February 2009
GigaPan
Fri, 02/27/2009 - 1:00am
GigaPan
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed the Gigapan, a robotic tripod that enables digital cameras to take gigapixel-size pictures. The Gigapan uses motors to capture a scene with a grid of hundreds or thousands of images with the camera set to full zoom. Photo-stitching software is used to combine the images into a single super-detailed image containing billions of pixels. The highly detailed image is called a gigapan.
Gadget Reads Users' Minds From Their Grip
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 9:14am
The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives
Mon, 02/16/2009 - 12:00am
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
Tue, 02/10/2009 - 1:00am
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
Over the past decade, as many as 10,000 of the rarest and most important medieval manuscripts have been scanned into digital formats that could be studied on the Internet, but finding these documents online can be extremely difficult. "Searching for medieval manuscripts gets you millions of hits, most of which have nothing to do with manuscripts, and when they do, they usually feature only images of a single page rather than the entire book," says University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) professor Matthew Fisher.
Mobile Learning Environment
Mon, 02/09/2009 - 12:00am
Mobile Learning Environment
University of Michigan professor Elliot Soloway and University of North Texas professor Cathleen Norris have developed the Mobile Learning Environment, a suite of educational software that turns smart phones into personal computers for use in classrooms. The suite features programs that allow students to map concepts, animate drawings, surf related information on the Internet. The software also enables students to integrate their lessons and assignments. "The future is mobile devices that are connected," Soloway says.
Tags: Education
