Spy glasses and glasses half-blind, two sensational innovations
Posted on : 25-12-2011 | By : Tweeters | In : Innovation, Networks, Uncategorized
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The first glasses “spy” or “spy glasses” as they called commercially are about to hit the market and according to the manufacturers, will cause a sensation. Millions hooked on espionage films will be impressed to find out what the video camera lenses with built-Eyez promise to do.
ZionEyez produced by the company, Seattle, have a built-in video camera that records in HD with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. Style lenses “Buddy Holly” also have a memory card of 8 GB which can store up to three hours of recording.
Recording functions of the camera are impressive enough, but the company has added other features to ensure the impact of the new product, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for streaming video. And more importantly, ZionEyez, which prides itself on being an “enterprise social media,” also created a “smartphone Eyez” and applications that allow users to stream the video being recorded in real time to social networks.
According to PhysOrg.com, the lenses are in a prototype stage and by the time the company is selecting the camera hardware.
The idea of live streaming video in high definition to the social networking sites without the need for a camera or phone, without a doubt be very attractive to many people. Meanwhile, the controversy over privacy is inevitable and perhaps that is why the company has emphasized the concept of “social networks lenses” and not “spy glasses”.
Led Technology, the forerunner of the spy glasses, is for people with vision problems, but the technique is almost the same
Researchers at Oxford University in England two years ago developed Vision Without Glasses bionic glasses that provide greater independence to people with a vision problem. These lenses have two mini-cameras embedded video in the upper corners and also incorporate LED technology using light colors and contrast indicators report the presence of objects and people, obstacles, and the distance at which they are located.
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The new bionic lenses incorporate the latest technology. With two small video cameras built-already mentioned-capture what the user is looking around, while a screen of tiny lights, assembled in the same lens, feed back the information recorded by the cameras with additional data on objects, people or obstacles in sight.
To process what they collect the cameras and lenses to recreate it in a PC-type real-time smartphone recognizes objects that appear in the video image.
“This additional information should allow people to move around a room, pick the most relevant and locate nearby objects. This way you can help them stay independent, “says the charge of developing the device.
Colors and brightness have to identify people or objects, in order to differentiate the information provided by the LED display, researchers gambled on using lights of different colors to indicate the presence of “important people or objects, and brightness (the intensity of this property) to indicate the proximity of things, “says Stephen, who suggests that this technology could even facilitate reading the headlines.
As for the price of these high-tech glass, its creators believe it could be around 500 pounds, “cheaper than guide dogs.”
For now, researchers are testing the effectiveness and feasibility of these prototypes, on display in a scientific exposition of the Royal Society, held in London two years ago.
If they contact the ingenious creators of these types of glasses, you may be born a new generation of “spy glasses for myopic” because it assumes that the undercover agent must have good eyesight and have to give equal opportunities to all.
