September 3rd, 2008 by admin
Automobiles are usually the place where you see high tech body designs emerging. But not this time. This bike was a concept model designed by Reindy Allendra for a lifestyle and bike design competition. Because music is a big part of the designers lifestyle, he seamlessly added this capability to his bike.
The wheel movement powers the music player which has a convenient docking station on the handlebars and an ear plug port is conveniently located below that. I’d love to see wireless earphones though. The wheel movement also can power a tail and break light.
It’s a really clever, eye catching, futuristic bike design.
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August 29th, 2008 by admin
Panasonic has released it’s biggest consumer TV to date. This massive TV has an 103 inch display! That’s equal to more than four, fifty inch TV’s! Why would you ever go the movies again? Well….because it’s very expensive at about $51,000. And be warned, it’s heavy.
It does not have a built in TV tuner so you would need a high definition receiver, but it does have 4 HDMI ports instead of the usual two. This is a plasma screen not an LED.
Features:
• Full HD pixel resolution of 1,920 horizontal x 1,080 vertical
• Industry’s leading 16-bit processing to produces 4,096 steps of gradation
• Contrast ratio of up to 4,000:1 to reproduce exceptionally deep, rich blacks
• Effective display area is approximately 89″ wide by 50″ high
• Supports 1080/60p/50p, 1080/60i/50i/24p/24sF/25p/30p, 1080/50i, 720/60p/50p, 480/60i/p, and 575/50i/p video signals
• Advanced Dual Picture mode to overlay a video image onto a full-screen PC image
• Expanded configurations for multi-screen displays and the ability to enlarge an image up to 4X vertically and horizontally
• Three interchangeable slots and comes standard with the TY-FB9DD DVI board (compatible with UXGA input), TY-42TM6A analog component board, an integrated D-sub15 PC Input, and an integrated D-sub9 RS-232C interface
• Plug-in architecture allows the addition of multi-function terminal boards for added connectivity and functionality
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August 25th, 2008 by admin
The “Greenbird” as it has been dubbed, is a wind powered vehicle combining the best of Formula One Racing and aircraft body construction technology. Businessman and ecopreneur Dale Vince of Ecotricity and his friend and engineer Richard Jenkins, both from Great Britain, joined forces to finance and design this bird with the view to breaking the current land speed world record. Ten years in the making, the technology used for this wind powered vehicle will be used to design less exotic vehicles for domestic use in the future. The current world record is 116.7 miles per hour set ten years ago. The record attempt will take place on the salt flats at Lake LeFroy in Western Australia. So far the weather has not been cooperating but as soon as it does the race to break the record will begin.
The Greenbird uses a hard sail which better utlizes the thrust created by the wind, enabling the craft to travel 4 to 6 times the speed of the wind. The horizontal wing adds stability while the body is constructed of a very light carbon composite.
Let’s wish these guys luck and hope to see this emergent technology in our own vehicles some day.
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