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Child Monitoring

Papuans with HIV Aids to Get Microchips

An old article but nevertheless interesting to reflect on:

Amid protests from Papuans and NGOs, the Papua provincial legislative council is set to pass a bylaw on HIV/AIDS that includes a controversial article requiring certain people living with the disease to be implanted with a microchip.

“If the draft bylaw is passed, it will violate the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS because they will be implanted with microchips,” said Constan Karma, executive director of the Papua AIDS Commission (KPAD).

Councilor John Manangsang said the microchips would only be implanted in people living with HIV/AIDS who were deemed to be “aggressive”.

“Aggressive means actively seeking sexual intercourse. This is one way to protect healthy people,” he said.

“Do not misunderstand human rights; if we respect the rights of the people living with HIV/AIDS, then we must also respect the rights of healthy people.”

'Smart' Self-guided Bullets

Here is a piece I had published in The Conversation.

How fair is installing tracking microchips to criminals? Does it violate human rights?

A very interesting article by the Criminal Lawyer Group. Read more here.

The current technology looks like this and is not implantable.

Microchip implant gives medication on command

Drug delivery has just got real smart. This particular device for osterporosis can be preprogrammed or controlled wirelessly via the Medical Implant Communication Services (MICS) band.

 

Full story here.

Brain Map - 85BN Connections.

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"....

Researchers have a goal so ambitious it is almost unthinkable - learning how all 85bn neurons in the human brain are wired up.

There is a macabre brilliance to the machine in Jeff Lichtman's laboratory at Harvard University that is worthy of a Wallace and Gromit film.

In one end goes brain.

Out the other comes sliced brain, courtesy of an automated arm that wields a diamond knife.

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The slivers of tissue drop one after another on to a conveyor belt that zips along with the merry whirr of a cine projector.

Lichtman's machine is an automated tape-collecting lathe ultramicrotome (Atlum)."

Read more.

ISPRS-IPS-GPS-IPIN

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"...The majority of today's mobile mapping systems are either focusing on acquiring 3D point clouds by means of mobile laser scanners or georeferenced panoramic imagery. However, there are a number of well-established and highly-efficient surveying techniques such as airborne and close range multiray and stereo photogrammetry, which could be adapted to and exploited in land-based mobile mapping. While first experiments with stereovision based mobile mapping date back some 20 years, recent progress in positioning and imaging sensors, onboard data storage, algorithms and computing technologies such as High-Performance Computing are enabling very powerful stereovision mobile mapping approaches. They don't just give the possibility to increase the efficiency in 3D geodata acquisition; they also support new ways of managing and exploiting road infrastructure data. These include the intuitive and accurate 3D mapping of geo-objects, the automatic creation of depth maps and 3D point clouds using dense matching, the interaction of georeferenced imagery with a GIS or the augmentation of the georeferenced imagery with geospatial contents. In this paper we introduce a state-of-the-art stereovision mobile mapping system with different stereo imaging sensors and present a series of performance tests carried out with this system. The aim of these empirical tests was to investigate different performance aspects under real-world conditions."

More information here.

3D Continuous Positioning for Security Applications - full article here

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Links and leads also pointing across to The Robotics Institute.

Sizing Up

Sizing-Up

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This resulted in the National Measurement Institute undertaking a scoping exercise to report to the TCF Industries Innovation Council on the requirements for developing a national sizing standard and anthropometric database.

As discovered, valid public domain anthropometric surveys are expensive and logistically difficult projects. The Innovation Council did not deem it a priority to develop a national sizing standard and anthropometric database.

That said, it is understood, that the subject is still on the Council’s agenda."

Push For Police Cameras

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