News tagged with video cameras
Students design underwater robot that does more than score points
(Phys.org) -- Since he was 12 years old and successfully talked his way onto an underwater robotics club for kids aged 13 and up, Trevor Uptain has been building robots of the kind used by oceanographers and ...
Jun 01, 2012 |
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OmniVision tops up sensors for cameras, phones
(Phys.org) -- OmniVision has announced two high-resolution image sensors for the digital still and digital video camera market (DS/DVC) and higher end smartphones. In end-user language, it is a claim for superior ...
May 25, 2012 |
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A robot learns how to tidy up after you
(Phys.org) -- Sooner than you think, we may have robots to tidy up our homes.
May 22, 2012 |
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Robot hummingbird passes flight tests (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A prototype robot spy "ornithopter," the Nano-Hummingbird, has successfully completed flight trials in California. Developed by the company AeroVironment Inc., the miniature spybot looks like ...
Feb 18, 2011 |
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‘Eyeborg’ man films vision of future (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Canadian filmmaker whose childhood hero was Lee Majors as a bionic man is making the most out of what he has done to compensate for having lost one eye by becoming Eyeborg Man. Rob Spence, ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 30, 2011 |
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Simulated skiers reveal mountain traffic jams
Millions of skiers and snowboarders escape to the mountains every winter, but some everyday stresses -- like traffic jams -- are unavoidable even on the slopes. In plenty of time to prepare for next season, ...
May 09, 2012 |
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Latest 3D TV Technology Offers Interactive Control
(PhysOrg.com) -- Three-dimensional TV is now closer than ever to becoming a reality for consumers, and the latest research is investigating the full extent of 3D TV’s possibilities. In a recent study, researchers ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Kinecthesia: Students hack Kinect to help visually impaired (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite amazing advances in computers and cameras, people with serious visual impairments are often aided with the most basic technology imaginable: a cane.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Omni-focus video camera to revolutionize industry
University of Toronto announced a breakthrough development in video camera design. The Omni-focus Video Camera, based on an entirely new distance-mapping principle, delivers automatic real-time focus of both ...
May 04, 2010 |
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New surveillance camera system provides text feed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a prototype surveillance camera and computer system to analyze the camera images and deliver a text feed describing ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 03, 2010 |
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Motion-capture helping reveal how kangaroos hop
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Australia, the UK and US have for the first time used infrared motion capture technology outdoors to work out how kangaroos distribute their weight and the forces as they hop ...
Mar 11, 2011 |
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New surveillance camera can search 36 million faces for matches in one second
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new surveillance camera by Hitachi Kokusai Electric can look at footage that contains an image of someone, either still or video, and then search other video or still images on file for ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 23, 2012 |
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Spy software can see smartphone texting realtime (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, there was news from video provider Qumu of their discomforting survey that at least half of Americans would use smartphones to secretly spy on others. Now there is rattling news that spy software ...
Nov 04, 2011 |
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With human behind wheel, Google's self-driving car crashes
Google Inc.'s quest to popularize cars that drive themselves seemed to hit a roadblock Friday when news emerged that one of the automated vehicles was in an accident. But in an ironic twist, the company is saying that the ...
Aug 07, 2011 |
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Studying butterfly flight to help build bug-size flying robots
To improve the next generation of insect-size flying machines, Johns Hopkins engineers have been aiming high-speed video cameras at some of the prettiest bugs on the planet. By figuring out how butterflies ...
Feb 02, 2012 |
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