i mean. hello and welcome to technology update here in moscow we're always on the lookout for the newest of the new and there's been no shortage of big announcements in the high tech world especially as the russian capital plays host to the open innovations forum. the first ever gathering under this name got kicked off at the end of october believe it looked to bring together high take gurus and investors from across the globe more than ten thousand participants from dozens of countries to the expo center along the moscow river to handle the influx the exhibition halls

were decked out to fulfill all the attendees gadget driven needs the event build itself as a unique gathering of leaders in the fields of science business and government to encourage innovative development put in seven hundred speakers gave talks over the forums for days the schedule is jam packed with high powered conferences and coffee fuelled negotiations normally this time of year plays host to a different event but in two thousand and twelve the roost nanotech forum was rolled up they combined with this open innovations forum. that is one of the main organizers of the rodeo nano certainly let its presence be known the tiny take giant showed off many of its affiliated projects at its stand. exhibiting the size and breadth of its portfolio there are companies ranging from kompas and materials to solar panels. the one that caught our eye was a company whose main offering sixty keeping stores in tip top shape my hotel which has grabbed a few headlines in the past with the fountain of youth ions. has recently come out

with a new idea they could be the first of many products. so we need distributors. additionally are good for attracting investors. many times. we have money. for the rest we still need to find additional investments. for. those unfamiliar with the country. as a kind of clearing house for the ideas of tomorrow and one of those is photonics whose roots were laid in russia but has since brought it into an international player the

firm has developed a new kind of laser scalpel for dental surgery you could find uses just about anywhere that doctors currently employ a blade. showing well. these truly purpose. they did have a very good reason. on the first a total of ten russian companies were singled out at the tech success.

and organizers designed the competition to acknowledge the country's fastest developing and most innovative small and medium sized businesses as well as boost their profile on the world stage coming into the ceremony the list had already been rude to thirty companies which represented the entire spectrum of industries and regions across russia. so created i t company hardware maker enter school and a handful of medical firms on the lookout for the next device all made to keep us all on our feet another one of those in the top ten l r four cents for electronic archive. catalog but it's also one of the. partners l r co-produce is.

all about documentation and just files for. you can also be used for some of the more cool. for example the push to museum of fine are in moscow is in the process of digitizing many of its most treasured works capturing the timeless beauty of the paintings and objects that grace its walls and hollows requires more than just a simple camera. two thousand. to improve the. the me to thousands. proved to the point. as far as we know everyone switched to digital devices. there is

a wide range of devices he. presents. unmatched anywhere in the world. digitization needs the pushkin museum has turned to. company specializing in super high resolution images they claim their system is the best way to get a top notch completely objective representation of priceless pieces of art. don't have to take the paintings down from the walls they do need to set up and calibrate the light just right doing so ensures the resulting image is an entirely accurate reproduction of the painting as it is in real life but today the resolution of even the best digital camera really exceeds. the museum's purposes simply isn't enough. to develop an entire set of technologies that allows their technicians to boost picture resolution without warping the image or losing any data through

stitching software composition this requires a bit more ingenuity than you might think. instead of just snapping one shot of the whole painting at those takes individual pictures of each section to avoid distorting the original demands what's called a shift. at the root is a camera with the usual c.c.d. sensor which is what converts to incoming photons into a digital image however the lens itself is made to rotate around the center and information to the stationary c.c.d. sensor the more separate pictures the higher the resolution. of painting twelve sections two hundred forty megapixel picture such a clear image restored. damage. come to the conclusion that the different pieces of og need to be filmed using a different color palettes typically this consists of two hundred fifty six color fields just the this may be insufficient for example when we work with complex

pieces of the plane this one. in such cases we use extended. to fifteen hundred color feels. the particular piece we're shooting but to ensure that we give the best possible match. the resulting images are so precise in terms of detail and color that they can serve as the master print against which future potential fakes could be compared these kinds of super high rez unbelievably accurate reproductions are the first word when it comes to archiving masterpieces and even for the creation of high quality catalogs. or two dimensional scanning methods do the job for paintings and pictures like these they only give us one side of the story when we talk about three d. objects that means all kinds of additional information is hiding just out of sight in places like the fair a part of monastery technology ensures that no detail is left behind the aging interiors of this beautiful example of medieval russian art has been filmed and put

on display for all to see and treasure. here still use the same shift when set up but has to take additional steps to ensure light is properly evenly cast on the segment that they're filming the images they get are indispensable for stores as they study and understand what exactly needs to be done to keep things like the dionysus fresco around for future generations to enjoy. and the technology employed here even has benefits if you never make it out to the fair part of monastery yourself thanks to episodes pictures you can explore the walls of survive centuries and you can rest assured knowing that you're seeing the frescoes exactly as they are in real life the color palette is a difficult the lighting presents the image as it was intended. crucially the proper perspective of the arcs and curves are kept intact as a result of the shift lin's. therefore you could almost feel the glare of heavenly inspiration jumping out through your screen. but there's another kind of scanning

out there that involves a near constant monitoring of the skies this is the most ground station of a company called scan x. which is recognized as one of the top thirty innovative companies tech success and we mentioned earlier it all started with rather simple computerized weather stations worked out by moscow state university researchers in one thousand nine hundred one the company developed the weather data reception stations which proved useful for schools and state agencies alike but their big breakthrough came in the mid ninety's when they dismissed and revolutionized the field of data reception. was. designed and built a so-called personal data reception station but it was unlike others in that it was much smaller for example as there is so three satellite reception stations measure twelve damage one like this one which is about three meters and needed wild one hundred people to maintain it what they want to have achieved is that even a person who is not very good with computers. parade the system in the course of

two days it can also be installed on any street small size and weight. as satellites cas overhead images from space are being down to scale x. is receivers for this company the main idea is to be able to get the pics in real time and they have to set up a network big enough to spend the entire country. in russia itself scanning the skies for for its own centers as for the kid for universities as well as state weather emergency resource monitoring agencies in total schelling's has played over two hundred fifty stations across the globe. really doesn't operate its own satellite. what it does do is allow for the images to reach those who need them faster and more conveniently than otherwise possible but they're more than just space imaging middle men there are technicians have to rework the pics to highlight

just what they're looking for. their images which can be a statically stunning in their own right can serve a myriad of purposes many of the space snippets are for government watchdogs but they can also be used by concerned citizens in groups to spot illegal deforestation or even track poachers over their most recognizable alternative applications is likely internet mapping services which they provide for russia's dominant online matchmaker yandex ischemic says presence on the market has been driving the industry forward with their strategy having been dictated by financial constraints early on their no helping push a slimmer more effective approach to space imaging. basically demonic belies the market access to data in the process and data went to one big national center then it was either so little distributed freely or depending on whatever the government policy was and by the way in many countries it still works that way we have given users who want let's say particularly well off that what you need to to get this

data on their personal computers is a fundamental change whether good or bad people are going to use it to their benefit depends on us. and how we teach people to use it but it's for the best way i mean we can't ignore the problems that the old faces in the war. that mantra lies at the heart scan it says cause misnamed are you web sites where anyone can monitor potential environmental problems they've created a similar site especially for government agencies to keep an eye on emergency situations for space there's nowhere for forest fires to hide and scan ics can also help both the authorities and anyone really capture things like oil spills which may not necessarily be obvious to the untrained eye on first glance. then of course some of their shots can be used to simply check up on how construction is progressing in preparation for the olympic games in sochi with two years left until the opening ceremony you can witness the landscape being changed right before your

eyes. over the years scan it has accumulated a sizeable archive of all the uploaded data all told they've got more than two hundred terabytes of space images on record all of which they hope will make the world a more transparent place. through their attention to the open innovations forum given that it was spread out over some twenty thousand square metres of exhibition space and there were more than one thousand innovative works on display we probably could have done several shows just on the companies and technology present over the coming months don't be too surprised to see more about some of those innovators mentioned at the top. despite what event organizers would have liked not all big announcements were a meeting from moscow there were quite a few other important bits of news items in the world of tech recently as well more on them right after the break.

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oh and welcome back to technology update in recent weeks there's been a veritable avalanche of big announcements in the world for that reason we headed out to the newly open spoke of a cube where many of the world's biggest players are currently setting up shop we've come out here to see just how all the latest moves look for more russian point of view this is i. guess the world x. to see a sample look to find out if a new challenge from a long time so microsoft enthusiastic fans. could be found on both sides of the battle lines. taking their fight for. something a little. seven inch i pad mini microsoft finally threw his hat in the ring with

the surface device basically the overall tablet market is getting more competitive with android devices helped by a new round of google. change the whole. to account for one hundred percent of the tablet. just a bit more than fifty percent. of the rest of the market is a. very very small sliver of controlled by windows based devices. however in russia. has a little over twenty five percent of the remaining three quarters of the. people . are more for entertainment for consuming content whereas the

microsoft surface for creating content for work is a very convenient. that is. hardware. operating systems as well. as probably the major. in terms of traditional. systems. to translate that into. the world becomes. they can't sit on the sidelines any longer to try and regain some of the mojo it once had in the early to mid one nine hundred ninety s. the company has paired its surface tablet launch with a totally new version of windows. barney

a microsoft microsoft which. is on the mobile device market in recent. tard to reverse. at this point it is hard to say if they'll be successful but in any case we can sit back and watch with great interest. to showcase their new operating system the company launch parties across the globe at the end of october but likely bodes well for the company though is the fact that in recent years microsoft has shown that it's able to branch out from its traditional stronghold and still find success it took the early lead in terms of gesture recognition software its connect and related gaming systems have proved a major hit for the old and young alike but here the real thing to see is the launch party. of windows eight along with the much touted surface tablet the company has totally revamped its windows operating system from the ground up most surprisingly of all the developers have ditched their iconic start button all

together one thing probably everyone can agree upon is that a total retooled this client required major work. company employs many specialists engineers and developers. in creating windows for the first versions over twenty years ago today. the overarching theme of this new system is to create a similar experience across all devices that means that the way you interact with your home p.c. will be the same as how you surf on your mobile gadgets. all the big news was coming from abroad. russian companies also announced a number of big projects. no less important. now. will be able

to reconfigure. of course. they won't even need it says they will have. this newly launched gateway to the web is another optimized quote based browser the developers have incorporated the presser which preach the incoming traffic to allow for faster surfing what used to be just a. combined address and search tool crucially this ought to be another warning sign to google which as you can see by comparing the two companies directly compete on many fronts. with this latest move appears to be trying to expand its so-called ecosystem that. is one of the

country's two largest email servers and dominates the search engine game its own browser and app store to help all of their online products together more seamlessly . the web the stillbirth rumors about a potential partnership with apple and microsoft and apple services in russia. products and back channel chats aside producers are confident that they have an ace up their sleeve when it comes to keeping one step ahead of the competition and its biggest and most important markets in a world where information is power looks to be in the pole position. make confident predictions page. next to this enables also to deliver the data to user. there's a lot of competition in this. kind of like.

there is a serious challenge on the russian market. which is also recently come out with a whole range of announcements starting with its own browser. to an overhaul of its interface and services. showing that it's not just a one horse race in terms of russian internet. or you've gathered bloggers and tech heads alike for a big event of its own. conference the company seemed to differentiate itself from the likes of you by focusing much more on the perhaps funder side of our online world and the main thing that i took away from the presentations and the event as a whole was the c.e.o. is focused on the intersection of entertainment and information. through appears to be quite comfortable with its focus on entertainment minded internet users you.

three percent of mail. from social network services. or clear demonstration. with. company providing entertainment. to be no real surprise that one of the biggest pieces of news from. the world premiere of warface this free online blockbuster has been made available in russia before anywhere else especially for males are used by crytek has been billed as the globe's only free online first person shooter of its kind so far more than four million people have signed up to join the action every little element of the game mechanics has been tested to perfection. with games he can't make any mistakes if a game is. exploited to their advantage. that the virtual world is built upon will collapse straight away the reason game to be good is it has to go through full

in detail checks and some two thirds of all game mechanics are created by developers that never even reach the gamers of the. testing regime is far more in-depth than i ever imagined in addition to those game mechanics everything from the interface to physiological responses get tried out for starters they check to see if things like maps and extra information are easy to see on the screen. heart rate and sweat all measure to make sure gamers are properly gauged throughout various stages additionally the developers want to ensure that the little training sessions adequately prepare you for real time action but with are you having already launched warface the game designers of the world famous team have been tasked with a new blockbuster they expect gamers around the globe. i . develops its own games to be working on

a so-called triple a great project. and will be an online game of a brand new generation it won't be ready for release for a few more years but we're already on our way it's budget is as big as that blockbuster that every company can afford games of only five or six of the biggest market players are able to spend as much as twenty to thirty million dollars so our job is to eliminate all possible risks we have to make sure this is a thirty million dollars investment translates into high quality products. considering that the worldwide market for games is worth more than fifty billion dollars and that there are some forty million gamers in russia alone argues big could pay off however we won't know until the game comes out. a few times. in the past month or so.

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