Google Earth is a tool that useful . It can show the picture of every place , many street view , tell the way that you want.
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My school (Sorry, I can't fine my house T_T)
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Google Map - Google Earth
If you want to know the way in travelling , you must use some tools. A tool in the all , it is Google Earth.
Google Earth is a tool that useful . It can show the picture of every place , many street view , tell the way that you want.
Google Earth is a tool that useful . It can show the picture of every place , many street view , tell the way that you want.
Google Maps-Street view
If you will traveled , How did you know real place that you will traveled ? For I , I use Google Maps-Street view.
In Google Maps-Street view . It can explain about Environment , people and everything in place that you want to travel.
Example : I want to travel at Japan.
Open wepsite of Google Maps-Street view
Mount Fuji
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Nijo-jo Castle
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Adachi Museum of Art
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Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go
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Microphone Turns Your Fingertip Into A Speaker
Touch your finger to someone's ear, and they'll hear your recorded message whispering to them.
Turn your body into another kind of wonderland: A new invention from Disney Research lets you record messages to your friends that they can hear only if you touch your finger to their ears. That is, your finger and your friend's ear together form a speaker that lets your friend hear your message.
The trick depends on a special microphone that Disney Research engineers invented. Named Ishin-Den-Shin for the Japanese term for "tacit understanding," the microphone records sounds and then renders them into a high-voltage, low-current, inaudible signal. The only way to hear the sound is to have someone hold the microphone and touch his or her finger to your ear. The sound is also able to move through more than one body, so if Alice is holding the microphone, Bobby can touch Alice's shoulder and Christy's ear to transmit the message to Christy. You can watch the Ishin-Den-Shin at work in a video from Disney Research.
Bodies are able to transmit sounds as electrical signals, Trevor Cox, an acoustic engineer at the University of Salford in the U.K., explained to the BBC. Cox also told the BBC that using a system like Ishin-Den-Shin probably feels pretty magical.
So what is Disney planning to do with this new magic? It's not immediately clear. Disney Research makes a lot of neat things that aren't immediately practical, such as devices that turn potted plants into touch-controlled devices. (I tried one such "control orchid" at SIGGRAPH 2012 and wavered constantly between "This is cool" and "This is weirdly useless.") But you never know when findings in one field will translate to another, and we hear playing around is the best way to learn.
The trick depends on a special microphone that Disney Research engineers invented. Named Ishin-Den-Shin for the Japanese term for "tacit understanding," the microphone records sounds and then renders them into a high-voltage, low-current, inaudible signal. The only way to hear the sound is to have someone hold the microphone and touch his or her finger to your ear. The sound is also able to move through more than one body, so if Alice is holding the microphone, Bobby can touch Alice's shoulder and Christy's ear to transmit the message to Christy. You can watch the Ishin-Den-Shin at work in a video from Disney Research.
Bodies are able to transmit sounds as electrical signals, Trevor Cox, an acoustic engineer at the University of Salford in the U.K., explained to the BBC. Cox also told the BBC that using a system like Ishin-Den-Shin probably feels pretty magical.
So what is Disney planning to do with this new magic? It's not immediately clear. Disney Research makes a lot of neat things that aren't immediately practical, such as devices that turn potted plants into touch-controlled devices. (I tried one such "control orchid" at SIGGRAPH 2012 and wavered constantly between "This is cool" and "This is weirdly useless.") But you never know when findings in one field will translate to another, and we hear playing around is the best way to learn.
Big Pic: Frog That Got Too Close To A Rocket Will Make You Laugh, Cry
This frog launched into the air by the LADEE rocket will fill you with emotions you didn't know you could produce, is what I'm saying.
So: Space Frog. What can we say about this Space Frog? A quick eulogy perhaps, since this frog, which apparently got too close to the LADEE spacecraft launchpad last Friday, almost certainly went splat shortly after this photo was taken.
But also, it's hard not to laugh, because ha, Space Frog, right? A frog, launched into the air by a spacecraft on its way to the moon. Comedy.
Apparently the launchpad at Wallops/Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport uses a pool of water to blunt the sound of a rocket firing and prevent damage to the platform. Space Frog was there, perhaps, enjoying his evening, when the rocket launched, propelling him into the air.
But Space Frog will remain, permanently floating in this photograph, and forever in our hearts and minds. Godspeed, Space Frog. Godspeed.
But also, it's hard not to laugh, because ha, Space Frog, right? A frog, launched into the air by a spacecraft on its way to the moon. Comedy.
Apparently the launchpad at Wallops/Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport uses a pool of water to blunt the sound of a rocket firing and prevent damage to the platform. Space Frog was there, perhaps, enjoying his evening, when the rocket launched, propelling him into the air.
But Space Frog will remain, permanently floating in this photograph, and forever in our hearts and minds. Godspeed, Space Frog. Godspeed.
GE's Silent MRI Scanner Has Hit The Market
Quiet scans for everyone!
GE Healthcare says they're ushering in a future full of silent MRIs with Silent Scan, a new way to reduce noise in MRI scanning that just hit the commercial market. The press materials are a little coy about how this actually works, but say that it's a "radically new" way to acquire magnetic resonance data: "in combination with proprietary high-fidelity gradient and [radiofrequency] system electronics, noise is not merely dampened; it is virtually eliminated at the source."
GizMag explained it this way:
Basically, it's a software update that changes the way the scanner acquires the image.
According to GE, the typical MRI scanner generates 110 decibels of noise when it's hard at work, which is about the same noise level as a rock concert or a steel mill. One study found that certain MRI scanners could get up to 118 decibels at their loudest point. The Silent Scanner system, which reduces the volume of the scanner to normal background noise levels, quiet enough to have a conversation over. It's now commercially available in their 1.5T and 3.0T scanners (the T refers to the unit tesla, the way to measure the strength of a magnetic field), and has been used in a hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich.
MRI scanners do a good job of imaging the brain to help doctors find potential health problems. But the experience of actually sitting in one leaves something to be desired. Aside from being cramped and claustrophobic, MRI scanners can get LOUD.
GE Healthcare says they're ushering in a future full of silent MRIs with Silent Scan, a new way to reduce noise in MRI scanning that just hit the commercial market. The press materials are a little coy about how this actually works, but say that it's a "radically new" way to acquire magnetic resonance data: "in combination with proprietary high-fidelity gradient and [radiofrequency] system electronics, noise is not merely dampened; it is virtually eliminated at the source."
GizMag explained it this way:
First, acoustic noise is essentially eliminated by using a new 3D scanning and reconstruction technique called Silenz. When the Silenz protocol is used in combination with GE's new high-fidelity MRI gradient and RF system electronics, the MRI scanning noise is largely eliminated at its source.
According to GE, the typical MRI scanner generates 110 decibels of noise when it's hard at work, which is about the same noise level as a rock concert or a steel mill. One study found that certain MRI scanners could get up to 118 decibels at their loudest point. The Silent Scanner system, which reduces the volume of the scanner to normal background noise levels, quiet enough to have a conversation over. It's now commercially available in their 1.5T and 3.0T scanners (the T refers to the unit tesla, the way to measure the strength of a magnetic field), and has been used in a hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dogs Are Perfectly Happy To Socialize With Robots
Dogs will interact with social machines. But will dogs assist the robots in taking over the world?
In the centuries-old best friendship between dogkind and humankind, humans are apparently easily replaced with robots. Seemingly loyal canines are totally willing to interact with cold, hard machines, according to a new study in Animal Cognition, gazing lovingly at their robot faces and finding hidden foodstuffs that the robot pointed to. Robots, stop taking things away from us!
The study investigated whether or not dogs would be willing to interact with an unfamiliar robot. It found that the dogs would interact with a cyborg--if the robot seemed like a social being, as evidence by its ability to talk to the dog and its owner.
The PeopleBot telepresence robot used in the study looks a lot like "piece of gym equipment with a white gloved hand attached to it," as the study's press release notes. It would be hard for a dog to actually mistake it for a human being.
For the "social" condition, the robot, which has a movable arm and a touchscreen for a face, was programmed with pre-recorded words and sentences spoken by a human voice. The dog's owner would walk into the room and shake hands with the robot, and walk around the room talking with it, to indicate that the robot was a social being. The robot would then call the dog's name and drop food on the floor for it. The asocial robot would make beeping sounds instead of calling the dog by name, and the dog's owner would type on its keyboard instead of talking to it.
While the dogs didn't interact with the robot to the same extent that they normally do with humans, they spent more time hanging out near the robot or looking at its touchscreen head when the robot behaved socially. They were better at finding hidden food in the room when the social robot pointed to it, rather than the asocial one, though neither held a candle to the results when a human pointed to the food.
The study's authors write that dogs "can provide information on how to construct an efficient and believable social robot partner." Before you build a robot maid or gardener, test how much your dog likes it, is what they're saying.
The study investigated whether or not dogs would be willing to interact with an unfamiliar robot. It found that the dogs would interact with a cyborg--if the robot seemed like a social being, as evidence by its ability to talk to the dog and its owner.
The PeopleBot telepresence robot used in the study looks a lot like "piece of gym equipment with a white gloved hand attached to it," as the study's press release notes. It would be hard for a dog to actually mistake it for a human being.
For the "social" condition, the robot, which has a movable arm and a touchscreen for a face, was programmed with pre-recorded words and sentences spoken by a human voice. The dog's owner would walk into the room and shake hands with the robot, and walk around the room talking with it, to indicate that the robot was a social being. The robot would then call the dog's name and drop food on the floor for it. The asocial robot would make beeping sounds instead of calling the dog by name, and the dog's owner would type on its keyboard instead of talking to it.
While the dogs didn't interact with the robot to the same extent that they normally do with humans, they spent more time hanging out near the robot or looking at its touchscreen head when the robot behaved socially. They were better at finding hidden food in the room when the social robot pointed to it, rather than the asocial one, though neither held a candle to the results when a human pointed to the food.
The study's authors write that dogs "can provide information on how to construct an efficient and believable social robot partner." Before you build a robot maid or gardener, test how much your dog likes it, is what they're saying.
World's First 'Invisible' Skyscraper Is Not Made Of Metamaterials, Sadly
Still really weird and cool, though
We've long been interested in the progression of invisibility, which, for us, usually relies on crazy foundations like metamaterials. So when we heard that U.S.-based GDS Architects was working on an invisible skyscraper in South Korea, our ears perked up. Turns out it's not invisible in the scientific sense—it's just designed to appear that way.
GDS received permission this week from the South Korean government to begin construction on the Tower Infinity, located just outside of Seoul. It's a huge (1,476 feet tall), glassy structure, and when it's finished, it'll have the third-highest observation deck in the world. (The highest is the Canton Tower in Guangzhou, China.)
The invisibility trick is achieved by using optical cameras paired with an LED facade on all sides of the building. The idea is that the cameras will capture what's behind the tower and then the facade will host a projection of that image, so it'll feel like you're looking right through it. It's the same basic idea as the "invisible computer monitor" trick, except updating live thanks to the optical cameras.
GDS received permission this week from the South Korean government to begin construction on the Tower Infinity, located just outside of Seoul. It's a huge (1,476 feet tall), glassy structure, and when it's finished, it'll have the third-highest observation deck in the world. (The highest is the Canton Tower in Guangzhou, China.)
The invisibility trick is achieved by using optical cameras paired with an LED facade on all sides of the building. The idea is that the cameras will capture what's behind the tower and then the facade will host a projection of that image, so it'll feel like you're looking right through it. It's the same basic idea as the "invisible computer monitor" trick, except updating live thanks to the optical cameras.
The tower will have three different vertical sections, dividing the tower into thirds. Each section has six sides, to make it easier to display an accurate image behind it. (With fewer sides, it would be near-impossible to make sure the invisibility trick works well from all angles.)
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