Photography and Internet has been taken to next dream level by technology.Here is a web technology that shows the near future’s richness in screen resolution and screen redraw.

Photosynth is a software that could change the way you look at digital images. It allows a bunch of similar photos of the same scene to automatically synchronize to reconstruct a interactive 3d view.Yes reconstructing the 3D view from the static photographs taken around the world.

Today ,We have the technology!! that challenges you that you have never seen a graphics like this before.

How it works

Photosynth examines pictures for similarities first and Seadragon technology browse through photos effortlessly, makes a bunch of thumbnails and waiting around for everything to load seamlessly.

Who did this
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth. Later this software was taken over by Microsoft .If this would have reached the hands of Apple to work with Mac book , it would have reached a great levels.

Here is the demo given by Blaise Aguera in TED Talk

Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? Yes google knows your online life on the web,at least when your logged in google.

What is google dashboard

Google dashboard is platform which gives the whole details of the online activities.You might me surprised and stunned to see these details stored by google.Nearly 35 products like Alerts, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Google Reader, Latitude, Voice ,Connect, Profile and more are listed in google dashboard.

A detailed summary of your usage is listed with direct links for you to control.Your given a chance to add or delete the activities in google dashboard

Just click here to have a look at your online activity
http://www.google.com/dashboard

Google has built this with greater transparency and control over our own data,To me its a best example of single-sign-on to access our wide data with single log in.Moreover information shared or summarised here are less important expect google checkout. Its a great effort from google as long as it protects our privacy and data.

To know more about Google dashboard Watch this quick video

I could hear this term “Cloud computing” very often these days.The trend of cloud computing has gained its popularity in the recent economic crisis,Yes its a saviour for the business-driven company where they spend money in buying, installing, updating and maintaining systems and software.

What is cloud computing

Cloud computing comes into focus only when your non-IT business has website and you have the difficulty to maintain and manage the systems and software.Its basically pay-per-use service, adding or removing the resource(software’s and Systems) is done on the fly as the business demands.

Simply,Cloud computing is nothing but cost-saving computing to your company.

What is the business benefits in Cloud computing?

During Peak hours,the resource added by cloud computing and During Off-Peak hours,the resource reduced by cloud computing.profit or loss,finally your billed as similar to pay-for-what-you-use model resembles the way electricity, fuel and water are consumed.

classification of Cloud computing are

1.Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) :
A virtual server instances with unique IP addresses and blocks of storage on demand.
2.Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) :
A set of software and product development tools hosted on the provider’s infrastructure.
3.Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) :
vendor supplies the hardware infrastructure, the software product and interacts with the user through a front-end portal.

Industry leaders to provide cloud computing
1.Amazon
2.google
3.Salesforce

Video on cloud computing

Nintendo has developed a video game Wii Fit for Non-gamers(not much interested in video games).Its a great fusion of technology with video games,with this proposition Wii Fit becomes the third best selling video game in the history(21.82 million copies till June 2009)

Fun-Filled video games
Wii Fit Balance Board peripheral which can withstand 150kg is given with various options for playing your favourite fun-filled games.Over 40 exercises are split into four different categories as yoga, muscle, aerobic, and balance. unlike regular video games this game is specifically designed to reduce your waist size with fun-filled body movements.

Health watch
Given the height and weight,user’s BMI is calculated and categorized as underweight, ideal, or overweight. Your given choice to build the muscle or to burn the calories hence your results are calculated programmatic as per your time spend on the board. Players can customise their personal fitness goal by playing soccer,ski jumps,swivel hips ,hoop twirls and much more!. Everything will calculated right from the scratch and your given options add the calories burnt in Gym. finally you can watch these statistics and find the motivation to practice every day.

Fun-filled games and entertainment
Wii Fit is really family entertainment which brights your holiday with whole family in the embedded social games.Its time to relax now ,so nintendo has recently joined hands with netflix for streaming 12000 choices movies with one-time fee of 9.99 USD.

Video gives visual features of Wii Fit

Eric Giler is man with source of admiration, who is evidencing the hard work and commitment his team had to deliver electricity without wires. Finally you can charge your mobile phones, laptop etc wirelessly and dream of “Wireless world” is not very far.

WiTricity, stands for wireless electricity.It’s a new technology of coupling between electromagnetic resonant objects to transfer energy wirelessly.A method to transfer electric power through the air to charge your electronic device.Next generation electric cars in your garage may be charged wirelessly.

WiTricity may help us to save over $1 trillion in infrastructure and more than 40 billion disposable batteries every year.

Demo given will charge the flat panel television wirelessly,T-Mobile G1 and Apple iPhone. Having WiFi and WiTricity might gain the remote access to the whole house very soon.

Optoma Pico is an award-winning pocket projector, also recommended by Apple. Begin an early bird , chasing the office assistant to set-up the big projector, gone those days.

The Pico Projector is light enough to fit in your pocket or backpack, yet great enough to project pictures, videos on most surfaces varying in desired image size by simply moving the projector forward or backward. This is perfect travel companion, to give presentation anywhere you go.

Features
It just weigh 4 oz./113 g including battery.It provides 1000:1 contrast ratio for viewing the images up to 152 cm. It supports DLP Pico technology and LED light source which lasts over 20,000 hours with rechargeable battery via USB or AC adapter.You can also project your favorite video or movie anywhere any time that is stored in mobile devices.

Technical specifications
1.Battery life: Up to 1.5 hours
2.Image size: 6 to 60 in./15 to 152 cm
3.Projection distance: 10 to 102 in./25.4 to 259.1 cm
4.Audio: One 0.5 W speaker

Advantages
1.Extremely portable
2.Connects to iPhone,iPod,camcorder and standard composite video.
3.Rechargeable batteries.

Forgiven dis-advantage
1.In-built speaker not audible enough,Needs external speaker.
2.Needs a darker room for a better result.

Optoma Pico is a smallest projector you’ve ever seen and its great combination to project your movie from iPod Touch and Bose speakers.Ad agencies and Photographers could leverage its stylish design and portability as part of their presentation.

In the recent years search engine contest has reached its peak and hope it will be there forever.

Though MSN and Yahoo were parents in search engine, they are old to join old-age home. Bing, a fusion child of MSN has joined the search engine contest recently. Begin young and dynamic on its 11th birthday, Google takes the top position in the search engine market.

Here is a tool which compares Bing and Google in the screen by the sides.
http://www.bing-vs-google.com/

Firefox users can have their Add-on here, i wish horizontal scroll on both of screen will look great.

I would definitely say that Bing has improved a lot in searching relevant results, look and feel and the way it organize the search result.

Recall the story “a hare who ridicules a slow-moving tortoise”. Though Google started later than MSN and Yahoo, it leads the race, may be hare is sleeping and yes its going to be never ending race in the search engine contest.

Apple’s iPod Touch is an electronic wand in the hands consumers. It provides the gesture features with the multi-touch GUI technology. Its Wifi feature makes it a mini laptop to browse and download. Neither a strict diet nor a tough workout is needed for the apple product to look smart and slim; topology of iPod touch proves that.

Apple’s iPod Touch…aah a list pops up in mind

Is it Portable media player?
Yes, with music player and you Tube client.

Is it personal digital assistance device?
Yes, with email client, Google Maps and so on.

Is it mini laptop to browse?
Yes, with WiFi capability.

Is it providing voice chat?
Yes, with voip apps like Skype.

iPod Touch = iPhone – phone
Altogether iPod touch has the all the feature of iphone expect phone and camera facility.

Apple’s 2nd generation iPod Touch comes with
1. in-built Wi-Fi.
2. 480×320 px at 163 ppi screen resolution.
3. Multi-touch screen interface with volume rocker buttons.
4. iPhone OS 3.0. (current version 3.1 released 09/09/09 )
5. 533 MHz CPU and 128 MB DRAM.
6. Rechargeable, built-in lithium battery and built-in audio speaker.
7. up to 6 hours of video playback or up to 36 hours of audio playback.
8. 110×61.8×8.5 mm (4.3×2.4×0.33 in) and weigh 115 gm.
9. iTunes 9.0 with Wi-Fi music store access.
10. Safari web browser, You tube client, email client, google maps.
11. Access to starbucks music (available in selected cities across the United States)
12. Widgets to support stocks, weather and social media applications.
13. Bluetooth.
14. 8, 32, or 64 GB flash memory.
15. Support OpenGL ES 2.0 for next-generation games.
16. Support for 480p and 576p component TV and video output .

Existing 20 million
iPod Touch users(until September 2009) can have the latest download of iTunes 9.0 and iPhone OS 3.1 here.

Today Apple has announced its new price tag for latest iPod Touch which comes with iPhone OS 3.1 and iTunes 9.0 .
8GB $199 32GB $299 64GB $399

Here is video demo for

2nd Generation iPod Touch

1st Generation iPod Touch

Nokia with proven records in electronics has joined the race in delivering world class smart phone. Nokia N900 is a complete smartphone with dyanmic features,it is desgined to preform multitasking in linx platform. With no delay its expected to be launced in oct 2009.

Nokia N900 is an innovative smartphone to stimulate a computer and internet in the mobile. Its will be of great support to the business travellers, much more handy than Nokia Booklet 3G. Nokia well-known tradition for its battery life, N900 is promised for 9 hours of talk time.

Nokia’s first Linux-based Maemo handset will be delivered with
1. ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz processor
2. 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)
3. OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration
4. 3.5inch touch screen
5. 800 × 480 pixel resolution
6. 32GB of storage, expandable upto 48GB via microSD card
7. 5MP camera and Carl Zeiss optics.
8. 1320mAh battery
9. 110.9 × 59.8 × 18mm dimension and 181g weight
10. Maemo browser falvoured by Mozilla technology
11. Internet connectivity with 10/2 HSPA and WLAN
12. Adobe Flash 9.4
13. Video recording at up to 848 × 480 pixels (WVGA) and up to 25fps
14. slide-out QWERTY
15. TV Out and FM Transmitter
16. 9 hours of talk time.
17. Voice call with webcam

 Lets wait and watch how Maemo hits the market very soon

Google Maps is well know travel navigator with the updated version of map. Google is now providing the new feature of “Live Traffic”, just by selecting the button “Traffic”. Map coloring is also enabled to show the traffic status in your city.

Red – Heavy traffic
Red and Black – Stop and slow moving traffic
Yellow – Medium traffic
Green – Free to go

In case if your jammed in the traffic, No problem your given option to select the alternate routes in your mobile phones, just zooming goggle maps on a particular city will give latest traffic details.

How is goggle providing you this “Live traffic” status?
Yes , it might be from your friends mobile phones.

Everybody on the road, all at once, could tell the world how fast their car is moving. Some phones, such as the Google Android , myTouch 3G and the Palm Pre, come with Google Maps and traffic “crowdsourcing” pre-installed (however, iPhone does not support traffic crowdsourcing).

With GPS and “My Location” option enabled on your phone, Google receives data sent from your mobile to describe how fast the traffic is moving. Having this enabled in more mobiles will give the better resulting of live-traffic report.