This is hard to believe, now i don’t have to search, point and click on yellow color and improve it’s hue and again next yellow. Xerox has done this job easier. Xerox has developed a natural language that allows users to simply describe the color they want without having to deal with the mathematics. This concept is called paint by number.
Welcome to brand new ways of publishing, distributing and consuming books.
It seems Google is here to dominate Online Open Book Market, Recently Google acquired reCAPTCHA, Now On Demand Books, makers of the Espresso Book Machine, are saying that they have been granted access to Google’s library of public domain digital books for use with their product. Read more…
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You have used bluetooth, you have moved out of range and some have even lost a few minutes to find where their cell phone is? Now you have a alarm system based on bluetooth which tells you that you are going out of range. It may also make it easy to spot a potential theft.
This device Nio can be set to go off anywhere between two and 25 meters, and it can emit a police siren, a whoop or a Catchphrase buzzer sound. The device is currently available on their website www.bluenio.com. They have also approached government and health authorities with the advice that their innovation may prove helpful in preventing personal data and devices. Read more…
Can you fix that BMW yourself? Yes you can, with augmented reality. In future labs, for all service staff, all skillful tasks will be done with online data and instructions given to your senses. Virtual reality,which is close to what computer simulation has to show to your senses. Augmented reality is closer to the real world. Augmented reality is the future, we are going to see it everywhere in all aspects of our lives. Read more…
Last few years have been really good for nanotechnology, i was really impressed years back when i heard of a golf ball which was able to correct its flight and was able to defy wind. Remember that commercial Change your ball and change your game! Read more…
IT managers are sure that there is a lot of cost saving and reduced efforts if they move to cloud, but IT business decision makers are still skeptic. So there is a trend that organization are moving to private cloud before they decide to move on to the public cloud. I have already talked about clouds at Enter the clouds and Why i like clouds?, Private clouds can do resource provisioning and de-provisioning very fast and you have the control over your virtual environment. Read more…
Have a look at this table lamp from Osram. OLED (Organic light-emitting diodes) which was in labs for many years, now showing up in the consumer market. This market is predicted to be more than $10 billion in just 3 years. General Electric has already started using them to develop more energy-efficient lighting fixtures and windows. Other products based on OLED, which are already in the market are view finder, camera, Read more…
Having power of more than 9000 desktops. Around 23,000 hard disk drives provide a terabyte per second of disk bandwidth. How much is that? enough to transfer 126 DVD movies in just one second. Chinook can perform 163 trillion calculations per second. If you sit down with pencil and paper and do one multiplication problem per second, every second, it would take over five million years to do what Chinook can do in one second.
If want to know other technical performance capabilities you can visit SciDAC website.
If you have an old car with broken handle and you are not able to get it from your dealer. You can print it at home. Yes, with the help of 3D printer with ABSPlus plastic, connected to your Windows XP machine over regular network connection. All that, without noxious fumes or toxic materials, no vents, no extra handling or requirements. What’s more you can even use 3D scanner to scan a part and duplicate it on 3D printer. Read more…
Recently i talked about cloud computing. That made me think about what we are doing with clouds in this part of the world? We all know that cloud computing is all about applications, data and computing on the internet and in this part of the word we suffer a lot because of high internet latency, even bandwidth is a problem. High bandwidth is essential especially if the data to be transferred is videos or large files, but again latency is some thing we can’t reduce. Read more…
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