ARE WE LOST, YET!

Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) system is an amalgamation of two fields of user interface research – augmented reality & mobile computing. MAR systems of the future would not just help you get to your destination in unknown lands but would also assist you in making the decision as to what you should do next. The mobiles would have a GPS sensor, a compass, and accelerometers helping the phone calculate the location of any object its camera is aimed at. Not just this, it also assist you to download additional information about this location from the Web. So, now there are no chances of you getting lost.

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LOOK INTO MY EYES!

Forgot to carry your swipe card to the office. No worries, just blink your eyes!
Thanks to retina scanning, human beings can now stamp holograms onto their eyes. Retina scanning is being used to identify individuals and would soon find a formidable place in other technological environments too. Apart from its other uses, it will enable people to read information from a mini-wearable computer, which would send out images over the normal vision. Despite the fact that there are many new security measures that have come up in the recent times, but none can match the fool-proof security of retina scanning.

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LET’S PLAY A VIRTUAL GAME

The future of virtual gaming would no longer be limited to mere entertainment & leisure. It would become a serious game and its ambit would be expanded to business intelligence of an enterprise. The present 3D rendering technology would be upgraded to provide high-density visualization of complex objects, which has not been possible today. Time-honoured gaming flavours like scores, end-goal and winners would totally disappear, and instead will be a facility where the user can interact with the screen and create anything with his imagination. This will even enable consumers to create a holographic image of any person from the real world and create a club of their favourite stars, wherein they can chat with the stars.

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THINK AGAIN

It’s often said that China is walking a tightrope: its economy depends on foreign money, its leadership is set in its ways, and its military expansion threatens the world. But the Middle Kingdom’s immediate dangers run deeper than you realise.

Are china’s biggest risks economic in nature?

No. In fact, China’s most severe risks are ecological – particularly its environmental problems and its vulnerability to communicable disease. Of course, this is not to say that China has no economic problems. No country is immune from the normal business cycle, and China today is subject to both inflationary and recessionary risks. But Beijing is developing the fiscal and monetary tools to regulate the economy so as to prevent these problems from becoming catastrophic once they emerge.

Air pollution in China is affecting quality of life in cities like Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. The risk of water shortages, both in agricultural areas and major cities, is high and growing; only 1% of the surface water available to Shanghai is safe to drink. In one harbinger of things to come, an explosion at a chemical plant in North-East China in November 2005 sent a benzene slick cascading down the Songhua River. Millions of people in the large, industrial city of Harbin were without water for a week.

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‘Robot’tomline

Robotics is one field where the future is pretty evident. We know what’ll happen next, as it’s all happening now!
IRobot, Star Trek, Star Wars, Terminator, Bicentennial Man, The Matrix, Robots, Robocop, Terminator, Artificial Intelligence – A.I... Yes, it’s pretty predictable what we’re getting at. These, and many other sci-fi movies, discuss similar issues – the robots; and if we can say so – the next form of life on earth! Set way into the future, they all attempt to portray, and quite dramatically so, how our world is going to shape up. The one thing common between all these movies is the acceptance of the eventual dawn of Robots... And we accept it too!

The science of Robotics is one of the least understood, yet awe-inspiring fields, and on a parallel with rocket-science. Not too many understand it because of cumbersome technicalities. And to be able to truly appreciate robotics, it’s essential to have a sound knowledge about electronics, mechanics and soft ware – engineers rejoice! While robotics is the actual development of a robot, its design and applications, AI is a subset of robotics and it functions as the “brain” for the robot. In recent times, this combination of Robotics and AI has led to the development of some remarkably advanced robots. They are getting increasingly closer to the challenge of ultimately becoming a ‘Substitute Human’. It should be noted that these robots are still in the development phase and have not been commercialised yet. The cost of some of these robots could go upto $65,000! Yes, that’s right.

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Living it up!

SX4 could be Maruti’s best bet
Winners in the compact segment and also rans elsewhere! That pretty much sums up Maruti’s position in the Indian market. Indeed, with a leading market share of 58.5% in the A2 segment and a pathetic fourth position with a share of 15% in the fast overcrowding A3 segment (as per SIAM figures for passenger car sales for the financial year ending March 2007); Maruti is clearly facing throes of lopsided growth. Agreed that the small car is its forte, but that space is suddenly getting cluttered with GM’s launch of Spark, Hyundai’s launch of the new Getz, Honda’s plans for an entry with the Jazz. So some diversification is the need of the hour.

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Faster than light...

The Indian IT space is booming and the players appear determined!
We could forget about having a world beating cricket team for a while, or even an Oscar winning film, but when it comes to IT services, we can afford to bask in some glory. Despite the growing odds, Indian IT’s heady bull run refuses to stall.Indian soft ware giants are consistently exceeding expectations. The top five Indian IT titans –TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Satyam & HCL stand proof, once again scripting a grand top-line (revenue) growth of 40% for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2007. To top it all, bottom-line upsurge (a blazing 70%) has outperformed even top-line growth. Also, the top six (including Cognizant Technology Solutions) accounted for an impressive 50% of soft ware exports. Ranjit Narasimhan, Executive VP, HCL Technologies, asserts, “Our strategy of moving up the value chain and focus on improving operational efficiency is paying off .”

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