Articles Archive for October 2008
Posted in Technology on 11 October 2008
Let’s get on to some physics and its mechanisms. It’s said that recently Physicists have discovered that heating one side of a magnetized nickel-iron rod results the electrons to rearrange themselves according to their spins. This concept is called as “spin Seebeck effect” leading batteries generate magnetic currents, rather than electric currents.
Here, the advantage of magnetic currents is its uses in development of spintronics devices, which use magnetic currents to reduce overheating in computer chips. Unlike electric currents, magnetic currents don’t generate heat. Guess what? Magnetic information storage is much better than storing information electronically because there is no wastage of heat. Unlike electrons that constantly bump into each other, flipping electron spins works remarkably without generating heat. It works economically by reducing the wastage of heat and leading to computer chip miniaturization, and lower power consumption along with faster operational speeds.
Posted in Technology on 10 October 2008
Nitrate ester group of compounds have been the pioneer in the field of explosive properties. Nitrate esters are organic nitric acid compounds containing enormous explosive force but their liquid physical state makes handling very difficult. Nitropenta is the only solid nitrate ester used as an explosive previously as its high melting point of about 140 °C; nitropenta must be pressed into the desired form.
A new nitrate ester came its way with low melting point of only about 85 °C, which is below its decomposition point (141 °C); can be melted and poured into molds, making easier production of explosive components. It’s designed containing four nitrate ester groups (–ONO2) and two nitrate groups (–NO2) bound to a total of six carbon atoms. Computer calculations predict that the new tetra nitrate ester has an explosive power high as octagon (HMX). The sensitivity of the new compound toward shocks, friction, and sparks is equivalent to nitropenta and because of its amazing properties; the new nitrate ester also produces cast able explosive components.
Posted in Projectors, Unique Gadget on 10 October 2008
GadgetsBlog is the last place you might think you would find yourself reading about the developments of the electoral campaign between McCain and Obama, but exceptions have to be mad every now and then. McCain’s recent remark about Obama’s supposed ridiculous earmark for an overhead projector for a planetarium have the gadget freaks siding with Obama.
The projector in question is the Adler Zeiss Mark VI projector which is actually not an overhead projector according to a press release by the Adler Planetarium. The Adler Planetarium of Chicago further reveals that this is the projector which provides you the typical planetarium experience by reproducing the night sky in a dome theatre. The reason why Adler Planetarium wishes to renew their projector is because spare parts and service is no longer being provided by the manufacturer for the old design and a new projector is desperately needed for the continuation of the planetarium.
Posted in Gaming, consoles on 10 October 2008
Retro designs continually poke their ugly but well-missed heads into our lives every so often filling our memories with how we had been happy with the most basic of anything. Gamers would remember how excited they had been as kids, playing with their black joysticks until their thumbs hurt like crazy from punching the fire button so often.
One retro-lover missed his black joystick console and desired to play the old games so badly that he went and thought up a way to play those old games on a new console. The arcade controller has a standard USB joystick fitted with a DB-9 connector and once this is wired up properly you can plug in your old joystick and have fun playing all the new games with the added bonus of having a joystick bending in all eight directions. The arcade controller also has OS X and Windows compatibility and would allow you to play old Atari games with the DB-9 port. It works with most software emulation packages.
Posted in Gaming, Unique Gadget on 9 October 2008
You’ve drove around your neighbourhood a thousand times and you claim to know it like the back of your hand. You’ve boasted to your friends about being able to get through the neighbourhood blindfolded and hopping on one leg. This might be true, but would you be able to fly your teensy little spacecraft through it?
In-car gaming systems have taken the term ‘wild drives’ to a new level. Carcade, a new in-car videogame uses a landscape familiar to you so that winning truly becomes a matter of pride. Designed by three students from the Berlin University of Arts, Carcade uses a webcam via your laptop to capture and incorporate the landscape outside your car window into the game, so that you are left with the sense that instead of driving through the neighbourhood, you are flying your UFO through it. The difficulty level of the game changes with the scenario outside as the obstacles or the speed with which the car is being driven increases.
Posted in Head Phones, Unique Gadget on 9 October 2008
Your best headphone gives you the greatest sound quality, lets you adjust the volume, change tracks, and probably can connect to your iPod or mp3 player via Bluetooth. Yeah, sure, that is all really great, but does your headphone have a display?
The latest headphones by Nikon have a display attached to it apart from other cool features such as A/V player, Wi-Fi capability, and a high-capacity memory. An in-built source of power will keep the music playing for you. Nikon claims that the viewing experience on the two models, UP300x and UP300, would be equivalent to watching a 50” screen from a few meters away. Both models have dioptre adjustment for a pleasurable viewing experience by bespectacled users also. UP300x has an inbuilt memory of 8GB while the UP300 has a memory of half that.
Posted in Bathroom accessory, Eco Friendly on 9 October 2008
The increasing anxiety about the deteriorating condition of the environment has turned almost every person uber eco-conscious. This has lead to not just better caring of the Earth, but also to a host of new products and concepts along the line of eco-friendliness.
Frattini brings us the Elettronico Electronic Faucet intended to bring the rising problem of water shortage, and wastage, into check. The faucet comes with a touch-operated control panel that would control the amount of water used. It works like a master control panel by controlling all the faucets in the house, thus giving us the opportunity to switch off all water taps by the touch of a single button. Temperature of the water can also be preset via the control panel, for all faucets simultaneously, so that water is not wasted as you fumble with old-fashioned hot-and-cold taps.
Posted in Concept, Home Appliances, News, Review, Technology on 8 October 2008
The Rohm Co Ltd has taken the privilege to prototype OLED shadowless lamp and flash which is designed in a manner where it uses an OLED lighting device with a cover that intricately diffuses light in a complex manner so that the objects illuminated by the light have no shadow. The flash instantaneously emits light with a high luminance of 100,000cd/m2.And what’s amazing is when not used as a flash; can be used as lighting equipment with a luminance of 3,000-4,000cd/m2 or higher.
Talking more about the features the OLED flash is composed of 40mm-square light emitting modules arranged in six rows and eight columns. The luminance of the flash can be controlled in a wide range, from dim to bright light of several thousand candelas per square meter at the maximum and flash emitted light with a luminance of 100,000cd/m2 three times.
Posted in Auto, Auto Gadgets, Gadget, Sensor, Technology on 8 October 2008
TDK Corp presents an angle sensor developed through GMR elements and focused on motor control of hybrid and electric vehicles. The angle sensor is embedded with features like a resolution as high as 0.35 and a smaller size compared with existing angle sensors that use a coil and a magnet. The angle sensor comes with a great combination of metallic disk, placed on motor shaft. Designed in circular arch consisting of four GMR elements inside each loaded with a permanent magnet on the rear side.
The metallic disk being oval in shape makes the distance between disk and sensor change as the shaft rotates, favouring changes in the magnetic field. The GMR elements detect those changes and determine the angles. When it comes to hybrid and electric vehicles, it is necessary to have an angle sensor that can detect the angle of a shutdown motor with the resolution of 0.5 to 0.8, according to TDK.
Posted in Bling Gadgets, Radio on 7 October 2008
Diamonds are forever, a girl’s best friend, the toughest on earth and it could make just about anything glimmer in the dark and appear beautiful. This seems to be the sentiments amongst the lovers of the Swarovski diamonds.
The Sonoro Swarovski Radio, titled Elements Stardust, is a radio quite unlike others because it will cost you a staggering ten times more than the original which is sold for a mere $250. That is because this pimped up version has been made disgustingly decadent with 3900 white and black Swarovski stones. Elements Stardust has, apart from the very obvious flowery diamond-studded design along its side and top, a metal dial and LED display the same as the original. This black beauty will cost you $2500 and is intended only for the elite special few of the society.
