| NEWS FROM LYYN™ |
| New Sub Sea camera system from Dacon AS, with LYYN™ inside |
Earlier this year Dacon AS was contacted by Fugro-Geoteam AS with a request for a new camera system for the inspection of in-sea equipment for seismic investigation. Dacon has earlier designed similar systems for Fugro but with other specifications.
This time the requirement was a system for 12 VDC, both battery and external power. They also wanted the units to have higher recording abilities but smaller in size.
The solution is based on a Sanyo zoom lens camera, an LCD monitor and a new type of Li-Ion battery. It is also equipped with integrated LYYN™ Hawk board for real-time image enhancement and an Archos 605 (40GB) recording unit. |
The Dacon Snapper with the LYYN™ Hawk control panel
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Dacon managed to fit the whole system into two small Peli cases, and with a capacity of over 3 hours of battery time Fugro-Geoteam AS is very happy with their new cameras. [more]
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| New user stories and user videos on LYYN™ showroom LYYNIFIED.COM |
Octopus attack at SeaBotix LBV demo by LiquaVision |
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The footage was taken in Port La Nouvelle in Perpignan in France. Liquavision were doing a demonstration for JIFMAR Offshore Services (The leading operator of Multicats and Work boats in France).
"During the demonstration we fly down to the pipe and land. What we did not know is that this was the chosen resting place of an Octopus, who flew off in fright as we settled down, only to return and throw us off of his pipe." [more] |
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| Colour vision ended human pheromone use |
The development of colour vision may have led to Old World primates, and hence their human descendants, to lose their ability to detect pheromones, suggests a new genetic study.
Pheromones are highly specific scent molecules that many animals rely upon to find and assess a potential mate. But humans appear to make little, if any, use of pheromone signals, says Jianzhi George Zhang, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Researchers have suggested before that the primates' pheromonal abilities may have fallen by the wayside because they developed co lour vision, a better way of selecting mates. "But we establish the timing for when the pheromone signal transduction pathway was shut off," Zhang told New Scientist.
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It occurred about 23 million years ago, just before the hominoid superfamily that eventually produced humans branched off. Crucially, the timing approximately coincides with the development of full co lour vision in Old World primates, thereby giving a major boost to the theory.
Read the whole story in New Scientist [more] |
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| Monogamy gene found in people |
| This article is not really about vision, but is somewhat linked, in a funny way, to the previous article. |
What if you could tell whether a man is husband material just by peering at his genes?
There has been speculation about the role of the hormone vasopressin in humans ever since we discovered that variations in where receptors for the hormone are expressed makes prairie voles strictly monogamous but meadow voles promiscuous; vasopressin is related to the "cuddle chemical" oxytocin.
Now it seems variations in a section of the gene coding for a vasopressin receptor in people help to determine whether men are serial commitment-phobes or devoted husbands.
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Hasse Walum at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues looked at the various forms of the gene coding for a vasopressin receptor in 552 Swedish people, who were all in heterosexual partnerships. The researchers also investigated the quality of their relationships. [more]
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