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How to Make Science and Tech Jobs More Enticing to Undergrads: Scientific American
Web Exclusives | More Science Despite studying science, technology, engineering or math, many students avoid STEM careers. Higher salaries, improved status and apprenticeships would change that. A special online-only addition to February 2012's Graphic Science
Let’s get the new year off to a healthy start! The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Healthy New Year Video Challenge ( #HealthIT4U2012 ) invites you to create a short, compelling video (up to 2 minutes in length) sharing one New Year’s resolution for improving your health or the health of a loved one, and how you will use technology to achieve your resolution. We encourage you to create videos that are creative, inspiring and instructive — share a resolution that others can relate to, and demonstrate how technology will make it easier to achieve. Your resolution can be anything health related, such as quitting smoking or drinking, eating healthier, losing weight, reducing stress, or managing a chronic condition. Videos must show how you will use information technology to achieve your resolution and how you plan to maintain it.
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The Knowledge Network - Bionic Leg makes Amputee Faster On His Feet
Bionic Leg makes Amputee Faster On His Feet A shark attack survivor now knows what it feels like to be part bionic man. 23-year-old amputee Craig Hutto has volunteered to play guinea pig, testing a state-of-the-art prosthetic leg with powered knee and ankle joints. With early support from the National Science Foundation and continued support from the National Institutes of Health, Vanderbilt University mechanical engineer Michael Goldfarb has spent several years developing the leg, which operates with special sensors, an electric motor, a battery and computer technology. Sensors monitor the user's motion and microprocessors figure out what the person is trying to do.
Even among those of us who aren't fluent in geek speak, most are at least casually familiar with the concepts of software and hardware: the digital ghost and the shell. But there is a third computer component without which the other two would be meaningless. We're talking about meatware,* or the tech that connects computers to the meaty organic components, aka you .
5 technologies that will plug the Internet directly into your brain | DVICE
CRIMINALS who go under the knife in an effort to evade capture might want to consider an alternative disguise, thanks to a new technique for matching faces before and after plastic surgery. Typical facial-recognition software can be thrown off by even minor changes in the lighting and position of an unaltered face. Post-surgical matching is even harder for obvious reasons, says Kevin Bowyer , a computer scientist at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, whose team developed the new system: "If someone has plastic surgery, they're trying to change the appearance of one or more parts of their face." As a result, existing software's success rate can be cut in half when trying to match before and after photos gathered from plastic surgery websites. Bowyer's colleague, Gaurav Aggarwal, realised that matching individual facial features rather than whole faces could be more successful.
Software could spot face-changing criminals - tech - 18 January 2012 - New Scientist
Obtaining a high-quality 3D digital model of a physical object can be a fiddly process, that often requires considerable user input. German research and development company NEK, however, is attempting to make things easier, with its OrcaM Orbital Camera System. Users just place an object inside of its "reconstruction sphere," then the system goes to work, automatically creating a near-perfect three-dimensional recreation of the object. Presently, OrcaM is limited to objects with a diameter no larger than 80 centimeters (31.5 in), and weighing no more than 100 kilograms (220.5 lbs). The process begins with the user sliding back the camera head, opening up the sphere, and placing their object inside.
Camera system makes 3D models of anything placed inside of it
If you’re a fan of Microsoft OneNote and wished that they had a version just for the iPad – you’re in luck. Yesterday, Microsoft launched the iPad-optimized version of the OneNote note-taking app on the Apple App Store. The app allows users to take notes with their iOS devices – just like Evernote, notes are stored in the cloud (via Microsoft SkyDrive) which lets you access them on any device no matter where you are. (more…)
Microsoft OneNote for the iPad released, Lync on the way | Ubergizmo
One man drove 12,238 miles across 30 states to scrawl a message that can only be viewed using Google Earth. His big shoutout: “Read Ayn Rand.” Nick Newcomen did a road trip over 30 days that covered stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. First, he identified on a map the route he would need to drive to spell out the message. He put a GPS device in his car to trace the route he would follow.
Man Scrawls World’s Biggest Message With GPS ‘Pen’ | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
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Windows Phone owners who happen to live in Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Venezuela, here is some good news for you, and hopefully it will be able to perk you up through the middle of the week as the weekend looms in the horizon. Microsoft has announced that they will be opening up the Marketplace in those countries, so may the downloading begin! This would mean the aforementioned 13 countries will be joining Argentina, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, and the Philippines for some Marketplace goodness, bringing the total number of Marketplace storefronts to 54.
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With the boundaries between gadgets blurring, it’s hard to tell what is an MP3 player, PMP, tablet device, smart phone or feature phone nowadays. That being said, the Tenna concept wants to do away with all this mobile phone convergence, allowing any gadget out there that sports a USB mini port to function as a phone. Basically, the Tenna is a screenless phone that supports voice commands. You can detach the earphone, and speak commands directly into it, but if you have a gadget handy, you can just plug it into the gadget, the built-in software called Tennalink will kick into gear, instantly turning it into a smartphone that’s capable of performing advanced functions such as scheduling, managing contacts, browsing the web, and whatever mobile phones do nowadays. Seen at : yankodesign Add a Comment concept tenna tennalink yanko
Tenna Concept Turns Almost Any Gadget Into A Mobile Phone
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