6th sense technology - “Mistry” unveiled

The innovation “6^th sense technology” as Pranav Mistry calls it will allow you to make just one expression on knowing about it, and that would be ‘jaw-dropping’. A mind-blowing conception that has led to a new technology, which none would have thought would come true and that’s the linking of physical and digital world. To help you to understand this easily, the imagination in the movie “Minority report” when the actor just moves his hand and fingers across the digital images appearing on the wall to browse through information is going to become possible in reality.

Pranav Mistry, a student of MIT is the master mind of the 6^th sense technology. He and his team at MIT media lab has developed a 6^th sense device which comprises of a camera, projector, mirror, a pair of colour papers and a communication device like cell phone. When you wear this device and stand before a wall, you can draw an image in the air using your fingers and you can see the image that you are drawing, on the wall in front of you. Wear this device and walk out in your park, make a gesture of taking a picture with your fingers in front of a tree, guess what, the picture of the tree is stored in you device. Amazing, isn’t it?

You would have seen in the movie “Harry potter”, where in the wizard’s world videos appear in the newspapers. This can also be done with Pranav’s device. Wear the device, and start reading a newspaper, the device will scan the images and text in the newspaper and display videos related to the news on the newspaper held in your hand.

If you want to know the time, just draw a circle on your wrist using your fingers and a clock will appear at that position. If you are sitting bored and want to play a game, all you have to do is to hold a paper in your hand; the game will be screened on the paper. Use the same paper as your joystick and play the game. All this are not imagination, but is possible in the real world. Watch what more miraculous stuff this technology can do at http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry

The basic laboratory model of the 6^th sense device costs only 300$. The most shocking and appreciable thing is that Pranav is planning to make an open source publication of this new technology so that more people can use this technology to develop 6^th sense devices. His motive is to reduce the number of gadgets used for various tasks and use just one device that performs the operation of the entire lot, by linking the physical world and the digital world. I guess, the Matrix world is not too far now!!!

Don’t miss this presentation video on 6^th sense technology by Pranav: http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

Not on lap’s top

Laptop - The name of the gadget suggests that this is something to be used on top of the lap. Yes, and that has been a practise since it has been an important part of everyone’s life. But have you ever thought if the name laptop was the right choice for this gadget? From mainframe computers which occupied almost a 10x10 room to the personal computer, then to desktop PC and to laptops and notebooks. The evolution sounds to be interesting. The amount of heat generated by this machine has almost been considerably reduced proportional to its size, but could not be eliminated. It still has the property of radiating heat energy over prolonged usage. With the increased usage of wireless networks, the laptop usually finds its seat on the comfort laps more than in fixed locations as desks or tables. So what are the consequences of placing the laptops on laps?

• Skin allergies- Laptops are inclined to produce more heat over continuous usage placing on the lap, as its heat radiation is compressed and allow it to warm the skin. This may potentially lead to skin allergies or even skin burns.
• Back ache - Few reports also state that the usage of laptops over the laps also leads to back ache. In a state of mind to adjust the body posture to view the screen better, the person forgets to sit erect with the laptop.
• Burns - Several accidents have been reported in recent times caused due to battery leakage indeed causing burns, when working in the laptop placed over the lap.
• Biggest fear “Infertility” - There has been a widespread fear that the heat generated from the laptop when placed on the lap, will traverse between the legs and affect the scrotal temperature, in turn reducing the sperm count. But there has been no approved study or research to prove this fact.

I was least bothered about placing the laptop on my laps until i saw the following statement in Apples laptop user guide – “Do not leave the bottom of your MacBook Pro in contact with your lap or any surface of your body for extended periods. Prolonged contact with your body could cause discomfort and potentially a burn.”

Is your lappy still on your lap or safe on a desk?

Read more on this:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Bad-Effects-on-Having-Laptop-on-Your-Lap&id=402338
http://www.qa-health.com/f7/

Cease climate blame game

Global warming has been a serious issue for the past couple of years, an issue not discussed in a particular country but discussed and worried all over the world. But things have gone worse as the countries have begun to blame each other in the process of identifying and controlling the reasons for global warming. So what is this global warming and why are countries very concerned about it?

Global warming is the effect of heating up of earth caused due to the emission of polluting gases which highly contribute to the same. These gases trap heat within the earth’s atmosphere without and thus result in the temperature changes all over the globe. This is also known as the greenhouse effect. The countries which have been topping the charts in the emission of these GHG have been concentrating on blaming each other rather than on the measures to control it. In order to cease the blame game and pave a suitable channel to control the global warming, the United Nations has taken a serious step organizing a summit on the climate change. Delegates from close to 192 countries will be participating in this summit which will be held at Copenhagen from 6th to 18th December 2009.The idea is to set up a “Copenhagen protocol” through this summit, which will help the nations in a great deal to take command over the climate change issues. Various environment organization are anxiously awaiting for the Copenhagen summit, as they expect the blame game between the countries to cease and follow a common protocol to solve the issue.

Why is this issue in focus now and not before? The effect of the global warming has worsened such that the change in climate has become rapid in turn challenging the adaptability of living beings to survive. Moreover the serious effect of this on earth’s major ice sheets such as Antarctica and Greenland have led to the rise in sea levels which is predicted to lead to the existence of life on earth.

Read more on this:
http://www.erantis.com/events/denmark/copenhagen/
http://www.newscientist.com/special/copenhagen-climate-change-summit

Recession and now

Has the global economy well revived from the hard struck recession? If you say no, then this post will make you think twice.

The Australian economy has created almost 25000 jobs in the previous month and in December the unemployment rate is expected to go lower than 5.8%, the number which has been left unchanged since March 2009.

The IT giants have dusted their old display boards with the statement “Trespassers will be recruited”. The top IT giants have started recruiting experienced software professionals as the banking, insurance and automobile industries have remarkably recovered from the eclipse of recession. As a result of this the software arena is expecting more projects to pour in during the forthcoming quarters. It has been stated that more than half a million jobs are said to be available in the IT sector alone, across various MNCs from the start of November.

Europe, France and Germany have proved with their quarter2 GDP results that they too have revived from the worst struck recession since World Warr II. But the fact is that, the Euro zone nations lag from the rest of the world in the race of overcoming the recession.The Asia pacific countries which were comparatively least affected by recession, have also shown remarkable recovery with the interests rates going up and an overall growth rate of 0.6%.The United States department of Labor states that “On the last business day of September, the number of job openings inthe U.S. was little changed at 2.5 million”.

The overall data figures out that the global economy is showing good form of recovery from the recession. The global economy is expected to show a 5% growth in the forthcoming quarter and thus is in ways to eliminate the recession topics from the news patterns.

Read more on this:

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2009/10/asia_to_lead_gl.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=apyDezq0ykuU

US to bid farewell to Afghan?

Will it be just no more troops to Afghan or will it be a decision for the US to bid farewell to Afghanistan?

The people in Afghanistan would have almost decided to drop the word PEACE from their dictionaries. The reason is because almost every citizen wakes up to the noise of bomb shelling or grenade firings in the land of Afghanistan since the early 1970s. One foreign army or the other have been setting their bases in this land since 1979 with the motive of helping the country in its war with Iraq. But its been more than two decades since the smoke from the explosives of various armies have diminished and paved way for peace.

The US army has set up its base in Afghan and has been consistently working to end up the war between the two nations. But since this army regime has lost a countable sum of soldiers in the afghan war and the setting up of troops has boosted up the cost factor of foreign policies, the US is taking up steps to almost end up its connection with this war. As a first step to this the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Mr.Eikenberry has urged the president of the USA for no more troops to Afghanistan. He has in fact warned to stop sending in troops and wants the corruption situation in the government to be tackled. But on the other hand, top US commander has asked for 40000 more soldiers to strengthen the base.

The US nationals are waiting for the decision on this, so that the money used in the war zones can be very well diverted to other needs of the hour including reviving from the recession. The civilians of the Afghanistan are waiting for the same decision in order to erase the word war from their daily routines and view a sunrise in peace after many decades.

More articles about this:

http://www.populistamerica.com/no_more_troops_to_afghanistan

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26341276-23109,00.html

War of the worlds

When your clock ticks 11:00 A.M. on 11th November, you can become a volunteer towards world peace. All you have to do is to observe 2 minutes silence and pray for those innocent lives that were lost in the ego clashes between countries in the name of world war season I and II. But why should you do it on 11th of November and not any Sunday. Because, the first season of world war ended on this particular day and hence it is observed as Armistice Day.

So when did the series begin. What was the reason of thousands of humans from different regions clashing against to become the most powerful nation on earth? Franz Ferdinand, the then archduke of Austria was assassinated on 28th June 1914 and this day in history marks the beginning of First World War. The war ended on 11th November 1918 killing 8,556,315, injuring 21,219,452 and leaving 7,750,945 missing or without identification.

The second series of the mass killer termed as “World war II” began on 1st September 1939 following German invasion of Poland and a series of other events such as declaration of war on Germany by France and Britain, Germany’s attack on USSR and more. To the Americans, the war started on December 7th 1941 following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour. But the war officially started in 1939. The war officially ended in 1945, but there are no specific dates for the same. The probable reasons for the end of war are Armistice on August 14 1945 and formal surrender of Japan on 2nd September 1945. The Second World War claimed more than 60 million lives. There is no steady count for that till date because the aftermath of this war was worse than its earlier version.

Courtesy:

http://www.firstworldwar.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II