Apple Tablet Rumors

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Apple Tablet May Arrive in Early 2010

In a breathless report, Apple Insider speculates that Apple will release a 10-inch Apple tablet-device in early 2010, a super-sized iPod Touch-like device that could be the fabled "Kindle-killer."

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Apple's much-anticipated tablet device coming early next year

Exclusive: After four years of meticulous development riddled with setbacks, Apple is now racing toward an early 2010 launch of a device that may see the electronics maker redefine the portable computing market for the second time in twice as many years.

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MacBook Touch? Maybe, Just Maybe…

Designer Tommaso Gecchelin isn’t oblivious to all the rumors surrounding a netbook or tablet-like PC made by our favorite fruit manufacturer. We try not to indulge in rumors here at YD but sometimes they do provide fuel for inspiration, such is the case with this MacBook Touch.

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Apple "MacBook Touch" MultiTouch Tablet Concept

The video is meant to illustrate the MacBook Touch concept - a tablet computer that uses Apple's multi-touch technology.

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Apple Tablet May Launch in September

Rumors of an Apple tablet – essentially a large iPhone or iPod touch – have been swirling for over a year. Today the Financial Times is adding credibility to the rumors, reporting that Apple is rushing to debut the device in time for the Christmas shopping season.

Screen size: “may be up to 10 inches diagonally”, touch sensitive (of course)

Phone capability? Unlikely – it’s more like a large iPod Touch than an iPhone.

Wireless connectivity: Same as the iPod Touch, with the ability to download media through iTunes.

Kindle Rival? May provide the ability to read books, creating a rival to Amazon’s Kindle.

Launch date: By Christmas, possibly as early as September.

Dirk Auer -- Skating on a Roller Coaster

clipped from www.china.org.cn clipped from www.china.org.cn Stuntman skates a rollercoaster in 1 minuit! Dirk Auer takes on the Mammoth rollercoaster at Trips Drill theme park, Stuttgart, Germany in a pair of rollerskates. Nutty stuntman Dirk Auer travelling at speeds up to 90 km/h and withstood forces of up 3G, as he skated the entire length of the rollercoaster a whopping 860 meters in just a minute! The stunt was extremely dangerous because a fall either side of the rollercoaster would almost certainly result in death. The custom made skates used for the stunt were designed and made by Dirk Auer himself, the construction took 110 hours of work. Each shoe has 16 wheels and weighs 20 kilogramms, 40 meters of aluminium. [CFP] clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk What a scream! Adrenaline junkie skates down 860 metre roller coaster... in just 60 seconds The German built custom-made skates for the stunt and had 16 wheels on each shoe Auer makes it safely down the wooden roller coaster in just over a minute

The Avatar Digital 21X optical zoom pocket camera

clipped from www.redferret.net The Red Ferret Journal Avatar Digital Binocular Sports Camera – the stakeout machine World too far away? Want to see stuff but can’t move closer? If you’ve answered Yes to either of these questions then you need the Avatar Digital Binocular Sports Camera. It’s got a 2 megapixel camera with a 21× optical zoom and 2.5″ display. There’s 1 Gb of internal storage, a microSD slot, TV out, a voice memo for dictating your shopping lists and you can record stills or video. clipped from www.chinavasion.com Avatar Digital Binocular Sports and Spy Camera - Great 40x Zoom Digital Binocular Sports and Spy Camera with a telescopic lens that is great for outdoor surveillance. The Avatar comes with a 2.5 inch display screen for viewing comfort and multimedia functions, including music and video player. This single lens video and photo camera is often called a "Monocular Telescopic Sports Camera". At a Glance... Telescopic Lens 2.5 Inch LCD Display Professional Grade Music & Video Player AV output to TV and Monitors clipped from eu.chinavasion.com clipped from eu.chinavasion.com clipped from eu.chinavasion.com clipped from eu.chinavasion.com clipped from eu.chinavasion.com

MIT Electric Car charges in 10 minutes

clipped from www.pcworld.com MIT Electric Car May Rival Gas Models on Performance Inside a plain-looking garage on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's campus, undergraduate Radu Gogoana and his team of fellow students are working on a project that could rival what major automobile manufacturers are doing. The team's goal is to build an all-electric car with similar performance capabilities of gasoline-only counterparts, which includes a top speed of about 161 kph, a family sedan capacity, a range of about 320 kilometers and the ability to recharge in about 10 minutes. clipped from mit-evt.blogspot.com clipped from web.mit.edu Demonstrated Success: Porsche 914 BEV EVT converted a 1976 Porsche 914 into a battery electric vehicle (BEV) using 18 Valence Technology lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and an AC induction motor. Second Vehicle: elEVen Having completed the Porsche 914 BEV conversion, EVT started a second conversion in June 2009. clipped from www.youtube.com Electric car may surpass gasoline performance? clipped from dvice.com MIT electric car charges in 10 minutes

Point of View's Mobii ION 230 Netbook

clipped from www.gadgetfolder.com Point of View intros Mobii ION 230 netbook with NVIDIA ION clipped from www.gadgetfolder.com Point of View, well known as a partner for production of NVIDIA graphics cards, presented its first netbook based mobile platform, NVIDIA Ion. It has been named Mobii ION 230. This netbook is combines energy-efficient Intel Atom 230 CPU (frequency 1.6 GHz) NVIDIA ION chipsets, equipped with an integrated GeForce 9400M GPU from NVIDIA. This ION Graphics Processing Unit is supported by modern technologies such as DirectX 10 (Shader Model 4.0), NVIDIA PureVideoHD and CUDA. There is hardware acceleration when playback high definition video as 1080p. clipped from www.hitechreview.com The Mobii ION 230 combines Intel’s energy-efficient Atom 230 CPU with NVIDIA ION graphics to create a small, low-power notebook with amazing capabilities. The ION Graphics Processing Unit is DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0 enabled and powers a 10.2” 1024×600 LED LCD screen. With NVIDIA graphics technologies such as PurevideoHD and CUDA the possibilities are endless! clipped from www.pointofview-online.com clipped from www.pointofview-online.com clipped from www.pointofview-online.com clipped from www.pointofview-online.com clipped from www.pointofview-online.com clipped from www.pointofview-online.com

Freestyle: Coca-Cola's New Interactive Vending Machine

clipped from www.thecoca-colacompany.com News Release COCA-COLA'S NEW INTERACTIVE VENDING MACHINE WINS GOLD AT CANNES LIONS 2009 INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING FESTIVAL ATLANTA, June 29, 2009 - A new interactive Coca-Cola vending machine with a large format touch-screen and Bluetooth capabilities has taken home the Gold Lion in the Point of Sale category at the 2009 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. The festival, widely considered as the world's premier showcase for excellence in advertising and design, concluded over the weekend in Cannes, France. clipped from replicatorinc.com Coca-Cola Freestyle: Custom Soda Fountain clipped from www.fastcompany.com Coca-Cola's 100-Flavor Interactive Freestyle Soda Fountain in Action [video] Ever had one of those moments where all you wanted was a Diet Black Cherry Vanilla Coke, but all the fountain could offer you was regular old diet? Coca-Cola is doing away with that problem by introducing a new beverage dispenser. Heralded as the "fountain of the future" by Coke PR flaks, the "Freestyle"

Axis Mundi's Alternative Design for MoMA Tower

clipped from www.greenmuze.com The MoMA Tower Design Manhattan architecture firm Axis Mundi recently unveiled an alternative conceptual design for an expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City – the MoMA Tower at 53 W 53rd. clipped from www.interiordesign.net The firm used parametric computer-modeling software to create ring units called "SmartBlocks" that allow for a wide variety of floor plans. Using parametric computer-modeling software, Beckmann has created a conceptual alternative to the tower which is planned for the site that was purchased from New York's Museum of Modern Art by real estate developer Hines. It was purchased with the caveat that the project would house additional gallery space for the museum. The Axis Mundi alternative comes as the Hines/Nouvel proposal currently moves through New York's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. clipped from www.designboom.com axis mundi unveils conceptual design for MoMA tower

Flux Chair -- Portable Foldable Chair

clipped from trendsupdates.com Portable Seating furniture: Flux Chairs The best part about conceptual designs in home decor they are real and can be bought. As a home-maker, a woman would always want something stark, something unconventional in the interiors that can woo visitors. The Flux Chair is one top-of-the-heap seating furniture that can be folded into a flat tote-like-structure and carried anywhere. clipped from www.fluxchairs.com clipped from vimeo.com

Sandfish lizard swims through sand

clipped from www.scientificamerican.com A lizard that swims through sand Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology used a high-speed x-ray camera to peer through the sand and see. The little lizards, it turns out, use a far different mode of locomotion under the sand than they do at the surface. “Once below the surface they no longer use their limbs for propulsion," study leader Daniel Goldman said in a statement. “Instead they move forward by propagating a traveling wave down their bodies like a snake.” clipped from io9.com clipped from www.youtube.com Sandfish lizard swimming in desert sand as a snake in water clipped from www.physics.gatech.edu Professor Daniel Goldman's Complex Rheology And Biomechanics Lab in the School of Physics at The Georgia Institute of Technology **For sandfish information, go here

eSolar Power Plant Technology

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eSolar power plant technology utilizes small, flat mirrors which track the sun with high precision and reflect the sun's heat to a tower-mounted receiver, which boils water to create steam. This steam powers a traditional turbine and generator to produce solar electricity.

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Power Tower Technology
A field of sun-tracking heliostats reflects solar heat to a thermal receiver mounted atop a central power tower. The focused heat boils water within the thermal receiver and produces steam. The plant pipes the steam from each thermal receiver and aggregates it at the turbine, powering a power generator. The steam then reverts back to water through cooling, and the process repeats.



The eSolar Building Block
A small and mass-manufactured heliostat is the building block of the eSolar™ solution. eSolar designed the heliostats for deployment in pre-fabricated "heliostat sticks" that can be installed easily with minimal skilled labor. Low wind profile design allows fields of eSolar™ heliostats to be installed faster than any competitive CSP solutions.



Cost-Based Design
Thousands of systematically spaced heliostats combine to form the eSolar™ modular field, comprised of north and south facing mirror sub-fields. Both mirror fields concentrate sunlight to a patented dual-port eSolar™ receiver atop a central tower. The sub-field design optically optimizes the layout to maximize the harvested thermal energy.



The eSolar Solution
A 46 MW eSolar™ power unit consists of sixteen towers (each with its own north-south heliostat sub-field), a turbine generator set, and a steam condenser. 46 MW power units fit on a 1/4 section, or 160 acres. eSolar can construct multiple 46 MW units to scale to any size to meet customer needs.

Clipped from: Technology Review: Solar Thermal Heats Up

Solar Thermal Heats Up

ESolar expects to start up its large solar thermal plant soon.

Power mirrors: ESolar's solar thermal test bed in Lancaster, CA, is set to start producing power for the grid later this summer. The field's 24,000 mirrors can produce five megawatts of electricity by reflecting solar radiation to tower-based water boilers that drive turbines.

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eSolar on CNN

Solar plant brings hope
Lancaster, California, hopes to use alternative energy to power an economic recovery. CNN's Kara Finnstrom reports.

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Plataforma Solar Solucar

Wooden Workstation

clipped from www.unplggd.com Final Frame: Marlies Romberg’s Wooden Computer Workstation Marlies Romberg’s Wooden Computer Workstation is a wood lover's dream come true, incorporating a desktop system into traditional furniture using a laser cutting system to create a working keyboard, accompanied by a wooden mouse and monitor. clipped from mocoloco.com And the fitting accessory for Dear Diary 1.0, Topsecret, the porcelain and silicone USB stick on which you can save your personal information and secrets. "With the signet you are sure no one read it." clipped from www.marliesromberg.nl clipped from www.thedesignblog.org With her refreshing industrial art, Marlies has succeeded in her goal “to materialize the ungraspable fast digital world and create an opportunity for nostalgia in this future world.”

HP Nobag a Laptop Designed for Women

clipped from gadgets.infoniac.com Stunning Designs of Laptops for Women The Russian designer Nikita Buyanov, recently unveiled several stunning laptop designs he developed for Intel/Hewlett Packard. The main idea behind these amazing models is the fact that they were all created for women. clipped from www.behance.net Nikita -trainfender- Buyanov laptops for HP-Intel. Concepts By: Nikita -trainfender- Buyanov clipped from www.behance.net HP Nobag Yes, it's made for little bags and persons who don't like big square laptops. Hard OLED technology with touch sensors, deep blue color of pure glass - what else do you need? clipped from techno-internet.blogspot.com This option is a laptop designed for women who do not like bags for laptops and prefer the small elegant accessories. In the closed laptop like a folded fan. When pressed, he «revealed», go smoothly stylish monitor and keyboard is unique. Equipped with special shoes, allowing it to be painted by hand.

Printable Batteries

clipped from www.tgdaily.com Ultra-thin batteries can be printed out Chemnitz, Germany - German scientists have created batteries so thin that they can be printed out, and reckon they'll be doing it on a commercial scale by the end of the year. The research team, led by Professor Reinhard Baumann of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems (ENAS), has already produced the batteries on a laboratory scale. "Our goal is to be able to mass produce the batteries at a price of single digit cent range each," said Dr Andreas Willert, group manager at ENAS. clipped from www.sciencedaily.com Inexpensive Thin Printable Batteries Developed Printable batteries. (Credit: Image courtesy of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) clipped from www.fraunhofer.de