Archive for February, 2008
Next 50 years will be witnessing almost 32 times more technological progress compared to the progress made during the whole 20th century, according to a futurological vision advanced by Ray Kurzweil, an eminent computer expert from America.It is all about the speed of technological advancements. Current pace of technological progress is extremely high and it will reach at the higher levels with tremendous speed soon.
One of the most important features that would be characterizing these technological advancements in next twenty years should be the development of computers which will be almost at par with the human brains and human intelligence. “One of such outcomes may be artificial intelligence matching human intellect the 2020s”, Ray Kurzweil says.
Eva compounds, a patent invention that involves ‘injection molding’ concept for soles which have a treading surface of different colors, and which require cross-linking of two different types of granules for better expansion. ‘EVA’ has 4-60% of ‘vinyl-acetate ethylene copolymer’, which depends on the kind of addictive used for injection molding.
This addictive could either be cross-linking, expansible or thermoplastic. The permeability on EVA compounds is lower, making it advantageous for some products. The higher the vinyl-acetate content in these compounds, the lower the tensile strength, stiffness and softness would be; however, its permeability and toughness increase. These compounds are non-toxic, chemically stable and biocompatible.
Glucose monitors and so many other instruments would be available far cheaper in near future. University of Florida students have demonstrated an innovative way to use the airbrush to make ‘microelectrodes’.
The “airbrush” is a very popular tool for tattoo-makers and screen-printing for T-shirts. This unexpected technological application of airbrush has been discovered by a group of engineering students at the University of Florida who used to make paper aircrafts as their hobby.
Recently held ‘Mobile World Congress’ has highlighted “Feature Richness” to be the core concept for latest mobile phone wave. Feature-rich mobile phones are the most cherished devices among the users across the world. Manufacturers and many service providers introduced several of new such features that are going to revolutionize the whole mobile phone industry in coming days.
Among the key features which were the center of attraction during this event included touch screens, navigation facilities, high-end digital cameras, multimedia applications and support of high speed broadband along with the support of Wi-Fi systems.
Polls have an important role to play in the predictions of elections. Polls normally provide enough resource and data base for further analysis. Results obtained through the poll analysis may not be completely true but they very often open new dimensions directing towards new possibilities.
PresidentPolls2008 is one such website, a great online niche website that provides many types of polls that can be tracked by anyone. This niche website contains an updated state by state analysis of the poll results.
If you are an adventure loving person and love to experience new heights in life with much excitements and want to feel elated by having done something unusual and thrilling then NASA’s commercial weightless flights would be one of the best option for you.
NASA announced that this weekend it will start with its commercial weightless flights program. All the scheduled commercial flights have been completely booked in advance. Further bookings of these commercial weightless flights will be opened sometime during the later half of this year and flight schedules will be fixed accordingly. These flights will take off from the ‘Moffet Field’, California, according to NASA.
Nokia in a tie up with Google announced on Tuesday that it will be integrating its search engine serves in to the Nokia’s search applications with mobile phone devices. With this collaboration, Nokia’s mobile phone consumers of more than 100 countries would be facilitated with extended search applications.
‘Nokia Search’, a completely free mobile device functionality with which the mobile phone users can search through facilities like messaging, contacts management, music preferences, and the storage facility for files and data on the device itself. The search facility also enables its users to surf through the internet with the help of search engines and other local directory services along with the location based digital map services.
“Freescale Semiconductor” will be displaying its new “Long Term Evolution (LTE) Technology” at the ‘Mobile World Congress Conference’ in Barcelona next week.LTE technology is expected to change the face of mobile phone industry in near future.
“FreeScale Semiconductor” is advancing this LTE technology that has a potential linear linkage from cellular handsets at one end to the cellular networks at the other end. The company claimed that the demo-tests of this technology proved a peak data rate of 96 Mbps on downlinks and 86 Mbps on uplinks. With this rate of data transmission and receiving the technology is capable to stream any high definition video at high speed.
