Toshiba Recruitment Talk @ NTU

It all started with a mail invitation for the Recruitment Talk by Toshiba Inc , Japan.

As usual, It started from a registration desk and some guides/freebies about Toshiba corporation and Life @ Japan was given and we made our way towards LT19 (LT – Lecture Theatre).

My expectation was high and peppy when I saw too many heads inside the hall and eventually faded with some hilarious, irritating replays of Toshiba’s profile in the main screen that too in Japanese :(

I happened to browse the freebies given in the bag to find a sheet which displayed the salary to be 2,30,000 Yen per month. for the undergrads and a infinitesimally small increase to it for Masters and PhD graduates. It was also mentioned in the sheet about the 60,000 Yen room rent per month and 20% – 30% of the salary will be deducted as Tax by the Japan Government.

I then started with a simple calculation.

Salary in hand per month = 2,30,000

Room rent per month      =    60,000

Tax (assume 30%)           =    35,000

Monthly Expense             =    50,000

   Remaining amount Left    =   80,000 Yen = 40,000 INR = 1100 SGD

Is it really worth going to Japan to work for Toshiba Inc with three years bond? Think and act wisely.

A Dumb Idea!!!???

I sometimes wonder how a nerd’s brain think. How about a computer without a mouse? Do you really think I am going to talk about the touch screen technology? No ways… I am here to propose a new idea… well may be not… But this is new to me at least…

Think of a computer which can be controlled by your hand gesture through your existing webcam? Am i talking about the Gesture Recognition here? Yes, Kind of… But I haven’t seen any existing software available in the world to make your mouse pointer follow your finger tip when you show it to the webcam.

It is absolutely feasible if you are a computer vision engineer. As I did my final UG project in the area of image processing and computer vision. I better ask my brother who is a researcher @ IIT madras about it…

Just wanted to share this with you all. Also, let me know if you find any software which closely resembles the way it works like the above mentioned idea.