Listening Post - The Speaking Poster Innovation

A poster can speak, would you believe it? Recently the notice boards of Liverpool UK covered with amazing posters which can playback music. This poster is about a musical show. There are some thumbnail images placed in the poster and if someone touches it, it will play a music. Also this poster allows you to book your seat to the musical show. There's an another thumbnail button and when pressed it will play back your seat number.
This new poster is the next generation of the posters. These posters can placed like other posters on notice boards. This poster called as "Listening Post" . This poster made in the normal paper with a printed circuit.

Listening Post is really like a normal poster but it made out from a conductive paint. All the parts including graphics, letters of this poster is also a part of this circuit. Solar power used as the energy source for this poster and used solar powered batteries. These batteries also printed on the poster which is unnoticeable. The speaker of this poster also printed on the poster (There is a special technique used to thick the poster, then a speaker can easily place).  If the speaker volume too low then there's a headphone jack also.

There are some ongoing experiments to reduce the cost of this poster and also researching the ways to increase interaction this with people. One technique already added is the  "Like" button. People can vote the "Like"  and which will store in the circuit. Later, those votes can be counted. 

There is a huge gap between web page and a normal poster, because in web page people can interact with them. The innovators of this Listening Post said that, "This Listening Post will reduce the gap between web page and normal poster". 

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Google Desktop Instant Access to All Google Products

This is one of the latest products that the Google published. This is very useful tool for internet surfers that uses internet a lot. After install the Google desktop tool, it will display in the sidebar of the desktop.  

Feature of Google Desktop

• You can load any Google products like Gmail, G talk, Google search, Google Plus etc.
• A brief view of your Gmail, it will shows a part of the title in the emails.
• Also you can add your favorite websites and latest updates of those sites. Images will not show.
• Double pressing of CTRL button will enable the Google Search. (For this feature it is not essential to add sidebar, just need Google Desktop install and run).
• The latest previous searched term will not get erase from the search bar. You do have to do it manually.
• Also you can add, time, date, photo slider, calendar widgets to this Google Desktop bar.
• For your own safety, log off from Google if you go out from the computer.

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Human Robot ASIMO of Honda, New Generation Robot

What is the mean of “humanoid robot” or “anthropomorphic robot”? If a robot designs as the shape of human body those are called “humanoid robot” or “anthropomorphic robot”. The Japanese company “Honda” is very famous for designs humanoid robots. “ASIMO” (Advances Step in Innovation Mobility) is the first humanoid robots released by Honda in year 2000.

In early days, ASIMO robot can handle only limited number of tasks; it’s just a general robot with a human kit. But Honda not stopped with that, recently they developed a new generation of “ASIMO” as their latest releases. In 2011 Nov 8, they showed their new version of ASIMO, it’s a multipurpose robot and really like a kid.

New ASIMO can talk with 3 people simultaneously and identified their command separately. And also new ASIMO can answer the 3 people command separately. This humanoid robot has very flexible fingers and ASIMO can easily pour water from bottle to glass.

New ASIMO has a flexible hands and legs, it works same as human. This characteristic helps this robot to jump, run, walk in inclined surface, walk in steps and many more. The help of these ASIMO robots is they can easily use to work places that harm to people. As an example they can use to clean the destroyed nuclear power plants. The new ASIMO is creates a new generation of Robots and it will really helpful in future work.

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Robo Earth Database to Network Robots

“Robo Earth” program is an idea of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. This “Robo Earth” does is working as a global database for all Robots in the world. Now days there are so many Robot working around the earth and it worked only instructions it has (All the knowledge of the environments that Robot have to gain individually).  So there are no any standards for Robots, if there is a standard for Robots, they can share their knowledge with other Robots and increase the efficiency.  

“Robo Earth” is a network or communication channel for Robots and also it is a global database for them. This database contains the knowledge of that each Robot gains in the environment. As an example if a Robot working in the kitchen, he knows the road map of a kitchen, temperature of the kitchen, humidity of the kitchen, obstacles map in the kitchen etc. That Robot uploads its knowledge about the kitchen to the “Robo Earth” database, so a new Robot can easily work in the kitchen with previous Robot details in “Robo Earth” database. No need again program the new Robot, new Robot can directly connect to “Robo Earth” and download the knowledge where previously uploaded. So new Robot can work like a experienced one.

This is really like an internet for Robots; there are some protocols and standard to connect Robot and sharing information.  I think this is good news for Robots; they can use their Internet (“Robo Earth”) to share information and improve their Artificial intelligence. Robots can transformation with this network and humans can get the full benefit of it. I think “Robo Earth” will be a new Era for Robot and humans because in future Robots may do lots of work than human. “Robo Earth” will be a police for Robots. 

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Hawk-Eye Technology System for Accuracy of Sport

Now days Hawk Eye technology mostly uses in sports like cricket, tennis, snooker etc. If we think sports like tennis or cricket, this technology use to identify the route of the ball, fault service or not (Tennis), LBW (cricket) like facts. So if umpire has done any mistake Hawk Eye technology solve the problem.  The bunch of Engineers in Rock Manor Research Institute in United Kingdom is the founders of this technology. After that this Hawk-Eye becomes popular in the world. Actually Hawk-Eye is just a commercial name of this technology. Lets we look at how this technology works?

I’ll explain it by using sports (Tennis or cricket). First the technical team of Hawk Eye create a “3 Dimensional Model” of the play ground in the computer. Then they setup 4 high speed cameras around the ground (Actual Play ground) (In cricket it covers the pitch, in tennis it covers the court) and mark that actual camera positions in 3 Dimensional Model also. The important thing is these high speed cameras do not change its positions throughout the match (Else all calculation will go wrong).

When ball is in the air these high speed cameras stars to take photos of the ball. 4 cameras are synchronised to take photos in same time intervals. In each and every photo the centre of the ball feeds to the computer as a parameter. As we take photos from 4 cameras the system can draw the ball in 3D model (in 1 second, 1 camera will take like 100 photos).  That’s how this hawks eye technology works. But there are some errors also in this Hawk-Eye technology. What are they?

In this system in doesn’t care about the wind speed and also when the ball bounces can we get the full accuracy path? But will all the errors the maximum error can be 5mm. 

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