Tech Byte

Eco-Friendly Wind Tower

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:46:00 +0000

These days many new and innovative designs are brought to life by the architects. Some are water based providing life over the water, while some used natural resources to bring new life to the world. These designs are eco-friendly as well. With this comes a “Wind Tower”, which is not less than any other design.

Architecture: Eco

Features:

An egg-shaped conceptual luxury resort
Structure sounds almost completely self sufficient power resource
Does not depend upon external mechanical power to maintain its breathing atmospheric conversion system
The exterior sheathing contains PVs that fulfills the energy demand
Wind turbines has been installed to heat the boilers, cooling and heating the hotel
Contains recycled pools that perform many functions in addition to their usual utilization-serve as a catch basin, water reservoirs, fire barriers
Structure includes indoor gardens to create a climate for effective insulation
Construction waste has been reduced to its minimum
Interior lighting is provided by energy efficient LEDs
Rain water collection system provides water for flushing and irrigation
Resort’s interior finishes are completely made up of non-toxic materials
Exterior includes LED curtain walls indicating time by changing colors throughout the night

Bracelet made of Camera Lens

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:01:00 +0000

Here comes a new cuff bracelet made out of the parts of old camera lenses. These bracelets are perfect for the fashionable photographer. You can get them at $190.

Designer: Craig Arnold

VTech brings out Cordless Phone System

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:08:00 +0000

Many brands have launched mobile phones. Each time, people can see more features in the new one and features which almost force them to buy the new one. VTech launched the first cordless phone system. It provide various additional features in addition to its traditional landline capabilities.

Features:

Instant messaging (IM) using a QWERTY keypad
Offers free access to MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger
Base unit simply needs to be connected via a USB port to the PC
Has extra-large, high-resolution color LCD and full keypad
Provides users, easy way to read messages and text multiple buddies simultaneously
Wi-Fi friendly IS6110 also features the best interference-free sound quality, security and range in cordless phones
User can personalize ring tones by recording directly from PC or stereo equipment(mp3, CD) or choose from 17 "real" musical ring tones preset into the phone

New Dual Display Cyclops

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:19:00 +0000

Looking for a new cell phones. Then this is the best time to check out the latest range of Virgin Mobiles that also includes attractive Virgin Mobile Cyclops.

Features:

Has dual displays with main 128 x 160 pixels, 65 color CSTIN and external 96 x 16 pixels
1.3-mega-pixel camera cell phone with 5x digital zoom and flash
Featuring innovative audio messaging
Has two way speakerphone
In a colour combination of red and white
Comes with lots of digital stuff like preloaded demo games, ringtones and voicemail greetings
Gives a talk time of up to 3.5 hours and a standby time of up to 7 days
Comes with comes with a memory of 256 MB Flash RAM and powerful internal antennae

You can buy this mobile phone at a price of $ 49.99

Strange and Unusual Neon Signs

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:30:00 +0000

To involve strange and unusual gadget in your life then get yourself neon signs. It will change the way of your living. A free USB port will be required to plug the sign in. It can also proved to be a nice gift for someone. It will cost you around $20.

$817-million Arch Bridge

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:43:00 +0000

Dubai is growing in every direction. From nothing to everything. Its all because of the hard work, dedication etc. It is the Tetsuo of cities, looking to create its own universe. It is building the world's largest Arch Bridge.

Architecture: NY architecture firm Fxfowle

Features:

Will be the largest and tallest arch bridge in the world
1 mile long and 670 feet tall
Almost $817-million will be spend on building the world's largest arch bride
The work will almost be completed and will be in service by 2012

Time for a Coffee/Tea

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Day to day, technology is becoming smaller and compact. It is not strange that according to the requirement, two or more tech are combined together to bring out a new one that pleases the people. Here comes a USB hub with clock and cup warmer, that displays the right time and can warm a cup of coffee or tea when needed.

Features:

Four-port USB hub with a battery-powered clock that displays the correct time even when your computer is shut down
It is the cup warmer, ie. the heating plate will keep your mug between 122 and 140°F which is perfect for tea or coffee
An on/off switch lets you continue using the USB hub without the heating element(red LED indicates if the warming plate is on)

iPhone with a telescope

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:06:00 +0000

Can an iPhone give you a closer view for something. Well the answer is right here. This iPhone comes with a telescope with unique protective casing that can give you a closer look on the girl living opposite you and maybe take a few shots of her. Just kidding. This telescope is available for $20.60.

Touchscreen Touchsmart PC

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:36:00 +0000

Technology can never take a turn back. Each time technology is taking one step ahead. Here comes a Touchsmart PC overlaying Windows Vista.

Designer : Randall Martin

Features:
Applications are neatly arranged in two rows-larger tiles on top with secondary applications below
Rearrangement is possible as per your choice
Most of the applications are right at home with your finger
Photos, videos, and music are all intuitively controlled by taps, swipes and flicks
Some applications take you out of the Touchsmart UI into Windows but intelligently return when you close out of them
Touch interface even works in Windows desktop too
Touch screen uses camera technology to accurately pinpoint the position of your finger

Touchless User Interface

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:43:00 +0000

Talking lot about the technology. With the new requirements, the latest PC's comes with touchscreen technology. But this can't keep your screen, glossy anymore. To resolve such problem, here comes touchless user interface technology.

Features:

No need to put your fingers on the screen, the system is capable of detecting movements in 3-dimensions without ever having
It does not require that you wear any special sensors on your hand
Just point the screen (from as far as 5 feet away), to manipulate objects in 3D
This technology is compact enough that it could eventually be embedded into mobile devices

New Light for Your Home-TOFU Lamp

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:51:00 +0000

The best way to enlighten your life is to bring new light in your life. Hard work can definitely help you to achieve this but Japan's most promising new designers can provide you a light for your home. Here comes TOFU lamp. It is similar to the popular Japanese food. It is created using a delicate manufacturing and cutting technique.

Designer : Tokujin Yoshioka

Features:
Once the illuminant is inserted, Tofu is complete

Tofu Mini-

Dimensions: 8 1/4"(210mm) x 11"(280mm) x 3"(76mm)
Weight: 9.3lb (4.2kg)

Tofu Regular-

Dimensions: 11 5/8"(295mm) x 14 3/8"(365mm) x 3"(76mm)
Weight: 17.7lb (8kg)

Material used: Methacrylate(PMMA) & Aluminum

The significance of Tofu is manifested through light, not the lamp.

Self Contained Smart Office POD

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:28:00 +0000

This new, sleek and innovative design is really amazing to enjoy your work. This is known as Smart Office POD.

Features:

Provide enough space you need
Provides a new additional space that is dedicated to work only, so it allows the employers to capitalize on the changing nature of work
More time can be spend at home as it will help you keep your work separate
Basic idea is to create a self contained office
Provides all standard office accommodation regulations and requirements
Modular design enables speedy construction, even in gardens with the most difficult access
High quality materials have been used in the making of this office pod
Power is provided via a protected connection to the house or garage
Comes with a secure locking system of the highest quality, which ensures utmost security when empty or occupied

Basic Nokia 7070 Prism

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:44:00 +0000

Mobiles are now the basic necessity for everyone. It is the best technology that connects the people. Nokia brings out a new 7070 Prism. This is not a very advanced phone and suits to the people who only use phone to call and SMS that’s it.

Features:
Comes with-

128 x 160 TFT display
11MB of internal memory
MP3 ringtones/24polyphonic
GPRS connectivity
Light Indicators

Dimensions: 87.5mm x 44mm x 15.8mm
Weighs: 78grams

Futuristic Car-Citroen C7

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:17:00 +0000

Here comes another car, Citroen C7 which is very stylish and predict to be a futuristic vehicle.

Designer:
Seojun, a design student at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea

Features:

Luxury 4-door, 4-seat Saloon
The exterior design is graceful and flowing with a tapering rear section
The rising line of the side windows gives the concept a sense of motion even when stationary
Helps to give the driver and front seat passenger a better field of vision while also giving the rear seat passengers a sense of privacy
Entry is through conventional front doors and rear hinged rear doors
The rear doors are cleverly disguised-thanks to the single-piece design of the door handles positioned where the front and rear doors meet
Inside, there is ample space for four adults
The swiveling front passenger seat can be turned through 180 degrees to face the rear seats

Cars of 2030

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:37:00 +0000

Here's What We'll Be Driving In 2030

The world's top car companies have revealed their ideas for how cars will be designed in the year 2030.

The Hotelicopter-Floating Hotel

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:56:00 +0000

Already mentioned about the floating hotel in my earlier post. Here comes another one which is a different from the previous one. It a damn huge helicopter, called The Hotelicopter.

Features:

18 luxuriously-appointed rooms for adrenaline junkies
Soundproofed Rooms
Each room is equipped with a queen-sized bed, fine linens, a mini-bar, coffee machine, wireless Internet access

It will be truly unique and memorable travel experience.

Smallest Double Action Swiss Mini Gun

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:55:00 +0000

How different and unique can an individual think before creating some idiotic thing that actually a great masterpiece of work. Take a look to this smallest gun, called Swiss Mini Gun.

Features:
Total length is about 5.5 cm
Shoots 2.34 mm calibre rim fire ammunition
Use special bullet which is the smallest rim fire ammunition, developed only for it
Is a double action revolver

It is a fully authorized and licensed gunsmith company in Switzerland.

Laptop with a Floppy Disk Drive-Commodore 64 Laptop Mod

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:28:00 +0000

The laptop that comes with a floppy disc drive is an awesome Commodore 64 Laptop Mod.

Designer : Ben Heck

Features:

An original Commodore 64 Motherboard
Gamecube power supply
SD card were used with a device called the 1541-III DTV, to emulate a floppy disk drive

Cassette Tape Music Player-TVDRS Tape

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:38:00 +0000

A new gadget called TVDRS Tape, is a music player. It is in Cassette Tape Design.

Designer : Stefano Pertegato

Features:

To forward/rewind a song, manually do it by rotating the spools with your finger or pencil
Play by sliding the Play Button
It is powered by the finger, by rotating the second hole of the tape that charges the kinetic battery
Aailable in 45/60/90 minutes type
Comes with a USB plugs
An LED light indicates the power status:
a) Green-Full Charge
b) Amber-Medium Charge
c) Red-Will die out any moment

Slide the button to start listening the great music you choose.

Case : To protect the player and customize it. Can be used with headphones.

Fwd/Rwd: Put the finger in the hole and turn left/right to move inside songs.

Turning the second hole charges the kinetic battery.

An LED shows the current energy status.

Off-Road Powerboard

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:16:00 +0000

Another gadget that will definitely be enjoyed by the people is Scarpar. It is an off-road powerboard that just moved on from the concept stage to engineering.

Vite

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:26:00 +0000

Technology is working hard to prevent the loss of lives on the Earth. But what if you are struck somewhere, where you have no medical aid and even no proper tool/gadget that can help you out to reach to the nearest medical place. Here comes Vite. It is a collapsible snow stretcher whose main purpose is to help the injured people in the snow within the quickest possible way.

Designer : Soyun Kim, Jason Lin, Agustin Zea

Features:

Backpack shell acts as a sled and allowing an injured to be carried easily
Design intends to be opened easily and quickly in order to lessen the setting up time of the sled
Vite is not a professional level rescuer, but is ideal for people living on mountains and groups of expedition for emergency situations

Creativity+Technical Thinking=Flat Chair

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:35:00 +0000

Creativity never ends. But what if it combines with technical/analytical thinking. The result is in front of you. Here comes a Flat Chair.

Designer: Sara Paculdo

Features:

Made from compressed laser-cut foam
The chair is shipped as a flat sheet of paper, which the end user has to creatively assemble in the form of a chair(the precise cuttings will aid you in the process)
Gives your brain a real exercise

Tudoran Liviu's Peugeot Leonin

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:13:00 +0000

Designer Tudoran Liviu brings to you the new and innovative Peugeot. The developers were looking forward to work over a new theme, “Imagine the Peugeot in the Worldwide Megalopolis of Tomorrow” and finally brings out a design that came into being in the fifth Peugeot design competition. The car is called Peugeot Leonin. It derives its name from the insistent behavior of a lion.

Features:
Is a hybrid car
Comes with a battery under the hood and an electric engine at the back
Can reach a speed of about 160 km/h with a range of around 500km
Is ideal for short distance travel in a crowded city
Body of the car is finished with aluminum composite, hard plastic, carbon fiber and glass
Gives a foolproof protection to commuters in case of an accident
Replaces the interior rear view mirror
Features an LCD screen in the main console to display the video captured by the hi-resolution camera located at the rear of the car

It will cost you around €18,000 and €25,000, according to the intensity of technology and equipment used in the car.

prime-mover-Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:08:00 +0000

Here comes the most powerful and most efficient engine of the world, called Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C.

Designer:
The Aioi Works of Japan's Diesel United, Ltd

Features:

It is a turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine
Available in 6 through 14 cylinder versions, all are inline engines
Designed primarily for very large container ships
Cylinder bore is just under 38" and the stroke is just over 98"
Each cylinder displaces 111,143 cubic inches (1820 liters), thus 1,556,002 cubic inches (25,480 liters) for the fourteen cylinders and produces 7780 horsepower

Specification of the 14 cylinder version:

Total engine weight: 2300 tons
The crankshaft alone weighs 300 tons
Length: 89 feet
Height: 44 feet
Maximum power: 108,920 hp at 102 rpm
Maximum torque: 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm
Fuel consumption at maximum power is 0.278 lbs per hp per hour
Fuel consumption at maximum economy is 0.260 lbs/hp/hour, engine exceeding 50% thermal efficiency
More than 50% of the energy in the fuel in converted to motion
Inspite of having most efficient power setting, the big 14 consumes 1,660 gallons of heavy fuel oil per hour

Cool and Futuristic-NDI System

noreply@blogger.com (Teck Bytes) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:10:00 +0000

These days, large number of gadgets are in the market. Most of them are tech based, providing information. A new device named Nomadic Device Integration (NDI) System comes to blend car interiors and gadgets.
It completely changes the look of the car. It allows integration of a number of devices in addition with making the interiors look cool and futuristic.

Designer : Joshua

Features:

A touchscreen displays connected gadgets as icons
Allows control of the devices in a user-friendly format
Users can define preferences, widgets, colors, fonts and profiles according to their taste
Allows great degree of flexibility and customization
System recognizes the mobile devices attached to it and displays the options available in a text format
Different devices have varying user interface thus the use of text format allows the NDI to communicate with the device(s) in a much simpler and efficient manner