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Tech Scoop - April 2006

Automatic tyre inflation system technology

April 30th 2006 11:04
Despite that the Automatic tyre inflation system is not a brand new technology, is not well known by many people. Nowadays that the society in general has a rising concern about environmental issues, this particular technology represents a huge impact in the industry. The logistics activities impact the environment by dropping gas emissions and by consuming petrol and tyres, these effects can be reduced by the implementation of this technology. Cost reduction can be generated for the companies by reducing tire costs, preventing roadside downtime, extending tread life, increasing fuel efficiency and enabling longer maintenance intervals.


According to Aircargo an automatic tyre inflation system maker, the system checks inflation levels for each tire at the valve stem so as not to extend the tire pressure out to the hub. With the system, if a hose is leaking, the system will alert the driver and the tire will continue to fill with air and not go flat. Simply remove the bad hose and the other tires will remain serviced by the system.
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Optical technology for a new generation

April 29th 2006 13:50

The optical technology for mobile applications doesn’t have limits……an Israeli company called Lumus has developed an optical imaging technology that will allow the development of ultra-compact displays for mobile devices. This technology is called Light-guide optical element (LOE), the technology enables a device to project the image in to the viewer’s eye..awsome…the image is displayed in the visual field of the viewer.


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Vision technology

April 27th 2006 08:46

One of the emerging technologies in the medical field is the Forehead Retina System. According to Siggraph, this technology consists of a small camera and 512 forehead-mounted electrodes that capture the frontal view, extract outlines, and convert the data to tactile electrical stimulation. The Forehead Retina System uses an ionic gel sheet with the same thickness and electrical impedance as the horny layer of finger skin. When the gel sheet is placed between the electrode and the forehead, stable sensation is assured.

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Hard Drive Technology

April 26th 2006 12:34


Seagate has put itself at the vanguard of the information security technology for the massive notebook market, launching its Momentus Full Disk Encryption Hard Drive. This new technology brings a new level of security for those that have sensitive information in their notebooks, the technology will be available now within a limited launch, and despite that it doesn’t allow the user to turn off the encryption function the company doesn’t believe that the users of notebooks object to have new levels of security. Companies and the government are the principal targets for this new product since the high degree of sensitive information that they handle.
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Phillips' New Technology Banned By Customers

April 24th 2006 10:06
This side of technology could be a real pain for lots of us that love TV. Phillips developed a technology that enables broadcasters to freeze the TV mechanism in order to stop persons from surfing during specific commercials. Despite that Phillips argues that this technology would be beneficial to the viewers because it will allow networks to offer live shows without commercials for a small fee, lots of persons have written emails and made irate phone calls to the Phillips office in the U.S. to complain about this new development on TV sets.


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3D technology

April 23rd 2006 09:43
The technology that would make possible a world tour of the band Gorillaz is called Eyeliner. This 3D technology was developed by the german Uwe Maass, who is a partial owner of Event works, a Dubai based company. An example of the performance of this technology was the appearance of Madonna and Gorillaz in the last Grammy’s ceremony, a 3D performance seen without goggles. The Eyeliner technology is a system composed by special foil screens positioned at 45 degrees on the stage and virtual image rendition software.

Madonna

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Communications censored on the Internet

April 20th 2006 11:13
There is no such thing as freedom on the Internet….as an example the company SKYPE (A very recognized communications company based on the Internet), has announced the implementation of a filter for the text messages sent to china specially those using the words “Falun Gong” and “Dalai Lama", which are banned. The filter developed with its partner Tom Online obeys to government regulations.

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Skype

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Localization technology for parents

April 19th 2006 14:17
An American company called Expedite Media Group, Inc. has developed a technology called Guardian Angel, which allows someone to remotely monitor another person using software embedded in a mobile phone. This product is initially directed to parents that want to know where their children are, another application in the logistics field to monitor the performance of the fleet. According to expedite this new product line consists of a cell phone embedded with the Guardian Angel software that communicates every 7 seconds with GPS satellites and transmits the data securely over the cellular lines to a website where parents or legal guardians can view locations, direction and speed of travel.

Guardian Angel
Guardian Angel

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Environmental friendly technology in cars

April 18th 2006 09:17
As the global pressure on the use of environmental friendly technology grows and the petrol prices increases dramatically, car manufacturers have become more aware of this new market and are working in hybrid cars; companies like Toyota, Honda, and Ford as well as European manufacturers are backing this technology.

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Engine

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Goggle calendar

April 14th 2006 13:50
Goggle is offering a new calendar tool, if you already maintain a calendar in Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo Calendar or Apple iCal, you can import events from those sources.

Calendar
Calendar
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Nanotechnology is here

April 13th 2006 11:54
Many of us have heard about nanotechnology…well this is it..a company called NANTERO has developed a memory chip based in carbon nanotubes (A carbon nanotube matrix laid across an etched trench.) as the active memory elements.

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Chip
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RFDI technology

April 12th 2006 12:18
One of the big technological advances related to the logistics field is the RFDI technology (Radio frequency identification), this technology enables the operators by using RFDI tags, to pint point the location of an item in a warehouse without having to move or to know what’s in a container without having to open it……another example is the following the life cycle of the cattle, when you have more than a thousand of cows coming and going, it becomes difficult to put together the production cycle of the calves that includes birth, feed lot, slaughter, distribution and customer. Also the data of the calf’s health can be registered and accessed through the RFDI tag.

RFDI
RFDI
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Broadband and cell phone entertainment

April 11th 2006 10:56
Now we have an example about how new technology is integrating in our normal lives….. next 22 April the Emmy Awards are going to announce the winner of their newest category: “original entertainment programming created specifically for non-traditional viewing platforms.” This category considers entertainment programming made for computers and mobile devices. There are six nominees as follows:

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Emmy
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Clean energy sources

April 10th 2006 03:05
John Doerr one of the investment gurus in Silicon Valley pointed out the opportunity that the growing in the market of green technology represents in the near future.

Nowadays with the rise in the traditional energy sources, alternative options don’t look so expensive. The global market for clean energy sources such as biofuels, hydrogen fuel cells and solar and wind energy rose to $40 billion last year, and is expected to increase to $167 billion by 2015, according to a report released last month by Clean Edge Inc., a Bay Area marketing firm.
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Picking by voice

April 7th 2006 13:29
As the Logistics field becomes more important each day for companies, new technologies have to be developed to gain efficiency and reduce costs; one of the latest advances hit the bottom line operations.

Kiva
Kiva
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Windows in a Mac!!!

April 6th 2006 12:46
I thought I will never see this day. Apple has developed a tool that allows the owners of the new Mac computers with Intel chips to install Windows XP. The tool called Boot camp can be found at the Apple site.

I really don’t know if these are bad or good news for the Mac lovers. Is this the end of the exclusive world of the Mac owners?
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Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in trouble

April 6th 2006 11:48
Lucent technologies has filed a demand against Microsoft, arguing that it infringes a patent named “Adaptive Coding and Decoding of Frames and Fields of Video” in its newest game console the Xbox 360.

In 2003, Lucent technologies filed three demands against Microsoft regarding infringing patents without any considerable outcomes for Microsoft.
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New Chip technolgy

April 5th 2006 12:43
Imagine to have thousands of parallel processor on a single low cost chip, this is what Kilocore is about. Kilocore is a new computer technology architecture developed by Rappaport together with IBM. The technology delivers high performance for simultaneous multiple functions saving energy. This new architecture could be the new standard for mobile devices.

Kilocore chip
Kilocore chip
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HD DVD Vs Blu-ray

April 4th 2006 09:26
In the war between the next generation DVD formats Blu ray and HD DVD, Toshiba throws a big swing launching the first HD DVD player. The launch was on 31 March in Japan.

HD DVD player
HD DVD player

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The passion of Hi-tech

April 4th 2006 05:39
This blog is dedicated to one of my passions in life…technology. As a Tech addict you will find in this blog news and comments about leading technology on several fields not only on computers. This blog aims to maintain people who read it updated in terms of technology and gives them the possibility to make some controversy about the latest news.

I’m intending to bring you interesting news from new consoles in the game industry to home appliances. From medical advancements to industry applications, this blog would be a source of interesting news for who ever wants to be informed about the state of the art in terms of technology.
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