Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Video: Home Security System Uses Radio Signals To Detect Intruders
Video and infra-red were yesterday: Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, the NICT, is working on a home security and monitoring system that’s entirely based on radio signals. The main advantage of the so-called “RAdio-wave Mesh for Intruder Detection System” (RAMIDS) is that there are no blind spots in the areas screened anymore.
The system consists of a transmitter and antennas that detect changes from the signal’s amplitude and phase. Depending on a threshold value set beforehand, an alarm is triggered every time an event in the room is monitored and causes a change (for example, when a window is being opened).
What’s interesting is that RAMIDS can also be used in aged care. In rest rooms, for example (where video cameras can’t be installed for obvious reasons), the system could detect unusual behavior, i.e. when people who have entered the rest room stop moving for a certain period of time.
This video, shot by Diginfonews in Tokyo, shows RAMIDS in action:
The Web fights back against Flipboard
Here Filipe Fortes shows me the HTML 5 technology that he developed to display publisher's pages in a way that looks beautiful. We discuss how the Web is fighting back against apps designed only for the iPad, like Flipboard.
Filipe Fortes: ISOJ 2011: Designing for iPad and Other Mobile Devices from Knight Center on Vimeo.
Dudamobile makes it easy to build mobile website
If you have websites, like I do, and you want to look really great on mobile then check out Dudamobile, coming soon
A Flipboard for the new 27-inch iMac? (Utopic does much more than that!)
just got a new 27-inch iMac and have been looking for news systems that would take full advantage of its huge screen. In Utopic I've found just that and here the founder tells me all about it.
One of the hottest startups to come out of Atlanta lately is Solidfire. You've read about them in Techcrunch when they got $11 million in funding ( http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/exclusive-solidfire-rais... ) but now they've shipped and are blowing the speed doors down inside datacenters. Here's more with its founders.
Why is this important? Well, cloud computing systems that are built using Solidfire servers will be faster than other systems.
Mobli
Many of the most popular social media applications predate the widespread adoption of smart phones. Consequently, the initial designs of these apps did not have the smart phone in mind. Mobli aims to unlock the potential of social media.............
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