Apple Presented IPad2

Today in San Francisco, Apple introduced the latest version of the iPad 2 . CEO Steve Jobs , who quit because of illness, contrary to the predictions personally appeared at the presentation. iPad 2 on a third thinner than the previous version. He has a faster processor, improved graphics, and it is equipped with HDMI-output. The device is equipped with two cameras, one front and one behind. With the help of one of the chambers can be made video calls. The product will be released in black and white. Price iPad 2 will be from $ 499 (16 GB, WiFi) to $ 829 (64 GB, WiFi +3 G). In the U.S. iPad 2 will go on sale March 11 in Canada, Australia, Mexico, Western and Eastern Europe - in late March.

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New MacBook Pro

Apple introduced an updated line of MacBook Pro . The most important improvement is the appearance of a notebook processors Sandy Bridge. 15 and 17-inch model for the first time in the history of Apple equipped with quad-core processors. Among the updates is also to answer the emergence of a new port called the Thunderbolt, thanks to which Apple promises the highest transmission speed of any data.

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Light Butterfly - On Milan And Sao Paulo Streets

"Light Butterfly" by Chiara Lampugnani Design - an innovative project, demonstrated on the streets of Sao Paulo and Milan as part of the international Led Light Festival (which ran from December 4, 2010 to January 10, 2011). According to the creators of the project is an effort to look at street lighting through the eyes of a child.

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Kin One And Kin Two Mobile Phones From Microsoft

Earlier this week, a presentation of two new products by Microsoft - mobile phones Kin 1 (vertical slider), and Kin 2 (horizontal slider). Both devices are targeted at youth (under 25) audience, and are optimized for use in social networks: they are established customers Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.
Phone Kin One smaller in size and is equipped with 4 gigabytes of internal memory and pyatimegapikselnoy camera, and Kin Two - more and has 8 gigabytes of memory and vosmimegapikselnuyu chamber able to shoot HD-video, the newspaper Vedomosti.
According to the Internet portal "Kompyulenta, Microsoft partner on the Russian market will be the mobile operator MTS: that he will begin distributing these devices in the autumn of 2010. Cost models range from 200 to 300 dollars.

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Interactive Touch Control Floor

With the advent of new gadgets and computers perspective use touch control staet increasingly apparent. At the same time, the common approach to implementing this technology in touch screens has its limitations: the distance between the user and the device can not be greater than the length of his outstretched hands. In turn, this means that the size of the display also can not go beyond certain limits, therefore, the number of objects displayed on it has its limits.
Trying to transfer sensor control on a large surface area, researchers from Potsdam, led by Professor Patrick Baudisch (Patrick Baudisch), invented an interactive floor. Perhaps, when using this management tool users have the feeling that he was walking on a giant screen iPhone or iPad.
Interface elements, which is proposed to manage, mostly legs, formed by back projection. As modern touch screens, interactive floor supports multitouch. Gadgets can "learn" a specific pattern of sole, which allows it to respond to the commands of active users and do not respond to the actions of strangers.
A large area of contact surfaces gave developers the ability to assign different commands to different parts of the sole. For example, moving the weight on one or another part of the foot, you can specify the nature of motion or action objects are displayed. Another advantage of large format is the high accuracy of control: setting the cursor function of a single point on the sole can not only activate the application or print, but it is to work successfully with graphical editors.

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Firegard Robot

With the development of technologies and the emergence of all kinds of robots, the human work in many places replaced by the work of machines. This is especially significant for occupations which are hazardous to human life. Recently, devices that will help people in such matters, is being developed more and more. Today we present the concept Firegard, which should help firefighters.



The device is equipped with on-board camera allows the operator to perform the navigation and perform visual observation, as well as multiple sensors. So, before you yourself get into the room, firefighters will be able to get such vital information as the degree of flame propagation, the temperature and the concentration of toxic and explosive substances.



At the same time, innovative chassis and flexible body Firegard provide maximum throughput, greatly exceeding human abilities. Thus, not only does it save firefighters from unnecessary risk, but also helps them make more accurate decisions on the correctness of which can affect the lives of many people.

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