I blogged about a luggage bag that follows you around some time back. I thought of a better idea.
It would be nice if one day Samsonite invented a luggage bag that follows you around, perhaps you might have an electronic tag on your body, and the bag will just wheel itself behind you, and when you walk up the stairs, it can move up by itself so there is no need for you to lift up that 20-30kg bag and kill your back.
The bag should also have a little electronic device in it that tells you how heavy the bag is so in the future it could help inform you whether you are overweight when you pack your stuff before your flight. After all you are only allowed 20kg on cattle class which is not much. It could also tell you the volume of stuff in your bag.
Now that would be cool.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Picasa brings facial recognition
This article is from Tech Crunch....now isn't this coming true? I blogged about this some time back and someone did come up with the technology. Now could someone please read the rest of the stuff I wrote and start working on the body heat thing? No actually the luggage thing is better! And I thought of an even better idea...see next post
Picasa Refresh Brings Facial Recognition
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by Don Reisinger on September 2, 2008
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In the anticipated release of Google’s new and improved Picasa, the company will offer facial recognition technology to help you identify friends and family in your pictures without requiring you to tag them by-hand each time you see them.
Launching at noon PDT today, Picasa’s facial recognition technology will ask you to identify people in your pictures that you haven’t tagged yet. Once you do and start uploading more pictures, Picasa starts suggesting tags for people based on the similarity between their face in the picture and the tags you already put in place for them.
The facial recognition technology comes to Picasa thanks to an acquisition Google made in 2006 of Neven Vision, a company that specialized in matching facial detail with images already found in a centralized database. Picasa’a facial recognition technology works in much the same way.
There’s no telling if the facial recognition technology will be able to accurately identify each person in a picture, but it does suffer from a setback that may annoy users: it works best when a person is facing the camera and will have trouble identifying them if they’re not.
“Our face-matching technology works best when a person is looking at the camera,” Mike Horowitz, Google’s Picasa product manager told CNET. “There are a variety of factors that may limit our success in matching faces, including profile views and challenging lighting conditions like shadows.”
Either way, it’s nice to see Google pull Picasa out of the doldrums and breathe some life into it. To play around with the facial recognition technology, head to Google’s Picasa page later this afternoon.
Picasa Refresh Brings Facial Recognition
61 Comments
by Don Reisinger on September 2, 2008
Picasa Logo
In the anticipated release of Google’s new and improved Picasa, the company will offer facial recognition technology to help you identify friends and family in your pictures without requiring you to tag them by-hand each time you see them.
Launching at noon PDT today, Picasa’s facial recognition technology will ask you to identify people in your pictures that you haven’t tagged yet. Once you do and start uploading more pictures, Picasa starts suggesting tags for people based on the similarity between their face in the picture and the tags you already put in place for them.
The facial recognition technology comes to Picasa thanks to an acquisition Google made in 2006 of Neven Vision, a company that specialized in matching facial detail with images already found in a centralized database. Picasa’a facial recognition technology works in much the same way.
There’s no telling if the facial recognition technology will be able to accurately identify each person in a picture, but it does suffer from a setback that may annoy users: it works best when a person is facing the camera and will have trouble identifying them if they’re not.
“Our face-matching technology works best when a person is looking at the camera,” Mike Horowitz, Google’s Picasa product manager told CNET. “There are a variety of factors that may limit our success in matching faces, including profile views and challenging lighting conditions like shadows.”
Either way, it’s nice to see Google pull Picasa out of the doldrums and breathe some life into it. To play around with the facial recognition technology, head to Google’s Picasa page later this afternoon.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Perhaps one day...
My friend's husband is an RAF pilot and he told us that in their jetfighters or aeroplanes they have this technology that is able to read your body heat pattern.
Like your thumbprint and DNA, your body heat pattern is unique and only you would have it.
They have Osama bin Laden's body heat pattern, this is why he is hiding in the caves so he can't be detected. Once he is detected the computer just needs to identify it and shoot a missile to kill him off.
One day, the government, the shopping centres and annoying advertising agencies might be able to get a copy of your body heat pattern, and where ever you walk in the shopping malls, ads might pop up at you, and say Hey you are so and so, I know you like chocolate muffins, why not come down to Starbucks for a special discount?
Maybe the computer might be able to read your body so well and your countours that it will tell you immediately what your size is, and what sort of cut suits you and where you can find clothes that suit you.
Like your thumbprint and DNA, your body heat pattern is unique and only you would have it.
They have Osama bin Laden's body heat pattern, this is why he is hiding in the caves so he can't be detected. Once he is detected the computer just needs to identify it and shoot a missile to kill him off.
One day, the government, the shopping centres and annoying advertising agencies might be able to get a copy of your body heat pattern, and where ever you walk in the shopping malls, ads might pop up at you, and say Hey you are so and so, I know you like chocolate muffins, why not come down to Starbucks for a special discount?
Maybe the computer might be able to read your body so well and your countours that it will tell you immediately what your size is, and what sort of cut suits you and where you can find clothes that suit you.
One day the world will...
One day the world will just need to upload a photograph of you and Google it and hey presto everything about you, your face, your photos, your name, your anything and everything will pop up on Google. They won't need to type in your name anymore. There are so many John Smiths around, so many Marys, but only one person has your face. You! So scanning in your photograph and Googling for it would be more accurate and efficient.
If someone had a crush on you and secretly took a picture of you with their Nokia, and uploaded it on the net and Googled it, they would find information about you. Give you a call, ask you out on a date? Sounds freaky? But possible!
One day, in my life time, someone will clone a human being. I don't like the idea, but it will happen one day. I think in my lifetime. Who knows they might have done it already in Siberia or China.
One day, I hope that human beings would be more giving and magnanimous.
One day, someone will create a genetically modified vegetable that will survive on air alone, and it will live on the moisture in the air. It won't need watering (because clean drinking water is scarce in poor countries). The fast growing genetically plant will be nutritious and those people in poor countries struggling to find food, to live life, will have this nutritious plant to eat.
One day, someone will invent a water jug with a filter that could filter out any type of germs, dirt, bacteria from the dirty polluted waters in the streams and rivers in this world, and one could drink it. And they will give these water jugs to the poor people of the world who have no clean drinking water. They would also make chlorine cheaper.
Hyflux Singapore already has the technology to draw moisture from the air to change it into clean drinking water. One day they could make them really cheap for the poor people of the world so they too can have clean drinking water. It will be part of their CSR program.
One day someone might invent a luggage bag that follows you around so you don't need to wheel it, carry it and struggle to put it up on the weighing machine at the airport. The bag moves by itself and follows you around.
One day there won't be any more cds and what am I going to do with my whole stack of them? Would they be worth anything...as antiques? Haha!
If someone had a crush on you and secretly took a picture of you with their Nokia, and uploaded it on the net and Googled it, they would find information about you. Give you a call, ask you out on a date? Sounds freaky? But possible!
One day, in my life time, someone will clone a human being. I don't like the idea, but it will happen one day. I think in my lifetime. Who knows they might have done it already in Siberia or China.
One day, I hope that human beings would be more giving and magnanimous.
One day, someone will create a genetically modified vegetable that will survive on air alone, and it will live on the moisture in the air. It won't need watering (because clean drinking water is scarce in poor countries). The fast growing genetically plant will be nutritious and those people in poor countries struggling to find food, to live life, will have this nutritious plant to eat.
One day, someone will invent a water jug with a filter that could filter out any type of germs, dirt, bacteria from the dirty polluted waters in the streams and rivers in this world, and one could drink it. And they will give these water jugs to the poor people of the world who have no clean drinking water. They would also make chlorine cheaper.
Hyflux Singapore already has the technology to draw moisture from the air to change it into clean drinking water. One day they could make them really cheap for the poor people of the world so they too can have clean drinking water. It will be part of their CSR program.
One day someone might invent a luggage bag that follows you around so you don't need to wheel it, carry it and struggle to put it up on the weighing machine at the airport. The bag moves by itself and follows you around.
One day there won't be any more cds and what am I going to do with my whole stack of them? Would they be worth anything...as antiques? Haha!
Friday, June 22, 2007
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Munchkin
Dear God,
Please tell Grandma to buy me a diamond ring. She always sings that song "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" to me...
Saturday, July 22, 2006
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