LETS BANG WITH "iBangle"

Every time when you jog, just for the sake of listening to music you have to put up with headphones and all the connecting wires dancing along. Wearable computing seems to be the latest fashion and though it is still away from making a formal appearance, it has begun creating waves already. Well this time, I hope you won’t see any such dancing wires because the engineers at Apple are trying out wearable devices, which also includes a curved glass iPod meant to be drawn on the wrist and put to use using Siri voice commands. A small group of Apple employees contribute in developing this wearable gadget by setting up the now-present-everywhere smartphone as a data-collecting centre.

This device what I am talking about popularly would be called as “iBangle” or “iPod-Bangle”.

The device can be used with any other locally available wrist-strap as a wrist-watch alternate. Talking about the technology embedded in it, the company has provided Bluetooth 4.0 support (popularly called as “Bluetooth Smart Ready”) as in its latest iPhone 4S.

Slash Gear reports that Apple is quietly testing and trying, what they're referring to as a curved glass iPod, which can be worn around one's wrist - more like a bangle. Interestingly, Siri will play a very important role in this one, since reports reveal that the curved iPod will be controlled, almost entirely by Siri.

It has become atrociously obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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SWARM INTELLIGENCE

A long time ago, people discovered the variation of the interesting insect or animal behaviours in the nature. A flock of birds swings across the sky. A group of ants hunts for food. A school of fish swims, turns, flees together, etc. We call this kind of aggregate motion as SWARM behaviour. Recently biologists and computer scientists in the field of artificial life popularly called as Artificial Intelligence (AI) have studied how to model biological swarms to understand how such social animals interacts, achieve goals, and evolve to its immediate surroundings. Moreover, engineers are increasingly interested in this kind of swarm behaviour since the resulting swarm intelligence, which can be applied in optimization in telecommunication systems, power system, economical load dispatch, traffic patterns in transportation systems, and military applications.

In short Swarm Intelligence (SI) is an innovative, distributed intelligent pattern solving optimized technique that has been formerly commenced by the consistent activity of the physical laws or biological creatures which when reacting to their natural surroundings.

 It has been also quoted that “SI is the emergent collective intelligence of group of simple agents.”

It basically a three step process of identification of analogies, understanding the problems and then engineer the solution in a very economical n efficient way with accuracy and speed. It has greater advantages as such as; system performance optimization, decentralization, distributed task allocation with effective monitoring etc. 

Technology has already been implemented in various developed countries and also developing countries, equipped with most hi-tech and ground-breaking algorithms such as Simulated Annealing (SA), Ants Colony Optimization (ACO), Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA), Bacterial Foraging Algorithm (BFA) etc. As its an heuristic study, so still the best possible algorithms are been under research keeping exclusive factors like accuracy and speed in mind.

There is always an immortal link between nature and technology.
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