Let us all admire the great work of NASA and let me reveal some amazing NASA pictures
The whole Earth from space, as photographed by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972
Top NASA Photos Of All Time
Dell Releases Inspiron M101z Laptop
Within its portable 11.5 x 8.07 x 0.95 inch frame, the Insprion M101z consists of a Single Core AMD Athlon II Neo K125 processor running at 1.7GHz, 2GB DDR3 memory and a 250GB hard disk drive. It has a 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 widescreen LCD display which is powered by an ATI RS880 Integrated Graphics processor which can send on its high definition signal to a big-screen television via a built-in HDMI-out port. Other wired connectivity includes a 7-in-1 media card reader and three USB 2.0 ports among which one is PowerShare USB that allows the port to remain powered even when the machine is off.
Mobile Phones As A Status Symbol
Expensive and stylish cell phones, now in today’s world, are considered to be a status symbol. A high quality and expensive phones are a symbol of high society (upper class of society) and less expensive phones are supposed to be kept by those people who can afford an extravagant life, life of comforts and leisure.
Every year a lot of new cell phones are launched by the mobile companies to attract its user. When developing any product, it target market is always considered, and so is true for mobile phones.
Use Your iPhone In Business
That’s right, use your iPhone in business.Apple’s iPhone consists of Office application thus you can create documents, presentations and worksheets. It also comes with Microsoft Exchange so their users get secure over-the-air push email, calendar, and their contacts keeping them up to date. It consists of full-featured Safari browser provides access to corporate resources anytime. iPhone also includes other easy-to-use modern applications like Maps, Voice Memos, and Voice Control to help users get more things done faster, thus saving your precious time. You can use your voice to initiate a call with anyone in your contact list, thus your voice can control a lot of things that you can imagine. Some application specially designed for business includes: Oracle Business Indicators, Roambi, Workday, Analytics Application, Site Catalyst, Oracles Business Approval For Managers and a lot nore and not only that you can also create your own applications.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechnologySky/~3/mnAEupYrbWA/use-your-iphone-in-business.html
The World's Smallest Solar Car
The world's smallest solar powered racing car races when the sun shines on the solar panel. This car is 33 x 22 x 14 mm in size that’s makes it the world’s tiniest car. No batteries are required for this car and the only thing it requires is a sun if you want to get this car moving, as when the sun shines on the solar panel, the panel makes electricity that moves the car’s wheels. If attracts both children and adults but not for children under 3 years old due to its small size.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechnologySky/~3/GZIVXpAe668/worlds-smallest-car.html
Portable Scanner
The first look of the device does not seem to be a scanner as its light weight, small and unusual shape will not give us this assumption but you have to believe it is a Doxie Protable Scanner. You just cant only keep it in your office or work place but take ot with you when you travel. It allows you quick and easy duplication of your needed documents and is likely to prove a trusty companion for all your business expeditions.
The Doxie Portable Scanner price is $129 and is extremely lightweight as its weight is 10.9 ounces. It is USB powered that allows you to scan paper directly to you computer. It does not requires a power cable so simply plug in the USB cable and you're ready to scan with the Doxie scanner. The scanner will scan any document in full colour up to 600 dpi and is very easy to use. Simply press the Doxie 'Heart' Button on the scanner and scanning will begin, quite easy isn’t it.
It also includes software for simple scanning and direct cloud sharing and one of its features include Free Doxie Cloud service for turning paper into postable URLs for instant sharing and web-based access on iPhone, iPad, and other mobile devices. It is fully accessorized with cloud scanning software, a USB cable, quick start guide and leatherette pouch.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechnologySky/~3/WGikoadS_rU/portable-scanner.html
Opera : A Web Browser
Opera, developed by Opera Software, is a web browser and Internet suite. It handles tasks related to internet such as displaying websites, sending and receiving e-mail (electronic mail) messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent (a software), and reading web feeds.The features of Opera include:
• tabbed browsing
• page zooming
• mouse gestures
• an integrated download manager.
• built-in phishing and malware protection
• strong encryption when browsing secure websites
• the ability to easily delete private data such as HTTP cookies
Opera supports multiple Operating System, which includes:
• Microsoft Windows
• Mac OS X
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• Solaris
Opera has captured only a small fraction of the browser market of worldwide personal computer. It does, though, have a stronger market share on mobile devices such as smartphones, mobile phones, and personal digital assistants. Opera Editions are available for devices using the Maemo, BlackBerry, Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile, and iPhone operating systems and also for Java ME-enabled devices. About 120 million cell phones have been shipped with Opera.
Opera was designed with a goal to computer accessibility for users who have visual or motor impairments. It is possible to control nearly every aspect of the browser by the use of keyboard and the default keyboard shortcuts can be modified to suit the user. It is the only major browser that includes support for spatial navigation and Opera also includes support for mouse gestures (patterns of mouse movement that trigger browser actions such as "back" or “forward” or "refresh"). Voice control (co-developed with IBM) allows control of the browser without the use of a keyboard or mouse and it can also read aloud pages and marked text.
Power Glitch Hobbles Insat-4B Satellite
On July 9 Indian Space Organization (ISRO) announced that India’s Insat-4B telecommunications satellite due to the failure of its solar arrays not obtaining the required power so its broadcast capacity becomes half of the original broadcasting capacity.
Insat-4B satellite was launched in March 2007 and is based on and ISRO’s I-3K platform. It is co-located with the Insat-3A satellite in geostationary orbit at 93.5 degrees east longitude. ISRO, which with its Antrix commercial arm designed and built Insat-4B, said it was working to restore at least some of the capacity.
Insat-4B carries 12 Ku- and 12 C-band transponders. ISRO said it had shut down half the Ku- and half the C-band capacity because of what it said is a “power-supply anomaly in one of the two solar panels” that occurred the evening of July 7.
“An expert team is studying the possibilities of partial reutilization of some of the transponders that were switched off, and restoring services,” ISRO said.
http://technisky.blogspot.com/2010/07/power-glitch-hobbles-insat-4b-satellite.html
Chalkboard Watch
There are a lot of people around us who love math more than anything else in this world, May be you are one of those math lovers who want to show the world their love for math. We may have seen a lot of people wearing shirts printed numeric digits or something related to math but still their quench of showing their love to math is not fulfilled.
Now there is a beautiful watch made by the genius minds. These watches were created as a limited edition series designed by Rolf Sachs. , the appearance of the watch is like the white chalky scratches on a green chalkboard. You can feel sitting in the classroom with that classic chalk smell always lingering in the air it really takes you back to the beautiful golden days of the school life.
The watch seems pretty it has a black strap and the hands of the watch itself are pretty normal too, although they do mimic pieces of chalk just a little bit.
http://technisky.blogspot.com/2010/07/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html
Nokia x6- A Youth Phone
The Nokia x6 has specifically being made for the youth who like phones with some entertainment and joy in them. It is sleeker in design than the Nokia 5800, the Nokia x6 has modified one of the weakness of the Nokia 5800 and upgraded the built in camera to a 5 megapixel camera, however, the display screen is still similar being 3.2” 640x360 pixel display.The Nokia x6 comes with 32GigaByte of non-expandable memory with 120 MegaByte of RAM and several software updates for better social networking sites.The Nokia x6 is a 3G phone with tri-band UMTS and support for HSDPA downloads at a maximum of 6 mbps and act as a media player being able to support almost all major video and audio formats. It has music play time up to 32 hours. The web browser comes with Flash Lite 3.0 and the email client supports Microsoft Exchange and standard protocols. There is a TV out port and playback through Bluetooth stereo or the cell own speakers. It also supports an FM radio.
It is available in Blue on White and Red on Black colors.
http://technisky.blogspot.com/2010/07/nokia-x6-youth-phone.html
NASA Releases Low-Light Space Images Captured With Nikon dSLRs
At the end of 2009, Nikon managed to secure the order from NASA for D3S digital cameras and seven of its AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses were destined to be whisked off into space for photographic documentation.Now, world are being given the chance to have a look at some of the rather spectacular images taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. Up till now, NASA has captured more than 700,000 images with its own Nikon equipment, showing off the D3S’ noise suppression features and to cope with the low-light conditions of space.
With the supporting standard ISO sensitivity settings of 200 to 12800, the D3S can also be set as high as Hi 3 (ISO 102400 equivalent) or as low as Lo 1 (ISO 100 equivalent). As well as exhibiting a selection of its most inspiring images, NASA has also given a list of kit currently circling the Earth. At present, the Nikon products kept aboard the ISS include:
• 1 unmodified, standard consumer Nikon D3S digital-SLR camera (whose goal is to capture images of the surface of the earth and night-time scenes)
• 8 Nikon D2Xs digital-SLR cameras (modified)
• 36 NIKKOR lenses that includes three teleconverters
• 7 SB-800 Speedlights
• 4 D2Xs eyepieces (that are made exclusively for NASA to enable viewing through a space helmet)
More recently, in 2008 a shipment of D2Xs dSLR cameras were ordered, eight of those original bodies are still used in space today.
http://technisky.blogspot.com/2010/07/nasa-releases-low-light-space-images.html
Interface That Can Respond To 52 Touches At A Time
Microsoft Surface is a multi-touch product (developed by Microsoft) that incorporates both software and hardware technology that allow users to manipulate digital content by use of gesture recognition (human gestures are used as input as each human gesture is employed some functionality). This could involve some physical object or motion of hands(as a human gesture).It has a 360-degree interface, a 30-inch reflective surface with a XGA DLP projector underneath the surface and five cameras in the machine's housing record reflections of infrared light from human fingertips and objects on the surface. The surface can respond to 52 touches at a time.
The four main features of Microsoft Surface are: direct interaction (refers to the user's ability to simply reach out and touch the interface of an application in order to interact with it, without the need for any physical devices such as a mouse or keyboard), multi-touch contact (refers to the ability to have multiple contact points, unlike with a mouse, where there is only one cursor for interaction), a multi-user experience (more than one users can interact with it on different sides of the surface), and object recognition (refers to the device's ability to recognize the presence and orientation of tagged objects placed on top of it).
http://technisky.blogspot.com/2010/07/interface-that-can-respond-to-52.html
New Imaging Technique Allows Doctors To 'See' Molecular Activity
A new technique that will enable doctors to ‘see’ things that are happening at the molecular level using standard imaging techniques that has been developed by Oxford scientists. Dr Robin Choudhury and his colleagues at the University of Oxford have developed a marker that get attached to particular molecules involved in inflammation, as a result, these molecules ‘light up’ on MRI scans.The ‘VCAM-1’ molecule plays a key role in inflammation, which contributes to many diseases, including multiple arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, sclerosis and atherosclerosis (a hardening and narrowing of the arteries which can lead to stroke and heart attack).By injecting into the body markers that attach themselves to VCAM-1 molecules, that are visible under MRI scanning, the researchers were able to see exactly where the molecules were in operation, and in what quantities. The ultimate goal is to facilitate the earlier diagnosis, improve treatment techniques and provide more precise monitoring of disease progression that will help in the exact treatment of the disease.
The team has developed the technique to using it in multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. In MS the body’s own immune system, through inflammation attacks the fatty tissue surrounding nerve fibres (myelin), which help nerves carry signals, that leads to a range of problems with vision and movement.
Compared to conventional MRI techniques, the new technique has the potential to reveal disease activity much earlier and, crucially, before tissue destruction has occurred and as a result earlier intervention with drug treatments guided by this information may alter disease progression.
http://technisky.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-imaging-technique-allows-doctors-to.html
Sony Ericsson Xperia X8
Xperia X8 supports a 3inch 320 x 480 pixel touchscreen display, it comes with GPS, WiFi and 3.5G support, plus an FM radio and a microSD slot with a 2GB card included in the standard sales package and further support up to 12 GB. There is a 3.2 megapixel camera on the back which is also capable of recording videos. Inside is a competitive 600MHz processor with 128MB of RAM which should cope with almost anything you throw at it but it’s not as fast as the processors found in other Android handsets. The talk time of Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 is up to 5 hours 40 minutes. As like other latest mobile phones it also includes Stereo FM Radio and Bluetooth. Its weight is 104 grams or 3.7 oz.http://technisky.blogspot.com/2010/07/sony-ericsson-xperia-x8.html
Harry Potter's Invisibilty Cloak Can Be Yours Now
Boffins at the Michigan Tech University have invented the invisibility cloak. Unfortunately the cloak doesn't yet work with visible light, only the infrared variety, but it's a start and the scientists are doing there best to move to the visible light.
The cloak is non-metallic and uses metamaterials (artificial materials with unnatural elements) that are made of tiny glass resonators and arranged in a concentric, cylinder shaped pattern.The spokes of this pattern produce a magnetic resonance which can bend light around the small particles that the cloak is made up of. In computer tests, this renders the cloak invisible.But, and this is where it gets really interesting (honestly) - the team is stepping up its efforts in order to test a cloak that has been rescaled and has had ceramic resonators added to work at microwave levels.Within an anechoic chamber, microwaves are transmitted, which are much longer than infrared light waves.
"Starting from these experiments, we want to move to higher frequencies and smaller wavelengths", the researchers said. "The most exciting applications will be at the frequencies of visible light".
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechnologySky/~3/jV8K7HvR4pQ/harry-potters-invisibilty-cloak-can-be.html
Autodesk Maya, A Powerful 3D Graphic Generator
Autodesk Maya is a software application used for 3D animation, 3D modeling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, matchmoving, and compositing and it is developed in Toronto by Autodesk's Media and Entertainment Division and the name Maya is named after the Sanskrit term that means illusion.Maya is used in the film and TV industry, as well as for computer and video games, architectural visualization and design. The recent movie Avatar had been possible due to Autodesk Maya.
The new Maya contains all the features of Maya Unlimited 2009: Maya Fluid Effects (A realistic fluid simulator that is effective for smoke, fire, clouds and explosions), Maya Classic Cloth (Cloth simulation to automatically simulate clothing and fabrics moving realistically over an animated character), Maya Fur (Animal fur simulation similar to Maya Hair, it can be used to simulate other fur-like objects such as grass), Maya Hair (A simulator for realistic-looking human hair implemented using curves and Paint Effects, also known as dynamic curves), Maya Live (A set of motion tracking tools for CG matching to clean plate footage), Maya nCloth (nCloth gives the artist further control of cloth and material simulations), Maya nParticle (nParticle gives artists an intuitive, efficient workflow for simulating a wide range of complex 3D effects, including liquids, clouds, smoke, spray, and dust) and MatchMover (Added to Maya 2010, this enables compositing of CGI elements with motion data from video and film sequences).
Today, many 3D games and animated movie are being developed in Autodesk Maya. Kung Fu Panda, an animated movie, is also created in Maya.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechnologySky/~3/TAK2ZJ52ZXg/autodesk-maya-powerful-3d-graphic.html
Nokia X5-01 Goes 'Square' With QWERTY Keyboard
Nokia is the pioneer in creating new mobile phones to appeal them market. Now they have introduced the Nokia X5-01 whose shape is square (which is something new in the mobile world) and it also has a full qwerty keyboard in it. Nokia X5-01 is a Symbian S60(3rd gen) mobile phone.The other thing is that it is not as small and thin like other phones of Nokia, it’s a bit heavy and big it measures 74x66mm and is 17mm thick. Its relatively bulky nature does allow it to sport a 2.3” (320×240) display, though, and the slide-out QWERTY keyboard means it’s not a million miles away from what could be described as a “micro-notebook.”Specifications include: WI-FI, Bluetooth (like any other latest mobile phone), 3G supported, 600Mhz ARM 11 processor and a 5MP camera with 4x digital zoom and LED flash.
This is also a phone for social networking people and has many great applications. Music can be changed just by the “spin of the phone” which is also a great concept it also has an OVI music store application. Its launch date is yet not confirmed and it should cost around €165 (US$202) before tax and subsidies
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechnologySky/~3/9Naaihgnztg/nokia-x5-01-goes-square-with-qwerty.html
Amazing Mobile Phone-Liquid E Released By Acer
Another exciting smartphone is released by Acer which is faster and more evolved Android smartphone as compared to its previous smartphones.It is named as Liquid E.It is a stylish and stunning mobile phone. The handset is in shiny red with the amazing features. It has special attraction for the Ferrari lovers as Telecompaper reported in early June that Acer planned to launch a special edition Ferrari version of the the Liquid E in August. The shiny red handset features the Formula 1 carmaker's 'Scuderia Ferrari' prancing black horse on yellow field logo and 5-screen wallpaper, with various Ferrari ringtones, including the sound of a roaring engine. All the Ferrari lovers are waiting anxiously for this special addition.
Specifications:
• 768 MHz Snapdragon processor
• 512 MB of RAM
• 16 million-colour touchscreen
• 3.5-inch touchscreen
• 5 megapixel camera
• HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity
The most amazing thing about this handset is that the users have no need to take it out of their pocket to know its status as it provides Acer Smart Notification, which displays information on missed calls, new SMS or low battery on the top of the phone. A single widget on the left handles pictures, music and video while on the right users can place links for one-click access to their favourite mobile websites.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechnologySky/~3/GjpfrgI6ZsI/amazing-mobilephone-liquid-e-released.html
Next Generation Robotic Surgeons
Researchers have demonstrated that a robot guided by 3-D ultrasound and artificial intelligence can locate lesions in simulated breast and prostate tissue and take biopsies without the assiatance of human beings. At Duke University, North Carolina, A team of bioengineers 'souped up' an existing robot arm with a purpose-built ultrasound system which acts as the robot's 'eyes' by collecting data from its scan and locating its target. An artificial intelligence program processes the real-time 3D information from the ultrasound and gives the robot specific commands to perform using a mechanical 'hand' that can manipulate the same biopsy plunger device used by the human doctors.The most recent research that is reported in the current issue of Ultrasonic imaging journal demonstrated that the robot was able to guide the plunger to eight different locations in 93 percent of its attempts. The robot's ability to take multiple samples is important function as multiple samples can help determine the extent of lesions.The researchers say an important challenge to be overcome is the speed of data acquisition and processing, though they are confident this can be overcome with faster processors and better algorithms but to be clinically and medically useful, all of the robot’s actions would need to be in real time.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechnologySky/~3/uAlhectM_m0/next-generation-robotic-surgeons.html
2011 Volvo S60 -Coming To Rival The BMW 3-Series
Volvo has said that the next-generation S60 will make its debut in 2010 and. Volvo’s S60 will rival the BMW 3-Series with a load of next-generation parts.“The new S60 has been nudged slap bang into BMW 3-series, Audi A4 and Mercedes C-class territory,” as told by a source, “With the recent revisions and new engines, we now believe the S80 competes in the 5-series, A6 and E-class segment, at last there’s clear water between the two.”
Despite the fact that Ford is still trying to get rid of Volvo, they will still develop its parts for the brand. There will be a load of 4-, 5- and 6-cylinder engines available also with a fuel-efficient Drive version as well.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechnologySky/~3/Mu48j2ZEy5Y/2011-volvo-s60-coming-to-rival-bmw-3.html
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