Monday, January 30, 2012

Amazing Technologies

SH Coatings:

SHC produces super hydrophilic coatings to protect power lines form inclement weather:


TrakLok:
TrakLok makes security devices that track the location of cargo and other shipments.  It also allows the user to set ‘fences’ that prevent the courier from opening shipments and cargo containers outside of the specified locations:

NELL:
The Never Ending Language Learning Project is a semantic language learning machine developed at Carnegie Mellon supported by grants from DARPA, Google and the NSF.  Its goal is to be able to answer questions posed in a natural language.  T achieve this goal NELL sifts through web pages attempting to create semantic relationships between data found on the web:

Ampakines:
A class of compounds that show promise in enhancing attention span, learning, and memory without great adverse side effects:

Google Driverless Car:
A car that operates without a human driver and won 2 competitions posed by DARPA; The 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and the DARPA Grand Urban Challenge:

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