Design a digital camera can take photographs of three-dimensional
April 22, 2009 by
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Fuji, the Japanese company in digital photography, a camera that is apronte, if fact, point to a new niche business: take three dimensional photographs.
The prototype model of the Japanese manufacturer has developed a model that includes two lenses and two identical light sensors. And carefully coordinated in a single image information taken by the two sensors, one could obtain a digital image with three-dimensional feeling. The system has been called by FujiFilm Real 3D “and can be used both for stills and video clips. Indeed has attempted to develop this type of cameras in the past, but failed to widespread acceptance by the consuming public. To display the image taken with this equipment, FujiFilm LCD panel offers a special camera and a prototype of a digital display that also provides a sense of 3D and has a bright 8.4-inch screen. The 3D camera prototype first appeared at last year’s special exhibition Photokina in Germany recently showed progress in other technical meetings. FujiFilm but said that the first model presented to the public in late 2009, Japan.
Apple launches new iPod Shuffle, that “whispers” the name of the songs
March 13, 2009 by
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San Francisco, 11 mar (EFE) .- The technology group Apple today announced a new iPod Shuffle, its smallest model, which now will be even more diminutive but will double the capacity and a new provision, to speak.
The new iPod Shuffle, which goes on sale tomorrow, features a system called VoiceOver that compensates for the lack of display of this model and “whispers” the user of the songs that will listen.
According to Apple, when you connect your iPod to your computer and open the program iTunes, the new Shuffle creates a voice file stored in the name of the song, artist and the list of items to which it belongs.
The system can even recognize the language and save the voice file in the language concerned. Apple noted that the new Shuffle can recognize 14 languages, including Spanish.
“Imagine your music player talking, saying the title of your song and artist names and playlists,” said Greg Joswiak, vice president of product marketing for Apple iPod and iPhone, in a statement.
The new iPod Shuffle measures only 4.5 centimeters long and 0.7 wide, about half his predecessor and doubles its capacity to 4 gigabytes of memory, enough to store up to 1,000 songs.
To save space, Apple has removed nearly all the buttons on the device and placed in the headphones.
The new iPod Shuffle will be available in silver or black and will cost $ 79 (just over 61 euros at today’s exchange) in U.S..
Apple’s shares reacted to the announcement and rises to 1747 GMT was changed on the Nasdaq at $ 92.36 New York (72.3 euros), 4.2 percent more than at the opening.
Since its launch in 2001, Apple has sold over 200 million units of its popular iPod and now accounts for 70 percent of the market for mp3 players.
The TV remote is gaining ground in Japan andalusia mouse
March 6, 2009 by
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TOKYO – The technological rivalry between television and the computer is showing a turnaround in Japan, where most televisions have a direct connection to broadband internet and offers amazing features that leave behind most of the computers.
A grandmother receives a postcard from her granddaughter. Placing the remote on your television and immediately displayed on the screen a photograph of the child mounted on his bike.
The grandmother found the image so funny that choose to use as wallpaper for your mobile phone. Nothing easier, just put the phone on the TV remote to upload the photo.
While the computing giant Microsoft and the U.S. rely on computers, consumer electronics rivals like the Japanese Sony, put all the means in the technological development of television sets.
Most Japanese TV manufacturers Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Hitachi, have already installed a platform, ‘AcTVila’, which allows rent videos, play games, make purchases online, rent an apartment, preparing a trip, tickets for a show, sitting comfortably on the sofa in the living room.
“For the elderly, increasing in Japan and more accustomed to the remote control of television on keyboards and computer mouse, is an advantage,” says an employee of Sony.
The real innovation comes, however, the combination of Internet access and integration, remote TV, in an integrated circuit with radio frequency identification that multiplies the possibilities.
This allows payment services in a safe, simple and fast. The viewer only has to touch the integrated circuit with a credit card or mobile phone equipped with an “electronic wallet” and the charge goes directly to your account, a method of payment already widely used in Japanese shops and transport.
The integrated circuit on the remote control can also read others’ chips’, establishing links with Internet access to personal data, names and passwords, commercial information, medical records …
Thus, the loyalty card of a shop located on the remote may appear on the screen for Store catalog with the latest promotions.
A tensiometer, a thermometer or a pedometer equipped with a ‘chip’ may send the measurements to a server for storing regularly collected in a ‘dossier’ and create medical charts of evolution, simply by bringing these items to the remote.
The command can also take the form of a touchscreen, as imagined another Japanese company, Faith.
Everything becomes more fun, the buttons are replaced by miniature icons of television, telephone, tensiometer, videos, photos, diary or an electronic book. Just then pop into some other gesture with a finger, and the technology takes care of the rest.
Facebook is the new operations center hackers
March 6, 2009 by
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SAN FRANCISCO, USA – The computer security experts are on guard since Facebook was recently the subject of a series of data theft, while cyber-crooks become sites of socialization into their new operations center.
“There are so many people in social networks to raise interest rates with bad intentions,” said David Perry, an expert in the security company Trend Micro.
Attracted by the amount of information that is exchanged daily on these social networks, crooks and distributors of viruses and Facebook turned its 175 million members in its favorite.
“You can see all the information they publish. One might publish inadvertently personal information of great value,” continued Perry.
Even elements without apparent interest published in the user profile can be very useful resource for cyber-pirates.
For example, the name of a grandparent or pet, shown in the photographs, can help the hacker to answer typical questions necessary to recover the forgotten password of a bank account online.
Hackers can also infect with a virus programs used in these websites, false messages to manipulate users or applications propagated truncated.
Facebook was made famous by authorizing proposals for developers of applications that can be added to the profile. But these applications are checked only when complaints are received.
“This weekend we had a misleading application,” one expert said on Monday, Trend Micro. “It passed the security barrier. I applaud Facebook for having removed in time.”
It seems a variation of another virulent detected last week, said the signing of security.
These two applications, once installed, send messages to friends of the user indicating, for example, who had been accused of violation of the rules of use.
Following the instructions in the message misleading, the latter in turn set up a ’software’ spy who stole your data and send other messages similar to their own contacts to install the program, and so on.
The latest attacks against Facebook was easier. It was through messages announcing the invitation of a friend to share a video.
Clicking on the link to download a video reader, the user is infected with a ‘worm’ called Koobface computer, logo Facebook.
This virus steals cookies (small files that record information about visitors to a website) on the desktop not only Facebook but half a dozen social networks, which include MySpace, “said Yanez.
“Using cookies hacked, the hacker tries to register with your name, address to your contact list and send messages and comments,” he added.
According to Yanez, the website, as Facebook, allow the integration of applications that were not created by the firm should improve its monitoring process.
Users can protect themselves from such attacks by choosing more carefully their relationships and avoiding clicking on links that lead outside of their community.
Experts also recommend increasing the passwords, so that not a single key opens all doors.
Google denies the discovery of the lost city of Atlantis
February 23, 2009 by
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WASHINGTON – The images from Google Earth of what streets could be on the ocean floor and created an uproar over the possible discovery of the lost city of Atlantis, were finally sonar brands of boats.
The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph caused a brief flurry of excitement among the seekers of Atlantis on Friday when posting images of Google Earth inexplicably a grid on the sea floor to 1,000 km from the northwest coast of Africa.
An expert on Atlantis andalusia newspaper reported that the grid was one of the possible sites of the legendary city described by the Greek philosopher Plato. However, Google was another explanation.
“It is true that many other discoveries made through Google Earth: an unspoiled forest in Mozambique birthplace unknown species, a strip of coral reef off the coast of Australia, and the remains of an ancient Roman villa, to name a few “, said in a statement.
“However, in this case, what users see is an artifact of data collection,” he adds. The map “is obtained by bathymetric sonar boats that measure the seabed. The lines show the path of a boat while the data collected,” explains Google.


