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  Seismologist Robot Can Predict Earthquakes Hours Early

  JP 12:54 am on February 10, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Dodge, earthquake detector, engineering, Haiti (13), India (8), microwave frequencies, nbsp (1,601), Read (1,390), Robot (21), surat india

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  As Monday morning quarterbacks around the world continue to discuss the structural, long-term steps that could’ve been taken to mitigate the enormous damage inflicted upon Haiti, a group of engineering students in India have designed a new robot that may help dampen the effects of an earthquake in the short-term. Inspired by the horror they saw unfurl in Haiti, students from JT Engineering College in Surat, India went about designing a robot capable of sensing earthquakes before they happen, and sounding the alarm bells. As student Hiran Patel explains, the so-called Earthquake Detector Robot senses “when the Earth starts vibrating,” and “informs about the danger in advance.”

  It does so with the help of two transmitters and one receiver that have been attached to the robot. The transmitters are wirelessly connected to a sensor underground, which monitors the earth’s temperature and water levels. When the sensor picks up on seismic trouble approaching, it sends out a signal to the robot via microwave frequencies. As DVice reports, the bot can pick up on earthquakes a full three hours before they hit, which to us, seems pretty amazing. We’ve gotta admit, though, that we don’t really understand why this kind of detection service has to be implemented in a robot, per se. Unless the system’s effectiveness is somehow dependent upon being mobile, we’re a bit puzzled by the choice to go bot–especially when there are a few smaller, non-cyborg detection devices already on the market. But robotics aside, the underlying technology seems pretty sound, and if it can help people get out of Dodge and save lives, that’s all that really matters, anyway. [From: OneIndia; via: DVice]

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  Seismologist Robot Can Predict Earthquakes Hours Early originally appeared on Switched on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Woman Uses Facebook to Track Down Attacker

  JP 12:54 am on November 25, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Dodge, England (14), facebook (302), Hertfordshire, Holliman, Jennifer Wilson, long scar, nbsp (1,601), pint glass, Read (1,390), social networking site (61), Wilson

  Filed under: Web, Social Networking

  When regular old police forces can’t hunt down an evildoer, Facebook, like Batman, is there.

  The social networking site swept into crime-fighting action recently when the victim of a brutal attack used it to track down her assailant. The Telegraph reports that, on the night of March 20th, 20-year-old Jennifer Wilson, of Hertfordshire, England, was at a nightclub when another woman, Ashleigh Holliman, slammed a pint glass into her face for no apparent reason. Police who arrived at the scene found much of the evidence to have been cleared away by the club’s staff members, and weren’t able to sufficiently identify Holliman in security tapes. The club’s bouncers had been unable to apprehend Holliman, who wasted no time in getting out of Dodge. Wilson, who got an inch-long scar from the incident, decided to take matters into her own hands — with the help of Facebook.

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  Woman Uses Facebook to Track Down Attacker originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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