Archive for March 1st, 2009

Japanese confidence in the salvation of human life robots

Widely known to the Japanese love robots resulted in the fact that to save lives in emergency situations, where some have used robots.

Its mission – safely remove the victim from a dangerous area, where he hit something solid.

New discovery may completely change our view of information storage

A team of researchers from California and the University of Massachusetts was able to invent a way to quickly and accurately creating a vast array of identical nano-elements.

New discovery may completely change our view of information storage

The minimum size of element that can create its own copy, is 3 nm. And it opens up tremendous prospects for the storage of information in the future. Already, scientists say that their discovery will allow to record more than one terabyte on a surface, equal to the square pyatirublevoy coin.

Engineers from MIT going to overtake the all the States only with the help of solar energy

Within the walls of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the next car that runs on solar. Faster and more convenient to the previous one.

Engineers from MIT going to overtake the all the States only with the help of solar energy

Eleanor called him, apparently in honor of «Ford Mustang», which is the only one in the history of kinematogrofa received a role in the film. Is not difficult to guess that the designers have placed great hopes on him, and going first to show in international competitions in the solar-powered cars (World Solar Challenge) in Australia, then all overtake the United States.

And, I should say, they can get. Compared with the previous model, this was the increase (to be trite comfortable to sit), and through the use of monocrystalline cell solar panels located on the larger surface of the shell, it will be able to move at a constant speed of 88 km / h. Of course, if the sun will shine continuously.

Onyx International show at CeBIT eBook Boox

E-book market is experiencing rapid growth indeed. Only we have published news about BeBook 2 as received information of another such device. Company Onyx International reported that at its booth at the upcoming CeBIT exhibition will show new name Boox.

Onyx International show at CeBIT eBook Boox

  • Boox – this e-book is made on the basis of electronic ink (e-ink). Hardware Specifications are:
  • 6-inch touch display, showing the 16 gradations of gray;
  • 512 megabytes of flash memory;
  • processor with a clock speed of 532 megahertz;
  • 128 megabytes of RAM;
  • embedded module WiFi;
  • Support for text formats, ePub, PDF, HTML, TXT, CHM;
  • Support image formats JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF;
  • Support audio MP3;
  • function of speech synthesis;
  • 2.5-mm connector mini-Jack;
  • slot for flash cards, SD / MMC;
  • USB-host.

Unfortunately, the details of the price that has not, but before the CeBIT exhibition is already less than a week – need to wait a bit.

BeBook 2 – Killer Amazon Kindle?

The first version of e-books from BeBook was so boring that our portal does not even began to write about it. But now, when the company published the specifications of its new creation, there is hope to get really interesting and an outstanding product.

BeBook 2 - Killer Amazon Kindle?

BeBook 2 – this is the result of the errors. This electronic book is based on electronic ink technology – E-Ink. BeBook 2 boasts some fichami allocating among its competitors. First, the device can connect to the Internet through a wireless WiFi network or through a network of mobile communications (including through third-generation). Secondly, the book will have a sensory control. So far, it is not clear whether the touch screen itself, or it is a touch button. We are looking forward to the first. Also BeBook 2 will be a program to read RSS-feeds from, say, a wireless means. Finally, states the opportunity to buy books from anywhere, anytime – perhaps, BeBook launch its own online book store. Support for standard management ePub DRM on the device appears, but only a few months.

Alas, no pictures on the manufacturer of your site is not published. Intriguing. However, public displays of new products is quite a bit – it will be held at the exhibition CeBIT in Hanover already on 6 March. Follow our news!

NASA will prepare the surface of the Moon to create a database

Aerospace Agency of the United States is considering the creation of special robots, which produced a surface of the Moon before it for a long time, people came.

The desire to establish a lunar satellite town ripe with space-faring nations have long, but no concrete steps in this direction has been taken.

NASA will prepare the surface of the Moon to create a database

Now, NASA has declared intention to send to the moon special bots the size of a lawn mower, so they began to flatten the surface of buildings, roads, etc.

However, expect that soon there raskinutsya paradise gardens, not because these robots are in fact conventional tractor, just slightly «smarter» and smaller.

Modding: killed iMac has become the new home for the DreamCast console

Moddery – the mysterious substance. Is there something that, perhaps, moved by Professor Frankenstein during his terrible experiments. In both cases, work with corpses taken as a healthy phenomenon. That and modder with a nick in the forum Logicdustbin CGCC.ca.

Logicdustbin took off the old iMac, but not to honor his memory. Instead, the modder has learned all the stuffing, and probably did it quite disrespectful. Releases to the rubbish bin, for example. But in an empty shell, he placed the iMac 15-inch LCD monitor and game console DreamCast. The latter may have little to our country or are already familiar zabylas, but definitely had a lot of fans in his time. As a result, received one of the most unusual mode DreamCast. The result can be seen in the attached video.

Psion protects its trademark «netbook» – supposedly it still sells NetBook Pro

The company Psion has responded to claims Dell and Intel. Recall that the last couple of days ago, have filed suit to cancel the trade mark «netbook», now owned by Psion. Their main argument is that Psion have not used that brand, and therefore can not claim to be saved. Psion does not agree.

Psion protects its trademark  «netbook» - supposedly it still sells NetBook Pro

Psion, wait a while, responded as follows: the device NetBook Pro still be sold. In addition, the company «understand people who might think that the sale has ended». In fact, sales are continuing, but most of them are «very specialized supply». Of this I am sure Psion, it follows that she has every right to further consolidating her brand. She argues that «has all the documents proving mnogomilionnye sales in the U.S. in 2006 and sales continued to this day», noting that «the mere fact that we do not sell tens of thousands of devices through a network of BestBuy, does not mean that we do not have rights to our trademark ». Word for Dell and Intel!

Crisis: U.S. residents returning to dial-up

The terrible thing is happening on the other side of the ocean. Economic crisis brings people to the fact that they are just beginning to save everyone, until access to the internet.

Crisis: U.S. residents returning to dial-up

After the collapse of the stock market in the United States significantly increased sales of dial-up Internet access – dial-up'a. At the same time decreasing the number of broadband connections. However, the general director of service provider NetZero Golstoun Mark (Mark Goldstone) hastened to note that the «migration» of users is still not avalanche character. The average cost of dial-up access in the network is 7.95 dollars a month, while broadband – $ 34.5. Thus, the annual savings of 319 dollars. Maybe there are other things of which was abandoned in the first place? For example, the fee MMORPG.

Netbuk for $ 200 with a 100-megagertsevym internet browser

Aside Smeshko! It is indeed written in the official press release the company Fidelity Electronics, on the announcement of budget netbuka VPC. This abbreviation means Very Personal Computer.

Netbuk for $ 200 with a 100-megagertsevym internet browser

With this Computer that really Very Personal – hard to say. But easy to talk about its technical characteristics:

  • 7-inch display with a resolution of 800×480 pixels
  • 2 gigabytes of flash memory
  • Module WiFi (IEEE 802.11b / g)
  • 3-yacheechnaya rechargeable battery that provides work offline for three hours
  • SD card format
  • Ethernet port
  • microphone input and output for headphones
  • Weight 680 grams (!)
  • size 21.3 x 14 x 2.5 cm.

Now about the processor. In a press release is measured in megahertz, only one thing – your web browser. Seriously, so it is written: «100 MHz internet browser». What part of the browser you need to get a line to get the cycle, we do not know. Apparently, it is still on the frequency of the processor. But in this case the number is rather strange – 100 megagertsevye processors passed in the woods somewhere on the border of the centuries.

Perhaps we will know more details after the sale, scheduled for March, which is very soon. The stated price pleases – $ 199.