Friday, December 5, 2008

Technology Bytes

Indian Animation Industry

Indian Animation industry was worth 460 million $ in 2008 and by 20011 its supposed to be a Billion dollar Industry in India. India was host to 85 animation movies being produced in India as per announcements made. 28 movies are in different stages of execution right now.

But the sector faces a lot of problems like shortage of skilled manpower and infrastructure problems. Also the quality of work is still not at par to the international standards, affecting export work. But the potential is there.

The animation industry in India is growing at 27% whereas the education sector is growing at a rate robust 40%. All healthy indicators if you want to choose animation as your career, but the fees may be steep at some premium Institutes like the Mumbai Andheri based ZIMA and Xaviers Mumbai.

RegEdit

You may have sometimes tried multiple Virus programs to remove all the Viruses from your m/c as a typical program detects only 30% of all threats. Some times even on removing the Virus Program the ensuing installations may detect the previous Software . This may happen because the registry may have some residual keys related to the software which is not removed while uninstalling from Add/Remove Programs option.

Hence to remove these last traces click start/Run , type Regedit and press enter, registry editor will be opened. Search for the program for example in the find option menu type AVG 8 and search for keys . Locate the entry key by Right Clicking and selecting the locate key option and delete the entry. This will now allow you to install the other programs. Also delete other not required entries of uninstalled program to reduce the size and load of the registry.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Technology Galore

Micro Robotic’s

THERE are people who think in the slot, there are people who think out of the box. Robots were always supposed to be large clunky Human like objects with animated features to assist Human beings. But currently work is on in various universities for the use of Robotics in treating diseases including surgeries inside the body. Capsule sized robots are injected into the body which enters the body and assemble to provide surgery capabilities within stomach and intestine. So after all a incision free surgery procedure using technological Robots. Some thing cool and great.

But the concept is in research stage and current success rate is 75%.

Planning Obsolescence of Your Technological Products

New products every three months. On how you use your technological products is totally upto your flair and income. There is always a saturation in any product category. You buy a I-Pod of 80 GB capacity carrying 30,000 songs capacity. How long would you stick to this product. Even if you are a Music Maniac you probably would get saturated with the product in a couple of months.

Similar to the Music Players and PMP’s you have your phone. If there is a breakthrough technology like introduction of 3G in India or some other tech like LTE in US or 4G for higher internet and downloading speeds, one need not go for a costly upgrade unless you are a millionaire and are doing all the shopping for gifting and snob appeal alone.

So while buying a new product make sure that you keep the utility and value at the forefront and make a decision which you do not regret on a later date.


Perception Centers

Now the research in VR is taking on a new dimension, experiencing other bodies as part your own bodies. Experiments on this have been conducted in StockHolms Karolina Institute. Volunteers tested on the experiment and reported sensations accurately of owning other bodies and getting a feeling that it is our own.

The application of the technology could be in VR applications like Second Life in which user could use VR to enter into the body of their virtual avatar at SL or other community and interact with other friends and enemies at the community and get a better experience of the whole deal.




Dell Studio XPS

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