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Posted by on April 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Android-powered smartphones will soon be able to engage the ability of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. Just what is NFC? Well, it is a short-range high-frequency wireless communication technology which lets devices exchange info within them, for example, using your handset to pay for your purchases simply by swinging it near an NFC terminal. Expect [...]
Posted by on April 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The brainy boffins at MIT have come up with Surround Vision which is a pretty interesting method when it comes to breaking the perception barrier. How does it do so, you ask? Well, Surround Vision will enable a viewer to pan around a specific scene which is located ouside the perspective that is limited by [...]
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Posted by on January 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The folks at the Nokia Research Center (NRC), Helsinki, recently unveiled a make new research concept at Demo House 2010. that mobile radar demonstration lets all and sundry see how a mobile device is transformed into an active radar sensor, making it capable to measure speed and the direction of movement of approaching objects, similar [...]
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Posted by on January 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and Dr. Takashi Komuro of the Tokyo University pitted their brains together to develop a new input method known as “vision-based Input Interface”. Through the use of a forward facing camera, all five fingers can be recognized by the camera, and will be used for various tasks such as typing, clicking and [...]
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MIT Surround Vision is a blast
Posted by on April 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The brainy boffins at MIT have come up with Surround Vision which is a pretty interesting method when it comes to breaking the perception barrier. How does it do so, you ask? Well, Surround Vision will enable a viewer to pan around a specific scene which is located ouside the perspective that is limited by [...]
Filed under Technology News · Tagged with Blast, Boffins, Comments Section, Compass, Demonstration, Hot, Ipad, Limited, Mit, New Dimension, Orginal, Perception, Perspective, Practical Applications, Sony, Sony Vaio, Surroundings, Two Cents