3DTV- a special viewing device to project a television program into a realistic three-dimensional field

3D is expected to be the next monumental breakthrough in the history of television. In this Tech Tip, I’ll cover the basics of 3D TV, including some of the different technologies and how they work.

How it works: Three dimensional television (3D TV) uses a method known as stereoscopy to display two different images to your eyes so that they appear as one image. As your brain interprets what your eyes are seeing, it combines the two images while your eyes are still focusing on the source of the images behind them. This creates an illusion of depth to the viewer. The phrase, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” holds true for fooling your brain, too. Long viewing sessions of stereoscopic images or video strains your eyes and can result in headaches. Worse yet, a small minority of people can’t see stereoscopic images or video at all due to any number of medical conditions that prevent their brains from being fooled.

Android smartphones may soon identify the people you know..!!!

Northern California startup Viewdle released software that lets Android-powered smartphones recognize people's faces.

The free SocialCamera application available at the Android Market was billed as the first of its kind for US smartphone users.

Viewdle SocialCamera is the first mobile camera app to encourage socializing and communication.
Consumers can now instantly share their photos based on who appears in them.

SocialCamera uses computer algorithms to create "faceprints" that people can tag with names and store in smartphones. The software then matches faceprints to subjects in subsequent photos.

Android smartphones can instantly connect names to those in photos and share the images with those involved using social networking service Facebook; photo-sharing website Flickr, or by email or instant messages.

SocialCamera was billed as the first in a line of facial-recognition software applications aimed at the consumer market. 

High-powered players in September pumped $10 million into the Palo Alto, California startup devoted to crafting ways to let smartphones "see" things the same way people do and identify faces.

"We are giving smartphones human eyes," Gil told AFP in an interview when the funding was announced.

"Letting them see the world the way people do... it is artificial intelligence," he said. "It is happening."

Viewdle bills itself as the leading independent facial recognition company for consumer gadgets. Its technology is developed by the company's research team in the Ukraine.

SocialGuard software...keep watch on children on Facebook..

Internet security firm Check Point has launched software that lets parents watch over offspring on Facebook without being "friends" at the online social network .

ZoneAlarm SocialGuard alerts parents to signs of trouble in a child's Facebook account without them being privy to all posts, comments, pictures, videos or other digital content shared between friends at the website.

The program scans Facebook profiles, communications and "friend" requests and uses algorithms to identify potential bullying, sexual overtures, or talk of drugs, violence or suicide.

SocialGuard software runs unseen in the background, flagging suspicious activity and send alerts to parents
"It's about protecting your kids from the social threats out there, while still respecting their privacy and fostering open communication," said Check Point vice president of consumer sales Bari Abdul.

"We are offering Facebook users a simple way to embrace social networking safely," he continued.

SocialGuard is crafted to detect hacked accounts, malicious links, online predators, and cyber-bullies, according to Check Point.

The software also checks to determine whether people contacting children online are being deceptive about their ages or if a stranger is trying to become a Facebook "friend." 
"SocialGuard provides a strong suite of tools that can effectively protect children from these types of social threats that are keeping parents awake at night." 

'GigaPan Time Machine' by GOOGLE..

Google has created a time machine with which one can simultaneously explore space and time at extremely high resolutions.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have leveraged the latest browser technology to create GigaPan Time Machine, a system that enables viewers to explore gigapixel-scale, high-resolution videos and image sequences by panning or zooming in and out of the images while simultaneously moving back and forth through time.

Viewers, for instance, can use the system to focus in on the details of a booth within a panorama of a carnival midway, but also reverse time to see how the booth was constructed. Or they can watch a group of plants sprout, grow and flower, shifting perspective to watch some plants move wildly as they grow while others get eaten by caterpillars. Or, they can view a computer simulation of the early universe, watching as gravity works across 600 million light-years to condense matter into filaments and finally into stars that can be seen by zooming in for a close up.

"With GigaPan Time Machine, you can simultaneously explore space and time at extremely high resolutions," said Illah Nourbakhsh, associate professor of robotics and head of the CREATE Lab.

Once a Time Machine GigaPan has been created, viewers can annotate and save their explorations of it in the form of video "Time Warps."