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Remember Eye-Fi cards, which sent pictures from your regular camera to your PC over the Internet? The new one requires neither the PC nor the Internet!

Called the Eye-Fi Mobi, the card looks and works like a regular storage card, but acts as a WiFi hotspot. You connect your phone or tablet to the card using a free app, and your pictures are constantly moved to the mobile device.

The Mobi card costs $50 for 8GB and $80 for 16GB and ships today.

I wonder if your regular photos will then be instant-uploaded to Google+ and Auto Awesomed, just like your phone pictures.

AEDC electric prototype

 

AEDC electric prototype has range of 150 miles, expected to achieve 170 mph

Spain's green racing pioneers Quimera Responsible Racing and the UK's Alex Letteriello and his small team at Evelio Electric Supercars have joined forces to develop an all-electric supercar designed to race in drifting competitions, where cornering is undertaken with a thrilling sideways slide. The quite simply stunning AEDC (All Electric Drift Car), or K1 Evelio to use its given name, is capable of quietly speeding from zero to 60 mph (96.5 km/h) in just 3.2 seconds, has an average range of 150 miles (241.4 km) per charge and is expected to reach speeds of 170 mph (273.5 km/h).

It's the stuff of just about every Hollywood blockbuster car chase and a popular sport in its own right, and now the jaw-dropping oversteering technique known as drifting is about to get a whole lot cleaner thanks to the development of a 100 percent electric Drift Car. As with electric drag racing, the powerful torque of the car's electric drive is perhaps a more important factor to drift competitions than range and may even help deliver the kind of howling tire action demanded by fans of the sport.

As you may have already spotted, the design of the K1 has been heavily influenced by the Slovakian K-1 Attack Roadster sports car, but with a 170kW electric powertrain (which can be scaled up to 250kW) developing 220Nm of torque instead of a roaring V6 engine. It's currently limited to a top speed of 95 mph (153 km/h), which is rather sluggish when compared to the Tesla Roadster, for instance, but its designers are looking towards ramping that up to the 170 mph mark in the future.

The super-charged Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries are said to have been specifically chosen for speed of recharge, and superior thermal and chemical stability. They can be charged to full capacity in just an hour, or 80 percent in 20 minutes via a 30 amp socket.

The vehicle has a tubular steel chassis and fiberglass body and sports a sleek silver white metallic pearl paint job at the moment, but Quimera is running a design competition that asks folks to come up with a suitably eye-catching race design to adorn the bodywork of the electric supercar.

Sources: Quimera, evelio.co.uk/

A Walk in the Mojave: NASA Tests Mars Rover on Desert Dunes

 

The Dumont Dunes near Death Valley are a popular playground for off-road vehicle fans, who come here -- sometimes in large groups -- to race their machines up and down the sandy slopes. Early this morning, an enthusiastic group gathered in the southwest section of the dunes watching an off-road vehicle do just that. But there was something unusual about this group, and about the vehicle they'd brought with them. It wasn't a run-of-the-mill ORV they piloted through the Dumont Dunes. This vehicle, or its twin, anyway, is about to go as far off-road as a vehicle can get. The group was from Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and their ride was dubbed "Scarecrow," a sibling of the Mars Rover Curiosity set to land on Mars in late summer.

In early August, as part of the Mars Science Laboratory mission launched last November, an orbiter will drop Curiosity inside Gale Crater on the Martian equator. Mission planners are aiming for a landing site on an oddly colored patch of soil that scientists believe may be an ancient dry lake, near Mount Sharp, which seems to possess rock layers similar to those laid down in bodies of water on earth. Areologists hope to find signs of microbial life, learn more about the long evolution of the Martian landscape and atmosphere, and gather other data that may help eventual human missions to the planet.

Mars Science Laboratory is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, managed by JPL. Mission staff at JPL expect Curiosity to encounter terrain very similar to terrestrial dunes in Gale Crater, so they brought Scarecrow to the Dumont Dunes to give rover operators a little more data to aid in negotiating the sand traps of the Red Planet.

Curiosity (and Scarecrow, for that matter) is about ten feet long: twice the length of the largest previous Mars rover. The Mars-bound version has a mast-mounted system with a two-megapixel still- and video camera, as well as what JPL is calling the "Chem-Cam," an innocuous name for a laser that vaporizes rock samples from up to 30 feet away, then analyzes the vapor and dust to determine its chemical makeup. It also sports a forward robotic arm, with tools for handling and manipulating samples of Martian rock and soil, and then analyzing them for chemical makeup and signs of life. All of this is supported in insectoid fashion on a chassis with six long articulated legs, with wheels at the ends about a foot in diameter. Curiosity's operators designed the wheel treads to include a repeating pattern, so that scientists examining images from Curiosity can gauge distances by counting the treadmarks across the surface. That repeating pattern is a bit of old-style school spirit: "JPL" in Morse Code.

There are a few major differences between Curiosity and Scarecrow. With a mass of around 900 kilograms, Curiosity weighs in, on Earth, at just over 1,900 pounds. Mars gravity is a bit more than one third Earth's, so Scarecrow's handlers pared its weight down to around 750 pounds to better simulate interaction between the rover and the sandy terrain expected for Curiosity. That means no camera equipment, no robot arm, and no ChemCam to vaporize suspicious rock samples at the Dumont Dunes.

That's okay: JPL staff have enough work to do just seeing how Scarecrow moves. As the rover turns painstakingly slowly on a stretch of dune with a mild slope, JPL roboticist Jaret Matthews watches data accumulate on a laptop screen. "We don't have GPS on Mars, so we won't be able to pinpoint Curiosity's location as precisely as we could here on Earth," says Matthews. "The rover knows how many degrees it's turned and how much its wheels have rotated, but that doesn't necessarily translate to how much the rover will actually have moved, especially on sandy surfaces."

To prepare for this, the JPL crew has surrounded Scarecrow with half a dozen motion capture cameras, essentially the same technology used to convey lifelike motion in animated films. Odd grey globular protrusions the size of softballs stick up from Scarecrow's frame, giving the cameras something to resolve.

"We're taking Scarecrow to different sections of the dunes with differing slopes, and collecting information on how it actually moves in all those different conditions," Matthews says. "That will allow us to anticipate how Curiosity will move in similar conditions on Mars."

However Curiosity moves, it will do so slowly. Its designers have given it -- and its earthbound twin -- a top speed of about 0.02 miles per hour. To put that into perspective, the distance an average person could walk in a leisurely minute would take Curiosity or Scarecrow more than an hour and a half to cover. It's hard to imagine just how slow that really is until you see it for yourself:

It's not the the kind of speed one generally thinks of in the context of space exploration, but given the distance between Mars and Earth, and the consequent radio communications lag between Earth and Curiosity's onboard systems, it makes sense. Were a Martian to jaywalk in front of the rover JPL wouldn't see it for anywhere from four to 20 minutes, depending on our planets relative positions, and it would take just as long for Curiosity to know JPL had hit the brakes in response.

So Curiosity will move slowly, and engineers have given the rover a bit of navigational autonomy to make up for the delay introduced by the speed of light. "We're not going to be joysticking this one," laughs Matthews. "It'll be more like us telling Curiosity 'We want you to be over there in 24 hours,' and Curiosity will figure out the best way to get there in the interim. And if it encounters an unanticipated navigational hazard, it's programmed to take the most prudent action in the circumstances, including just stopping and waiting for new instructions."

Curiosity's landing August 6 will kick off an on-ground mission at least one Martian year long. (That's 687 of your Earth days.) In that time mission staff expect Curiosity will cover up to a dozen miles of ground -- very, very slowly. Right now, Curiosity and the Mars Science Laboratory are approaching Mars at about 13,000 miles per hour. After a trip at speeds like that, a slow saunter around the surface of Mars will likely be a nice break.

Read More:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120511.html
www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/technology/mars-rover-piece.html

The pinwheel Galaxy

This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from four of NASA's space-based telescopes. This multi-spectral view shows that both young and old stars are evenly distributed along M101's tightly-wound spiral arms. Such composite images allow astronomers to see how features in one part of the spectrum match up with those seen in other parts. It is like seeing with a regular camera, an ultraviolet camera, night-vision goggles and X-ray vision, all at the same time.

The Pinwheel Galaxy is in the constellation of Ursa Major (also known as the Big Dipper). It is about 70 percent larger than our own Milky Way Galaxy, with a diameter of about 170,000 light years, and sits at a distance of 21 million light years from Earth. This means that the light we're seeing in this image left the Pinwheel Galaxy about 21 million years ago - many millions of years before humans ever walked the Earth.

 

The miniature device placed on this beetle may make it the world's smallest cyborg. Electrodes implanted in the brain and wing muscles allow scientists to remotely control the insect's flight.
PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID LIITTSCHWAGER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

26. How do I search most effectively? How do I know which search result to follow?

 

Now that you know what search is, let’s get into how to search most effectively. First, you should keep in mind three simple tips before you begin searching:

·         Search terms should be simple. Describe what you’re looking for with the least possible terms. Imagine how the page you wish to find should be written.

·         Use words that may appear in the page.

·         Use descriptive and specific words. Avoid common words.

When choosing a link to follow, consider the title, the snippet and the web address. These pieces of information provide necessary clues to what you may find on the resulting page. Some common questions to ask yourself before clicking on a result:

·         Do I know the domain? (For instance: google.co.in, pandora.com)

·         What type of domain is it? (For instance: .com, .edu, .gov, .pe, .info, etc.)

·         Does it include a symbol or name that indicates it is a personal page? (For example: %, ~, member, user)

For further reading on searching effectively, check out these lessons and recorded live trainings brought to you by Google’s Search Education team. For quick tips and tricks on searching with Google,browse through Inside Search.

 

EX-1120 3D Display over WiFi and USB PICO Multimedia Projector - Silver

EX-1120 3D Display over WiFi and USB PICO Multimedia Projector - Silver
 

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