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WebWatcher – Your Personal Office Reconnaissance

Unless you own a company on a primitive isolated backwater island in the middle of some shark infested Pacific water, chances are your office and employees have access to high speed internet. Although internet access is indispensable in modern work places especially as a communication channel, it is also a well known fact that it is prone to abuses that may prove liable and potentially embarrassing to the company. Such abuses like access to non-work related websites, gaming, chatting and doing excessive personal businesses will cost companies substantial amount in financial losses.
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Reduce your losses and protect your assets by keeping an eye on your employees with the WebWatcher Computer Monitoring Software. In the office, their business is your business. With the WebWatcher’s proven invisibility technology, you can monitor them as virtually close as a breath’s width on their neck without setting off their spider sense.

WebWatcher will let you monitor and log anything and everything done on a PC including e-mails sent and received, IM conversations, web pages accessed and for how long, and even keystrokes. You can also capture screen shots to have a visual on what they are doing. For added security, you can set alarms when “alert words” are used in communications. Take complete control of your business because WebWatcher can block inappropriate “websites” and can limit access to different applications. This office monitoring overlord can be remotely accessed, controlled and installed on multiple PC’s.

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Vue Personal Video Network – See Your Home and Your Business Virtually from Anywhere, Anytime

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Stick. Click. View. Yes, that’s all you have to do to see your home and your business virtually from anywhere, anytime. Introducing the all-new Vue Personal Video Network, the revolutionary system that allows you to see what you have been constantly missing in your life – your son’s/daughter’s play time and fun time, important family events, your pets wackiest acts, your business’ assembly line, and other special situations in the lives of your friends and family. Unlike other spy gadgets which you can only use for viewing, this one allows you to do anything that you can think of – view live, record, and even share videos. Isn’t this amazing?

So, what’s included in the box if you get this Personal Video Network designed by Avaak, a fast-growing company that aims to change how families and business see the world? You get two Vue wireless battery-powered cameras, four camera mounts (peel and stick magnetic), wireless Vue gateway with AC power adapter, Ethernet cable, and a personal my.VueZone.com account with a whooping 2GB storage. So there, you’ve got everything ready for your personal video network!

How to setup? Simply position the Vue cameras anywhere, either at your home or business, using the four peel and stick magnetic mounts. If you want to view more, you can always add more cameras for expanded monitoring of your family or business. The Vue gateway can accommodate around 50 cameras, so that’s how wide your access can be. The gateway, itself, has zero-configuration setup, making it hassle-free for you to start viewing the world. Just plug it into your router or cable/DSL modem, sync cameras, and voila, they’re ready to roll! With your personal my.VueZone.com account, you can start viewing your cameras, record, and share your live video or recorded content online from any browser.

So, what are you waiting for? Get one now! Want to see more wireless video products? Click here.

Web Connected Home Security System – “Monitor your Home from the Internet”

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Home security has become an increasing necessity as the world becomes a more dangerous place. Today we have more and more security companies and security devices available. The type of devices that stand out against all the rest are the ones that are web connected, allowing the owners to view their property via the internet or communicate with pets or visitors from anywhere.
Web connected monitoring devices allow the owners to view their property via a safe secure internet site. They can control the activation of their system from this site and request the dispatch of necessary services. Also they can have their system send them messages via their pager or email such as certain alerts and activation confirmations. There is also an added feature of web-intercom technology which allows communication from the owner to the web-connected monitor.

The availability of web-intercom technology with web-connected home security can create a system perfect for anyone who may leave beloved pets at home or expecting visitors. Keep an eye on what your pets are doing, and communicate with them through web-intercom technology, it is the perfect way to still chastise them for getting on the furniture or barking while your gone. Also communicate with visitors who maybe ringing your doorbell or standing outside your gate that do not require your appearance and make it seem that you are home.

This technology is full of possibilities, the customizations available to the owner creates unlimited capabilities. There are several different products that are available based on the monitoring company you use research different companies to create the perfect system for yourself.

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New Airport Security – “Behavioral Screening”

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With the heightened security at airports the amount of time it takes to go through security has also become heightened. Long lines, tedious searches, and unrealistic specifications to what one can carry aboard the airlines maybe a thing of the past.
The technology being investigated right now would create a security system that would alert someone if the passengers behavior emit emotional strain. It could take as quick as 10-20 seconds, by introducing a subliminal stimuli such as an image of Osama Bin Laden or the Arabic words “Islamic jihad”, then monitoring heart rate, body temperature, and respiration can produce the perfect terrorist screening process. Created with a combination of infra-red technology, remote sensors, and imagers this maybe the answer to airport efficiency and put an end to airline terrorist.
Profiling is difficult and can be deceiving, racial, sexual, and religious profiling are all so combined these days that is almost impossible to pick out the “bad guys”. This new type of detection brings a whole new light to profiling. This technology has the ability to be completely undetected by passengers, they step onto a “smart carpet” or sit in a “smart seat” filled with hidden biometric sensors and gaze into a “check-in screen” and are profiled. Security is immediately alerted and the possible threat is removed and completely investigated.

There are several companies trying to develop this technology and get it into use. WeCU has received grants from the Transportation Security Administration within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to produce a system that will pinpoint behavioral profiled threats. The Orwellian-sounding startup has developed a system that detects a passengers intentions by scanning each step. And many other ideas and companies are jumping on this new innovative technology. We can only hope that this is truly the answer to overcrowded airport lines and terrorist threats aboard our airlines in one fail swoop.

 

 

 

Odyssey IV Robot Submarine by MIT

The design behind Odyssey IV was dreamt up by the AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle) laboratory of MIT. The purpose was to enable deep sea researchers a cheaper, easier to operate, alternative to the submarine robots available. Another goal is to eliminate the continuous monitoring needs of the AUV during scouting missions. Odyssey IV can be deployed for six months and self charged completely underwater.

The Odyssey IV weighs 1000 lbs. and is 6.5 ft. long it has twin side-mounted thrusters that can propel up to 3 knots. A second pair of embedded, cross-body thrusters makes tight turns, full rotation, and even lateral movement easy for the Odyssey IV. These movements enable the Odyssey to handle autonomous movements thousands of feet underwater with no human assistance. At anytime the Odyssey IV feels that it has drifted to far off track or had a system failure it will immediately surface and float until picked up. Currently it can follow a pre-plotted course following GPS waypoints and underwater coordinates made from acoustic data.

The internal volume consists of ceramic balls that provide buoyancy and water. The weight essentially doubles as it takes on about 1000 lbs. of seawater, which also lowers the temperature in the onboard liquid cooling system. This in turn helps keep the computer brain that is sealed-off in one of the few waterless compartments in the vehicle.

Although Odyssey IV can improve underwater missions for off shore oil rigs and underwater research there is much more testing to be done before it is marketable. MIT expects the Odyssey to be a full success and to be marketable by 2010.