Wow! New Microsoft Sensor Gadget turns walls, cars and even your hand into a touchscreen

Posted on 10/20/2011 | Comments Off on Wow! New Microsoft Sensor Gadget turns walls, cars and even your hand into a touchscreen

Microsoft researchers have developed a new generation of Kinect motion sensor – a device that turns any flat surface into a touch screen.

Experimental sensor tracks movement on any of the human hand in the wall and it makes a portable computer.

Tests, users are able to punch numbers onto their hands and the keyboard to write a virtual “notepad” on the table.

According to researchers, it is the first step in a single day by removing the need to carry around your phone or computer.

Instead, users can have what they need, projected in front of him, and use any of the flat workspace.

The device, called the OmniTouch, a wearable camera / laser projection system installed on the user’s shoulder and connected to the computer.

It works the same way as the Kinect, motion sensor gadget to your Xbox, as the camera detects motion and depth.

Pilot: The prototype shoulder-worn system, pictured, tracks the movement of the user

Thus it is to pick up when the user moves their finger in any direction or up and down.

Striking videos uploaded onto YouTube to see a variety of subjects by pressing the buttons are projected to the arm.

Other clips show a man with a numeric keypad on his hand, which he transferred to the combination.

Applications can be anything that we currently use a computer – checking email, surfing the web, or possibly by talking to friends on Skype.

At the moment the camera and laser are quite thick, but Microsoft and the team at Carnegie Mellon University, which was developed in conjunction with OmniTouch, say it could one day be “the whole of a matchbox and as easy to use as pendant or watch.”

Science: The equipment senses depth and hand movement to work

In a research paper they say OmniTouch “allows the user to use his hands, arms and legs as a graphical, interactive surfaces.”

They write: “Today’s notebook computers offer ubiquitous access to information … It is undeniable that they have forever changed the way we work, play and interact.

“However, mobile interaction is far from resolved. Small screens and buttons on November the user experience, and otherwise keep us all full potential.

Hrvoje Benko, a researcher of the natural interaction of the Microsoft research team, added: “We wanted to take advantage of a huge surface of the real world has to offer.

“The surface on the one hand alone larger than typical smartphones.

“The tables are an order of magnitude larger than the tablet computer.

“If we are right, these surfaces in an ad-hoc on-demand way to deliver full benefits of mobility, while extending the user’s interactive feature.”
source: HeadlineTodayNews.com

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Bombshell! Autism is 5 times more common among low birth weight babies

Posted on 10/18/2011 | Comments Off on Bombshell! Autism is 5 times more common among low birth weight babies

Babies born with low birth weight is five times more likely than the general population is diagnosed with some form of autism, new research shows.

The study is the first in the United States to examine the prevalence of autism diagnoses in the smallest babies. Advances in medicine have helped more lower birth weight babies to survive, so the results may help to explain the increase in people diagnosed with autism disorder, the researchers said.

Premature infants are often born low birth weight, although the full-term baby may also be in order.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Nursing and the School of Medicine identified 1105 children who weighed less than 4 pounds, 6.5 ounces (2000 grams) at birth who were born October 1, 1984, and 03 July 1989.

Sixteen years later, the researchers were able to achieve 623 of those children, and used a questionnaire to screen the autism spectrum disorders.

When the 189 children turned 21 years of age, 60 percent of those screened positive for autism spectrum disorder, and 24 percent of those who screened negative were clinically diagnosed condition. Overall, the number of autism spectrum disorders one of the participants, who have low birth weight was five times higher than the general population.

Autistic problems
People with disorders are difficult to communicate, difficulty interacting in social situations, and restrictive or repetitive interests, said study co-author Jennifer Pinto-Martin, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and the School of Medicine.

Those with a mild autism spectrum disorders, such as people with Asperger’s syndrome, “may just want to talk about one subject,” Pinto-Martin said. “They are fully functional. They can go to college. Be able to go to work.”

The lower activity of people with autism spectrum can be no social interaction at all. “You can see them sitting in a corner, rocking back and forth,” Pinto-Martin said.

Scientists believe that the brain hemorrhaging and bruising associated with low birth weight or premature infants could explain the higher autism spectrum disorders.

“The first hypothesis is that it is linked to brain development,” Pinto-Martin said. “Preemies is something called the neonatal brain damage. In some cases, it is just like a bruise, and does not really make any difference. In other cases, there are more long-term effect.”

Medical interventions that keep premature babies alive could also play a role, Pinto-Martin said. “Keep them alive, a lot of technology involved,” he said. “They are the machines that help them breathe. They are a lot of drugs.”

“Quantity premature birth and early survival has increased dramatically,” he continued. “It may well be that because we are better to keep these preemies alive, we will create an increased incidence of autism.”

Could a better prenatal care reduces the incidence of autism?
The study confirms what doctors have known for a premature birth and autism, said Dr. Craig Erickson chief Christian Sarkine Autism Treatment Center at Indiana University School of Medicine. Autism may be more likely to develop after premature birth together with other factors such as environment and genetic predisposition, he said.

“It is not surprising, that would be a risk factor for autism,” he said. “The nice thing about this study is that they had a long follow-up period. By [21 years], you really know if people have autism or not.”

Next, the researchers hope to compare brain images of low birth weight babies in the investigation. Head ultrasounds are now routine for premature babies, Pinto-Martin said. “The first thing we do is go back and look at interest rates of brain injury and brain hemorrhage the entire cohort,” he said.

According to the study needed not only to better prenatal care to reduce the number of premature babies, but also the need for early diagnosis and intervention for autism. “Some of these young adults, thanked us when we gave them a diagnosis,” Pinto-Martin said. “They said:” I’ve always felt weird and I do not know why. “It was very moving for us.”

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The fastest phone ever? Samsung and Google to Reveal iPhone-beating Nexus Prime

Posted on 10/18/2011 | Comments Off on The fastest phone ever? Samsung and Google to Reveal iPhone-beating Nexus Prime

Respect for the delayed launch of Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs. Samsung said it is just “not the right time” to launch a new product.

But Google and Samsung are set to launch the Nexus Prime this week – reportedly armed with a 4G connection, and the 1.5GHz Dual Core Processor.

It is a showcase for Samsung’s latest technology and the latest version of the Google’s Android software – Ice Cream Sandwich.

Google-branded phones, the Nexus is often used as a showcase for new technologies – the latest was the first handset with Near Field Communication chip used for contactless payments technology, even if the new iPhone 4S is still missing.

Prime is expected to be full of components, such as the 1.5GHz dual-core processor, faster than some handheld computers.

Reports say that the phone has a 4.5 inch HD display, and 4G connectivity.

The event is now scheduled to be held in Hong Kong on Wednesday this week.

Google is expected to launch a new version of the Android phone software, the Ice Cream Sandwich – designed to bring the atmosphere of a hi-tech, high-speed tablet Android operating system, Honeycomb, phones for the first time.

Samsung to release said that the phone would provide a “perfect combination” – and the teaser from the video seemed to indicate that the display can be curved.

TECH websites such as the Inquirer said it was “almost certain” that the Prime Minister of the handset to be launched this week.

Samsung has overtaken Nokia’s smartphone market thanks to world-wide success of its 10 million sales of Galaxy S 2 smartphone.

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“Doomsday” Comet Elenin On its Closest Approach To Earth (video)

Posted on 10/17/2011 | Comments Off on “Doomsday” Comet Elenin On its Closest Approach To Earth (video)

The icy comet, described as about “Doomsday Comet”, makes its closest approach to Earth on Sunday (October 16, 2011).

Elenin, last comet to visit the inner solar system, will pass about 22 million kilometers (35000000 km) from Earth, more than 90 times the distance to the moon.

Comet Elenin named Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin, who discovered it in December 2010.

Astronomers and other space enthusiasts have long pondered the question of whether Elenin could hit the ground or to conquer the Earth away from the polarity of the sun. In fact, sites dedicated to the comet has been established, the internet forums are full of proposals that NASA has not adequately address the potential risk posed by “icy dirtball”, as it is described in the Space Agency.

NASA scientists have, however, for the comet as “wimpy” compared to the Hale-Bopp (pictured above left), who flashed across our skies in 1997.

Astronomer Don Yeomans near-Earth Object program office is NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is said to have been erroneous speculation on the Internet that the comet Elenin Still other celestial bodies, may have an impact on the Earth and the external forces can lead to Elenin Making closer to the Earth.

“Everyone around the comet Elenin Still other celestial bodies, are insignificant, and the comet did not encounter a dark bodies, which may confuse its orbit, nor does it affect us in any way on this earth,” said Yeomans.

“Comet Elenin is not only far away, it is also on the small side for comets,” Yeomans said. “And comets are the most densely packed objects out there. They usually have a density as loosely packed icy dirt.”

Comet images captured by amateur astronomer Elenin, Michael Mattiazzo South Comets (video below), for several days in August 2011 showed what appeared to be the core without breaking apart and fading away as it approaches perihelion, point in its orbit, where it is closest to the sun. NASA says the most likely Elenin is now powered by comet debris and intact.

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mysterious star discovered in Constellation Leo Perplex Scientists

Posted on 10/15/2011 | Comments Off on mysterious star discovered in Constellation Leo Perplex Scientists

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Astrophysicists in Germany, France and Italy have found a very old star of the constellation Leo, whose existence is a complete mystery to them. SDSS J102915 172 927, unlike the other stars “of the same age,” which appeared soon after the Big Bang, has a smaller mass, which does not fit into the modern theory of star formation mechanisms.

Age of the star SDSS J102915 172 927, which is located just to the edge of the solar system, the researchers have more than 13 billion years, while the age of the universe itself is only somewhere around 13.75 billion years. Weight of the newly discovered star is less than 0.8 solar masses. Stars that have formed the eve of the universe as a rule contain little or no heavy metals.

It is believed that in that distant era, 75 percent of the material universe was hydrogen, 25 per cent – helium, and a very small amount of lithium. Stars have higher metal concentrations are the products of a thermonuclear bomb reactions and supernova explosions. Low-mass stars in the universe began to occur after heavy elements cooled clouds of interstellar matter up to the point where gravity starts to exceed the pressure of the hot gas cloud collapse and star.

Analysis of the data the Very Large Telescope (VLT) through the X-shooter spectrograph UVES, and showed that some of the heavy elements in the star SDSS J102915 172 927 is about 20,000 times smaller than the sun. According to one study participants, Perkarlo Bonifacio Paris Observatory, the newly discovered star is relatively dim, and the researchers have not been able to identify the elements heavier than helium is its composition. “The first spectra of this faint star, we found traces of only one” heavy “element, calcium,” he said. “Finding other metals, we had to significantly expand the program’s findings.”

Star contains forty times less than the Lithia this should in theory be the target. For Lithia break, the substance was a warm up to temperatures of more than two million degrees Kelvin. “We had to spend the extra time for the telescope to study stars in more detail,” said Bonifacio.

The researchers drew attention to the limited amount of carbon and oxygen to promote cooling protostellar clouds and create the necessary conditions for the formation of Low-mass stars: it was well below the threshold. So, on the other hand, the older the star, the more its configuration must match the configuration of the universe the early stages of evolution, after all consisted exclusively of light elements, and its weight is greater. However, SDSS J102915 172 927 does not confirm this rule. It has a low concentration of the metal, and at the same time is a small mass.

“The standard theory interprets the corresponding low-mass stars and low metal content should not be, because the cloud point on which they appear does not shrink,” says Elisabetta Kaffal European Southern Observatory (ESO). “We did not expect to find a star in the” forbidden zone. “This means that we may have to revise some of the models of star formation mechanisms.”

This means either that the astronomers were wrong age of the star, or it formed later (after all, its age was defined on the basis of “Metal City”), or its formation is not according to the “Classic” scenario. Finally, it is a theory that the Big Bang have been some of the unique event, and such explosions occur from time to time. So, SDSS J102915 172 927 could not be there, for example, before the Big Bang. At least, that gave birth to most of the objects in the universe. Then everything is explained – so it is lightweight and low metals.

However, according to astrophysicists, SDSS J102915 172 927 is not yet unique, they were able to calculate a few “primitive” stars of low metal city. “Now we will examine the VLT, to check whether they are” primitive, “said Dr. Kaffal.

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Espionage! Air force computer network for UAV’s Hacked – Inside Job

Posted on 10/10/2011 | Comments Off on Espionage! Air force computer network for UAV’s Hacked – Inside Job


U.S. military base found a keylogger on their network specifically targeting UAVs

U.S. Army expects unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have a greater role in future military operations, but it is still obvious things that need to be resolved. One such thing is the safety of UAV that rely on computer-controlled, which may jeopardize a professional criminals and foreign governments.

Virus found a Host-Based Security System is a computer used in Nevada Creech Air Force Base. In particular, the virus remotely logged keystrokes for computers used by pilots to control the Predator and Reaper unmanned aircraft to perform in Afghanistan.

“We will wipe off, and it falls back,” Anonymous sources said. “We think it is benign. But we just do not know.”

Creech officer now receives daily briefings on a computer virus, but seems to be business as usual.

Both the Predator and Reaper drones actively flying in the Middle East, and there are no immediate plans to land an unmanned fleet until the problem has been solved.

It is unknown if this is reported with a keylogger has been deliberately placed on a data network, but it is an extremely serious matter. It is hopeful optimism that the relatively common keylogger was simply placed on the network by mistake – but it is also something that must be taken into due account.

Meanwhile, the British Royal Air Force and other nations with growing fleets of UAVs are also monitoring the Cyber ??questions that the U.S. military has to deal with.

Benign or not, a keylogger will remain a serious concern for security experts worried that the military experts, and private contractors to make improvements.

Previous U.S. Army warns of documents for non-military, commercial computer parts purchased in Asia, which should not be used for military bases. The ease with which the USB memory sticks and other external devices can be used for the bottom – when he uses the base-line – has remained a problem.

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The incredible tribute made of Apple gadgets that shows Steve Jobs was more than the sum of his parts

Posted on 10/08/2011 | Comments Off on The incredible tribute made of Apple gadgets that shows Steve Jobs was more than the sum of his parts

He made the gadgets – and now the gadgets are making him.

This incredible work of art is a fitting tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Created by Greek designer Charis Tsevis, the collage is made up of every product Apple has ever released.

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Mr Tsevis created it when Apple’s chief executive was on indefinite medical leave. He described his portrait as the ‘ultimate get well soon gesture’.

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From revolutionary gadgets such as the recent iPod and iPhone, to the less-inspiring Apple TV and eMac, Mr Jobs oversaw an avalanche of devices over the years.

The 56-year-old’s death was announced on Wednesday. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer.


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Must See! Samsung to release FLEXIBLE phones! so tough they can be hit with a hammer!

Posted on 09/30/2011 | Comments Off on Must See! Samsung to release FLEXIBLE phones! so tough they can be hit with a hammer!

Demonstrations of “flexible” displays are a staple technique seems to from the screens were small enough for us to carry.

This week, Samsung has given the strongest sign yet that the hi-tech devices could become a reality.

The company introduced the “flexible” AMOLED display 4.5 inches across and only 0.3mm thick, in January this year.

Reports this week hint that the phone technology – which can be “rolled up” and survive the hammer blows – is shown in the second quarter of next year.

The technology relies on Atom-thick “graphene” – sheets of carbon atoms – with aluminum foil, protective layer of liquid crystal “display”.

Earlier this year, reports leaked that Samsung had the ability to produce large amounts of evidence “early 2012” – but no one knew what they could be.

Later, photos of the concept phone uses technology – Galaxy Skin – appeared. The skin was a project carried out by design students, using the Samsung logo and a trademark of Galaxy.

But the technology has huge potential.

Graphene phone screens are practically unbreakable, and provide an instant advantage over any other smartphone on the market.

Now, according to reports from the International Business Times, concept phones, similar to the skin could be on sale early next year.

The report was remarkably specific, stating that the handset would provide information, including high-resolution 800 × 480 flexible AMOLED display, eight-megapixel camera and 1GB of RAM and 1.2GHz processor.

Specifications for sound suspiciously similar spec Samsung’s current flagship, the S Galaxy II, however.

Will Findlater, editor of Stuff Magazine told the Mail Online today: “AMOLED display is already in the mobile technology to win, so is it as good as promised, a flexible AMOLED could stop drunk smartphone screens – and the tablets, which are even more fragile.”

Potential of the tablets can be folded away smartphone is a particularly exciting – you would have two gadgets for the price of one, “said Findlater.

It is perhaps wise to be a little skeptical, however.

Samsung has not made an official product announcement, and while they certainly can produce such technology – it was freely discussed earlier this year – the “gap” between that and a working phone ready for mass production is immense.

“Flexible” displays have been shown in various forms since 2004 – Tech insiders suggest that the laptops, or e-book readers may someday be a “pen” mortgage processor “sheet” of paper-like screen wrapped around it.

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Scientists discover a massive diamond planet! (video)

Posted on 09/26/2011 | Comments Off on Scientists discover a massive diamond planet! (video)

It is certainly what you might call a gem of a discovery.

Astronomers believe they have an entire planet made of diamonds found.

Scientists at the University of Manchester believe they have a once-massive star in the Milky Way, which is transformed into a small planet made of precious stones excavated.

The international research team first detected an unusual star, called a pulsar, and followed their discovery in the study using a telescope is housed in an observatory in Cheshire.

The findings led scientists to the appeal of a small planetary companion orbiting the pulsar to be discovered.

Pulsars are small rotating stars more than ten miles in diameter – the size of a small town – that a beam of radio waves.

The team also includes scientists from Australia, Germany, Italy and the United States, believes that the ‘diamond planet’ is all that remains of the original star, most of which case was transferred to the pulsar.

The companion planet is small, with less than 40,000 miles wide – about five times the diameter of Earth.

But it’s so close to the pulsar, that if the greater would be torn apart by the gravity of the star, which more than 10,000 rotations per minute and has a mass about 1.4 times that of the Sun

Research team member Dr. Michael Keith said: “This remnant is probably largely carbon and oxygen, for a star made of lighter elements like hydrogen and helium would be too big to fit the measured time job. ”

The density means that this material is sure to be crystalline, ie, a large part of the star may be similar to a diamond.

The pulsar, called PSR J1719-1438, and his planet are part of the plane of the galaxy of stars and located 4,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens – the Snake.

The modulations in the radio pulses astronomers said some things about the planet.

It revolves around the pulsar in just two hours and ten minutes, and the distance between two objects is about 373,000 miles – slightly less than the radius of our Sun

Despite its small size, the planet is slightly more massive than Jupiter.

About 70 percent of the millisecond pulsars have companions of a sort.

Astronomers believe that the companion star in its form, an old, dead pulsar transforms into a millisecond pulsar by the transfer of matter and spinning to a very high speed.

The result is a rapidly rotating millisecond pulsar with a shrunken companion – usually a white dwarf.

The find is reported in the journal Science.

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New German electric car sets new distance record!

Posted on 09/22/2011 | Comments Off on New German electric car sets new distance record!

The yellow and purple Audi A2 car took about seven hours to complete the 600 km (372 mile) stretch and arrived in the opulent court of the economy ministry in Berlin just before 8:00 local time (0600 GMT).

“If journalists want to recharge their iPhones, we still have some power again,” quipped driver Mirko Male Male, 27, as he stepped out of the four-door car to show off the battery.

Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle welcome the team on arrival, and was even tempted to take a spin around the yard, but not behind the wheel.

“They even had the heat on. It was really a luxury trip,” Bruederle told a lot of reporters and photographers on a cool Berlin morning.

At a later news conference, said Bruederle: “Welcome to a world before electric cars could usually only go 60 or 70 miles before charging, this is a technological leap forward …”

Car manufacturers hope that electric vehicles will grow to dominate the automotive industry, but consumers can see the short range of cars as a big disadvantage.

Japanese researchers have taken an experimental electric car more than 1,000 kilometers around a track, but the two German companies, leaking Energie and DBM Energy, said their vehicle was long gone with an everyday car.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government aims to have one million electric cars on the road by 2020, but Germany, the car giants have been slow from the starting field, and are now scrambling to catch up with their Asian rivals.

The world’s leading luxury car maker BMW and Europe’s largest manufacturer Volkswagen both have said they plan to launch its first cars in 2013.

Unlike last week, Japan’s Nissan said it had started mass producing its Leaf electric car and is ready to put it on sale both at home and in the United States.

Nevertheless, Berlin has offered sweeteners to jump start their national champions, and we hope that by 2050, gas-guzzle be a thing of the past.

“Let the message go out to the world. Germany is again a technological leader,” said Bruederle.

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