Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

It's electric, and like all battery-operated automobiles needs regular charging. "The charging is done wirelessly, you park up, turn off the key and voila... charging starts automatically," says Anthony Thomson, CEO of HaloIPT, a UK company that has installed the technology. The process uses electromagnetic induction to transfer power from a pad built into the ground to another installed in the bottom of the car. The system could be installed in a supermarket parking place, garage floor or the ground at a special charging station. When a driver parks the vehicle, the two pads line up and with a flick of a switch, the charging starts.

Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

US pop star Katy Perry leads the way at this year's MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) with nine nominations. The singer's nods include video of the year for Firework, best pop video and best special effects. British singer Adele and Kanye West picked up seven nominations apiece. Other multiple nominees included Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and Bruno Mars. The VMAs are scheduled to take place on 28 August in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in the US. Perry, who married comedian Russell Brand last year, was also nominated for best female video, best collaboration, best art direction and best cinematography.

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

Texas executes 9/11 'revenge' killer

A man who embarked on a shooting spree in what he claimed was retaliation for 9/11 has been executed at a prison in Texas. The lone survivor of Mark Stroman's attack on convenience store workers in late 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, originally from Bangladesh, unsuccessfully sued to stop the execution, saying his religious beliefs as a Muslim required him to forgive the man. Stroman claimed the shooting spree that killed two men and injured a third targeted people from the Middle East, though all three victims were from south Asia. It was the death of 49-year-old Vasudev Patel, from India, that put Stroman on death row. Stroman's execution was the eighth this year in Texas.

Texas executes 9/11 revenge killer

Mac OS X Lion pounces

As promised, Apple let Mac OS X Lion out of its cage this morning. Version 10.7 of the operating system has more than 250 new features, Apple said, but an installation disc isn't one of them: it's available today for $29.99 as a 3.49GB download only. Apple enjoys pushing the computing industry into the future by dropping technology it deems to be from the past-for example floppy drives missing from the first iMac-and those who want a real-world copy of the OS will have to wait until Apple releases it on a USB thumb drive next month for $69. The Mac OS X download, available through the Mac App Store, dovetails with Apple's new MacBook Air and Mac Mini Lion-based computers. These new models are updated with Intel's modern Sandy Bridge processors and a high-speed Thunderbolt data transfer port-and none has a DVD drive for the next OS upgrade.

Mac OS X Lion pounces

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Google+ for iPhone hit Apple's App Store a mere 24 hours ago but it's being downloaded like wildfire as it currently sitting atop the heap as the most popular free app available from iTunes. This is big news considering Google+ is still invitation-only and only has 18 million users so far, compared to Facebook's 750 million. That said, Google+ users can now upload contacts from Outlook and Mac address books (not Facebook, though), which may result in even bigger Google+ adoption numbers.

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

Apple CEO and cancer survivor Steve Jobs is not keen on discussing speculation about who will replace him when the inevitable happens. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company's board of directors have been discussing plans about who will take over the position that has been held by Jobs since the late 1990s, and perhaps the title that some will always bestow upon Jobs and Jobs alone, once the man is no longer able to hold the position himself. The Journal said it had credible information that the board has already been meeting with headhunters and "at least one head of a high-profile technology company."

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

Usually, the correct statement would be: kick a football a waste of energy produced by the players. However, the science exists to break this kind of predictable truths, so now we can say that kicking a ball will cause the player to have more energy available. No, no. Also produce fatigue in them, but after playing for a while may use the stored electrical energy in the kicked ball to load, for example, a lamp, phone or whatever is needed in places where electricity is not something that may be playing. This is the Socket ball, soccer ball

This is the age in which soccer balls are building processes longer than some modern buildings. Are studied, they are thinking, is the test given thousands of properties concerning the game that will participate, and if we talk about football, the care is much higher, but then fiascos occur as large as the world. Within the balls, as well as air, have begun to introduce meters and systems of all kinds await the approval of FIFA to be implemented in official matches, avoiding more fiascos. With this idea, and thinking less about FIFA and Africa, students at Harvard University had started a project in 2008 whose name was Ball Socket. Its role was simple: a ball with the ability to capture and store energy from the kicks of the players.

It succeeded in 2010 and there began the real development taking solidarity ribbons that generate media attention but obviously not financial. Today researchers and graduates have a soccer ball that can give power to millions of children in Africa. Just have to play with him, since this area has a unique design consisting of a mechanism based on a gyroscope inside that captures the energy printed on the leather and makes clean electricity for use in mobile charging, lighting, purifiers water, heating, fans, speakers and more. Water resistant and the most adverse conditions, this concentrates the energy ball as does one of those LED flashlights that are stirred to generate electricity through a wire coil and a magnet. Simple, but in a ball.



As if this way of making small energy sources athletes in your own home, the ball is made of 95% organic materials, which implies a coherence sometimes forget many of these projects. Habiéndola tested in South Africa, energy capture was good, but could be improved. The technical problem was the weight, because the ball socket is a few grams heavier than the official match ball (though it cares little who is seeking his second goal on a makeshift pitch). The soccer ball that stores energy expected to sell $ 60 in a campaign of such purchase and donate, hopefully a lot of satisfaction to the three parts that come together in this great project.

Facebook has decided, Monday, June 18, delete the picture of a naked woman and her son, published by the Canadian photographer Gregory Colbert because it did not meet the conditions of use.

Enough to arouse the ire of the artist who denounce "censorship". "Where I see an image of harmony between mother and child surrounded by three cheetahs, see Facebook censors of pornography," protested Gregory Colbert. "What says the arbitrary censorship, where does it end?" Asked he.

Facebook allowed users to publish content "inciting hatred or violence, threatening, pornographic or contain nudity or gratuitous violence". Strict conditions that can lead to outright closure of the account if they judge the social network are not met.

Whatever, Gregory Colbert "Facebook application that restores the image" removed.

This is not the first time that Facebook removes pictures of "daring". A teacher saw his account deleted for having published "Origin of the World", the painting by Gustave Courbet. Same story for the artist Gilbert Pedinielli who had "published a photo of buttocks".


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