Complete Hand Recognition With 5-Finger Mouse

This looks like something straight out of “Minority Report”: Japan-based robot venture Double Research & Development Co. [JP] has developed a 5-finger mouse [JP] that can track the movements and pressure of individual fingers and send the information to a computer to trigger actions.

Users can also use two hands at the same time to control the device, dubbed amenbo, for complex actions. The amenbo can identify which finger of which hand is being used. It’s also possible to use less than five finger at a time.

Its maker explains:

It is also different from touch panels since a special sensor is attached to each finger, so it can identify which finger on whose hand it is, and even if you lift your fingers off it can follow them from beginning to end.

The Amenbo, in its current form, supports multi-touch operations on Windows 7.

Online Surveys

Taking online surveys for cash, prizes or just for fun is an activity enjoyed by many internet users.

If you have a blog you must know that inserting polls and Free Online Surveys  forms for your visitors to fill out is simple. All you have to do is to use an online services which provides polling widgets for blogs, websites, and social networks.So inserting surveys on your website is not hard all you need are some basic HTML skills or to know how to work with widgets and a service provider.

If you don’t have a website and you want to try out surveys for cash and prizes it’s important to identify a genuine survey company.

There are many survey providers but just a few are serious and do offer money and prizes. To find them read blogs and forums to see what the real users are saying about them.

Filling a simple survey  does not require too much time and effort, but you need to find the provider first.

From my experience you have an advantage if you live in US, UK, Canada or Australia because marketing services are developed in these countries and companies need people to say their honest opinion about their products or services.

This is how you get money and prizes the marketing company pays you for your time and your opinions. They need the data for marketing research and to learn how to improve the products and services and how to sell more.

Amazing Pen

Another variety of digital tools to draw. The Chromopen conceptmakes choosing colors for matte-painting a cinch. The user simply points and shoots the Chromopen’s built-in camera to catch colors directly from the scene they’re painting, simultaneously broadening their understanding of color tones. It turns out great! 

Future of Indian Technology

The Indian technology industry got its start running call centers and doing low-level IT work for western firms. Then, in the 2000s, it started taking on higher-level IT tasks, offering management consulting services, and performing sophisticated R&D. Now there is another transition happening, one far more significant: a transition to development of innovative technology products.  Instead of providing IT services as the big outsourcing companies do, a new breed of startups is developing high-value products based on intellectual property. The Indian industry groupNASSCOM estimates that in 2008, the country’s software product revenues totaled $1.64 billion. It forecasts that this will grow to $11 billion per year by 2015.

I attended the NASSCOM Product Enclave in Bangalore, this week, and gave several talks to the 1000+ entrepreneurs in attendance. I was surprised at the changes that are powering the new transition: its tech workers are leaving high-paying jobs in IT services, and kids out of school are ignoring social taboos against failure and defying marriage customs to become entrepreneurs.  A few Americans are also joining the fray, starting their ventures in India rather than in Silicon Valley. Though in China, returnees from the U.S. are fuelling the entrepreneurship boom, they aren’t as important in India. Sadly for my Indian friends in Silicon Valley who are looking to return home, returnees—formerly in high demand and treated like rock stars—are out of vogue and now treated like rocks.

Why are highly paid workers in an industry that does lucrative contract work for multinationals jumping ship? It’s the same dynamic as you observe in the United States.  Entrepreneurs start their companies when they are, on average, 39 years of age. They have 10 to 15 years of work experience and ideas for products that solve real customer problems; they get tired of working forjerk bosses; and they want to build wealth before they retire.  So they defy their fear of failure and take the plunge into entrepreneurship.

India’s outsourcing industry is about 20 years old and has hundreds of thousands of workers with 10 to 15 years of experience and ideas for innovative products.

At the NASSCOM event, I met dozens of tech-service industry workers who had become entrepreneurs. A surprisingly high proportion weren’t developing products for their former customers, but were instead looking inward to solve India’s problems