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

Since the design was confirmed on Wii U GamePad, many rumors suggest that Sony will present a check with a design similar to the Nintendo console for PlayStation 4. It also assumes that next Wednesday will receive tangible information on the design of the PS4, but in the European Patent Office appeared a document which establishes the concept of "EyePad" format control having touch pad tablet, motion tracking and wireless communication. Is it just a set of ideas on paper, or are we about the future of the "pads" in Sony?

The theory stated that the gamepad on the Nintendo Wii U would be one of the keys that would allow the Nintendo achieve reasonably successful sales. The numbers indicate that this was not so: The Wii U just surpassed the barrier of three million units (so far), and has already cut its sales expectations in the month of March. Obviously, Nintendo is not solely responsible for this situation, but the "magic" of a revolutionary control with the Wii was sold out, and console, to succeed, requires much more. Now, all heads turn toward Sony. The PlayStation 4 almost can feel in the air. Wednesday's event is full of expectations about the specifications and design of the console.



And recently, it appeared just seen: A patent from Sony, with the concept of a new control called EyePad. Anyone who wants to can fully explore the full PDF of seventeen pages of text and some images isolated, but summarizing a little the EyePad is a control with a format similar to a tablet, brings a touch pad, motion sensors in six-axis joystick controls and conventional illuminated edges that deliver functionality similar to the one with the PlayStation Move. However, there's more: The EyePad also features stereo cameras, which generate a kind of "virtual space" on the control, in which you can enter, and most likely track objects.

The patent was filed in July 2012 and published on Wednesday. The text has direct references to the PlayStation 3, therefore, it is possible that at the time of preparing the patent, the more EyePad was imagined as an accessory for the PS3 as a new control to the next generation of consoles. Perhaps the patent EyePad simply be resting until someone develops a similar device and Sony can exercise "legal leverage" enough. Personally, the idea of ??a tablet format control does not convince me. The control must pass "trust" in the grip. be robust and responsive offer as high as possible. However, I am willing to change my mind if the design and performance are correct. We'll see what we teach Sony on Wednesday, 20.

We are doomed. Again we go to bed with that feeling of "But what kind of black magic is this?" Is that we go on YouTube and we witnessed in action running a layer that transforms any solid in a water barrier. Ever Ultra Dry (Ultra always dry) is a nanotechnology coating with which you cover a surface and become a super hydrophobic materials, which has nothing to do with your nephew allergic to the showers.

A new product has beaten the market by offering a kind of paint that covers an element and makes this repels liquids are spilled on it, regardless of the amount. The liquid which is covered handles are water and refined oils, the most typical liquid contacting walls of buildings and machinery. Ultra-EVERDRY uses patented nanotechnology to coat an object and create an air barrier on its surface. This barrier repels water, oil and other liquids, coating unlike any seen before. The other development associated with Ultra-Ever Dry is the superior coating adhesion and abrasion resistance, allowing it to be used in all applications where durability is required.



The nanoscale coating process usually involves spraying a coating substance on perfectly dry and then a double-dry application, and use of silicones and contact angles creations strong. As long as you do not wear, scratch or damage the surface of the spraying, the coating protects the surface of what is applied, preventing corrosion, freezing and wetting. Before the inevitable smartass of anonymous comments will declare, Super hidrófobosno coatings are new, but this state of the art now saw depicted in this video. Just close your eyes and think of all the possible applications for both heavy industry and for the development of consumer electronics or furniture, surfaces providing us immune to spills. In fact, imagine having clothes with a treatment like this, repelling all attacks that you become self with splashes of different foodstuffs. What other uses can you think of? Is the death of the napkin?

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