Kogeto Dot enables iPhone cameras to shoot in 360 degrees [VIDEO]

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from the L.A. TimesKogeto Dot enables iPhone cameras to shoot in 360 degrees [VIDEO]September 24, 2011 |  4:59pm

The crowd-funding website Kickstarter has given rise to a number of interesting projects since its founding in 2009. One effort in particular caught my eye a few months ago, after my father suggested I take a look: the Kogeto Dot.

So what exactly is a Dot? It's a plastic lens attachment for Apple's iPhone 4 that allows users to capture video in a 360-degree panoramic shot. Once captured, the video is processed by an app from Kogeto, the New York-based maker of the Dot, called Looker and then is fully navigable upon playback (i.e., you can move your finger around on the iPhone's touchscreen, and as the video is playing, the video moves up, down, side-to-side in response. If you're watching a Dot-shot video uploaded to Kogeto's website, you can move your mouse or trackpad to move the video in the same way.

From the Looker app, Dot users can upload their videos to the aforementioned Kogeto website as well as to Facebook and Twitter. Kogeto likes to call videos uploaded to its site Dotspots, and although the Dot is still a prototype and not yet in stores, some interesting videos have already been shot.

On Kickstarter, Kogeto had a target of raising $20,000 to help fund a fully realized Dot, which could sell for $79 in stores and online. Instead, Kogeto raised $120,514.

Contributors to Kogeto's fundraising through Kickstarter should be getting their Dots in the mail soon, and in the next few weeks, the devices will arrive in online stores and at a few brick and mortar locations, said Kogeto Chief Executive Jeff Glasse, who recently stopped by the Los Angeles Times building to give us an early look at Dot. Check out the video below.

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Photo: Jeff Glasse, CEO of New York start-up Kogeto, holds an Apple iPhone 4 outfitted with his company's Dot lens attachment. Credit: Armand Emamdjomeh / Los Angeles Times

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Modern Machine Translation Technology Enables Translation Quality Estimating

The technology behind machine translation is being constantly developed and improved. Nowadays many people have translated something automatically. The best things about machine translators are wide availability and fast translation. There are many kinds of translators available in the Internet. Some of those can be purchased and some are totally free. Likewise those tools differ in supported file formats and technical features. Without too much generalization, it can be said that in some cases the price indicates the versatility of the tool.

One of the latest machine translator innovations are translator gadgets, which are desktop gadgets for PC desktops. Translator gadgets are usually very simple tools to use: After you have downloaded the gadget you can start using it. First select the language of the original language and the target language. Then just start typing or just copy and paste pieces of text from a document or from the Internet. These gadgets will automatically write the text in the other language for you.

This technology can be very useful because machine translator produces quality which is of "good enough". However it is reasonable to highlight that the quality of automatically produced text cannot yet reach the quality level of a professional human translator. As mentioned, the risk in using machine translation is commonly related to the quality. Most of the time the quality is good but sometimes machine translators can make mistakes when choosing between words that seems to be synonyms. It is mission impossible to know which translations are mistaken if you don't speak that language yourself.

Today's technology enables new innovations in the area of machine translation quality. While more and more information about languages are collected to translation memories, the quality itself is improving. However there is still a lot to do if the target is the quality of a professional human translation. Another way to improve the quality is to perform automatic translation quality checking. This means that one will receive an estimation of how good the translation is. Technically speaking these estimations are usually based on some kind of comparison and match calculation because that is something a computer can do easily.

The way how the quality estimation is presented to the user can vary a lot. For example Translator Gadget use colour codes. Green color means that the translation is probably good, yellow will instruct you to be cautious and red color indicates that you should have a professional human translator to check the translation before using it in public. Also percentages or numbers or other coding methods can be used. No matter how the estimation is presented, it is still important to keep in mind that estimation is based on technology which is possible for a computer; it is an estimation and not the ultimate truth. Even people can have different opinions about the writing and spelling rules!

The key in machine translation is to know whether you can trust that the translation is good or not. This has been a problem which has led to the slightly negative reputation over the automatic, computer aided translators. There have been too many examples of automatically translated texts which have been used publicly without any proofreading. The fear of making mistakes has impacted the public attitude towards this technology. Automatic quality estimation is still being developed but already it is trying to fade this fear away by giving an estimation of the translation quality.

Use the fast, free and good translations and forget the bad translations. Multilizer Translator Gadget is free for you to use. Read more here: http://www.translator-gadget.com.

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