USPS Uses Augmented Reality App Brings A New Dimension To Mail

Some of the most intriguing and innovative solutions available today make use of augmented reality (AR). It is an emerging technology which we think should used by a lot more often. United States Postal Service (USPS) working in conjunction with Aurasma, have come up with an AR app that brings mail to life. They’re showing off the new app at CES 2013 in Las Vegas.

The app scans the content of the mail and displays additional information on any smartphone or tablet, this will allow companies to engage with their customers by enabling them to come up with innovative advertising solutions. A few applications of this technology are shown in the video below.
Snail mail is a dying form of communication thanks to email, instant messaging and other online services which are more convenient and time saving than doing things the old fashioned way. However, this new take on snail mail makes sending mail an interesting option.

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Top 6 Augmented Reality Apps for Android

WikiTude (Play Store – Free)

Voted the best Augmented Reality app between the years 2009-2011, WikiTude shows you what you have always been missing. When you look through the camera of your Android device you can see different places, restaurants, people, events, tweets, and more right infront of you. Not only can you find interesting places using the WikiTude app for Android devices but you can also play games like Alien Attack and Bubble Tap that provide a unique AR gaming experience.

3D Compass+ (AR Compass) (Play Store – Free)

3D Compass+ (AR Compass) app for Android devices is an Augmented Reality app that displays a reality view of the world to the driver. Simply mount your device on the dashboard of your car and let the app do its job, but be careful and keep your eyes on the road too as the app does not come with the feature that could make your car fly incase you are about to collide with another vehicle (yet). The app provides 3D compass, map, coordinates, address and speed in the same view and more. It is fun app to use as well as it can be very useful while travelling in a car.

Yelp (Play Store – Free)

Although Yelp is not a full fledge Augmented Reality app, one feature of the app takes full advantage of the AR capabilities of Android device. Yelp does Augmented Reality with Monocle and provides an overlay of useful business information of the places that are visible through the lens of your Android device’s camera.

Sky Map (Play Store – Free)

If you have a slightest interest in what lies above our heads, you are going to love Sky Map Augmented Reality app for Android. The app amazingly turns your mobile device into a window on the night sky. You can see planets, milky ways, stars, and gallery of pictures of the universe using this simple application.

Layar (Play Store – Free)

Downloaded over 25 million times Layar is one of the world’s most popular AR apps. After installing Layar app on your Android device all you need is point your camera to scan objects around you. You can scan newspapers, magazines, ads, and more, and Layar would display related content over that object. Layar app gives a new life to the things you are scanning by showing Augmented Reality videos and other interactivity on your device’s screen. You can also find metro stops, ATMs, restaurants and other locations around you using Layar app. The app also has built in social features that you can use to share your experiences of using Layar with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.

AugSatNav (Play Store – Free)

AugSatNav app for Android is a navigation app with a touch of Augmented Reality. It shows a live camera feed of the designated path to the user when he or she is using it while walking. After suggesting the path for the walk, AugSatNav app shows a white line over the path so that the user could recognize the right path and complete the walk accordingly. AugSatNav is also useful for those who are suffering from short-sightedness

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Google Indoor Maps – Never Get Lost

As apple iOS6 users are trying to navigate through rollercoaster highways and clouded neighbourhoods, Google is enabling android users find the right aisle for the bar be que sauce in a grocery store. Google today announced the launch of its indoor maps functionality in France and published a list of available locations available.

The indoor maps have been around for a while in the US, Canada and Japan and available to users using Android 2.2 or above, using atleast maps version 6.0. The support for various locations in UK and Switzerland was announced this July. As per Google, there are nearly 10,000 locations available on indoor maps and the database is expanding. Store owners in US, UK and Japan can upload their floor plans online to speed up the map creation process. The indoor maps application is built into Google maps for Android; which means search, latitude and all other standard maps features can also be used indoors.

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New And Improved Gorilla Glass 3 At CES 2013

Corning with Gorilla Glass 3 has proved itself the leader in robust glass panels, no one does it better than , they have been making their trademark reinforced glass panels for quite some time now. This year at CES 2013, Corning showed off third generation of the their Gorilla Glass.

The new Gorilla Glass 3 will bring better protection to screens on smartphones, TVs, laptops and tablets. According to Corning, the new Native Damage Resistance technology makes it three times stronger than it’s predecessor, offering better scratch resistance, and it makes scratches 40% less visible. You can see Corning’s live demo from CES 2013 below.
Corning’s technology is now in over a billion sold devices, if you’re using a smartphone or a tablet, it’s pretty likely that it’s got corning’s technology keeping scratches off your screen. There’s no word on which devices will be the first to get the new panels, but it’s expected that devices launched after the second part of 2013 are going to feature the new and improved glass technology.

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Sony Xperia Z and ZL Shows Off Key Selling Points Of The Phones

The Xperia Z and ZL have taken the driver’s seat for Sony this year at CES 2013. Sony is pretty proud of their creation, and they’ve been marketing the ‘super-phone’ vigorously since the announcement.

Sony has released a tech demo of the phone, highlight the key selling points of their flagship phone. Check it out below.
There’s no doubt that both phones are beautiful, and they’ve got the power and smarts to back up that pretty face.The phone is expected to be on the market soon, see how it fairs against the competition on our Xperia Z vs. iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy S3 comparison.

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Angry Birds Star Wars Released By Rovio

After more than 300 million downloads of the mobile game Angry Birds, the company Rovio Entertainment Ltd is releasing a new version of the game on the 8th of November 2012. Rovio is seriously flirting with the young generation by making an Angry Birds Star Wars saga! The game comes to Mac, Android, iOS, PC, Windows 8, Windows Phone and Kindle Fire

The game Angry Birds has been a success for the finish company ever since the first version of the game was released for Apples iOS in December 2009.   The fame of the game Angry Birds has also resulted in an Angry Birds Land at the finish Theme Park – Särkänniemi Adventure Park.
The game has given Rovio a lot of money (approx. 42 millions since the start) from the selling of related products like soft drinks, magazines, games, toys, accessories, books etc. Everyone may have an opinion about this, but the fact is that Angry Birds has brought us three very good and important things:

1. The understanding of basic physics
2. How to enjoy basic physics
3. How to think in more than one step

For all fans to Angry Birds there is a newly released game – Bad Piggies (released on the 27th of September 2012). This game is even more challenging when it comes to physics!

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Fabulous iPhone and iPad Apps for Educators

Read on for a list of some fantastic apps for iPhone and iPad.

MathBoard (iTunes – $4.99)

MathBoard is a universal app for iPad that is suitable for all school aged children and is perfect for use by educators for teaching purposes. The app is even suitable for kindergarten students and provides addition, subtraction  multiplication, and division problems to them for solving. Mathboard has a nice feature that allows the teachers to configure the app according to the abilities of individual student. The app provides users with unique learning experience children.
Mathboard also guides students through the process of solving different math problems by providing multiple answer styles and scratchboard area where they can solve problems by drawing on the scratchboard using their bare hands.

Monster Anatomy HD – Lower Limb (iTunes – $18.99)

Monster Anatomy – Lower Limb is an awesome app that provides an interactive lower limb radiology atlas to users. This app for educators is super useful as it makes it easier for everyone to learn about inner sections of our body (lower limb) in a unique way. Th app was developed by the Medical Imaging department of the University Hospital Center of Nancy, France. Not only educators and students the app is really helpful for healthcare professionals as well.
Features of Monster Anatomy – Lower Limb include

• • 3D image volume that shows precise location of slice position
  • Over 500 different labels and over 10,000 tags
  • Easy to use navigation tied with multiple shortcuts
  • 5 different display modes including bones, joints, blood vessels, and nerves.
  • High quality zooming tool
  • And much more

History:Maps of World (iTunes – free)

Teaching your students about geographical history of the world? Then History: Maps of World is the app for you. This app for educators and students provides high quality maps of the world from our past. The app features a wide variety of historical displays and has support for category and era view taht can be used to differentiate maps from specific era and based on categories. The app also displays the source of each map it features and provides users with keyword search which makes it easier for users to find the maps they are looking for.
History: Maps of World features zoom options, free screen rotation feature, and other navigation options which makes it easier for users to use the application. A great feature of this app is it is offline, which means you will have access to all the maps no matter you have the internet around you or not. This app by developer Seung-Bin Cho has many versions including History: Maps of America, Maps of Africa, Asia, and other continents of the world. All of which are available as separate download in the App Store.

Intro to Letters, by Montessorium (iTunes – $4.99)

Intro to Letters app for educators is a great app for educators that helps them in teaching the students basic foundations of English language like never before. The app teaches students to read, write and understand alphabets. Intro to letters also teaches students the lowercase letter symbols and their phonics.
These are the things Intro to Letters app teaches to students.

• • Basic foundations of language
  • To read, write and understand letters from a-z
  • Lowercase letter symbols and their sounds (phonics)
  • Phonograms – writing and pronunciation
  • Capital letters – letter names, writing and pronunciation
  • Consonants and vowels
  • Fine motor skills

Inkpad (iTunes – $4.99)

Inkpad app for iOS is a professional vector illustration tool that enables users to design things from scratch right on their iPad. It is a powerful app that is capable of doing a lot of things for the user including text, images, paths, compound paths, gradient filles, unlimited number of layers and more. One Illustrations are created using the Inkpad app users can export them to their Dropbox account or as PDF or SVG and share them with others via Twitter or Facebook.

Penultimate (iTunes – $0.99)

Last but not the least is Penultimate which is an app for educators that could help them in taking notes by using handwriting on their iPad. The app is one of the best handwriting apps available and provides digital power and flexibility to the users. Penultimate can be used to take notes, draw sketches, and for other things only by using hands. A good feature of this app is that it does not have complicated settings and is super easy to use for everyone. Apart from writing the app also has a great drawing feature that allows users to create colorful sketches on their iOS device.

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Top 6 Augmented Reality apps for iOS devices

We recently wrote a post listing the top 6 Augmented Reality apps for Android platform and now we are going to do the same for iOS. The Augmented Reality applications on mobile devices of today give us a sneak peak of what lies for us in the future, so using them even today at their most minimal capabilities blows us away. Here in this post we are going to list some of our favorite AR applications that we think you will enjoy on your iPhone or iPad. Let’s get started.

Theodolite (iTunes – $3.99)

Theodolite is an Augmented Reality app for both iPhone and iPad that allows users to take geo tagged images and movies directly from the app using 2X and 4X digital zoom and stamp notes and geographical data on them. Along with the ability to tag photos and videos the app also shows the current location of the user on the map. Theodolite comes with tons of features that involve Augmented Reality and is a must have for those who love to live their lives on the edge.

Star Chart (iTunes – $2.99)

Star Chart is an educational Augmented Reality app for iOS devices that just like Sky Map app for Android shows what lies in the infinite sky. When a user points the camera towards the sky, the app using the GPS and gyroscope determines the position of the pointed area and shows the unseen. With Star Chart users can view all the stars of norther and southern hemispheres right on their iOS device’s screen which includes over 120,000 stars. The app also has a 3D mode that can be used to view other planets and moons revolving around them. The app also has a time travel feature that enables users to forward or rewind the time to up to 10000 years and watch the sky according to that time.

Spyglass (iTunes – $3.99)

For the adventurer inside you Spyglass is a powerful Augmented Reality navigator and compass that prevents you from getting lost when off-road.   The app features a high tech viewfinder, gyrocompass, GPS tracker, speedometer, and much more. Users can tag, share and find where they are on a map using the app and determine which direction they want to head to incase they are lost.

Peaks (iTunes – $2.99)

If you are one of those adventurous types who like to climb on mountains then Peaks is a must have app for you. The app enables users to know the name and information related to the mountains they are view. Simply load the app on your iOS device and point it towards the mountain(s) you want to get information about. The app provides name of the mountain and also tells the user how far it is from his or her current location.

SpotCrime (iTunes – $2.99)

SpotCrime is an Augmented Reality app for iOS devices that could help you to stay safe while you live your life in a neighborhood that is full of crimes. The app allows users to check if there have been recent crimes in their area on map as well as through the lens of their device. Just load the app and point the camera to the street infront of you, and the app will display any major or minor crime incident that took place in that street in recent days.

AR Invaders (iTunes – $1.99)

Who does not like to play games. But if you have gotten bored of playing regular games then AR Invaders is for you. The app is an Augmented Reality game in which players have to hit incoming invading ship. The user sees his regular view on the screen along with controls and targets to hit. The incoming ships can be destroyed by pointing to them and pressing the shot button.

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Six Best iPhone apps for Engineers9(Free)

We are covering 6 Apps for engineers on high demand from our readers. Are you an engineer who happens to own an Apple iPhone? Well if you are then you should take advantage of this highly capable device by installing some cool apps on it from the App Store which could help you in doing your professional day to day tasks. Here in this post we are going to list top 6 iPhone apps for Engineers that we think should be installed on your iOS device. Let’s get started.

AutoCAD WS (iTunes – Free)

AutoCAD WS is the mobile version of AutoDesk’s popular AutoCAD tool for computers. It not only allows users to create new projects but also enables them to edit the ones they have already been working on using the desktop verison. Users can create 2D and 3D drawings and share them online to their AutoCAD WS account.
With AutoCAD app you can

• Open 2D and 3D DWG drawings uploaded to your free* AutoCAD WS online account
• Work offline, then easily upload changes when you are back online
• Upload and open files directly from email on your device
• See all aspects of your DWG file, including external references, layers, and image underlays
• Use multi-touch zoom and pan to easily navigate large drawings
• Use your device’s GPS to orient yourself within a drawing

RC Beam (iTunes - $4.99)

RC Beam is an app that is ideal for those engineers that work in construction. The app allows users to create designs for moment, shear, and torsion on right on their iPhone. RC Beam can also be used for calculating Section properties and Section strengths. For those wondering, RC Beam uses the latest ACI 318 building code. The app was recently updated and fully supports iPhone 5 and iOS 6.

Engineer’s Calculator (iTunes – $1.99)

 

Sure you have a Calculator app on your iOS device by default, but that is no dedicated calculator for Engineers with special features. If you want a real engineering calculator that could calculate complex numbers and display results in engineering notations, you would want to download Engineer’s Calculator on your iPhone.  The uses postfix notation, has LIFO stack with no practical size limit, , and provides the common engineering functions.

Engineering Professional (iTunes – $11.99)

The Engineering Professional app for iPhone provides a formulas related to Chemical, Civil, Electrical  Environmental, Hydrology and Mechanical engineerings at one place. It is perfect for someone who is studying engineering or wants to keep all the formulas at hand all the time. Engineering Professional is an ultimate engineering app that features over 650 formulas. The app also has 100 conversion forumlas and a dedicated section for determining Area formulas. Engineering Professional app has separate sections for all the different branches of engineering which makes it convenient for users to find what they are looking f0r.

Pump Calculator (iTunes – Free)

If you are an engineer, field operator, or technician and your job is to take estimations on hydraulic conditions required for pump systems then Pump Calculator by Rain for Rent is for you. The app allows users to make estimations and help them in choosing the right equipment according to their needs. You can learn more about this app in detail and download it for your iPhone by going to its iTunes description page.

Mechanical Engineer (iTunes – $5.99)

This app as its name suggests is targeted towards Mechanical Engineers and engineering students. It features over 300 forumlas related to Mechanical engineering in addition to over 300 conversion and 70 area formulas. The app covers areas that include Actuators Bearings, Belts, Boiler, Brakes, Clutches, Elevators, Gears,Fluid Power, Heat Transfer,Internal Combustion, Kinetic Energy, Metalworking, Plates, Plumbs, Power Plants, Refrigeration,Shafts Springs and Vehicle Drive. After doing calculations or conversions using this app users can send the results to their friends or colleagues using email. To get the full list of formulas and to download Mechanical Engineering application for iPhone visit its iTunes description page.

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Top 5 Android Apps For Medical Students And Professionals

The Play Store has many useful apps for every niche. The store is particularly rich with apps for medical students and professionals. Android’s Play Store has a separate category for medical apps that’s populated with thousands of apps, and we’ve scoured through the growing library to bring you our top five medical apps for medical students and professionals.
The list isn’t based on Android’s Play Store top apps, we’ve gone through the store to find the most functional and innovative apps for health professionals and students. So, if you’re either a medical student or a medical professional, you’re going to love these apps on your Android phone.

1. Medscape

Medscape is a popular online resource for medical students and professionals. The Android app brings immense amount of content that includes information for over 8000 drugs, 4000+ articles about diseases by leading physicians, 600 step-by-step videos for various medical procedures, a drug interaction checker and much more! The app brings new content with every update and it does that all for free! It’s a must have for every person who’s works in the healthcare industry. It’s one of the most downloaded medical app on the Play Store for a reason.
You can get Medscape from the Play Store for free. You can point the QR code scanner of your phone to take you directly to the Play Store on your phone.

2. Medical Dictionary & Thesaurus

Every community has its own lingo, this is especially true for the medical community. It has an extensive list of words that are rarely used outside of the community. Now you don’t have to worry about words taking you up by surprise, you can look them up on Medical Dictionary & Thesaurus for Android. The app is pretty self explanatory, the app features a medical annotator, dictionary and thesaurus mode. The app adheres to several standards used by the community, including CDISC, UCUM, FDA standard product labeling terminology.
The app is still in its alpha phase and requires an Internet connection to connect to online libraries. If you’re a medical student or you’re new to the medical community, you’ll be prepared when you hear the word rhinotillexomania.
You can get Medical Dictionary & Thesaurus for free from the Play Store.

3. MedPage Today

There’s always some new development in the field of medicine, and as a professional it’s important to keep up with the news; it can be a tedious task sometimes, going through all the sources, and gathering all the news, but MedPage Today is an excellent app for Android which brings you breaking news from 30 specialties tailored to your interests. The app also covers 60 annual conferences and symposiums, and brings CME opportunities for students.
You can get MedPage Today for free from the Play Store.

4. Visual Anatomy

The human body is divided into many systems and each system has several components, so it can be a bit overwhelming to to memorise the various components. Visual Anatomy is a quick reference tool for medical students and professionals who aren’t up to speed with human anatomy. The app features an interactive interface centered around a 3D human model, you can tap various parts for a name and short description. Visual Anatomy has 150 high resolution images and features more than 750 points that can selected and it covers a range of important systems in the body. You can search for labels if you can’t find the anatomical part you’re looking for, along with all that you get 6 quizzes with 150 MCQs.
You can get Visual Anatomy for free from the Play Store, or get the full version for $2.30.

5. Eponyms

Eponyms are medical terms named after people, and they are the bane of medical student’s existence. There are so many disease and processes named after people that it’s hard to keep track all of them. Eponyms is a free app for Android which has over 1,700 common eponyms, it’s a great tool to look up eponyms and brush up your knowledge. It’s easy to recommend this to medical students and medical professionals, the app is great even if you’re layperson trying to figure out what’s Stendhal Syndrome.
You can get Eponyms for free from the Play Store.


We hope that you are going to find these apps for medical students and professionals useful in your daily use. Let us know how you used the apps on Twitter and Facebook.

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Create an Android Backup of Your Device with These Google Play Apps

Managing your stuff on Google’s Android powered devices is very simple but creating Android Backup isn’t. When it comes to backing up your stuff on the internet or locally on a SD card to keep it safe in case of a mishap you have to rely on third party applications available in the Play Store. Here in this post we will tell you about top 10 most reliable solutions for Android backup for SMS, MMS, Contacts, apps and other data. Let’s get started.

Titanium Backup – Root (Free – Play Store)

Titanium Backup is a super powerful app which allows users to back up their data online. Users can backup and restore their data from the app’s servers. The data which can be stored on Titanium Backup apps’s servers include apps, data, SMS, MMS, calls, bookmarks,Wi-Fi AP as XML and market links. The app not only backups the protected and system apps but it also backups the apps that have been stored in the SD card of the Android device. The app has some great features including 0-click batch and scheduled backups that can be set up to automatically create backups of data. The app has a free as well as a pro version that brings some extra and more advanced features.

G Cloud Backup (Free - Play Store)

G Cloud Backup app for Android provides free online backup to its users. The app backups/restores SMS, contacts, call logs, music, photos, and even videos to the cloud so they can be downloaded later incase you lose your device. Users can configure the app to tell it what to backup and what not. The app automatically back ups data wen the device is running at normal battery level and is connected to WiFi. Users can also choose to backup over 3G if they want to.

App Backup and Restore (Free - Play Store)

The App Backup and Restore app for Android backups and restores apps. The app gives the user ability to backup apps to SD card so they can restored later. App Backup and Restore backups and restores apps, backs up market links for protected apps, features batch restore and batch backup, auto backup on install feature, multi version backup for apps, and ability to search for apps on the Play Store. Users can also send apk files to others via email using this app.

Ultimate backup (Free and $2.99 – Google Play (1) (2))

Ultimate backup app has two versions of itself in the Play Store. One version is a free one while the other one is available for $2.99. It features a good UI and offers features like batch backup and restore, scheduled weekly backups, ability to restore apps from clockwork recovery backups, and more. It backups MMS, apps, bookmarks, user accounts, and other stuff which makes it pretty handy. One unique feature of the app which we really liked is that it allows users to send backups via email and even allows users to upload them on their dropbox account – pretty handy, right?. Users can backup and restore app data but root is required for this particular task.

Safe Backup (Free - Play Store)

Safe Backup is an app that features clean and easy to use interface. The app backups a wide range of data types that include pictures, music,  videos, bookmarks, ringtones, voice memos, applications, contacts, text messages, calendars, call log, bookmarks, and alarms. The app has a unique feature that allows users to data exchange between different Android versions such as Android 2.1 to Android 2.3.x etc. Features of Safe Backup app include data archiving and password protection, FTP support, support for cloud services including Dropbox, and multi-language support.

My Backup (Free and $3.99 – Play Store (1) (2))

My Backup app also has two different versions available in the Play Store. One version is paid and has more features while the other one is free but also does the job. My Backup Pro features schdeuled backups, ability to Freeze bloatware, system apps, and a feature to wipe data of applications. The app can backup and restore data from its online servers as well as user’s SD card. My Backup Pro can backup and restore Applications, Photos, Music, Videos, Contacts, Call log, Browser Bookmarks, SMS (text messages), MMS (message attachments), Calendar, System Settings, Home Screens (including shortcut positions), Alarms, Dictionary, Music Playlists, APNs, and more.

Backup Master (Free - Play Store)

Backup Master app just like its name backups data from your Android device like a boss. It is capable of backing up SMS, MMS, call logs, bookmarks, alarms, apn, apps, and even system settings and preferences. The app works fast and does not require users to reboot their device. Users can check mark from a list of things they want to create backups for. The app is very convenient to use and does not require complex configurations.

Sprite Backup ($4.95 - Play Store)

The Sprite Backup app for Android provides 2GB of free online storage to its users. It features scheduling as well as encryption options to keep data protected. Users can back up their phone as well as media content on the server. Apart from 2GB online storage users can also hook the app with their box.net and dropbox accounts and upload data on the cloud. This is a great app for creating Android Backup online.

Mobile Backup II (Free - Play Store)

Mobile Backup II app for Android is a simple backup and restore app for Android that backups data and restores it from the SD card. The app can backup Calendar, contacts, SMS, and Call log locally so they can be restored instantly. The app stores data in the root directory of the SD card which can be accessed from the computer as well. The app is very simple to use and provides backup options in the form of buttons on its main screen.

Backup To Gmail ($1.99 - Play Store)

Backup to Gmail is a must have app for Android users who use Gmail as primary email service. The app syncs what Android doesn’t to Gmail including SMS, MMS, and Call log. The app can also be used to restore SMS as well as call logs from Gmail using any Android device. The only thing that needs to be done in order to make this app functional is that users need to enable the IMAP in gmail. Users also need to set the correct time zone.

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Mind Readers From CUNY Know What’s On Your Mind

How consumers think, adopt, consume certain goods and services on priority bases is the secret every business organization yearns to know about. Every single year a number of surveys are conducted to dig deeper into knowing about consumer behavior, so to improve and enhance the quality of offered products by conglomerates.
Dr. Lucas Parra who is a biomedical engineer at City University of New York (CUNY), devised a system in which he tested a number volunteers’ engagement into watching Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “Bang! You’re dead”. Their brain activity was monitored by using a cap having multiple electrodes that were attached to an EEG monitor.
Scientists noted that during the time of strong visuals and meaningful transitions the brainwaves of volunteers peaked for a second or more but then it dropped, in other words the stimuli stopped working on them. The CUNY team re-edited some of the scenes from the movie and repeated the same test which didn’t produce results as it had earlier.
The experiment is a next step in the notion of neuromarketing in which brain signals are monitored to check the consumer’s reaction toward certain adverts, a technique used to target the exact audience.
Mind readers from the NY’s university are hoping to get more précised output from their future in-lab experiments.

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6D Helmet With New Innovative Technology to Debut in February 2013

For bikers the most important piece of safety equipment is their helmet that they wear on their heads while riding a bike. The helmet is so important because it could significantly impact the chances of survival for the biker in case of an accident. Unfortunately since many decades despite there being advancements in almost every field of racing the helmet technology has not changed a lot, which poses a serious threat for modern bikers as well as car racers. Currently the helmets available for professional as well as average bikers don’t differ from each other in a big way. Although some of them are more fancy looking the basic technology used in them is almost same and has stayed that way from over 50 years. Now it seems like things are going to change as a new company has introduced a technology for helmets that could make riding bikes more safer than it is right now.

The new innovative idea introduced by this company is made up of styrofoam and shell formula which makes the helmets more durable and capable of dealing with small as well as large impacts. The technology is not as good in reducing shocks in low speed impacts as it is with high speed impacts, which will definitely change in the future as improvements are made in the design. The density of Styrofoam which is also known as EPS can be varied with precision to control the deceleration of head in the helmet.
The 6D helmet has affixing gel in between the two layers of styrofoam. The gel is present between two discs that are located between on both sides (one on each) of the EPS which moves in six different directions. Due to the six directional movement of the EPS this helmet is named ’6D helmet’.

In tests the 6D transfer a force of 49g to the rider’s head at 4.5mph whereas in comparison to this an ECE helmet transfers 79g at the same speed. While the difference isn’t huge between the two it is still substantial.
Apart from the Styrofoam technology there are other innovations too that have been implemented in 6D helmet including the cutaways in the shell where the helmet meets the clavicle when an impact happens, which will be helpful in reducing collar bone breaks. Also, there are paddings located where biker’s chin usually absorbs energy in case of an accident to reduce impact on rider’s chin.
While the first helmet model is targetted towards racers, a street version nammed ATS-1 is also being developed. The sales of this new innovative helmet will begin in February 2013. The pricing details are yet to be announced.

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