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Sony obtains patent SmartWig
04
Dec
According to a BBC report, the SmartWig can be used “in addition to natural hair”, and will be able to process data and 
communicate wirelessly with other external devices, but without clarifying how data is available, perhaps the famous glasses: Google Glass, Vuzix, Telephaty and others.
Actually it is a wig, according to the definition of the patent at the USPTO (United States Trademark Office), the device is a ” Wearable computing device, comprising a wig that is adapted to cover at least a part of a head of a user, at least one sensor for providing input data, a processing unit that is coupled to the at least one sensor for processing said input data, and a communication interface that is coupled to the processing unit for communicating with a second computing device”, thus defined is the device of Japanese patent Sony.
Patent further states that have at least one sensor unit, “a processing unit and a communication interface” which are ´wig´ and at least ‘partially covered by wigs so as to be visually hidden during use”.
Also according to BBC News, citing analyst Andrew Milroy, the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, the BBC: “Wearable gadgets are definitely going to be one of the big areas of growth over the next two years” said Milroy.
Technology in the kitchen
02
Dec
The cut is the main feature of a good cook , and the cutting board is usually your fetish, already
invented many kinds: board , plastic and glass , but now Siobhan Andrews revolutionized with a board with touch (touchscreen), named Chop Syc , and has won some design competitions , as Engadget site .
Chop-Syc uses a WiFi ( wireless transmission ) system , weigh the ingredients , recipes and suggests measures the exact amount of each item used , who will cook by eyemeter ( measured at the eye) , but knows that certain weight can make a difference in taste .
As is scalable, ie it can multiply as the number of persons,
And beyond the economy according to Siobhan also own the main idea is to simplify the cattail healthy food , getting to be able to add an ingredient to his request for market and may even make a query in online shopping site .
The material is resistant glass , allowing the cut food without any damage to its structure and is also easy to clean.
Well , do not say if you can save recipes , if not , here I leave the suggestion .
Bon appetit ..
Software that helps scientific mining
30
Nov
Jaron Lanier wondered about consciousness and about the linguistic possibilities of computing 
as a musician thought in music , but as a researcher can think of the possibilities of support for scientific research , as was done at Baylor College of Medicine in collaboration with IBM .
According to a report in MIT Technology Review website, a software that reads more than 60 000 jobs, can assist in data findings across these studies .
The software parses sentences in the documents, and could build a new understanding of the known enzymes are kinases that are important for cancer treatment .
By analyzing this enzyme , the software it produced a list of other proteins that although the literature mention probably are not discovered kinases , but based on what he already knew , can they be identified .
The software was made in IBM Almanden Colloquium : the cognitive enterprise , on the 19th of November.
Most of his predictions tested so far resulted correct , according to researchers, usually in research spending could reach $ 500 million and $ 1 billion to develop a new drug , and 90 percent of the drugs tested to will never market, says Ying Chen , IBM researcher .
Web 3.0: coining words and give them meaning
22
Nov
Web is not just that I’m talking about, but also and especially of people, make sense,
especially human, the things around us requires thought and act more and more just on impulse .
On this blog I spoke earlier of the word selfie, but I have already spoken of Instagram and ordinary people and everyday landscapes that go through our day to day “photographic”, so too is the case of Web 3.0, or fashion trend?
John Markoff was who coined the word Web 3.0 in the New York Times , Web 2.0 has already happened , it created hundreds or thousands of applications ( Apps of considering the cell ) and included the common user as producer of information , now photos , posts , comments and ” hashtags ” are there calling our attention , but these people should ALWAYS be seen and heard , they were not.
The problem of our day to day , and also that the Web is a reflection and not an idealization of the day – to-day as some think , is that much that ” lacks ” direction , and found thousands of photos to look at , words and videos means that we need them or them offering new significance .
John Markoff suggested simple questions such as: “I’m looking for a warm place to vacation and I have a budget of $3,000. Oh, and I have an 11 year-old child”, but actually thought of business , as own title and article suggest, by example Spivak company, Radar Networks, working on the holding of the content of social computing sites , which allow users to collaborate in gathering and adding their thoughts to a large amount of contents, travel movies.
But Web 3.0 now seems to be finding its way , projects like DBpedia and VIAF ( Virtual International authorit File) are indicating a more social than technical , although it may contribute to this, there is still a way in this ” construction ” .
Windows 8.1 is released free
20
Nov
As the Microsoft , the Windows version 8.1 RT is available for free download , although the site itself know that a small number of user Surface tablet (according to site 1 problem in 1000) have found a problem installing this device .
The previous version called Preview no longer be available after January says the site , but there are few changes from this version , and the interface impacts some users because it does not have major changes , an already experienced by users is the integration with SkyDrive , which is very good.
The library of documents , pictures , music and videos are not gone , just not apparent , but you can through the Navigation Panel to make it visible (see aside).
The famous ( and somewhat uncomfortable ) buttons in the sidebar on the right side , the five buttons , “Search ” , ” Share ” , ” Start” , “Devices ” and ” Settings.” Where the most important is the latter, which leads to a new sidebar with several sets of settings to change the behavior and appearance of the interface, but it is certain that most users will not move it.
The old Start button , now reappears in the lower left corner of the desktop , where it was since Windows 95, but does not call the old Start menu is just a shortcut to the home screen , the new interface called Metro .
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But if you think getting nasty walking the mouse pointer until you find the exact corner where he opens the bar , you can open it directly with the shortcut “Windows C ” , but setting there is a way to open it , any triggering of a their functions buds combining with some Windows key with the character ” S ” to “Search ” , ” H ” to ” Share ” button to pure Windows ” Start” ( which leads to the Start screen ), “K” to “Devices ” and “I” to” Settings”, with some frequency of use, you will have to memorize.
Interactive map shows deforestation
18
Nov
The map developed by researchers at the University of Maryland, USA, shows the evolution of global deforestation data
since 2000, the Global Forest Change.
The application is available online for free, and the data on the map of Brazil clearly show that deforestation advances in the Midwest, Amazon, Pará and northeastern.
Data were collected from 350,000 images collected by the Landsat 7 and the data of the largest deforestation include Malaysia, Indonesia, Paraguay and Angola.
According to Matthew Hansen, Maryland professor who heads the project: “This is the first map of forest change that is consistent globally, and also under the relevant local aspect”, and hopefully an awareness overall.
The world can be seen as a whole in many ways, is a society-world.
Realities and fantasies of Web 3.0
14
Nov
In November 2006 , John Markoff wrote in the New York Times , using the term Web 3.0 , saying that she would find 
new ways of mining human intelligence : ” From the billions of documents that form the World Wide Web (WWW) and the links that bind them, computer scientists and a growing group of new businesses … ” (see New York Times).
Definitions vary enough from those who think the customization features to the Semantic Web and barrel , from costumes like Conrad Wolfram thinks that Web 3.0 will be the place where ” the computer will generate new information ” , even pessimistic as Andrew Keen ( the Cult of the Amateur) you see in Web 3.0 a return to experts and authorities , calling it ” unrealisable abstraction ” , the idea of connecting and organizing information on the Web
Consider a text actually founding text of James Handler , published in IEEE Computer January 2009 : ” Web 3.0 emerging ” on to explain that after countless laps around the Semantic Web technology has finally found that can help her accomplish – themselves.
The article explains the technology integrated into the emerging Semantic Web are already starting to produce results, from basic applications using RDF description ( in the description of resources, link data from multiple Web sites using a standard language SQL , the SPARQL query that RDF to connections that are ready in XML or OWL ontologies .
Far from being utopian , so the scenario of the Semantic Web is now real and results .
QR, what is
30
Oct
Being a two-dimensional code, QR (Quick Response) can store more information than exponentially
one -dimensional bar code (white and black is 0 is 1) , storing content information complex , adjacent to the URL , for example, directs this blog .
The code was generated from the Google url shortener , then selecting ” details” .
Using some gadget camera or scanner , the code is converted into text, which can then be interpreted as using the text ( interactive) , with a URI address , phone number , located georeferenced , an email, a contact or SMS .
The QR Code was first used in the production of vehicles, but is now used both in inventory management and inventory control in industry and commerce.
From 2003 applications were developed to facilitate users to enter data in mobile phone using the phone’s camera .
QR codes are also common in magazines and advertisements , to record addresses and URLs , as well as detailed personal information.
Study shows use of technology in teaching
28
Oct
The study Learning Objects in the Classroom: Resources , Methods and Strategies for Improving the Quality of Education was developed over two years by a research group at the University UNESP Araraquara in Brazil, that evaluated the performance of 400 students from eight classes 2 and 3 ° years of high school with the class of learning objects , which are the technological resources that allow some interaction with the content , such as animations , simulations and educational games .
The use of games is already common and integrating the game Minegraft , eg using building blocks ,
is now used worldwide to teach literacy and mathematics aggregate biology (photo )
Research has shown that students in the classroom who had used technological tools had higher yields by taking as a basis the average five or below this value had a gain of 51 % performance in physics and mathematics , the project is coordinated by Professor Silvio Fiscarelli department didactic UNESP Araraquara .
Also, students with an average above five , had an average gain of 13 % , showing that the appropriate use of technology is beneficial to education .
For the project were used 20 technological tools in the classroom, with some created by the core teaching of UNESP , but most was used for educational repositories as BIOE ( Bank for International Educational Objects ) and rived , the SEED program (Department of Education distance ) or translated in international repositories .
The project now has the support of FAPESP (Research Support Foundation of the State of São Paulo ) , and extend the study to 660 students , with 600 students being done in the three years of high school , and extended to the areas of Portuguese , chemical and philosophy.
Besides the training of teachers , this new phase will also include 35 notebooks , so that students no longer need to go to the computer lab with the activities are carried out within the classroom .
The advantage of being visible
15
Oct
Facebook has decided to disable a privacy feature that allowed users to restrict who could find by searching their profiles within 
the social network , while announcing a search engine competitor to Google (see note at O Globo) , so the question is visibility , unlike good movie ” the advantage of being invisible ” that discusses today’s teens .
Last year , many netizens had already disabled , but she allowed users to use them to bisbilhotas profiles and relationships in the social network without being known , is what makes many government agencies (see previous post ) .
The Facebook justified this removal percentage stating that ” single-digit ” of about 1.2 billion members who used the feature , but the fact is that this profile could be used for invasion of privacy , crimes and “security ” .
Users can continue to protect your privacy by limiting the public will have access to your posts ( just friends , certain groups or all users , for example) and can also prevent unwanted posts and give your opinion about negative campaigns that have invaded the network and also tags unwanted .
We remind users of the ” face” that can become invisible campaigns that denigrate the image of someone , or simply imprint fundamentalist nonsense , there is a tool on the side of each post to make these things invisible
