Bart Weegens is a scientist from Belgium who has found a low-technology method to go about landmine detection to tackle issue of unexploded mines. The idea could save hundreds of lives. So called the HeroRAT is an intelligent species and easy to train and with many new recruits easy to breed.
According to Bart, the rats have a great sense of smell and it is practically easy to train them although the training is a little time consuming.. So basically he is putting a leash on a rat to lead it or hold it in check by deploying them in the field to detect land mines by scent.
Source: Socyberty.com
Posted by admin on December 14th, 2009
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Google Goggles is Google’s newest search tool which lets you search the web using visuals rather than text using your mobile (Android on mobile device). You can use this apps to search books, images, landscape, logos, artwork, businesses, and barcodes, among other things. Capture instant a photo of the attraction and Google Goggles will provide you info related to that images and as well as the GPS location. It also have a text reader, so it’s fast and easy to save your info once you grab a picture.
The visual recognition technology used in Google Goggles yet growing at Google labs so it does not yet support organic objects like plants, animals or people, but in the future, it will change the way we search the Internet, it will make easier to quickly identify any objects, learn about, and itemized display the world around us.
Posted by admin on December 6th, 2009
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