The engineers are looking for ways to provide a vehicle that combines the features of a car and an airplane or a car and a boat or any other strange combination that can attract the attention of consumers and fill their pockets. One of the latest spawn of this kind we have seen is the signature flying hovercraft Hammacher Schlemmer, which includes qualities of a slider and a plane in one device. It costs about 150 thousand euros, reaching around 100 kilometers per hour interesting and promises many hours of fun. But good?
In recent decades we have seen dozens of devices that promise to potential buyers the possibility of using them as car and plane, car or boat, or in some cases, as all three at once. Your search - perhaps initiated by Jules Verne in his novel "Lord of the world" in which Robur the Conqueror travels the world in "The Horror", an amphibious vehicle that combines the capabilities of a car, a boat, a submarine and a plane-has provided some vehicles usable, but have generally been expensive models, manufactured in small quantities and have never managed to become commercial successes. But far from being discouraged, the engineers are looking to design a monster of its kind to the poor kick. The last we've seen is the signature flying hovercraft Hammacher Schlemmer, which combines the features of a slider and a plane in one device. It costs about 150 thousand euros, reaching around 100 kilometers per hour interesting and promises many hours of fun.
When in "slide mode", moving on an "air cushion" as any self-respecting hovercraft such, is capable of operating on land or water. Powered by a gasoline engine of 130 hp two-cylinder (1100 cm3)-water cooled, it can slightly exceed 100 kilometers per hour speed. However, the real fun begins when thanks to its small wings and rear propeller thrust of 34 inches (about 86 centimeters) begins to fly. In this mode, the driver is able to abandon the restrictions imposed by the ground and, like a bird cross the sky-led by a lever not unlike that which can be found in an ultralight plane and a pair of pedals. In fact, leaving aside the poetic license, the "flying hovercraft" can only jump relatively small, about 20 meters high, to overcome obstacles that a conventional slide would be unable to cross.
The structure of this vehicle is based heavily on materials such as PVC and fiberglass, according to the manufacturer can operate in winds up to 40 mph and waves up to 1.5 meters in height. The maximum load that can be transported, including the weight of the pilot, is about 300 kilograms. You may find it useful as a "coupe" for those who are tasked with patrolling swampy or flooded areas, but it is difficult for that price-and performance-get to become a bestseller. What do you think?
In simple terms, electromyography records the activity of so-called skeletal muscles. Obviously, the most important application is in medicine, diagnosing diseases and asisitiendo the development of different types of prostheses. However, someone had the idea that an electromyographic device installed on the arm of a person can be used as an interface to control gadgets, interpreting the signals from the muscles. That someone is Microsoft Research, who has a couple of years working on the project, and received confirmation of the patent during this week. Is this the ancestor of a "super-Kinect" futuristic?
What will the interfaces of the future? What kind of interaction with the devices we expected to be launched in the coming years? We are in a period governed by the touch interfaces, but even they have their limits, and inevitably find them. Gestures and movements have been exploited and exploited in several ways. The Wiimote, PlayStation Move and Kinect successful are three examples that while outside the world of mobile devices, have also made a great contribution. The chorus Kinect sales is based on that "you are the driver." The Kinect interprets gestures and movements, but how that interpretation would be to conduct a deeper level? Behind every gesture and movement is muscular reactions and electrical signals. Could it a read and convert those signals directly?
Perhaps not in the short term, but Microsoft Research is working on it since at least March 2009, when he presented at the time an application to register a patent for a "EMG-based controller." This controller would be able to interpret the electrical signals from the user's muscles. The signals would then be transmitted to a computer or other device; through a physical or wireless connection, and converted to the corresponding commands. One of the examples in the patent shows a kind of band that the user is placed in the arm, but have also explored other formats such as sweatshirts and glasses.
As always in these cases, we can not deny the possibility that the patent remains in a drawer for several years without generating any practical device commercially available, but the reason behind the patent is not so farfetched. Imagine for a moment to combine the ability to detect an accessory such as the Kinect, electromyographic. As an example, think of the moves you make when using a mouse. Now remove the mouse, and imagine the same movements in the air or on land. The band electromyographic could interpret each click, double click and "spin wheel" virtual, while an external sensor is responsible for registering the movement. The example just scratches the surface of the potential of such a device. And Redmond already has the patent.
In the list of strange gadgets on which we are already working (and ranging from Mickey Mouse ears for the iPad to the monkey - and unhelpful - Little Printer through the first 3D chocolate printer) now includes the surprising camera that writes what he photographs.
The prototype has been dubbed Descriptive Camera and is a project by Matt Richardson signed, as FastCompany points. The kick-off of the camera was the lack of descriptive data on the images: photos are filled with metadata, but they show things like camera model, the place or time. There is no real description of what is happening, something that explains what the image contains.
"The Descriptive Camera works very similarly to that of a regular camera," explains its director in his official site. "You aim the target and press the button to capture the image. However, instead of producing an image, the prototype gives a text description of the scene, "he adds.
Human help
To achieve these results, Descriptive Camera used as the basic point of Amazon Mechanical Turk API, which covers with human labor that where technology fails. In a collaborative way, a group of people connected to the network cover the descriptions of those images that people upload to the Internet (it costs $ 1.25 for description). This makes printing is not instantaneous, but the waiting time is not very high.
The results did, however, are surprising and funny, "art", as explained in FastCompany. "It's a blur of a dilapidated building. It seems to be coming down and need repairs, "is an example of one of these curious descriptive photographs.
Telepresence systems in general and videoconferencing in particular have opened the door to new avenues of communication, for example, can reduce travel for employees of a company (avoiding travel to attend a meeting), offshore teams work and, from a more personal note, allow somewhat closer communication between people who are geographically distant. We are accustomed to videoconferencing systems classics, ie, view our party on a TV screen and thus, in a 2D image but at Queen's University in Canada are developing a telepresence system that uses three-dimensional holograms with who want to revolutionize telepresence systems and bring them a little Holodeck from Star Trek or Star Wars holograms.
At the helm is Roel Vertegaal professor, a professor specializing in human-interface machine that works at the Human Media Laboratory at the University and, along with collaborators, has developed a system that allows two people to be facing each other and interact as if they were present in the room but with the proviso that one of them is represented by a hologram.
The system consists of a cylinder with the approximate size of a person who is standing on which projects a three-dimensional hologram which delivers a 360 degree peer through a system of cameras that capture the movements of the participants and send this information along to images, allowing us to project the hologram on the system.
TeleHuman, which is the name of this system provides complete freedom of movement within the capture area, ie, the video is captured in a complete circle, and therefore, it is possible to turn around the cylinder and get behind the "virtual back" of the hologram.
This system gives a new twist to the world of telepresence and, for example, could be used in queries and tele-health care, for example, allow a doctor see a patient and move around but are separated by miles away.
And on what basis TeleHuman? The system uses a 3D projector, a transparent plastic tube of 1.80 meters in height that encloses a convex mirror combined with the projector is capable of creating images of the hologram. How do motion capture? A by now I think it's not surprising that the motion capture system is the Microsoft Kinect, as was used in the draft Vermeer or Holodesk.
Although the system is still far from the hologram in Star Wars or Star Trek must be recognized that TeleHuman has considerable potential, as evidenced by the interest shown by some companies to commercially exploit this system also has also been used to develop BodiPod , a 3D atlas of the human body to navigate the anatomy of a person.
A giant screen over twenty feet long sent a soothing message based on white and blue drops slowly from side to side. Vain attempt. On the other hand, among the chairs, had started the war of journalists to get a wireless connection rather than elusive.
Finally, at eight o'clock began officially one of the most important technology events of the year, the presentation of new S3 Galaxy, which is considered the ultimate weapon of the Korean company against the current dominance of Apple in the smartphone segment. And many think that really can be. In fact, so far only the first two models of the Galaxy have been able to achieve acceptable market share against the almighty iPhone.
The presentation began with a video that talks about phones with large screens, voice recognition, more powerful than a laptop ... Phones that enable new experiences and possibilities. It says the video, the biggest launch of the year, the perfect union between imagination and technology. The qualifiers will take place on stage. "Today we will introduce something extraordinary."
There comes a time and setting up their own JK Shin, president of the division of Samsung demóviles. "I come to introduce the new Samsung Galaxy S3, the best mobile phone world." The handset has a 4.8 inch screen, as the rumors of these days, and an 8 megapixel camera. Despite its size, weighs only 133 grams and only if you have 8.6 mm thick. Be sold in black and white and launches a new touch system that allows an even more smooth and precise.
Able to receive voice commands
Of course, it is equipped with a quad core processor which gives it a power comparable if not superior to that of a laptop. Power which results in the speed at which applications are open and that has made it possible for the phone incorporates a long list of new features.
But that's just the beginning. This is a phone, says Shin, who "is able to see you, to hear, to understand you." In fact, the new Galaxy S3 can receive orders issued by voice. We can ask him directly by the weather, or tell you to take a picture or send an email. The application is called S Voice, and looks remarkably like SIRI, the revolutionary voice function presented earlier this year by Apple in its iPhone 4S. That if, while Siri not even speak Spanish, SVoice yes it does.
The phone can run two applications simultaneously on screen, thanks to Pop Up Play function. We can, for example, be watching a video and "take it with us", for example, the browser, or Google Maps. The video will be smaller, but still running and reproducing on the second application we have decided to open. Really impressive.
The phone also whatever with a proximity sensor incorporating NFC technology, destined to become the new standard for communication between devices that will, among other things, pay any item with just bring the phone to the price.
What we see on the video is the latest installment of Wilfried Stoll, the staging of a string quintet robot capable of composing and performing songs for themselves. A proposal that comes to say that not only humans can compose music.
The installation was made possible with the help of the engineering company Festo. A system that writes music after hearing a musician play melodies on a xylophone or a MIDI keyboard.
By using standards derived from the mathematician John Conway game, Game of Life, the computer is able to create a re-interpretation of the melody breaking it down into different parts for each instrument. Then, the processed signal is transmitted to the robotic strings.
A facility for the sole purpose of demonstrating how a manual system can be replaced by a network of autonomous robots. Will it the future of music by the development of robotic band?
A German judge has to agree with Motorola and prohibit the sale of Windows 7 and Xbox 360 due to violation of these products by patents essential to the H.264 video playback. These technologies are supposed to be protected by contractual terms "fair, reasonable and non discriminatory" (FRAND or Fair, reasonable and non-Discriminatory). Motorola wanted $ 4 billion (3 billion euros). Microsoft refused and the judge sentenced him, but Motorola is far from won. This judgment may even be harmful.
Motorola has a deplorable attitude
First, Microsoft anticipated this decision and took the lead entering a U.S. judge on FRAND global contract signed with Motorola. Because of the terms of this agreement and international conventions, the German injunction banning Windows 7 and Xbox 360 in Germany should not be implemented. We do not think he can do anyway.
As highlighted Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, for the injunction was implemented, Motorola must post a bond of several hundred million dollars that will be seized by the law and who will be given to Microsoft if the injunction is returned by the appeal judge. In short, the decision is mostly symbolic. Microsoft has refused to pay a license to these patents and is now condemned. It is no surprise, but it is also damaging to Motorola.
Indeed, it shows that the firm refuses to negotiate a price that many judges contrary to the principles of FRAND patents. Many experts and analysts disagreed and Europe to open an investigation into the practices of Motorola.
Today's decision is based primarily on procedural issues, but it also characterizes an attitude that could be dangerous for Motorola. Indeed, Europe has agreed to the acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google provided that prices are reasonable on its FRAND licensing. Motorola Mobility If convicted, the acquisition could be endangered or the new entity could be tightly regulated.
Do not forget that the Chinese market regulators have not approved the agreement and could be a serious impediment to the whims of the search engine. Motorola is the only one who does not want to deal with Microsoft (see "Pegatron will pay Microsoft a license to use Android"). It is the only manufacturer of Android Phones to be suing Redmond. Apple and Microsoft have also filed suit against Motorola for patent infringement. Apple won two injunctions and trial of Microsoft is on track. Motorola has much to be done.
If you are wondering what is the best place in the world for internet connections, look no further. A new report released by Akamai, a provider of Internet content distribution, gives us all these details.The American company has done a search and, for the past four years to see which countries, regions and cities offer the best Internet connections. The company analyzed the capacity of connection bandwidth, and by extension, those with less good possibilities to quickly navigate the web.
It seems that this is South Korea that not only offers the best connections, with an average of 17.5 Mbps, but also the highest peak bandwidth attained by its users, or 47.9 Mbps. At this speed, you can download one HD movie in its entirety in 30 minutes or a song in less than 3 seconds.
Those who are less popular countries like Cuba, Niger and Mali, among others with speeds below 300 Kbps. If we take the example of the same film in high definition, it would take over 30 hours to download.
Canada compares in the U.S. with an average connection of 5.6 Mbps. The same HD movie would take over an hour and a half to download. In fact, Americans and Canadians have just enough bandwidth to download streaming (streaming) of a film in high definition and that if they do not use their internet connection to other more demandantes.
So what are other countries with the best internet connections in the world?
Here are the top 10 according to Akamai.
1 - South Korea
2 - Japan
3 - Hong Kong
4 - The Netherlands
5 - Latvia
6 - Switzerland
7 - Ireland
8 - Czech Republic
9-Romania
10 - Belgium
After the uproar last week with the release of SkyDrive desktop application and the launch of Google Drive, Amazon seems to also want to join the party and has launched a desktop application for Windows and OS X. Unlike the rest of these services, no doubt inspired by the success of Dropbox and let you synchronize a local folder to the storage in the cloud, Amazon Cloud Drive only acts as a simple shortcut to upload to the cloud, but not synchronize.
That is, it is in the menu bar in the case of Mac and the notification center in the case of Windows and lets us from there and bypassing the browser upload our files. You can also open a new window directly and launch from there. It's no big thing but with 5GB of storage including default Cloud Drive can be a good alternative if you want a little extra storage in the cloud (and we are not lacking options) or to any backup point.
Tomorrow, Thursday May 3, in the afternoon, we finally know what South Korea's Samsung has prepared this year to compete in the segment of smart phones, a market that will face the Sony Xperia S, HTC One X, LG or Motorola Razr Optimus 4X, not to speak of yet unknown but expected to iPhone 5. We talked about the Samsung Galaxy S3, the mobile terminal reissued philosophy that has come onto the market since 2010 and has received many calls to extend its review power and performance.
Here are the guys who Know Your Mobile expose an image of Samsung Galaxy S3 course. In the screenshot, which is not an enviable quality, underlines the intention of showing how much you could measure the touch screen of this device. According to the proportions which seems to be, the panel would develop the 4.8 inches of which there has been talk in recent weeks, bringing the first rumors, pointing to the screen at 4.6 inches would end up as to nothing, ie nothing.
However, as usual at these revelations, you should remain calm. It is confirmed that the terminal is actually the Samsung Galaxy S3. It could well be the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, although in that case, the terminal's native Google developed by the Korean company spends a smaller screen than it is sensed in this catch-precisely 4.65 inches. In any case, better keep some patience in the face of imminent presentation.
The Samsung S3 is a mobile Galaxy we expect to see a quad core processor at a speed of about 1.4 GHz would be the new Samsung Exynos, developed from 32-nanometer technology, which would improve the efficiency of equipment, achieving a remarkable performance without punishing the battery more than necessary.
Memory is unknown serial lead, although committed to versions 16 and 32 GB, it also offers a GB of RAM. The camera is still unknown, although it would integrate a sensor pack of eight to twelve megapixels, with no details of the optical type as an argument to present proposals for Apple, Sony or HTC.
The operating system will see in the Galaxy S3 will be Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but the layer will not native to this platform, but the manufacturer's own-that is, TouchWiz. It has also raised a shift in the policy maker when betting on what resources according to the terminal housing, and in fact, happen to use plastic for the back cover using a ceramic surface to furnish more of distinction the whole. Nevertheless, from the Korean company have not spoken officially in this regard.
May 1 holiday, took some time off and gave free rein to their imagination: Jon Ive two one-day published their concept of Liquidmetal iPhone. The first, the iPhone +, was designed by Antonio de Rosa and has an iPhone 4.3 "edge to edge whose body unibody is Liquidmetal, regardless of the impact on the final invoice.
This envelope, surrounded by a chrome rim, would contain a processor quad-core Apple A6, a 10 MP camera, and a pico-projector. The designer has incorporated into his concept of the hottest rumors in recent months, as a capacitive home button and dock connector reviewed and considerably reduced.
The concept of Antoine Brieux is not so different, except that the Liquidmetal is here used to form the internal chassis, and that design is closer to the current model - and particularly classy. Only difference with the previous model: here we find no pico projector, but instead an integrated SIM card.
The designer imagines that Apple can make the same choice as Google and remove the home button in favor of a virtual button displayed on demand: applications would not necessarily need to be rewritten, since part of screen of 4.5 "would be occupied by this button. But video playback for example, it would disappear, giving way to a movie in full screen 16:9.
Since its official launch in November 2004, the browser created by Blake Ross has been downloaded over 200 million times accounting for all versions from 1.0.
The popularity of the Mozilla browser has been increasing so esponencial almost since its inception. The market was the browser newborn in 2004 was a near monopoly of Microsoft Internet Explorer. Little by little he haciiendo a hole. It currently has a penetration of over 20%, considering that other browsers like Chrome has burst onto the market.
According to the meter installed in Spreadfirefox.com, another record registered by the browser released in November 2004 is that the last 50 million were added in just five months.
The full moon will occur during the closest approach between the satellite and the Earth, creating this curious phenomenon.
This weekend the moon will be 14% larger and 30% brighter, and that this phenomenon will occur during the closest approach between the satellite and Earth. The moon will be 356.955 kilometers of our planet, offering viewers a spectacular view, known as the "superluna". According to the publication, on Saturday May 5th there will be a full moon, the date on which you can see in all its glory this phenomenon.
For now, we must focus our attention on the future of the company, as many analysts and experts predict a major shift in strategy, but also in the products will be announced in the near future. In fact, the most optimistic and have indicated that Apple will crescendo with products like the iPhone and the iPad over the next two to four years. However, many have also noticed the lack of charisma of the current leader, Tim Cook, highlighting the need for Apple to have it again with a magical leader to follow in the footsteps of Steve Jobs. Explains the analyst Max Weber, and other Apple executives Jon Ive and Scott Forstall are characters with many more qualities, ideal to replace the absence of Jobs.
Far from having begun a decline, Apple's latest results indicate that things are going well, since the company has sold a whopping 35.1 million iPhone units, surpassing analysts' expectations and reaching the $ 12.30 for partcipación traded.
We are faced with positive data, but the fact is that in recent months, the company has emphasized over others with amazing shots. The iPhone 4S then transfers the performance of its predecessor, the iPhone 4, and just added enhancements such as dual-core processor A5 and a beta program, Siri, who served as a virtual assistant voice. The new iPhone has not come up with dramatic improvements to the market. In fact, leaving aside the Retina screen and the great potential of the graphics processor, the new iPhone is still more of the same. But what will happen to the iPhone 5?
This is the first phone to come without Steve Jobs at the helm and all means suggest that this might be the time chosen to make a sharp turn to the specification sheet. It is expected, in this sense, the new iPhone 5 may have a larger screen (of even 4 inches), which never would have imagined in the era Jobs, and a completely changed design would allow us to think of a new era Cook. We will see later, probably in October, although the first major event will take place in June Apple, at the annual conference of developers.
As touch phones registered in the rest of the market ecosystem present their proposals to each one of their screens high ranges that exceed the four-inch format, Apple keeps its iPhone in the bastion of 3.5 inches. Not infrequently the Cupertino have justified their decision.
That standard, they say, is the most effective in the face of comfortable use and accessible to the vast majority of users. In life, Steve Jobs himself defended tooth and nail to maintain this format, as quite a few rumors, Apple is about to leave ahead of their upcoming release in the catalog of moving company.
Another leaked report says about it. This time is the consulting firm Jefferies that the forecast, noting that the new iPhone will cross the barrier of four inches, which would not play, supposedly, to the detriment of the acclaimed Retina resolution which comes from assuming Apple iPhone 4 . Thus, the iPhone 5 would expand its definition to fit the new screen format, while the report of the consulting market is not tuned to certify when in his prediction if they keep the concentration of 326 dots per inch that as of today we know on iPhone iPhone 4 and 4S.
On the other hand, the new iPhone 5 not only win in eye-screen size, the extension of the panel would not necessarily jeopardize the measures currently developing the last manzanófonos-but also dwindle in thickness. According to the analysis of Jefferies, the terminal to be submitted between June and October this year adelgazaría 20 percent from that seen in the iPhone 4S. Thus, although the latest release to date in the catalog of the signing of the apple brand profile of 9.3 mm, the iPhone 5 would display a thickness of only 7.44 mm, following what that report says .
To give us an idea, the Samsung S2 Galaxy 8.49 mm and the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S about 8.7 millimeters at its thinnest section. To date, the slimmest touchscreen phone that was submitted was the Huawei Ascend P1, which boasts of only 6.68 mm.
Moreover, the data provided by the consultant not speak processor, camera, or additional features that could be incorporated in this new iPhone 5. Thus, we still do not know if Apple will bet on a quad-core processor or kept as seen in the new iPhone, that is, a properly adapted version of the dual-core A5X.
The camera, on the other hand, would maintain its firm commitment to a strong optical and carefully constructed, the end of deriving a system to capture quality images up to eight megapixels. He also mentioned that the new iPhone would take fourth-generation LTE connectivity, but we will see if operate on frequencies compatible with different regions of the planet, unlike what happened with the tablet that was presented a couple of months.
The New York Times has accused Apple of using their offices in Nevada and Ireland solely for the purpose of not paying taxes. Apple offices in these places used specifically for better tax treatment, which would free the company to face substantial tax payments. The Cupertino have responded to accusations by ensuring that they have paid a large sum of taxes and also have generated more than 47,000 jobs.
Apple has gained wide popularity in recent years. The company has made their products some of the most admired and his fame across borders worldwide. Despite the positive aspect of this reputation, which can be seen in spectacular economic performance, the fact is that Apple's popularity has also led to some suspicion about their activities.
Now that Apple is so successful, many wonder whether the activities of the company are fully within the legal and ethical. In this sense, The New York Times has accused Apple of using their offices in different states and countries to take advantage of tax benefits. The American newspaper has cited a case that Apple would be doing to save millions of dollars.
Apparently, Apple is using an office in the state of Nevada for collection and investment. In that state there is no U.S. income tax, eliminating a major cost to the company. By contrast, in California, the state where Apple is headquartered, the corporate tax is about 8.84 per cent, Apple lastraría operations.
According to The New York Times, Apple takes advantage of this circumstance to perform through the office of Nevada and thus avoided the payment of part of their transactions. Similarly, the company, like other known, would perform the same operation in Europe, with sales throughout Ireland.
Apple has been quick to respond to these allegations and has defended his tax contribution. The company has said that so far, 2012 has paid more than 5,000 million dollars (about 3.771 million euros) in taxes in America. In addition, Apple has emphasized that generated over 47,000 jobs just in the North American country.
Apple has said it has always done all his business "to the highest ethical standards, complying with applicable laws and accounting standards." With these data, the company expects the controversy over its activities cease and not be questioned either the legality or morality of their activities.
Nokia could soon get rid of one of the branches of your business: luxury terminals. Finland is in advanced negotiations with the investment fund Permira, which owns 100% of Cortefiel or Hugo Boss among other companies, to sell its high-end devices, Vertu.
The transaction would leave the Nokia 200 million euros, according to the Financial Times points out, the medium has leaked the operation. The signing of luxury devices that Nokia founded in 1998, it works, as recorded by the business daily, as an independent company within the group is based in Finnish and United Kingdom.
Vertu terminals are sold separately at select retailers. In fact, in Madrid, have only three outlets: English ElCorte Paseo de la Castellana (which has several luxury brands in a multi-space) and two jewelers. In the rest of area, you can only access these terminals over a dozen locations. The devices are built by hand in England, after being signed by the artisan finishes that made it. The terminals are high-end materials. The price is, of course, very high.
Vertu bill a year between 200 and 300 million dollars, but is one of the key parties in the business of Nokia.
The silkworm is one of the most studied insects and GM of the planet. His ability to create silk has been a stimulus for thousands of years, but something that also surprised these creatures is the way they create their cocoons. Mediated Matter Group in the MIT Media Lab has developed a robotic arm that seeks to imitate the "building process", weaving its own structure. The result is more like a spider web, and the robot has some limitations, but nothing prevents you from changing the future of construction.
It is said that the silkworm breeding originated in China about five thousand years. Needless to say, their silk is much appreciated, and represents a very complex industry. But there is no reason to simply admire the silk when these insects. The way they build their cocoons is impressive, and there's no question we could borrow an idea or two of that process. One of the ways preferred by scientists, engineers and researchers to play certain actions of nature is to use robotics, and this is how we find this robotic arm from the MIT Media Lab
The arm is capable of displaying fabric around, although this is not so much like a cocoon, but it bears some resemblance to a spider web, another insect that is not far behind when it comes to extend their networks. The robot seeks to explore the concept of "building additive", in which each part is created by placing a layer of material over another. If this sounds like 3D printing, because the group is responsible for developing Mediated Matter the robot within the MIT Media Lab is also investigating different methods of 3D printing.
In a wise move, Barnes & Noble has launched a subsidiary called Newco preliminarily as they choose a name that will focus entirely on the Nook, in which Microsoft has invested 300 million dollars. The Nook is the reader of eBooks Barnes & Noble and while there has always been overshadowed by the ubiquitous Kindle has worked very well in U.S..
This investment of 300 million dollars from Microsoft have been given almost 18% of the new subsidiary and apart from representing a logical move by the company in its bid to compete against Amazon and Apple in selling some books open interesting questions for the future. And is that Windows 8 is just around the corner and with it the strongest bid in the history of Microsoft for the world of tablets and the ecosystem that surrounds them.
Thus, although neither of the two companies have declared their position, you may see in the near future readers Nook (which currently run a modified own Android) riding Windows 8 RT (the version of it focused on tablets) and benefiting from all the functionalities. By the time the agreement also means that through the new Windows Marketplace 8 users will have a specific application with the entire catalog of books Nook and synchronization options.
Anyway, while sweeping the Amazon Kindle and Apple makes his first steps with the iBook Store and the iPhone as popular ebook reader, this movement is a good attempt by Microsoft to catch up. The electronic book market continues to be increasingly interesting and promises to provide adequate benefits, indeed the future.
The fax is dead, long live the fax!
Of course, this is an eternity that you did not receive or send faxes. Wait, the day you must give your permission to a financial institution. You'll rediscover the fax and then ... especially its rarity. The launch of a week ago Google Drive, cloud computing storage service from Google, gives one more option for those who do not have fax hardware but still want to send to the occasion.
HelloFax is a module that integrates into Google Drive and which can send any document to fax format and also to receive. HelloFax also allows you to edit and electronically sign PDF without having to print, sign and then scan them. Everything is paperless. Originally launched as a simple fax application online, the founders Walla and Joseph Neal O'Mara have quickly realized that the main reason why people still faxaient was they had to sign documents. So we worked to provide electronic signature service, now used internationally. HelloFax does not develop, moreover, that this portion now, while still offering the fax service. The service is not only related to Google Drive: it is also with Dropbox and Box.
