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.

                                         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.

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)

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