sapiens - Slashdot User

Comment You should bone up on your future (Score 1) 228

by sapiens on Thursday March 07, 2013 @03:08PM (#43107545) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Advice For Summer Before Ph.D. Program?

I would wager that the small liberal arts college did not have multiple offerings in many of the areas of modern biology. So why not consider being near the top of your new graduate cohorts by reviewing all the stuff you either did not cover in your UG courses, or never got to really learn the first time around? Read some textbooks on any of the sub-disciplines of biology. Approach what you do with a drive to be outstanding not some average dude who spent the summer ...........

Submission + - New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End 1

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Hugh Pickens writes

on Sunday December 25, 2011 @09:51AM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "A car-seat identifier developed at Japan’s Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology by Associate Professor Shigeomi Koshimizu can recognize a person by his or her rear end with 98 percent accuracy when the person takes a seat in his car. The bucket seat’s lower section is lined with 360 pressure sensors that measure pressure on a scale from 0 to 256 sending information to a laptop, which aggregates the information, generates the key data and produces a precise map of the seated person's rear profile. Researchers say that traditional biometric techniques such as iris scanners and fingerprint readers cause stress to people undergoing identity checks, while the simple act of getting seated carries less psychological baggage. Koshimizu wants to see his work available commercially as an anti-theft product in two to three years if automakers agree to collaborate and sees possibilities of this device being used beyond auto-theft identity protection to a device for security identification in office settings, where users log on to their PCs as they sit down."

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