Second Life

The latest brain-computer interfaces meet smart home technology and virtual gaming

TWO friends meet in a bar in the online environment Second Life to chat about their latest tweets and favourite TV shows. Nothing unusual in that - except that both of them have Lou Gehrig's disease, otherwise known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and it has left them so severely paralysed that they can only move their eyes.

These Second Lifers are just two of more than 50 severely disabled people who have been trying out a sophisticated new brain-computer interface (BCI). Second Life has been controlled using BCIs before, but only to a very rudimentary level. The new interface, developed by medical engineering company G.Tec of Schiedlberg, Austria, lets users freely explore Second Life's virtual world and control their avatar within it.

It can be used to give people control over their real-world environment too: opening and closing doors, controlling the TV, lights, thermostat and intercom, answering the phone, or even publishing Twitter posts.

HTML5

Hey everyone...! I know I know, I don't even deserve to say sorry being gone so long, but I had some things I had to take care of. Anyways I am back now and I promise never to run away like dis ever again. SORRY all my readers for I ws nt here. Today I am gonna tell you all about HTML5.

 It is the fifth version of the standard HTML which aims at improving the language with support for the latest multimedia technology while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and other devices as well. HTML5 is intended to contain not only HTML4, but also XHTML1 and DOM Level 2 HTML as well...It contains detailed processing models to encourage more inter operable implementations---- it not only extends, but also improves and rationalizes the markup available for documents, and introduces markup and APIs for more complicated web applications hence making it completely suitable for cross platform mobile applications.

Moreover HTML5 can run on low powered devices hence making it even more desirable for applications being developed for smartphones or tablets....

HTML5 is also embedded with many new syntactical features like <audio>, <video> and <canvass> etc... and the Scalable Vector Graphic ( SVG) which replaces the use of generic <object> tags. 

Next up - 4G and 5G Technologies...!!!

                                            4G technology...!

 The 4G technology also popularly known as the 4rt Generation Technology is basically the extension of the 3G technology, by which I am sure all of you are well familiar. Though their is no proper definition to the 4G tech some people say that it is the future technologies that are in their maturity periods...

 What makes 4G different is basically the high quality audio/video streaming  all over end to end Internet Protocol. If the Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia sub-system movement achieves what it is going to do, nothing of this possibly will matter.WiMAX or mobile structural design will become progressively more translucent, and therefore the acceptance of several architectures by a particular network operators will be ever more common.

Google Whipped by Microsoft...! Pretty hard ;P

 Okay! Now I know I haven't posted for a while but I have a very good reason for that. I had my end semester exams going on... But now that they are over, I am back to you my friends... Here is something for you, believe me, I did a lot of work on this post...

Looks like Microsoft is really gonna be damn hard on Google this year. When Microsoft welcomed Google’s CEO Larry page as he assumed his new job, I don’t think it could have done any better on mocking…

First this software giant presented Office 365 beta, which proved to be far much better than any of the single aspects of Google’s Google Applications.  And now the news says that Microsoft has announced that it has bought Skype for $8.5 billion. What a smack on Google’s face. Page and Google could never look weaker. Looks like the IT world is spinning fast and Google seems to lack the run. Google is already far behind Microsoft in some of the most important areas as considered in the Information Technology world…

Microsoft now, can embed Skype with Office 365, adding audio and video calling features to Outlook and Web mail products. Now, even though Gmail has this audio/video calling feature attached to it, it really hasn’t gained much momentum, while Skype on the other hand, has maintained a large database of over 170 million satisfied users, and has a devilishly huge advantage over Google… Looks like the new emperor is on its way to claim its throne in the IT kingdom...