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POPSCrash Avoidance Robotic Car Inspired by Flight of the Bumblebee
The LRF detects obstacles up to two meters away within a 180-degree radius in front of the BR23C, calculates the distance to them, and sends a signal to an on-board microprocessor, which is instantly translated into collision avoidance. "The split second it detects an obstacle, the car robot will mimic the movements of a bee and instantly change direction by turning its wheels at right angles or greater to avoid a collision," explained Toshiyuki Andou, Manager of Nissan's Mobility Laboratory and principal engineer of the robot car project. "The biggest difference to any current system is that the avoidance maneuver is totally instinctive. If that was not so, then the car robot would not be able to react fast enough to avoid obstacles," Andou said. "It must react instinctively and instantly because this technology corresponds to the most vulnerable and inner-most layer of our Safety Shield, a layer in which a crash is currently considered unavoidable," he added.
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POPSThuggish & Blatant:"Civil" Voting Rights. HAH! If you're thinking straight, this oughta really piss you off. This land is being taken over - unashamedly, illegally, immorally, and with the in-your-face, F-you sentimentality of a street thug. Listen to Obama's speaking tone. He makes no avoidance of sounding like a thug and the message to supporters is loud. And it is clear. Those in political and judicial positions have the go-ahead to treat with disdain any motions or discourse which may speak to the fair policy and treatment of the election process, and has been extending across the board to include speech and thought - kicking the most basic American rights of liberty right in the nuts.
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POPSUnraveling Tax Dodge Schemes Hit Public Transit Washington Post story details another ugly impact of credit crisis; public transit agencies face huge payments as deals struck to avoid taxes go into technical default following AIG's collapse. Washington's Metro system could be on the hook for $400 million. Other cities named: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta and Chicago.
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POPSFor our elections and leaders prayer is simple, costs nothing but a few minutes and can help the praying person, as well as the world he/she lives in to change in a good way.
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POPSLearning, how we learn "Flies where the well-known group of learning genes had been manipulated failed miserably in the first to experiments. However, in the third experiments, they learned even better than normal flies." "“Our studies show that the prominent learning genes are not playing any role in purely behavioral learning. Our results suggest that Pavlovian learning somehow suppresses behavioral learning.”
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POPSRoboCup Soccer for Humanoid Robots Videos and some information about the Darmstadt Dribblers, a team of autonomous soccer playing robots, developed by a research group of the Univeristy of Darmstadt.
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POPSOur Trash Circles the Globe: Combating E-Waste in India The fruits of our high-tech revolution are pure poison if these products are improperly disposed of at the end of their useful life. The electronics industry is on the brink of a paradigm shift with respect to cost avoidance v/s risk avoidance. Firms such as Eco-Reco are taking advantage of a booming but hazardous industry, where e-waste is usually dismantled by workers with little protection in recycling plants that have even fewer safety and environmental contamination guidelines. In Mumbai, Eco-Reco will pick up your e-waste and at their plant, the e-waste then goes through a shredder on a conveyor belt, and the components are separated by a metal extractor. Workers then break up the plastic from the metal by hand. The entire system is based on the principles of clean environment and zero landfill.
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POPSSatellite network to predict earthquakes According to the theory, due to pressure in the rocks oxygen is one of the products of the chemical reactions in the rock. When it is under extreme pressure the oxygen gives off a positive charge which is reflected in readings in the ionosphere. The nature and of the charge, can give an indication of the pressure as it slowly build before a major earthquake. The number of lives save may be hard to imagine, but one of the most frightening aspects of an earthquake at the moment, is the fact that there is literally one minutes notice.
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POPSMp3 Ringtones Here you might have wish that you have cellular phone of the individual, not just all the friends as well as relatives just had mobile phones, but as well as you desire to contain it somehow for communication. And it hits you that you don’t want avoidance to be very boring as your ringtone. As a result you attempt all ringtones on your cellular phone until you have strike them.
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POPSDogs just want to have fun
Dogs have personalities if you watch them. We have Izzy. When he gets a chewy bone, he likes to throw it in the air like a toy, smiling. Sometimes he loses it, or gets ripped off. He has more fun playing with it than eating it. Izzy come up with that one. Pokemon is serious most of the time, and barks at anyone she hasn't seen in a week when they walk in the door. She's been doing it since she was born. She's 9 now. We have a picture of her in the litter a few weeks old, and you can tell it is her by the look on her face. But she does the 'wiggle' Like rolling on the grass with a smile on her face, (It's usually on someones bed, she feels important then. on 'Prime real estate'). Duke is always barking. If you know him you know why. He wants you to go outside to play with the ball.He asks everybody. Most of the dogs would play with the ball-if Duke gave them the chance. Duke has 4 balls. If you kick all of them around he can't be happier. Lani bows when she knows it's time for a walk
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POPSTrade Unions: Don't follow anti-Worker USA
"Compared to the thriving £2.3bn-a-year anti-union industry in the United States, where up to 80% of corporations faced with a union organising campaign turn to a union-busting consultancy or specialist law firm, the business is still fairly low-key in Britain. Only a handful of companies are known to have thus far availed themselves of the services of the major US firms, which bear names such as the Burke Group, Labour Relations Institute and PTI Labour Research and have shown a mounting interest in the UK market ever since the Blair government's Employment Relations Act came into effect in June 2000, guaranteeing union recognition wherever a majority of employees are in favour. "The US firms got very excited about this," says John Logan of the London School of Economics, who recently completed a report on the issue for the TUC. "Their marketing line is basically: we've got 60 years of experience in union avoidance under laws like these, and we can help you. To my knowledge, at lea
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POPSMuseum of Laziness Oh Joy! Doing nothing to many is so distressing, the screeching of the silence that roars through the vacuum so loud, that the dread feels like Sin.
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POPSDreams: Night School...an interesting theory! A dream researcher at the University of Turku, in Finland, Revonsuo believes that dreams are a sort of nighttime theater in which our brains screen realistic scenarios. This virtual reality simulates emergency situations and provides an arena for safe training. As Revonsuo puts it, "The primary function of negative dreams is rehearsal for similar real events, so that threat recognition and avoidance happens faster and more automatically in comparable real situations." Faced with actual life-or-death situations—traffic accidents, terrorist attacks, street assaults—some people report entering a mode of calm, rapid response, reacting automatically, almost without thinking. Afterward, they often say the episode felt unreal, as if it were all a dream. Threat simulation, Revonsuo believes, is why.
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