News Releases - Sony Develops Pico Projector Module with High-Definition Resolution and Focus-free Image Projection. Currently, modules mounted on battery-driven pico projectors use a panel system, which generally have VGA (640 x 480) or WVGA (800 x 480) resolution.
In addition, most of these pico projectors have usage limitations depending on the distance of the projector from the projection surface, such as requiring focus adjustments, or projection from a front-on angle. This newly developed module is composed primarily of a semiconductor laser, MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) mirror*3, their respective drivers, and a video processor to control the video signal processing and image output. It adopts a LBS system that incorporates a semiconductor laser as the source of light, whereby the laser beam is reflected and controlled by a MEMS mirror to scan and project the image. Sony will continue the development of this module to achieve even more compact size and intense brightness, and aims to bring it to market for use in pico projectors and other devices with projector functionality.
3D Scanning Saved These Ancient Footprints Just Before They Washed Away. Floored Raises $5.26 Million To Make More 3D Scans For Real Estate With Its Laser Sensors. New York-based startup Floored just closed a $5.26 million Series A funding round led by RRE Ventures to fuel its business. This round seems to be all about growth and going to the next level. Greycroft Partners also invested in today’s round, as well as existing investors Lerer Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures and Felicis Ventures.
Previously, the company had raised $1 million in seed funding. «Recapitation» de Robespierre - Quand la science perpétue l’imagination monstrueuse. Un peu plus de deux ans après la mise en vente de manuscrits inédits de Robespierre, des spécialistes de la reconstruction faciale en 3D viennent d’annoncer avoir reconstitué le « vrai visage » de celui qui, dans la mémoire nationale, incarne toujours le sanglant dictateur de la Terreur.
The Hypervoice Consortium. La voix, interface ultime. Pour obtenir ce que vous voulez d’un service client par téléphone, il vaut mieux montrer son émotion que la retenir, explique Noreen Seebacher (@writenoreen) pour All Analytics (@allanalytics).
La colère, l’indignation et les larmes fonctionnent mieux que la raison. Meta Unveils Meta Pro, Its $3,000 AR Glasses Now Available For Pre-Order. Augmented reality startup Meta has spent the past few years making prototypes of wearable devices featuring see-through optics and a wide variety of sensor arrays.
Now it’s starting production on its first generation of units for developers and taking pre-orders for a consumer-facing version of its product. Meta had previously pre-sold an earlier iteration of its wearable device, called the META.01, which was designed to appeal to early adopters and developers who wish to design for the platform. The META.01 was priced at $667, as part of its effort to get developers on board with the technology. But they were also pretty crude in terms of what they look like and how functional they are: The META.01s have to be plugged into a computer to work, for instance, but that’s fine for now, since they’re meant to be programmed on. WiTrack Detects 3D Motion without Using Cameras or Controllers: Sight Unseen. December 12th, 2013 by Lambert Varias As shown by the Kinect, today’s cameras are powerful and cheap enough to provide accurate motion tracking.
NSA Reportedly Tracking Cell Phone Location Data. According to leaked documents from whistleblower and Russian residency enthusiast, Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency is tracking people’s whereabouts en masse.
By collecting the location data from billions of cell phone records, the National Security Agency can map the relationships of suspects, reports The Washington Post. The Post even has a delightfully artistic explainer video to ease our transition to an Orwellian state with a pleasant voice-over and soothing graphics (below) As per usual, the NSA claims that the location-tracking program is completely legal. Even when users opt-out of location tracking apps, cell phones still need to connect to towers to transmit calls, which can be used to triangulate a location throughout the day.
RetailNext Acquires Eric Schmidt-Backed Wi-Fi Analytics Company, Nearbuy Systems. Yahoo! rachète SkyPhrase, spécialiste du langage naturel. Le MIT développe une alternative à Kinect plus puissante. Carnegie Mellon computer searches web 24/7 to analyze images and teach itself common sense. (Credit: Carnegie Mellon University) A computer program called the Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) is now running 24 hours a day at Carnegie Mellon University, searching the Web for images, doing its best to understand them.
And as it builds a growing visual database, it is gathering common sense on a massive scale. NEIL leverages recent advances in computer vision that enable computer programs to identify and label objects in images, to characterize scenes and to recognize attributes, such as colors, lighting and materials, all with a minimum of human supervision. In turn, the data it generates will further enhance the ability of computers to understand the visual world. Samsung Tips $100 Million IoT Strategy. Indoor Atlas uses magnetic sensors for finding places in the great indoors. Disclosure: The organizers of the Slush event paid for my trip to Helsinki.
Our coverage remains objective. Above: Indoor Atlas founder Jaane Harverninen. Lire dans la Toile comme dans le marc de café ? Et si l'avenir se trouvait enfoui dans les milliards de pages du Web ?
Peut-on prédire le prochain séisme politique, la prochaine vague terroriste en observant les pulsations du cyberespace ? Le domaine est nouveau et il intéresse beaucoup de monde, explique Frédéric Filloux dans sa chronique mensuelle pour Enjeux Les Echos, novembre 2013.(...) Cet article est exclusivement réservé aux abonnés, pour en profiter abonnez-vous. An Adorably Tiny Reconnaissance Drone No Larger Than a Dragonfly.
Un nouveau logiciel révolutionnaire permet à la police de prédire les crimes avant qu’ils ne soient commis. MAR: Depth Perception. Virtual Human Toolkit. Laser-Scanning Hundreds of Artificial Caves Beneath Nottingham. Flexible Solar Panel Wings Could One Day Let Robot Birds Fly Forever. iPavement embeds WiFi hotspots in the street. Envisioning Technology. IBM's Watson Is Planning to Fix America's Healthcare System. La « Kinect du futur » du MIT voit à travers les murs. Le système ne peut suivre qu’une personne à la fois et il ne doit pas y avoir d’autres mouvements dans la zone surveillée.
Crédit IDG NS Avec le projet « Kinect du futur », des chercheurs du MIT ont été capables de repérer une personne derrière un mur. Un smartphone pourrait espionner nos frappes sur un ordinateur. DAR²T. Zebedee: 3D mapping. Tobii EyeMobile Brings Gaze Tracking to Tablets: EyePad. September 20th, 2013 by Lambert Varias A couple of years ago, Tobii made headlines when they unveiled their eye-tracking sensor.
We first saw it installed on a laptop and then on gaming machines. Now Tobii wants to ride the tablet revolution with the EyeMobile, an add-on for Windows 8 Pro tablets. The EyeMobile makes use of Tobii’s USB-based PCEye Go sensor, a custom mounting bracket that doubles as a tablet stand and a Windows 8 Pro tablet. Tobii will be selling a bundle that includes the Dell Latitude 10 tablet, but you can also buy the sensor and the bracket separately if you already have a Windows 8 tablet.
In their hands-on with the EyeMobile, Digital Trends found the sensor to be quite accurate. MIT SkyCall Uses Drones as Tour Guides. September 15th, 2013 by Lambert Varias Nowadays, we often hear about unmanned aerial vehicles aka UAVs or drones in the news as next generation weapons of war. The researchers at MIT’s SENSEable City Lab want to dispel that notion and show people that this new technology can be used in more positive ways.
For example, as tour guides. The SkyCall project uses a Wi-Fi network, a mobile app and quadcopters equipped with GPS, a camera and other onboard sensors to create smart tour guides. A prototype of SkyCall is already being tested at the labyrinthine grounds of MIT. The drone will even talk about landmarks along the way and can be stopped by the user through the app. Solar powered drones: On a bright new wing. The Hypervoice Consortium.
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