Google Phone

Yesterday Google wasn’t in the business of selling mobile phones. Today, they are. The Nexus One smartphone has arrived- Launched on January 5th, 2010. and on sale at Google.com/phone.

The phone runs on a Qualcomm 1 GHz Snapdragon chip, has a super high-resolution OLED touchscreen, is thinner than the iPhone, has no keyboard, and two mics. The mic on the back of the phone helps eliminate background noise, and it also has a “weirdly” large camera for a phone. And if you don’t like the touchscreen keyboard, a voice-to-text feature is supposed to let you dictate emails and notes by speaking directly into the phone.

Third Eye

thirdEye - Multiple viewers can see different things on a single screen



thirdEye is a new technique that enables multiple viewers to see different things on a same display screen at the same time. With thirdEye, - We can have a public sign board where a Japanese tourist sees all the instructions in Japanese and an American in English. - We don't need to have the split screen in games now. Each player can see his/her personal view of the game on the TV screen. - Two people watching TV can watch their favorite channel on a single TV screen. - A public display can show secret messages or patterns. - In the same movie theater, people can see different end of a suspense movie.

Sixth Sense device

'Sixth Sense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. By using a camera and a tiny projector mounted in a pendant like wearable device, 'SixthSense' sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects we are interacting with. It projects information onto surfaces, walls, and physical objects around us, and lets us interact with the projected information through natural hand gestures, arm movements, or our interaction with the object itself. 'SixthSense' attempts to free information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer.





Reference: 'SixthSense' website http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

Haiti quake: Survivors' stories

BABY GIRL AND BOY

The little girl was covered in dust, but otherwise healthy

Nurses at Port-au-Prince's main hospital greeted a baby girl with loud applause on Monday, after she survived six days buried under the rubble of her home, the AFP news agency reports.

"This is incredible, she has no injuries," said a nurse as she gave the child water and carefully washed off the dust that covered her small body from head to toe.

The girl is thought to be about 18 months. Her name is not known and her family are thought to have been killed in the quake.

She is the second baby to be unearthed in Haiti in as many days.

Medics at an Israeli field hospital outside the capital treated Jean-Louis Brahms, eight months old, who was rescued after spending five days trapped under what used to be his house.

Baby Jean-Louis was close to death when a neighbour heard his cries and alerted rescuers and his parents - who had given up hope of finding him alive.

Reference : http://news.bbc.co.uk