Theia Allows Real-Time Photo Searching of Cell Phones. Researchers at Rice University have developed a system for remotely searching images stored on mobile devices.
The goal of the software, called Theia, is to give searchers a near-realtime view of what is being photographed on with now-ubiquitous camera phones. It’s like that bit in The Dark Knight where Batman turns every phone in Gotham into a sonar/microphone, except with pictures and it’s for real. Obviously, there are going to be some privacy concerns with something like this, but let’s focus on why this information would be useful.
The most dramatic example would be that of a lost or abducted child. With Theia, law enforcement could search cell phones the world over for the child, hoping to catch an image accidentally caught by someone’s phone. The system works through a server for addressing the searches and an app installed onto the phones.In the initial development of the software, the Android smartphone platform was used. Ok, now we can talk about privacy concerns. Cell Phone Computers or Mobile Learning Devices (MLDs) <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there!
If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic. <div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> Kudos to CNN for it’s published video today, “Texting to Learn.” Unlike a lot of the mainstream media coverage we see and hear about cell phones in schools, this segment does a good job providing a fairly balanced viewpoint on the struggles as well as opportunities available with cell phone technologies in school. Students in North Rockland Central School District in Garnerville, New York, are interviewed in the second half of the video segment. Slip of the keyboard? … the cell phones – renamed MLDs for mobile learning devices – have opened up new ways to learn and changed their parents perspectives.
MLDs and cell phone computers? PBwiki goes mobile on iPhone, BlackBerry. Exactly what would a Presidential mobile look like? Apropos of the ongoing ruckus about President-elect Obama’s BlackBerry — the so-called “BarackBerry” — an interesting question is coming to the fore: why is the President, or even a prominent Senator for that matter, using a civilian mobile phone?
With matters of national security, policy, and locations of our most powerful citizens being beamed through the air, it behooves us as a technologically savvy country to provide a cellular solution for heads of state that doesn’t have to be worried about. It’s led us to a long discussion and rumination: what would such a phone look like? Impenetrable The major complaint against Obama’s BlackBerry is security. This is more of an infrastructure complaint. As for locking the device itself, obviously a four-digit number or swipe pattern won’t do; it’ll need a fingerprint and voice recognition capability — we have to balance size and usability here with security, so retina or other more stringent biometrics are out of the question. Boom Why not?