hangar USAF. Do not you think?
A year has passed since the death of Steve Jobs, the founder and leader of Apple. In these 12 months, the company Apple has continued to advance at full throttle as a company, breaking sales records and rising as the company most valued and most valuable in the world. But, with its spectacular financial performance, some believe that the iconic image of Apple is losing steam and that without Jobs, Apple is becoming a technology company either.
In 2012 Apple has achieved brilliant results. Under the auspices of Tim Cook, who took the witness to Jobs in January 2011, Apple has grown in the last quarter by 23 percent. Also, in that time period, the Cupertino company has sold 26 million iPhones, 17 million iPads and 4 million computers.
These extraordinary numbers Apple managed to give the necessary impetus to finish with a sprint it climbs to the top of the markets. And it has been in the first year of no Jobs that Apple has become the company's most valuable private property history, surpassing the record first set by Microsoft in 1999. It was on 20 August when Apple's stock gained 2.6 percent, reaching $665.15 per share, which made the value of the company to rise to the 623,520 million.
Wall Street, which made Jobs' death spread concern for the future of the company, I could not imagine that Cook and his team with such forcefulness rebatirían fears. So much so, that Cook was even allowed to do something that ended in March of dazzle investors: dividends, something that the leadership of the company-specific Jobs had refused to do since 1995.
Although every one of the achievements that Apple has recently won the apple company has also found several bumps in the road since I was orphaned. The working conditions for factory workers iPads in China or the recent "mapgate" were some of them. Still, the most controversial mishap with which Apple has had to deal was the millionaire litigation against Samsung.
The American company sued the South Korean technology for violating various patents. Although Apple won and Samsung was ordered to pay more than 1,000 million dollars in compensation for damages, the Cupertino brand also took a blow. Basically the judge recognize that Apple and Samsung products were essentially indistinguishable led many to wonder why they paid more than triple by phone or tablet from Apple when Samsung were virtually identical.
Less rosy forecasts predicted that without Jobs, the flagship of a unique corporate culture in the world, Apple would lose its essence and direction. And though their values remain and his group of loyal fans continues to support the company unconditionally, some people are reluctant to look to Apple with the same eyes.
In recent weeks, Forbes said that Apple without Steve Jobs has "the same interest as Dell" or without the Apple visionary entrepreneur "is becoming a technology company normal."
A group of scientists from the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex are developing what could become the first artificial brain of honeybee history. The ambitious project aims to build an accurate computer model that mimics perfectly the behavior of the brain of one of these insects and use it as "trip computer" of a flying robot can operate autonomously. If they succeed it will be a major step in the development of artificial intelligence (AI).
A team of scientists is working on the creation of a computer model that emulates much of the brain of a honeybee. The European honeybee (Apis mellifera), also known as domestic bee or honey bee, bee species is the most widely distributed in the world. This team, consisting of experts from the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex hopes to develop a kind of "robotic bee brain" that can play to perfection governing systems vision and sense of smell of these insects and use it to command which would be the first autonomous flying robot with the ability to behave autonomously as a bee. Work has already begun, and if successful will be fulfilling one of the greatest challenges of modern science: build a robotic brain capable of complex tasks. Generally, such work has focused on the mammalian brain emulation. But insects also have brains "powerful", including a greater ability to discriminate odors or chemicals present.
According to James Marshall, a computer scientist at the University of Sheffield as part of this task force, "a simulated brain is one of the great challenges of artificial intelligence. So far, many attempts to recreate biological brains have focused on cognitive systems found in humans, monkeys and mice. We have so far neglected the simpler organisms like insects, despite having surprisingly advanced cognitive abilities." Scientists hope to use these flying robots in search and rescue missions, or even mechanical pollination of some crops. This project will also serve to better understand how the brain of Apis mellifera.
The owners of an iPad may have what you want before you even ask. That's the goal of "Mindmeld" new "app" for Apple iPad promises to anticipate the wishes of its users, analyzing to get real-time conversations.
"This is the first application of voice call and video to iPad which understands what the user says and locate appropriate information," explains Tim Tittle, one of the creators of the project. "It sounds like science fiction, but it can work very well."
Specifically, the app calls analyze our conversations catching phrases to find information about it on the Internet. For example, if you talk about a new restaurant, "Mindmeld" will provide, once crashing, location, menu, or the valuation of other users. The reality now than fiction ...
Given the avalanche of criticism of the iOS Maps application 6, the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, has complained in an open letter to the frustration of many users. In this sense, although the company is working to improve it, Cook recommends other mapping applications available on the App Store, as well as the websites of Google Maps or Nokia Maps.
The Maps application for Apple, but a new option mapping has become an ordeal for users. When the company announced that the application would be available with the new mobile operating system iOS 6, also specified that not all functions would be available for all models of iPhone.
So there were no surprises when it launched. However, when users downloaded iOS 6 on September 19, proved not only that they could not use some of the features of maps but was rather vague in their locations, placing cities many miles of their actual location or being unable to find directions.
100 million users downloaded the iOS 6
The team was aware of Apple, asked for patience and announced that steps were being taken to improve maps. But such was the discontent that even the Tim Cook has apologized. In a letter published on the website of Apple, the company's CEO regrets the maps has caused frustration for users and ensures the company's team is working to make the app better.
Cook continues his letter assuring that Apple have introduced the best features for maps from the first version of iOS 6 and held that 100 million users have chosen to download the new version of iOS on your Apple devices.
But while Apple improved maps, Cook encourages users to try "alternative" from the App Store. Thus, the application recommends Bing Get Me There by Microsoft, MapQuest or Waze, even "use Google Maps or accessed from their websites and create a shortcut on the screen."
"Everything we do is aimed at Apple to make our products the best in the world. We know that you expect the same from us and we will continue working nonstop until maps will match, "concluded Cook.
Robots are many. Some are bipedal, with wheels, crawling, they can swim or even some that can display facial expressions. But virtually all of them must be programmed so they can do what they do. But a few, like Baxter, are capable of learning new behaviors from the guidance of his own, without writing a single line of code. Baxter costs about 20,000 euros, and many believe that in the future many robots will learn as he does.
In the last two decades have seen how robots stopped being tools for the assembly line of a manufacturing plant or protagonists of a science fiction novel to become sophisticated learning tools or entertainment. The advance of microelectronics and low price of servomechanisms, coupled with breakthrough occurred in processing power and memory of microcontrollers has enabled even robotics enthusiasts can design and build their own models. However, in almost all cases, regardless of concerned business models or built at home, it is necessary to write programs that tell the robot in question and carry out certain task. If we want our newly built biped robot one step, we have to write a program to turn your servo and respond to stimuli received from its sensors so you can get it right This task, of course, is not accessible to all potential users of these interesting devices.
Baxter, a new robot designed and built by Rethink Robotics, is based on a concept that, while not entirely new, has been implemented well enough to work perfectly and perhaps mark a trend in the market robotics. Instead of using traditional programming to learn new tricks, simply manipulate their own limbs showing him what to do. Suppose we want the robot takes an object that is on the right and moved 40 centimeters to the left. Instead of writing a program in a complex programming language, indicate when and how to move each of their engines, just put it in "program mode", move your right arm to the object, open the "hand", placing on property, close, move the arm 40 inches to the left, open hand again to drop the object, and keep all those movements in a. Thus, Baxter has "learned" that sequence of movements without writing a single line of code.
As mentioned, this form of teaching a robot is not new. However, it is the first time we see one, for the market (ie, outside a laboratory) with a lower price to 20,000 euros and that works as well. Baxter complements their learning skills with a "face" based on an LCD equipped with very expressive eyes, which helps a lot when it comes to understand that's what we're trying to communicate device or what it is "seeing" with their cameras. It is designed to help small assembly lines, parts handling light tasks or assist in packing / unpacking, but if the system works as well as it looks, certainly appear similar to Baxter models but cheaper and for the home. 'd Point you to one?
Your partner is there, the other side of the table. Suddenly, his face turns and looks at you with wide eyes, as making a huge force without leaving your seat. I start feeling. Spend 10 seconds and the pain starts. 15 seconds and you can not breathe. 20 seconds: your head explodes. Thoughts that kill, my friends. And no fiction of the 80s, is an invention that has shown some hackers in Louisville Kentucky where thanks to a helmet EGG, an air compressor and intense thoughts can destroy a watermelon with the mind.
David Cronenberg knew it did when all this blew fructose on set. Was creating one of the most memorable murders in history, where one person flying brains to another, literally, and without using any weapons but their own mind. In this, that science fiction and softcore ochentosa has much gore, lies an analogy that hackers Luisville a Kentucky community have fully exploited llamadaLVL1 enthusiasm splashing any fan of the genre. In their experiment, the lucky passers of a park could live the prodigious experience EGG put on a headband and then to concentrate, leaving a watermelon with their minds. If you want to burst with envy with us, look at the video of the show.
The experiment has some components that are particularly striking, as the presence of a headband Star Wars Force Trainer, a toy company Uncle Milton brought to market so you could move a pingpong balls in a tube using the power of the Force electric waves in your brain. Thanks to hack the device and taking into account the alpha and beta waves in your brain for transfer in wireless pulses, scientists (and then the surprised participants) were able to activate an air compressor which was situated on a table inlaid with a watermelon. Jumping into the air suddenly watermelon, made her explode overhead to the astonishment of those present.
To make the pulpy enchastre of poor tropical fruit, the system also used some Arduinos and some Xbees to make connections and get the signals arrived with enough force to activate the air compressor. So Mind Over Melon created, the game where watermelons explode with mind is a common thing. While waiting for the boys of the hacker community and indications drafted Mario Sacco convince us to build our home version of Mind Over Melon, you can go looking for the name of the film to which we referred at the beginning of the article.
