The system also enables you to pour virtual water on your own creation as well as interact with it in real time.
True car lovers can get “car-crazy” as they run their fingers over the metal lines of certain classic cars. Tail fins, hood ornaments, headlights, chrome bumpers… the list of classic features is endless. But what if the metal skins of future cars vanished? And instead of metal fenders to caress, cars enthusiasts were left to touch exterior skins made of fabric?
Sounds crazy? Not to the designers at BMW who created, GINA - Geometry and functions In ‘N’ Adaptation - a concept car that utilizes seamless fabric stretched over a moveable metal frame that even allows the driver to change its shape at will.
Sounds crazy? Not to the designers at BMW who created, GINA - Geometry and functions In ‘N’ Adaptation - a concept car that utilizes seamless fabric stretched over a moveable metal frame that even allows the driver to change its shape at will.
Sandi and Symmetricom have joined forces to create an atomic clock no larger than a key-ring.
Before now, commercial atomic clocks have been 100 times larger than this new model and incredibly impractical to use for general purpose.
The handy, new clock is called the CSAC (Chip Scale Atomic Clock) and is 3.8 cm in length, with a minimal 1.3 cm depth.
It owes its dramatic decrease in size to the development of new laser technology, which reduces the CSAC’s power needs to only 100 milliwatts.
Contrary to popular belief, atomic clocks are not based on the application of nuclear physics. Whereas a conventional clock relies on gears and springs to tell time, atomic clocks use lasers to measure the electromagnetic waves produced by cesium atoms.
To prevent the cesium being affected by the Earth’s natural magnetism, the atoms are contained within a two-layered shield of steel.
Atomic clocks are incredibly accurate. Across the length of a day, two clocks will remain within one millionth of a second to each other.
They are highly reliable, but seeing as the CSAC measures time to such a minute degree – so much so, it doesn’t tell you the time of the day – they’re only for the specialised buyer.
The CSAC really come into their own when GPS signals are blocked for whatever reason. Regular watches can fail in such circumstances, but CSAC clocks would continue to function and maintain their accuracy.
One important military benefit of the CSAC could be for the group of experts, why block electromagnetic and GPS signals to stops IEDs (Improvised Electronic Devices) being triggered by mobile phones.
Those who explore under the surface of the earth and sea could also profit from the CSAC. Miners and deep-sea divers often have to combat natural disruption of GPS signals. Even if teams were split up for long lengths of time, they could guarantee that they all share the same time.
These specialist, but integral, applications of the CRAC is exactly why the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) supplied funding for its development for over ten years, before its unveiling this year.
Amazing to think that, only a century ago, a pendulum clock in France was the keeper of the most precise time on the planet. You wouldn’t want to carry those with you, when disarming insurgent explosives.
The CRAC can be purchased for around £950.
For more information, including details on the technology involved in the CRAC, please visit the Symmetricom website.
Written by Guy, for Swiss Time Machine, provider of quality, used Swiss watches.
Before now, commercial atomic clocks have been 100 times larger than this new model and incredibly impractical to use for general purpose.
The handy, new clock is called the CSAC (Chip Scale Atomic Clock) and is 3.8 cm in length, with a minimal 1.3 cm depth.
It owes its dramatic decrease in size to the development of new laser technology, which reduces the CSAC’s power needs to only 100 milliwatts.
Contrary to popular belief, atomic clocks are not based on the application of nuclear physics. Whereas a conventional clock relies on gears and springs to tell time, atomic clocks use lasers to measure the electromagnetic waves produced by cesium atoms.
To prevent the cesium being affected by the Earth’s natural magnetism, the atoms are contained within a two-layered shield of steel.
Atomic clocks are incredibly accurate. Across the length of a day, two clocks will remain within one millionth of a second to each other.
They are highly reliable, but seeing as the CSAC measures time to such a minute degree – so much so, it doesn’t tell you the time of the day – they’re only for the specialised buyer.
The CSAC really come into their own when GPS signals are blocked for whatever reason. Regular watches can fail in such circumstances, but CSAC clocks would continue to function and maintain their accuracy.
One important military benefit of the CSAC could be for the group of experts, why block electromagnetic and GPS signals to stops IEDs (Improvised Electronic Devices) being triggered by mobile phones.
Those who explore under the surface of the earth and sea could also profit from the CSAC. Miners and deep-sea divers often have to combat natural disruption of GPS signals. Even if teams were split up for long lengths of time, they could guarantee that they all share the same time.
These specialist, but integral, applications of the CRAC is exactly why the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) supplied funding for its development for over ten years, before its unveiling this year.
Amazing to think that, only a century ago, a pendulum clock in France was the keeper of the most precise time on the planet. You wouldn’t want to carry those with you, when disarming insurgent explosives.
The CRAC can be purchased for around £950.
For more information, including details on the technology involved in the CRAC, please visit the Symmetricom website.
Written by Guy, for Swiss Time Machine, provider of quality, used Swiss watches.
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Brand new high-end watch brand HYT is arriving 2012, and I must point out that nothing like this has been achieved previously. This watch utilizes a fluid loaded chamber to display the hours by using luminescent green goo inside a round tube. A pair of bellows are being used in order to push and pull the fluid to indicate the time on the scale. Those bellows are powered by the motion. The minutes are shown in the middle of the face with a dedicated dial, and even you will find a liquid turbine style additional seconds hand left from it. To the right is actually a power reserve pointer for the mechanical movement.
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He explained :
"Really, it’s just a DRSSTC. Nothing less, nothing more, nothing fancy. It was a bit tricky to make a bridge appropriately sized, and even harder to make a boost converter for it. In fact, the boost never truly worked. If I play a mid to high note for a few seconds, the boost can’t keep up and it fades away. I think this is due to saturation of my boost core, but I haven’t really taken the time to do much on this since now I’m back in the gate driver world and also have to throw together my 6.131 power electronics final project. I’ll fix hatcoil in February."
Japan’s main toilet manufacturer TOTO has built a toilet-motorcycle hybrid vehicle which runs completely on biogas (human poop). In theory, assuming that the operator continues to eat as well as drink, the actual vehicle might run forever! Pictures of the Toilet Bike Neo have also been released together with details about a 600-mile trip all around Japan. you will have to admit that in case Toilet Bike Neo happens to be for serious, it will transform the way we travel always and forever.
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Prior to the arrival of the aeroplane, acoustic location has been used on finding out the existence as well as location of ships in fog. Acoustic location has been used from mid-WWI to the earlier years of WWII for the passive recognition of airplanes simply by picking up the sounds from the engines. It was caused to become outdated before and in the course of WWII by the release of radar, that was much more efficient.
If you think better with all the advancement regarding stealth technology, this outdated on the other hand could become completely new technology once again.
A two-horn system , USA, 1921
If you think better with all the advancement regarding stealth technology, this outdated on the other hand could become completely new technology once again.
A two-horn system , USA, 1921
The video game industry has pumped out countless accessories over the years. Most are functional but forgettable, the Ray Romanos of the video game world. Some, like the NES Zapper, are iconic. And then there are these ten, which make absolutely no sense. Maybe they were good ideas that went awry, or maybe they’re shameless attempts to cash in on fads. Or maybe they were designed by a team of drunken monkeys. We’ll never know.
Kinect Game Boat
Wii Baby and Me
Wii Cooking Kit
Wii Slip Proof Gloves
Wii Bowling Ball
Wii Inflatable Racing Cart
Sega Action Chair
Wii Car Adaptor
Rez Trance Vibrator
Under the auspices of NASA and a number of organizations, there is an interesting project "Nighttime Lights of the World". He not only publish pictures of Earth from space a night. With the help of weather satellites recorded the night illumination of the Earth's dynamics, and comparing, laid out maps of changes in illumination. Observations carried out since 1993.
As you can see in the videos, the hologram print looks like a flat sheet of plastic on metal. Embedded on that sheet however, is over 300,000 3D views. By traveling around the print (or moving it) you see each of these hundreds of thousands of views and the parallax makes the image appear perfectly three dimensional. Zebra, however, can put those 300,000 views to an even more interesting use: combining multiple images into the same print. In the following video you’ll see how traveling around this print causes the 3D image you see to ’switch’ midway.
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Don’t we just love far infrared saunas! Well men, don’t look at us like that because the ladies surely do. For when have their been an easier way to lose weight, relax painful muscles, detoxify, purify skin and reduce stress than the every-so-wonderful sauna. In the same breath, we bring to you a personal spa. Not only does it fit in your home but also has enough space to accommodate you along with three of your closest buddies.
Called the Clearlight ISC far infrared sauna, this model heats the body directly. This method helps remove toxins and stress without making the air temperature any bit uncomfortable inside the sauna.
They tell us that the sauna in reference has been made from the highest quality tongue and groove Western Red Canadian Cedar. And the advanced True Wave II carbon-ceramic heathers provide the deep-penetrating far infrared heat. Also, there are enough windows in the sauna for light and ventilation. The recessed halogen accent lights support reading too. The pricing is available only on request.
Richard Gryzch got really tired of going to the gas station to fill his bike every time. In fact he started hating it so much that he decided to mod a bike himself to run on solar and electric power. He also was not convinced of the idea about going to get a cool electric bike already available in the market.
His modded bike comes covered in solar panel and can reach a speed of about 90 miles per hour. It also has a range of 50 miles which he plans to increase to 300 miles. It is not clear of the bike is 100 percent solar but it certainly is a great a bike and looking at the way it works, we can say that it is really green and eco friendly.
I guess it is always nice to mod our own bikes instead of spending a lot of money on them, and buying something off the showroom. There is no information about either the price or availability.
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The PD-100 Black Hornet ‘nanocopter’ is an amazing mini helicopter that comes with many features that toy helicopters don’t come with. In fact this is designed as a spy gadget which can be used by the army and since its so small, it can’t be detected easily by the enemies. The Black Hornet is controlled by the smallest and also the lightest control servo in the world.
It weighs just 0.5 grams and the electric motor helps the Black Hornet to fly at speeds of 20mph. However these will only be sold to the government and its agencies and would not be sold in public though both military and civilian versions would be released.
It would interesting to analyze how civilians could use such a spy gadget. Rather, it could even be misused and abused. Nevertheless, these Black Hornets are technological marvels and it would be nice to buy one of them, if they are ever made available.
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One thing that the new age of technology has always remembered to focus on is the projection screen. The latest addition to the already so long list is called Beamax. This one is an M-Tensioned-In-Ceiling motorized projection screen. What the screen does is to offer a very flat and smooth projection surface that has the special ability to retract into the ceiling when not in use. So, you can enjoy a very clutter-free environment at home.
Well, it does come with the standard switch but also with an IR remote, RF remote, 12 V trigger, power sensing trigger, key switch and a combination of any of the two with the Beamax bridge. Also, you will be happy to choose your favorite screen fabric.
Beamax has a viewable width of up to 3.65 meters, which is equal to a 165-inch diagonal in 16:9 format. The screen is also custom-made in standard 4:3, 16:9 or 1:2:35 widescreen formats. So, you have nothing to worry about that high ceiling in your house. Then there is the black top border which goes up to 1 meter that enhances the movie watching experience. Price starts at $2,263.
