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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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EyeControl TV: Control your TV with the look

At CES, we had the opportunity to witness the work they performed several devices to try to unseat the remote. Is that nobody wants to have to deal with their tendency to break, lost and serve trophy controversial fights between brothers and couples. Voice, gestures and smartphones were the stars of this carrying of functionality, but only in the IFA could see something really revolutionary. It's called TV Eye Control and serves to control your TV with the look through eye tracking technology.

Just as it has been replaced by computer mouse across multiple applications and hardware, also wants to do the same with something as fundamental for entertainment such as remote. Somehow we have already seen with the introduction of gestures per camera, voice control or support smartphones and tablets function as that little device that makes brothers and couples fight over control. But if you do not like moving your arms to control your TV, the TV Eye Control will just have to watch and wink to the TV to raise and lower the volume, change channels, etc..

Presented as part of the international electronics fair in Berlin, TV Eye Control device was developed by the Chinese company called Haiser. The device layer was found to control basic functions of the TV using detection technology and eye tracking. Thus, the user can raise and lower the volume, change channels and access the menus on the TV. All this without speaking, without moving his arms before the fighting screen or remote control and its batteries. Just do not use this form you manage to scratch the TV back.

The prototype created China and a strong financial backing seems to have won a few hearts of silicon in the IFA and this was further TV Eye Control because the hardware uses not bother. The user, but only requires the sensor by eye movement seeking registered as unfit drivers. This is good to know because we do not want the device starts to consider the looks of everyone who is sharing a movie with us. Cost, compatibility launch or not speak anything at the moment.

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