You Have A Dream PC ? Tell The World About Your Dream On WePC.com

Intel and Asus are looking to fulfill the dreams of you. Publish the idea about your dream PC on WePC.com . Consumers are encouraged to interact with each other, and with Intel and ASUS, to spark a global conversation about the characteristics of the “dream” PC. The plan is for the two companies to bring to market what could be the world’s first community-designed PCs as a result of this online collaboration. Prizes will be rewarded to select participants for their creative role in this project.

A technology to make ur photo perfect !!!!!

A digital imaging technology firm has developed a new technology that ensures that all people in pictures have their eyes open, thereby avoiding those annoying shots where people blink.

FotoNation BlinkCheck image enhancement technology enables a camera to capture photos of subjects only when their eyes are open. Alternatively, the technology warns a user immediately after capturing an image if it contains one or more faces with closed eyes, providing the user the opportunity to take another photo.

FotoNation BlinkCheck technology is the latest addition to the comprehensive FotoNation FaceTracker solution. The FotoNation FaceTracker solution identifies and tracks, in real time, more than 10 faces in one image in as little as 0.1 seconds. It provides in-camera face detection and tracking for digital still and cell phone cameras, and other camera-enabled devices. The solution also includes FotoNation SmileCheck technology, which detects smiles and enables the smile shutter mode, in which photographs are automatically captured only when all the detected faces in the picture are smiling.

It represents the most recent addition to our comprehensive offering of imaging solutions that are transforming the next generation of camera-enabled devices, opening up new and exciting applications.

The FotoNation FaceTracker solution, including optional FotoNation BlinkCheck technology, is going to be fitted for almost all new series of camera devices.

New Technologies in Mobile……

It is normally texting, talking, e-mailing and clicking pictures that are associated with cell phones, but now, you can access or even display 3D virtual reality simulations or animations on them.

 

Researchers have created a new approach based on outsourcing all the heavy number crunching required by CG and virtual reality simulations to servers, by merging communication architecture with optics.

The information is then provided by the servers either as stream i.e. AVI, motion JPEG, or as vector-based data i.e. VRML, X3D, etc that can be displayed in three dimensions on mobile devices.
According to a release by the Optical Society of America, virtual reality data sent by the server to a mobile phone can be displayed on the phone’s screen or on external display devices such as a head-mounted stereoscopic display or stereoscopic two-video projector system. These displays can be connected to the mobile phone using wireless Bluetooth.

To generate stereoscopic views on the mobile’s screen, various methods can be used. Some such methods are using a built-in 3D screen or using lenticular lenses (like in human vision) or anaglyph images (overlapping copies of the image with different perspectives of two different colors) viewed using special glasses with lenses of two different colors to generate a stereoscopic illusion of depth.

The main application of this new approach is improved realistic 3D presentation, easier presentation of complex 3D objects and enhanced ability to visualize and interact with 3D objects.

Picasa Beta 3.0 for Linux

Picasa is free photo software from Google. This version is Linux compatible. Picasa won’t delete your pictures or put them online without your permission.

New Features:

• Improved integration with Picasa Web Albums
  You can sync your Picasa 3 and Web Albums edits, change your online album settings from Picasa, and delete online albums from Picasa.
• Better uploading with the upload Drop-box and bandwidth throttling.
• New Retouch tool to remove unsightly blemishes and improve photo quality.
• Improved Collage tool lets you have total artistic control over your collage content and layout.
• Auto red-eye: same results, less work for you.
• Easily add text or watermarks to your photos.

Download Picasa 3.0(Beta) For Linux

Locomotive Robots

Walking Robots

This is some details about walking robots.Walking is a difficult and dynamic problem to solve. Several robots have been made which can walk reliably on two legs, however none have yet been made which are as robust as a human. Typically, these robots can walk well on flat floors, and can occasionally walk up stairs. None can walk over rocky, uneven terrain. Some of the methods which have been tried are:

• ZMP Technique: The Zero Moment Point (ZMP) is the algorithm used by robots such as Honda’s ASIMO. The robot’s onboard computer tries to keep the total inertial forces (the combination of earth’s gravity and the acceleration and deceleration of walking), exactly opposed by the floor reaction force (the force of the floor pushing back on the robot’s foot). In this way, the two forces cancel out, leaving no moment (force causing the robot to rotate and fall over). However, this is not exactly how a human walks, and the difference is quite apparent to human observers, some of whom have pointed out that ASIMO walks as if it needs the lavatory. ASIMO’s walking algorithm is not static, and some dynamic balancing is used (See below). However, it still requires a smooth surface to walk on.
• Hopping: Several robots, built in the 1980s by Marc Raibert at the MIT Leg Laboratory, successfully demonstrated very dynamic walking. Initially, a robot with only one leg, and a very small foot, could stay upright simply by hopping. The movement is the same as that of a person on a pogo stick. As the robot falls to one side, it would jump slightly in that direction, in order to catch itself. Soon, the algorithm was generalised to two and four legs. A bipedal robot was demonstrated running and even performing somersaults. A quadruped was also demonstrated which could trot, run, pace and bound. For a full list of these robots, see the MIT Leg Lab Robots page.
• Dynamic Balancing: A more advanced way for a robot to walk is by using a dynamic balancing algorithm, which is potentially more robust than the Zero Moment Point technique, as it constantly monitors the robot’s motion, and places the feet in order to maintain stability. This technique was recently demonstrated by Anybots’ Dexter Robot, which is so stable, it can even jump.
• Passive Dynamics: Perhaps the most promising approach utilises passive dynamics where the momentum of swinging limbs is used for greater efficiency. It has been shown that totally unpowered humanoid mechanisms can walk down a gentle slope, using only gravity to propel themselves. Using this technique, a robot need only supply a small amount of motor power to walk along a flat surface or a little more to walk up a hill. This technique promises to make walking robots at least ten times more efficient than ZMP walkers, like ASIMO.

Other methods of locomotion

• Flying: A modern passenger airliner is essentially a flying robot, with two humans to manage it. The autopilot can control the plane for each stage of the journey, including takeoff, normal flight and even landing. Other flying robots are uninhabited, and are known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). They can be smaller and lighter without a human pilot onboard, and fly into dangerous territory for military surveillance missions. Some can even fire on targets under command. UAVs are also being developed which can fire on targets automatically, without the need for a command from a human. However these robots are unlikely to see service in the foreseeable future because of the morality issues involved. Other flying robots include cruise missiles, the Entomopter and the Epson micro helicopter robot.

• Snaking: Several snake robots have been successfully developed. Mimicking the way real snakes move, these robots can navigate very confined spaces, meaning they may one day be used to search for people trapped in collapsed buildings. The Japanese ACM-R5 snake robot can even navigate both on land and in water.
• Skating: A small number of skating robots have been developed, one of which is a multi-mode walking and skating device, Titan VIII. It has four legs, with unpowered wheels, which can either step or roll. Another robot, Plen, can use a miniature skateboard or rollerskates, and skate across a desktop.
• Swimming: It is calculated that when swimming some fish can achieve a propulsive efficiency greater than 90%. Furthermore, they can accelerate and manoeuver far better than any man-made boat or submarine, and produce less noise and water disturbance. Therefore, many researchers studying underwater robots would like to copy this type of locomotion. Notable examples are the Essex University Computer Science Robotic Fish, and the Robot Tuna built by the Institute of Field Robotics, to analyse and mathematically model thunniform motion.

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