Neurocam that records automatically what interest us

 In 20^th century it takes so much of time to take photo with a normal camera as we have to open the shutter and then click on the button. In this span of time the incident may disappear. So to overcome this problem a latest technological device called Neurocam has been introduced.

Neurocam system includes a headband equipped to hold an iphone next to the wearer’s temple. The phone is fitted with a special prism so that the camera can record footage from the wearer’s point of view. The headset also includes EEG sensors that can scan your brain for correlative spikes in interest. The Neurocam iphone application assigns the EEG data a value from 0 to 100.                            

                                          

                                         Fig: Electroencephalography reading

Neurocam uses brain wave sensorslike as in the moving cat ears and TV navigation, but this time hooks up with your smart phone camera. This prototype, demoned at last week at Japan’s Human sensing 2013 conference gauges your interest on a scale of 0 to 100 and if your brain wave redout tops 60, it will start to record video, eventually transforming the footage into five second GIFs. In order to get the iphone camera to eye-view, the smartphone connects to a headband which houses the brainwave sensor. Sideways on the camera sensor then faces through a prism so its looking at what you are looking at…and not just inside of your ear.

                                                      

                                                       Fig: Neurocam system

                                                    

                                                     Fig: wearing of Neurocam system

The experimental wearable, barring the smartphone hanging off, looks pretty similar to other brain wave reading wearables, although the addition of an I phone will certainly make it weighter in comparision. The neurocam is the latest product to come from the neurowear project, which already gave us the aforementioned Nekomimi cat ears. We are not sure how comfortable we’d feel having all those radio waves near to our need for an extended period, although according to Digi info news, this device, including its current design and shape are still in the throes of development for now. The world always needs more GIFs.

                                                            It may look like poor man’s Google glass, but don’t let the iphone strapped to the side of your head thing fool you, neurocam and its accompanying app may foretell the future of advertising.

                                                         

                                                                 Fig: Necomimi cat ears

                                   

                           

                                      

      

                                                          Fig: screen of iphone while recording

                                                            Before the introduction of this Neurocam the status of a person is recognized based on the different types of waves produced by the brain. For every type of wave produced by the brain the mood of a person is stated. But now based on the frequency range of the brain waves the meter reading of the neurocam varies.       

                                                       

                                                  

                                                                 Fig: Different types of brain waves

                                                            Because this system is hands free, we think it could capture a life log, which would be different from deliberately pressing a shutter to capture things you like. As an application in a B2B environment Neurocam could determine what goods in stores interest people. And because the information includes position data, you can do mapping, so it could also show what places people are interested in as an aid for urban development planning. We think it could be used in lots of ways like that.

                                                            The algorithm for quantifying brain waves was co-developed by Associate professor Yasue Mitsukura at Keio University.

                                                            It is probably not a good idea to wear the camera during speed dating or shopping though you’d probably end up with way to many unnecessary GIFs. Not to mention you will look ridiculous.

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EVO MOUSE

Hi friends, let us now look in to new technology regarding evolution of mouse. Mouse was firstly invented in 1960 by Douglas Englebart  to interact with computer screen which is made of wood and has two perpendicular wheels which are used to track the movements and to translate into motion along one axis. The first mouse model has a cord attached to rear part of device which was looking like a tail which resembles the common mouse.

Later on mechanical type of mouse was invented which is also called ball type mouse, replaced the external wheels which were there in first mouse. The ball has two wheels embedded in it; the rotation of each wheel is translated in motion along one axis. But it was hard to operate as ball moves only on flat surfaces and on some mouse pads only.

To overcome the wheel structure an alternate mouse was developed and is called optical mouse, which has optical source like LED , on movement of light the cursor used to find the path on computer screen.  Since LED is noncoherent (not in particular direction) the power used by device is more and the mouse is unable to operate on opaque surfaces.

Laser type of mouse is developed which emits light in particular direction which make mouse to use less power consumption and even laser is operable on opaque surfaces. Later on gyroscopic mouse was introduced which allows user to access the mouse in air. Since then nothing has been changed.

Now CELLUON company introducing EVO mouse a dog shaped device which sits at one side and gives access the user to use any surface close to like touch pad. No hand held device in hand. User no more have to carry the mouse and move it in order to move the pointer on the screen. Now you have to do is to move the finger on the surface and the pointer will move accordingly.

                                    

HOW IT WORKS?

When the EVO mouse is connected via USB or Bluetooth, two lights emit from the device which tracks your finger and enables you to perform your task just like an ordinary mouse.

EVO mouse is developed with Electronic perception technology which is single chip imaging technology the enables electronics components to form a 3D map of their surroundings. With this virtual keyboard is possible which make user to feel the keyboard in front of them and work on. A system is embedded in it which will detect which key is pressed.

FUNCTIONALITIES:

As I said before EVO mouse converts the flat surface into a touch pad. It allows the usual mouse functions and beyond to it. On the surface in front of device if we

Tap once=single click

Double tapping =double click

One finger holding and next finger tapping=right click

Double tapping and dragging=scroll

We can even perform rotate, zoom, forward, backward, and by using our finger we can write and draw.

EVO mouse is convenient to use and setup and it works with all PC’s. It is truly evolution of mouse.

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