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.

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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.

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Nanotechnology never ceases to amaze me. The nano particles have made gadgets and devices so tiny that we could not even have dreamed about such advanced technologies. Researchers have found out how water behaves inside carbon nanotubes and this discovery could help in the realization of ultra small devices and also help in medicine and others. In fact the discovery could have far reaching consequences. The so-called nano-confined water changes its structure in a limited space as that of a hollow carbon nanotube.

Normally Graphene repels water, but researchers found out that in such tiny spaces, water changes its properties and in fact Graphene does not repel water because the size becomes so small. Temperature also played a major role in this. When the temperature was reduced from 22 degrees to 8 degrees, the carbon nanotubes became more water friendly.

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So what if we can’t seem to be able to contact extra terrestrials or aliens? They very well could do so, thanks to a specially prepared slab of rock, which was launched into space by the University of Aberdeen with the help of a Russian spacecraft. This was part of an exercise conducted by the European Space Agency Mission.

The Orkney rock holds evidence to the fact of life on earth thanks to the biological deposits on it. Even though it experiences extreme temperatures while going and coming back to the earth’s atmosphere, the rock can hide chemical information which hold clues to life and biology. Called the Orkney rock, it was part of the unmanned Foton M3 mission.

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Radioactive waste has been giving nightmares to a number of people and in times like these when people could smuggle radioactive material for terrorist purposes, it becomes all the more necessary for us make sure the movement of radioactive material is curbed and detected at the earliest. Radiation detection technology, which has been developed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, could be used to detect radioactive material present in vehicles on the highways.

Adaptable radiation Area Monitor could help detect nuclear material at vehicular entrances. ARAM can detect nuclear material as tiny as a grain of sand and even when a vehicle is moving at a speed of 45 miles per hour. Another device is the RadTrucks, which can detect radioactive signatures emitted by uranium, cesium, and plutonium. ARAM can be installed in a number of places such as a portable detector in a SUV, vehicle monitor alongside motorways, pedestrian portable monitor, luggage or package detector, and the possibilities are endless.

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Dreams are what inventions and concepts are all about. If you had dreamed ever if a TV, a telephone and a media server could interact with each other, Toshiba seems to have the answer. However, it still is in a concept stage and will take a while for it to materialize.

In this new system, a media server will automatically download media files from the cellphone just when the user drops near the field communication or NFC. Later, the media files can be projected on a wireless HD 1080p TV. However, this being a concept, I won’t be able to swear by it. I could only swear that Toshiba always manages to pull it off, whatever the concept is, and most of its products are great success.

It would be interesting to see a product that lets all these three gadgets interact with one another and finally have a synthesized result.

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Here is a concept that would appeal to any gizmo freak. If you thought the Asus EEE PC was the biggest and hottest thing right now, you may be in for a shock. Yves Behar has designed a concept for a ‘brick’ design. What is being touted as the hybrid iPhone-meets-Macbook-Air gets rid of keyboards and uses an adaptive multitouch screen depending on how it is laid out.

Though tactile feedback is not available, corrective software will make errors less frequent. When opened it will work as a laptop and other modes include eBook, Desktop, and tablet mode.

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Majority of us happen to relate retro with nostalgia. History states before consoles came in; pinball machines were the only solution for entertainment. I am sure you must have come across gamut of pinball machines till date but the Bagatelle Concrete only one-of-its-kind. If you don’t know, Bagatelle was an antecedent of modern pinball designed in France for King Louis XVI and it replicates a pointed billiard table. And now Martin Pichlmair in association with Viennese artiste and canvasser Fares Kayali has made efforts to turn this pinball machine from 70’s into a musical device.

With such a revolutionary creation, it is now possible to listen to your favorite track via a pinball machine. It mocks-up itself and exercises those samples on the center of your game play. The ornamental rudiments of the pinball game have been replaced with digital electronics and installed upon this analogue electro-mechanical machine. The core of the game remains technically untouched and all the buffers and traps are still in place. After all you play for music and not for high score.

The more radiantly you interrelate with the machine, the more intense the vinyl gets. Besides maintaining the coarseness of the electromechanical original game, it deals with integrating physical sounds happening on the playing field with manipulations of their demo. At present, there is no information about its availability but the minute it starts, it would have a gush of people inking deals with such masterwork.

This tiny exterior speaker for iPods and Mp3 players is now catching the eyelids of the school goers. Strange but true! Following the trend made up of wooden, the speaker system comes with a built-in pencil sharpener. True, on first go you won ‘ t pick a pencil sharpener while carrying your iPod but am sure you won’ t mind taking this complementary sharpener along.

Based on disc spinner, this tiny handmade iPod speaker can easily be hung from a bag or can be layered around your neck through a strap. Who knows while listening to your beat you can be of a help to a kid sitting next to you or can even save your own life? So are you ready to take this sharp bite?

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Sony Corp lately announced that it will hit Japan market with its four new models of Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders on 8 November. This move can be witnessed towards its ongoing combat with the HD DVD.

Sony plans to promote Blu-Ray technology with Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co that is in competition with the HD DVD format and is back sided by Toshiba and Microsoft.

The upcoming models are competent enough to store up to 16 hours of high-definition programmes on a dual-layer. The high-end model of the four comes along with a 500-GB hard disk drive and is expected with a retail price of 200,000 yen ($1,752). The USP of the Blu-ray recorders is its capability to handle traditional DVD discs.

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