Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Compact Drones

When is a surveillance camera more of a liability than an asset?

When it's out of reach - as in you need to call the crew to get to it.

Enter the world of the compact drone - as in - anything can be a drone - or, anything has drone capability.

Think of the limitless possibilities! To install a camera on top of the street-light, you deploy a drone-cam. When it gets there, it installs itself and retracts the rotors, etc.. Looks just like another camera - with some excess baggage..

When you need to get it, you signal it and it deploys rotors, etc and homes in!

Beat GOOG to it FB!

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Gimme a Bluetooth

module that I can put in my personal PC's USB port which will lock the screen (I might be connected using M$'s Remote Desktop Connection) if it detects my smartphone is too far away (implying I've stepped away from my desk).

How can we pull this off?

Saturday, March 26, 2016

What Can You Build for Virtuix? Rover Real Telepresence Tours

Your walking to work one day and what do you see - a cute robot dog or whatever moving around and its head turning unrealistically... What's going on? You're Macedonian, but a dude in Kentucky is taking a tour That's what!

Why has no one cashed in on this?

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Next : Google Government

Fancy the idea of being a small country - economically maybe - and inviting Google to run your country - with the idea of transformation into a successful state? Maybe Niger can try this - or are they not small enough?

Thursday, March 10, 2016

iPhone *As* a Rear View Mirror for Evidence Collection

Why not? It would be a bit of VR - it sees the rear view, it knows where your eyes are and it shows you what you need to know in an intelligent, augmented way..

Of course, there's always the default rear view mirror - it's illegal to drive without one.. but, now, when you have your phone, you insert it, and it looks both in front and behind, collects useful information - you get credit for passing a stream onto law-enforcement agencies, etc, etc - the possibilities are endless.

Come on Joyce, come on Fernando, you can do it!

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Why Doesn't Use Machine Vision : Yogurtland

Guilty - I get about an ounce of yogurt in free samples and then pay for about an ounce.

Now, with my limited knowledge, I think it's pretty simple to hook up a camera that looks at the dispensing area to see if the receptacle is a regular cup (as opposed to a sample cup). Then, when you see the guy's just getting a sample, you only dispense 0.4 Oz.

You dig?

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

iPhone 8 Camera Dynamic CFA

Why a static CFA?

Use MEMS to do a filter that can change its band. Did red, now do blue, now do green.. Okay, you take longer, but, no more interpolation. You get REAL image quality and resolution!