Shockwave-Generating Wave Discs Could Replace Internal Combustion Engines. Michigan researchers have built a prototype of a new auto motor that does away with pistons, crankshafts and valves, replacing the old internal combustion engine with a disc-shaped shock wave generator. It could slash the weight of hybrid cars and reduce auto emissions by 90 percent. The generator is about the size of a saucepot, and would replace the 1,000-pound power train in most cars — no transmission, cooling system, emissions regulation or fluids needed. Norbert Müller and colleagues at Michigan State University showed off the new motor prototype at a meeting with the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency. It consists of a rotor carved with wave-like channels.
Fuel and air enter through central inlets, and the rotor spins to block their exit through a separate outlet. The novel generator would use about 60 percent of fuel for propulsion, according to MSU. MSU received a $2.5 million ARPA-E grant to develop the technology. [Next Big Future] Cheers To Finger Power! Future technology. Mind you, this is not a “Green” concept and neither does it claim to be “Eco Friendly”. It’s just a helpful solution for a tricky situation. The situation being: you running out of juice on your mobile phone. So what do you do? Remove the battery from the back of the phone; give it a few good turns around your index finger and its gathered enough power to last you a conversation or a safe trip to your charger and electric point.
Designers: Song Teaho & Hyejin Lee Future technology devices conceptEbook readersConcept phone nokiaInteresting technologyFuture computers conceptCool gadgets 2010Technology future. The William. The Future of Work – Transparent Monitors & Pocket Library. The Future of Work – Transparent Monitors & Pocket Library Pocket Library – Flexible e-ink screens, as easy on the eyes as newsprint, will wirelessly grab the documents you need when you enter a meeting.
You can then unfurl them on the train or switch over to the newspaper. Researchers at Dutch company Polymer Vision have created flexible circuitry that bonds to displays at low temperatures so that screens can bend without melting or breaking. Now they’re working on circuits for high-resolution 8-by-11-inch displays. Transparent Monitors – Go ahead, stare out the windowit’s also your monitor. Source: Popular Science. Ten Unusual Shapes For Mobile Phones. Ten Unusual Shapes For Mobile Phones The form factor of your cellphone is quite a defining factor on whether you approve of it or not. The grip, the interface and accessibility, all depend on this. At Yanko, we have covered some really unique and unusual forms and here is a re-cap of the Ten Most Unusual Shapes For Mobile Phones. 10) Nokia 888 Mobile Phone by Tamer Nakisci A wiggly worm or a bracelet, you choose its form! 9) Tarati – Touchless Cellphone by Nonobject No keys on this phone, just poke your stubby fingers through the holes to dial the numbers, fat fingers…watchout!
8 ) The Brix by Seokwon Hong Long before someone thought of the tablets, designer Seokwon Hong gave us a taste of prime screen space with this concept. 7) Soft Mobile Phone Concept by Roman Kriheli Reminds me of a puffer fish more than anything else! 6) Dial Phone by Jung Dae Hoon Jewelry, retro , projector mish-mash! 5) Mobile Script Phone by Aleksandr Mukomelov 4) “_______” by Marc Schömann 3) Soft Phone by Qian Jiang. Scobleizer — Exploring the 2010 Web. Techmeme. Slashdot Stories (10)
TechCrunch. Microsofts 3-D Strategy <small>Microsoft's Craig Mundie describes how the company's vision of 3-D gaming could extend to all computer interactions.</small> Microsoft has joined the wave of companies betting that 3-D is the next big thing for computing. At a recent talk at MIT, chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie said he sees the technology as an innovation that "will get people out of treating a computer as a tool" and into treating the device as a natural extension of how they interact with the world around them. Microsoft plans to introduce consumers to the change through its gaming products, but Mundie outlined a vision that would eventually have people shopping and searching in 3-D as well. The combination of better chips, better displays, and better sensors, Mundie said, is finally making it possible to move computing from today's graphical user interfaces to the "natural user interface," by allowing people to interact with 3-D content through the gestures they normally use.
Mundie also argued that natural user interfaces would reduce the mental effort required for people to operate software. WCF Data Services. Overview[edit] WCF Data Services exposes data, represented as Entity Data Model (EDM) objects, via web services accessed over HTTP. The data can be addressed using a REST-like URI. The data service, when accessed via the HTTP GET method with such a URI, will return the data. The web service can be configured to return the data in either plain XML, JSON or RDF+XML.
In the initial release, formats like RSS and ATOM are not supported, though they may be in the future. In addition, using other HTTP methods like PUT, POST or DELETE, the data can be updated as well. The URIs representing the data will contain the physical location of the service, as well as the service name. Or The former will list all entities in the Collection set whereas the latter will list only for the entity which is indexed by SomeArtist. References[edit] How I use OneNote for my Dissertation « ProtoScholar.
The question came up recently about how I am using OneNote for my dissertation note taking. Sometimes show is easier than tell. I have one OneNote notebook called Dissertation. Within it, I have 8 sections: A few things about this: The first 5 sections reflect the 5 chapters required in my dissertation: Introduction, Literature Review, Methods, Findings, ConclusionI have a tab called Media into which I put less scholarly discussion around my topic. Within each section, I am creating multiple tabs with notes on specific sub-areas. Notice that the first tab is labeled structure. Below that, each 1st author has a tab. Within each tab, I take notes on the paper. Key things to notice: the bibliographic reference is at the top. In this case I copied the abstract in, since it did a good job of summarizing the paper.
If I see a specific number or quote that I believe I will use, I include those in the page. I have done some playing around with tags, but find that to be OneNote’s weakest feature. System Center: Service Manager. Capabilities Infrastructure provisioning System Center helps you manage virtual and cloud environments with full support for Windows Server capabilities, including industry-leading Hyper-V scale and performance, plus support for VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer.
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