Elephant Sends Text Messages
November 5, 2008 by Qossay Takroori
Filed under Science
Kimani, is a hug elephant who is responsible of destroying farms and crops in Kenya and sometimes wiping out month of income. Villagers in Kenya mostly depend on farms for their daily food and some cash, but the Kimanis according to the farmers is a disastrous when they invade the farms. In order for the farmers to keep the elephants away, they used mobile phone card inserted in the elephant’s collar sends text message to the guards whenever the elephants reach the farmer’s territories.
Coordinated avoidance maneuvers for cars
November 5, 2008 by Qossay Takroori
Filed under Future Technology
Future cars are smart enough to communicate with each other to prevent road accidents in dangerous situations. This new way of communication was created by German computer scientists who developed software which enable cars on the road to communicate and reduce the number of accidents on the road.
Thomas Batz, who created the software with his colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing IITB in Karlsruhe and at Karlsruhe University said ” In dangerous situations, the cars can independently perform coordinated maneuvers without their drivers having to intervene. In this way, they can quickly and safely avoid one another,” says Batz.
So, if something happened on the road “dangerous situation”, the car will take over and try avoiding it as soon as possible. The new software program can help several cars to co-ordinate their movement’s together to avoid accidents.
He has revealed that for creating such a system, the members of his team are making use of cognitive automobiles that are autonomously driven for short periods of time.
The vehicles are equipped with car-to-car communication and integrated sensors like cameras, GPS, and radar systems, so that they can autonomously recognize their surroundings and avoid any potential obstacles.
GPS-Like System For The Moon
July 22, 2008 by Qossay Takroori
Filed under Future Technology, Gadgets
NASA has already awarded over 1.2 million to Li, Ron “Lowber B. Strange Designated Professor of civil and environmental engineering and geodetic science, to develop and new GPS-like system for the moon to help astronauts to navigate easily like people do on Earth.
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