Science & Technology Today

MS Windows 7

2009-05-03T07:22:00.003-05:00

MS Windows 7, the next major release of the world's most popular operating system, goes public in trial form in the next week. A test version of Windows 7 will be available to developers from Thursday, while the public can try it out from 5 May.
Microsoft is hoping it can avoid the negative press that surrounded the launch of Vista, the last major Windows release, almost three years ago.
Windows 7 has been designed to be compatible with Vista so users do not have to invest in new hardware.
A commercial release of Windows 7 is expected in the next nine months.
Microsoft is hoping it can avoid the negative press that surrounded the launch of Vista, the last major Windows release, almost three years ago.
Windows 7 has been designed to be compatible with Vista so users do not have to invest in new hardware.
A commercial release of Windows 7 is expected in the next nine months.
Windows 7 promises a major usability improvement on Vista, and a simplification of security measures which caused frustration for many users.
Windows 7 would build on the security improvements in Vista, which have seen a fall in the number of malware attacks and critical vulnerabilities identified.
Windows 7 would build on the security improvements in Vista, which have seen a fall in the number of malware attacks and critical vulnerabilities identified.

Rydberg Molecule--strange first

2009-04-23T12:29:00.003-05:00

Back in 1934 Enrico Fermi predicted that if another atom were to "find" that lone, wandering electron, it might interact with it but he never imagined that molecules could be formed.
Recently Vera Bendkowsky and his team from the University of Stuttgart created such a molucle known as a Rydberg molecule; this is formed through an elusive and extremely weak chemical bond between two atoms.
The Rydberg molecules in question were formed from two atoms of rubidium - one a Rydberg atom, and one a "normal" atom.
The movement and position of electrons within an atom can be described as orbiting around a central nucleus - with each shell of orbiting electrons further from the centre.
A Rydberg atom is special because it has one electron alone in an outermost orbit - very far, in atomic terms, from its nucleus.
Unimaginably cold temperatures are needed to create the molecules.At temperatures very close to absolute zero - minus 273C - this "critical distance" of about 100nm (nanometres - 1nm = one millionth of a millimetre) between the atoms is reached.
When one is a Rydberg atom, the two atoms form a Rydberg molecule. This 100nm gap is vast compared to ordinary molecules
Pushing this electron out to its lonely periphery - and make a Rydberg atom - requires energy.
This ultracold experiment is also ultra-fast - the longest lived Rydberg molecule survives for just 18 microseconds.
But the fact that the molecules can be made and seen confirms long-held fundamental atomic theories.

New Artificial Heart

2008-10-28T22:43:00.003-05:00

Dr Alain Carpentier's new artificial heart look very real expect for the colour and texture.The device is designed to be as similar as possible to the human heart

The device beats almost exactly like the real thing using electronic sensors to regulate heart rate and blood flow.
Developers Carmat now need approval from the French authorities before pushing ahead with clinical trials.
Several teams from around the world have been working to develop the perfect artificial heart that could be fitted into the 20,000 patients worldwide unable to receive a life-saving heart transplant because of a shortage of donor organs.
The new heart is covered with specially treated tissue to avoid rejection by the body's immune system and the formation of blood clots.
However, the power supply for the heart remains a significant hurdle.
Carmat, the company founded by Professor Carpentier and Europe's aerospace and defence giant EADS, says the battery could last for between five and 16 hours after which it would have to be recharged to prevent the artificial heart stopping.
Professor Carpentier's team is studying two options that do not require wires crossing the skin because these pose an infection risk. Professor Carpentier said the heart was necessary given the chronic shortage of heart donors and growing heart patient waiting lists.

The Large Hadron Collider experiment has stoped

2008-09-20T11:03:00.004-05:00

CERN announced on Thursday that it had shut down the collider a week ago after a successful start-up that had beams of protons circling in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions in the collider.
It was at first thought the failure of an electrical transformer that handles part of the cooling was the problem, CERN said. That transformer was replaced last weekend and the machine was lowered back to operating temperature to prepare for a resumption of operations.

But later it turned out to be a much serious problem. A faulty electrical connection between two magnets that stopped superconducting, melted and led to a mechanical failure and let the helium out and this will keep it out of commission for at least two months.

Say No to Bottled Water

2008-09-16T13:57:00.000-05:00

That bottled water is not only hurting your pockets and the environment but also giving you diabetes and heart disease. An ubiquitous ingredient in plastics known as Bisphenol-A or BPA. BPA is the chemical once studied as a synthetic form of estrogen, but more recently known to leach out of some plastic water bottles and baby bottles, and that is found in all kinds of plastic products.
A resent JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association) study has found a connection between BPA and diabetes and heart disease in adults. Scientists reviewed the health of 1,455 American adults and found that people with higher concentrations of BPA in their urine were slightly more likely to have heart disease and diabetes.
This study was one of the largest BPA studies done in humans; it could only provide convincing circumstantial evidence that, where high levels of BPA lurked, so do diabetes and poor heart health. The study's authors wrote that their work could not definitively prove that BPA had a part in causing the diseases.
For some scientists, that's not enough to convince them that governments should begin regulating BPA in products.

The Large Hadron Collider experiment is on

2008-09-10T14:24:00.005-05:00

The first - clockwise - proton beam completed its first circuit of the underground tunnel at just before 0930 GMT. The second - anti-clockwise - proton beam successfully circled the ring after 1400 GMT. The beams have not yet been run continuously. So far, they have been stopped, or "dumped", after just a few circuits.Cern has not yet announced when it plans to carry out the first collisions, but some low-energy collisions could happen in the next few days. This will allow engineers to calibrate instruments, but will not produce data of scientific interest.
The vast circular tunnel - the "ring" - which runs under the French-Swiss border contains more than 1,000 cylindrical magnets arranged end-to-end.
The magnets are there to steer the proton beam around this 27km-long ring.
In order to get both beams to circulate continuously around the LHC, engineers have to "close the orbit". The beams themselves are made up of several "packets" - each about a metre long - containing billions of protons.
The protons would disperse if left to their own devices, so engineers use electrical forces to "grab" them, keeping the particles tightly huddled in packets.
Once the beams are captured, the same system of electrical forces is used to give the particles an energetic kick, accelerating them to greater and greater speeds.
At allotted points around the tunnel, the beams will cross paths, smashing together near four massive "detectors" that monitor the collisions for interesting events.
LHC DETECTORS
ATLAS - one of two so-called general purpose detectors. Atlas will be used to look for signs of new physics, including the origins of mass and extra dimensions
CMS - the second general purpose detector will, like ATLAS, hunt for the Higgs boson and look for clues to the nature of dark matter
ALICE - will study a "liquid" form of matter called quark-gluon plasma that existed shortly after the Big Bang
LHCb - Equal amounts of matter and anti-matter were created in the Big Bang. LHCb will try to investigate what happened to the "missing" anti-matter

End of the world or unveiling the mysteries of universe

2008-09-09T21:27:00.007-05:00

Tomorrow the Large Hadron Collider is set to be fired up and everybody is wondering will it bring about the end of the world or provide the answers to the beginning of the universe .
Built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research -- known by its French acronym CERN ,the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) buried deep underground along the border of Geneva and France is expected to reveal the secrets of Universe. The collider fires particles into accelerator until they almost acquire the speed of light. They gain enormous amount of energy as 2 beams of light travel in opposite directions, circling the structure 11,000 times per second.
Scientists hope to put under the scanner the existing laws of physics describing the fundamental nature of matter.
Giant detectors are placed inside huge caverns to record data. With 600 million collisions taking place per second, there is huge amount of data generated, which will be recorded in special computing system called the Grid.
Some of the scientists working on the experiment have received threatening emails and been besieged by telephone calls from worried members of the public who fear the machine could cause earthquakes and destroy the world.

The Large Hadron Collider, buried beneath the ground near Geneva, Switzerland, is 27 kilometers in circumfrance. Particles will be accelerated to 99.9999991 percent of the speed of light.

Even if scientists say they are confident that switching on the LHC won't bring the world to a sudden end, some of them are hoping to find evidence of dimensions in excess of the four we are currently aware of. Because the LHC is the most powerful and most precise particle accelerator ever built, many see it as the best opportunity yet to find proof for the veracity of "string theory."
String theory is a mathematical construct that many believe might explain away inconsistencies between Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and quantum mechanics -- a major focus in theoretical physics for much of the last century. The highly complex models used in string theory point to the possible existence of up to 11 dimensions and also make predictions about the existence of some as-yet unobserved sub-atomic particles. Should the LHC be able to find some of those particles, a much touted theory of physics would have its first kernel of proof.
But string theory is just one idea being investigated by the thousands of scientists from more than 80 countries who will be running, analyzing and evaluating the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. Many also hope to find the elusive "Higgs boson," a theoretical particle named after the Scottish physicist Peter Higgs. He came up with a theory in 1964 to help explain what gives mass to matter, thus making the universe possible. Higgs pointed to a particle that has so far never been observed. By creating conditions similar to those that existed at the birth of our universe, the so-called "Big Bang," scientists hope to be able to find Higgs boson, also known as the "God Particle."

Others will be looking for all manner of sub-atomic particles and anti-particles, the origins of dark energy and the make-up of dark matter.
Almost just as interesting, though, is the massive computer network CERN has set up to evaluate the prodigious quantities of data the LHC will produce. Called the LHC Grid, the network will encompass some 60,000 computers around the world in order to leverage enough computer power to go through the 15 petabytes of information LHC experiments will produce each year.

Rap Performance — about high-energy particle physics

2008-09-05T18:47:00.003-05:00

Kate McAlpine the 23-year-old Michigan State University graduate and science writer raps about the Large Hadron Collider, the groundbreaking particle accelerator that has been built in a 17-mile circular tunnel at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.
A must see on the YouTube.

Click the link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

McAlpine honed her physics rapping skills at Michigan State's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, where she was part of a student research program two years ago.

What is on your mind?

2008-08-17T21:13:00.001-05:00

The US military is paying scientists to study ways to read people's thoughts. The research could someday lead to a gadget capable of translating the thoughts of soldiers who suffered brain injuries in combat or even stroke patients in hospitals.
Armed with a $ 4-million grant from the army, scientists are studying brain signals to try to decipher what a person is thinking and to whom the person wants to direct the message.
The project is a collaboration among the researchers at the University of California, Irvine; Carnegie Mellon University; and the University of Maryland. The scientists use brain wave-reading technology known as electroencephalography, which measures the brain's electrical activity through electrodes placed on the scalp.
It works like this: volunteers wear an electrode cap and are asked to think of a word chosen by the researchers, who then analyse the brain activity. In the future, scientists hope to develop thought-recognition software that would allow a computer to speak or type out a person's thought.

HTC mobile phones with Google's Android software

2008-08-15T14:53:00.002-05:00

HTC mobile phones with Google's Android software is expected to go on sale in the United States as early as October and T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer this handset.The device is expected to match many of the capabilities of Apple's iPhone and other smartphones that perform computer-like functions.
Phones using Google's software will do the same thing. Google is making the Android operating system software available free to cellphone carriers and manufacturers who have agreed to provide devices which, like personal computers, allow users to decide which applications run on them.
Google is eager to get the Android platform on phones quickly, because it thinks that the mobile Web is vital to the growth of its digital advertising business

How about turning yourself into a flying machine?

2008-07-30T15:49:00.001-05:00

Yves Rossy, known as the 'Fusion Man,' flies with a jet-powered single wing over the Alps in Bex, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Some people go fishing on their day off. Yves Rossy likes to jump out of a small plane with a pair of jet-powered wings and perform figure eights above the Swiss Alps. The revolutionary human flying machine comes after five years of training and many more years of dreaming.

Can water remember a thing or two?

2008-07-26T15:59:00.005-05:00

When we think of memory, most of us think of only living things but believe it or not some inanimate things like water can remember a thing or two.
Twenty years ago, in the summer of 1988, the science world was rocked by one of the most controversial research papers ever published in the highly-respected journal Nature.
According to a charismatic French scientist named Jacques Benveniste, pure water could somehow remember what it had previously contained.Benveniste had started with a substance that caused an allergic reaction, he diluted it over and over again until there was nothing left except water, and then he observed that the pure water still managed to trigger an allergic reaction when it was added to living cells.
If the experiment was correct then it would mean rewriting the laws of physics and chemistry.
Moreover, the research would have a major impact on the credibility of homeopathy, because it is a form of alternative medicine that relies on remedies made by diluting the key curative ingredient over and over again until that ingredient has disappeared.
Even Benveniste was shocked by the implications of his own work.
Unfortunately for Benveniste, the investigators soon discovered that the results in his laboratory were unreliable and he moved out of academia as a result of the Nature debacle, but right up to his death in 2004 he maintained that his research was valid and that he was being ignored by a blinkered scientific establishment.
Even though most of the academic community has doubts about this theory there are some in the field of homeopathic medicine who has always believed in the medicinal affects of very very dilute solutions.

One Man Helicopter

2008-05-23T15:58:00.001-05:00

World's smallest one-man helicopter, GEN H-4, is seen here flying in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano prefecture, central Japan. It will soon take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci, who is credited with having first thought of a vertical-flight machine, according to its developer

Rafflesia arnoldii - world's largest flower

2008-05-04T10:24:00.002-05:00

Besides the distinction of being the world's largest flower, Rafflesia arnoldii is one big stinker. Its odor has been described as similar to rotting flesh. Luckily, the parasitic plant, which can grow about 3 feet across, is only found in the Sumatra and Borneo regions of Indonesia

Garmin's "nüvifone"

2008-05-02T09:00:00.002-05:00

Garmin is getting ready for the next quarter release of their nuviphone, a handset that looks a bit like Apple's popular iPhone, but with a mix of features that might appeal to business users as well.The nüvifone is Garmin’s first device to include Google local search capability, which harnesses the vast point of interest information available from the world wide web. Nüvifone users can search for locations like “coffee shops” and Google will sort the results based on the user’s current location and relevance.
“Where am I?” feature lets users touch the screen at any time to display the exact latitude and longitude coordinates, the nearest address and intersection, and the closest hospitals, police stations and gas stations.
It has a built-in camera that allows individuals to take a picture and will automatically be tagged with the exact latitude and longitude reference of where the image was taken.
Cool device.Isn't it?

Universe as a Super Hologram

2008-03-25T09:30:00.000-05:00

You may have heard about the startling parallels between recent discoveries in quantum physics and ancient beliefs of Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism through Books such as The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra in 1975 and The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav’s in 1979.

“Holographic Paradigm” is a continuation of this shiny happy alliance with a particular model of the universe that seemed to explain not only puzzling scientific phenomena but psychic experiences as well. The holographic paradigm was so named because of certain very unusual feature of holograms.

In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart.
Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain Aspect's findings.
University of London physicist David Bohm explained Aspect's findings by suggesting that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.

To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. The basic process for creating a hologram involves the use of a laser and a beam splitter, an optical device that sends half the light in each of two directions. One of the beams illuminates the object you’re recording, and the light reflected from the object collides with the second beam. When these two beams meet, the effect is much like what you’d see if you tossed a pebble into a pond and then, as the ripples were still spreading, tossed in another pebble. The pattern formed where the two sets of waves meet is called an interference pattern, and that is what is recorded on film when a hologram is made. Today it’s common to see reflective holograms that can be viewed under ordinary light. Originally, however, holograms could be viewed only by exposing the film to the same type of laser light used to create it. If you were to look at the film with the naked eye, all you’d see would be patterns of ripples; shine the right kind of light onto it, though, and the image emerges in all its three-dimensional glory.
This type of hologram has another very curious property. If you cut the film in half and then expose just one piece to the laser light, you’ll still see the entire image. In fact, you can keep making smaller and smaller pieces, and each one will still display the whole image rather than just part of the image—though the clarity degrades as the pieces get smaller.
The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality.
In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed as fundamentals. At its deeper level reality is a sort of superhologram in which the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously. This suggests that given the proper tools it might even be possible to someday reach into the superholographic level of reality and pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten past.

As the religions of the East have long upheld, the material world is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think we are physical beings moving through a physical world, this too is an illusion.

The holographic paradigm—and, for that matter, the entire movement to integrate physics and mysticism—has lost a lot of steam over the last decade or so.David Bohm died in 1992 without convincing many physicists of his views; and most of the prominent advocates of the model have moved on to other interests. It’s not that the theory is any less interesting or plausible than it ever was, but there’s just not a whole lot one can do with the notion.It is certainly fascinating to ponder a unified theory that explains the mysteries of physics, time, space, consciousness, and mysticism.

Google Bomb

2008-01-31T18:35:00.000-05:00

The recent attack on the Church of Scientology website introduced me to the term Google Bomb. Apprently this attack was a result of Google Bomb.
A Google bomb (also referred to as a 'link bomb') is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions
The process of manipulating the results of Google by placing a link to a single webpage on several domains. The other most famous incident of Google bombing was when around 32 webmasters put the text “miserable failure” on their websites and placed a link under this text to George Bush’s autobiography. Causing this webpage to rank #1 in Google for the search term “miserable failure.”

origin of antimatter surrounding the galactic center

2008-01-24T13:35:00.000-05:00

New research based on the four years of observations from the European Space Agency’s Integral (INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) satellite may have cleared up one of the most vexing mysteries in our Milky Way: the origin of a giant cloud of antimatter surrounding the galactic center.
Integral found that the cloud extends farther on the western side of the galactic center than it does on the eastern side. This imbalance matches the distribution of a population of binary star systems that contain black holes or neutron stars, strongly suggesting that these binaries are churning out at least half of the antimatter, and perhaps all of it.
The cloud itself is roughly 10,000 light-years across, and generates the energy of about 10,000 Suns. The cloud shines brightly in gamma rays due to a reaction governed by Einstein’s famous equation E=mc^2. Negatively charged subatomic particles known as electrons collide with their antimatter counterparts, positively charged positrons. When electrons and positrons meet, they can annihilate one another and convert all of their mass into gamma rays with energies of 511,000 electron-volts (511 keV). The antimatter cloud was discovered in the 1970s by gamma-ray detectors flown on balloons. Scientists have proposed a wide range of explanations for the origin of the antimatter, which is exceedingly rare in the cosmos. For years, many theories centered around radioactive elements produced in supernovae, prodigious stellar explosions. Others suggested that the positrons come from neutron stars, novae, or colliding stellar winds.
In recent years, some theorists championed the idea that particles of dark matter were annihilating one another, or with atomic matter, producing electrons and positrons that annihilate into 511-keV gamma rays. But other scientists remained skeptical, noting that the dark matter particles had to be significantly lighter than most theories predicted.

Integral found certain types of binary systems near the galactic center are also skewed to the west. These systems are known as hard low-mass X-ray binaries, since they light up in high-energy (hard) X-rays as gas from a low-mass star spirals into a companion black hole or neutron star. Because the two "pictures" of antimatter and hard low-mass X-ray binaries line up strongly suggests the binaries are producing significant amounts of positrons.NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), scheduled to launch in 2008, may help clarify how objects such as black holes launch particle jets. Conceivably, it could even detect higher-energy gamma rays from heavier types of dark matter particles annihilating one another.

Looking for Web Hosting

2008-01-23T18:46:00.000-05:00

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World 1st Waterproof Video Camera- Sanyo Xacti E1

2008-01-21T13:12:00.000-05:00

Sanyo launched world first waterproof video camera Sanyo Xacti E1during the 2008 International CES, January 7-10, Las Vegas ( Consumer Electronics Association ) and is a beautiful gadget and a true work of art.

This powerful little camcorder easily records both full 640x480 resolution video at 30 frames-per-second and high-resolution 6-megapixel digital still images, all of which are handily stored to a standard SD or SDHC flash memory card (sold separately).

Designed to IPX8 international standard for waterproof, the Xacti E1 is capable of recording full motion video five feet underwater for up to 30 minutes. Incorporating a water-tight design that can resist the pressure created when submersed at five feet, the Xacti E1 is capable of capturing dramatic photos and video footage underwater to share with the less adventurous family members and friends. It has a large 2.5-inch Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). The display flips out from the camera and rotates up to 285 degrees on an axis that allows you to take great video. The Xacti E1 media camera is designed for super fast start-up and shooting. With the tapeless design, the E1 eliminates the need to queue up a tape deck allowing the E1 to begin shooting in as little as 1.7 seconds! When the E1 is powered on, closing the LCD display puts the E1 in standby mode. Simply open the display and the E1 automatically powers up and can begin immediately recording in as little as 1.7 seconds.

Making Anti-Matter

2008-01-17T14:32:00.000-05:00

Antimatter is the mirror image of ordinary matter and both should have been created in equal quantities at the birth of the Universe. That everything around is predominantly ordinary matter is therefore a major puzzle.
For years researchers have wanted to create significant amounts of antimatter to test the so-called Standard Model, which describes fundamental particles and their interactions. Antimatter is destroyed whenever it collides with matter, turning both into bursts of radiation. Today, the Universe consists of predominantly one form of matter and scientists are not sure why this is so.
Physicists say they have mass produced antimatter, a crucial first step towards precision studies of its properties that may help solve one of the greatest mysteries of the Universe.
Antihydrogen has been made before, but only a few atoms at a time. Researchers at Cern (Cern is the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) accelerator were have successfully created antiprotons and trapped them in a vacuum chamber in the past. A radioactive source was used to create positrons, which were held in a separate trap. The antiprotons were then fed into the pool of positrons, where the two combined to form antihydrogen.
Making antiprotons requires 10 billion times more energy than it produces. For example, the antimatter produced each year at Cern could power a 100 watt light bulb for just 15 minutes.So using using antimatter to power a starship or create a weapon is still in the realm of science fiction.

Technology in Massage Chairs

2008-01-16T18:53:00.000-05:00

Every time one visits to a store like Brookstone or The Sharper Image, one is amazed at the range and features of the Massage Chairs they have to offer . Even more amazing is the technology that goes into making these gadgets; I calling them gadgets because they are no more a piece of furniture. Most of them have an in-built computer now and they will follow you instruction as if you working with a masseur.
With Robotic motors and rotors inside, you can choose your massage type from Kneading, Rhythmic Pressure, Tapping, Rolling, and Kneading and Tapping together. With options like Airbag and vibration seat massage where seat air bags exert firm lateral pressure at the outer buttocks and upper thigh to stimulate circulation, while vibration massage soothes your tailbone region.
If you compare with a $40 or 50 forty minute session with a masseur, it is great investment to go and buy one of these chairs.My thanks to human touch for sponsoring this post.

Femtocell--Your Own Base Station

2008-01-15T09:09:00.000-05:00

If you are having coverage issues with to your wireless operator or Wi-Fi provider,now you can have your own base station--Femtocell.Femtocells are tiny base stations that go into homes or offices to improve voice and data coverage. Femtocells behave like small WiFi access points that communicate over IP broadband connections (e.g. DSL, UMA) to a gateway. The Femtocell creates the mobile user “home zone”. An operator has the opportunity to offer new services and tariffs designed for the “home zone”.They look pretty sleek, no bigger then a wireless router.

These tiny gadgets are packed with features like

-Core Network Emulator for testing of different access technologies, such as UTRAN and UMA
-Multi-RNC support
-Support of hybrid environments; concurrent support of UTRAN over ATM and Femtocell over IP
-End-to End voice and UDI video calls
-Load Test Capabilities for IuCS over IP and IuPS over IP
-Intersystem Handover allowing a mobile subscriber to move from the “public zone” to the ”home zone” during an ongoing conversation.

Tata Nano and Air Car

2008-01-10T13:34:00.000-05:00

I am amazed to see the similarities between Tata Nano--the world's cheapest car,at $2,500 and Air Car.Look at the picture below and the one with my previous post and you will see what I see

Of course both of them are produced by Tata Motors but I am wounder who's design is it---- Guy Nègre or Tata Motors ? However that does not undermine the fact that we a have a absolute beauty that will herald a new auto revolution in India and elsewhere.
Company chairman Ratan Tata, who introduced the new car at India's main auto show, has long promised a $2,500 "People's Car" for India — a country of some 1.1 billion where only seven of every 1,000 people own a car. That vow has been much-derided by the global industry which said it would be impossible without sacrificing safety and quality.In terms of performance it doesn't offer much more than the Model T. The Nano has a two-cylinder 0.6 liter gasoline engine with 33 horsepower, giving it a top speed of about 60 mph, according to Tata. It gets 50 miles per gallon.Tata initially plans to manufacture some 250,000 Nanos per year. That would be about a quarter of all cars sold in India last year.

Air Car Is Ready For the Road

2008-01-06T09:42:00.000-05:00

The world's first commercial compressed air-powered vehicle is will be running on the Indian roads very soon. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre and Tata Motors India has been under development for nearly fourteen years and could be become one of the biggest technological advances of this century.

The fiberglass MiniC.A.T. runs on compressed air, and offers zero pollution and very low running costs.It is a simple, light urban car, with a tubular chassis that is glued not welded and a body of fibreglass. The heart of the electronic and communication system on the car is a computer offering an array of information reports that extends well beyond the speed of the vehicle, and is built to integrate with external systems and almost anything you could dream of, starting with voice recognition, internet connectivity, GSM telephone connectivity, a GPS guidance system, fleet management systems, emergency systems, and of course every form of digital entertainment. The engine is fascinating, as is and the revolutionary electrical system that uses just one cable and so is the vehicle's wireless control system. Microcontrollers are used in every device in the car, so one tiny radio transmitter sends instructions to the lights, indicators etc.

Most importantly, it is incredibly cost-efficient to run – according to the designers, it costs less than one Euro per 100Km (about a tenth that of a petrol car). Its mileage is about double that of the most advanced electric car (200 to 300 km or 10 hours of driving), a factor which makes a perfect choice in cities where the 80% of motorists drive at less than 60Km. The car has a top speed of 68 mph.
Refilling the car will, once the market develops, take place at adapted petrol stations to administer compressed air. In two or three minutes, and at a cost of approximately 1.5 Euros, the car will be ready to go another 200-300 kilometres.
As a viable alternative, the car carries a small compressor which can be connected to the mains (220V or 380V) and refill the tank in 3-4 hours.
Due to the absence of combustion and, consequently, of residues, changing the oil (1 litre of vegetable oil) is necessary only every 50,000 Km.

90m3 of compressed air is stored in fibre tanks. The expansion of this air pushes the pistons and creates movement. The atmospheric temperature is used to re-heat the engine and increase the road coverage. The air conditioning system makes use of the expelled cold air. Due to the absence of combustion and the fact there is no pollution, the oil change is only necessary every 31.000 miles.
The entry level model has a unbelievable price tag of $3500 only