General Motors is developing a sensor capable of detecting the presence of a pedestrian within 200 meters thanks to WiFi signal from the smartphone. This means that your smartphone, you can already do many things, may be also able to save your life.
Manufacturers are looking more and more about pedestrian safety, Volvo had also presented its 2006 detection system on the XC60, with an automatic braking system. Continue reading General Motors is developing a pedestrian detector
German designer Marianne Merenmis (Marianna Merenmies) won second prize at the event, International Design Awards in the category of transport on alternative fuels. The concept is called McLaren JetSet, a project of this futuristic vehicle designed specifically for the iconic British car maker. Continue reading The futuristic concept McLaren Jet Set
Samsung may begin production of flexible displays, AMOLED in this quarter. However, the first generation of screens, called YOUM, will be protected by glass, which will deprive them of flexibility. Samsung says this action by the fact that the market has no devices in need of flexible displays. Continue reading Samsung may start production of flexible displays, AMOLED this quarter
MSI has announced the release of the most powerful gaming laptops modifications GT60 and GT70, equipped with a flagship accelerator NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M. More recently, the limit for these laptops had a map GeForce GTX 675M, and the more powerful NVIDIA solutions were simply not available.
Continue reading MSI equips notebooks GT60 – GT70 and Nvidia flagship accelerator
Major research centers in our days working on the most incredible futuristic technology, many of which sometimes seem impossible. One of the most promising areas include autonomous control of vehicles on such a project works, and Google is in his secret lab.
Continue reading Eric Schmidt promised the machine with the autopilot in the coming years
Spider N3 ARAK an impressive little Lego mecha, It’s Friday, do we allow a few fantasies. You probably remember the Tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell Lego presented by Thomas and directed by a named YouTubeur. Creating a very impressive you might say, but that will apparently not get it enough votes to pass on Lego Cusoo into production. It seems also, according to the author, the Danish company that has perhaps not particularly like the resemblance to the mechas from the anime by Masamune Shirow license required. Never mind, decided to return Majh to a model with its own identity ARAK called Spider Mech-N3 stock and always walking on four legs and this time featuring a true clamp enabling him to grasp various objects .
Plustek Mobileoffice S410 portable scanner, a company specializing in the design of multifunction scanners has unveiled the Mobile Office S410, a portable scanner. In fact it weighs 410 grams with dimensions of 295 x 50 x 40.5 mm.
The device is capable of scanning an A4 sheet in 9 seconds at 300 dpi, which is pretty decent compared to a traditional scanner. It can also accept smaller formats like maps for example from 5.8 cm sides. In terms of image quality we are entitled to a resolution of up to 600 × 600 dpi. It connects with your computer via a USB cable, offers compatibility with the standard TWAIN and runs Windows XP, Vista and Seven and Mac OS from version 10.5. It comes with a suite of software including software that allows the OCR character recognition and more.
The new living room furniture from Ikea Uppleva are surmounted by an LED display and integrated CD / DVD / Blu-ray and a 2.1 sound system. The range will be available in seven European countries from the start.
Ikea will play the troublemaker on the electronics market with its concept for electronic media incorporating both a connected TV flat screen and a full audio-video system. The range is called Uppleva, which means ‘experience’ in Swedish. The cabinet is available in three finishes.
The electronics (+ screen home cinema) is provided by the Chinese TCL Multimedia. The LED display full HD will be available in several sizes from 24 inches and includes a complete connection (2 USB ports, 4 HDMI) as well as Wi-Fi and Ethernet for Internet access. The CD / DVD / Blu-ray is housed in the cabinet flush with the facade. The sound comes from a 2.1 system with a wireless subwoofer that can be placed wherever you want in the living room. No exposed wires and one remote to control all. IKEA claims to have designed this product from surveys of clients.
Subby-Kun is a blogger in ecstasy since his beloved Subbinette embarked on the implementation of a Master System sofa cushions with his “joypad”. Made entirely by hand and displayed in the playroom of Subby-Kun, we invite you to discover a series of images of “work” in the sequel.
According to Terna, equivalent transalpine RTE, solar Italian posted excellent results in March. According to the charge of electricity transmission in the boot, 6.4% of national production was provided by the PV during the month just ended, or 1.8 TWh.
These good results should encourage the country to continue its path of development of solar, while Italy last year became the world’s largest market sector with 6.9 GW installed.
In some areas of the Mezzogiorno, enjoying optimum light conditions, the production cost of solar is already exceeding that of conventional electricity, mainly from fossil fuels (and according to the UN this should be done in half the countries of the world in 2015, including France).
92% of Italians also believe that photovoltaics will be the largest source of their country in the future.
Announced for months, Vodafone has unveiled this morning its new ADSL / Fibre premium called “Evolution neufbox” box with its new generation and new services for 34.90 euros per month.
The result of over two years of research and development, “neufbox Evolution” is a new box 40% smaller than the previous generation, composed of 70% of recyclable items and the box becomes more energy efficient market with a power consumption of less than 7 watts. Three buttons “Eco” (extinction of VoIP, CPL, flow control Ethernet ports and brightness of the lights), “WiFi” and “on / off” were also added.
Designed for ADSL and fiber, it features the latest generation of WiFi (WiFi 802.11n 300 Mbit / s MiMo), taken from very broadband network (5 Gigabit Ethernet ports), two USB 2.0 ports and Technology feedback signal VoIP. It can be connected wirelessly to the TV decoder, using the kit PLC 200 Mbit / s included in the offer.
SFR took the opportunity to launch the 3G + Internet Key for neufbox. Inserted into the modem, this key ensures continuity of Internet services and fixed telephone incident line broadband, mobile network taking the baton from the fixed network for the duration of the malfunction.
The new TV decoder allows for him displaying content Full HD 1080p and 3D features a 250 GB hard drive
April 17, Orange TV will be available on the Microsoft console and change channels can be done by voice or gestures. Explanations.
The application “Orange TV” will be available April 17th on Xbox 360 via Xbox Live and can answer some voice commands and gestural system Kinect. Nothing complicated, though. To start the TV, it suffices to say “Xbox, Orange TV” and then saying “Next” or specify the channel number to switch from one channel to another.
For his arrival on the console, Orange has however provided a program guide to allow the user to navigate, and the ability to program alerts to know when a particular program starts and a parental lock so as to prevent the fall of smaller programs which they would not be used. It is even possible to watch TV while chatant with his contacts.
Only constraint to access this Orange TV on the Xbox 360 have an Xbox LIVE Gold.
Finally, note that the Microsoft console will be distributed in 34 shops in the Orange network of shops and a Special expects the new subscribers. Indeed, until June 6, those who subscribe for the operator to supply LiveBox Zen or LiveBox Star with Orange TV will be eligible for a refund voucher of 119 euros on account of the purchase pack Xbox 360 4GB with Kinect and Xbox LIVE Gold included for 3 months.
Orange signs for 100 Renault Twizy, We tested for you in February of the Twizy Renault at a very nice session on the circuit of French society. At once attracted by the concept but also booked on a real use of this electric car for an individual (the price turns around 6000 euros), we considered it more as a utility vehicle business that seems to share a vision Orange.
Indeed, the group has signed an order for 100 electric vehicles for Renault Twizy to supplement its fleet of company vehicles. The Twizy is equipped with a better engine 20Chevaux (80 Km / h), it will serve mainly to travel between different sites of the group and will thus be made available to employees for this purpose.
Orange is the first French company to have chosen the small car manufacturer for its fleet of company vehicles. During our ownership, we could discuss with an employee of community also seduced by the concept.
So I bet that the Twizy meet with a success both on the professional market as individuals, the power is still a market conducive to risk taking and innovation.