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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Video: Moto X combines Google Glass listening feature with Google Now

Voice interaction is expected to be a top feature of the upcoming Moto X handset, based on a leaked video promo made by Rogers Wireless in Canada. Much like Google Glass, Moto X will always be listening for voice commands that integrate with Google Now and other phone features. With mid-range specifications and a relatively lower cost than other flagship devices, Moto X could bring more useful voice commands to the masses with this smartphone.

Here?s the leaked video, spotted by Android Central on Sunday, showing off the touch-free voice interaction with Google Now:

Adding to the hands-free experience is a tweak to the device?s notifications feature. Instead of showing a little notification light alert, the home screen pulses on and off to show important messages.

Having the microphone always on could be a drain on the battery, but it also explains why the phone is likely to use a 720p display with a last-generation processor. If Moto X had all of the same hardware features of today?s high-end phones, the handset?s battery simply couldn?t hand the additional power drain of an always on microphone.

I?m curious though: Is this feature a Moto exclusive or will it be part of Android, so that other handset makers can take advantage of it. Keeping it in-house would help the Moto X stand out from the crowd, but I?d like to see this option come to other Android phones in the future. Or even on older phones with a software update.

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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Boy with Down syndrome uses iPad to help him communicate

AUBURN, AL (WTVM) -

Like many best friends, 7-year-old Hal Bradshaw and Sophie Snyder don't need a lot of words, their bond is rock solid.

Hal has Down syndrome. He began signing as a baby, but verbal words remain a challenge.

"You want the best for your children, you want them to be able to output to the world, not just input," said Hal's mom Samantha Bradshaw.

Hal began lessons with Kelly Cadden, a speech pathologist at All for Children in Auburn. His family bought an expensive language output device, but it was complicated and Hal didn't like it.

"We knew how much he loved playing games on the iPad, and so we started using it as a way of communication and he liked it and picked it up immediately," said Cadden. "He likes to carry it with him, doesn't like others to touch it, it is his voice, one he didn't have before."

Using picture icons Hal taps the screen to create simple sentences, expressing his needs and wants.

"We are hoping over time he will start to imitate it, and will spontaneously utter the phrases clearly instead of having to use the device," said Cadden.

"You put the iPad in front of him and it is amazing what is inside his brain, and I was like, I knew he knew, I knew it, he just can't get it out," said Bradshaw.

Hal completed Kindergarten in Auburn this year. His teachers are totally on board with his iPad speaker: technology allowed Hal to join in and fit in.

"The iPad is cool and the kids were like, awesome he's allowed to have one at school, so it also helps with socially acceptable in that area as well," said Bradshaw.

While they have an unspoken bond, it's nice to be able to tell your friend how you are feeling.

"It's good to hear him communicate so well and he understands," said Sophie Snyder, Hal's best friend.

Source: http://www.wtvm.com/story/22770252/boy-with-down-syndrome-uses-ipad-to-help-him-communicate

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Jump for your life: Bipedal rodents survive in the desert with a hop, a skip and a jump

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers have found that bipedal desert rodents manage to compete with their quadrupedal counterparts by using a diverse set of jumps, hops and skips. A new study suggests that it is this unpredictable movement that allows the bipedal rodents to coexist in Old World deserts with quadrupedal rodents.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/strange_science/~3/lVti4Hpqy1g/130705212217.htm

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Friday, July 5, 2013

Mandela: Government denies he is "vegetative"

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? Nelson Mandela is in critical but stable condition, the South African government said Friday, while a close friend said the anti-apartheid leader was conscious and responsive earlier this week.

The government reiterated that Mandela is not in a vegetative state, contrary to recent court documents.

A court paper filed June 27 concerning Mandela family graves said affidavits would be provided from his physicians to show that Mandela "is in a permanent vegetative state." A later filing dropped that phrase. Both court filings, however, said that Mandela's breathing was machine assisted.

A close friend of Mandela's, Denis Goldberg, told Sky News on Friday that he visited Mandela on Monday and that Mandela was conscious and responsive to what he was saying. Goldberg also quoted from something Mandela's wife told him.

"There is no sign of a general organ collapse and therefore they do not recommend switching off the machine because there's every chance that his health will improve," Goldberg quoted wife Graca Machel as saying. "The matter has been discussed and the decision was against."

A "persistent vegetative state" is defined as the condition of patients with severe brain damage in whom coma has progressed to a state of wakefulness without detectable awareness, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.

Goldberg said the legal papers that said Mandela was "vegetative" might have been written when Mandela was in a coma or unconscious, and that perhaps Mandela then improved.

"Maybe he's recovered a bit and that's what I assume," he said. "The lawyers can say what they like. I'm telling you what I saw."

Still, Mandela's situation is grave. Another court affidavit said that "the anticipation of his impending death is based on real and substantial grounds." A South African doctor, Adri Kok, said it was unlikely that a person of Mandela's age ? he is 94 ? can be taken off mechanical ventilation, another word for life support, and recover.

The court filing came in a case brought by 15 Mandela family members against a Mandela grandson who had moved the remains of three Mandela children from their original burial site. A court ordered the bodies to be moved back to Mandela's hometown of Qunu.

The family feud drew a rebuke late Thursday from retired archbishop Desmond Tutu who appealed to the family of Mandela, also known by his clan name Madiba, to overcome their differences.

"Please, please, please may we think not only of ourselves. It's almost like spitting in Madiba's face," Tutu said in a statement released by his foundation. "Your anguish, now, is the nation's anguish ? and the world's. We want to embrace you, to support you, to shine our love for Madiba through you. Please may we not besmirch his name."

The leader of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, Mandela spent 27 years in prison during white racist rule. He was freed in 1990 and became South Africa's first black president in 1994.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mandela-government-denies-vegetative-121400998.html

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Mission Control Made of Lego

The French Space Agency (CNES) commissioned Damien Labrousse to recreate the Jupiter Mission Control Room in Lego for display at the Kourou spaceport. The impressive build features 6,000 bricks, 80 minifigs, a working video screen that shows the rocket launch sequence and a sound system, displaying launch countdown.

The Jupiter Control Room is where the European Space Agency and the French Space Agency CNES, conduct launches from Kourou (the spaceport where the ESA sends supplies to the International Space Station). Two Lego models were built, one was on display last week at the 50th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, and the second will be displayed at the Kourou Space Center. On a side note, it would be wonderful if Lego revived and expanded its Classic Space theme series, with updated spacecrafts, rockets, mission control rooms, and space stations. I'd probably go broke, but it'd be totally worth it. [Flickr via Brothers Brick]

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Mission Control Made of Lego

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Source: http://lego.gizmodo.com/the-european-space-agencys-jupiter-mission-control-mad-665054859

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15 Tools That Helped Pioneers Survive on the American Frontier

American culture unapologetically romanticizes the lives of the first pioneers. Through rose-colored glasses, we see Manifest Destiny as fate, leading our heroic ancestors across a perfectly manicured landscape. In reality, the frontier was a terrifying, dangerous wilderness. And you were only as good as the tools you carried.

Pioneers were responsible for clearing their own land, building their homes, defending themselves, sewing their own clothes, and hunting for their own food. And the devices and tools they brought with them?severely limited by weight and size?were vital lifelines to succeeding in all of those pursuits. So what were they?