Archive for July 3rd, 2010

Wall Clock Kitchen Scale

This clock may seem nothing more than a very retro looking clock that the appearance of a folder to try to imitate. In reality, the kitchen clock is used both. In addition to letting you know now, this thing can have an impact on things when you are cooking in the kitchen. This way, you must keep records for a particular recipe, weight cups or product numbers to achieve.

Of course it is fair to have someone to measure the weight, but I hate my cabinets loaded with a gadget on the kitchen. Fortunately, it can hang on the wall prevents you go to the gadget overload, when it comes to the kitchen. You can buy the balance of £ 23.99 or about $ 36 per Lazybones United Kingdom.


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City Bicycle

I know there are many countries where cycling is a primary mode of transportation and not the car. I guess the commute to the grocery store is needed simply to get supplies, and it would be useful to have a bike like this.

It is the transformation of the city, a bike that can fold in half to be a shopping cart. It can be a trolley that can hold more than a week of food, but if you have enough for two baskets, which will probably have to fill out your offer.

Not only do you have a wheel with two baskets that you bring home a little. As someone who has used a bicycle as his primary form of transportation, but it helps to have the basket on the bike, even if it looks a bit stupid.

I also know the dangers of bending the chain your bike, just a shock front tires so that they have beaten. It would be good, we take the bikes into the shop and use it as something that will hold all the items I buy and.

Yes, it really makes sense to build a motorcycle like this. Unfortunately, it is only a concept at this time.


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Robocar MPAs one step closer to AI: Automotive Intelligence

When I saw this picture, I could not help but he was cute. After all, it's a car with a cute little robot head is about it. I started with flashbacks Speed Buggy.

As it turns out, is this car in a study of the robotic platform with a major car company based in Tokyo, ZMP robotics. Apparently these people believe that cars of the future intelligent vehicles to move in a position to interact with each other and be independent.

They may not be able to automatic pilot as Knight Rider bypass, but they can not communicate with each other, so that the scientists determine what the future to avoid congestion. This robot cars will likely have some other nice features like automatic parking and others.

So we look forward to a future where cars are these robots? I'm not sure if I have my next car a giant head on the hood, even if it has the CCD stereo camera, the range of the sensors and a laser system such as infrared Robocar mPas.

But the idea that cars can be intelligent, even semi-intelligent, fascinated me. I really do not know how you could have intelligent cars to avoid traffic jams. One might think that the drivers would avoid easy. Either way, that cars can fly.


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The State of Washington for a highway “electric”

It is a route of Interstate 5 (I-5), not far from where I live. I have learned that some of the I-5 from Oregon to Canada is expected that a huge metamorphosis receive.

In fact, the government has granted $ 1.32 million U.S. dollars to this part of the I-5 freeway to transform power. This is not a road that is completely electric, but to create one for the electric car. He has 10 Level-3 at 80 miles Cradles intervals. Given that the Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf to about 100 miles on a single charge, which sounds like a good distance control.

Of course, my source was quick to emphasize that the load of a normal electric car can be up to 30 minutes, and that would make for a long journey to the border. However, I wonder if that is what these plants do on the road are electric. I have many cases on the side of the road, the companies have, to see how they offer food and entertainment, so why not these judgments electric motor?

Well, whatever the case, it is a step towards a future electric cars. I suppose if all run out of oil, it will be like Cassandra, we'll need more electrical lines.


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Furniture Chairman Yu Kwang Soo

If you observe all the furniture with integrated speakers that are currently on the market, bored, do these new products by designer Yu Kwang Soo. It has quite a luxurious atmosphere and ensures that your music is always nearby. This is all being for the DMY International Design Festival Berlin did in 2010, but those of you who do not receive the party can at least look at things online.

Of course it is never created and offered for sale, I am sure that the furniture does not go for the best price. However, it is amusing to see how designers incorporate speakers in random pieces of furniture. They are designed to work with all portable music players, but it can also play CDs as well. You can use the rest of the work of Korean designers, as you see here.


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Lolly makes waffles on a stick

Any food that is in itself a cane only ten times better. Fortunately, now, rather than at a table and cut your waffles sitting as you do every time you eat your waffles from a stick. I bet you did not think would be better to do than waffles, but they just did. This weird waffle iron, you can eat your waffles if necessary.

The waffles on a stick is not short either each measures 9.4 inches long. As he cooked a trick for you, it may be that they are cooked in a little less than 2 minutes. The wafer Lolly looks like it does your average waffle iron, it is part of sticks. You can buy one for 715 € or about $ 894. Sorry, it's not a novelty item of the cheap food.


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Saga of four iPhone antenna (which is not yet completed)

Now we all know, the four iPhone, and I'm sure we all know the problems it has with its antenna. If you have not heard, the reception of the iPhone will be greatly reduced (sometimes) cut, when the user holds a certain way.

This caused an outcry among iPhone 4, the community started calling this problem “under control of death.” find particularly by those who stood in line at the start date that the new version of the popular smartphone with full capacity.

It was noted by Apple that the problem is a kind of internal problem with the formula used to calculate the signal strength bars. You intend to fix “within weeks”, and offer a money back guarantee for those who make their iPhone 4 in good condition to return within 30 days from date of purchase.

Read the full letter from Apple said the problem after the jump.

Dear iPhone users 4,

The iPhone 4 was the start of the most successful product in Apple's history. It was his by reviewers around the world as the best smartphone ever, and users have told us they love. We were therefore surprised when we read reports of problems with reception, and we immediately started to investigate this. Here is what we have learned.

To get started, reducing grip almost any mobile phone in a way, to its receipt by one or more bars. This also applies to the iPhone 4, iPhone 3G and many Droid, Nokia and RIM. But some users have reported that iPhone cash can 4 on 4 or 5, if carried out in a way that the black stripes in the lower left corner of the metal strip covers drop. This decrease is much larger than normal, and therefore have some of the four defendants iPhone with a defective design of the antenna.

At the same time we read the article and receive hundreds of emails from iPhone users that 4 desktop is better than the iPhone 3G. They are thrilled. This corresponds to our own experience and tests. How explain it?

We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it is as simple as a surprise.

Following an investigation, we were amazed to see that the formula that is we appear to many bars of signal strength calculated using completely false. Our formula, in many cases do not display correctly, two more bars than they should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars, so we should see as little as two bars. Users noting a decline of several bars, where they handle their iPhone in a way, probably in an area where the signal is very low, but they do not because we are in error: 4 or 5 bars. Their sharp decline in its bars Bars, because never real high in the first place.

To solve this problem, we take AT & T has just the formula for calculating the number of bars to the signal given display recommended. The real power of the signal remains the same, but the bars of the iPhone is much more accurate report to the users a much better indication of the reception they receive in a given area. We also have rods 1, 2 and 3, a little bigger, so they are easier to see.

We will publish an update of free software in the few weeks that includes the corrected formula. Since this bug has been present since the original iPhone, this software update for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G will be available.

We returned to our laboratories and new test and the results are the same, four of the iPhone wireless performance of the best we will ever have delivered. For the vast majority of users that have not troubled by this problem, this software update only your bars out. For those who have had concerns that we have caused to any emergency, we can apologize.

As a reminder, if you are not completely satisfied, send your iPhone in any Apple Store or Apple Store intact online within 30 days of purchase for a full refund.

We hope you enjoy the iPhone as much as 4 us.

We appreciate your patience and your support.

Apple

By the way, were many Apple users to fake by someone who claims that Steve Jobs, follows the “state will be back, relax, enjoy your family. This is just a phone. Do not bother.” Apple said that they are completely wrong.


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E-Ink display next-generation platform

With the proliferation of electronic book readers these days, it makes sense for manufacturers to jump aboard the moving train display e-book, where under the E-Ink have a pretty picture in employment has past. The company recently announced its next-generation technology called Pearl in the second quarter of the year free ad. Pearl is the way in the e-ink displays enhanced thinking skills to help the performance of electronic paper with the next step. He is proud of the reflective white displays in the industry, while its contrast ratio is now about 50% more than today's products, the text makes on the Pearl estimated appearance “pop” on the side, leading to a reading experience more like reading text on paper. Now we have heard, where this?

It would be interesting to see whether mean the introduction of e-ink devices in Pearl increasingly IPAD is less than one e-book reader and more like a tablet device used for surfing and sailing. Otherwise, the Pearl is a lighter product and environmentally friendly compared to regular paper, because you will experience less eye strain and greater autonomy from the LCD technology. This may be interested more technically inclined to know that the e-Ink Pearl design is based on the current generation of models Vizplex.

Currently, products of technology E-ink displays are the lowest power in the market, where e-Book readers are affected. The Pearl will continue with the vehicle to the next generation performance and is fully bi-stable and require no power, an image or a page to keep up with text. This SLA means that there is no more need for bookmarks, as is an e-Ink screen full and take in the situation, your page and you save battery life for weeks and even months, depending on how often or infrequently you use your e-book reader.

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Skyhook Wireless is working with Samsung

Skyhook Wireless might not be familiar to some of you out there, here are some Nitty Gritty on – it is a provider of platform-Core Location, which the company recently announced that Samsung Skyhook technology deployed across multiple mobile devices Samsung. Skyhook has chosen Samsung wave (also known as S8500) with the first handset with Skyhook's service run. Of course, we hope that the tide not to do the last cell phone, because it is one of the first open Bada-powered mobile phones is a platform on the market to be achieved. Adding Skyhook on Samsung devices, such as results from waves in an application aware of all the site that the most accurate, reliable and timely information site offers available.

Geo-location is the center of Mobile Innovation and seems more crucial for a number of new mobile services in those days. After all, you can see hundreds, if not to integrate thousands of mobile applications that the website today as part of their user experience. Pinpoint helps consumers find check-in with friends, concerts and exhibitions in the near or even driving directions to destinations of their choice, while in an unknown location. As with other experiences, including turn-by-turn navigation and local search, the location is central, with applications such as Twitter, OpenTable Shazam and integration of location to simplify user experience and customize content.

Currently, Skyhook de facto leader of the geo-location technology that can perform hundreds of millions of requests daily tracking more than 100 million mobile phones, netbooks, and digital cameras – these figures are sufficient to send your head into a spin? With the revolutionary core position of Skyhook Wireless, they will combine Wi-Fi, GPS and cell readings to produce a single specific place quickly and in all environments.

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