When it’s not mandatory you may find pleasure (for the ones who love kinky stuff that is) in watching videos streamed by surveillance cameras in public places like malls, restaurants etc. Now imagine, doing the watching on everyday basis, hour after hour, day after day. I salute those security personnel (both Federal and private) who do this enormously tedious work diligently 24*7, for us, for our safety. But they are human too, and human are vulnerable to errors and unmanageable data, remember they are bombarded with steady inflow of videos, and God knows in a giant mall or hospital on how many number of TV sets they have to fix their attention on. As companies worldwide are spending more and more on security accounts, it is becoming logistically impossible to make sense of the overloaded CCTV streamed information.
Now, realizing the vacuum in the security sector, Hitachi has come up with an innovative solution. This new system by using artificial intelligence will evaluate what images these CCTV cameras are capturing; it will then sift and prioritize selected data for the human inspection.
The system takes feeds from up to 100 online cameras and passes them to a personal computer for image processing and a central server for the meatier task of searching through video archives for comparable footage.
Together, they pull out the four most important video streams and display those on a monitor at high resolution, while the remainders appear as small thumbnails. Source
All that is fine, the system will use face recognition software to find out if the repeat trouble makers are in to create some more trouble. But what about suspicious criminals or terrorists (who may not be recognized by the system as criminals), can the system be able to identify them as well, will the system be able to detect first time suspicious souls who may look vulnerable to an experienced naked eye but not to a software?
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Hitachi CCTV system will identify troublemakers by itself
Monday, January 28, 2008
Father daughter magical shoe
Cute cute cute. Sweet. This wonderfully soft looking shoe is meant for those toddlers who are yet to learn a walk. Those cheweet cute kids will walk with his or her papa when he is back from office. While embracing its lilliputian fingers proud papa will walk the ramp on the home floor. Thop thop thop, here they go, by the aquarium, inside the study room, next to window, while tickling the wind chims.
As BoingBoing mentions, meant for some serious dancing between papa and the daughter, created by Finnish artists Huopaliike Lahtinen and Haraldin kenk�, this shoe, this magic shoe is meant for some magic moments. I wish, if my papa got a shoe like this. Where were you Huopaliike Lahtinen and Haraldin kenk�, twenty five years ago.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
High speed pocket mobile phone from i-mate for $1650
i-mate has launched Jasjar, a high-speed pocket PC mobile phone featured with full VGA screen, 520MHz intel processor, 128MB of Permanent Memory, built-in antivirus software, internet telephony software, i-mate™ global warranty and access to exclusive support and services on offer at club i-mate™ web portal. i-mate Jasjar is priced at $1,650
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Software to manage disc collection and contents at @ $215
Imation has launched Disc Stakka CD and DVD Manager, an automated carousel and software that allows managing disc collection and contents with effortless ease. A single Disc Stakka unit can hold upto 100 discs, serves as a vault for confidential data and is designed for compatibility with operating systems like Windows XP, Windows 2000 (SP4), Windows Me, Windows 98SE and Mac OS X v10.1. Ideal for the home and businesses, Disc Stakka is priced at around $215 per unit with a one-year hardware replacement warranty.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Pen that catches fish
When the rains wait at the edging sky, when all beetle nut trees bow you all symmetrically because the western breeze is asking them to do so and while you are passing by a lake or fishery, can you restrict yourself from not fishing? Even if you are not equipped with all the rudimentary fishing instruments you can rely on this pen.
So, go straight to the stairs/edge of the pond, sit like a monk, trust and thank those people who have come up with a idea like this where a fishing rod neatly hidden in a pen. No, nope, don’t relate yourself to James Bond, whose one of favorite weapons were pen shaped pocked bomb. The Fishpen, manufactured by outdoor gear company, is only threat to the fishes, provided you use the tool in a right way.
Ideal for bohemians who don’t plan fishing trip.
For non-outdoor goers also it would work. Try it with your friend’s/relatives’/boss’ aquarium and poach the best loving fish to your shelter.
If you get caught, don’t refer my name. Or else act as kleptomaniac.
Source: Gizmodo
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Microsoft releases wireless 7000 Series Desktop Unit
Well, after analyzing the complicated press release I have realized that, thanks to this much much easier wireless freedom keyboard, you can sit/lie back on your sofa/bed and click up to 30 feet away from your comp. Microsoft has released Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000, a combo that takes on its winning Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 with the Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000. Priced reasonably at $149.95 Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000 will be available from July.
What it simply means, this wireless keyboard and mouse combination will make your (life and) desk comfortable, clutter free and organized.
This innovation is probably a boon for users who spend a lot of time in front of comp in office or at home (Microsoft research states that on an average a person spends six hours each day on computer) and for surfers who are suffering from random cramps and carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms (that’s what the press release says, I didn’t know this before, so searched and realized that its kind of arthritis, OMG, thanks MS for letting me enlightened, I’m sure your new products will enlighten us more, more info on carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms here.)
The keys on keyboard are seated in the tilted fashion and covered in a black and silver finish. The mouse runs on battery, which has life of six months, there is a red light button on top of it which lets you know when the battery is going down.
Via Engadget
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Movable footrest will take your legs places
Now under your desk your pair of legs can have more fun. You can move form left to right, up and down with ecstasy and thrill. Surely the management will have no qualms over you using the stuff. I am talking about this new footrest from webble. Sorry to make you disappoint. But ask your feet, they are not.
A nice innocent soft footrest with embedded wheels beneath, takes your feet possibly to every corner under your desk provided you are a good sailor and knows the tricks of the game, that is about how to explore each and every inch with smoothest effect, in pure silence. The moans and groans will surely arise when you hit the corner with wrong (or possibly right) note.
Gizmodo asks whether next we are going to experience a desk-mounted treadmill at the later stage. Don’t know about treadmills, but if office management allows footrest like this for duet use...you know what I mean...a lot can happen...I mean, broadly, management may see attrition level comes down than previous year.
Philips reveals three new webcams - SPC620, SPC1000 and SPC1300 at Computex
You must have noticed how the ‘look’ of different Hollywood flicks differ from each other. If 300 is rustic and black, how Shrek the third is all about bright and ping pong colors. With Philips’ new webcam range--the SPC620, SPC1000 and SPC1300 you also can customize the tonal look of your video chat. Philips makes it sure that the person sitting across the chat-counter finds an 'enhanced and superior' version of ‘you’. You also can add your personal logo or emotion (depending upon the strategy that you have devised about your perception..hehe) and attract those innocents and the wickeds along the magnetic power (a la Axe effect). ...because you are strengthened by features like face tracking technology. Whoops. Add to that wide angle lenses which gives the receiver a larger than life size image of yours.
The webcams are compatible with desktops, laptops and Vista compatibility.
The SPC620 is available at US$67. It features a VGA CMOS sensor with built-in interpolation for good quality video and photo reproduction for video calling and v-mails.
The SPC1300 is available at US$135. Features a built-in directional microphone with a noise reduction filter and advanced sensor gives a video resolution of up to two megapixels.
SPC1000 is available at US $67.44. Features Pixel Plus 2 technology and six megapixel still images.
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