Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Why teach augmented reality about gravity? I spoke with Trak Lord from Metaio’s San Francisco office about the newest improvements to their mobile AR technology. Modern smart phones come with a bevy of inertial sensors that typically are used for things like a compass function, but which Metaio can use (along with some complex algorithms)
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Canada offers at least three great cities – Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the fifth-largest in North America, located on the northern shore of Lake Ontario. The city is really about its the people, hence it shouldn’t be surprising the name “Toronto” comes from a Huron word meaning “meeting
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
UN-REDD is inviting comments on a third draft of its social and environmental principles and criteria. This is part of a comments process that has been going on since March 2011. Comments on the most recent draft are invited between 15 October and 31 December 2011. Comments should be sent to [email protected]
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
The long and often rather dangerous migration of the satellite-tracked Finnish osprey Jukka to his winter home in Africa has been successfully negotiated once more. Just over a week ago, Jukka touched down safely in the trees by the delta of the River Benoue, which runs into the southeast of the Lagdo reservoir in Cameroon. Read More
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Rapid population growth and natural resource degradation in the Nile River Basin pose the risk of intensified hunger and poverty in the region and require better, more forward-looking development planning to prevent that from happening, FAO said today. The warning came as the UN agency presented governments in the region with the results of a decade-long
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Homeowners who decide to save money by generating their own renewable energy for the National Grid are to lose almost half their Government subsidy, prematurely published documents suggested yesterday. Drastic cuts to the feed-in tariff (FIT) for solar power, the guaranteed income to anyone who installs working solar panels in their roof, are likely to be
Friday, October 28th, 2011
The energy density map above shows the energy consumed by buildngs – both electricity and natural gas – for an ultra-high efficiency scenario. Energy and carbon can be reduced in the context of population and employment growth if alternative building standards and retrofits are implemented between the present day and the year 2036. Read More
Friday, October 28th, 2011
A Cranfield business has won its share of a consortium contract with the government of the Philippines. GPS vehicle tracking systems specialist AutoAlert Ltd put forward a tender to develop a system to improve taxi (jeepney) scheduling and monitoring in the Island of Cebu, The company, based at the Cubic centre, at Cranfield University, has been given
Friday, October 28th, 2011
NASA launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, the first satellite to monitor climate change and measures of the main meteorological variables. The rocket Delta II , the United Launch Alliance, carrying the satellite NPP was torn from its launch pad 48 at 9 am GMT. Read More
Friday, October 28th, 2011
The Mekong River provides food, water and work for millions of people, but development plans for hydroelectric dams pose a threat to the environment and diets. As a key decision looms, neighbors look on anxiously. Read More
