The stroboscopic effect is one that causes the human eye perceives images in a continuous and smooth but are actually going at high speed sequences. He is responsible, among other necessary illusion of watching a movie for apreciendo the frames as a continuous or falling water to perceive it as a stream rather than as individual drops.
With a little skill, adjusting the sound and using the shutter of a video camera to the right frequency instead of the typical strobe normally used to demonstrate this effect (also used a lot in discos) is able to create the curious effect of are apparently frozen droplets in the air.
Remember that other a little video in which the blades of a helicopter appear to be still, when as in this video what happens is that synchronize with the frequency of clogging of the sensor. Really funny and a good example of how what we see is not always what is really happening.
According to reports Apple recently filed a registration with which patented a tool for people without programming skills can make their applications for IOS, as it says the file is called Content Configuration for Device Platforms.
As presented, the tool would be a way to standardize the basic application development just as they did recently with the eBooks and as is common in web pages or blogs. The user can access templates with common formats such as slideshows, maps, social networks, etc..
Initially the idea of Steve Jobs for applications that were running in the IOS relied heavily on HTML5, in what is called webapps. Only several months later came the appstore where you could download much more efficient native applications developed using software created especially for the case and it worked only on Mac computers, the XCode. This application development became more complex and, although the system introduced is friendly to those familiar with code, completely repels those who do not know anything about programming.
At present some companies have developed systems by which HTML code is included in a native application that displays thanks to webkit XCode, the easiest way to make an app so far, but the results are brilliant.
Over time this movement was a great success for Apple as it controlled the entire process of production and distribution of applications on its platform while allowing users to deliver quality experience that no other device could replicate. Although registration of the patent does not mean that the Cupertino company will carry out any of this would be closer to the original idea of programming applications easier.
Or a kitchen, or even a candle. Provided you have access to a heat source, can generate enough electricity for charging smartphones and other mobile devices with PowerPot. Born as a Kickstarter project, the PowerPot is very close to achieving its goal of funding, and if all goes well, will be available in three different versions.
Being away from an energy source stable and reliable can be extremely complicated. There are few who decide to take a few days to absorb a bit of nature, only to find it or do need to keep their phones charged (so there is less "off" to say). Now, imagine 200 million people in Africa that have made efforts to obtain a basic phone, but you have to walk miles and spend a good part of their monthly income to access to a charger. Two very different situations with the same problem: Lack of power generation. However, an accessory as PowerPot could be a viable response to these and other cases.
Which operates the PowerPot is nothing more than the thermoelectric effect: Generation of electricity from the temperature difference on both sides of the device. You can do something similar from the so-called "Peltier modules" that can be purchased at any retail store, but what has the PowerPot is a much more elegant, sturdy and safe. All you need is a heat source (which need not be fire, even the hot springs may serve), and a little water (also ice or snow) to place within the PowerPot. According to the model, the PowerPot can generate between 5 and 15 watts, putting up an amp through a USB port, more than enough to carry a smartphone, MP3 player, tablet or other batteries. The PowerPot includes a regulator for safer loading and fire resistant cables.
We imagine that the water to add in the PowerPot need not be drinking (another element scarce in many parts of the globe), but not longer a jug in which you can prepare different foods. The Kickstarter project has different offers, but on average, the smallest model of PowerPot (series V) has a cost of $ 150, while the intermediate model X jumps to $ 200, and the fifteenth, with a capacity of 15 watts , has a value of $ 500 under a program "buy one, give one," which will be for a family to make good use of it. The Kickstarter project ends next May 4, and only takes about $ 6.600 on a total of 50,000 to bring the PowerPot to the next stage. I personally think it's a good idea, although I would have liked to see a pricing scheme a little friendlier, however, this is a point that can improve in the future.
So says the latest report ISSSource through several intelligence officials indicating that Stuxnet used to sabotage Iran's nuclear program was introduced by a double agent working for Israel. The agent would have used a USB to infect machines from the nuclear facilities at Natanz.
Once infected memory Stuxnet was able to infiltrate the network when a user opened Natanz Windows. According to the report, it would be a covert operation in Israel and the United States to sabotage and spreading the infection of the worm on computers most vulnerable of the Iranian system.
The data also indicate that the double agent was probably a member of an Iranian dissident group, possibly the group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, a group which is believed to be behind the killings of key Iranian nuclear scientists at the behest of Mossad.
And is that Stuxnet has been formed as one of the most advanced cyber weapons of all time. Exploit its activity allowed up to four unknown Windows vulnerability and took advantage of the weaknesses of Step7 Simatic WinCC, the same used to control the machinery inside Natanz. This disrupted the nuclear program by sabotaging the machines to enrich uranium.
A worm designed to spread widely and scheduled to execute its malicious payload with a very selective list of your goals.
This is the story of Higinio O. Ochoa, a hacker would have violated the security police of several sites in the United States, with different anonymously turn my tweets to their followers to sites that exposed the private information of agents of the security force. As a firm, in their righteous outbursts did not lose the opportunity to include this picture of a woman holding a generous curve poster autographed by the hack.
Ochoa is a Texan of 30 years, suspected of belonging to a group acting CabinCr3w for the group Anonymous. He just took care to dispel any suspicion when he decided that each hacking include a picture of his girlfriend. According to the FBI sensual photos of Miss include EXIF information presented dispoistivo used for the photo (iPhone in this case), time, date, camera settings for capturing and positioning data. With the latter, the FBI concluded that the photos used as an inscription on the sites of the attacks came from a house near Melbourne, Australia. When these data followed quickly realized that lived at that address Ms. Ochoa had the bride in her Facebook.
The hacker has been detained for several days, but can now use this information in court cases to relate the events on the Texas American pages, plus a photo that is shared in the beginning of the post there are other pictures that would engage and the same woman.
LiveStream just introduced a device that, according to a press release from the manufacturer, "enables live stream video without a computer." This is a nice red box that connected to a camera or smartphone, allowing users to transmit live video signal being recorded, via WiFi, 3G, 4G or a USB type connection. The device can operate for about 3 hours with the energy of 3 AA batteries.
One of the main problems in transmitting video "live" or real-time via the Internet is the need for a computer, connected on one side to the camera and the other to the network, ensures the sending streaming video to users. Despite current notebooks and netbooks have a rather small size and adequate power to be able to fulfill this function without problems, the fact is that they are still somewhat "uncomfortable" when the transmission is from a reporter who is covering a event sites "difficult" as a war front or middle of the field interview.
To solve this problem, the company has developed LiveStream a device that, according to a press release from the manufacturer, "enables live stream video without a computer." LiveStream-known for its premium service live video-sells this magic box for $ 495, just under 400 euros, a fairly reasonable price also includes three months free web service that normally costs $ 45 per month. The device connects to the Internet itself, without an intermediate computer. The user can control their behavior through a small LCD screen and some buttons that are arranged in front. The video input of this accessory is compatible with virtually all cameras on the market and can handle HDMI signals (including 1080i, 720p and 480i). The output is encoded in real-time H.264 video format with AAC-entering the device into a standard 3.5-mm-and video stream can deliver up to 720 Mbps
It has a mount similar to those used for tripods, so that users can even install it directly on their cameras. It is obviously a gadget that many video professionals want to have in your bag, and its price is quite reasonable. The only thing, if we are strict, it is not entirely true is that we are delivering video online without using a computer, and that within this beautiful red box there is nothing else than a computer "closed", specializing in coding video. Anyway, it is likely that in a few months to become one of the most appreciated by those devices transmit their live webcast from the strangest places.
Boeing, which until then outfitted several of its aircraft in tablets for travelers (read: American Airlines: iPad for pilots, the Galaxy Tab to customers), is preparing to make a smartphone on behalf of the U.S. Army.
The aircraft manufacturer was chosen by the U.S. government to produce a smartphone with the same functionality as the larger public phones, but with enhanced security. Android was selected for his part as it will allow smartphone users to benefit from Boeing applications available on Google Play and secure communications at the same time, according to the manufacturer.
The price of the smartphone has not been revealed, but it is advertised as cheaper phones that they compete in the military market (around $ 20,000), but is not more affordable than a smartphone general public. No details either on the hardware. The Boeing Phone released by the end of the year.
The Smithsonian Museum opened its doors for an exhibition featuring more than 100 objects of American history.
The Smithsonian Museum of American History opened to the general public in an exhibition featuring more than 100 objects of American history.
In about 5,300 square meters of "American Stories" showcases dolls, masks, clothing, trophies, etc. that were used by famous Americans.
The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through time featuring American life throughout its history.
We know that the size, weight, cost (transportation, installation and maintenance), and average efficiency are the most important barriers that all solar cell faces. What is gained by one side is usually lost on the other, and while this new solar cell is no exception, what wins is certainly remarkable. This new solar cell by researchers from Austria and Japan has a thickness of 1.9 microns, thinner than a spider's silk, and deformation capacity is such that it may involve a human hair.
How small can a solar cell? Or rather, how little in practicality can be a solar cell? From one point of view it seems a whim: We want to be cheap, durable, lightweight, flexible and efficient. Getting to that kind of "solar cell almost perfect" require a great effort, but experts have not stopped, nor seem to have intentions to do so. Take for example this recent development presented by researchers at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, and the University of Tokyo. It is a solar cell having a thickness of 1.9 micrometers, a tenth of the solar cell thinner than can be found today (those manufactured by the Hyperion accelerator are 20 micrometers).
But the story does not end there. These solar cells have a flexibility and a capacity as large deformation, which may involve a human hair. To be so thin and flexible, can be thought of many applications for these cells, but these two characteristics are related to the properties of the substrate (Mylar used CW02 than 1.4 microns), so that both aspects may be improved in the future. According to official information, the efficiency of these cells is in the range of 4 percent, a value quite important to what its developers describe as an "organic cell."
Still, there is talk of at least five additional years of development so that the cells have a wider deployment. Its developers have said that design is expandable, so that cells can grow larger, thus increasing its power generation. There have been some doubts about its strength, however, being a soft material actually has a higher mechanical strength even if it increases its size. After seeing his appearance more closely, I keep thinking about candy wrappers, but at the same time, I imagine that could replace the smaller batteries in some years, provided that these cells know their way to a final version and commercial .
If you ever wanted to know how they actually work and how the planes that fly them feel, albeit virtually, you'll never recommend Battlefield 3, but a free flight simulator as FlightGear. This program / free cross-platform game puts you in the ladder to the cockpit of more than 500 aircraft, airports and virtual flight experiences. With over 15 years of development above, FlightGear has been updated and improved graphics and AI are a must.
Relatively recently was lucky enough to go on holiday with my girlfriend. Hotel, food, pool, lakes, more food, fresh air, food in quantities more aggressive and love, love. To travel we choose to fly, and as there is a shuttle that regularly use, when you get home recapitulated the lived on high and got into YouTube and Wikipedia to try to understand, as every time I step off a plane-how is that those tons of metal, fuel and end human flesh flying so smoothly and quickly in the clouds. After several hours of research I decided to find a flight simulator to test (virtually quiet) my learning. Among those who appeared to me, I tried and found FlightGear met other details that most commercial simulators were surprised, and above is newly updated version which had already commented Ariel Palazzesi in 2008.
Most therapists schedule an appointment to meet in person to their patients, although recent reports suggest that therapy by phone may be the best option for some patients. An analysis recently on therapy by telephone, Northwerstern University shows that patients who received telephone therapy in cases of depression, problems with partner ... more than 90% continue with it.
In addition the researchers found that telephone therapy is as effective in cases of depression or relationship problems such as face to face therapy. And these people notice how the symptoms are reduced since the first sessions.
I started seeing this kind of treatment that some patients lived far away in other towns or cities, or they were difficult to attend due to work schedule. Others moved to another country and as the link was already established agreed to continue by telephone.
Dr. Mohr said that "one of the symptoms of depression is that people lose all motivation" and adds "it is very difficult for them to do all that is supposed to have to do ... get to the appointment with the therapist is one of them "
Also the lack of time is one of the main reasons why many people seek therapeutic help over the phone. Yes the lack of time, and also fear that for some patients is to face your problems ... have led to the imposition of this alternative to traditional consultation.
Such services although they seem current and spent years running. Because to make a successful therapy is not required to be in consultation with a sexologist. And in other respects the consultation takes place in the same way that a search in person. It is also more convenient, fast and effective. A method that provides benefits only.
Women and men are turning to these therapies when at some point in your life need the help of a professional.
The sessions are concluded on the phone and start at the appointed time. You must be punctual and not confused with schedule changes, if calling from abroad. Fees cost varies depending on the duration of the session and the case in question.
The largest auction site in the United States is certainly a center of sales of all types, including the strangest imaginable. Among them, an object appeared today that more than one collector or fan of Apple computers will want to have in your home. This is a prototype of the Macintosh 128k running drive known as Twiggy appeared at auction for the staggering price of $ 100,000.
For those not distracted entiedan the is the eccentricity of this computer, it is difficult to find a similar one mainly because this model is not never sold with this type of drive. Instead, motivated by the unreliability of the format, the company decided a few months after its release by switching to 3.5-inch disks that store up to 400 kb.
This model is the first Macintosh to market with this brand, just after the Lisa personal computer. It was released under the name of Apple Macintosh in 1984, promoting itself with the recognized trade superbowl based on the book of Orwell directed by Ridley Scott. This computer all-in-one was a big gamble for the company, built by Motorola processor had strong sales for several years. When Apple launched the model of 512 kb that became labeled as the Macintosh 128K.
According to the author of the auction, despite having previously appeared only evidence of this computer had been plates and shells which revealed its existence. This was the first time that this internal model comes out and is put on sale.
The auction includes:
■ The prototype of the Macintosh 128k with Twiggy disk drive 5.25-inch
■ Macintosh Keyboard prototype working (tested in traditional models).
■ Keyboard, mouse and power cord officials running Macintosh 128k.
The computer works, but can not boot. The reason for this is that this model had the operating system on a disk that should be inserted at start, then you could withdraw. As you can imagine, having a copy of the Twiggy disk system would be a rarity even greater. In this way the computer, as seen in the images can not exceed the screen that asks you insert a disc.
The user making the sale is called wozniac with long history and good reputation of the company selling antiques on the block, but so far had been T-shirts, manuals and some peripherals. For the strangeness of this sale was suspected that it was really Steve Wozniak although this possibility is highly unlikely, even if it were not for the detail of the sale and the seller's reputation hesitate publication.
Scientists at Rice University (USA) have developed a new process for the construction of the coatings of solar cells that could cut their production and improve efficiency, since it is able to absorb up to 99.7% the incident light. This is a technology, marketed by the company Natcore Technology, a start-up of Red Bank, New Jersey (USA), capable of producing thin coating layers applied on uniform solar cells greatly enhances their performance.
Solar energy could be the replacement of oil. If successful enough to develop, improving the performance of solar panels and reduce its price, in a few years the generation of electricity through this system could save the burning of millions of tons of fossil fuels. However, to make this possible we need to investigate novel methods and techniques that allow us to manufacture solar cells with performance than today. One team that is dedicated to this task is that of Rice University (USA), which has used a process capable of producing black solar cells, able to absorb up to 99.7% of incident light. You recall that an ideal black body is one that does not reflect light, it absorbs all the radiation light receiving surface. It is very difficult if not impossible, to get a "black" so black that retains 100% of the incident radiation, but the Rice team has achieved a very creditable 99.7% which provides solar panels a good increase in performance.
The new technology consists in the deposition of a coating layer on the surface of the solar cell by a process which takes place at low temperature, it differs from other similar gases used at high temperatures. The process is now being commercialized by a startup called Natcore Technology, also in the United States, for use in the manufacture of other products. But their incorporation in the manufacture of conventional solar panels, by adding an antireflective layer on the silicon wafers constituting the "heart" of solar cells so that these are capable of absorbing more light. Natcore plans to integrate this technology with others such as carbon nanotubes and the nanocrystals known as "quantum dots". Surely some time to do so will delay, but the combination of these technologies will produce solar cells with superior performance to conventional ones.
Processes using gases at high temperatures tend to be expensive, while the tuned-this time by not requiring high-tech facilities and high complexity, is cheaper and can produce cheaper solar cells. The CEO of Natcore, Charles Provini, believes that the process could save a typical plant producing solar panels around 750 thousand euros per year in electricity consumption. Scientists say that a solar panel built with this technology can provide twice the performance for every penny invested in their manufacture. In addition, the final product is lighter and flexible, which facilitates installation in surfaces and structures of all kinds. Natcore has received about 4.5 million euros through public offering, with plans to offer the patent process to companies in China and Italy, and say at least four manufacturers of solar cells are ready to buy the machines capable of make the new coating.
While 3D printing covers materials such as plastic, wood and metal with many uses from jewelry through medicine in bone reconstruction. The idea is that chocolate lovers can custom print your sweet creations.
According to Dr. Hao, printing of chocolate is like any other 3D printer because it starts with a flat cross section of the image that is similar to that produced by printers to convert images. Then print the chocolate layers to create a three-dimensional shape without molding tools. As has been simplified and facilitated the operation of the machine, it is only necessary to add some chocolate in a syringe that is in the printer and the rest is our imagination to create our desserts.
The company's largest confectionery and chocolate in the UK, Thorntons, expressed interest in the machine when I was in the prototype stage as well as other retailers. It would probably no longer necessary to buy the typical box of candy in the store but would be custom made according to the occasion.
Recently the European Project Octopus shared images showing the progress of a project rather than particular, while many organizations try to create humanoid robots they want to create an octopus-shaped. This is an organization that is trying to understand how the movements of the octopus to recreate in soft-bodied robots octopuses that can reach places that would be unattainable with other techniques.
According to developers, the octopus can do extreme maneuvers in speed and accuracy to justify the hours of research. Mainly get that with his intelligence and lack of bone restricting the movements your body.
The robotic octopus has, like his counterpart wild, 8 limbs, but with the peculiarity that two of them are made of materials with memory, it remembers what the original position and try to recover without the need for any command. The rest of the tentacles are constructed with silicone with a traveling steel cable inside. The movement of these parts is determined by other operating nylon cords by pulling each one of the six lines of steel, in this way is that the octopus can move and get up to manipulate objects.
The video of the robot in action demonstrates a rigid body, but as the developers claim the most complex aspect of the investigation is related to the movement of the tentacles, as we said is still in use with a steel guide.
The project aims to build the first robot completely soft, not rigid skeletons that form a structure. This can address specific needs of different environments, such as winning rescue situations mobility in tight spaces or to navigate sensitive sites that could be damaged under the impact of something hard.
Windows 8 will feature some of the basic advantages of Windows 7, and one of them is to offer a way to install from a USB flash drive, or another type of flash memory that interface. The now classic USB Tool for Windows 7 that Microsoft launched in time compatible with the ISO Consumer Preview Windows 8, but if you prefer to use a solution created by a third party, here is Win8USB.
The convenience of installing an OS from a USB flash drive is great. If you have an installation disk, just enough to create an ISO image of the same hard disk, in order to preserve the original disc from scratches and dust. Linux distros have a good time supporting this kind of installation, but in the case of Windows, the process is "officially" in a certain way with Windows 7. Of course, there are different applications and guidelines that allow you to install other versions "pre-Windows 7" from a flash drive, but what really brings us here is the beta of Windows 8 . The official Microsoft tool to transfer an image of Windows 7 to a USB flash drive is compatible with the image of Consumer Preview Windows 8, but if for some reason you encounter a problem using it, you can use Win8USB.
The program requires virtually no instructions, because the process is that simple. Insert the USB flash drive that will copy the image (must be 4 GB or more), run the application in administrator mode, the flash drive specifies the drive within the program, go get the picture by specifying your route, check the box to format the flash drive (as a precaution, we recommend) and then click Create. The time it takes the backup process depends on several factors including the overall computer speed and write speed on the stick, but after several minutes you will receive a message that is now the "bootcode", indicating that everything was right.
As usual in these cases, it is likely that some users must disable your antivirus temporarily to allow the operation is completed smoothly. Those using Avira can come to receive an alert for a pendrive autorun.inf (this is normal), and as default, Avira blocks access to the file. Win8USB may interpret this as an error and stop copying altogether. Beyond that, the program delivers what it promises, does not require installation and is very light. In case you want to try Windows 8 on a netbook, or you have run out optical drive overnight (can happen, as we know), you know that there are tools that can get you as Win8USB trouble.
After so many sites that raise questions and debate, Wikipedia is a project that humanity has sheltered little discussion. His articles are tested as a quality that exceeds that of commercial encyclopedias, but the limitation remains the intenet connection to access your content. Now Wikipedia Foundation has released a package of 9.6 GB for full discharge of Wikipedia, containing all the articles to read offline.
Already at the beginning of 2007, with Wikipedia reaching levels of global audiences, the quality of the articles, in order to build and the content was already higher than the prodigious online library of Germany, Brockhaus. Through this type of milestones, but mainly because of its accessibility, Wikipedia has become the tool of first consultation at the time of deepening on a specific topic, taking advantage of internal links and ramifications arising from each article. All this vast ocean of information is accessible by typing an address in the browser ( poor William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk ), but this connection requirement implies limitation or inability to access when you're on a plane, work, street or any other place where you do not have an internet connection available. Wikipedia realized this, and do not live as advertising, have provided a link to do a full download of Wikipedia, to read offline.
From now on, the entire contents of Wikipedia might be in your hard drive or flash drive, ready to refer to it when the connection is cut or you're traveling in the back of a comfortable car and want to enlighten you. The packet format files openZIM has a size of about 10 gigabytes, which can be downloaded for free via the BitTorrent network . The impressive thing, besides the ridiculous amount of information available on your local drive, is that the package will also include Wikipedia's sister projects, such as Wiktionary (a dictionary of Wikipedia) and Wiki (which is a compendium of sources primary). It also includes non-wikipedia content, that until we finish the download does not discriminate.
In the full flush of Wikipedia, do the items come complete? No. The files will not bring Zim images, since the packet size increase to more than 100GB and that is something no one will never download except for an institution or agency such as "Association of People Who Do not Use the Internet." Needless to say, the mathematical tables and special graphics pages if available.
After many rumors about what would be Google's operating system and a few rumors since its announcement, the company launched last year in mid Chrome OS, completely focused on the cloud and accompanied by a specific type of notebooks: the Chromebooks. It's no surprise to anyone that the welcome they have received has been very warm, so maybe from the company have taken to perform a thorough facelift to the interface of the whole system.
Chrome OS now looks like something halfway between the launchpad OS X and the overall look of Windows 7, giving a sense of traditional desktop that I think will benefit you a lot. Recall that so far the Chrome OS interface was essentially equal to that of Google Chrome, a browser that behaves as an operating system providing access to various Google tools ecosystem.
The new look is called the Aura, and allows changes to the screen, stacking windows, a task manager and application launcher that you see in the image similar to OS X. Launchpad As a curiosity, and as a sign of how Google and fragmentation on track to reach the epic, the holders of a CR-48, the first computer that supported Chrome OS and served to popularize it, will not support this update, which can be discharged from now on the Dev Channel.
We need sources of clean, renewable energy, and scientists have set their sights on solar energy. A new approach, called SPS-ALPHA, gives a new twist on power generation in space, proposing to construct a platform arbitrarily large, curved, capable of generating tens of megawatts and send them to Earth as microwaves. The project has the support of NASA, but some doubt that it is possible to build it in the near future.
Modern society relies heavily on the availability of enormous amounts of energy . Throughout the day we use different forms of energy electricity but mainly to work, move, inform, communicate, feed us and make our homes a more comfortable. However, energy is an expensive, limited and often, their generation is an attack on the integrity of the environment. Today no one disputes it's crazy to continue burning fossil fuels to meet energy demand, and we know that that source was exhausted within a relatively short time. In this scenario, is working to develop alternative energy sources, which have a low impact on the environment and is not exhausted in the near future. The wind and solar power are two of the systems in which more work has been done and some countries like Spain have invested heavily in solar power generation by huge "farms collector of energy.
However, some dream of bringing these collectors into space, where their spoils the landscape installation does not interfere with agriculture and, above all, the amount of solar energy incident on the PV panels is much higher. The idea is not new , and is to bring energy collectors out of the atmosphere, produce electricity, sent to Earth by a narrow beam of microwave and convert it back into electricity by converting plant installed at the surface. Now a group of scientists is evaluating a new twist on this system, proposing the construction of SPS-ALPHA, a gigantic, modular system of mirrors that concentrate sunlight on photovoltaic collectors so that the amount of electrical energy that can generate much higher. These stations would have a conical shape, would be thousands of miles of land area, and be able to generate tens of thousands of megawatts. The project was presented by John Mankins, CEO of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions and has received recognition from NASA.
Although the idea is very good and could provide a virtually inexhaustible energy source, the costs involved in building and launching a satellite of this kind are certainly outside the budget of any business today. We are talking about taking space solar cells and mirrors to build some sort three-dimensional parabolic larger than anything we've put into orbit, where each piece of this mechano weighs between 100 and 200 kilograms. The technology available today allows us to put objects into orbit, relatively small-at a cost close to $ 10 000 per kilogram, so the number of rocket launches required to build one of these stations would be very large, and possibly the risks and related costs would not allow, with current technology, we can put in place something like the SPS-ALPHA. In the future, perhaps the space near Earth is full of power generating stations. But now a lot (but a lot!) Cheaper to build solar power plants on the earth's surface.
The launch of the next iPhone coming to us, so increasing the rumors about him and other devices from Apple. Now, the first time in a long time, we heard rumors about the next generation of iPod Touch which, it seems, Apple will not give up.
A5X way to the iPhone
Like the two previous years, this year almost sure that the processor we have seen earlier this year on the new iPad , the A5X, also appears at the end of the year in the new iPhone. As happened last year, this year Apple made a proto-type of the next iPhone's casing the previous iPhone (iPhone 4S), to see how it would work with the new hardware. We all pretty clear that Apple will not make the same design for the third time, but she does it just for the test. At least we hope. The goal of the master model - prototype is to test the functioning of the A5X processor of the iPhone device, and as in previous iPad, also carries the A5X processor, also the parent model - type of RAM is 1GB.
Clues to the next iPod in iOS 5.1
The iPod Touch's is undoubtedly one of best sellers in the history of market players. Is light, thin, cheap, stylish, and does everything that the iPhone can do, other than cellular capabilities. Unfortunately, as the overcoming power of smartphones in recent years, the power of the iPod and other music players, declined. Brought by the upgrade Apple iPod Touch last year (which did not include much detail in white device), we can guess that it looks seriously option to give up the handset. But it seems as though everything Apple does believe in and want to develop your future. According to an internal file systems located within the iOS 5.1, Apple is working on a fifth generation of iPods dubbed iPod5, 1. Still no rumors about the design of the device or the internal hardware it gets, but the leap from there to the code of the previous iPod, iPod4, first, to the new code, iPod5, a, indicates significant upgrades. If Apple really wants to restore the iPod Touch things, she'll have to put it A5X processor, 1GB of RAM and a better camera, otherwise it will remain behind, again. The iPod Touch is one of the most gaming machines are sold there today, so if Apple decide to combine their potential together with its robust hardware and their most advanced, they could turn the iPod Touch in his glory days
A computer legend has left us today at age 83. Jack Tramiel, a founder of Commodore died during the afternoon . Besides being the founder of the company, participated in the development of computers that were the market leaders for years, pushing an industry also simpler and cheaper computers glimpsing the possibility of placing a computer in every home.
The programmer was born in Poland in 1928 and lived there until his youth during World War II was taken to a ghetto and then to Auschwiz concentration camp where he stayed until liberation came in 1945 through the end of the war. In 1947 he emigrated to America where he joined his army, eventually went to work with typewriters in North America and Europe.
He founded Commodore Business Machines in Canada, a company that led to the decade of 80, which sold typewriters, calculators and home computers then. In the following years of his career was in charge of Atari.
The highlight of his career is undoubtedly the launch of the Commodore 64 , a computer that has left a big mark in my youth. He was one of the first computers designed to reach everyone. Successor to the VIC-20 is 8-bit computer was released in 1982 and shortly before the end of the decade was the undisputed leader in the market it created. In the applications that came on tape or diskette was a large catalog of games, graphics applications or tools. In his story had lots of peripherals such as joysticks, modems, mice, etc..
It also has on his resume, when it acquired the consumer division staff of Atari , the launch of the Atari 2600, Atari Lynx and the latest in the famous video game company, a pioneer in using CD, the familiar Jaguar.
Tramiel knew how to develop a computer that could be adapted to different needs and was able to monitor its development with an aggressive trade policy that managed to push his vision of the role that computers would have on the lives of people . You will always have a prominent place in the history of computing.
Remain dynamic and innovative can be a daunting task for the largest companies on the web. Every change and every new idea to implement must be studied carefully, because there are few occasions where impulsive decisions and the "lucky breaks" make an appearance together. The same applies on purchases, and those who have been online for the last few hours, you probably already know that Facebook just bought Instagram , via official announcement of Mark Zuckerberg himself. With a total of thirteen employees, the purchase of Instagram totaled one billion dollars . Now the question is "why"?
The official announcement came from Mark Zuckerberg , posted on his Facebook wall. Besides mentioning that he was "excited" to share the news and mention that Instagram and Facebook are "different experiences" that "complement" the same Zuckerberg has committed to maintain the development of Instagram independently , so that those minds of apocalyptic thought in a theoretical disappearance of Instagram, or cancellation of support for third party access can rest easy for now. The sum involved in the operation is of one billion dollars , a small movement to the financial capabilities of Facebook today, but a major achievement for a company that thirteen employees (its CEO will keep 400 million) that created an application and won over thirty million users a year and half. Unfortunately, a large group of users has fallen Instagram in the field of exaggeration, threatening to remove their copies of Instagram and close their accounts only for the fact that Facebook just to announce the purchase. You can not go from love to hate so fast, or worse, one can not demonstrate unconditional love for an application. Instagram is a piece of software and service . The acquisition of Facebook is not the first nor the last of its kind. Many thought the same when Google bought YouTube, and that was not a change for the worse. Skype was bought by Microsoft, and I see he's gone nowhere. What Facebook needs to do now is to convince investors and users alike to buy Instagram is the right decision. Mark may have said that they were experiences that complement, but from a certain point of view, also compete .
In Argentina, the egg produced about 8.5 and 5.5 meters in diameter. It was certified to enter the Guinness World Records.
Pastry cooking and students of the city of Bariloche Argentina in the south of the country, completed the development of the "easter egg craft world's largest", which will be distributed today among the villagers as part of the celebration of the Week Santa.
The process of egg, about 8.5 meters high and about 5.5 in diameter, was a surveyor and certified by a notary in order to present the data and then earn a place in the Guinness World Records.
A group of twenty bakers also molded chocolate bar "world's longest", which also seeks to position itself among the Guinness, which has a hundred meters long, informed the House of Chocolatiers.
The Easter egg, placed in the main square of Bariloche, this Sunday will be shared between residents and visitors to the city, one of the major tourist destinations, surrounded by lakes and towering mountains.
For its preparation, which claimed about two weeks, we employed more than 7,000 kilos of chocolate, a sweet typical of this district located about 1,600 kilometers south of Buenos Aires.
The initiative is part of celebrations for the Feast of Chocolate 2012, also involving European communities in their traditional dress.
The bakers explained that manufacturing is done in blocks on a wooden mold was removed after creation.
The proposal also forms part of the activities being conducted Bariloche to revive tourism after the drop in visitors following the Chilean Puyehue volcanic ash affecting the city.
How to view 3D videos on YouTube
For several months, people of YouTube has remained a feature in beta that allows those who carry a video to the site, turning it into 3D with just a few clicks. Now, the function has abandoned its test status, and begin to be available to all users automatically. This could give important boost adoption of 3D among users, but the questions remain the same: How much is needed to obtain an acceptable experience, and how many are willing to wear 3D glasses at the computer.
One of the main problems affecting YouTube is its inconsistency . There are days when a video 720p seems light as a cloud, while others can barely get a decent streaming 360p. Of course, this is not exclusively the fault of YouTube as the provider may be making the rounds, but it is worth some caution in deploying high-level functions based on these problems, as in this case, the dynamically and automatically converting 3D for videos . This function was introduced in September last year and since then have transformed hundreds of thousands of 3D video according to YouTube.
The European Space Agency (ESA) reported the discovery on the slopes of one of the largest volcanoes on Mars some "holes in string" that, depending on their origin, could be "interesting targets" in the search for microscopic life.
Photographs taken June in the Tharsis region, characterized by its three "huge" volcanoes, revealed a series of "circular depressions" on the southeastern flank of one of them , the Alba Patera, which is one of the greatest of all the solar system. According to the agency, the most interesting scenario would be if these cavities have been created by groundwater , as in our planet in the Mexican peninsula of Yucatan with the famous "cenotes", deposits formed by the collapse of roofs caves and the dissolution of the limestone. Another possibility is that come the fall of the roof formed by ancient tunnels that were once rivers of magma that circulated under the solidified lava and surface, and at stopping the volcanic activity would have been hollow. ESA believes that the first hypothesis is more promising in the search for microscopic life in the event that there is any cave-like structure associated with those holes intact, because the organisms could survive protected from surface of the harsh conditions . However, ESA not denied that it is simple grooves in the bark of Mars , grabens known as "grabens", which can also form the cavities discovered. In any case, points out that these brands are "interesting" because it shows "the many similarities between the geological processes on Earth and Mars" , so the finding may become an object of study for future missions. EFE
Glove that will allow deaf-blind people manage smart phones
We understand accessibility the extent to which any person may use a system or access a service regardless of their technical, physical and cognitive or to extend the use of technological devices around the world need to develop systems tailored to people who have some type of disability. Democratizing access to technology is something that manufacturers and researchers have much to contribute and, for example, the Samsung eyeCan fulfilled this function. In Germany, a research team from the University of Art Berlin has put the focus on developing a system to enable deaf-blind manage your smartphone and writable for which they have developed a tactile element that is a main glove.
LORM Mobile Glove, which is the name of this system is a project developed at the Laboratory for Research in Design by Tom Bieling, Ulrike Gollner and Gesche Joost to expect that people who are deaf-blind can read and write in tablets and smartphones and, eventually, to access the contents of electronic books.
The system builds on the alphabet LORM or Lormen, a language used in Germany and other European countries and the United States that is based partners that touch the palms of your hands to press specific points that are defining the different letters of alphabet. Based on this communication system, the Mobile LORM Glove uses a glove which has deployed a series of sensors and actuators that are used to "translate" texts to pulsations on the palm of the user and vice versa as the user may also put pressure on the sensors and perform a given text.
The whole character stream is sent to a mobile device using a Bluetooth connection and, for example, in the case of receiving an SMS message in the terminal, the system translates the user using the language LORM through this glove.
A very interesting project that also allows open access to technology to more people.
