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iTongue Translator
The iTongue Translator application can Optically translate from 9 languages (English,Chinese,French,German,Italian,Japanese,Portuguese,Russian,Spanish ) to 58 languages by just pointing your camera to the text you want to be translated The app is only for devices running iOS and is available for free from the iTunes stores.If your phone has a barcode scanner you can use the QR code to download the app directly to your device
Cars to friend drivers in new social network
TOKYO Toyota Motor and cloud computing company Salesforce.com will build a social network service that will enable owners to become friends with their cars and get friendly,tweet-like reminders for maintenance checks and other notices.
Information technology and telematics are expected to play a key role in adding value to future cars,as consumers look for connectivity not just from their laptops and phones but also with their cars.Toyota has already developed its own telematics service to connect it with drivers and dealers.
Under the new private social network,called Toyota Friend, owners will be able to chat with their Toyotas like they would with a friend on Twitter or Facebook.
The car would have its own profile and send a message to the drivers phone,for instance,reminding him to recharge its depleted battery.The owner would be able to carry out a simple,twoway conversation with the car.
The service would be an extension of Toyotas network to be based on Microsofts cloud computing platform that would give customers across the world access to Toyotas digital services such as GPS and multimedia.Customers will be able to extend the private Toyota Friend network to include their family and friends through social networks.The service will be offered first in Japan with Toyotas first battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid cars due next year,Toyota said.REUTERS
President of Japans Toyota Motor Akio Toyoda (left) shakes hands with CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff (right) during a press conference in Tokyo
Information technology and telematics are expected to play a key role in adding value to future cars,as consumers look for connectivity not just from their laptops and phones but also with their cars.Toyota has already developed its own telematics service to connect it with drivers and dealers.
Under the new private social network,called Toyota Friend, owners will be able to chat with their Toyotas like they would with a friend on Twitter or Facebook.
The car would have its own profile and send a message to the drivers phone,for instance,reminding him to recharge its depleted battery.The owner would be able to carry out a simple,twoway conversation with the car.
The service would be an extension of Toyotas network to be based on Microsofts cloud computing platform that would give customers across the world access to Toyotas digital services such as GPS and multimedia.Customers will be able to extend the private Toyota Friend network to include their family and friends through social networks.The service will be offered first in Japan with Toyotas first battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid cars due next year,Toyota said.REUTERS
President of Japans Toyota Motor Akio Toyoda (left) shakes hands with CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff (right) during a press conference in Tokyo
IS THIS THE FUTURE OF COMPUTERS
German designer Philipp Schaake displays his award winning design entitled Crowd,which enables users to transform its shape from tablet to notebook computer as the screen and keyboard are separated during a computer design contest in Tokyo on May 20,2011.Schaake received the runner-up prize of the Fujitsu Design Award 2011 with 10,000 euro prize money from Fujitsu.The grand prize winner Egle Ugintaite from Lithuania designed a cane which provides mobile navigation and health management services
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Audi Calamaro Concept flying car
The Audi Calamaro Concept was developed by Tibor for a design competition, organized by Porsche Hungary. The futuristic concept looks like a cross between a boat, a ski and perhaps even a stealth aircraft. According to the designer, the shape is inspired by “the bone of the cuttlefish”. Being a design of the future, we guess, the Calamaro will be powered by clean fuel options. We can’t really comprehend how this car will take off, land or even fly, simply because we can’t see any propellers, thrusters or for that matter, even exhausts.
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New Buoyant-Aircraft Design Could Lead to Fleets of Efficient Cargo Zeppelins
by eklipz
Aeros, founded by Russian-born entrepreneur Igor Pasternak, is working on a rigid-hulled airship that varies its buoyancy to take off and land vertically. By compressing and decompressing helium, the density in the ship can be varied as a means to control the ship’s static heaviness. Static heaviness is the ratio of buoyancy to gravity, and it’s the main variable that must be controlled to fly a ship along a predictable path.
Buoyant ships can float in the air because their fuel, usually helium these days, is lighter than the air. Any kid who has ever lost a balloon at the county fair understands, and rues, this phenomenon. The buoyant gas is counterbalanced by fuel, cargo or other ballast, allowing the ship to fly at a controlled altitude. But in order to move forward, a ship has to burn fuel, and this reduces its weight — so it would gain altitude. To balance the buoyancy, airships must vent their precious helium or let in regular air, but this wastes an expensive and diminishing resource.
Modern airship designs deal with this by employing non-rigid hulls, multi-lobed hulls containing different gases, taking on water ballast at cargo unloading docks, and so on. But Aeros uses a compression system instead, called Control of Static Heaviness (COSH). It involves a rigid airframe and a membrane containing helium gas. The membrane will contain pressurized tanks: More pressure in the tanks makes the vehicle heavier, and less makes it lighter, Aviation Week explains.
In 2012-2013, Aeros will test a ship called the Pelican, a 230-foot-long, 600,000-cubic-foot rigid air vehicle with the COSH system. The Pelican project is funded by the Pentagon’s Rapid Reaction Technology Office, after DARPA’s Walrus contest went the way of the dodo. Walrus was intended to loft an entire military battalion and all its equipment and plop it down somewhere else, but the project was later cancelled because it wasn’t feasible — the ship would have been so huge that it couldn’t fly above 10,000 feet, well within the range of surface-to-air weaponry.
Pelican still has some issues to iron out, such as providing enough lift to take off with a heavy load; the Register explains further. But on its face, changing gas density to control buoyancy seems like a novel solution to an old problem.
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