Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA)

Driving alone and need a companion? Well thanks to Artificial Intelligence and MIT researchers, you can buy one and put it on your car's dashboard. This is not just any bouncy head decoration, its a high tech robot that can learn and interact. Its a personal assistant that will first learn and observe the driver's personality and his destinations. Next it offers suggestions accordingly. AIDA can observe driver's mood from his/her facial expressions and interact in a very social and informative manner. Smiling or blinking eyes are a couple of examples. 

The system builds its own understanding of the city, integrating real-time event data regarding the environmental conditions, along with commercial activity, different tourist attractions, and uptown areas. AIDA can also  give its own suggestions about driving skills and help to get more efficient drive. It makes the drive safer by preventing the driver from dizziness. 

Extraordinary CCTV Camera

 

Can there be a CCTV camera which can not only scan but identify 36 million faces in just a second? The answer is yes!

Japan has invented such a camera which can recognize each and every face that lies in its sight. Its a biometric facial - recognition camera that records details of every person that passes in front of its lens. It can store a whole library of faces and pick out and recognize any face from a huge crowd. Hitachi Kokusai Electric are the inventors of this marvelous technology.

Its going to be a breakthrough in present surveillance technologies. Security law enforcement agencies can use it to identify any wanted person and it will be available for general consumers pretty soon.   

Startram ... the SPACE Train!

A train design is now complete which can transport from earth to space. This will be implemented within next 20 years. This train will be capable to transport 4 million passengers through out the year.

The inventor of the 'magnetic levitation train' is among the designers of this project. The cost of the implementation of this project is about $20 billion. The source of fuel of this tram will be solar power which will readily lower the cost of transportation.

It will be a break through in space travel and asteroid mining. A whole industrial network will work in space and will provide us great amounts of resources. If earth faces any catastrophe, this system let the human race to live in space. It will be a giant leap for technology and our transportation system.   

Total amount of weight which this tram can carry is 0.1 million kg at a cost of $40 per kg.  It can achieve 5 miles / sec of speed. The whole system will work on electromagnetism.

More information can be found at:
www.startram.com/

 

Technologies yet to come!!

                       Hollywood has always inspired us with new ideas and innovations. They come with it and put another milestone ahead of us. For example, in Die Hard 1, we see Bruce Willis using a touch screen panel at a reception to find about a person.

                       It was 1988, and a touch screen at that time was a dream. But now our engineers have taken it to next level. What I want is we should be those engineers. Hollywood is still pushing ideas and we should implement them.

So today we begin with Mission Impossible 4 - Ghost Protocol

In this movie an agent uses a lens to identify people. Quite an incredible idea and i believe only applicable through nano-technology.

Most interesting part is that the lens is connected with phone, and indicates if the person is already in database. Its auto search feature is mind blowing.

Most probably its connected with the National Identity database so it reads not only faces but gives every information of the person.

It definitely has a camera, a processor, and power source.
I think here, in lens, a heavy processor is not required as the function of lens is to only transmit the image and and display the information. We can use any wireless technology for that. As far as power is concerned, it can be taken from that wireless link. I have read somewhere that power can be transmitted through RF.

We can continue this discussion and move to other new concepts, only if I get a good feedback and response