2008-04-30

Below – aboveground insect interactions

Insects Use Plant Like a "Telephone"

Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that
subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already 'occupied’.

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Roxina Soler Gamborena

Linking interactions between above- and below-ground herbivores and the performance of parasitoids and hyperparasitoids (NWO)

ThruVision T5000 T-Ray camera detects hidden objects

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Camera 'Sees' Under Clothes

A British company has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs, and explosives hidden under people's clothes from a distance of up to 25 meters. This new device may prove to be a major breakthrough for the security industry, helping to keep crowded airports, shopping malls, and large sporting events safe.

ThruVision T5000 can spot weapons hidden
under clothing from 25 metres (Credit: ThruVision)
The high-powered camera, called the T5000, was created by the U.K. Company ThruVision. The T5000 uses a new type of "passive imaging technology" in order to identify objects by the natural electromagnetic rays, known as Terahertz or T-rays, which they emit.

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DEFENDER TURK - THRUVISION T5000

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DEFENDER TURK - WDS_indoor_demonstration

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DEFENDER TURK - LOCAL4 NEWS

2008-04-29

Vi.sualize.us -- social bookmarking for images

Vi.sualize.us is a social bookmarking website similar to del.icio.us, but for visual content. It allows to remember your favorite images around the web, and share them with everyone.

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Vi.sualize.us - Social Bookmarking for visual content.

Vi.sualize.us aims to do for images what del.icio.us did for websites. It’s the brain child of Victor Espigares and was created after a personal need to remember a particular photo within a portfolio. Not happy with the current offerings he decided to do something about it.

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visualize us

Home

Pictures
- Popular
- Recent
Register

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How does it work?

It's as easy as pie: you are looking through pictures and one of them catches your eye. With our bookmarklet button or our Firefox extension there's nothing more to worry about. Two clicks and you will never forget that picture!

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The Volkswagen GX3

The Volkswagen GX3, an eco-friendly crossover between sports car and motorcycle from Volkswagen.

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The World Premier of the Volkswagen GX3

- Crossover between sports car and motorcycle
- It only takes 5.7 seconds to go from 0-62.5 mph (100 km/h) and the fuel consumption in the city is estimated to be 46 mpg (5.2 l/100 km)
- GX3 was conceived for the U.S. by the Moonraker team and VW’s Design Center in California
- Three wheels, two seats, and off you go in the carpool lane

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Volkswagen GX3 Reverse Trike Concept
Vehicle

Iceberg 2 Launces Business Application Creation Platform

Iceberg announced the release of their version 2. The Iceberg platform is designed for building high-quality, dynamic business software..

The Web platform essentially allows anyone to create business class applications in minutes rather than days – without the need for code of any kind.

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What is iceberg?

Iceberg is a powerful web-based tool for the creation and usage of custom-built business software. Beyond this, Iceberg is a platform for sharing and marketing this software to others who may have the same business needs.

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Create custom applications:

An ERP application for thousands of users

A simple CRM tool for a small business

A blogger+AdWords/twitter mashup

You can make all this with Iceberg and everything in between

Businesses... Free for 5 users. Non-Profits...completely free for unlimited users

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Build custom applications as easy as abc

Iceberg combines the speed of a web-based application with the power and adaptability of hand-coded software. The process of building an Iceberg application, with the power of traditionally made software, is as easy as A,B,C...

A. Application

B. Business objects

C. Customise

D. Drag and drop

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Sample applications

Vacation Management

CRM Application

Bug Tracker

2008-04-28

Yahoo! SearchMonkey

Yahoo has launched a private beta for its SearchMonkey developer platform. The idea is to create applications that users can install to modify how results display on the Yahoo search pages.

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Yahoo! Launches SearchMonkey Developer Tool in Limited Preview

Yahoo! is providing a "limited preview" of a tool that enables developers to create SearchMonkey applications.

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Site owners can build enhanced search results that will provide searchers with a more useful experience by including links, images and name-value pairs in the search results for their pages (likely resulting in an increase in traffic quantity and quality)

Developers can build SearchMonkey apps that enhance search results, access Yahoo! Search's user base and help shape the next generation of search

Users can customize their search experience with apps built by or for their favorite sites

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You can create two types of results with SearchMonkey:

Enhanced result: may provide a more descriptive title, additional navigational links below the description, and other meta data.

Infobar: retains the original title and description, but provides additional information below the result.

Likewise Software Connects Windows and Open Source

Likewise Open, recently released by Likewise Software, is an Open Source offering that provides fast and easy integration of Linux, UNIX and Mac systems.

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Reduce the Challenges and Costs of Running your Mixed Network

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Likewise Software Experts to Speak at Samba eXPerience 2008

Conference to focus on open source products

Samba eXPerience 2008

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Making Interoperability Possible: An Interview with Likewise CEO Barry Crist

Likewise CEO Barry Crist talks about the importance of interoperability, the differences between the corporate and open source communities, and what’s ahead for Linux.

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Microsoft Subnet Blog

Likewise Software: sandwiched between Microsoft and open source

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Likewise Open

What it Does

Likewise Open supports over 110 UNIX, Linux and Mac platforms

Joins Linux, Unix and Mac systems to Microsoft Windows Active Directory domains

Authenticates users with a single user name and password on both Windows and non-Windows systems

Enforces the same password policies for non-Windows users as for Windows users

2008-04-27

Ubuntu's new version: 8.04 "Hardy Heron"

The new Ubuntu version offers an enhanced multimedia experience and Web surfing in a Windows-friendly package.

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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition Released

LONDON, April 21, 2008 – Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition for free download on Thursday 24 April. In related news, Canonical also announced the simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition.

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Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" LTS

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The most interesting new feature for those looking to switch from Windows is Wubi, a single-click Ubuntu installer for Windows. Wubi neatly eliminates installation hassles like disk partitioning and other details and allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu (or any Linux variant) just like any other Windows application.

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Ubuntu will always be free to download, free to use and free to distribute to others. With these goals in mind, Ubuntu aims to be the most widely used Linux system, and is the centre of a global open source software ecosystem. For more information visit www.canonical.com or www.ubuntu.com.

'Quantum Hall-like effect' found in a bulk material without an applied magnetic field

A team of scientists from Princeton University has found that the so called quantum Hall effect, which is observed in two-dimensional electron systems subjected to low temperatures and strong magnetic fields can occur in a bulk crystal of bismuth-antimony without any external magnetic field being present.
This work, could lead to advances in new kinds of fast computing devices, of potential use in future electronic technologies.

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Princeton scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter

'Quantum Hall-like effect' found in a bulk material without an applied magnetic field

The images observed by the Princeton group provide the first direct evidence for quantum Hall-like behavior without external magnetic fields.

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Hall effect

In drawing "A", the Hall element takes on a negative charge at the top edge (symbolised by the blue color) and positive at the lower edge (red color). In "B" and "C", either the electric current or the magnetic field is reversed, causing the polarization to reverse. Reversing both current and magnetic field (drawing "D") causes the Hall element to again assume a negative charge at the upper edge.

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Quantum Hall effect

The quantum Hall effect (or integer quantum Hall effect) is a quantum-mechanical version of the Hall effect, observed in two-dimensional electron systems subjected to low temperatures and strong magnetic fields,

2008-04-26

NTT Firmo Card -- Contactless Authentication

A new product, called “Firmo,” consists of a card-sized transmitter carried in the user’s pocket. The card converts stored data into a weak electric field that extends across the body. When the user touches an object embedded with a compatible receiver a signal returned to the device allows contactless authentication

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NTT Firmo transmits data through skin

NTT has begun selling a device that transmits data across the surface of the human body and lets users communicate with electronic devices simply by touching them, the company announced on April 23.

Firmo is based on NTT’s RedTacton human area network (HAN) technology, which is designed to allow convenient human-machine data exchange through natural physical contact — even through clothing, gloves and shoes.

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Figure 1: RedTacton PC card prototype

Figure 2: Principle of RedTacton Communication

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NTT initially hopes this human area network technology will appeal to organizations looking to boost convenience and security in the office. Obvious applications include secure entrances and keyless cabinets that recognize employees when they touch the door handle (thus bypassing the need for card-swipers and keys), or secure printers that operate only when you touch them.

Y!Open a Social Network from Within Yahoo!

Yahoo is transforming itself into an open and social platform from the ground up. It will open up assets in a way never done before, making the consumer experience social throughout and provide hooks to developers.

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Yahoo rewiring itself from the inside out

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The first example of Yahoo's new openness is SearchMonkey, which was first announced in February. SearchMonkey lets developers build data services for modifying the presentation of search results.

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Come to the Search Monkey Developer Event!

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"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Balogh proclaimed. The front page of Yahoo, mail and other properties will be transformed.

Yahoo has 10 billion latent connections across its properties, such as mail, messenger and fantasy sports, Balogh said.
(Credit: Yahoo)

Yahoo's new architecture, called YOS (Yahoo Open Strategy) proves that the Internet is made of tubes.
(Credit: Yahoo)

The front page of Yahoo, mail and other properties will be transformed--for example, the mail welcome page will surface messages more relevant to users and the experience will be contextualized.
(Credit: Yahoo)

2008-04-25

Build Your Own Car Kit

Art Space: Architecture and Landscape

The winners and some of honorable mentions of Art Space, an Architecture and Landscape competition, designed to test the vision of artists form around the globe.

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he CGSociety and NVIDIA are very proud to present the winners of our newest competition, NVArt: Art Space. In this ground-breaking
competition, artists were invited to gaze into the far reaches of imagination and to bring together their vision of grandeur. They were challenged to create the most awe inspiring architecture and landscape, which they did in awesome measure.

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Via: Complex At The Centre Of The Universe Is Pure Brilliance! - The Design blog
Related:
CGSociety - NVArt: Art Space: Winners Announced!
NVArt - artspace | Architecture and Landscape - Introduction
NVArt - Art Space (Digital Art Competition) - JWG Underground Resource
Digital Arts

WebEx PCNow -- Access your PC from anywhere

About WebEx: a web service that allows remote acces to your PC or Mac from any internet connected mobile device.

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How It Works

WebEx PCNow gives you access to your PC or Mac regardless of where you are. From any Internet-connected computer or mobile phone, you can quickly, easily and securely access and control your PC or Mac.

Sign up for a PCNow account.

Download and install the PCNow software on the computer you want to access remotely.

Login at www.pcnow.com from another computer or your Web-enabled mobile phone to access your computer.

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Features

Remote desktop control

Fast and easy setup

Total security

Mac/PC cross-platform
support

Guest screen sharing

Remote webcam access

Remote printing

File sync and transfer

Remote sound

Multi-monitor support

Mobile Access

Mobile access to
your files and folders

Mobile organizer

Share files from your
computer or mobile phone

Mobile search

Remote Storage

Secure online storage

2008-04-24

Intel Mash Maker

The recently released Intel Mash Maker is a new browser extension that allows users create mashups as they browse the Web. The tool is made up of various widgets that can understand the meaning of web pages and enhance existing content.

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Intel Mash Maker: Mash-ups for the masses

Intel wants to make the whole Web editable, just like a single Wikipedia page.

The chip giant on Tuesday will make a beta available of Intel Mash Maker, a free browser extension that allows users to modify Web pages and combine information from different sources.

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Overview

Get Acquainted

Getting Started

Datasheet

FAQs

Credits

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A mashup is composed from a collection of Widgets.
A widget can do a wide variety of things with a page, including
visualizing the data on the page, or adding new data to the page. Each
widget can see data added by other widgets, allowing one to compose a
collection of widgets into a Mashup.

We recommend that new users have a look at the Videos to get a feel for Mash Maker in action.

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Toolbar Buttons

Netherlands Eases Segway Ban

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Dutch to ease ban on self-balancing Segway scooter

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands is to relax its ban on the Segway motorized scooter, a two-wheeled, gyroscopically-balanced machine of which U.S. President George W. Bush is a fan.

"The general use of the Segway will be allowed on bicycle paths and roads under the condition that a maximum speed of 25 km per hour will be kept to," the Dutch government said in a statement.

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01-07-2008 |
Segway uiterlijk op 1 juli a.s op de weg!!!. lees verder

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Uitvoering moties Segway

Persbericht | 18-04-2008

Op 25 maart 2008 heeft uw Kamer twee moties inzake de Segway (TK 2007-2008, 29 398, nrs. 82 en 83) aangenomen. Het lid De Krom vroeg na afloop van de stemmingen, geïnformeerd te worden over de uitvoering van deze moties. Met deze brief delen wij u mee op welke wijze het kabinet met de moties om wil gaan.

2008-04-23

Virtual Pompeii

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VIDEO: Virtual Pompeii Created

April 18, 2008—European scientists have combined virtual reality with treadmills to allow users to "walk through" the ancient city as it looked before the devastating volcanic eruption.

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BBC News Updated every minute of every day

CyberCarpet opens way to Pompeii

A stroll around the ancient city of Pompeii will be made possible this week thanks to an omni-directional treadmill developed by European researchers.

The treadmill is a "motion platform" which gives the impression of "natural walking" in any direction.

The platform, called CyberCarpet, is made up of several belts which form an endless plane along two axes.

Scientists have combined the platform with a tracking system and virtual reality software recreating Pompeii.

We are using virtual reality to study human behaviour.

Dr Marc Ernst

The treadmill moves along two axes

New Social Features in iGoogle

The Google personalized homepage iGoogle is now available in a preview version with new features, including social network functionality based upon Google's OpenSocial library.

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Google Operating System

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Google's New Social Network: iGoogle

Following orkut's model, iGoogle opened a sandbox for developers who write OpenSocial gadgets. The sandbox is probably a test for the next iteration of iGoogle: the personalized homepage turned into a social network. "The integration of OpenSocial with gadgets gives you an opportunity to enhance your content for users by incorporating social features. For example, a books gadget could display what a user's friends are reading, allow users to request to borrow books from friends' libraries, and show users books that their friends recently rated. As users share content with their friends, your gadget will naturally build a broad audience for distributing content and driving traffic," explains the new developer site for iGoogle gadgets.

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Watch as Jake walks us through the sandbox and shows how to build a basic gadget.

2008-04-22

Chips for optical quantum computing

Physicists at Bristol University in the United Kingdom have demonstrated the first logic gates on a silicon chip that can process individual photons. This brings quantum computing, based upon manipulating single photons a step closer to reality.

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Integrated optics: the way to scale a quantum computer

One of the problems inherent in every implementation of quantum computing has been scaling. To gain a significant speed-up, we need a system that has enough qubits to represent the solution, but this has, so far, proven to be impossible to do in a way that accomplishes any useful work. Now, new research from Bristol University has described a method of creating optical quantum gates that can scale to many qubits reasonably well.

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Centre for Quantum Photonics

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Physicists Build First Single-Photon Logic Gate

Bristol University physicists advance the field of quantum computing with the successful miniaturization of a high-performance, optical "controlled-NOT gate."

Led by professor Jeremy O'Brien, the researchers have successfully miniaturized a high-performance, optical "controlled-NOT gate" -- a type of logic gate considered "the building block of a quantum computer," according to a press release from Bristol.

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Jeremy O'Brien

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Apple store in Second Life?

A patent filing by Apple is prompting speculation that the company could be getting ready to open up Apple stores in Second Life.

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Apple looking to create a virtual shopping world?

A patent filed by Apple suggests they could be looking to building a virtual shopping complex where customers, represented by avatars, can shop and interact with one another and with staff.

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Apple plots Second Life-like online store

Patent filing suggests Apple plans to make shopping at Apple Store or iTunes a more immersive virtual experience

The company has filed patent with the US Patent and Trademark office for an Enhanced Online Shopping Atmosphere, as originally
noted by MacNN.

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Enhancing online shopping atmosphere

Abstract

Representing activity in an online store is disclosed. Information
associated with the activities of a second visitor to the store is
received. An indication of the presence of a first visitor at the store
is also received. The activities of the second visitor are displayed to
the first visitor.

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Will Apple open a store in Second Life?

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March 08, 2007

Second Life Apple Store

2008-04-21

Britannica Widgets

The Encyclopaedia Britannica recently launched its Britannica WebShare program with free online access for Web publishers, a Twitter stream and blog-friendly widgets.

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In an effort to attract bloggers to link to their content, the Encyclopaedia Britannica has come out with web based initiatives - Webshare allows web publishers and bloggers link to Britannica articles, with their readers able to follow those links without an account, while Britannica Widgets allows publishers and bloggers to post an entire cluster of related Encyclopaedia Britannica articles on their blog or Web site. As their website describes it:

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General Interest

Dogs

Cats

Arts & Literature

Abstract Art

Academy Award

American Literature

Musical Instruments

The Earth & Geography

Mississippi River

volcano

Philosophy & Religion

Philosophy

Psychology

Greek Mythology

Sports & Recreation

Baseball

Football

Science & Mathematics

geometry

physical science

Life Science

Medicine

The Brain

Insects

Lizards

Society

Capitalism

Communism

Liberalism

Democracy

History and Social Studies

United States Presidents

Nobel Prizes

Mayans

Cultures of the Ancient World

Peoples of Africa

Social Service

Math in Music

Dmitri Tymoczko

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Geometrical Music Theory

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Researchers map the math in music

More than 2000 years ago Pythagoras reportedly discovered that pleasing musical intervals could be described using simple ratios.

And the so-called musica universalis or "music of the spheres" emerged in the Middle Ages as the philosophical idea that the proportions in the movements of the celestial bodies -- the sun, moon and planets -- could be viewed as a form of music, inaudible but perfectly harmonious.

Now, three music professors – Clifton Callender at Florida State University, Ian Quinn at Yale University and Dmitri Tymoczko at Princeton University -- have devised a new way of analyzing and categorizing music that takes advantage of the deep, complex mathematics they see enmeshed in its very fabric.

The broad effort follows upon earlier work by Tymoczko in which he developed geometric models for selected musical objects.

Via: Al Fin: Brain-Building Through Early Childhood Music
Related:
brooklynvegan: Geometrical Music Theory
Princeton University - Researchers map the math in music
Dmitri Tymoczko, Composer and Music Theorist
The new shape of music
The Hindu News Update Service
Cogito - Researchers Map the Math in Music
Music and mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2008-04-20

The Kolibri Cordless 3D Sensor

The Kolibri Cordless sensor, developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics: a light and small device that can take 3D images of almost anything and almost anywhere. LED lights shine a projector light on an object, and two cameras record the image from two different angles. Then a computer compiles the data into a 3D image.

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Wireless Sensor Images in 3-D

A cordless, lightweight sensor device the size of a shoebox can take 3-D images virtually anywhere, including crime scenes, doctors' offices, and manufacturing production lines.

The Kolibri Cordless sensor developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering is lightweight, about the size of a shoebox, and quickly takes 3-D images. (Photo copyright ©Fraunhofer IOF)

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Research and development at Fraunhofer IOF focuses on optical systems technology with a view to continually improving the control of light from generation via guiding and manipulation up to its application.

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Handheld scanning of a statue (enlargement of fringe pattern)

Sensorhead

3D overview, picture (with fringe pattern) and 3D detail of a design object

Scheme of 3D measurement set-up (self calibration by means of optional linking camera)

download

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3-D images -- cordless and any time

A 3-D sensor enables the tracks left by car tires (right) to be quickly and easily imaged.

Dynamic data in Google Earth

The new version 4.3 of Google Earth provides many new features, including the day/night effect a clouds layer, dynamic data of traffic, weather, news and more.

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We've done several dynamic things already: traffic, weather, news courtesy of the New York Times, and YouTube. But don't wait for us to create more dynamic data - we've always believed that the greatest content is created by our users. Through the magic of Network Links in KML, any dataset can be set to auto-update at whatever interval is appropriate. The KML Gallery has several great examples, such as real-time earthquakes and current air quality.

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you can now animate the Earth through different times of day! Check out how much more dramatic these hills look during sunset:

My favorite image is one of the Earth from space, overlaid with the cloud layer, and with the sun mode turned on:

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If you're running the latest version of Google Earth, you'll notice a new "Weather" folder in the layers panel:

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All the news that’s fit to print on a map: The New York Times in Google Earth

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Real time Traffic in Google Earth

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Real-time Earthquakes

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Current Air Quality

2008-04-19

ADrive -- 50GB for free

ADrive LLC a free online data storage community, offers a large amount of free storage on the Internet providing secure solutions for storing, backing up, and accessing files from virtually anywhere, at any time.

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Basic Storage Plan
Our Basic Plan gives you up to 50GB of free online storage for all of your files: music, video, photos, documents, and other files.

Key Features:

Avoid the Hassle, Avoid the Hardware.

Stop Worrying, Protect your Files.

Access Anywhere at Any Time, Centralized Storage.

File Sharing

Complete Folder and Directory Upload ^*New*

Easy Search Tool ^*New*

Remote URL File Transfer ^*New*

International Character Support ^*New*

Edit Documents Online with Zoho^® ^*New*

Via: Technology Zone: ADrive offering up 50GB for free

Crawling the deep Web

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Google Spiders to Start Crawling The 'Deep' Web

Google recently announced it will soon begin indexing the so-called "deep" web, those pages hiding behind HTML forms and other inadvertently spider-blocking HTML elements. The move will potentially open up a whole new range of webpages that were previously invisible to the search engine.

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Deep Web

The deep Web (or Deepnet, invisible Web or hidden Web) refers to World Wide Web content that is not part of the surface Web indexed by search engines. It is estimated that the deep Web is several orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web.^[1]

Deep Web resources may be classified into one or more of the following categories

Dynamic content

Unlinked content

Private Web

Contextual Web

Limited access content

Scripted content

Non-HTML/text content

See also

Federated search

Robots Exclusion Standard

Surface Web

Web crawler

Web Harvesting

Dark internet

Darknet

2008-04-18

Emotiv's new brain-computer interface

Emotiv Systems recently unveiled a brain/computer interface system with a helmet and software applications. The Project Epoc system can move objects based on a gamer's thoughts, reflect facial expressions, and respond to the excitement or calm the gamer mentally exerts.

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Brain controlled computer games

Below is a video discussing and demonstrating Emotiv's new brain interface.

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Emotiv Systems introduces a sensor-laden headset that interprets gamers' intentions, emotions and facial expressions

EPOC GAMING HEADSET: Emotiv's $299 EPOC headset (with 14 sensors) will enable gamers to use their own brain activity to interact with the virtual worlds where they play.
Courtesy of Emotiv Systems

The EPOC detects brain activity noninvasively using electroencephalography (EEG), a measure of brain waves, via external sensors along the scalp that pick up the electrical bustle in various parts of the furrowed surface of the brain's cortex, a region that handles higher order thoughts.

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PRODUCTS

Overview
Emotiv EPOC™
Technology
Reserve your Emotiv EPOC™
Definitions

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DEVELOPERS

Overview
Detection Suites
Software Development Kit
Download SDKLite

Eye Phone; The mobile tourist guide

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Eye Phone; The mobile tourist guide

Future cell phones may act as a mobile tourist guide, and provide tourists with information on whatever they see while journeying. The target seems achievable with an eye-Phone technology that emerged as a regional winner in the European Satellite Navigation Competition, sponsored by ESA's Technology Transfer Programme, recently.

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eye-Phone on cellular phone

How does it work? If you see something interesting while out walking for instance, you take a photograph with your mobile phone, select the item of interest with the cursor and in real time preprocessed information on the object selected is sent to your mobile phone.

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2008-04-17

Teenage Climate Skeptic Refutes Global Warming on Website

A 16 year old schoolgirl from Portland, Maine, with a remarkable website about global warming.

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Teenage Skeptic Takes on Climate Scientists

Kristen Byrnes is skeptical that humans are causing climate change, and has posted her views on the Web.

Morning Edition, April 15, 2008 · If you're a scientist trying to convince people they are making the world warmer, Kristen Byrnes is your worst nightmare. She's articulate, intelligent, she has a Web site, and one day her people will be running the world. Her people, meaning 16-year-olds.

Kristen's Web site, "Ponder the Maunder," has made her a celebrity among climate skeptics. After she posted a critique of Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth, her Web site got so many hits the family's internet service provider sent them a warning.

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Ponder the Maunder

Welcome to Ponder the Maunder, now the official site of the Kristen
Byrnes Science Foundation

Via: Al Fin: Science on Trial: School Children Putting Grown Scientists In Their Place
Related:
Teenage Skeptic Takes on Climate Scientists : NPR
Ponder the Maunder Home
SacredScoop - » Ponder the Maunder Website Burns Climate Scientists’ Global Warming Agenda
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The PS10 Solar Power Tower

One of oldest forms of energy used by humans -- sunlight concentrated by mirrors -- is poised to make an astonishing comeback. An example is the "Solar Tower" Planta Solar 10 (PS10 ), a solar power plant located in Sanlucar la Mayor, Spain.

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Location: Seville, Spain.

Megawatts: 11 MW currently, planned increase to 300 MW.

Solar Company and Electric Utility: Mirrors by Abengoa and power tower by ALTAC.

Status: Operating. Scheduled 300 MW production by 2013.

More: With the completion of other solar energy plants in the same area, the total energy production will be about 300 MW. The current power tower stands 115 meters above the surrounding sunflower fields. 624 heliostat mirrors focus sunlight on the tower. Source: Environment News Service; BBC. Photo: WikiMedia.

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HOW THE SOLAR TOWER WORKS

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Several hundred movable mirrors, known as heliostats, below, reflect the sun's rays into the 115 m tall tower, which, as the previous pages suggest, appears to learn toward the field of reflectors.

ALTAC

Beginning at an elevation of 100 m, an opening extends 14.1 m in width and 15.3 m in height to enable the sun's reflected rays to reach the receiver.

Via: Mega Solar: the World’s 13 Biggest Solar Thermal Energy Projects : EcoWorldly
Related:
PS10 solar power tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Power station harnesses Sun's rays
First EU Commercial Concentrating Solar Power Tower Opens in Spain
ASCE: Tower of Power

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Brain Scans Reveal Brain Mysteries

Recent fMRI studies have enabled scientists to expand the intricate cartography that represents the mind at work, revealing not only everything from when you tell a lie, to how you fall in love, but even that your brain makes decisions long before you knew about it.

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Your brain may trigger your decisions before you make them

These experiments show that the brain makes decisions prior to you being aware you made a decision. This is something to mull over a while, and is a little unsettling. Basically, this could indicate that the concept that your behavior is based on your active decision-making is in incorrect. Your brain may decide your behavior, and your active decision-making is an illusion of your brain.

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"Your decisions are strongly prepared by brain activity. By the time consciousness kicks in, most of the work has already been done," said study co-author John-Dylan Haynes, a Max Planck Institute neuroscientist.

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Revealing Secret Intentions in the Brain

Scientists decode concealed intentions from human brain activity

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The colors indicate key parts of the brain activated by stimuli in five fMRI studies. The illustration shows activity in one hemisphere of the brain; most neural responses occur in both hemispheres.

Seahorses in the River Thames (video)

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