Five-story building on seismic shake table

Engineers put five-story building on seismic shake table to test for earthquake, fire readiness.This will be tested at the Englekirk Center at UC San Diego starting April 16. Structural engineers at the University of California, San Diego where behind this $5 million project.The project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, the California Seismic Safety Commission, the Charles Pankow Foundation, the Englekirk Advisory Board, the Society of Fire Protection Engineers and a large consortium of U.S. and international industry partners.

Mundie Language:Start Speech Now

Is it possible to translate our speach in English to Hindi or any other languages in our own voice?The answer is no we can't or with Monolingual TTS we can.Microsoft research effort involves software that can translate the user’s speech into another language and in a voice that sounds like the original user’s.According to Microsoft with the use of a speaker’s monolingual recording, the system's algorithm can render speech sentences in different languages for building "mixed coded bilingual text to speech (TTS) systems."Bilingual avatar speaks Mundie language was introduced by Microsoft Researchers in 2012 edition of Techfest..

Robot Venus Flytrap invented by a researcher

Mohsen Shahinpoor is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maine in Orono,United States.He has created a robot version of the infamous bug eating Venus Flytrap using a material called ionic polymeric metal composite (IPMC)that he invented himself.It is a nanomaterial that can be used to mimic muscle function.