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

Currently there is little information available in the world and online. Yes, compared with what will in 8 years. Is that, can you imagine the situation in which there are 5200 GB of data per person in the world? That is, 5200 GB multiplied by nearly 7 billion. If you plan to live 8 years, you should start to imagine, because EMC has conducted its annual study called The Digital Universe and concluded that by 2020, there will be 5200 GB of data per person in the world and that this need for better systems housing, and connection analysis.

As much as we look to the future is right there, to the rank of a slap technological frontier now and tomorrow will run every day, but always keeping the same distance. Besides inventions and achievements of science, the overabundance of information on the network works with this view, serving notice that more and more of everything and multiply uncontrollably. The obviousness is not a valid scientific classification, but the exponential growth of data now revealed as true in a study of the Digital Universe made by the EMC recently. This report on the status of the accumulation of information in the world, the institution said that growth is such that by 2020, there will be 40 zetabytes information and that only 15% of it will be in the cloud.

The best way to understand these numbers are in the transition of those 40 zetabytes to what are 4 trillion gigabytes. That number corresponds approximately to 5200 GB for every human in the world. Nor does it help?? And yes, it is a lot of content. As much as 57 times the number of grains of sand on all the beaches of the world. The interesting thing is that this ridiculously large amount of data will tend to double every two years from 2020 and that only 33% of information they contain can be valued by us. The reason for this are the projections of internet access of people and the progressive computerization of all services and shops, but the biggest factor that will bring the machines and bots that generate content in cold blood while communicating with each other through different networks. In the original article give an example, the safety sensors that communicate with each other to make real-time checks, or smartphones also making connections with others.



The content that the study on the EMC Digital Universe refers includes all sorts of information, from YouTube videos to the logs of botnets. Completely exposed, these data could be analyzed to find patterns of social media use in finding information or even scientific studies yet unrevealed. All this type of analysis will force future behaviors have ruled with the organization of information (which even scientists generate new careers for information management) and more efficient, so that members of the research team said in future years to begin to label more information. But especially, will label better, then rules that help us find and better analyze the information available in the world. The study also revealed that most of the information in the digital universe consists entertainment and media (68%). It was also mentioned that the networks will become relevant to lower latencies and infrastructure of these networks and servers will be an item to be the most urgent update.

The revolution in green energy and that triggered the spread and acceptance of light bulbs is still ongoing, but the LED is wanting to find a way to be the standard in homes, for more complicated it can be for the moment competence in technical and economic efficiency. However, students at the University of Galicia have discovered a process which can produce LED bulbs that save energy by 80%, what perspective could become a turning point in the way of lighting our homes or spaces public.

Bulbs and energy saving lamps are not in a comfortable position, although the qualities of current LEDs are not what we wanted in terms of making a massive technology transfer. Of course no one is left idle, and the projects and developments are counted in hundreds, trying to give a little more life to our planet (and profitability of service firms, obviously) through ecology and sustainable development, accompanied by a reduction in the energy required per day and any pollution that is generated for it. Luckily we have scientists working on the issue, and Galician physicians showed that problems arise the true solutions, even those that are sought by chance or without both.

According to researchers at the Science Univerdad Ourense in Galicia, they came across a real find after being hired by a local engineering it to analyze what was going on with the LEDs that were installed on the public. It turns out that for some technical failure, these diodes were failing and lasted too little in relation to the projected lifespan. Raised the issue, university scientists got down to work and then to find a process by which heat is dissipated in a certain way, avoiding sobrecaliento of bulbs (not reach 80 degrees) and giving greater these useful life. According to investigators, the cause of failure and low quality bulbs that originated the study was the accumulation of heat by using low-level materials and a process malfunction.



The bulbs were made with not only last longer, but also are more efficient and have a considerable energy saving, close to 80% in relation to the above. The estimated duration of each would be 55,000 hours, which means you'd have the same bulb for nearly 15 years. Patented urgently, this model will go into production between Inebo and the University in two weeks with a circulation of 10,000. The goal held by both sides is that the technology is cutting edge and the process to work wonders, but in terms of business, the main thing is that it also can be manufactured in series and inexpensively. If these assumptions are met with satisfaction, we are confident that a new generation of bulbs light the future.

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