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Sensoria Socks Heapsylon

It seems, runners will have wearable computer-socks, called Sensoria, that may just be the most impressive tracker that I have found out yet.

Actually Senosoria look less silly than Google Glass and less silly than those toe-shoes too.  This maybe the senctence for those who like to wear Sensoria where it comes from a small startup in Redmond Wahsington called Heapsylon which is very special pair of socks indeed.  It is a fabric embedded with pressure sensors-an "e-textile", in the language of the startup.  It senses pressure from a few specific points in the foot, like under the first metatarsal (The bone that's connected to your big toe) and the heel.  That seems to be all that's going on in the socks themselves-just pressure sensors.

Oh, and for your information Redmond may be sounds familiar since it is also the home of Microsoft and the founders of Sensoria are indeed Microsofties, from the world-class Xbox Kinect team.

Source :  popsci.com

Unleashing Synonyms To Catch E-Book Pirates

New software that automatically changes words and grammar in e-books.  It sounds like a scenario that could have come straight from The Phantom Toolbooth's Dictionopolis.  Researchers have created a program to catch pirates by their commas..to trap them with paragraph breaks.

The new program, still under development at the Darmstadt Technical University in Germany automatically creates subtle alternative versions of an e-book by moving words around, using synonym, or adding or removing grammatical marks, the blog Torrent Freak reports.  If a pirated version of the book appears online, the publishers are able to narrow down its source by looking at which version it is.  The program also creates some invisible marks to help track e-books

This is a very good program to me, since it blocking the attempt to pirates a book and which can protects copyrighted works while allowing people who have bought e-books to do some small-time sharing, such as copying the book onto all of their devices.

Watch That Grammar close up of an e-book on a reader device by NotFromUtercht on Wikimedia Commons

Source:  popsci.com

It Is a Job For the Robot!

You must believed that one day robots may rule the roads one day, but until now it only limited limited Ford test tracks.  This is because Ford had introduced a pilot program within the automaker is using robots to test the durability of Ford's new full-size Transif van family set to launch next year.  The robots drive the vehichles through accelerated high-impact on and off road test.

Before being certified for customer use, all North American Ford trucks must pass a battery of tests, run on courses filled with broken concrete, cobblestone, metal grates, rough gravel, mud pits and oversized speed bumps.  All these can be unconfortortable for human testers, neccessitating the need for the robots, Ford, in partnership with Utah-based Autonomous Solutions Inc., implemented its new technology at its Michigan Proving Grounds, where a robotic control module installed in the test vehicle can regulate steering, accelaration, and breaking.  Set to a pre-programmed course, engineers can track the vehicles's position from a central control room and have the ability to stop the truck, course correct and restart the test.

The best part of having this robot driver test is, engineers can run an unlimited number of repeat tests, until they  are satisfied with the results.

Source:  Pc Mag.com