Paro, A New Robotic Pet Claimed Can Help Patient With Dementia

 

Paro, the robotic pet

Let's meet the Paro, a furry robotic pet invented by Takanori Shibata. This robot is used as a therapeutic medical device to help the people with dementia, a set of symptoms caused by diseases that damage the brain. Designed to have senses like touching, light and sound make it so alive as if having a smart pet which understands humans. Therefore, it can respond to someone who interacts with it, thanks to the technology that programmed it. Opening and closing eyes and moving tail are parts of the response showed by Paro. In addition, Paro can recognise a sound, picture and name. What a good creature when it can develop the character over time!

Paro, the robotic pet, is able to remember the prior session such as when a human tries to stroke it, it will repeat the same action. It is even capable of recognising greetings and praise through the audio sensor.

Concerning about bites, allergies, scratches and infections, make it as the main reason for creating this kind of robotic pet as a medical therapy. Many hospitals including nursing homes never allow animals to come in. Meanwhile, animal-assisted idea therapy is so much helpful with the features of entertainment, relaxation and companionship.

How Much Does It Cost?

Now, Paro costs £5,000, already available in Japan and Europe. It is even claimed can replace the real animal: cats and dogs which will be a luxury animals in the future. Dementia commonly appears changes in behavior, tend to be so stressful for people who suffer this. Therefore, it is hoped to be a new way in the medical world for reducing stress. For some people, it sounds cool to create this kind of technology. However, it is still sumptuous at the moment to purchase. It is not that creepy anyway. How about you? Would you buy this creature?

Oracle Finally Says Bye To Java Plugin!

For years, Java tends to come with troubles. Even after doing a recent patch, it still remains vulnerable. For some people who detected, they did disable its plugin. That was a correct, right and proper way to do this. But how for those who seemed unfamiliar with this work? I remembered someone who was so stressful to try removing it.

So What Is The Biggest News?

Oracle, finally and forcibly, detaches the terrible Java Plugin which has been the source of online security troubles since 1995. Let's say bye to every trouble founded in your browser. As announced in their blog post, they said a deprecation of Java browser plugin will be implemented in the next release of JDK 9, a.k.a The Java Development Kit, which is a more fancy way to say bye for its trouble suggesting everyone not to use it anymore.

Well, let's say it is too late but not last for Oracle to do this though the prior like Firefox has released the news to remove the Java plugin by the end of 2016. Meanwhile, another rival, Chrome has disabled Java and Silverlight, since last September as well as Microsoft Edge which doesn't support both of them. However, as the statement in the Oracle's blog, deciding such plugins needs alternative options. Moreover, for the applications that basically use it have tried a migration to Java Web and Start Technology which are claimed can be run without a browser plugin.

In the case of being happy to see no more troubles caused by Java Plugin, it is not that easy to remove  it completely. Still many computers are installed with the retired plugin years to come. Most business computers still use Java 7 even Java 6 taking a risk with no more securities update. Users with a modern browser like Microsoft Edge and Google chrome are lucky for taking a step ahead.