Hyperlinking reality!
If you have a quest to get into the minutiae of the places you visit, technology can now aid you better.
Researchers from Europe can now can now attach hyperlinks to pictures you take using your mobile phone. This advancement aims to develop an image recognition technology making it easier to connect to and explore the world around you. With this blend of imagination and web-technology, your pictures would offer you the name, history, art, architecture, culture, location etc, of the edifice in question.
Numerous photographs would constitute a database of photographs added with all the information, which are aimed to serve as reference points. As soon as one would click the image, association would be done and pertinent reference links would be returned to the user. The picture would then become the background and the icons appearing would take you through the journey right from the history to the shopping opportunities.
Striking technological concepts like local invariant feature detection, epipolar geometry and planarity constraints have been premeditated to be installed to enable it identify the accurate pictures and distinguish between the look-alikes.
Now why let the colloquial be the barrier when the pictures can speak for themselves? Happy exploring!
Innovation leads recession!
With the US economy plunging further towards the recession, the tremors are being felt all over. The global economy is muted but the feared recession has failed to imprison the brains of the innovators.
As John Donovan, chief technology officer at Dallas-based AT&T Inc., has said “Consumer technology changes so fast that any company that tries to pause is likely to be overrun by its competitors”, the pace of the technological developments is least likely to slowdown fearing recession.
To cite examples from the beginning of the 21st century, when the world slipped into recession, Apple Inc. introduced the iPod, Microsoft Corp. presented Xbox video game console, demands for the household broadband services doubled from the year 2000 and Google Inc. was transforming as an integral part of contemporary existence.
Out of the many ‘out of the box’ innovations, the ones lined up for unveiling in 2009 include, Femtocells – a Wi-Fi for cell phones, a laptop with 3G from RadioShack Corp., Mobile app stores from Microsoft that would help you use your cell phones as portable computers.
Truly said, with lack of finances or resources, the brains do not die out. It instead craves for more sophistication. Hence the innovations!
Tech research gets boosted
Technology research has received a significant boost with £250m of funding for 44 new PhD research centres. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has allocated the money for the doctoral research centres at 22 universities across England and Scotland.
Among the subjects that will gain specialist PhD centres are digital media (University of Bath and Lancaster), financial computing (UCL) and web science (Southampton). Reports say that the plan is to build relationships between universities and industry by combining the various areas of expertise. It also stated that the centers will offer taught coursework to develop technical knowledge while broadening one’s skills as well as providing the facilities for PhD-level research for up to 10 students per year.
The centres will focus on tackling challenges for the UK such as climate change, energy production and high-tech crime.
Old Versus New (again)
This is another piece about the snobbery of technology.
The way in which every next application is seen to be the best thing, or at the very least better than before, and that it is superior by virtue of being younger, is quite weird.
It has been estd. with windows vista that this is not true. But for the most part we continue to believe the myth. In fact we even believe that vista will one day live up to the hype, even I do.
What I don’t understand is why.
I mean to a geek who spends his whole day online, perhaps the difference between internet explorer 6 and 7 is obvious, but to someone who just uses the net to check mail, he really doesn’t get it.
I mean how does it make a difference when I type, Dear Mother, if I’m doing on either one. Yet when I sign in, the mail server will dutifully, and almost scandalized, inform me that my machine is using a version of IE that is now obsolete. What is more irritating that that is my friends telling me that IE itself is obsolete, and anyone not using firefox or the new rosy cheeked baby, chrome, is old enough to be dead.
Even as I post this using IE 6, I bet, some one please explain the difference!
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