Microsoft Photosynth, Just Amazing!

Just imagine you go Paris on a tour. You have just your camera phone to hunt around clicking pictures. You don’t want to risk your memories to some bad quality video from a camera phone.

You return home and one of your friends asks you to show the pictures. He is impressed by the snaps and wishes if he/she could see that place in reality, if not at least a video of the place. Then you feel guilty about your decision to have only snaps.

Well! Those days are gone where you would have to face such a problem. Our old grandpa Microsoft has unveiled Photosynth. You might feel weird about the name but this is very interesting.

Microsoft’s livelabs has unveiled software named Photosynth. It pools together photos into synths that generates 3D panorama of the shot subject. On August 20 it was released to common public.

In simple words; it is a software which converts your two dimensional photographs in three dimensional objects. From the above mentioned situation, you can use this software to make your photographs in a 3D structure to let your friends feel the real thing. This software works by identifying common elements in a bunch of snaps, and creating a virtual 3D view of the subject, and placing the photos in the appropriate positions depending on the angle at which the subject was photographed. This means that more the number of photographs, the more clear and accurate would be the 3D representation.

In order to use this service it is necessary to download an installation file from the website (www.photosynth.com). The installation has two components, a browser for viewing synths and software for creating the synths.

This service is currently free and there is an upload limit of 20GB. Alas! This thing is still in its infancy and you would not get anything more than a very grainy 3D structure for your photographs. Well! This is a good thing to play around. So just ask your friend to take around a thousand snaps of yours, through different angles. And get ready to see a grainy yourself of you in a zoom able and movable 3D. Enjoy!

Hellooo! Don't get afraid! This Lungi clad person is none other than me. I was a bit thoughtful before posting this image. There was a single question in my mind,'what if my friends see this?' And now that fear has also gone. I have come on the path of Do or Die. Well! Today is a grate day. It is very pleasent today. No heat, no sweat and no hot blood. Afterall I am Happy today. Also it is not a guarantee for tomorrow. And that's all what is called Life! Have a good Day!

Wireless Power..... Do You Believe This?

I had to go for Mumbai form my hometown Muzaffarpur. As usual I was asked to book tickets for either train or a flight. But at that time I was in a jolly mood and started on my bike. I hope you can imagine what a long distance that would be! Well! I had asked my Mum to pack up some home made snacks. You know; I enjoy those a lot. For the sake of luggage I had a backpack which contained my Laptop, a few clothes, a water bottle, an ultimate power survival gadget and off course a good stack of currency notes.

It was going all fine before I stopped at some village in MP. I took a brake for around 8 hours. And that time was spent mostly sleeping and surfing internet on to my laptop. On my GPS enabled handset I came to know that I am 350 Km away from Bhopal. Just then my laptop batteries gave up. I had no way to charge up. Then I started on my cell phone itself. After a lot of multitasking my cell phone started giving low battery signals. Then I took out the gadget, connected it to phone and put that on my belt. Just after this I started for my next stop. The whole way I kept on receiving phone calls, even when the battery was out. How is that?

At Bhopal I decided to stay for half an hour and dropped at a restaurant. I took my Laptop out and kept it on the table. After fifteen minutes I switched it on. Viola! The battery was indicating full charge. I shut that down, packed up and started for my next stop…………

 

These are not the talks of distant future. M2E is going to launch a product which will charge electronic gadgets with human motion, just in case; even your mobile phone. It is another point that the technology is in its infancy.

Well! About the charging of a laptop must would have seemed a miracle. But it is not! A new technology is in its development stage, called as Wireless Resonant Energy Link (WREL). This is a technology which transmits power without cords and is developed by Intel. Just imagine………… an antenna at the terrace of every home, supplying power. Can you imagine a world without electric poles and underground electric cables? Your home just as a cell phone. You wouldn’t ever need to push the charger into the socket for charging. What do you think about this?

Well! That had been all about what I came to know today. It is really stunning. Don't you think so? The picture besides this article clears a bit but not enough for us to understand. At first glance I just refused to believe this but with the help of Uncle Google my doubts are cleared. If you have any get cleared it soon before it hogs your brain to make you kill yourself. Enjoy!