Category: Health and Technology

Biometric identification is one best way that researchers discovered to determine a person’s identity. Few biometric systems include LED thumb-pad identification devices, complex retinal laser scanning, or even computerized iris recognition. Added to line-up is a quick X-ray of your knees!

As published in the International Journal of Biometrics, researchers proved that an X-ray of the patient’s knees could lead to unlocking its unique identity. The approach rapidly analyzes the X-ray images using the wnd-charm algorithm, which has been known to diagnose clinical conditions of the knee joints.

The main advantage of this kind of imaging is that identity thefts or fraudster will have difficulty in manipulating the unique features of an individual’s knees, unlike, the eyes and finger prints which can be overlayed with artificial IDs like the contact lenses and finger pads.

“The Wnd-charm algorithm, which is publicly available, is a multi-purpose image classification method that looks at a large set of image features, including high-contrast features, textures, and the statistical distribution of pixels in the image.”

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Snowstorms are natural weather occurences in the countries of higher latitudes. These snowstorms have benefits to ecologic existence, and it may have disadvantages, but only to the inconveniences of men.

However, in Beijing China, snowtorms have been created artificially. According to China Daily, Beijing Weather Modification Office had artificially induced two storms in november by seeding clouds with chemicals, a practice that can increase precipitation by up to 20 per cent.

The artificial snowstorm created a mess out in peoples lives, according to some china folk whose lives have been so disturbed by flight delays, traffic snarls, cancelled classes and other inconveniences of a surprise snow storm. They said that officials could have sent warning before a snowstorm so that they won’t be bothered so much by whatever reason BWMO has.

It was reported also, that said snowstorm has not only created hassles to residents but it did a far greater devastation in 2005. Chloride, the snow-melting agent was responsible for killing 10,000 trees in Beijing and decimating 200,000 square metres of grassland. According to Zhao Nan, a Beijing engineer, the excessive amount of this snow-melting chloride could “erode steel structures of buildings”.

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Got one? WI-FI tags in wristband format is the newest innovation by Ekahau Inc. T301W is a high performance Wi-Fi-based real time location system. It is a small gadget worn on the wrist. This ingenious little wristband is very helpful in locating little children and older people who are confined in hospitals or home care facilities.

T301W is highly useful concerning movement tracking and workflow visibility. The wristband tag monitors the location precisely down to less than a few feet in both confined and open spaces. The gadget is user friendly, environment friendly, and water proof. The wristband is integrated with a highly effective signalling system. It’s equipped with a programmable push button that delivers a predetermined message to the RTLS system.

The product includes a lithium-ion battery which is easily charged using the Ekahau’s multi-unit charger. Based on the WI-FI network, T301W send and receive signals, a two-way communication stream that allows the transfer of information in real time.

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