A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a unique type of camera lens, composed of a pair of water droplets which vibrate upon exposure to sound, thereby changing the lens's focus. Although liquid lenses are not new, this system doesn't attempt to maintain focus the way other designs do. Instead, it captures images in a continuous stream. Because the lenses are constantly vibrating, some frames are in focus and some are not, and advanced imaging software ignores the blurry frames and retains the in-focus ones. Consuming less energy than traditional lenses and capable of capturing 250 pictures per second, the technology could find its way into systems such as cellphones, automobiles, miniature spy planes and autonomous robots.

The idea is to seamlessly take the HTML stream between the SSD and the web site and reformat the layout of the page to fit better on the SSD.

Especially, it should make navigating the site easier by removing the need to pan all over the original page.

It will also reduce the amount of traffic flowing down to the SSD as the CA takes place on the Vodacom network and only the resultant new, small screens are sent down to the SSD and are counted as part of your data use.

To do this, the SSD must first connect to an intermediated box where the CA will take place. This box will then connect to the requested web site on the internet, retrieve the web pages, re-format them and then pass it down to the SSD.

This concept of implementing intermediate, in-line devices in the data stream to perform specific functions is well known and employed by all ISP's. Examples include Firewalls, Virus Scanners, Caching Engines and Proxy Servers. These boxes all perform some important function, either to improve the customer experience, reduce network traffic or both. The CA engine is just another of these in-line engines albeit with quite a complex task; trying to think like a human!!

"The most important program that runs on a computer. Every general-purpose computer must have an operating system to run other programs. Operating systems perform basic tasks, such as recognizing input from the keyboard, sending output to the display screen, keeping track of files and directories on the disk, and controlling peripheral devices such as disk drives and printers.



"For large systems, the operating system has even greater responsibilities and powers. It is like a traffic cop -- it makes sure that different programs and users running at the same time do not interfere with each other. The operating system is also responsible for security, ensuring that unauthorized users do not access the system."

• Difficulty of finding the function or option that you want because of the huge number of options available.
• The artificial intelligence that is built into the menus, dialog boxes and 'widgets causes behavior that is not always welcome. And this is exacerbated by the unsolicited automatic updates that change appearance or behavior of GUI controls.

If an expert system--brilliantly designed, engineered and implemented--cannot learn not to repeat its mistakes, it is not as intelligent as a worm or a sea anemone or a kitten.

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery. . . . As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science