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Real-time Future: Computers that know who you are and how you feel

Tech startup IMRSV with its sensor based software called Cara is pushing open doors to a future in which computers know who we are and react to us accordingly.  

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Cara detects multiple faces up to 25 feet away, is over 90% accurate with its gender detection, is more than 80% of the time right when it comes to noting the correct age: child (0-13), young adult (14-35), adult (35-65), or senior (65+). It also records how much and what kind of attention they’re giving the camera. This includes total duration (time in front of the camera), glances (looking away and back), attention time (facing the camera), and opportunity to see (traffic near the camera). 

MIT Media Lab’s Professor Picard and Dr Rana El Kaliouby have taken face recognition to yet another level. Their software, Affectiva, can read human emotions and is capable of distinguishing a real smile from a fake one. 

With these groundbreaking technologies already available it is only a matter of time before a combined solution hits the market and then computers will not only know who we are but also how we feel. 

They are unlikely to look like C-3PO, but in any case are you ready for this new species?

Tags science tech Cara innovation future advertising Affectiva Professor Picard

Although the cell is the smallest unit of life, it is by no means simple. The human body is made up of tens of trillions of cells like this one, that have developed a highly synchronized set of components to carry out the processes that keep the organism alive, allow it to reproduce and adapt to changing environments.

Although the cell is the smallest unit of life, it is by no means simple. The human body is made up of tens of trillions of cells like this one, that have developed a highly synchronized set of components to carry out the processes that keep the organism alive, allow it to reproduce and adapt to changing environments.

Tags science biology human cell living organisms

 Source National Science Foundation

DIY bionics - making kids smile again. See the joy in Liam’s eyes as he is grasping a ball with his right hand for the first time. By the time this cute fellow grows up, he will have a bionic hand that will be connected to his neural-system and be indistinguishable from his biological body; but for now all Liam cares about is being able to play ball. 

DIY bionics - making kids smile again.

See the joy in Liam’s eyes as he is grasping a ball with his right hand for the first time. By the time this cute fellow grows up, he will have a bionic hand that will be connected to his neural-system and be indistinguishable from his biological body; but for now all Liam cares about is being able to play ball. 

Tags science bionics future prosthetic biology

 Source makerbot.com

Bounce to the rescue! Great piece of innovation: First responders, including firefighters and police officers, must often take action in potentially lethal situations. This device, featuring cameras, LEDs and sensors, can be thrown into a dangerous space, where it captures images and data that are transmitted to the user’s mobile device.  PHOTO COURTESY BOUNCE IMAGING

Bounce to the rescue!

Great piece of innovation: First responders, including firefighters and police officers, must often take action in potentially lethal situations. This device, featuring cameras, LEDs and sensors, can be thrown into a dangerous space, where it captures images and data that are transmitted to the user’s mobile device. 

PHOTO COURTESY BOUNCE IMAGING

Tags science tech innovation

 Source web.mit.edu

Samsung Demos a Tablet Controlled by Your Brain

 An easy-to-use EEG cap could expand the number of ways to interact with your mobile devices. Why it matters. A brain-controlled mobile device could give paralyzed people more ways to interact with the world while also improving functionality for all of us.

Samsung Demos a Tablet Controlled by Your Brain



An easy-to-use EEG cap could expand the number of ways to interact with your mobile devices.

Why it matters.

A brain-controlled mobile device could give paralyzed people more ways to interact with the world while also improving functionality for all of us.

Tags science tech future prosthetics

 Source technologyreview.com

NASA invites you to… Go to Mars with MAVEN! Submit your name and a message to be sent into Mars orbit on the MAVEN spacecraft. NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian upper atmosphere. The DVD will carry every name submitted. The public also is encouraged to submit a message in the form of a three-line poem, or haiku. However, only three haikus will be selected. The deadline for all submissions is July 1. An online public vote to determine the top three messages to be placed on the DVD will begin July 15. Enter it here now. 

NASA invites you to…

Go to Mars with MAVEN! Submit your name and a message to be sent into Mars orbit on the MAVEN spacecraft.

NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian upper atmosphere. 

The DVD will carry every name submitted. The public also is encouraged to submit a message in the form of a three-line poem, or haiku. However, only three haikus will be selected. The deadline for all submissions is July 1. An online public vote to determine the top three messages to be placed on the DVD will begin July 15.

Enter it here now. 

Tags NASA nasa space Space space exploration science news

 Source nasa.gov