Saturday, 23 November 2013


BAXTER-THE BLUE COLLAR ROBOT




Baxter is an industrial robot built by Rethink Robotics, a start-up company founded by Rodney Brooks. It was introduced in September 2012. Baxter is a 3-foot tall (without pedestal; 5'10" - 6'3" with pedestal), two-armed robot with an animated face. It weights 165 lbs without the pedestal and 306 pounds with the pedestal.Baxter exhibits behavior based ‘common sense,’ capable of sensing and adapting to its task and its environment. It requires no complex programming or costly integration and with its uniquely low price point featuring an unprecedented $22,000 as base price. It also provides a compelling alternative to low-cost off shoring for manufacturers of all sizes which makes it versatile for a range of repetitive tasks and requires no safety cages.

Functions of work

  • Transportation: Baxter can be trained to transport parts from one designed location to another. Also, it could load and unload parts from moving conveyors.
  • Assembling: Baxter can be easily taught to pack a bag or box.  It could align and assemble parts and placed them into containers.
  • Machine operation: Baxter could also be trained to implement operational control sequences on other machine.
  • Testing and Sorting: Baxter can test parts for features like weight, shape and so on depends on the programming training.




Thursday, 24 October 2013

Samsung Galaxy S5 to feature eye scanning sensor   
                                                              
Samsung is reportedly working on a new eye-scanning feature which is expected to be introduced on the Galaxy s4’s successor.
According to a report by Androids- as that cites some sources from Korea, claims that the South Korean giant has started working on an eye-scanning sensor which will be featured in the rumored Galaxy S5. The feature is said to bring the eye-scanning unlock ability to the smartphones. Unfortunately, the report does not reveal many details of the alleged eye-scanning unlock feature.

The eye-scanning feature has not been introduced on any smartphone (from a major manufacturer) as an unlocking method, and if the rumor is true, Samsung would become the first handset maker to debut the feature on a smartphone. However, there is no official word from Samsung on the alleged eye-scanning feature.


Tuesday, 15 October 2013


         Wear Your Death Date on Your Wrist




For a more literal interpretation of this carpe diem theme, there’s Tikker, a watch that not only tells time, but counts down the years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds until your death. Sure, it’s a morbid accessory, but like Herrick, Tikker’s creator wants to remind people to lead a more vibrant life.
They think we can have a better life, and make better choices, if we are more aware of our upcoming expiration, Fredrik Colting told Mashable. “It gives us perspective — the little stuff suddenly doesn’t seem so important anymore. That’s why I see Tikker as a happiness watch.
The watch comes with a questionnaire designed to help wearer’s estimate their remaining years. Once programmed, the liquid crystal display starts the countdown. Launched as a now-funded Kick starter campaign, the black and white time piece can be yours for $39.
But the point we are trying to make is that the wearer should in some way be conscious of their own expiration, and that in turn will make you better appreciate life. Like people who’ve had near-death experiences, or lived through diseases.

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

HP Debuts First PC with Built-In Leap Motion


Announced jointly by Leap Motion and HP, the HP ENVY 17 is the first PC with built-in leap motion.

 ENVY 17 is a 17.3-inch laptop with a built-in Leap Motion sensor that provides 3-dimensional gesture control to users. Much thinner than the regular Leap Motion standalone sensor, the embedded sensor is located to the right of the touch pad and below the keyboard. In order to take advantage of motion control, the user places his/her hand above the sensor approximately six to twelve inches and perform various gestures depending on the application running on the laptop.
The laptop will come preloaded with Airspace, Leap’s application store for 3-D motion controlled software such as games, educational programs, productivity apps and creative tools.

In addition, Leap will include five games, one of which has been specifically designed for HP. While the laptop includes the option of a touchscreen monitor for Windows 8 interactivity, users can also download third party software to map gesture controls to the Windows 8 interface. Hypothetically, users could navigate Windows 8 without ever actually touching the laptop. 

Friday, 27 September 2013

FINGERPRINT SCANS NEW KEY TO UNLOCK MOBILE PHONES


The pain of rustling up and remembering passwords will soon be a thing of the past following recent developments in online security and identification. Surveys show that an average person is required to recall at least 10 unique passwords and pin codes for workaday online logins and transactions.But this memory stress may soon get some relief. The latest iPhone 5S,has taken a swipe at it, making a big impression with a fingerprint reader called Touch ID. Introduced in a low-key manner during the launch of the new iPhones earlier this week (at the very end of the presentation) by Apple executives, the Touch ID fingerprint scanner will enable a quicker access to the users device while preventing unauthorized users from accessing a device's data, an increasingly frequent occurrence because of password breaches. The technology comes mainly from the $356 million acquisition Apple made in 2012 of the firm AuthenTec, which specialized in fingerprint scans, and which in turn had acquired firms such as EzValidation.

Apple isn’t the first phone make, much less tech company, to introduce fingerprint scanning on smartphones. Motorola did it in 2011,using the technology in its Atrix smartphone. In fact, Sony is credited with introducing the world’s first thumb drive with a fingerprint scanner as far back as 2003.But the technology was still in its infancy and reportedly threw up too many errors. Apple claims to have better technology. More importantly, it says the fingerprint data will be stored on the device and encrypted, and won’t be backed up to iCloud.

The development, involving major advances in biometrics, opens up a whole range of possibility .Scans will eventually be used not just to open smart phones and other devices, but also conduct other transactions. All it needs even with the occasional glitch is for the technology to acquire the critical mass it needs, which should come easily with the mass selling Apple smart phones.

Friday, 20 September 2013

                                         DISNEY FINGERS


Disney researchers have developed a microphone that lets a user record a voice message and then relay that message to another person simply by touching them with a finger.




The system uses a Shure Super 55 microphone connected to a computer's sound card. The microphone records as soon as it hears a sound over a certain threshold. The computer then creates a loop with the recording which is sent to an amplification driver. When that person then touches another person's ear, the electrostatic field creates a small vibration of the earlobe which, in turn, leads to the ear and the finger behaving like a speaker. Their ear canal acts as a sort of speaker, allowing them to listen to a secret finger-transmitted message. The sound can't be heard by anyone else but the person being touched.

The prototype is called Ishin-Den-Shin after the Japanese concept of interpersonal communication through unspoken mutual understanding, inadequately encapsulated by English words like sympathy or telepathy.

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

HUNTSVILLE - Unravel the Hidden



Round 1:
The contestants had to team themselves up (4 members in each team) before the beginning of the game and then each team had to try to find the hidden locations by using a series of clues/riddles. The first six teams which were successful in finding all the four clues proceeded to the next round.

Round 2:
In this round, two of the team members had to tie one of their legs with each other like in a three-legged race while the other two team members had to solve puzzles at several hurdles. The contestants solved technical questions at the first stage. Then at the second stage, they had to form words out of letters scattered in an area and the teams were given a time limit to complete the task. Finally, the first four teams which qualified the round were selected for the next round.

Round 3:
In the last round, one team member was blind-folded who was supposed to collect 4 flags with the help of his other team mate who gave directions. While the other two team members had to solve technical/G.K. questions depending on the flags collected by their team members. The team with the maximum scores after the three rounds was declared as the winner of the treasure hunt.


WINNERS LIST


1st   :   
            Priyanka (1st Year, CSE-A)
            Priya Singal (1st Year, ECE-B)
            Rina Kumari (1st Year, ECE-B)
            Rajpurohit Vanita Pukhraj (1st Year, CSE-B)

2nd  : 
            Nikita Mundra (2nd Year, CSE-A)
             Poorvi Mittal (2nd Year, CSE-A)
             Tanvi Sharma (2nd Year, CSE-C)
             Chitralekha Lamba (2nd Year, CSE-C)

3rd   :
             Namrata Gupta (3rd Year, CSE-A)
             Preetika Bhimsaria (3rd Year, CSE-B)
             Pragati Prakash (2nd Year, CSE-B)
             Kratika Gupta (2nd Year, CSE-B)

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

E-PAPER TABLETS

A team consisting of Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab, Intel and Plastic logic has found their way to the techno-idea of “E-PAPER TABLETS”. These groups came together and created a super-thin, super-flexible high resolution display that has revolutionized the way we look at tablets. As thin and as flexible as paper, the technology is known as Paper Tab.



The Paper Tab tablet looks and feels just like a sheet of paper. However, it is fully interactive with a flexible, high-resolution 10.7″ plastic display developed by Plastic Logic, a flexible touch screen, and powered by the second generation Intel® Core i5 processor. Instead of using several apps or windows on a single display, users have ten or more interactive displays or “paper tabs”: one per app in use.
But the technology is still in its infancy, soon a streamlined and sensible method of use will emerge to make these futuristic, flexible tablets just as simple to use as the bigger, heavier ones we carry around now.

UTKARSH members 2013...

IV year

Aveesha Sharma
Arpita Mathur
Divya Aren 
Komal Keswani
Neelam Bhavnani
Preyashi Agarwal
Riya Saxena 
Ritika Jaluka
Shruti Gupta
Shipra Bansal
Tamanna Jain
Varshi Gupta
Upadhi Kokra
Urvi Sengar

IIIrd year


Ayushi Shukla
Avrinder Kaur
Chitashree Mitra
Deeksha Gupta
Himani Bansal
Lehar Bhatt
Ritika Mathur
Shipra Purohit
Shreya Sharma
Tanya Kakar
Unnati Joshi
Vanja Shrivastava

IInd year

Aastha Agarwal
Aditi Sharma
Anvita Singh
Anushree  Kulshrestha
Mahima Mehta
Manjari Pawgi
Sania Mutreja
Shubhi Jain
Vishraja Shrivastava

Ist year

Astha Bansal
Bhumika Tharwani
Harsimran Kaur
Shelly Mertia
Shreya Agarwal
Shreya Mishra
Yashi Sharma

Friday, 30 August 2013

UTKARSH HEADS 2013 !!



GENERAL SECRETARY :
AVEESHA SHARMA

DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARIES:
VARSHI GUPTA
TAMANNA JAIN  

WEBSITE HEADS:
KOMAL KESWANI
NEELAM BHAVNANI
SHRUTI GUPTA 

TECHNICAL HEADS :
RIYA SAXENA  
SHIPRA BANSAL
UPADHI KOKRA
URVI SENGAR  

EVENT MANAGEMENT HEADS :
PREYASHI AGARWAL
RITIKA JALUKA 

TREASURERS :
DIVYA AREN 
ARPITA MATHUR  

Monday, 26 August 2013

Emotion Mouse

1. What is an emotion mouse?


The mouse developed in order to evaluate the user's emotion such as anger, fear, sadness, disgust, happiness, surprise, etc when we use a computer.


2. Objectives:

  • Measure the physical and physiological data without user's perception or obstruction as much as possible
  • Data acquisition system to get the analog data from several sensors.


3. What kinds of information can we get from emotion mouse?

  1. Behavior
    • Mouse movements
    • Button click frequency
    • Finger pressure when a user presses his/her button
  2. Physiological information
    • Heart rate ( Electrocardiogram(ECG/EKG), Photoplethysmogram(PPG) )
    • Skin temperature (Thermester)
    • Skin electricity (Galvanic skin response, GSR)
    • Electromyographic activity (Electromyogram, MG)


4. Working


By simply touching the mouse, computer will be able to determine the person's emotional state.
Heart rate is taken by the IR on the thumb, temperature is taken using the thermosistor chip, GSA is taken using the mouse device driver, and GSR is taken through the fingertips. These values are input into a series of discriminate function analysis and correlated to an emotional state. Specifically for the mouse, the discriminate functionanalysis is used in accordance with the baseline relationship, i.e. the relationship between each set of caliberation physiological signals and the associated emotion.


5. Prototype


a. Emotional mouse implemented on the real mouse


c. System configuration for emotional mouse


6. Samples obtained from the emotional mouse


Friday, 16 August 2013

Google Glass: Pluses and minuses

The widely anticipated evolution hatched Google glass, a spectacle-like device that contains a hidden computer, a thumbnail-size transparent display screen above the right eye and other digital wizardry. This internet-connected headgear is set up to let users receive search results, read email, scan maps for directions and engage in video chats without reaching for a smartphone. Google Glass' grasp of voice commands even makes it possible to shoot hands-free photos and videos. 
Glass has potential to be much more than a novelty, especially if Google lowers the price below $500 by the time the company begins selling the device to the general public next year. (The exact date has yet to be determined.) Google has strived to imbue Glass with a sense of style by decorating the titanium frames in five different colors: charcoal, tangerine, shale, cotton and sky blue. Glass also weighs about the same as a pair of regular sunglasses, a vast improvement over Google's early prototype of the device, which consisted of a phone attached to a scuba mask.Glass doesn't actually have any spectacles in the frame, though Google eventually hopes to offer that option for those who wear prescription lenses.
Turning on Glass is done by tapping a finger on the right side of the frame. The device can also be activated by tilting your head upward. Glass users have to turn on the device frequently because it automatically turned off every 30 seconds or so. This is meant to save the limited battery life (it only lasts about 90 minutes if you're recording a lot of video, but Google says the battery should be adequate for a full day's use for most people). Glass can connect to the internet through a Wi-Fi network or by pairing with your smartphone through a Bluetooth connection. 
The map was quite immersive because even though the Glass screen is small, the display is in high-definition and gives the illusion that you are seeing the image on something much larger. The screen is deliberately aligned slightly above the right eye so it won't prevent users from maintaining eye contact during face-to-face conversations. That means you need to glance upward when you want to look at something on the screen. 
Glass' coolest feature is its ability to almost instantly take photos with the device's 5-megapixel camera or record high-definition (720p) videos that provide a startling perspective on how your own eyes see things. This is done simply by saying "OK Glass, take a picture" or "OK Glass, record a video" and the device does it. The images can then be seen on the display screen and, then, with the right app, shared on Twitter or Facebook and stored on your Google Plus profile. 

Sunday, 24 February 2013

Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive compared - which one is better?




Moving digital files between your work and home computers can be a pain.
The idea is to leave your files on their computers, so that you can access them from any Internet-connected device, wherever you are. That means you can stop emailing big files to yourself, and you can stop carrying those USB thumb drives that fill up quickly, especially when transferring photos and video. These services also make it easier to share documents with others.

Google Drive, Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive share some core features.
·         You can store just about any type of file - photos, videos, songs, spreadsheets and more - on distant servers operated by those companies. All you need is a Web browser and an Internet connection. To upload a file to the online storage service, you simply move the file's icon to the browser window. The original file remains on your computer.
·         To access a file from another computer, you simply go to the service's website and log in. You can make changes on that computer and move the file back online. You can create Web links to entire folders or specific files for sharing.
·         You can install free software to simplify these transfers. The software creates a special folder on your computer for that particular service. Anything you add to it will automatically get transferred to your online storage. If you or colleagues make changes from another computer, the original version gets automatically updated.
STORAGE
·         2 GB for free on Dropbox
·         5 GB on Google Drive
·         7 GB  on SkyDrive.
Winner: SkyDrive, with the most free storage and cheapest upgrade plans.
SHARING
Dropbox and SkyDrive can automatically turn the photos you share into galleries, so that friends can view them through an interface that resembles what you'd get on Facebook or a photo-sharing site.
Winner: SkyDrive, with the most options for sharing.
SEARCH
Not surprisingly, the best search options come from Google, the Internet search leader.
Searching on Google Drive is fast and versatile. You can search not just by file name, but also the contents of documents in a variety of popular formats. It uses an optical-character reader to pull out text from newspaper clippings and brochures you scanned. Dropbox searches based on file names only. SkyDrive searches contents of documents in Microsoft formats - Word, PowerPoint and Excel - but it won't even index the file names for other types, including photos.
Winner: Google Drive
SPECIAL FEATURES
Dropbox has a handy feature for restoring files you accidentally deleted or overwrote. SkyDrive will automatically shrink larger photos to save space if you use its Web interface. Google Drive offers to convert files to Google's online documents format. That makes it easier for multiple people to collaborate
Conclusion
SkyDrive wins on storage and sharing, but it ought to be more forthcoming about shrinking originals .Google's nifty search features make it the best choice overall. After all, storage does little good if you can't find what you need. Google Drive is the service you'll want. Otherwise, Dropbox is a fine alternative, especially if you expect to use it a lot on a variety of phones or an iPad. One drawback with all three services is that you can lose metadata associated with these files. Attributes such as the file's creation date can change in transfer. The contents aren't affected.



Friday, 15 February 2013



Questionnaire for the event Ex-Qu!z-!t


GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Q1.Who is the Secretary General of the United Nations?
a. Ban Ki-moon                       b. Christine Lagarde
c. Jim Yong Kim                     d. Salil Shetty

Q2.The members of the Rajya Sabha are elected by
a.the people                             b.Lok Sabha
c.elected members of legislative assembly.
d.elected members of legislative council

Q3.
Galileo was an Italian astronomer who
a.
developed the telescope
b.
discovered four satellites of Jupiter
c.
discovered that the movement of pendulum produces a regular time measurement
d.
All of the above

Q4. In MICR, C stands for .....
a. code                           b.colour
c.character                     d.computer

Q5. ISRO recently gave clearance for using which trequency band from satellite for internet on trains?
          a.       C Band                          b.       KU Band
          c.       S Band                           d.       3G Spectram
           
Q6. The mechanism that binds code and data together and keeps them secure from outside world is known as
a.Abstraction                           b.Encapsulation
c.Inheritance                            d.Polymorphism

Q7. With which subject is Dadasaheb Phalke Award associated?
a. Best Play Back singer                   b. Best film actor
c. Worked for the development for the film industry
d. Best musician

Q8. Name first airport of India to use solar power for its utility grid system

Q9.Grand Central Terminal, Park Avenue, New York is the world's
a.
largest railway station
b.
highest railway station
c.
longest railway station
d.
None of the above

Q10.What is common between Kutty, Shankar, Laxman and Sudhir Dar?
a.
Film Direction
b.
Drawing Cartoons
c.
Instrumental Music
d.
Classical Dance

LOGICAL/VERBAL REASONING

Q1. 1. B2CD , _____, BCD4, B5CD, BC6D
a.B2C2D
BC3D
c.B2C3D
BCD7
Q2..Choose the correct answer. 


1
2
3
4

Q3. Which one will replace the question mark ?

3
5
4
6


Q4. A student got twice as many sums wrong as he got right. If he attempted 48 sums in all, how many did he solve correctly?
12
16
18
24

Q5.  Complete the series- Scribble:Write:: Stammer:?
a.walk                            b.play
c.speak                           d.dance

Q6.Which one will replace the question mark ?

45
41
32
40

Q7.Which of the following diagrams indicates the best relation between Travelers, Train and Bus ?





Q8.A, B, C, D and E are sitting on a bench. A is sitting next to B, C is sitting next to D, D is not sitting with E who is on the left end of the bench. C is on the second position from the right. A is to the right of B and E. A and C are sitting together. In which position A is sitting ?
a.
Between B and D
b.
Between B and C
c.
Between E and D
d.
Between C and E

Q9.If A + B means A is the brother of B; A - B means A is the sister of B and A x B means A is the father of B. Which of the following means that C is the son of M?
a.
M - N x C + F
b.
F - C + N x M
c.
N + M - F x C
d.
M x N - C + F

Q10.Which one will replace the question mark ?

a.
L10
b.
K15
c.
I15
d.
K8



SIMPLE TECHNICAL LANGUAGE

Q1.  What is part of a database that holds only one type of information?
Report
field
Record
file


Q2.  Which is a type of Electrically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory?
Flash
Flange
Fury
FRAM
Q3.What do we call a network whose elements may be separated by some distance? It usually involves two or more small networks and dedicated high-speed telephone lines.
a.
URL (Universal Resource Locator)
b.
LAN (Local Area Network)
c.
WAN (Wide Area Network)
d.
World Wide Web

Q4. Computer follows a simple principle called GIGO which means:
a. Garbage in garbage out
b. Garbage input good output
c. Good input good output
d. Greater instructions greater output

Q5. Which of the following systems run an application layer firewall using proxy software?
          a. Proxy NAT
          b. Proxy client
          c. client 32
          d. proxy server

Q6.Which of the following companies is a leader in manufacture of Hard Disk Drives?
          a. Samsung
          b.IBM
          c. Fujitsu
         d. Segate

Q7. Which of the following is a popular Programming Language for developing multimedia Web pages, Websites and web-Based applications?
a. COBOL
b. JAVA
c. ASSEMBLER
d. None of these

Q8. What are the individual RAM chips called ?
a)hard disks
b)flash drives
c)solid state drives
d)memory modules

Q9.What protocol sends encrypted data over the internet?
a)HTTP
b)SSL
c)SMTP
d)FTP


Q10.Which of the following actions is the best example of web publishing?
a.Tweeting via Twitter
b. Posting a Facebook status update
 c.Uploading a webpage to a web server
 d.Updating a LinkedIn profile


CURRENT AFFAIRS

Q1. The person elected by Shiv Sena as the President of the Party on 23 January 2013 at Sena Headquarters at Dadar, Central Mumbai

Q2.The mastermind of 26/11 terror attack who was sentenced to 35 years of imprisonment by the U.S. Federal District Court Judge Harry Leinenweber

Q3. Ajmal Kasab got hanged in the jail of which city?
a. Mumbai      b. Pune     c. Delhi   d. Nagpur

Q4.Which social networking site was recently hacked whose 200 million user’s personal data was attacked?
a.Twitter                        b.Facebook.
c.Bigadda                       d.hi5

Q5.King of which country visited India on the Republic Day who was also the chief guest for the day?
a.Iran                             b.Bhutan
c.Shrilanka                     d.Iraq

Q6.Which movie of  the actor Kamal Hassan was banned by the government of Tamil Nadu?

Q7.Which new state is going to emerge after the splitting of Andra Pradesh?

Q8.Which was the top brand on twitter during CES(Consumer Electronics Show) 2013?

Q9.Which singer was arrested at the Mumbai airport for allegedly carrying Indian and Foreign currency beyond permissible limit?

Q10.Havard University invites which Indian Actor to deliver a lecture to its students?

DEBUGGING

Q1.Point out the error in the program
#include
int f(int a)
{
  a > 20? return(10): return(20);
}
int main()
{
    int f(int);
    int b;
    b = f(20);
    printf("%d\n", b);
    return 0;
}
a.
Error: Prototype declaration
b.
No error
c.
Error: return statement cannot be used with conditional operators
d.
None of above

Q2.Which of the following function prototype is perfectly acceptable?
a.
int Function(int Tmp = Show());
b.
float Function(int Tmp = Show(int, float));
c.
Both A and B.
d.
float = Show(int, float) Function(Tmp);

Q3.Point out the error/warning in the program?
#include
int main()
{
    unsigned char ch;
    FILE *fp;
    fp=fopen("trial", "r");
    while((ch = getc(fp))!=EOF)
        printf("%c", ch);
    fclose(fp);
    return 0;
}
error: in unsigned char declaration
error: while statement
no error
it prints all characters in file "trial"

Q4.Point out the error in the program?
#include
int main()
{
    char ch;
    int i;
    scanf("%c", &i);
    scanf("%d", &ch);
    printf("%c %d", ch, i);
    return 0;
}

error: suspicious char to in conversion in scanf()
error: we may not get input for second scanf() statement
no error
none of above

Q5. void main() {
          int  const * p=5;
          printf("%d",++(*p));
}

Q6. main() {
          char string[]="Hello World";
          display(string);
}
void display(char *string) {
          printf("%s",string);
}

Q7. main() {
int i=1,j=2;
switch(i) {
 case 1:  printf("GOOD");
                break;
 case j:  printf("BAD");
               break;
 }
}

Q8. main(){
          char *cptr,c;
          void *vptr,v;
          c=10;  v=0;
          cptr=&c; vptr=&v;
          printf("%c%v",c,v);
}

Write the correct program for Q9 and Q10.
Q9. To concatenate two strings
  #include
  #include
  #include
   void main()
    {
     char c[100];
     int a[50];
     char b(50);
     clrscr();
     printf("Enter a string1:");
     gets(a);
     printf("Enter a string2:");
     gets(b);
     strcat( a,b);
     printf("%d",a);
     getch();
    }

Q10.Calculate power in watts

int main()
{
float power,voltage,current;
voltage = current = 0;
printf("Power calculator.\n");
printf("This will calculate the power in watts , ");
printf("when you input the voltage and current.");
/*get the voltage*/
printf("Enter the voltage in volts.\n");
scanf("%d",&voltage);
/*get the current*/
printf("Enter the current in amps.\n");
scanf("%f",¤t);
/*calculate the power*/
power = voltage * current;
printf("The power in watts is %.2f watts\n",power);
getch();
}