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As the name suggests "Bleeding Technology",means these gadgets are still under research.They might be in our hands soon. They would face some challenges in getting them into commercial use. But they would definitely become a part of our daily use because they target the  most common problems faced by every individual.

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As the name suggests "Bleeding Technology",means these gadgets are still under research.They might be in our hands soon. They would face some challenges in getting them into commercial use. But they would definitely become a part of our daily use because they target the  most common problems faced by every individual.

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@Rishabh

I think that use of drones in day to day lives of people by alloting each one of them a drone is an excellent idea and should be discussed as it would make our lives easier and has other advantages too.

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@Rishabh

A very good conclusion may be drawn after brainstorming our ideas. if a sixth sense technology can be combined with a drone then that would be the smartest device mankind has ever seen. it would be equivalent to a robot having ability to fly and has its own thinking ability.

Also the faster the general public gets to use drones the faster will we be able to reduce fuel cosumption since these would be electrically operated

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@Rishabh

Drones can be put in many different uses once laws are set up. a few of them are :

1. doing even daily household work like serving food, transporting furniture from one place to other.

2. can be a very bright future for communication with long range radars installed in them.

3. can be used to control traffic all by themselves and take photos of rule rule-breakers removing use of policemen and different cameras installed at a single stop.

4. Quadcopters can be used in protecting the VVIP's which costs a lot now, removing the guards and placing drones instead of them.

5.maybe when we have advanced in technology we may have a drone assigned to each human like Aadhar card and may be able to use them in whatever way we want under some guidlines

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@Dhyana teja

All these modules can be made at a cheap price and put at a commercial use.

Out of these modules which are used for health monitoring are more feasible because the concept related to them is already being worked on and it also helps all kinds of people.

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@Shankar Anand

This technology can be made use commercially in future without any complexities. Though there are some challenges in bringing this technology in to light we can over come them easily.

This may help blind people as of now because there are a few inventions which can act as an eye for blind people.

This also has no limitations in terms of age, group etc.On the whole This technology can step into many fields and has vast applications.

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@Dhyana teja

#Using this technology we can prepare health monitoring modules which can help in measuring oxygen level in blood and other uses.

#We can also prepare modules for different components of a professional camera.

#The concept of modularity can also be applied to make sensors which can measure pollution in water, air, soil

#This also helps in building modules which could be used in auto mobiles for GPS,speed tracking,for driver less cars and many more.

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1. confluence : an act or process of merging.

2. Aerosonde : a radiosonde carried by a remotely piloted aircraft

3. hobbyist : a person who pursues a particular hobby

4. geomagnetic :  a conventionalized symmetrical approximation of the earth's magnetic field having one diameter of the earth as its axis.

5.reconnaissance : military observation of a region to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic features.

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I took the survey to know how the people think about this technology based on their different age groups and professions.

This could help to build different modules that could be used by various people in different professions.

Target Audience : General public

1.Have you ever heard of this technology before?

a)Yes

b)No

2.Do you believe that project ARA failed Drop test?

a)Yes

b)No

3.To which age group do you belong?

a)Below 16 years

b)16-20

c)20-30

d)30-40

e)40-60

f)above 60 years

4.Are you interested in making your own Module?

a)Yes

b)NO

5.What could be the affordable price in you opinion ?

a)40$-60$

b)60$-80$

c)80$-100$

d)100$-200$

6.What are you by your Profession?

a)Businessman

b)Engineer

c)Doctor

d)Farmer

e)Other

7.How would you rate this technology?

a)Very Satisfied

b)Some what Satisfied

c)Neutral

d)Some what Diss

atisfied

e)Very Dissatisfied

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@Rishabh

Target public : Ones who have never flown a drone before.

1. Do you think drones will be more helpful in our day to day lives ?

a. yes

b. no

c.wont have any change

2. Should drones be allowed to work as delivery machines keeping in mind the privacy of people

a. yes

b. no

3. Will drones disturb the air traffic which is now very controlled ?

a.y es

b. no

c. no change .

Target audience : Ones who have a drone or have flown it.

1. Have you had any training in FAA requirements and/or regulations?

a. yes

b. no

c. never heard of it

2.  Do you fly your drone in public areas?

a. always

b. sometimes

c. never

3. Do you fly your drone above 500 feet?

a. always

b. sometimes

c. never

4.  Do you ever fly your drone outside of your line of sight?

a. always

b. sometimes

c. never

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1. Main Article http://tlp.law.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/tlp/article/download/123/126. ( Please copy this link if you want to open it )

2.https://understandingempire.wordpress.com/2-0-a-brief-history-of-u-s-drones/

3. Taken idea from this video about drones. http://www.popsci.com/watch-brief-history-drone

4. Video1 1 and 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le46ERPMlWU

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/footage-devastating-drone-missile-test-6290399

5. Anathor Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IrhM0K2qsA

6. some help from

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Reports/2014/10/drones%20aerial%20surveillance%20legislators/Drones_Aerial_Surveillance_McNeal_FINAL.pdf

7. a part included of

http://www.cnas.org/sites/default/files/publications-pdf/CNAS%20World%20of%20Drones_052115.pdf

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@Shankar Anand

*This device can be used to guide blind people and may also act as an eye for them

*This technology can be imparted into motor vehicles so as to ensure smooth driving and also flow of traffic *This technology can be used to control our home appliances like electric bulbs, locking and unlocking of rooms using facial recognition,air conditioning based on presence of people and also track weather reports.

*This gadget can be integrated with 3 D hologram technology to have live talks at multiple places

*Interactive advertisements can be made using this technology *This technology can be used have interactive roads,railways with people.

*Video gaming can be made more real and entertaining using Sixth Sense technology

*It can be used in school to teach children in an innovative way

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{1}Article 1[main source] : Project A: Inside Google’s Bold Gambit to Make Smartphones Modular Author : Harry McCracken DATE : February 26,2014 URL: http://time.com/10115/google-project-ara-modular-smartphone/

{2} Video related to prototype demo . URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0He3Jr-fZh0

{3} Another video when a prototype is demoed at Google I/O in 2015. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mhjngbsXQ0

{4} A picture showing how a module look's like URL: http://motorolaara.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ara.slide_.2x934.jpg

{5} A link where we can get MDK(module developer kit ) which help us to create our own module URL: http://www.projectara.com/mdk/ {6} Article 2 :Project ARA: everything you need to know Author:Gary Marshall DATE: 1 month ago URL: www.androidpit.com/project-ara-release-date-news-specs-features

{7}Article 3:Google delays its Project ARA modular smartphone until 2016 Author:Chris Welch Date:August 17,2015

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The planned test for later this year is no more

Google is pushing back plans to release its deeply customizable Project Ara smartphone hardware until sometime in 2016. The Ara team today tweeted a message acknowledging the delay and shift away from plans to test out the modular phone project in Puerto Rico later this year. But Google was also quick to note that it's in the process of scouting "a few locations in the US" for Ara. Google's explanation for the change suggests that the team has been hard at work to make Ara a reality. "Lots of iterations... more than we thought," the company tweeted.

When? 2016. #yeswearelate #ProjectAra
- Project Ara (@ProjectAra) August 17, 2015

Project Ara allows users to swap out and upgrade the core components of a smartphone (processor, camera, etc.) individually rather than replace the whole device. It represents a dramatic rethinking of the mobile phone, and attendees at Google I/O were thrilled when the company showed a working prototype on stage in May. The progression to a consumer product seems to be taking a bit longer than anticipated, however. Google had originally aimed to have between 20 and 30 Ara modules available for the now-scrapped Puerto Rico pilot.

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Google is pushing back plans to release its deeply customizable Project Ara smartphone hardware until sometime in 2016. The Ara team today tweeted a message acknowledging the delay and shift away from plans to test out the modular phone project in Puerto Rico later this year.

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Project ARA prototype Demo at Google I/O 

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Project Ara demoed successfully at Google I/O 2015!!!!!!!

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http://www.projectara.com/mdk/

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@ Dhyana teja

Recently the modular phone failed the drop test and the team is searching for an alternative to use in place of permanent electro magnets.

Because of this there is a delay in release of the phone.

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@ Dhyana teja

I was aware of these modular phones from 1-2 years.Once I was searching for new technologies by Google then I came across it.

Later I started surfing videos on you tube and posted some of them and read articles on this concept.Though the article being my primary source I got other information from Project ARA forum in the official site, internet.

At last my sources of collecting data are Google,You tube and Official site of Project ARA.

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1. What is a modular phone? A cell phone that can be assembled from discrete parts called modules into aluminium case(endoskeleton or ENDO). 2. What are modules? These are the micro processors that are programmed to function various components of phone such as camera,battery,memory and many more. 3. What is project ARA? It is the code name for the workings related to modular phone that are associated with ATAP(Advanced Technology and Projects) an organisation under control of Google. 4. When did the idea of modular phone came into existance? The idea resurfaced when an Israeli start up,MODU came up with a micro handset than can slide into different cases for different purposes. 5. When wil be project ARA released? It is expected to be released in 2016 on the name of GREY PHONE. 6. What is the operating system used in this phone? According to ATAP it will work on ANDROID. 7. Who will be manufacturing the modules for ARA phone? ⦁ The prototype with all standerds and specifications are available in Project ARA official website under the name of Module Developers Kit (MDK). So, any company or individual engineers are able to download MDK and develop their own modules with any functionality.

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Audacious-willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.

Quintessential-Representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.

Exuberant-Abundant,plentiful.

Bedecked-Decorate.

Fidgety-Restless or Uneasy.

Scepticism-A doubting or questioning attitude.

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@Shankar Anand

Target Audience : General Public

I want to know whether this gadget or technology is liked by people and the other challenges faced in bringing this gadget into commercial use.I also asked the age group of survey takers to have statistics of the network of people who are ready to use this device. So that it may be used to modify its features to suit all kinds of people.

1. How often do you surf inter net in a day?

A)Every hour of a day

B)Thrice a day

C)Twice a day

D)Not even once a day

2.What gadgets do you often use ?

A)Mobile

B)Camera

C)Ipad or music player

D)PC

E)Radio

F)TV

G)All the above in a smart phone

3.What do you choose to buy if you are to decide only one of the following?

A)A basic mobile phone at low cost

B)A smart phone with lot of features

C)A device Which has more features than a smart phone but at a cost higher than its price

4.Can you mention your age group?

A) Below 15 years

B)16-22years

C)23-30 years

D)30-40 years

E)Above 40 years

5.Have you ever heard of this technology(Or about the gadget made by Pranav based on this technology)?

A)Yes

B)No

6.Do you think you can be comfortable using this device made by Pranav?

A)Yes

B)No

7.How about this gadget, is expected to cost at $350 as said by Pranav?

A)Priced at more than its worth

B)It is worthy to buy at that price

8.Do you think this gadget can become a substitute for most of the electronic gadgets like TV, Camera, Personal Computer, Mobile phone, Radio?

A) Yes

B)No

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· Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) - A communication outside the normal sensory capability

· Medallion - Large medal like thing

· Reciprocation- The act of giving something in return

· Solid State Compass – This technology uses many electromagnetic sensors to measure accurate direction in which compass is pointing

· API – Application Program Interface

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[1] Article: “SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY: A VARIANT FOR UPCOMING TECHNOLOGIES”

Journal:International Journal of Computer Applications

Year: September 2014

Authors: Devyani Agarwal, Lakshay Malhotra, Arunima Jaiswal

[2] A video related to introduction to this technology is taken from

URL: http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense?language=en

[3] For the video showing how a basic device looks like

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtANPtnhyg

[4] Other video related to launch of “Samsung Galaxy Gear”, a device based on this technology was taken from

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCTTPquo0y8

[5] A part from my article I also referred another article for the post named “Initial Idea”

URL: http://www.ijsr.net/archive/v3i12/U1VCMTQ1Nzc%3D.pdf

Article: SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY

Journal: International Journal of Science and Research

Year: 2012

Authors: Vishmita Yashwant Shetty, Vinayak Bhupendra Rai

[6]For the image used in the post “Initial Idea”

URL: http://misy3310dogukan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/9/13690088/715944_orig.png

[7] For the post “Origin of name”, I referred

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixthSense

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Sixth Sense technology (a camera combined with a light source) was developed in 1997 as a headworn device, and in 1998 as a neckworn object, but the Sixth Sense name for this work was not coined and published until 2001, when Mann coined the term "Sixth Sense" to describe such devices.

Mann referred to this wearable computing technology as affording a "Synthetic Synesthesia of the Sixth Sense", believing that wearable computing and digital information could act in addition to the five traditional senses. Ten years later, Pattie Maes, also with MIT Media Lab, used the term "Sixth Sense" in this same context, in a TED talk.

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WuW (Wear your World) was the name first proposed for this by Pranav Mistry, Pattie Maes and Liyan Chang. Mistry tried up with simple computer mouse first he put two roller into one mouse and see if he could obtain data and guide movement of mouse when two rollers not worked properly he took 4 rollers. Four rollers gave him the idea that he could use same idea on fingers and that what he next moved on.

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@Shankar Anand

This technology is a familiar one to me. I knew about this technology since long back(4-5 years ago) and I also watched few videos related to this device. So I did not find any difficulty to go through this process.

Though my primary source has been internet, I have added a question from myself for which, I found no answer and also few drawbacks which got into my mind. I have streamed videos related to this technology in internet, mainly from website of TED talks which is a well-known' one. Later I explored in Google for the relevant article of 4000 above words. Finally I ended my hunt with the article I posted here.

I had also gone through Youtube and posted a video from it. In spite of reading an interview by Pranav Mistry given to TED talks I found no information related to its weight, expected release date. During my search i also found a do it yourself article. I also posted a link for the same.

On whole Google, Youtube and ted.com were been my sources of information related to the article I posted.

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When was this technology first thought of?

In 1990 by Mr. Steve Mann.

Who is the one behind this technology?

Pranav Mistri, a student pursuing his PhD in the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab.

Why is this technology developed?

Unlike the conventional methods of using a technology we should develop one which is so flexible , easier to use and one which interacts with the user. This is one technology which has the same and fuses many devices together.

Is this device currently under commercial use?

No, this is still under research. A basic prototype was made by Pranav for research.

What is the expected cost of this device?

As claimed by Pranav it costs around $350. It may vary under commercial application.

Why so costly?

It consists of expensive projector component to screen in high quality.

Why is the mirror component used in device?

Mirror’s job is to showcase images projected by the projector.

On what software platform did the basic device run?

As stated by Pranav this device uses Windows operating system

Are there any products at present using this technology?

Yes. There are some products made using this technology.

Some are the following:

1) Microsoft Kinect,

2) Whirlpool 6th Sense Washing machine

On whole how can this device be regarded as?

This device can be seen as almost similar to touch screen smart phone with entire world its screen.

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@Rishabh

First i read about drones in a few books in the online library to get a general idea about drones. then searched for the relevant articles on drones. after finding an appropriate article i edited it and added a few more details from other articles and compiled into one. next thing was pictorially representing the drone so as to create an image in the readers mind. finally for elaboration of the work done by the drones i added a few videos which would seal up the idea of drones in the readers mind.

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# when did the concept of UAE come into existence ?

-it came into existence after the first world war but only a little development took place back then

# how has this technology advanced?

- soon after the world war many countries thought of the idea. but initially only a quadcopter was prepared. with increasing precision and range finally a proper drone was able to perform the first accurate air-strike between the years 1970-2000.

#what makes drones so remarkably important ?

-as told in the article drone is currently being used in about 20 different fields. also reduced road traffic and smoother works since removes human intervention. and domestic work drones working on battery would be a great help to the reduction of fuel emission as well as global warming.

#how should general public be informed. what steps should the government take?

- since this is the future of many works it becomes important for the government to bring drones to the knowledge of people. but since it can be highly misused and poses a threat to the privacy of the people strict laws should be made and implemented. after this drone use should be advertised through all possible sources.

#how difficult is it to fly and how would the airtraffic be controlled if used by everyone?

-flying a drone(domestic) is quite easy. as to airtraffic the heights will be decided by ATC and drones will come installed with sensors and GPS to find their own accident-free route.

#what are the possible precautions or laws according to you that can be taken?

-first nobody exept the military should be able to focus their cameras to the ground exept when landing.

second it should have an auto engine off mode so as if it goes out of range it does not cause destruction but simply lands at that place

third could be that every drone should have a chasis number like cars and a tracker should be installed so that they are kept away from airbases and airports.

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·Requires a surface to project on

·No long battery life

·Day projection may become an issue

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When two or more users of this device come together, will there be any confusion for recognition of gestures done by the respective owner for the prototype?

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On January 29, Google announced that it had agreed to sell Motorola, its phone-manufacturing business, to Chinese electronics giant Lenovo. Thus concluded the company's brief, unprofitable foray into smartphone hardware, which began when it revealed plans to acquire Motorola Mobility in August, 2011.

Except that it didn't really end there. It turned out that Google was holding onto one organization within Motorola: the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group. Headed by Regina Dugan, the former director of the U.S. Defense Department's fabled Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), ATAP aims to bring the same approach to mobile-gadget innovation that DARPA used to kickstart the Internet, satellite navigation, stealth fighters and other technologies that started small and eventually mattered a lot.

In retrospect, it's completely logical that Google would choose to retain ATAP. The technologies and projects it specializes in are the wildly audacious ideas Google likes to call moonshots. The company already has another group devoted to such efforts -- Google X, which is working on Google Glass, self-driving cars, broadband balloons and more -- but it's hard to imagine it handing off any moonshots in progress to Lenovo or anyone else.

Among the ATAP initiatives that have been announced, one in particular is quintessentially Google-y. It's Project Ara, which aims to reinvent the smartphone by breaking it down into modules that can be assembled and customized in a limitless number of configurations. The company first disclosed that the project existed on October 29 of last year, when it released some intriguing photos but little in the way of concrete details. Today, it's lifting the veil further as it prepares for an Ara developer conference it's holding at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum on April 15-16. A year or so from now, it hopes to have a product on the market.
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The back side of a modular Ara phone

Right now, if you buy a smartphone, the odds are that you'll get something that one of a handful of large companies designed to appeal to tens of millions of people. And as gobsmackingly capable as modern phones are, that dynamic leads to a certain sameness.

Even Motorola's much-ballyhooed program that lets consumers order custom Moto X phones assembled at a Texas plant involves superficial factors such as case colors and materials, not unique features. By allowing for features to be implemented as user-installable modules, Project Ara's creators hope to make smartphones a whole lot more interesting.

"The question was basically, could we do for hardware what Android and other platforms have done for software?" says Paul Eremenko, the DARPA alumnus who leads the effort. "Which means lower the barrier to entry to such a degree that you could have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of developers as opposed to just five or six big [manufacturers] that could participate in the hardware space."

It's a big, improbable dream; even based on what little information Google has disclosed to date, pundits have been busy pointing out the pitfalls. But if Ara works as advertised and large numbers of phone buyers buy into the proposition, they could get something that contrasts sharply with the traditional breed of off-the-shelf phones released on a yearly schedule.

For instance, when Samsung announced the Galaxy S5 this week, its headline improvements included a better camera, a fingerprint scanner and a heart-rate monitor. In a world of modular phones, you might be able to pick any or all of those features and add them to the phone you already have. You'd even be able to pick among multiple cameras, or choose quirky features not meant for the masses. (Eremenko's playful example: an on-phone incense burner.)

Ara also speaks to an overarching issue near to Google's heart: the need to help get another five billion people on the Internet, by bringing it to individuals in developing nations in affordable forms tailored to their needs. The first expression of the modular concept Ara's creators are focusing on is a smartphone with a target price of $50 that's so basic it comes with only Wi-Fi, not a cellular connection. Unlike the bargain-basement "feature phones" such a handset would replace, this wouldn't be a technological anachronism. As its owner's needs evolved and budget permitted, new modules would make it better and better and better.

Cameras for use with Handspring's Springboard slot

The notion that a pocket-sized device might provide modular expansion for capabilities designed by third parties is hardly new. Fifteen years ago, the Handspring Visor -- a PDA created by the inventors of the PalmPilot -- made a splash with a feature called Springboard. A slot on the device's backside accommodated modules that expanded the phone's capabilities, even turning it into a proto-smartphone with an add-on called the VisorPhone.

The Springboard slot generated lots of excitement for a time, but it made for a portly PDA in an era when rivals were emphasizing slim design And "most modules were single purpose -- there was a camera, memory, a modem, GPS, the phone," remembers Handspring product manager Greg Shirai. "Some people liked to carry a bandolier of modules and swap them in and out. It was geeky and fun. But at some point, a lot of people didn't."

When Handspring turned its efforts to the Treo smartphone, says Shirai, "we decided we had our hands full just trying to build a great phone." And the Springboard slot was relegated to the dustbin of gadget history.

The Modu T phone and some of its special-purpose jackets

The modularity concept resurfaced in 2008 with phones from Modu, an Israeli startup that made a credit card-sized micro-handset you could slip into different cases for different purposes -- one sported a five-megapixel camera, another a BlackBerry-esque keyboard. But the idea didn't catch on, and Modu folded. (It ended up selling its patents to -- wait for it -- Google, suggesting that someone at the company was intrigued by modular phones at least as early as 2011.)

Meanwhile, the most influential smartphone of all time, Apple's iPhone, was leading the entire industry in a distinctly non-modular direction: Even the battery was sealed into the case, and there was no memory-card slot for storage expansion. So last September, when Dave Hakkens, an industrial-design student from the Netherlands, proposed a snap-together smartphone system he called Phonebloks, the very notion felt as contrarian as it did futuristic.
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Dave Hakkens' Phonebloks concept

Hakkens was motivated mostly by the ecological implications of a culture that has tech enthusiasts using a smartphone for only a year or two before dumping it and moving onto something newer and shinier. After all, "If you have a bike and you get a flat tire," he reasoned, "you don't throw it away and buy a new bike." His noble, seemingly far-fetched goal was to spark enough interest in Phonebloks that the industry would embrace the concept and make it happen.

For starters, he made an engaging video and set out to find 500 supporters on "crowd-speaking" site Thunderclap. Instead, nearly a million signed up, and the video went on to rack up 19 million YouTube views.

But even if Phonebloks was an instant phenomenon, it remained a vision of a phone from a possibly distant future, as far as Hakkens knew. "Maybe it'll take us ten or twenty years, but it's not impossible," he remembers thinking.

Motorola, startled by the sudden surge of enthusiasm for something so similar to the effort it had been secretly toiling on for months, moved its announcement of Project Ara up by a month. It also partnered with Hakkens, whose Phonebloks site now serves as a community where enthusiasts can brainstorm Ara-related ideas. (Hakkens stresses that he's an equal-opportunity supporter of modularity: He's also pleased about the Eco-Mobius, a concept phone with user-replaceable components that Chinese manufacturer ZTE showed off at last month's CES conference.)

Exuberant though the support for Phonebloks was, Hakkens' campaign also proved that an awful lot of people just didn't buy the idea of a modular phone. Fast Company's John Brownlee, for instance, called it "a pipe dream," while Colin Lecher of Popular Science ventured that it would "fall apart faster than a Lego castle in the path of a toddler." A whole Reddit thread was devoted to knowledgeable people helpfully explaining why build-it-yourself smartphones were a technological non-starter.

Project Ara aims to prove the naysayers wrong, and to do so more quickly than you might think possible. The earliest explorations of the concept started in the fall of 2012, and work got underway in earnest on April 1, 2013. Eremenko says that ATAP is finishing up work on a functioning prototype, which will be ready within weeks, with a version ready for commercial release in the first quarter of 2015.

Project Ara head Paul Eremenko, in a photo taken during his days at the U.S. Department of Defense's DARPA

Google has made so much headway on Ara in so little time because of the lean, speedy approach to invention that Dugan, Eremenko and other DARPA defectors brought with them when they joined Motorola. ATAP is applying it to a variety of projects: Besides Project Ara, efforts underway include Project Tango, an experimental smartphone that can map the world around it. Plus, presumably, other efforts that remain undisclosed.

The DARPA/ATAP way involves small in-house teams -- just three people in the case of Ara -- being given about two years to tackle an ambitious challenge. That schedule is meant to be a little scary: "Generally, time is not your friend," says Eremenko. "Innovation under time pressure is generally higher-quality innovation."

Much of the heavy lifting is done by "external performers" -- individuals, companies or universities that contribute to the project on a contractual basis as necessary, either briefly or for the long haul. In the case of Project Ara, one key external performer is NK Labs, a small outfit sandwiched in between a towing company and a fencing center in an industrial section of Cambridge, Massachusetts. NK's founders, Seth Newburg and Ara Knaian, are overseeing the electrical, mechanical and software engineering required to make modular phones a reality, heading up a team of around fifteen people.

"They're absolute superstars in their field," Eremenko says. "Creative, out-of-the-box, do-anything kind of guys. I could never, ever get them to work [for Google] full time, move across the country, et cetera, et cetera. There was no way in the traditional model to capture that mindshare."

(In case you're wondering: Yes, Project Ara's moniker is a nod to Ara Knaian, both to acknowledge his contributions and because he happened to have a name that sounded cool. Google hasn't decided what all this stuff will be called when it becomes a commercial offering.)
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An experimental 3D-printed antenna

Another vital contributor to the effort is 3D Systems, the major maker of 3D-printing equipment. It's developing a new high-speed continuous 3D printer capable of cranking out enclosures for Ara modules in volume, allowing for phones to be both mass-produced and custom-designed in a way that's new for any consumer product. Eventually, even electrical elements such as the antennas might be printed rather than manufactured by conventional means.

"If this is successful, it could become one of those watershed moments for 3D printing," says 3D Systems CEO Avi Reichental. "All of us passionately share the vision of what this could become, and the passion to do our best to make it happen."

Though ATAP now falls into the part of Google responsible for Android and Chrome, headed by Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai, it hasn't exactly been subsumed into the Google machine. After the Motorola sale was announced, the Ara team decamped to a tiny sublet office at an office park with a 1980s vibe, seven miles from Google's Mountain View, Calif. headquarters. The downside: Staffers don't get any of that fabulous free food that other Google employees feast on. But they do get to sidestep big-company burdens such as dealing with the mothership's security apparatus and legal department.

What the Ara team and its outside collaborators have created is a platform that supports three sizes of phone: mini (rather basic), medium (mainstream) and jumbo (an oversized, phablet-style variant). The size of each is determined by its endoskeleton, or endo for short -- the one component of an Ara phone that will be Google-branded, as opposed to being devised by a third-party company.

The endo is an aluminum frame that contains a bit of networking circuitry so the modules can talk to each other, a tiny back-up battery and not much else. Everything from the screen to the processor to the battery is provided in the form of a module -- the medium-sized endo has space for ten of them -- which you slide into place to form a phone. In the first prototype, the modules use retractable pins to connect to the endo's network; later this year, Google plans to replace that approach with more space-efficient capacitive connections.
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A prototype Project Ara module, without its enclosure

Like the expansion slots on a desktop PC's motherboard, each compartment on the endo is designed to handle any module of the correct size, regardless of its function. Though basic technical issues are sometimes a factor -- an antenna can't just go anywhere on a phone's body, for instance -- the general idea is to design the phone so that you can swap modules in and out at will. If you never take photos with your phone but worry about running out of power, for instance, you might choose to do without a camera module, freeing up room for a second battery.

Furthermore, the Ara platform is designed to permit hot-swapping of modules, without requiring you to power down the phone -- which means that you could slide out the camera and replace it with a battery whenever you needed a little extra juice.

Many modules would offer features that every conventional smartphone offers as standard equipment, such as cameras, speakers and various sensors. But Eremenko says that breaking them out into modules will allow a consumer to make a phone more personal, choosing speakers optimized for NPR-type content, for instance, or ones meant for rap. Rather than everything being dependent on a component maker's skill at landing contracts with big handset manufacturers, phone buyers would call the shots. "If it turns out that consumers really care about megapixels in cameras, then your bajillion-megapixel camera is going to sell," he says. "And if it turns out that consumers don't, then it won't."
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Ara Knaian, lead mechanical engineer on Project Ara, with the phone in its current functional prototype form

Other modules could offer more specialized capabilities. Based in part on lessons it learned last summer from MAKEwithMOTO -- a tour that involved visiting universities and Maker Faires in a Velcro-covered van outfitted with existing Motorola phones modded to encourage hacking -- Eremenko thinks that two particularly hot categories will be health and personal transportation. Texas A&M students, for example, rigged up a camera attachment and depth sensor that gives a phone the ability to conduct eye exams. Another team designed an add-on for skateboarders that captured data about terrain, then relayed it to other skaters. In the future, either idea could be an Ara module.

Ara handles one common concern about modular phones -- what's to keep them from falling apart in your pocket or when they slip out of your hand? -- in two different ways. The modules on the front of the endo are secured with latches. Those on the back use electropermanent magnets. In both cases, you use an app to lock everything in place. Eremenko says that the phone will be as resistant to water and other environmental threats as conventional models, although some tests -- including one that simulates the phone being jostled around in a crowded purse -- will need to wait until ATAP has a functioning prototype.

As neat as all this sounds, modularity has some obvious downsides. When Apple designs an iPhone, it can cram in parts in the tightest possible manner, as if each new model were a one-of-a-kind jigsaw puzzle. Breaking out hardware features into modules loses that advantage.

"A big challenge on this project was that a cell phone is one of the most integrated things that's made today, and we're trying to separate it into modular pieces," says Knaian. "And so the challenge was how to fit everything in an efficient way, so that people could have the ability at home to add and remove modules and have a lot of flexibility about what modules they put in, but not to have too much added weight or too much added cost by doing that."

Keeping the size reasonable was crucial. "When people say 'modular phone,'" explains Eremenko, "the first thing that jumps to mind is, like, Legos -- a big, blocky thing. And so we had to overcome that with the industrial design. That was the first mental hurdle to overcome."

Ara's masterminds have managed to design a platform that doesn't suffer from the elephantiasis many have declared an unavoidable side effect of modularity. The modules are 4mm thick -- tiles, really, rather than blocks. (The proportions of the smallest ones remind me of an Andes thin mint, though the modules are thinner than the mints.)

Inserted into an endoskeleton, the modules form a phone that's 9.7mm thick in its current prototype form. Later this year, as the design progresses, the designers may allow that to slip to 10mm or so to make room for beefier batteries. That would be noticeably chunkier than the 7.6mm iPhone 5s or 8.1mm Galaxy S5, but only a skosh more so than the 9.3mm HTC One.

At least in the design model I got to see in person, the Ara phone is surprisingly elegant-looking. When you slide the modules into the endo, the result is less like Lego, and more like a Mondrian painting rendered in 3D.
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A work-in-progress functional prototype of an Ara phone, flanked by 3D-printed module enclosures

Google is also keen to let consumers specify an Ara phone's aesthetics as well as its capabilities, which is where 3D Systems' next-generation 3D printer comes in. It will be able to print 600-dpi color images on module enclosures made out of multiple types of materials, which will be user-swappable. The printer will even be able to treat the enclosure as a surface for one-of-a-kind sculptures: Among Ara's prototypes is an enclosure bedecked with dozens of microscopic soccer balls.

"We want not just to create something that's custom, and not even just something that's unique, but actually something that's expressive so that people can use this as a canvas to tell a story," says Eremenko. "So that you can set your phone down at dinner on the table next to you, and it becomes a topic of conversation for the first fifteen minutes of dinner."

Between a hardware ecosystem that Google hopes will eventually offer thousands of modules and the infinite opportunity for exterior modifications, configuring an Ara phone will involve a lot of decisions. Gadget geeks would revel in the opportunity, but a lot of folks might react the same way that new-car buyers do when confronted with the responsibility of choosing between multiple options for everything from engines to wheels to floormats.

And Google is adamant that it's not targeting geeks. It wants people who have never even used the Internet to be comfy with the prospect of buying and using an Ara phone -- "the alpaca farmer in Peru who might not even have a feature phone today," as Eremenko describes a typical customer. So the company is developing Android apps that will expedite the configuration process by pinpointing a different set of features and designs for each shopper.

When phones are ready for sale, the company plans to get them to consumers in three ways. There will be what Ara's creators are calling a "grayphone" -- that $50 bare-bones version, designed to be sold at convenience stores and running an app that will let buyers begin the process of customizing the phone with additional modules and aesthetic modifications. People will also be able to use the customization app on a friend's Ara phone to order a handset of their own; Google's research indicates that choosing a model will be easier if you've got a pal helping out.

The fullest expression of the Ara sales experience will happen at mobile kiosks, which Google is designing to fit into industry-standard shipping containers for easy transportation to wherever on Earth they're needed. (A towering wooden frame matching the dimensions of such a container dominates Project Ara's office space.) The company is still figuring out where they'll show up first, though it's likely that phones will be available in one geographic region before any global rollout.

Eremenko describes a scenario in which visitors to a kiosk might choose a phone with the help of a special tablet capable of measuring galvanic skin response, sub-voluntary muscle movements, pupil dilation, heart rate and other factors that suggest "whether you're happy to be configuring your Ara phone, or whether you're stressed, frustrated, impatient, et cetera." It would then use that assessment of your mood to steer its recommendations.

Another part of the phone-picking process could involve suggestions based on an automated examination of your Facebook or Google+ activity. If your updates show that you're a frequent traveler, for example, you might be advised to go for a big battery and a wireless carrier with service in the destinations you frequent. Someone whose photos get lots of positive feedback from friends could be pointed towards a serious camera module; if those photos tend to be taken at dusk, it might be a camera with good low-light performance.

Eremenko emphasizes that all of this would be optional and done only with the customer's full knowledge and consent, and that buyers would be able to review and overrule any recommendations. If you're still creeped out by the prospect of Google poking around in your social networks to that degree -- let alone trying determine if you're sweaty or fidgety -- it's understandable. But don't fret too much just yet: At launch, it's likely that not all of the more out-there elements will be ready. And Google isn't saying when it might start marketing Ara phones in the U.S.
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A front view of an assembled Ara prototype

For all the progress Project Ara has already made, some basic issues remain on the to-do list. For instance, the team hasn't yet managed to grind the cost for the grayphone down to a $50 price point. Nor is it clear how regulatory agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission, which test and certify new phones to confirm they don't interfere with other devices, will deal with a smartphone that contains components that consumers can rearrange to their liking. (Eremenko says that the FCC has been encouraging so far: "They see this as good for American industry...this says that, hey, your competitive advantage can be innovation, as opposed to making the same fricking phone a few dollars cheaper.")

Still, the overriding issue with Ara, like any truly new idea, is whether real people will care. Eremenko thinks that when Google can show a working Ara phone, it'll be its own best advocate. Will the argument that the whole concept is hopelessly naïve fade away? " I think it has to, if you show it and everybody agrees that it's beautiful, and delightful to the consumer, and it actually works. I'm certain that some level of skepticism will remain: If I drop it, will the modules scatter all over the train platform? And those kinds of things. But the proof is in the demo."

It's a core tenet of ATAP's philosophy that projects have a two-year window. So assuming that Ara is viable a year from now, Eremenko and the rest of the team will be winding down their involvement and handing off responsibility to others within Google. At that point, it'll be a business, not a project. Maybe a huge one someday, if enough people buy Ara phones running Google search, Gmail, Google Maps and other advertising-supported Google services.

For the record, Eremenko says that he's had the luxury of focusing on making sure Ara is great, not profitable: "This is potentially the only thing out there that could turn into a five-billion-unit kind of device. The fact that that will accrue benefits to Google downstream is so obvious that I don't have to make a business case." Even if everything goes swimmingly from here on out, addressing a market with billions of potential customers will take a long time -- but it may not be all that long until Ara's prospects are clear enough that the modular-phone doubters are either having the last laugh or eating crow.
TIME Tech editor Doug Aamoth contributed to this report.

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SUMMARY:

PROTOTYPE ⦁ It consists of a structural frame or endoskeleton(endo) and modules

FEATUTRES ⦁ The front slots of the frame are of various heights and take up the whole width of frame ⦁ The rare slots includes the parts of a smart phone as individual modules.

ADVANTAGES ⦁ A Super Affordable base price ⦁ Longer Lasting ⦁ Super Customizable

RELATED QUERIES ⦁ Adding too many modules equals a heavier phone as well. So there arises a question : If one drops it, will the modules scatter all over the train platform?

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Have you ever thought of a phone which allows users to pick and choose features what they want? Here is one, GOOGLE MODULAR PHONE.

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We all know about our five basic senses: hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and touching. But if folks from the tech world have their way, we will  all soon have what is called a digital "SIXTH SENSE"

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Sixth Sense: A Substitute For Smart Phone, Computer, Camera, Latest Wearable Gadgets And Lot More.

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Looks like the first step of the sixth sense technology

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Pattie Maes + Pranav Mistry: Meet the SixthSense interaction

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Sixth Sense: A Varient For Upcoming Technologies

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How can you tell what's in the air? In a suitcase? In your blood? Meet science's detection pioneer SIXTH SENSE.

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SUMMARY

The featured article "Sixth Sense:A Variant For Upcoming Technologies" has discussed the following headings in brief.

INTRODUCTION

Under this heading the article reports sixth sense technology as

·A fusion of computer and mobile

·A type of apparel which uses gesture interface to augment real world with electronic based information

·Integration virtual world with conscious world

WHY SIXTH SENSE?

Under this heading the article illustrates us below reasons for having this technology in to real use

·Having freedom in interacting with digital world

WORKING AND PROTOTYPE

The article further reports the following prototype and its action

·The device uses mirror, camera, pocket projector, smart phone & color markers to identify any object or some view and then it imparts it over the real world.

TECHNOLOGIES USED

These are the technologies used for making the first prototype device as stated by article.

·Augmented reality

·Gesture recognition

·Computer vision based algorithm

·Frequency identification

·Image processing, etc.

APPLICATIONS AND USES

These are the common applications discussed in the article

·Interaction with digital world becomes direct and efficient

·Reduce paper usage

·As fifth sense for differently abled persons

·Cloud computing

A part from these the article continues to state that

·Paint tool in PC is tough to use with mouse. It can be made easier

·As it can put the digital world on sheets of paper, PC gaming will become more entertaining.

·Text or pictures captured can be sent from the paper directly into the PC, the reverse process too.

CHALLENGES FACED

The article believes that following may become barriers for bringing this technology into reality.

·Lack of privacy during projection

·Vision of user may be damaged

·Cost of production

The article on whole concludes Sixth Sense as our future technology and it may become , in future, a gadget which can be put into use in every field.