A systematic swarm of flying robots, such as the Swarming Micro Air Vehicle Network (SMAVNET) project that is currently being developed, could be the key to providing support to disaster areas and persons in distress.
The swarms of flying robots are designed to create a communications relay in order to create a working network that can be installed quickly and used in areas where terrain is difficult to navigate.
Developers of the SMAVNET project stress that simplicity and not complexity is key to the success of the swarming communications robots.
"The average American doesn’t realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists" to protect incumbent interests, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Atlantic editor James Bennet at the Washington Ideas Forum. "It’s shocking how the system actually works."
In a wide-ranging interview that spanned human nature, the future of machines, and how Google could have helped the stimulus, Schmidt said technology could "completely change the way government works."
"Washington is an incumbent protection machine," Schmidt said. "Technology is fundamentally disruptive." Mobile phones and personal technology, for example, could be used to record the bills that members of Congress actually read and then determine what stimulus funds were successfully spent.
YouTube celebrated its fifth birthday with a post showing its meteoric growth, some celebrity musings and news that it still doesn’t turn a profit…yet…
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Never mind that silly name: ProFORMA (which stands for ‘Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition’, if you must know) is some cool system that turns any ordinary webcam into a powerful 3D scanning tool. In fact, a camera is pretty much all you need for some “on-line” modeling action — no laser or green screen necessary — meaning the 3D models are constructed on the spot while you slowly rotate the objects, although ProFORMA can also track fast moving objects as shown in the demo video after the break. Fans of machinima should also look into this for their next Warhammer drama series, but don’t say you heard it from us.
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