[Category:Fun and Amusement] Talking about the HCI or Human Computer Interface, here is something interesting.
The multi-touch screen interaction experiments of Jefferson Y. Han have been a much talked about event lately. Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
In this video, Jeff Han demonstrates his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure. This video was recorded in february 2006 in Monterey, California.
This may be the future of the way we use and interact with computers and machines. Apple's iphone is probably the first product in the market that uses the multi-touch technology.
[Category:Fun and Amusement] Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren and Katja Sävström are a group called Front - a design group located in Stockholm, Sweden.
The four members of FRONT make it possible to materialise hand made sketches through using a unique method where they combine two highly developed techniques. Invisible pen strokes in the air recorded with Motion Capture become digital 3D-files. Through Rapid Prototyping, the files are materialised into real pieces of furniture.
In simple layman terms, they are designing objects in space literally, and making their designs a reality. The laser converts liquid plastic into real life objects based on the virtual 3D design created in space.
[Category:Fun and Amusement] Everything is moving to the rythm of creation.. all atoms, all molecules are in motion. Can you feel the divine music of creation ?
Here is something amazing, amusing and dancing. Robots moving to the power of music.
Yeah now the word I thought years back sounds reality. Stop calling them robots and start calling them Dobots now! they can do it all. Too bad Sony chose to call their masterpiece as QRIO.
[Category:Technical Garbage] While the world keeps busy killing innocent people and spending billions of dollars on self proclaimed wars, the scandinavians keep busy inventing and appreciating technology - and giving honor to those who did something to help the mankind and humanity.
Yes, its the scandinavians who invented linux, bluetooth, IRC and yes nokia and ericsson are scandinavian companies. And yes nobel prize is given and started by scandinavians and yes the millenium technology award is also a scandinavian effort to admire and honor people and technology.
Tarja Halonen, the president of Finland, presented the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize to a Japanese Scientist, Shuji Nakamura, along with a 1 million euro prize and the "Peak" trophy, at a ceremony that took place yesterday in Helsinki, Finland.
What did Nakamura invented? Well.. he invented something that would change the life of humans forever, and even better, in a good way with high quality. He invented new sources of light. The blue, green and white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and the blue laser diode. White LEDs could provide a sustainable, low-cost alternative to lightbulbs, especially in developing countries. Blue LEDs are used in flat-screen displays, while blue lasers are already being exploited in the next generation of DVD player.
Images show Nakamura, the blue laser, and the blue led. The first picture also shows the finnish president handing him the award.
Professor Shuji Nakamura wrote:
”Using LEDs for lighting could halve the amount of electricity consumed for this purpose.”
Blue light has the shortest wavelength of visible light. Build a blue laser diode, and you could quadruple the amount of data that could be read and stored on a compact disc, a CD-ROM, or a digital video disc (DVD) player. With red and green laser diodes already on the shelves, blue was the last of the primary colors left to tackle, and if that could be done, one could imagine a device that combined blue, red, and green and emitted white light, perhaps putting the light bulb as we know it out of business.
"I actually thought it looked very easy to make blue LEDs," says Shuji Nakamura of Nichia Chemical Industries Ltd., Tokushima, Japan. "I thought, blue means I just have to change the color—I just have to change the material."
For two decades, researchers working for the biggest players in the electronics industry, from RCA and Hewlett-Packard to Matsushita and Sony, tried their hands at the blue laser diode and failed. Nakamura, a self-described country boy, did it while working for Nichia Chemical Industries Ltd. in Tokushima, Japan.
These are the good people and good efforts that are helping the entire human kind, for a long time to come. The Japanese - thats what I call technology with quality!
[Category:Technical Garbage] You may or may not have heard the term HVD that stands for "Holographic Versatile Disc". Well if you havent, you will soon. Because that is the future
Just like CD (Compact Disc), DVD (Digital Video Disc) or the Blu-Ray or HD-DVD (High-definition Digital Video Disk) formats, HVD probably will look the same. But it has enormous gigantic data transfer capacities and data storage capacities. We are talking terabytes here. The technology would be in the common market as they say, by the end of this year.
Developed in Japan, this concept of discs are revolving around Hologram. Holography is a method of recording patterns of light to produce a three-dimensional object. The recorded patterns of light are called a hologram. The simple but revolutionary concept of HVD comes from inventor, Mr. Horimai’s long time experience in optical disk development and his idea to combine Collinear™ technology with the conventional optical disk technology.
To me, it only adds to the idea that the entire universe is infact a hologram. A holographic technology to record and deliver information, sounds much promising and realistic indeed.
If you like to know more details here are some helpful sites:
The rapid progress of science is amazing..... Those Dobots..... Spetacular! It forces you to think about wre this world is going.. Are we killing or saving ourselves??
Human Computer Interface - The Future Today
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Professor Shuji Nakamura wrote: 
Just amazing to see where our world is going ! This may be our end ?
