Navy Successful technology

 New type of hydrogen fuel cell uses bacteria to provide variable buoyancy, allowing an autonomous ocean sensor to surface and dive with ease. Rather than harvesting electricity from microbial metabolism, the system harvests the metabolic byproducts themselves. Read: gas.

  Researchers also used a very low-power timer, using between 1 and 10 milliwatts, to program the sensor to surface and dive on-demand. The bacterial gas generation was enough to power the timer. On-board sensors confirmed the cylinder’s rise and fall, according to researcher Justin Biffinger.

An eco-harmonious Japan ‘Smart Town’ for 2014

In the wake of the terrible earthquake/Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, Japan is focused on a safe and secure energy infrastructure. We’ve already heard about Naoto Kan’s idea to install a national solar panel array, but Panasonic and eight other companies have started their own clean energy project.

The plan is to turn a piece of Fujisawa city into a “sustainable smart town” of 1000 houses all built to be energy-conscious and eco-harmonious. Each of the nine companies has their own responsibility from creating the town concept and service model, to energy management services. This would be a very large private-sector development and would be the first of its kind in the world. They are estimating a 60 billion yen ($700 million) price tag for development

Panasonic and Fujisawa have agreed to build the town on a the site of a former Panasonic plant. The smart town aims to house 3,000 people and aims to open up in March of 2014, with full occupancy by 2018. The three main ideas that will go into design of this utopia center around eco-conscious master planning; comprehensive information and energy connection; and a “next-generation lifestyle unique to a smart town.

Some of the specific ideas under consideration in the master planning include solar panel designs that blend with the flora of the town, as well as a space designation to enable and promote electric car sharing. There will be charging stations all around the town, for cars and for electric bicycles. There will be storage batteries in all the homes, and each unit will contain smart energy saving appliances which will have “future network compatibility in mind”.

Solar will not be the only focus of energy collection. They plan on using a combination of wind, light, heat and water to fill up the battery storage systems. It seems as if every comfort has been provided for with guilt-free energy. Even with the 60 billion yen ($700 million) price tag for development, the brand new green village will probably be more cost efficient than dealing with older structures. Panasonic hopes to use this Fujisawa smart town as a template to create even larger communities in Japan.

50 % of Americans use Camera phones to spy on others

  

   Interactive survey reveals that 50 percent of American adults
have no problem whipping out the smartphone to take secret videos of unsuspecting people.This Survey is conducted among 2,300 peoples.

Wow  57 % of Americans would find a work-related video funny or interesting if filmed and uploaded by a co-worker When it comes to online video.

 hmmmmmm 10 % would record a “sexy waitress” at a restaurant, nine percent would film the shirtless gardener mowing the neighbor’s lawn, seven percent would film cheerleaders discreetly and five percent would film another couple kissing or making out.

 The most popular response at 23 percent was recording people in embarrassing outfits, perhaps to upload a silly compilation on YouTube.

When it comes to online video 21 % want to see video of a co-worker taking a nap at their desk, 12 % want to see video of inappropriate behavior at an office party and 11 % would watch a co-worker “pigging out” in the workplace kitchen.

 According to me any video that reaches viral status may end up landing the filmmaker in court and it’s very likely that this tendency to invade other people’s privacy will result in embarrassment if videos become public.

Cloud BasedTransportation Technology

 

 Safety concerns would need to be addressed if a concept like this were to ever take flight.
 New York based architect is taking the term in a whole new direction with his Passing Cloud public transportation concept. He looks to challenge the way we travel. This would be public transport system would lack a pre-determined destination, instead leaving that up to fate or prevailing winds.



 The Passengers enter and exit the sky-grazing “Cloud” via ladders before departure and need only sit aboard during flight.



   Method of transportation that harkens back to the days when the act of traveling was more exciting and less mundane; focusing on the importance of the act and not the destination with the use of this cool traveling cloud.

       What you Guys Think Of This Cool Traveling Technology ?

New Portable GPS Tracker

This New tracker is really very cool and portable.The tracker has done it’s travels and it’s back in your possession you simply connect it to you PC and download the data.

 Guys keep in mind that the GPS Tracker is pretty small so you could either always carry it on you or use it in 007 spy mode by planting it on a person or vehicle you want to monitor.

Not only can you bore visitors with your holiday snaps you can also show them exactly where you went.

This cool data can then be plotted on Google Earth, Mapquest, maps.google.com and Virtual Earth to show exactly where it’s been, how long it took and how it got there.

It’s sort of a cross between a USB memory stick and a GPS receiver and what it does is store where ever you take it on the flash memory.

 It obviously has the spy functionality of tracking somebody else but to me it is even more useful for tracking your own holidays and backpacking adventures

Its price is just $249.99 

Its feature are as below :
1. Comes with TrackStick, lanyard, software CD.
2. Location points are downloaded into its software and then mapped.
3. Dimensions: 4″ x 1 1/4″ x 3/4″.
4. Records time, date, location, speed, direction and altitude.
5. Works with Google Earth, Mapquest, maps.google.com, Virtual Earth.
6. Requires 2 AAA batteries.

The Nook Tablet

The New Nook tablet is really owsume guys. Anyone who preordered the device will be able to pick it up from stores on Wednesday, with general sales of the new tablet beginning on Thursday.
People who ordered the device online might also receive it in the mail on Wednesday wow really amazing !
I think that the  the deciding factors will be things such as price, each device’s ecosystem and the quality of the user experience.We can take this cool Nook tablet from stores on comming Wednesday.
We all know that the two devices will be going head to head this holiday season.
 The much-anticipated battle between Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s $249 Nook Tablet will be well and truly underway.Both feature 7-inch touchscreens, while the Nook Tablet has double the amount of internal memory (16GB), double the RAM (1GB), and an SD card slot
Consumers can finally begin to actually hold, feel, swipe and touch both devices, it should soon become clear which of the two is going to be the bigger hit this holiday season and beyond.
The Kindle Fire, which began shipping at the start of this week ok and  the Fire after comparing it with the iPad, which seems unfair considering the $300 price difference.
This is really cool and those who ordered it online should also being receiving it on Wednesday.
What you guys think of it ?