Google has reached out to remind us that it’s against their developer policies (section C.1.e) to approve Glassware that has any sort of facial recognition technology, and as such they will not be distributing the app through official channels. It could still be possible for the developer to distribute the app themselves and have users sideload it, but there is little chance such an app would get wide distribution.

We’ve seen our fair share of creepy apps, but this one probably takes the cake. It’s called NameTag, and in Robocop-like fashion, the app can scan a person’s face and compare it to a records database consisting of millions of people.

If NameTag successfully finds that person, it spits back tons of information about them, including their full name, their relationship status, what school they went to, their current occupation, their interests, and more. It’ll even tell you if that person has a criminal record.

It does all of this by searching various online social networking profiles for that person and pulling details from the profiles they may have filled out. It also pulls information from public records database, such as online court records in your city and state.

Upon gathering these details, they upload them to FacialNetwork.com‘s database without your permission. Don’t want your information made available? NameTag gives you the ability to opt-out, though we’d contend that something like this should be strictly opt-in.

Legal and moral issues aside, NameTag says that their goal isn’t to invade user privacy:

Except it should be up to that person whether or not they want to make their details known to strangers who happen to be wearing Google Glass and using this app. I know I’m not necessarily interested in talking to and meeting every single person I come across while I’m out and about. If they need to know more about me for whatever reason, they can come up to me, introduce themselves, and ask like normal human beings are supposed to.

NameTag’s angle is to enhance people’s social lives, but one might think up a few other cases where it might be useful. Perhaps you want to know if someone is registered as a sex offender before engaging them or allowing your children to be near them. That would be a noble use-case scenario, though some would contend that people should have a reasonable level of privacy no matter what they may have done in their life.

To be fair to NameTag, using public records and social networking profiles to craft reports about an individual are nothing new. Spokeo allows you to do this with as little as a name or email address, and gives you even more intimate information than NameTag claims to. That said, it’s not often that these types of services maintain their own database and use images to initiate a search for someone instead of their name or other details you might have access to.

We’re excited for the future of Google Glass, but apps like these will continue to come around and make us take a step back every now and then as we ponder how far is too far. Sure, our phones have cameras and would be capable of doing this with the right app (in fact, NameTag is planning on making iOS and Android apps of their own).

Still, it’s a lot more obvious when it’s being done with a smartphone, and there’s something about a camera that sits on your face that may or may not be taking your photo at any given time that makes something like NameTag a bit more uneasy to swallow. How do you feel?

Nanyang Technological University (Abbreviation: NTU) is one of the two largest public universities in Singapore with the biggest campus in Singapore.
Formed by two sloping, tapering arcs that interlock with a third, smaller arc, the School of Art, Design, and Media is an elegant five-story, 215,000-square-foot structure housing more than two dozen studios and laboratories, two galleries, and as many lecture halls, alongside classrooms, a soundstage, a 450-seat auditorium, and motley other spaces spanning a library to prototyping rooms. Moreover, the $24 million building merges with—in fact, nearly disappears into—its surroundings by way of its most notable feature: its swooping green roofs.Accessible by stairs along the edges, the curving, green roofs prevent a loss of open space, while offering a sculptural solution for CPG’s design goals. For example, the dense voysia matrella grass turf adds to the building’s eco credentials by helping to absorb Singapore’s intense sun. Meanwhile, this effect enhances the outdoor gathering space at a university that has made a mission of promoting creativity—a mandate it wanted to express architecturally through spaces fostering interaction. In fact, the site was chosen in part because of its placement between the school’s main academic and dormitory clusters, a “strategic location that makes the building highly accessible to all students,” Hoong Bee Lok said director of the Singapore-based architecture firm CPG Consultants, which came with extensive experience working on the master plan to build this building.Throughout the project, CPG managed to show how the twin imperatives of sustainability and community-building can be complementary. Following the roofs’ arcing silhouettes, expansive curtain wall facades of high-performance, double-glazed glass not only maximize interior daylight while minimizing heat penetration—longitudinally oriented east-west, the building has mostly north and south exposures—but they also contribute to a sense of openness, augmented by views to the surrounding natural landscape. The sunken, almond-shaped courtyard formed by the space in between the building’s two main arms further expands access to daylight. Enlivened by fountains, cascading water, and a “floating” performance platform, its reflecting pond creates a pleasant communal area while helping to cool it as well.The building’s double-curve layout, interspersed with breakout lounges, also encourages a “non-linear” approach to education, Lok says. Upon entering the double-height lobby from beneath the building’s smaller wing, one gets a clear view past a metal bridge to the sunken courtyard on the other side. To the left are seminar rooms, gallery spaces, classrooms, and the library; to the right are offices, studio spaces, and the auditorium. Throughout, a simple, unfussy palette of raw concrete and cement-sand floors minimizes the use of materials and finishes, while providing resiliency and an unprecious “canvas for students to express their creativity,” says Lok.Of course, the building’s greenest feature, in more ways than one, remains the roof. In addition to reducing solar gain and slowing runoff during Singapore’s frequent downpours, it is irrigated using rainwater collected in storage tanks; a moisture retention mat installed beneath the lightweight soil also helps keep the grass consistently damp under the sun. Indeed, “inventing a turf system suitable to the local tropical climate was a challenge, requiring a good understanding of turf growth and a precise installation of irrigation and water drainage,” says Lok, adding that the latter was addressed with perimeter drains.
The greatest challenge, however, was the roof itself. Cast in heavily ribbed, reinforced concrete, “it took tremendous site coordination, [a complicated] scaffolding system, and accurate setting-out for such curvilinear structures,” Lok says. Not to mention its price tag—early on, critics perceived the green roofs as being both radical and costly. But in the end, integrating the building with its natural surroundings proved to be a successfully iconic solution that has won favor across the entire campus. “By developing a student-centric scheme incorporating green communal spaces,” says Lok, “we tried to promote interaction among all students beyond the classrooms for a constant exchange of creative ideas and to build a student culture.” A greener culture, that is.KEY PARAMETERS
LOCATION: Singapore (at the mouth of the Singapore River on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula)

GROSS SQUARE FOOTAGE: 215,000 ft2 (20,000 m2)

COST: $36 million

COMPLETED: 2006

ANNUAL PURCHASED ENERGY USE (2008): 49 kBtu / ft2(550 MJ / m2)

ANNUAL CARBON FOOTPRINT (PREDICTED): 14 lbs. CO2 / ft2 (69 kg CO2 / m2)

PROGRAM: Art gallery, auditorium, library, media labs, CGI labs, prototyping rooms, construction workshops, design studios, motion studios, lecture rooms, sound stage

Really, it is not just acidity rain you should be worried about.  There are several different types of precipitation that can become acid through either organic means or by human activities.  Unfortunately, it is more often the later, with industrial contamination causing a lot of acidity rain discovered on the globe we reside in. These acid rain facts will help you to understand just how dangerous this trend is to the globe we reside in, especially when Bermuda triangle facts can show jus how many organic oddities are discovered on the globe.

Acidity rain is provides the chemicals sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide.

Acid rain can cause a mass killing to trees.

Vehicles will not melt if they are moved by acidity rain, but their color tasks and coatings can be broken quickly.  Acid proof paint is available to keep your car looking awesome.

Stone components, like structures, sculptures, monuments, and walls, can all be broken by acidity rain.  This acidity rain fact may be a little more complex, as certain rocks are more resistant to acid ingredients than others.

Industries and motor vehicles together with fossil fuel power plants are one of the most polluting

The people of Japan have been enchanted by the longest, largest and fastest maglev train in the world. From the middle of the twentieth century, the engineers are working on the maglev train concept. In 1968, James Powell, a researcher at Brook haven National Lab, thought of using maglev trains (derived from magnetic levitation). The old wheel and axle model has been replaced by levitation system in maglev which lifts the cars by magnetism.

The lift and push are provided to the train by the repulsive and attractive forces of magnetism used by this system.

The maglev trains that are operating at the present have been designed by the engineers in the preceding decade. A new maglev train has been tested on the Yamanashi Maglev Test Line recently.

The most recent maglev train in Japan is known as the LO Series and can run at speeds of up to 311mph (500 km/h). In its first run along the 26.6-miles test track, the train reached its top speed before it touched the 3-mile marker.

People who had the honor to ride on this high-tech LO told that they did not feel any turbulence or heard any noise while the train was moving at the great speeds. But it was a different story for the observers outside the train.

“[One] reporter felt a shock wave and a massive gust of wind as the train sped past him. He also reported a deafening sound that made conversation all but impossible,” said Asahi Shimbun.

It is still to be considered if this type of turbulence restricts LO from use in densely populated areas. Engineers have sufficient time till the planned inaugural date of LO in 2027 to reduce these external forces.

More maglev trains are expected to come in the areas of India, China and even the US in the future decades. The Maglev trains and Hyperloops will expectantly make mid-distance travel fast, calm and advanced.

Diabetes is a deficiency of the pancreas, whereby insulin is not produced sufficiently or utilised properly. It's basically a disorder of metabolism, primarily that of carbohydrates. The ingested sugars and starches cannot be deployed, and hence are eliminated in the urine. Symptoms of diabetes include frequent urination, extreme thirst or hunger, weight loss, fatigue, numbness, and infections. There are 2 types of diabetes. In type 1 diabetes, the body doesn't produce any insulin, whereas, people with type 2 diabetes either don't produce enough insulin or their cells resist the insulin, and they tend to be overweight, because the high insulin levels, unable to channel glucose into muscle cells, convert glucose into fat and cholesterol instead. This results not only in obesity, but also very often heart disease, poor blood circulation in the legs and eye diseases. While type 1 diabetes is treated with insulin injections, which help glucose get into the body cells and maintain blood glucose control, type 2 diabetics commonly use glucose-lowering drugs. Most diabetics are type 2 and are usually in their 40s.

With appropriate control, many diabetics and pre-diabetes (people with blood glucose levels higher than normal person but not high enough to be considered diabetic) are still able to safely enjoy natural honey. Before incorporating honey into their meal planning, find out how much of the sweet liquid can be consumed on a daily basis. Each diabetic is different and should learn how his or her body reacts to different foods containing carbohydrates. Bear in mind that the total amount of starches or carbohydrates in a food is the key consideration, not the amount of sugar. Honey is a carb food as well, just like rice, potatoes, thus just keep in mind that 1 tablespoon of honey has approximately 17 grams of carbohydrate, and taking that into account when counting your total daily intake of carbohydrates, diabetics can work it out just like any other sweetener or carbohydrates. To monitor response to honey, blood sugar levels could be noted before consumption and again two hours later. Also, when purchasing commercial honey for diabetic patients, be sure that it is pure and not adulterated by glucose, starch, cane sugar, and even malt, which is to better to be avoided in a diabetic diet.

You get (99 per cent of the time) a "no-no" answer when you ask doctors if honey is allowed for diabetics. This is not surprising as the idea of eating honey to regulate blood glucose seems rather counter intuitive. But did they ever tell you that clinical studies have shown that pure honey is a healthier choice in diabetic diet than table sugar and any other non-nutritive sweeteners such as Splenda, saccharin, aspartame? Honey requires lower levels of insulin compared to regular white sugar and does not raise blood sugar levels as rapidly as table sugar, that is, it has a lower Glycemic Index than sugar. Though honey contains a significant amount of sugar, it consists largely of two simple individual units of sugar - glucose and fructose, which are absorbed at different rates into the body. In fact, Dr Ron Fessenden reveals in his book, The Honey Revolution that "the more glucose intolerant one is, the lower the blood sugar response after honey ingestion versus the higher the blood sugar response after consuming sucrose or glucose". The book further explains why honey is able to perform this remarkable regulatory role. The perfect one-to-one ratio of fructose and glucose found in honey facilitates glucose intake to the liver, hence preventing an overload of glucose entering the blood circulation. And nature's honey is the only sugar that possesses this special ability.