Do you know:

Chameleons are the only lizards that eat breakfast? There are evidences shown that this lizard can catch their pray with their tongue at a body temperature of 15 celcius or at warmer, 35 celcius degree, way too different than other lizards.

busy... busy... busy...

But, what am I so busy with? T h e s i s writting! I am also currently working in a research dealing with the blind institution in my country. Lot's of preparations and software developments, and stuffs like that. Oh yah, I am also busy with 'some' music production work! These are massive workloads, but of course, a very fun activity.


Caption: a puppy Chow Chow

By the way, we went to this pet shop few weeks ago, walking around, gazing at some really cute puppies. They are really cute! Then, from no where, Liz proposed to buy one of the puppy, planning to bring it back home. Well this is really a surprise for me, because a busy lady like her should not has any time to handle a pet. Yet, her mom will not allow petting at home. But finally, we have chosen a really cute female puppy (Chow Chow), paying around RM 4k to the pet shop and brought her home. Two months old at that time, she is extremely cute for me and everyone else. Everyone also proposed a name for her, thinking which will suit her most. Guess what, we even proposed names like Brenda, Lovey, Lovely, Cutey, Baby, Darling, Bear-Bear (indeed she do look like a bear) etc. but finally Liz had chosen Sugar. Why was that? Because she is just as sweet as a piece of sugar ;)


Caption: she don't even bother looking at us!


Caption: Sugar in her kennel


Caption: how was it like to bath a Chow Chow?


Caption: oh dear, you do enjoy bathing!

I will write a longer post about Sugar soon when I have some time for blogging, again.

Do you know:

Complex aroma from foods appears to produce a fullness feeling? A team of researcher compared 2 different strawberry aromas in two small pots of yoghurt, and asked volunteers to test it out. The first pot contained simple aroma from one chemical, and the other a more complex aroma produces by 15 different chemicals. Both groups of volunteers were given the same amount of yoghurts. The result of the experiment shows that the volunteers feel more satisfied and full after eating the yoghurt with complex aromas.

The accident rate is increasing every day by day. If only drivers could glance through walls, then the amount of accidents should significantly be reduced. There is this augmented reality technology built to help drivers to glance through blind spots. But how does this work? They uses two cameras in 2 different spots (shown in the picture below); (1) to capture the driver's view, and (2) to capture the scene behind the wall. Then, they uses a computer to connect through the second camera (behind the wall), projecting the scene in a big screen to make it look as if the wall appears to be transparent.


Caption: how the camera works

In other words, CCTV do have blind spot where u can't capture every single part of a place. This may enhance the security system whilst preventing accidents from occuring all over the place.


Video: transparent wall with the augmented reality technology

Although the technique of combining images from two different cameras looked simplistic, they were extremely challenging to develop. The research team from the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) were trying to emerge this technology into a car. First, they are going to utilise a video processor, tuning it into a wireless roadside camera that has the capability of viewing hidden spots onto the windscreen of the car rather than just a small monitor. The project is funded by Denso, a car parts manufacturer based in Japan.