Supportive robots for the elderly citizen

The Japanese have again proved their capability and responsibility in robotic field. The well known company of the Japan, Honda planning to introduce motion assistance device in today’s market as it tends to be a great success during introduction ceremony in New York. Even though they showed their prototype still they are working in it, so it will take some years for commercial availability. These devices introduced mainly for the stride management assistant and bodyweight support assistant offered a kinesthetic experience for the visitors from outside. The stride is designed to help people with weak muscles i.e. for the elderly persons. The device CPU is fixed to the back of waist strap and connected to two motors that rest on the legs beneath hips. Thus the motor controls the two braces strapped already onto the legs. Hip angle sensors help CPU in transmitting motion data which in turn controls two motors fixed. Hence it helps the weak muscle people to speed up their walk by stepping a little higher.

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3G technology - will it be more effective?

The 3G technology is creating revolution in almost every state of the US.  There are many features like speed, reliability and fast upload speeds. Two of the companies Verizon’s service and AT&T's from US have showed these results. You may also feel the speed and reliability of the wireless network that connects to your phone because it connects your phone to all fun, applications and services. But the real fact is that today's 3G wireless networks are collectively a work in progress and they are not perfect. This is because the independent research in this network is very hard to understand. In real the wireless signal is extremely variable by its nature. This is because of the obstruction by fixed objects like (buildings, trees etc…) as well as network load, weather, and tower locations affect the quality of the signal in this modern world. So these factors can cause a variation in signal service from a single signal service in day to day life.

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A new way to identify car thieves

An image processing technology is finally found a solution to the police officials in order to find the car thieves through the fixed speed cameras developed by the researchers at the University of Technology, Sydney. This program primarily enables moving police cars to automatically detect stolen cars in traffic with the help of high speed digital cameras. Any image processing technology will be normally based on square pixels but in this case it is rather different because they use hexagonal pixels and enables a computer linked to a camera to accurately identify and read number plates in real time. Therefore it will be checked automatically with the database of the stolen car numbers and intimated to the respective police officials. According to the strategy and programming council, this technology not only eliminates the false readings on plate number but it has the potential to be placed in fixed cameras of the police vehicles. It can simply help the police department to identify track the thief's gang and the car that they used for crime.

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Flexible carbon based conducting rubber

By this time we have been thinking that rubbers can’t conduct. But Japanese scientists have just paved their way for the rubbers to conduct electricity buy mixing it carbon particles. The researchers have given name as ‘e skin’ for this rubber as it can feel heat and pressure just like humans. In fact it has overcome the problem of metals, as the metals are conductors but cannot be stretched. Also this was the first entry in the world which hardly transmits electricity according to the University of Tokyo. If we see the capabilities of this amazing rubber, it can stretch up to 1.7 times than its original size and boasts electricity to up to 570 times as high as commercially available rubber. Technically there are many application developments based on this ‘e skin’. Let us now consider one application here, the artificial skin on robots. Really it is the most innovative idea to use this rubber on robots; because they need to feel temperature and pressure like us otherwise it will be too worse.

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The Technology Dream

Technology as we all know is the greatest revolution of all time. Without the growth in technology, we could not imagine the world we have now. Everything starts as a dream, a dream of making it to reality one day. Technology was also a dream on man's mind one day and only some strive hard to make their dream come true. Every dream needs a start, a push to the next step. Man has managed to get this start successfully every time which led to making the impossible possible. Everyone would have thought man would never fly and it was termed "impossible". But now, you can see airplanes everyday flying over you and what more, you can see space shuttles on TV making regular trips to the moon and mars!. What's next? A space station is coming up so that people can make tours to the space. This blog of mine -"The Technology Dream" is dedicated to technology that we all depend upon and the steps that man is taking to make all his dreams come true with the help of technology.

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