iRobot’s new Mobile Robot "Ava", Tech Demonstration

New iRobot Ava....................

iRobot designs and builds robots that make a difference. iRobot was founded in 1990 when Massachusetts Institute of Technology robotics Colin Angle and Helen Greiner teamed up with their professor Dr. Rodney Brooks with the vision of making practical robots a reality. In 2010, iRobot generated more than $400 million in revenue and employed more than 500 of the robot industry’s top professionals, including mechanical, electrical and software engineers and related support staff. The company has shipped over six million home cleaning robots and 4,000 unmanned vehicles to date. iRobot stock trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the ticker symbol IRBT. The iRobot corporate headquarters is located in Bedford, Massachusetts.

iRobot's new mobile Robot Ava

                       With all of the new competition in the consumer robotics field, it’s about time for iRobot to show that they’re still capable of innovating new and exciting things. AVA, their technology demonstrator, definitely fits into the new and exciting category. AVA is short for ‘Avatar,’ although iRobot was careful not to call it a telepresence robot so as not to restrict perceptions of what it’s capable of. AVA is capable of fully autonomous navigation, relying on a Kinect-style depth sensing camera, laser rangefinders, inertial movement sensors, ultrasonic sensors, and (as a last resort) bump sensors. 

iRobot Ava is a breakthrough mobile robotics platform developed to help robot designers, application developers and market innovation specialists expedite the pursuit of practical, affordable mobile robotic solutions.

PERFORMANCE ADVANTAGE

>Practical

 
Autonomous navigation for independent, proactive point-to-point navigation.The right balance of features and robustness integrated in meaningful and productive ways. A highly accessible development platform for business or consumer applications. Comprehensive sensor arrays (laser, sonar, and 2D/3Dimaging) providing complete autonomous navigation.

>Easy-To-Use

 
Intuitive and easy to use controls for natural, non-intrusive user interactions. Customizable touch, voice, and gestural controls create richer interactions. Person-following, height adjustment and other flexible, autonomous behaviors simplify use. Deliberate navigation and predictable behaviors inspire trust and confidence.

>Designed For The Real World

 
Real time situational awareness for fast reactions to the complex world we live in. Detects and avoids people, objects and hazards such as stairs. Responds to our human world with smooth yet quick omni-directional movement. Identifies and reacts to changing environments in real time.

Potential Applications 

COLLABORATIVE WORK

collaborative work

Collaborate with enterprise colleagues through Remote Telepresence without having to travel to another office location.

Home care

HOME CARE
Deliver home-based care through virtual visits and remote telepresence.

FACTORY INSPECTION
Remotely collaborate with the overseas manufacturing facilities and support clean room operations.

Remotely Factory Inspection

Remote monitoring to provide security

SECURITY
Provide remote monitoring to ensure enterprise safety and security.

  

Mobile kiosk

MOBILE KIOSK
Enhance in-store shopping experience with mobile Kiosks that go to the shoppers.

PRODUCT EXPERT CHAT
Provide consistent, high quality shopper experience by connecting to product experts remotely.

Product Expert chat

VERSATILE PLATFORM

 

The iRobot Ava development platform offers flexibility that supports development of a wide range of applications and accessories.

Head Agnostic Design — for local or remote use
(displays, tablets, pads, phones, etc.)

Connectivity Options
(WiFi/3G/4G, Bluetooth, RF, IR, etc.)

User Interface Options
(touch, voice, gesture, person-following, devices, etc.)

On-Board Accessories
(payload, videocon, sensors, actuators, etc.)

Software Application Flexibility
(open APIs using HTTP, Aware® 2 software, etc.).

Acer Introduces new Aspire S5 laptops with Intel Ivy Bridge processor.......

Acer Aspire S5 with Intel Ivy Bridge Processor

Acer Aspire S5

Acer became one of the first PC makers to show a laptop with Intel's upcoming Core processor code-named Ivy Bridge which will deliver better application and graphics performance than current Core processors. Acer showed a working unit of the Aspire S5 laptop, which the PC maker called the world's thinnest, at the CES in Las Vegas. The thin-and-light laptop is scheduled for release in May to June. The S5 falls under a new category of laptops called ultrabooks, which are being heavily backed by Intel. The low-power chip enhancements come as Intel tries to improve ultrabooks with tablet-like features such as always-on connectivity and quick start times. PC shipments slowed down last year partly due to the onslaught of tablets. Intel hopes to blur the line between laptops and tablets with ultrabooks.

Acer Aspire S5 World's thinnest laptop

Sandy Bridge V/s Ivy Bridge

Users will see significant application and graphics performance benefits with Ivy Bridge chips, which will succeed the current Core processors based on Sandy Bridge micro architecture. Acer has measured a CPU performance improvement of more than 20 percent over Sandy Bridge, while the graphics performance is about 30 percent better, said an Acer representative. The chip helps the S5 laptop deliver more performance without compromising battery life. The S5 laptop delivered about eight hours of "uncompromised" battery life and a high-level of component integration has helped reduce the laptop size while retaining battery life of the S5. The S5 also has USB 3.0 and Intel's latest Thunderbolt connectivity technology. Laptops with Ivy Bridge will also deliver more realistic graphics. The Ivy Bridge chip, which integrates a CPU and graphics processor, will be Intel's first to support the Direct X 11 graphics technology. The Ivy Bridge chips will also be the first to have tri-gate, also called 3D, transistors, which Intel has said will be up to 37 percent faster and consume less than half the power of 2D transistors on current chips. The chips will be made using the 22-nanometer process, while current Sandy Bridge microprocessors are made using the 32-nm process. Intel has said laptops with Core processors based on Ivy Bridge will become available in the first half of this year.

Do you know How did Facebook got it's name?

Facebook's name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the school year by university administrations with the intention of helping students get to know each other better.

What happens when you click on this link http://www.thefacebook.com....................Yes you got facebook login  page...
This is only because its original name on 2005 was "thefacebook"

                                                    Profile shown on Thefacebook in 2005





Facebook is undergoing a lot of changes from the time of its launch. Some of the profile views are given below.

                                          facebook Timeline  profile shown in November 2011

 

facebook profile shown in 2007

                                             facebook Profile shown on Thefacebook in 2005

Technology in 2012.........

So it's time to think what wonders 2012 will bring. It is about tech wonders products that we are waiting right now as Apple's iPad 3 and iPhone 5, Microsoft's tablet and Windows 8, Smarter TVs From Apple and Sony,and Quad-Core mobile devices etc.....

1.Apple iPad 3 and iPhone 5

                      Recently Apple launched iPad 2 in the year 2011. Now it's planning to launch iPad 3 in 2012. The next-generation iPad will be a sight to behold. It offers 2046 x 1536 pixel display which is four times the resolution of iPad 2's 1024 x 768 pixel display.

 



                                                      

 People are anticipating and desperately waiting for the launch of this smartphone. Many fans and current Apple iPhone consumers are wondering what groundbreaking features Apple will add to the new iPhone 5.The upcoming phone is expected to sport the Apple’s latest and greatest A5 processor chip, iCloud service, higher-resolution camera, and a 4-inch screen size.

2.Quad-Core Mobile Devices

Speedy dual-core processors, such as Apple's A5 in the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S, will soon be old news as even faster quad-core chips migrate to the mobile market. Chip maker Nvidia says that smartphones featuring its quad-core Tegra 3 processors may arrive in the first half of 2012. And quad-core tablets, such as the Tegra 3-powered Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, are already here. Qualcomm, meanwhile, says that its quad-core Snapdragon chips will appear in Windows 8 tablets in the second half of 2012.

 3. Smarter TVs From Apple and Sony 

 

According to Steve Jobs's biographer Walter Isaacson, Apple's cofounder was obsessed with the smart-TV concept, and had been working diligently on a genre-defining television interface before he passed. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, a longtime Apple watcher, recently predicted that an Apple television would debut by the end of 2012 or by the start of 2013. 

 

Sony, meanwhile, is developing next-gen TV concepts designed to emulate Apple's successful strategy of sharing user content among multiple devices, including TVs, tablets, smartphones, and game consoles.

 

4.Microsoft Windows 8 

Microsoft's next operating system promises to be everything. Designed to power both tablets and conventional PCs, Windows 8 is ambitious and risky. The new OS will feature the touch-oriented Metro interface that we first saw in Windows Phone 7. That means Microsoft's "reimagined" flagship OS will be the first Windows version since the iconic Windows 95 to revamp, rather than simply tweak, the desktop interface.Windows 8's touch-friendly tiles might make sense for tablet users.

5.Lytro Camera 

Just when you thought stand-alone point-and-shoot cameras were out of the picture, along comes the Lytro. The Lytro is an innovative light-field camera that uses a new type of sensor to capture the color, intensity, and vector direction of light rays. This new approach offers some unique advantages--namely, the freedom to be able to focus an image after you've shot it. One thing that may limit the Lytro camera's consumer appeal is its price: The 8GB versions will cost $399, and the 16GB version will cost $499.

6. Windows Phone 7 Platform

Microsoft's efforts in the mobile OS arena have been greeted by big yawns from the majority of smartphone shoppers. But Windows Phone 7's prospects may brighten in 2012. The new Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) software adds the features and fine-tuning that the OS needs to compete with Android and iOS. Nokia's adoption of WP7 should also help spur sales, and WP7 handsets such as the Samsung Focus S are getting good reviews. The next 12 months may decide whether Windows Phone 7 handsets succeed or go the way of the Zune.

7.Sony PlayStation Vita 

It is the successor to the PlayStation Portable as part of the PlayStation brand of gaming devices. It was released in Japan and parts of Asia on December 17, 2011 and is expected to be released in Europe, Australia, and North America on February 22, 2012. The new PS Vita 3G/Wi-Fi, powered by AT&T's Mobile Broadband Network, will change the way you game with real-time scores and game ranking news feeds, competitive multiplayer game sessions, and cross-game text messaging with Party. Game at the speed of your mobile life style. The main features of psvita are, front and rear cameras, six axis motion sensor, multi touch display, 5" OLED screen, GPS, With cross platform play you can start playing a game on your PS3 console, dual analog sticks. Software for the PlayStation Vita will be distributed on a new proprietary flash memory card called "PlayStation Vita card" rather than on Universal Media Discs (UMDs) used by the original PlayStation Portable.PSVita memory cards will be available in size from 4 GB to 32 GB, with 4 GB versions available at launch, with 5–10% of the writeable space will be reserved for save data, patches, etc.

8. Wilocity

Wireless networking will become a lot faster in 2012 if peripheral and mobile device manufacturers adopt Wilocity's 60GHz multigigabit chipsets. Based on the proposed 802.11ad wireless standard, Wilocity's technology speeds up a variety of mainstream computing tasks, including storage, file transfer, and high-definition video. Wilocity's first chips will reach speeds of 4 gigabits per second, but the 802.11ad spec has the potential to reach 7 gbps.

 

 

Will Microsoft Survive through windows 8?

    

  

               

               The new touch-centric Windows OS

 

                 Finally, Microsoft raised the curtain on its new version and    demonstrated it to the developers.yes,they are going to releasing  their new operating sytem windows 8. It has many changes from previous   versions.Here are the  few features of windows 8 ,

1. Designed for desktop,laptops and tablets

           Why Windows 8 successfully surpasses its predecessors is because it is optimized with not just laptops and desktops but tablets as well. In addition, the Windows 8 are completely compatible for touchscreens.

         The new OS has been designed to work on ARM-based processors, which runs most of the smartphones and tablets in the world.

2.  New user interface
                Windows 8 will contain a new user interface based on Microsoft's design language named Metro. With the new change, the Start Menu was replaced in favor for the new Start Screen, where there are tiles that contain shortcuts to applications, Metro style applications, and updating tiles, similar to  Windows Phone.

3.  Ribbon interface
                 Windows Explorer now uses a ribbon interface, similar to those used in Microsoft Office applications

4.  Windows To Go Feature
                The “Windows To Go” seems to be an exciting feature that basically allows Windows 8 to boot from a USB device (called as Live USB), including user’s programs, settings and files. The feature is designed to work with both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0.

5. Windows app store

                Windows 8 will come with Windows Store, an online marketplace for buying, selling, and advertising applications.Here’s a quick demo that shows how users will be able to buy their apps:

 6. Mobile User Account
             
                 One big change is that user accounts do not have to be local-only (or from an Active Directory domain) anymore but can be linked up to one's Windows Live ID. This has the advantage that users will not lose their settings and files as they move from their home computer to their work laptop or to any other computer also using Windows 8

7.  New Welcome screen
                 It includes a new Welcome screen, a new packaged application model called AppX that is based on Silverlight, and Open Packaging Conventions,as well as a setting to automatically adjust window color to fit the wallpaper

                
Windows 8 Minimum System Requirements

              It is reported that Windows 8 is expected to have the same system requirements as Windows 7, and will run on existing PCs/laptops that run Windows 7. Here are the following minimum system requirements to run Windows 8:

Processor: 1GHz or faster 32-bit or 64-bit processor
RAM: 1GB (32-bit) or 2GB (64-bit)
HD Space: 16GB for 32-bit (or 20GB for 64-bit)
we can download beta version from this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516

Easy Remote Control Software for Remote Desktop Sharing......

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2) Remote Office

                                                    

You will have quick and easy access to your remote office PC desktop via the Internet from anywhere, at any time. Remote desktop access lets you retrieve necessary documents and files from your work PC or activate specific software installed on the office computer. Ammyy Admin is also a perfect solution for enabling employees to work offsite from a remote location.

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