In addition to its traditional popular products in the form of home theater, Bluray players and cameras at various levels, Sony demonstrated two new photo printers at PMA. New devices are capable of submitting your digital photos for printing very quickly. They have been named as DPP-FP67 and DPP-FP97. The first copy of image takes 45 seconds to print, and the second would require 67 for same operation. The Model DPP FP97 HDMI is equipped with an additional output and 3.5 inch LCD display. It also Supports Bluetooth. Existing direct competitor of this photo printer is Wasabi by Dell. There is a slot for a wide range of flash memory cards, SD, SDHC, MMC, xD and Memory Stick. In general, those who have already evaluated the advantages of mobile photo printers, this device can be recommended to them whole heartedly. Price of new DPP FP6 is $120 and DPP FP97 can be purchased for $200. This unique gadget will be on sale in May.

The company CSR announced a BlueCore Chip “BC7830”, united on a single crystal module are GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, FM receiver and transmitter. Manufacturer claims that the product is the smallest in the world with smart navigation module. Area of circuits does not exceed 11mm2, and low power consumption chip corresponds to the upcoming standard Bluetooth with low energy. BlueCore BC7830 will be used in different mobile technology equipments from mobile phones to media and gaming consoles.

According to a representative from CSR the integration of “BC7830” in mobile GPS receivers costs only one dollar. Similar solutions of competitors costs more, they are bigger in size, or consume more energy. According to the forecasts of analysts low energy Bluetooth technology will be used in 428 million devices by 2010 and BlueCore BC7830 is another step towards the smart low cost gadgets.

Last year, Acer acquired a Taiwanese manufacturer WM Communicators E-TEN. According to the rumors Acer intends to enter the market of mobile phones.

The first phone will be a communicator “Acer DX900”. It does not constitute anything revolutionary, but re-branding of model E-TEN DX900. However, its functionality should be noted as it is in itself quite good. A list of complete specs is as below;

COMMUNICATION STANDARDS AND NAVIGATION

2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900
3G: UMTS 850/1900/2100 (WCDMA)
VoIP Telephony: Not provided automatically

DISPLAY AND CONTROL

Main: 2.8″ TFT (Touch), 65K Colors, 480 x 640 Resolution
Writing and Navigation: 5 Positions of Sensor

INTERFACES AND SLOTS

Wireless: WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 (A2DP)
Cable: 2.5 mm for audio, TV Out, Mini USB (USB 2.0)

FRAMEWORK

Operating system: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Extras Platform: MIDP 2.0
Synchronization: Synchronization with Windows is Possible

INTERNET AND COMMUNICATION

Data Transfer: HSDPA GPRS (Class 10), EDGE (Class 10)
Mail and Web: Internet Explorer Mobile (WAP 2.0 + HTML), E-mail client is Outlook Mobile (POP3/IMAP4/SMTP) Support
Message Services: SMS, MMS

PROCESSOR
Model: Samsung SC3 6400 533 MHz

MEMORY
Operational (RAM): 128 MB
Permanent (ROM): 256 MB
Extra Drive: No
Memory Extension: micro SDHC
Support memory cards up to 8 GB
Battery, Charger, Stereo, USB Cable, Leather Case, 2 CDs (with drivers and software).
According to some sources in this communicator GPS Navigation is not available.

BFG’s Exclusive Gaming PC Phobos can offer you a bright game world at the cost of between three and eight thousand dollars. These machines will be equipped with
Processor Intel Core i7 965 3.2GGts
Motherboard MSI Eclipse SLI
Four or less hard drives Western Digital VelociRaptor
RAM up to 6GB
Two graphics cards BFG Geforce GTX 295
Blu-Ray Disc Drive
Cooling system is a system of water cooling Liquid Cooling Solutions from CoolIT

In addition, BFG Phobos has 8-inch LCD touch screen, which will display important information about the status of the system and can be used to install various system parameters. Phobos computers will be sold in three versions: Performance ($3000), Advanced ($5000) and Elite ($8000).

Since February 1st this year, the U.S. mobile operator Verizon begins selling home telephone system with touch screen by the name of “Verizon Hub”. This fixed station is connected to the Internet via DSL connection and provides access to various online services companies (yes, we know that all of the weather resources and accounting for traffic jams on roads already sitting in our liver, but this is the most popular of the daily information needed by modern metropolis residents). The station has an attractive (in the style of Windows Vista) design and keeps records of contacts, missed calls and made calls and also contains a calendar. The most interesting of the services, in our view, is to view trailers of new movies, with the possibility of online booking of tickets.

The device is designed by Samsung for home market. Samsung displayed external projector MBP 200 Pico at CES 2009 exhibition, a full phone with a projector. Talking about the functions of the projector in a mobile phone, go long. Some Chinese manufacturers even made such a device, but the first production model is produced by Samsung. On the prospects of this direction is difficult to say, yet it is not in demanded by the buyers. But as the exotic high-tech gadget, the unit looks good.

Complete with internal 2.2-inch LCD display

DMB TV tuner

Video and MP3 playback

Touch Screen Smartphone

MBP200, can project a 480 x 320, 50-inch image

Video (DivX, Xvid, WMV9 Simple Profile, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4)

Presentation file (pdf, ppt, doc, xls or txt)

Upto 16GB of storage using microSD cards

3.5mm headphone jack

Small built-in speaker

video input socket.

Miniaturization of modern technology has reached such a level that placed the video camera with the ability to buckle belt became commonplace task. Judging from the video recording capabilities (3GP, frame size 176×144 pixels, 15 frames per second). But the length of the video is limited only by the volume of memory cards microSD (volume of more than 2 gigabytes). Video can be recorded with a sound, but the battery is only enough for three hours in the recording mode. Price has not yet been announced by Ajoka.

For hundreds of years, human being has been making dams on rivers and streams to grind grain. They also has been using it to produce generate electricity also. The scientists are going to make a new and more distinctive form of freshwater power. It will make its debut in Vandergrift, Penn which is also known as the old steel town.They will make it by making use of a grid of electricity-generating smart materials. They will establish them on the bottom of the Kiskiminetas River. It will be having full organization of energy conservation efforts. Vandergrift is likely to fulfill between 20 and 40 percent of the city center’s electric power needs.

Vandergrift will be the model green town. This was stated by Lisa Weiland - scientist at the University of Pittsburgh. He is included in the team working on this project.

Vandergrift is situated at northeast of Pittsburgh. Before now it was said to be the model steel town. But presently, as Weiland tells, it is making over itself and trying for sustainability.

That sustainable power will probably generate from a grid of rolling strips. These would be constructed of polyvinylidene fluoride or PVDF. This is a material that produces a slight electrical current. It produces it when it is moved by the currents and whirlpools produced in the Kiskiminetas River.

These materials are named as piezoelectric. The produced electrical current generated from them would go by to small substations. It will move along the river’s edge before charging a number of batteries arranged in a single unit form.

There are some other materials also that can result in a better form. They can produce higher energy densities. This was said by Weiland. But we want to endure the loss of a little power to keep the ecosystem functioning.

The Kiskiminetas River is widely known by the name of the Kiski. It is about 40 yards broad where it crosses Vandergrift.

Weiland presently decides to lay a grid having a width of 30 yards and a length of approximately a mile. It is planned to establish it down on the river bed to help power the city.

The exact details are not currently available. The information is yet to come about density of the grid, length of the PVDF strips and the time to lay down the grid. The work is going on them.

The final plans will not affect the health and appearance of the Kiski. The researchers ensured that they will keep them all. This includes fishing, canoe trips and other recreational activities going on there.Christopher Lynch who is a smart materials researcher working in the University of California, Los Angeles. He says that this is the first freshwater hydroelectric power project of its specific design and form.

Normally freshwater energy is generated from damming a river. It is attained by flooding large areas behind the dam. This is said by Lynch.

That produces plenty of pressure to move a turbine. It then generates electric power.

It’s the most result oriented method to get the river’s energy. At the same time it also has ecological consequences of intensive nature.

Weiland’s method is not able to produce as much electric power as created by a hydroelectric dam. But the good thing is that it would keep the river intact and healthy.

All of these facts are very interesting about that plan. This is said by Lynch.

In the future, the big percentage of energy will be generated from rivers, ocean waves and streams. These sources will be an important segment of the future power generations.

Weiland’s smart materials project is the first step towards developing Vandergrift from steel town to green town. It is the small part of the larger series of projects.

The electric power consumption is being tried to reduce. This is being achieved by introducing a farmer’s market, solar panels, and education programs on energy conservation.

The good results would be achieved if all of above mentioned efforts went successful. Weiland guesses a PVDF-based smart materials grid would be able to produce as much as 40 percent of the whole town’s electricity needs.

The thing needed is the cooperation and motivation of the town. These factors are required to reach that destination point. This was stated by Weiland.

Weiland also stated that such type of smart technologies can play a big role in helping us working on the way [towards sustainability].

But the whole target can not be achieved through them.

If a metal is hit suddenly and with force with light then as a result the electrons on the outer layer flow into waves which are named as plasmons. They give off light of their own body. The studies show that the frequency of that emitted radiation (light) is actually tells about the electronic characteristic nature of the surface of the metal. This light is likely to be readily affected by contaminations.Kevin Tetz has worked on this phenomenon in collaboration with his fellow scientists. They belong to the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics Group at the University of California, San Diego. They succeeded in designing a system to use them in trying for any surface contamination on the surface of any material.

They took a slim layer of metal and then drilled it with nanoscale holes by placing it onto the surface of the material being examined. They bombarded the perforated metal plate with laser light. In a result of that zapping, the surface plasmons gave off light; that emitted light’s frequency was the result of the particles hitting the plate. A sensitive light detector is required to get the measurements of the frequency of light being emitted.

The team working on this idea tells that by using this approach on latest devices will make them smaller in size and portable. The devices will function on low power. They would be able to determine the existence of anything from explosive substances to bacteria.

The only one thing which is required is to build a system having the capability to decode the light signatures.

The scientists have developed new laser technology; this technology will improve the precision of telescopes. There was a time when it was a dream but with the advent of this technology human being would be able to watch the expansion of the universe in real time.These advancements were published in the latest edition of Science. The researchers described about that. Michael Murphy is also among the researchers working on that; he is an astronomer of Swinburne University. They demonstrated how a laser frequency comb becomes helpful in calibration process of an infra-red telescope.

This laser will be greatly useful for astronomers. They would be able to know about different aspects of distant galaxies and stars in a more precise manner than ever before.

This laser frequency comb was developed by Theodor Hansch. He is a research scientist working for the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. He is also a joint noble prize winner (physics) of the year 2005. His works include the advent of the technologies.

The comb discharges pulses of light several femtoseconds in a time period of a quadrillionth of a second. These emissions are given off in regularly spaced wavelengths.

Murphy described about the functioning of this technology. He said that when this technology is linked with the telescope, you will see a ruler; this is meant to measure wavelengths. By this the movement speed of the things in space can be measured.

Murphy, who is one of the chief instigators of the research, says the team succeeded in calibrating the German Vacuum Tower Telescope, an infrared telescope used to track the movement of clouds of gas on the sun.

He says it is currently difficult to calibrate telescopes in the infrared spectrum below 10 meters per second. However by using the new technique, the team managed to achieve nine meters per second calibration.

Murphy told that we used the atomic clock for the first time in astronomy; the reason is the precision of their functioning. We are expecting great openings of new researches in a field of astronomy by this. This will enable scientists to perform and get which was a dream in the past.The technology needs many improvements and in future it will be enhanced. It will get more precise in calibration of the spectrographs to record changes. It will record them in even velocity of one centimeter/sec in the optical range with absolute accuracy and precision.

Murphy is a member of a team working for a project designated for the European Southern Observatory’s designed 42-meter diameter European Extremely Large Telescope.

It is being expected that this telescope would measure the expansion of the universe by observing the redshift movement throughout a period of next twenty years.

If any object in space is moving away from an observer, its light will be stretched towards the reddish part of the spectrum. This effect is called as “redshift”.

Some other scientists also reviewed on this development. Tamara Davis said that this development is exciting news for all researchers because it opened up many possibilities for future space research. She is an astrophysicist at University of Queensland.

She says currently we can only observe the expansion of the universe in “snapshots” with measurements taken at different times.

This technology will enable human being to get a “movie” of a galaxy’s evolution in real time.

If I would say that we would be able to drive on air in some years what would you say? It is not fantasy saying it is possible. The future vehicles would be powered by compressed air, rather than gasoline or diesel fuel.Yu-Ta Shen and Yean-Ren Hwang are the two researchers working on that technology. They belong to the National Central University (Taiwan). They succeeded in developing an air-powered motorcycle. They motorcycle will use compressed air for its energy instead of gas to drive the motor.

Hwang told that Taiwan is a populous country; pollution is a big problem there. He told that approximately 20% of the air pollution comes from motorcycles. This pollution is having carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbons. The emissions coming out of the motorcycles and scooters are more dangerous than coming out of the cars.

The only thing which will come out of the motorcycle’s tailpipe will be air. The large-scale adoption of these new motorcycles would clean up the big percentage of pollution in Taiwan. Taiwan is the country where motorcycles are the most popular transporting vehicles. This new technology will also be a big thing for other places of the world where motorcycles are mostly used for transportation.

However the use of energy could not be eliminated from these new motorcycles. It will require energy for the compression of the air; this compressed air will be used to power the engine. The pollution generated in this way will depend on the compression plants.

The presently introduced model (prototype) is able to carry more than two and a half gallons of compressed air. This air would be enough to drive the motorcycle to three-quarters of a mile.

In the future models, capacity will be increased three to four times by increasing the size of the tank. The maximum pressure which the tank would be able to hold will be made greater in degree. By this the bike will travel a distance of almost 20 miles. After that it will require a refill. This was told by Hwang. This capacity would be enough to for the requirements in the city. To refuel the bike an air compressor would be required. It will be done by establishing fueling stations.

The information about this new creation was published in the journal Applied Energy.

Other experts doing the research work on air-powered technology for vehicles do not agree that employment of this new technology in bikes would be the best option.

These scientists do not think it’s a feasible product. They describe the reason that a very limited amount of compressed air could be put on a bike. This was said by Shiva Vencat. He is Executive Vice President of MDI, Inc. in New Paltz, N.Y. and CEO of Zero Pollution Motors.

Vencat told that they have made a vehicle that will address the consumer market. He said that it is not a motor bike. The detail information about that vehicle could not be released at the moment. Briefly it would be a smaller vehicle. It will replace the motorcycles rightly in many countries like Taiwan where bikes are very much in use.

Zero Pollution Motors programs to introduce a new car in the U.S. market. It would be six-seated air-powered car. The company is competing in the Automotive X Prize race which will be held next year in September. That vehicle will be introduced after that competition. That X Prize is offering $10 million prize. This will be given to a marketable vehicle if it exceeds a fuel economy of 100 miles per gallon.

The cars manufacturing by ZPM runs of compressed air only below the speed on 35 miles/hr. if the speed exceeds, it burns fuel to warm up the air. This expands the air and enables the car to run on less air per mile. Few amount of this expanded air also returns back to the air tank. It recharges the compressed air supply.

This mechanism keeps working at the speed more than 100 miles/gallon. This was told by Vencat. The vehicles having 8-10 gallon fuel tank, the vehicles can travel 800-1000 miles distance.

The motor can also be employed as a compressor to refill the air tank. It can be done by plugging it. Vencat says that that the number of fueling stations will increase with the increase of the car adoption.

One best thing about these fuelling stations is that they can be established in open fields and also in public areas such as malls. The security measures which are necessary for the gasoline stations are not required in these compressed air stations. This was told by Vencat.

ZPM announced that they will start the manufacturing of these air-fuelled cars at the end of 2010 or start of 2011.