Military Science & Technology Competition (MSTC-I)

Participant  from Himalaya College of Engineering in Military Science & Technology Competition (MSTC-I) conducted on 25th and 26th Falgun 2070 at Army Physical Training and Sports Center, Lagankhel, Nepal.

Virtual keyboard developed to support wearable electronics

Researchers at Mälardalen University in Sweden have created a virtual keyboard which they claim will change how people work and use new technology.

The keyboard comprises two bracelets which are placed around the wrists or over the hands. Embedded sensors allow the bracelets to 'feel' the position of the fingertips and to determine which 'key' is touched. Meanwhile, the user would be able to see a keyboard using, for example, Google Glasses. The two units also function as a mouse and an input for gesture recognition.

"Keyboards today look almost the same and work in almost the same way as 19th Century typewriters," said Lars Asplund, Professor Emeritus in Robotics at Mälardalen University. "Our virtual keyboard makes possible a completely new form of interaction and offers relative positions which may for instance decrease the risk for repetitive strain injury."

Applications for the innovation include the removal of the computer screen as a barrier and use by those who want to avoid the ergonomic problems common with physical keyboards and mice.

"This project has a great potential and can be completed in a year," Prof Asplund noted, "but we need additional funding to develop the hardware design, manufacture a series, and launch the product on the market."

Freescale opens industrial teaching lab

Looking to help students embarking on a career in industrial engineering, Freescale has opened a dedicated teaching lab at the University of Warwick.

The Electronic Systems technology lab features 70 workstations with Freescale's Kinetis K70F120M Tower Kits, along with RGB screens and data acquisition modules.

Students will also be given a Kinetis FRDM-KL25Z Freedom board for personal use.

Flavio Stiffan, who is responsible for the University Programmes EMEA at Freescale, said: "The addition of the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick to the portfolio of Universities featuring Freescale Teaching Labs provides students with state of the art technology to prepare them for a career in industrial and automotive sectors.

"Students can achieve greater employability by learning with the technologies that will shape applications for years to come."

- See more at: http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-news/freescale-opens-industrial-teaching-lab/61342/#sthash.IHmk4bLQ.dpuf

Broadcast live video from your smartphone

Live broadcasting once required cameras, cables and satellite trucks. Today, just a smartphone will do.

Mobli, an Israeli company with a $60-million dollar investment from billionaire Carlos Slim, updated their app Thursday to allow users to stream live video from their mobile phone for a large audience of users to watch in real time.

Apple's (AAPL, Fortune 500) FaceTime and Skype have made live video conversations a reality, but Mobli promises that its technology has the potential to let millions of users see exactly what your smartphone lens is seeing."

Mobli's CEO and Founder, Moshe Hogeg, hears lots of comparisons of his photo-sharing app to its more famous competitor Instagram, which is owned byFacebook (FB, Fortune 500). Hogeg believes the app's new video-streaming feature will set his company apart from the crowded photo-sharing market.

"There's Coca-Cola (KO, Fortune 500) and there's Pepsi (PEP, Fortune 500); there's WhatsApp and there's WeChat," Hogeg says. "And we think the world is big enough to have a few companies in the same industry."

Mobile apps have become ubiquitous for protests from Cairo to Kiev to Caracas -- enabling demonstrators to capture and then share ground-level images. With this app, a protester could broadcast non-stop video of exactly what he or she was seeing live.

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For the moment, you need to have the Mobli app to watch a live broadcast, but the company says in a matter of weeks anyone will be able to watch the streaming video on a website regardless of whether they're a Mobli user or not.

"The main reason I think live streaming will work is that for the first time the infrastructure allows you to do broadcasting in a way that it never allowed you before: the speed of the Internet connection and the quality of the devices we have in the market," Hogeg says.

He acknowledges that in some countries where mobile internet connections are still slow, this service won't but ideal just yet.

With the tens of millions of dollars telecom magnate Carlos Slim has invested in the company, the expectation to begin generating revenue weighs large. Mobli says soon it will also launch a pay-per-view aspect to the new video feature where celebrities could charge users for viewing live performances. Mobli would take part of that payment.

"If an artist wants to do a private show around the world to sing -- not to 50,000 people, but to a million people and a do a show like this -- our technology will allow him to do it."