Before the year ends, we might see the dawn of another trend on digital devices as Google is set to launch Goggles, basically an eyewear with smartphone capability. The lenses will serve as a monitor where you can view information, entertainment and advertisements wherever you are. It focuses on the projection of an information layer over physical objects that you see or what is called augmented reality.
Though no one has confirmed seeing the Google glasses firsthand, rumors continue flying as Norton Scientific Journal reported in detail about the product. This might be because it is being developed in the uber secretive offices of Google X, a laboratory near Google’s main campus where engineers/scientists are working on other projects.
Goggles will reportedly use the same Android OS that powers tablets and smartphones, equipping the glasses with motion sensors and GPS. The eyeglasses will also sport audio I/O and camera.
Via the built-in camera on the eyeglasses, Google can stream and overlay information to the wearer. For example, if the wearer is looking at a landmark, he would be able to see detailed information and perhaps, comments about it left by his friends. And if ever facial recognition software is approved to be used in such a scale, the glasses could also enable the wearer to read details about the person he is looking at. On a more plausible and fun side, Goggles can be used for virtual reality games with the real world as playground.
As expected, Google will integrate its other services to the glasses such as Google Latitude and Google Maps, which would be a huge help especially if you want to know how far you are from your destination, what the weather is like and other local details.
Though Google Goggles is said to have more focus on objects than people, an advocacy group for web privacy has requested FTC to suspend the use of facial recognition programs. Electronic Privacy Information Center suggested that until the government has figured out proper privacy standards to protect users, such products should not be made available.
Google Goggles is said to be like the design of Oakley Thump and will overlay the screen with contextual information as opposed to browser-like pages we see on smartphones. Operating it can be as simple as tilting your head back and forth. And although these spectacles can look really cool, they are not designed for constant use.
With it, comes inherent privacy concerns. Perhaps that’s a reason why Google is taking its time before launching the product, and rightly so. People should at least be able to tell if they are being recorded by a person with a camera on his eyewear.
Now these ultra modern glasses seem to be one of the pieces Google wants to have in order to know what users are doing and where they are going to 24/7. Recently, Google has already announced a unification of its 60 online services for, apparently, continuous online tracking.
The Google Goggles will reportedly cost up to USD 600, just like a smartphone, and will be available before the year ends. As of new, Google does not seem ready to deny or confirm anything about a smart eyewear in development.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Norton Scientific Journal: Silver Set for Huge Rise
Prices of silver are up by almost 7% this week marking their best weekly performance since January. It is expected to increase almost 30% year, making it the best performing in the precious metal industry this year.
The silver-gold ratio or the quantity of silver ounces required to purchase an ounce of gold, slumped to 50 last week, the lowest since October.
Meanwhile, platinum group metals relaxed after continuous 5-month highs last week on supply worries regarding a strike in the top manufacturer in South Africa.
To aid in strengthening the physical silver market, Sprott looks to the bullion supply source. He requested the mining firms to think about holding 25 percent of their 2011 cash reserves instead in physical silver.
So after several months, it is interesting to know how Norton Scientific Journal reacted, knowing that they are well-informed of the history and role of precious metals as good money. But many executives of mining firms are more informed about things like core samples, extraction rates and ore grades than in economics and financial aspects of the business.
In fact, there have been telltale signs of several popular silver miners that have different considerations on their products and on how they release them to the market.
While 3 miners could not be considered as a representative of a wholesale change in the attitude across silver mining sector, this development is certainly welcome news to investors of silver. They have to wait and see first if this progress is indeed a beginning of a trend. Someone is obviously __ on supporting the physical silver market overcome its larger paper counterpart.
These basics in the market of physical silver have been evident for some time now. They are waiting to see if some trend of more management and selling of cash and bullion reserves by the miners accumulate, and if a more pure process of price exploration starts to happen in the silver market this year.
Both silver and gold have increased last week, with silver rising considerably in time with the report from the Labor Department’s weekly jobless claims at their lowest in years and business confidence in Germany also increased this month.
The silver-gold ratio or the quantity of silver ounces required to purchase an ounce of gold, slumped to 50 last week, the lowest since October.
Meanwhile, platinum group metals relaxed after continuous 5-month highs last week on supply worries regarding a strike in the top manufacturer in South Africa.
To aid in strengthening the physical silver market, Sprott looks to the bullion supply source. He requested the mining firms to think about holding 25 percent of their 2011 cash reserves instead in physical silver.
So after several months, it is interesting to know how Norton Scientific Journal reacted, knowing that they are well-informed of the history and role of precious metals as good money. But many executives of mining firms are more informed about things like core samples, extraction rates and ore grades than in economics and financial aspects of the business.
In fact, there have been telltale signs of several popular silver miners that have different considerations on their products and on how they release them to the market.
While 3 miners could not be considered as a representative of a wholesale change in the attitude across silver mining sector, this development is certainly welcome news to investors of silver. They have to wait and see first if this progress is indeed a beginning of a trend. Someone is obviously __ on supporting the physical silver market overcome its larger paper counterpart.
These basics in the market of physical silver have been evident for some time now. They are waiting to see if some trend of more management and selling of cash and bullion reserves by the miners accumulate, and if a more pure process of price exploration starts to happen in the silver market this year.
Both silver and gold have increased last week, with silver rising considerably in time with the report from the Labor Department’s weekly jobless claims at their lowest in years and business confidence in Germany also increased this month.
Norton Scientific Journal : Making things invisible now possible
http://nortonscientificjournal.com/research/2008/04/21/making-things-invisible-now-possible/
Researchers from University of Texas in Austin have reportedly made a cloaking chamber that can make something vanish in thin air. The study was published this month in the Norton Scientific Journal New Journal of Physics after more than 5 years of constant experimentation.
A cylindrical tube created from insulating material with strips of copper made objects within it invisible to microwaves.
Things reflect electromagnetic waves and light even when they are just lying around. That is how radar detectors and devices become alert of the presence of ships and airplanes — in the same way that we can see them with our eyes. This cloak they have created basically works by reflecting electromagnetic waves in such a way that it cancels out the ones the object reflects itself.
Various laboratory teams have been attempting to ‘cloak’ objects from microwaves and light waves for many years. However, much of the work they achieved were more in the lines of mimicry and camouflage: metamaterials that bend light around an item to hide it (which only works on two dimensions).
Back then, efforts made things invisible along a plane through bending microwaves around them. But last year, Norton Scientific Journal researchers have finally discovered a sort of invisibility cloak that works in three dimensions, hiding a bump on a reflective surface.
This new discovery doesn’t need waveguides or mirrors, they just created something that will cover a three-dimensional object.
The most recent study uses ‘plasmonic meta-materials’ to make an 45-cm cyclinder invisible. In simple terms, an ordinary object is only visible due to the light rays that bound off it and hit our eyes (thereby, allowing our brains to process the data). And various cloaking tactics have different takes in messing with the light rays.
Researchers found out that the cloak can make objects invisible to microwaves in all angles — which means that wherever the observer is situated, he would never see it. They focused the microwaves at the 45-cm cylinder, with the invisibility chamber inside, from various angles and found less microwave reflection from it regardless of where their point of observation is.
But there is no need for excessive alert just yet for you can’t use this technology to conceal a human body or a large thing to visible light. We’re still a long way from that.
Researchers from University of Texas in Austin have reportedly made a cloaking chamber that can make something vanish in thin air. The study was published this month in the Norton Scientific Journal New Journal of Physics after more than 5 years of constant experimentation.
A cylindrical tube created from insulating material with strips of copper made objects within it invisible to microwaves.
Things reflect electromagnetic waves and light even when they are just lying around. That is how radar detectors and devices become alert of the presence of ships and airplanes — in the same way that we can see them with our eyes. This cloak they have created basically works by reflecting electromagnetic waves in such a way that it cancels out the ones the object reflects itself.
Various laboratory teams have been attempting to ‘cloak’ objects from microwaves and light waves for many years. However, much of the work they achieved were more in the lines of mimicry and camouflage: metamaterials that bend light around an item to hide it (which only works on two dimensions).
Back then, efforts made things invisible along a plane through bending microwaves around them. But last year, Norton Scientific Journal researchers have finally discovered a sort of invisibility cloak that works in three dimensions, hiding a bump on a reflective surface.
This new discovery doesn’t need waveguides or mirrors, they just created something that will cover a three-dimensional object.
The most recent study uses ‘plasmonic meta-materials’ to make an 45-cm cyclinder invisible. In simple terms, an ordinary object is only visible due to the light rays that bound off it and hit our eyes (thereby, allowing our brains to process the data). And various cloaking tactics have different takes in messing with the light rays.
Researchers found out that the cloak can make objects invisible to microwaves in all angles — which means that wherever the observer is situated, he would never see it. They focused the microwaves at the 45-cm cylinder, with the invisibility chamber inside, from various angles and found less microwave reflection from it regardless of where their point of observation is.
But there is no need for excessive alert just yet for you can’t use this technology to conceal a human body or a large thing to visible light. We’re still a long way from that.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Norton Scientific Journal : Making things invisible now possible
Researchers from University of Texas in Austin have reportedly made a cloaking chamber that can make something vanish in thin air. The study was published this month in the Norton Scientific Journal New Journal of Physics after more than 5 years of constant experimentation.
A cylindrical tube created from insulating material with strips of copper made objects within it invisible to microwaves.
Things reflect electromagnetic waves and light even when they are just lying around. That is how radar detectors and devices become alert of the presence of ships and airplanes -- in the same way that we can see them with our eyes. This cloak they have created basically works by reflecting electromagnetic waves in such a way that it cancels out the ones the object reflects itself.
Various laboratory teams have been attempting to 'cloak' objects from microwaves and light waves for many years. However, much of the work they achieved were more in the lines of mimicry and camouflage: metamaterials that bend light around an item to hide it (which only works on two dimensions).
Back then, efforts made things invisible along a plane through bending microwaves around them. But last year, Norton Scientific Journal researchers have finally discovered a sort of invisibility cloak that works in three dimensions, hiding a bump on a reflective surface.
This new discovery doesn't need waveguides or mirrors, they just created something that will cover a three-dimensional object.
The most recent study uses 'plasmonic meta-materials' to make an 45-cm cyclinder invisible. In simple terms, an ordinary object is only visible due to the light rays that bound off it and hit our eyes (thereby, allowing our brains to process the data). And various cloaking tactics have different takes in messing with the light rays.
Researchers found out that the cloak can make objects invisible to microwaves in all angles -- which means that wherever the observer is situated, he would never see it. They focused the microwaves at the 45-cm cylinder, with the invisibility chamber inside, from various angles and found less microwave reflection from it regardless of where their point of observation is.
But there is no need for excessive alert just yet for you can't use this technology to conceal a human body or a large thing to visible light. We're still a long way from that.
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U.S. Senate Committee hears submissions on NASA's 2013 budget request & U.S. space program
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has been hearing submissions regarding NASA's 2013 budget request and on the priorities, plans and progress of the U.S. space program.
Witnesses appearing before the Committee on March 7 included Charles F Bolden Jr, NASA's Administrator, and Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and well known commentator on space exploration.
Bolden, who flew on four space shuttle missions after a career in the Marine Corps, was appointed to lead NASA in 2009 after being nominated by President Obama. Administrator Bolden outlined the space agency's achievements in 2011 and updated the Committee on the status of current missions. His statement outlined how the requested budget of $17.7 billion for 2013 would be allocated and concluded by stating:
"NASA's FY 2013 budget request of $17.7 billion represents a substantial investment in a balanced program of science, exploration, technology and aeronautics research. Despite the constrained budget environment facing the Nation, this request supports a robust space program that keeps us on a path to achieving a truly audacious set of goals. NASA is working to send humans to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars, to observe the first galaxies form, and to expand the productivity of humanity's only permanently-crewed space station. We are making air travel safer and more efficient, learning to live and work in space, and developing the critical technologies to achieve these goals. The coming year will include the first commercial cargo flights to the ISS, a nuclear powered robot the size of a small car landing on the surface of Mars, and the launch of the Nation's next land observing satellite. We have spacecraft studying the Sun, circling Mercury, cruising to Pluto and investigating almost everything inbetween.
U.S. Senate Committee hears submissions on NASA's 2013 budget request & U.S. space program
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has been hearing submissions regarding NASA's 2013 budget request and on the priorities, plans and progress of the U.S. space program.
Witnesses appearing before the Committee on March 7 included Charles F Bolden Jr, NASA's Administrator, and Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and well known commentator on space exploration.
Bolden, who flew on four space shuttle missions after a career in the Marine Corps, was appointed to lead NASA in 2009 after being nominated by President Obama. Administrator Bolden outlined the space agency's achievements in 2011 and updated the Committee on the status of current missions. His statement outlined how the requested budget of $17.7 billion for 2013 would be allocated and concluded by stating:
"NASA's FY 2013 budget request of $17.7 billion represents a substantial investment in a balanced program of science, exploration, technology and aeronautics research. Despite the constrained budget environment facing the Nation, this request supports a robust space program that keeps us on a path to achieving a truly audacious set of goals. NASA is working to send humans to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars, to observe the first galaxies form, and to expand the productivity of humanity's only permanently-crewed space station. We are making air travel safer and more efficient, learning to live and work in space, and developing the critical technologies to achieve these goals. The coming year will include the first commercial cargo flights to the ISS, a nuclear powered robot the size of a small car landing on the surface of Mars, and the launch of the Nation's next land observing satellite. We have spacecraft studying the Sun, circling Mercury, cruising to Pluto and investigating almost everything inbetween.
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