Prepare your family before winter storms

Have a sufficient heating fuel, good, good storage of dry woods for fireplace, wood burning stove, etc.

Prepare your home for winter by extending the life of your fuel supply; insulate the walls, caulking and weather stripping doors and windows, covering the windows and plastics.

Clean the rain gutters.

Repair the roof leaks.

If you have trees and plants cut away their braches that may fall on the house or other structure during the storm.

To avoid freezing during the cold weather insulate the pipes with newspaper, plastic or using insulation.

Keep the fire extinguishers ready and ensure that everyone in the family knows how to use it.

Hire a contractor and check the ability of the roof that it is suitable to withstand the heavy weight that is formed due to the accumulation of snow or water.

Make sure that you are able to shut off the water valves.

Robot that mimic a person

Engineers of Future Robotics Technology Center have released their last invention – the Wireless Intelligent Networked Device (WIND).

This technology is a master slave controller that consists of small system in packages and processors that are connected to 3D position sensors that are installed in the vest that helps to identify the motion of the body.

When the wearer makes a movement in the vest it is transformed into a command to the robot that is conveyed through the Bluetooth. At last this makes the robot to mimic the respective motion.

Touch screen with unlimited Finger Tracking Capability

Most of the touch screen that is in use today is limited to the use of just two fingers. Cypress Semiconductor came up with a good solution to this with the invention of a tablet-sized touch screen device that works with unlimited finger tracking capability.

The device allows the user to manipulate several images at a time. This technology can be used in 7-17” touch screens.