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Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Technology have to play a role in saving water

     
      I think that technology is the only thing that can help us save water now,because the way we are using our resources I don't doubt it will be exhausted in few decades.but we might only think that we have enough resources that will easily be available till 80-90 years after that we will not be alive to bear its after effects so its okay if we don.t care about it,but that's wrong mentality we have towards nature because even if we won't be alive our children will have to suffer through this and I can bet that no parent will  want their children to go through Hell for the sake of water which they wasted because it was available to them. 
      For me water is the most important natural resource even more important than oxygen.because for oxygen we are blessed by some nice invention by some great personality(I am not searching Google for that personalities name here because our today's topic is for water) who have invented oxygen cylinder and even more technologies are been found for the same.but we cannot say the same thing for water because till date we have not found substitution for water.Water is such a resource that is used in almost all thing you use in daily life,let it be your morning coffee or cola or pepsi you drink,let alone foodstuffs it is used in manufacturing purpose also,it is used in power plants,Pressurized water is used in water blasting and water jet cutters. Also, very high pressure water guns are used for precise cutting.
so this were some of the uses of water we can think of at any given time.

         So basically we can say that we have not found any substitution for water till date.And what effect it will have on us will be known in long run.so many will ask what type of technology will help us to conserve water resources.so now if truly speaking, I feel that we are way beyond that part when merely closing tap will help us save water.Now that is just basic thing we have to do for saving water.so which technology and how to implement them can be best explained by our scientists because always EXPERT help us get through tough times,we are the ones who can just write about it but they are the one's who have to implement it. so talking about technology we would have never imagined that we will receive water by merely turning the tap and water from hundred's of kilometer away will flow to us. so that is what which was made possible to us by experts.next example can be of Air conditioner,our fore fathers would have never imagined that we can get below room temperature by just a click of button,and even that is possible now.so you consider any technology let it be fan,computers,mobile phones,toasters or any electrical equipment ,nobody would have imagined before the discovery of that product that it would be so easy to perform that activity.In the same way we want just one technology that can do the same for water,because by turning the tap we all receive water but think of that day when, after turning the tap you would receive water after 7-8 days because there is no water available for us.and luxury of getting water everyday will be the thing of past. 
             
     You might think of above statement as an example but it is reality in many remote parts of India.You won't believe it but in remote parts of Gujarat people receive water after gap of almost 7 days,that's not because Government is not taking initiative for water conservation project but due to water scarcity in that region.And due to that building dams yields no result as there is irregular rainfall in that region.And due to water scarcity people started using ground water for daily purposes due to which ground water level has also decreased.so what steps to take to slightly normalize the situation? steps are same that you,me all would have learnt at some point of time 
"To plant more and more trees in your environment".
        But we don't have time for such filthy works now as we are very busy with our daily life.but think we just have to give few minutes for it..and it can help you,your children and maybe even their children.Few days back I had read about level of pollution in our rivers(and it includes most of major Indian rivers) which has made it unsuitable even for agriculture purpose let alone drinking that water.if we would have helped in maintaining that rivers then we can at least get some other sources of water to consume apart from dams but due to human nature one more source of water has been exhausted.so now we are left with only one alternative, i.e. Rain water in our dams.Rain is unreliable source of water so relying on it will leave us with no water in long run because of deforestation activity undertaken by us.

       we need many activists to join hands to save this resources,to make government know the importance of water and to clean our holy rivers(so that it can be of some use to human race).

So guys spread this article for the sake of water you consume.
THIS GOVERNMENT HAVE TO DO SOMETHING SOLID FOR THE SAKE OF ITS OWN PEOPLE.

Saturday, 28 April 2012

Sixth SENSE TECHNOLOGY

          Whenever we start counting great technologies that have made science look real to human race,sixth sense technology cannot be left behind. As many may think,that this technology work on your sixth sense,but sorry to disappoint you this technology has nothing to do with your sixth sense. This technology fascinates me because of two reason, First reason to describe it as great technology can be the fact that it is invented by an Indian, and second can be the mere fact that you can can access an information with your bare hands wearing an gesture interface.
         

        'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions to take. But arguably the most useful information that can help us make the right decision is not naturally perceivable with our five senses, namely the data, information and knowledge that mankind has accumulated about everything and which is increasingly all available online. Although the miniaturization of computing devices allows us to carry computers in our pockets, keeping us continually connected to the digital world,
 there is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world. Information is confined traditionally on paper or digitally on a screen. SixthSense bridges this gap, bringing intangible, digital information out into the tangible world, and allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures. ‘SixthSense’ frees information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer. 

           The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction. 

          
          The SixthSense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system. The map application lets the user navigate a map displayed on a nearby surface using hand gestures, similar to gestures supported by Multi-Touch based systems, letting the user zoom in, zoom out or pan using intuitive hand movements. The drawing application lets the user draw on any surface by tracking the fingertip movements of the user’s index finger. SixthSense also recognizes user’s freehand gestures (postures). For example, the SixthSense system implements a gestural camera that takes photos of the scene the user is looking at by detecting the ‘framing’ gesture. The user can stop by any surface or wall and flick through the photos he/she has taken. SixthSense also lets the user draw icons or symbols in the air using the movement of the index finger and recognizes those symbols as interaction instructions. For example, drawing a magnifying glass symbol takes the user to the map application or drawing an ‘@’ symbol lets the user check his mail. The SixthSense system also augments physical objects the user is interacting with by projecting more information about these objects projected on them. For example, a newspaper can show live video news or dynamic information can be provided on a regular piece of paper. The gesture of drawing a circle on the user’s wrist projects an analog watch. This article has been taken from Pranav mistry's official site