Robot Violinist

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Desain Sepatu Wanita Yang Unik dan Menarik

Berikut adalah desain sepatu-sepatu wanita yang Unik dan Menarik, kepengen?.. yang pasti tidak ada disembarang Toko sepatu, jadi dimana..?? ntah!! sayaPun tidak tau pabriknya.

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Aksesoris Kamar Berbau Kartun

Banyak hal yang bisa kamu lakukan terhadap kamarmu, salah satunya yaitu menambahkan beberapa aksesoris ke dalam kamarmu. Berikut adalah beberapa aksesoris berbau kartun yang bisa kamu tambahkan:

Kamu bisa saja mengubah kamarmu menjadi seperti ini, dengan cara mengubah tampilan dinding mu, dan menambahkan beberapa aksesoris kamar yang bisa membantu menguatkan karakter atau tema kamrmu itu.

Atau kamu salah satu pecinta tokoh kartun spongebob? Ada beberapa tempat tidur yang saya sajikan untuk kalian yang menyukai tokoh kartun ini. Jadi tunggu apalagi silahkan mulai tambahkan aksesoris tersebut kedalam kamarmu.

Kalian pasti pernah mendengar dongeng tentang seorang putri yang pergi ke istana pangeran dengan labunya bukan? Pernahkah kalian bermimpi untuk mencoba menaiki labunya? Yap, dengan aksesoris kamar diatas kalian bisa merasakannya, jadi selamat mencoba.

Tidur didalam sebuah burger? Nampaknya menarik dan patut di coba, jadi tambahkan saja aksesoris ini ke dalam kamarmu.

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Gesturing at Your TV Isn't Ready for Prime Time

The Microsoft Kinect is fun, but it shows that so-called natural user interfaces still have a long way to go.

The Microsoft Kinect, a sensor that works with the Xbox 360 game console, offers the first experience most people will have with a "natural" user interface. A player controls the $150 device with voice and gestures; there's no need to hold any sort of controller or wear any special gloves or clothing. In a recent talk at MIT, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, described the Kinect as a preview of what's to come for user interfaces, suggesting that what works in gaming now will soon be used for shopping, design, and many other common computing tasks. Instead of thinking about controllers, keyboards, and other "application-specific prosthetics," Mundie said, people could focus on the task at hand, making software much more appealing and easy to use.

But while using the Kinect for gaming is a fun and interesting experience, the device also illustrates that natural user interfaces have a long way to go before they could be suited to most everyday applications.

The Kinect uses both software and hardware to pick up a person's position, gestures, and voice. To measure position, it emits an infrared beam and measures how long that light takes to bounce back from objects it encounters. Four microphones can receive voice commands, and software filters out background noise and even conversation from other people in the room.

Since all these systems need to be calibrated, setting up the Kinect takes some time. After you connect the sensor to an Xbox 360 and position it near the center line of a television, the Kinect's motors automatically adjust its angle so that it can get a complete picture of the user.

The Kinect also needs a lot of space. It needs to be able to see the floor as a reference point for objects in the room, and the user has to stand at least six feet from the device (eight feet if two people plan to use it).

It also tests the sound levels in the room and adjusts for noise coming from the television's speakers. If anything changes in the room—if furniture is moved, for instance, or the sound environment changes significantly—the device is thrown off and needs to be recalibrated.

All this means that as an everyday interface, the Kinect would make little practical sense. Its space requirements strain the capacity of a typical urban apartment. If Microsoft wants to make natural user interfaces accessible to everyone, it will have to consider the needs of the dorm room and the cubicle. The calibration process is also too finicky to make the Kinect useful for any critical application. Users would never tolerate needing to recalibrate in order to check e-mail.

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App Organizes the World Inside Your Smart Phone

Aro goes through the clutter of texts, calls, and e-mails on a device to make sense out of a chaotic social network.

Facebook encourages us to create a social network including everyone we know. But it only captures one slice of our social lives. Our social connections and conversations sprawl across many other forms of communication, including face-to-face chat, e-mail, phone calls, and text messages.

Much of these communications is increasingly channeled through one device: the smart phone. A new app from a startup called Aro exploits this fact by digesting everything that takes place on a phone—from e-mails to call logs—to learn about all of your connections and friendships, and to track relationships that span different forms of communication.

"We're building your true social network from all of your services on the phone, and your [social] graph grows with every new message," says Andy Hickl, chief technology officer with the company, which is funded by $20 million from Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen.

Aro is currently in a closed beta and is available only for Android phones (you can apply to join here), but an iPhone app is in the works. Once installed on a phone, the software asks for access to your e-mail account and calendar accounts and accesses the handset's call logs, contacts and stored text messages. It then scans through everything to look for social connections and stores a digest of the resulting web of links on a cloud-computing platform. Aro adds several tools to the phone that can tap into that network to make doing tasks like using information from an email to create a contact or calendar event easier .

One of these tools is for search. Tapping in a person's name brings up a list of every call or message of any kind they received from you or sent to you. Aro can also find messages from other contacts that refer to that person, even if only by their first name. That's possible because of software developed by Hickl and fellow engineers that can recognize people, places, companies, and dates mentioned in messages. This ability also surfaces in Aro's e-mail, text messaging, and calendar tools.

Most commercially successful examples of this kind of "semantic" technology are used to mine very standardized text such as news reports, says Hickl. Aro has to handle the messy, misspelled, and abbreviated world of personal communications. The Aro team used collections of messages from Twitter and Facebook to help teach the software how to deal with that.

Aro also draws on the social network it has uncovered to refine how it handles the terms it recognizes. For example, if someone refers to a "Mike" or "that executive" in an e-mail, Aro tries to work out to whom this refers based on what it knows of the user's network and other cues in relevant messages.

Anything that the Aro software identifies is highlighted and can be tapped by the user to bring up a Web-like menu of actions. These include searching for all other mentions of, and messages from, a person, or adding a new event into a calendar.

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Augmented Reality Goggles

New video glasses can produce dazzling special effects, but who'll wear them?


I held a black-and-white square of cardboard in my hand and watched as a dragon the size of a puppy appeared on top of it and roared at me. I watched a tiny Earth orbit around a real soda can, saw virtual balls fall through a digital gap in a table, and viewed a life-sized virtual human sitting in an empty chair.

What made these impressive special effects possible was a pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses—specifically, the Wrap 920AR glasses from Vuzix. Whereas virtual reality shows you only a digital landscape, augmented reality (AR) mixes virtual information, like text or images, into your view of the real world in real-time.

In the last few years, AR has started appearing on smart phones. In that context, software superimposes information on top of your view of the world as seen through the device's screen. But AR eyewear, which provides a more immersive experience, has been confined to academic research and niche applications like medical and military training. That's been largely because older AR hardware has been so bulky and has cost tens of thousands of dollars.

The Wrap 920AR from Vuzix, based in Rochester, New York, costs $1,995—about half the price of other AR goggles with similar image resolution. The company hopes that the glasses will appeal to gamers, animators, architects, and software developers, and it has developed software for building AR environments, which is included with the glasses.

Wearing the 920AR means looking at the world through a pair of LCD video displays. The 920AR is heavier than a regular pair of glasses but far lighter than other head-mounted virtual-reality displays I've tried. The displays are connected to two video cameras that sit outside of the glasses in front of the eyes. The screens show each eye a slightly different view of the world, mimicking natural human vision, which allows for depth perception. Accelerometers, gyro sensors, and magnetometers track the direction in which the wearer is looking. The glasses also come with ports that let users plug it into an iPhone for portable power and controls, such as loading a particular AR object or environment.

The Vuzix software can recognize and track visual markers (like the black-and-white piece of cardboard I held), or lock onto a certain object or color (like the soda can). Tracking works well as long as the pattern or object being tracked are visible to the cameras; tilting a tracking pattern too far will cause the virtual image to flicker. By tracking head movements, the software can make sure that virtual objects are perfectly positioned atop the real world.

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Robot in USA to Help the Astronaut

Much improvement in technology, including Robots science, has been proof every time. USA is one of the most productive states which are always creating the new things. Many students in USA were inspired from the robots which help the astronaut in space. This robot is really amazing and helpful because they help in space, not only in the earth with human being.

This robot of course has the excellent and the weakness, because they are created appropriate with their function. The element or materials that are used are also depending on the function. This robot is created to help people to lift the heavy things. This robot can lift about 10 kilograms. However human can not do this everyday. Moreover, this robot can run about 4, 5 Milles per hours of speed. This is the incredible creation.

Because of the many works that it can do, this robot has facilitated by many censors in the body especially in the hand and fingers. it purpose to be more sensitive in contacting with the Astronaut. This is the amazing founding. Robot is useful to help you work. But, of course in creating this, you should comprehend seriously in making robot. Now, it will help not just the Astronaut but everyone who want it.

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Canon Ixus 300HS, Pocket Camera featured with high sensitivity system

Canon introduces the latest Ixus series called 300HS. This is the first Canon digital compact cameras that adopt a system of high sensitivity.

This system is claimed to make the user will be able to shoot with a sharper results in low light.

“Users will feel the excellence and sophistication which are presented by the HS system on this camera,” said Merry Harun, Director of the Division of Canon-Datascrip, in a written statement received by detikINET, Tuesday (06/07/2010).

One of the special section on this camera is the aperture diaphragm that reaches f/2.0 lens. With this feature, the camera speed can be improved to avoid the image blurred or shadowed.

Ixus 300HS comes with high sensitivity CMOS sensors that have a resolution of 10 megapixels and the latest Digic 4 processor.

In terms of video features, this camera is equipped with high-speed video record quality up to 240fps and can be played back in slow motion (super slow motion) speed of 30 fps.

When the other pocket camera can detect faces, 300HS also has a similar technology called Smart shutter. This technology makes the camera can recognize faces three types of response, ie, by detecting the face, smile or even a blink of an eye.

IXUS 300 HS – key features:

• High performance IXUS in a stunning stainless steel body
• 10.0 Megapixel high-sensitivity CMOS
• Bright f/2.0, 28 mm, 3.8x genuine Canon lens with optical Image Stabilizer
• HS System with DIGIC 4 for fast shooting and low noise in low light
• 240 fps Super Slow Motion Movie. High-speed Burst: 8.4 shots/sec1
• Wide 7.5 cm (3.0″) PureColor II G LCD with enhanced strength and visibility
• Smart Auto and Smart Flash Exposure for great photos in all situations
• HD movies (720p) with optical zoom, stereo sound and HDMI
• Creative shooting with P, Av and Tv modes, Low Light, Fish-eye and Miniature Effect
• Smart Shutter with Smile, Wink Self-Timer and FaceSelf-Timer

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