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
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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.


FlightGear charts are part of the upgrade from 2008 version that we saw earlier, before giving a "sense of being there" of airflow dynamics and management controls, now feels much more rewarding thanks to utilization of the processing of current video cards, creating landscapes and aircraft increasingly realistic physics that lead to a more sensitive and noticeable. In regard to artificial intelligence, have improved the loading times of the simulator and the accuracy of air traffic. In addition, training for fall are optimized. The weather played much in the air, and that has worked with better rendering of clouds. Among other details we recommend reading the log of changes, FligthGear offers new control knobs or joysticks, visual improvements in ocean and continental air. Personal recommendation: Do not forget to familiarize yourself with your project editor, aircraft and structures. Available free for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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