Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Sensors move into virtual world

Friday, April 16th, 2010

It is usually been the rule that monitoring another parameter meant adding another sensor. The advent of virtual sensing has changed that clever engineers are increasingly using input from a couple of sensors to monitor a third parameter. That saves component costs and complexity, adding only the code needed to determine the additional parameter. The technique is already seeing use in production. The majority of E85 vehicles have virtual ethanol sensors,” said Ken Krider, Engine management system manager at GM. “We look at the air/fuel mix and defect it based on the oxygen sensor.
Many virtual- sensing applications are in critical aspects of vehicle operation. Ethanol sensing impacts both fuel consumption and emissions. Other sensors are being used to virtually monitor other aspects of emission controls. Increasingly exhaust stream components such as NOx (oxides of nitrogen) and CO (Carbon monoxide) may be predicted using sensors in other parts of the system.

BELT WITH AN HIDDEN CAMERA

Monday, April 12th, 2010

You will have a full set of possibilities when you are going for a secret video and audio recording. It will be clearly apparent if you are using a cell phone for such recordings. There are many gadgets, which are specially designed for this purpose. One such smart innovation is a belt buckle with the hidden camera. This buckle has a secret hidden inside of it – tiny video and audio recorder. While looking like a usual accessory, it turns out to be an ultimate spy tool. . Miniature camera records video in the 3GP video format with sound, which can be saved on the micro SD card from 128 MB up to 2 GB. After that, recordings can be played on PC or on your mobile phone. It can live 3 hours on one battery charge, but if you want to record a 3 hour length video you’ll need some spare cards – 1 GB micro SD card can only take up to 33 minutes of video. It can’t be seen by wireless camera detectors, it is comfortably hidden inside your belt buckle – a perfect companion in such secret missions.

ICUMSA45-The safest and highly refined sugar!

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

If you talk about sugar, the first thing that comes to your mind is Brazil. Brazil has set standards for the production of sugar. Among the brands, ICUMSA45 is the benchmark product which is not only the world’s leading consumer sugar but also the safest form of sugar. The refining process of ICUMSA45 is a very complex one and involves the removal of bacteria and other contaminants present in raw sugar. ICUMSA is an acronym for the International Commission For Uniform Methods Of Sugar Analysis, who rate sugar based on its quality.

ICUMSA ratings are genuinely done based on results from a number of tests, which determined the precise color of the sugar. This is converted to a numerical value. This is possible as the color is directly proportional to the amount of refining. You can identify highly refined sugar with its sparkling white color, whereas the raw sugar with a dark color.

There are 3 stages in refining sugar, especially the ICUMSA45 brand.

  • Affination-Mixing the raw sugar with a syrup to form ‘Magma’. Then the liquid content is removed and light brown sugar crystals are left behind.
  • Carbonation-With the help of this, you have only a high purity solution of sucrose and water left behind by making use of lime.
  • Boiling- It is done to remove excess water and to encourage sugar crystal growth.

Load your bike with Crocodile GPS!

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

You are driving on the highway, and eventually you get lost in your thought. Suddenly, you realize that you are not anymore flying high and need to land your feet on ground and must get back home. Rats, you can cool down! Becker has introduced GPS for bikes with the name “Crocodile”. The unit features a 2GB on-board memory, 3D city and terrain views, 42 country maps and much more! With the rubber coating and water resistant features, optimized for motorcycles, it looks just ideal for your biking campaign for your weekends. The Crocodile is expected to be released in October for €300 (or around $438).

Codename Mojave

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Although Microsoft is on track for the release of its next version Windows 7 by the end of January 2010, it has found penitence through the unveiling of Windows Codename Mojave. Codename Mojave is nothing but a masquerade of the Windows Vista. Mojave website went live on July 28, 2008 and features the responses of users of Windows Xp, Mac OS X and Linux users about Mojave. This is an attempt by Microsoft to rub away the negative reactions to Windows Vista from the public and the media. The respondents, unaware of the fact that they were actually using Windows Vista, rated an average of 8.5 out of 10 for Mojave against the rather mean 4.4 for Windows Vista. The result of the survey, according to Christopher Flores, Director Windows Communications, has eliminated the speculations surrounding Windows Vista.

Thumb sized walking robot

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

All those robot freaks out there, this one is for you. Tomy, a Japan based toy company has let out a thumb-sized walking robot called ‘Robo-Q’. This world’s tiniest robot has 2 legs and is just 3.4cm high. But the things it can do are simply amazing. It can detect obstacles, navigate through mazes using IR sensors and can even play soccer. This is just one of the several robots displayed at an exhibition in Yokohama. Robo-Q is available in 4 colors and will be equally liked by adults and children. Priced at 3,500 yen and with the range of functions it can perform, it isn’t a bad deal at all.

Mobile phones

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Mobile phones have become ubiquitous at present. A person may not own a house, may not own a bike or a car, may even unable pay the monthly electricity bills, still he will own a mobile which he cherishes. Mobiles have become inseparable from the common man. From the time mobile phones came into the market, more and more features have been added to them to make them more attractive, more usable and, maybe, not deliberately more threatening. With the fact that mobile service providers are planning to offer internet services for all mobile users, they are proving to be even more dangerous. Hackers target Bluetooth users with viruses, obscene contents, etc. Mobile phones have become the modus operandi for the terrorists who have successfully used cell phones to trigger so many assassinations and other treacherous plots. It thus has been the impact of cell phones on the society that stringent measures on the use of mobiles are the need of the hour.

RAM's-SD to DDR3!

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

For the past ten years, the size of RAM’s has been consistently increasing. The days when we used 4MB RAM’s are gone, and we are witnessing the advent of RAM’s of several GB’s. The latest RAM’s out in the market are around 2 or 4 GB’s. From the DRAM’s, SDRAM’s, several generations of RAM’s have evolved to the latest DDR2, DDR3 versions. Hynix-made DDR3 DIMMs packing a whooping 16GB of memory were reportedly created via the MetaRAM method. The demo system included no fewer than ten of these modules. That means the machine possessed an unbelievable 160GB of RAM. Still, these RAM’s will mostly be used for research and security purposes and will take some time to reach the consumer market.

Special cables

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Cables are usually used to connect the network lines or some peripheral device to the core system. There are different types of cables and connectors, which are very helpful in networks and fiber optic communication. The advancement in the network cable is due to this cat5e and cat6 cable since it’s a basic medium for network communication. The high performance cable adaptors and connectors are used to extend the communication. PC cables which are easy to connect many system networks. TV wire cable is for receiving the transmission signal of audio and video signal. A more important Things about the cat5e cable is flexible and reliable for high speed networks.

DATATRAVELER 150 WITH A CAPACITY OF 64GB

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Kingston has good quality products and design, ever increasing in size and speed of transfer. As about two months ago I bought a USB memory 8GB thinking he had a memory that will be around, but soon I have been filling their ability, and I now realize that Kingston has launched a series of memory DataTraveler 150 with a capacity of 64GB.

With this kind of memory, could load an operating system from flash memory, with the possibility of partitioning a large amount of space for the operating system and another for the documents, without the need to have a hard drive, and make almost a full backing of a computer, without the need to copy the documents to another hard disk on your network or an external.
This has probably been launched because of the needs and enhancing the quality of media files, mainly, but in order to have the ability to 64GB of DataTraverler requires a port of high-speed transfer, although for now only has a USB 2.0 which is still fast, but not as much as the next USB 3.0.