Now You Can See Through Buildings Like Batman Bin Suparman [Augmented Reality]

Now You Can See Through Buildings Like Batman Bin Suparman [Augmented Reality]: "

Taking a hint from how the F-35 demon helmet maps multiple video feeds into a 3D space, a Carnegie Mellon University team has created an augmented reality car system to see through any massive obstacle. The objective: Avoid car collisions.

The system takes video from two cameras and mixes them into one, creating the illusion of being able to see through any object. A video processing system compares the feed from one of the cameras—installed in the car—to the other camera—installed on a street. By identifying common points between the two sources, the software can distort the street camera's video feed to match the driver's view. The matching perspective video gets projected onto the windshield, allowing the driver to see through walls in a natural, seamless way.

The Carnegie Mellon team, lead by Yaser Sheikh, thinks that the system could be easily implemented by tapping into the CCTV camera networks available in most major cities.

I'm glad to see that someone is thinking about making CCTV useful for everyone. On the other side, I wonder why people spend time creating these absurdly useful, accident-preventing augmented reality systems, instead of working in making a software like iNaked (NSFW) a reality. Get on the with the program, people. You need to get your preferences right. [New Scientist—Thanks Jimmy Flores]

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New computer vision system for the analysis of human behavior

New computer vision system for the analysis of human behavior: "Scientists have developed a cognitive computational system consisting of video cameras and software able to recognize and predict human behavior, as well as describe it in natural language. The applications of this project, called the Hermes project, are numerous and can be used in the fields of intelligent surveillance, protection of accidents, marketing, psychology, etc."

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'Nanodragster' races toward the future of molecular machines

'Nanodragster' races toward the future of molecular machines: "Scientists in Texas are reporting the development of a 'nanodragster' that may speed the course toward development of a new generation of futuristic molecular machines. The vehicle -- only 1/50,000th the width of a human hair -- resembles a hot-rod in shape and can outperform previous nano-sized vehicles."

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Seeing a diagnosis: How an eye test could aid Alzheimer's detection

Seeing a diagnosis: How an eye test could aid Alzheimer's detection

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Browser Size tool

http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/

Browser Size: a tool to see how others view your website

 

See more about this tool at the following link:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/browser-size-tool-to-see-how-others.html

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Web speed tracer

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/speedtracer/get-started.html

Speed Tracer is a Google Chrome extension that helps you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs. Using Speed Tracer you are able to get a better picture of where time is being spent in your application

don't forget to start chrome with this flag:

--enable-extension-timeline-api

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The first computer science education week

http://www.csedweek.org/

In Goal of raising awareness for computing and it's role in our society.

Computer Science Education Week, December 6-12, 2009, recognizes that computing:

• Touches everyone’s daily lives and plays a critical role in society
• Drives innovation and economic growth
• Provides rewarding job opportunities
• Prepares students with the knowledge and skills they need for the 21st century

 

The Big computers compaines like microsoft, google, intel and more start a tradition that will recognizes the transformative role of computing and the need to bolster computer science at all educational levels, placing it squarely within the national STEM conversation.

The microsoft site for this event:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/csew/

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