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Automation can help, but the complexity of the task makes it difficult to compare the efficiencies of various robotic palletizing approaches. So a consortium of concerned parties is throwing the automated pallet-building challenge to university teams, who can explore the problem in a safe, low-cost virtual world. The Virtual Manufacturing Automation Competition, co-sponsored by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), the Georgia Institute of Technology and the electrical engineering association IEEE, aims to create standards for robotic stacking and packing approaches by which automated palletizers can be assessed.
Competing teams will design automated protocols for use on a simulated, computer-generated shop floor, which uses a video game engine as its backbone. The simulated environment comes complete with robot arms for lifting packages off a conveyor belt and placing them on pallets. With up to three robot arms, each working on up to three pallets at once, teams will have to fill an order of different-size boxes as quickly as possible.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=robot-box-stacking&sc=CAT_TECH_20100203Automation can help, but the complexity of the task makes it difficult to compare the... more
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The device looks like a modern and sophisticated scroll. It features two pillars on each side that reveal a roll out display screen. To communicate on the visual sound mobile phone, the person simply needs to feed their text on a touch screen display and the text is then converted to a voice simulation.
This concept would allow people to have a mobile phone that can cater to hearing-disabilities. It’s a stunning and smart concept.
http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/visual-sound-mobile-phone-29-01-2010/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+geeky-gadgets+(Geeky+Gadgets)The device looks like a modern and sophisticated scroll. It features two pillars on... more
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I was very excited when first hearing about the Ipad coming out but now im not sure anymore....
Please read this you might be buying some thing you might not need:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/apples_ifail_tabletus_interruptus_20100127
Steve Jobs calls his new tablet “a magical device at a breakthrough price,” but chances are you don’t need one and can’t afford it anyway.
It’s basically a giant iPhone that goes for $729. It costs more if you want more storage, less if you can do without mobile broadband and don’t need as much room for videos, music and so forth. With six models to choose from—16-, 32- and 64-gigabyte flavors, each with or without a 3G radio—prices range from $499 to $829.
That’s about two to three times as expensive as most netbooks, those inexpensive miniature laptops that Steve Jobs treated with such derision at the beginning of his iPad presentation. Of course Apple hates netbooks—there’s no way to charge an outrageous premium on a zero-margin product. But customers love them. Netbook sales shot up 103 percent in 2009, and Apple wants in on that bigger-than-a-smartphone-smaller-than-a-… honey. Hence the iPad.I was very excited when first hearing about the Ipad coming out but now im not sure... more
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Need another reason to be paranoid about companies and governments watching what you're doing online? A technology researcher has created a web tool that shows just how easy it is to identify you based on nothing more than a click.
Called Panopticlick, the tool comes from Electronic Frontier Foundation staff technologist Peter Eckersley. He wanted to show how easy it would be for a bad person - let's call her Eve - to identify you based entirely on information she gets when you visit her website. No, Eve isn't tricking you into filling out forms with personal information. And she's not shooting evil code into your computer from afar. All she's doing is looking over the data that almost any web host gathers from its visitors, which is to say: What kind of computer you have, what operating system it runs, what kind of browser you are using to surf the web, and what kinds of plugins you have on that browser.
Maybe you didn't know that most sites gather that data. Or maybe you did, but you always thought, "Who cares? That's not personal information." Unfortunately, it is.
Eckersley writes:
When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer's configuration. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint - a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer.
In another essay, Eckersley explains how many pieces of unique data are required to identify someone - not very many, it turns out. As long as you have many unique properties to your computer configuration, our evil Eve could conceivably track you down without you ever knowing she was even trying to do it.
Want to find out how unique your browser fingerprint is? Eckersley says:
Our new website Panopticlick will anonymously log the configuration and version information from your operating system, your browser, and your plug-ins, and compare it to our database of five million other configurations. Then, it will give you a uniqueness score - letting you see how easily identifiable you might be as you surf the web.
My score didn't make me very happy. Apparently, my configuration is "unique among the 46,293 tested so far." My browser fingerprint "conveys at least 15.5 bits of identifying information." Great.
Luckily, there are solutions that will help protect your privacy, and EFF recommends several.
Please participate in the research by testing your browser on the Panopticlick site!
http://io9.com/5458479/just-by-visiting-this-website-you-reveal-who-you-areNeed another reason to be paranoid about companies and governments watching what... more
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Saw all this commotion on the way to work ... The New Apple Tablet is being unveiled today at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco.
Critics say this device could have a major impact on the way we work, conduct business and live!
Hopefully they will be affordable enough for us little guys ...
Huffpo is covering it here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/27/apple-announcement-live-v_n_438659.htmlSaw all this commotion on the way to work ... The New Apple Tablet is being unveiled... more
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There are various criteria that need to be satisfied during the process of designing heat exchanger or rather in the design of heat exchanger. The main areas are naturally designing the tubes and the engines, which comprise the heat exchanger design calculation of the tube heat exchangers and the engine heat exchangers.
http://scienceray.com/technology/engineering/five-basic-parameters-to-design-a-heat-exchanger/There are various criteria that need to be satisfied during the process of designing... more
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With an eye on the potential that swarm intelligence holds for the development of information technology and robotics, the European Research Council (ERC) awarded a $2.9-million ERC Advanced Grant Tuesday to Marco Dorigo to help the research director for the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research (FNRS) and co-director of IRIDIA (the Free University of Brussels's artificial intelligence lab) further his work engineering swarm intelligence systems.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=swarm-intelligence-research&sc=CAT_TECH_20100113With an eye on the potential that swarm intelligence holds for the development of... more
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In a recent interview with TechCrunch, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he had taken an "about face" on privacy and argued that privacy is no longer a "social norm."
Zuckerberg's stance on privacy resonates with recent controversial changes to Facebook's privacy settings, which not only reduced the control users have over their personal data and pushed more personal information public, but sparked a federal complaint.
Arguing that online users have become more accustomed to sharing information online, such as on blogs and other social media services, Zuckerberg noted, "if he had created Facebook today, as opposed to several years ago, he would have made user information public, not private, by default as it was for years until the company changed dramatically in December," ReadWriteWeb reports.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/10/facebooks-zuckerberg-the_n_417969.htmlIn a recent interview with TechCrunch, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed that... more
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The dismissal Friday of South Florida instructor Jim Leavitt above news that he throttled and hit a player builds three coaches in less than six weeks who have each quit or been ablaze for abusiveness in their mission to carry out the top in recreational contestant. University of Kansas instructor named Mark Mangino, reconciled in untimely December later than accusation of bodily and mental hurt of company. Last week, Mike Leach, top trainer of Texas Tech, was excited apparently for arranging a concussed player to be seated in a shady apparatus garage.The dismissal Friday of South Florida instructor Jim Leavitt above news that he... more
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A day subsequent to a government see dog set sleeved an ethics
criticism aiming Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard, Broussard
has proclaimed his acceptance.A day subsequent to a government see dog set sleeved an ethics
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To all the iPhoners ...
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High-tech security scanners that might have prevented the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a jetliner have been installed in only a small number of airports around the world, in large part because of privacy concerns over the way the machines see through clothing.
The body-scanning technology is in at least 19 U.S. airports, while European officials have generally limited it to test runs.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to ignite explosives aboard a Northwest Airlines jet as it was coming in for a landing in Detroit, did not go through such a scan where his flight began, at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.
The full-body scanner "could have been helpful in this case, absolutely," said Evert van Zwol, head of the Dutch Pilots Association.
But the technology has raised significant concerns among privacy watchdogs because it can show the body's contours with embarrassing clarity. Those fears have slowed the introduction of the machines.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/29/better-airport-scanners-d_n_406250.htmlHigh-tech security scanners that might have prevented the Christmas Day attempt to... more
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Nowadays I witness the whines of students much more. As a 31 year old experienced life student, 10 year old engineer and 25 year old mathematics lover, I searched on the reasons of hating mathematics. To do, I prepared a 10 question survey which involves many tricky questions. To my observations and answers of the students, I combined the reasons in a disciplined way.
http://scienceray.com/mathematics/four-valid-reasons-to-hate-mathematics/Nowadays I witness the whines of students much more. As a 31 year old experienced life... more
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