New Delhi : Make way for Shriyank and Mansha Fatima, as they are now among the 16 Global finalists for the Sixth Annual Google Science Fair 2016. The shortlisted projects, announced today, include submissions by these two Indian students from Bangalore and Hyderabad, who will be competing for a grand prize of 50,000 dollars scholarship.
All sixteen finalists will be travelling with their families to Mountain View, California. and the winner will be announced at a ceremony on September 27, 2016 there.
16-year-old Shriyank is from National Public School, Bangalore submitted his project that is titled “KeepTab: A novel way to aid memory with deep learning algorithms!”
On other hand 15-year-old Mansha Fatima, a junior at Sadhu Vaswani International School, Hyderabad focussed on creating an “Automated Water Management and Monitoring System in Paddy Fields”.
“From a breathalyzer test that could predict lung cancer to a carbon filter that may significantly decrease styrofoam waste, these top 16 projects from nine countries around the world, represent the brightest ideas to make things better through science and engineering”, said Andrea Cohan, program lead, Google Science Fair.
Meanwhile, Google has been granted a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for an “unmanned aerial vehicle for collaboration” called mobile telepresence system.
The objective of a telepresence system is to present interactive video and audio between users in geographically-dispersed locations.
“Many drones come with cameras but Google thinks a drone with a projector could be the answer to mobile telepresence conferencing,” technology website zdnet.com reported on Friday. Google thinks that its unmanned drone could provide significant improvements in speed, maneuverability, energy consumption and facilitate access to cramped spaces.
For stability reasons, Google’s quadcopter design is shaped like the letter ‘H’ with a propeller at the ends of each of the longer strokes, the report said. In one embodiment, a screen dangles off the front end of the drone while a projector perches at the rear of the vehicle.
The display area of the screen is being described as semi-translucent so that images projected from the rear can be viewed from the front-facing surface of the screen. “The smartphone may receive images from the user at the remote location, and may project the received images through a projector included with the smartphone,” the report added.
The setup could use two mirrors where one bounces an image from the phone to a screen, and a second is used to capture an image from a room and reflect that to the camera of a smartphone. —IANS
