I really like seeing applications for image fusion like this. I think we'll see more of them in the future given how cheap HD cameras and FPGA are becoming. There's no reason why I couldn't take an array of cameras with different filters and fuse the outputs together into a single image. It's better than the Preditor-Alien vision (no cycling required)!
Take these guys for instance. They're fusing thermal and visible cameras outputs together in realtime. http://imagizellc.com/html/applications/fusion.html
How long do you think it will be before all of done on a single sensor die?
What if you got your car a rather unique paint job that featured random strings of numbers and letters at different orientations. I wonder how well the tracking system would work, or bet yet, change the paint scheme every so often.
A new study has shown that saws are so common place they could be used by lumberjacks in case of emergancy situations. The report suggest putting lumberjack accessable doors on all tool sheds.
Step 1 : Hand out free or discounted internet access. This may include higher than average datarates or fiber access making it really attractive to the end user. The caviout is that you must also run a software package on the machine or the connection is revoked. Said software includes the drive scanner and identification credentials.
Step 2 : Pass regulation that makes traditional anonymous internet access prohibitivly expensive for the individual user.
Ta da! The net is no longer anonymous and big brother is watching.
You're assuming the DNA or other organic materials are inert. Given the right characteristics on a rock, it possible some bacteria maybe able to maintain a metabolism. This often includes making repairs to damaged DNA or producing redundant copies of said DNA.
Even here on Earth, any inert organic materials have little chance of surviving 80,000 years. Dinosaur DNA anyone?
What will a new format bring us? More storage space? Higher Resolution video?
While I can see a use for more storage space for data files, I don't see a new disk format dethroning BD for video. Your screen and more importantly your eyes only have so fine a resolution. Beyond a certain threshold, more resolution doesn't do you any good. I dare say BD is there now given our current viewing technologies.
At some point there's not enough perceived benefit to justify changing out the media. Look at CDs as an example. There's no reason why you couldn't cram more music data on the disk for higher fidelity recordings, but at the same time there's no reason to cram any more data onto CDs. Most people can't perceive the difference between a recording made at 44.1 KHz and a 96KHz sampling rate. Even fewer have the equipment to reproduce it.
The more firmware-pushing-screw-ups the better. Every firmware upgrade released into the wild is another chance to take a peek under the hood of these blue-ray players. This is just another vector pirates can use to get inside.
An individual entity can retain the copyright of a work until +50% of the target audience has witnessed, seen, bought, or interacted with the product. If it's been given to the public, it's public domain.
If you're going to play that same damn song every hour, on the hour, for 24 hours a day. It'll be public domain in no time. That'll fix a lot of radio right there.
The trick them becomes in figuring out what this +50% is. How many copies, market penetration, etc. It's not a perfect idea, but I like the basis.
Anyone want to speculate if some well wetted clothing would protect you against this thing? It shouldn't take a whole lot to shield yourself from this millimeter wave radiation.
I know Georgia Tech went on a campaign a few years back to replace as many incandescent bulbs as possible.
As part of it they replaced all of the 300 watt bulbs in the Van Leer build (old EE building) with 20 watt fluorescent lamps. Each lab probably had 10-15 twenty of these power hogs. After the switch our labs were freezing cold! All that extra cooling wasn't needed any more.
Over the course of a year it saves the institute over 2 million dollars. the first million was in direct power reduction, the second million was due to reduction in cooling cost.
So empty space actually holds some energy content.
In that sence I wonder if you could relate space to energy in much the same way Einstein relates matter and energy. If that were the case, utilizing this energy would destroy space. Good thing we seem to have an abundance of empty space in our universe.
I'd just be worried about too many people using it here at home. They say the world is always getting smaller. ZPE would mean it really was.
Yes, Boeing getting out of the broadband business, but they are not the only providers of air based broadband. Enter Aircell. They already offer an Iridium (satillite) based data connection products and services. Yes, it's dead slow. You're not going to be playing Doom3 or any other FPS over this link.
A few weeks back Aircell also picked up the spectrum currently used by verizons air-to-ground telephone service (Magnastar). Air-to-ground communications offers lower latency, higher speed data connections. Magnastar will be phased out starting in 2008, coinciding with Aircells new broadband service.
Aircell is poised to roll out a major broadband service by 2008.
Barbequor, Eater of Worlds
on
Earth Sandwich
·
· Score: 1
Slashdot Mirror
I really like seeing applications for image fusion like this. I think we'll see more of them in the future given how cheap HD cameras and FPGA are becoming. There's no reason why I couldn't take an array of cameras with different filters and fuse the outputs together into a single image. It's better than the Preditor-Alien vision (no cycling required)!
Take these guys for instance. They're fusing thermal and visible cameras outputs together in realtime.
http://imagizellc.com/html/applications/fusion.html
How long do you think it will be before all of done on a single sensor die?
What if you got your car a rather unique paint job that featured random strings of numbers and letters at different orientations. I wonder how well the tracking system would work, or bet yet, change the paint scheme every so often.
A new study has shown that saws are so common place they could be used by lumberjacks in case of emergancy situations. The report suggest putting lumberjack accessable doors on all tool sheds.
So why isn't your audio technition using a 22kHz lowpass filter before shoving his data into the 44kHz DAC?
Put enough poles in the filter and the 33kHz noise will be attenuated to hell even before it has the chance to be turned into a 11kHz distortion.
> A team from Intel previously developed a compact sensor capable of drawing 6 microwatts from a 1.0-megawatt TV antenna 4.1 kilometers away.
Oh..... You mean the high def TV antenna.....
http://www.techonline.com/learning/techpaper/212902041
I do have to say the WISP project sounds neat. They're essentially RFID powered sensors.
http://www.seattle.intel-research.net/wisp/
Scratch that. I screwed up the units.
It comes out 104400 Joules or 29 Watt Hours.
(29,000 terawatt hours = total power used in 2005 by US) / (1 femtosecond) = 1.04400 × 10^35 watts (US useage per femtosecond)
If this much juice is used to make the filiment, how is this more efficient?
Neal Stephenson called and he wants his book premise back.
It's real easy for them to do.
Step 1 : Hand out free or discounted internet access. This may include higher than average datarates or fiber access making it really attractive to the end user. The caviout is that you must also run a software package on the machine or the connection is revoked. Said software includes the drive scanner and identification credentials.
Step 2 : Pass regulation that makes traditional anonymous internet access prohibitivly expensive for the individual user.
Ta da! The net is no longer anonymous and big brother is watching.
So at what point can we start calling these things tricorders and be done with the whole sub-sub-mini-micro-net-note-laptops?
You're assuming the DNA or other organic materials are inert. Given the right characteristics on a rock, it possible some bacteria maybe able to maintain a metabolism. This often includes making repairs to damaged DNA or producing redundant copies of said DNA.
Even here on Earth, any inert organic materials have little chance of surviving 80,000 years. Dinosaur DNA anyone?
If you build it. They will come.
What will a new format bring us? More storage space? Higher Resolution video?
While I can see a use for more storage space for data files, I don't see a new disk format dethroning BD for video. Your screen and more importantly your eyes only have so fine a resolution. Beyond a certain threshold, more resolution doesn't do you any good. I dare say BD is there now given our current viewing technologies.
At some point there's not enough perceived benefit to justify changing out the media. Look at CDs as an example. There's no reason why you couldn't cram more music data on the disk for higher fidelity recordings, but at the same time there's no reason to cram any more data onto CDs. Most people can't perceive the difference between a recording made at 44.1 KHz and a 96KHz sampling rate. Even fewer have the equipment to reproduce it.
The more firmware-pushing-screw-ups the better. Every firmware upgrade released into the wild is another chance to take a peek under the hood of these blue-ray players. This is just another vector pirates can use to get inside.
I hope more screw-ups follow.
How about this for a basis of Copyright:
An individual entity can retain the copyright of a work until +50% of the target audience has witnessed, seen, bought, or interacted with the product. If it's been given to the public, it's public domain.
If you're going to play that same damn song every hour, on the hour, for 24 hours a day. It'll be public domain in no time. That'll fix a lot of radio right there.
The trick them becomes in figuring out what this +50% is. How many copies, market penetration, etc. It's not a perfect idea, but I like the basis.
Anyone want to speculate if some well wetted clothing would protect you against this thing? It shouldn't take a whole lot to shield yourself from this millimeter wave radiation.
I know Georgia Tech went on a campaign a few years back to replace as many incandescent bulbs as possible.
As part of it they replaced all of the 300 watt bulbs in the Van Leer build (old EE building) with 20 watt fluorescent lamps. Each lab probably had 10-15 twenty of these power hogs. After the switch our labs were freezing cold! All that extra cooling wasn't needed any more.
Over the course of a year it saves the institute over 2 million dollars. the first million was in direct power reduction, the second million was due to reduction in cooling cost.
It's EPA bureaucrats saying "Look what you made us do!"
Who knew the EPA could be so emo?
The trouble with true freedom is that you have to give it to people you don't like.
You're putting a HD broadcast on a 4 inch screen because:
A) There's a vast improvment in the visual quality
or
B) There's DRM built into it.
Hmm, I'm thinking the answer is B.
So empty space actually holds some energy content.
In that sence I wonder if you could relate space to energy in much the same way Einstein relates matter and energy. If that were the case, utilizing this energy would destroy space. Good thing we seem to have an abundance of empty space in our universe.
I'd just be worried about too many people using it here at home. They say the world is always getting smaller. ZPE would mean it really was.
Yes, Boeing getting out of the broadband business, but they are not the only providers of air based broadband. Enter Aircell. They already offer an Iridium (satillite) based data connection products and services. Yes, it's dead slow. You're not going to be playing Doom3 or any other FPS over this link.
A few weeks back Aircell also picked up the spectrum currently used by verizons air-to-ground telephone service (Magnastar). Air-to-ground communications offers lower latency, higher speed data connections. Magnastar will be phased out starting in 2008, coinciding with Aircells new broadband service.
Aircell is poised to roll out a major broadband service by 2008.
Haven't you seen that episode?
So seal the cooling system within the chip. All you have to do is intergrate the radiator and heatsink as part of the unit.
The only advantage I've seen with MD is the ability to record decent audio on the go. Get yourself a good mic and your in business.
Any mp3 players out there able to do that much? I've been rather disappointed with record feature on the ipod (crappy mics and poor bitrates).