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odo is inspector gadget.
episode: gadget's clean sweep
greg pattillo beatboxing and playing the flute to the inspector gadget theme.
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finnish scientists have invented a device to make it harder to steal mobile phones and laptops by enabling them to detect changes in their owner's walking style and then freeze to prevent unauthorized use.
the vtt technical research center of finland said the device, which is has patented but has yet to sell, could prevent millions of portable appliances being stolen every year.
"a device is equipped with sensors that measure certain characteristics of the user's gait. when the device is used for the first time, these measurements are saved in its memory," vtt said in a statement.
the gadget would monitor the user's walking style and check it against the saved information. if the values differ, the user would have to enter a password.
"compared with passwords and traditional bio-identification, the new method is simple: confirmation of identity takes place as a background process without any need for user's intervention," the researchers said.
cartoon from the 80's.
made by kris wilson.
shoe deal.
i'm not sure this will help too much.
the new gadget for vista in action!
a wink, a smile or a raised eyebrow could soon change the music on your ipod or start up the washing machine, thanks to a new japanese gadget. the device looks like a normal set of headphones but is fitted with a set of infrared sensors that measure tiny movements inside the ear that result from different facial expressions. the gizmo -- called the "mimi switch" or "ear switch" -- is connected to a micro-computer that can control electronic devices, essentially making it a hands-free remote control for anything. "you will be able to turn on room lights or swing your washing machine into action with a quick twitch of your mouth," said its inventor, kazuhiro taniguchi of osaka university. "an ipod can start or stop music when the wearer sticks his tongue out, like in the famous einstein picture. if he opens his eyes wide, the machine skips to the next tune. a wink with the right eye makes it go back. "the machine can be programmed to run with various other facial expressions, such as a wriggle of the nose or a smile." the mimi switch could also store and interpret data and get to know its user, said taniguchi, chief researcher at osaka university's graduate school of engineering science in western japan. "it monitors natural movements of the face in everyday life and accumulates data," taniguchi told afp in an interview. "if it judges that you aren't smiling enough, it may play a cheerful song." some may use the device for relaxation -- perhaps by changing music hands-free while reading a book -- but taniguchi said it could also have more serious applications to make people's lives safer and easier. "if the system is mounted on a hearing aid for elderly people, it could tell how often they sneeze or whether they are eating regularly," he said. "if it believes they are not well, it could send a warning message to relatives." the device could also serve as a remote control for appliances for physically disabled people, from cameras and computers to air conditioners, or alert medical services if a person has a fit, he said. the ear switch follows on from an earlier device called the temple switch that was small enough to fit inside a pair of eyeglasses and also read the flick of an eyelid. "as the ear switch is put in the ears, its optical sensors are unaffected by sunlight," taniguchi said. he said he was planning to patent his new device in japan and abroad, work on a wireless version, and seek corporate funding to market it for practical uses -- something he expected might take two or three years. source
in case of tsunami.
article submitted by master911. imagine a bracelet or a watch that morphs into something else when you take it off. perhaps it becomes a phone, or perhaps a small computer screen and keyboard. researchers are just a few years away from bringing to life revolutionary morphing devices known as programmable matter which can change size, shape and function. programmable matter, or "claytronics", involves creating devices made of millions of microscopic robots that are to 3d objects what pixels are to a screen. these devices sound like pure science fiction, but they might be closer than anyone would have dreamed. and that includes jason campbell, one of the key members of the research team developing the technology at the intel research centre. "it’s a really challenging research vision, but we are making steady progress and we’re now more convinced that we are actually going to do it," says mr campbell. "my estimates of how long it is going to take have gone from 50 years down to just a couple more years. that has changed over the four years i’ve been working on the project." the research centres on robotic building blocks, called "catoms" (short for claytronic atoms). the aim is to make spherical catoms about 100 microns, or one-tenth of a millimetre, in diameter. in that tiny space, based on current computing technology, there is still a lot of room to include a computing device. "this is acres of space for nanoelectronic circuits," said justin rattner, intel's chief technology officer. this means not only room for a computing brain, but also data-storage capacity and an array of electrostatic sensors that can interact with neighbouring catoms. "it may even use photovoltaics (a solar technology) as a power source and include the ability to generate light," mr rattner said. "you could have a cup full of it, or a tray, and it can be programmed to take on any arbitrary shape. if this isn’t fantastic i don’t know what is!" while there is a great deal of excitement around the concept, the proof is in the pudding – so how close have they come to creating actual programmable matter? "we are aiming for spheres eventually, but to make our task easier to start with we took a cross section of a sphere, so we have cylinders," mr campbell said. "this is really a 2d approach right now," he said. "we are trying to build a tube that will carry a control circuitry that allows it to move itself around. these tubes right now are about 1mm diameter and about 10mm long. so already we are getting quite small." but anyone wanting to rush out and buy a catom take note – as with any advanced technology, the first applications are unlikely to appear on the consumer scene. "in the near term, high value applications might include 3d visualisation in things like medicine, from fundamentally 3d data sources like eye scanners, ct scanners, ultrasound," mr campbell said. "this would allow practitioners to really examine it, touch it and make a better prognosis for a surgery they are about to do. it would no longer be about looking at slices of that data, but actually seeing in 3d and change in scale." perhaps before the year 2020, programmable matter will be ready to deliver that bracelet-phone-computer device they dreamed up at the start. for some people, that may be just a few mobile phone upgrades away. dick tracy, eat your heart out. source
