Tokyo Motor Show 2009

The 41st Tokyo Motor Show 2009.
The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Assosiation (JAMA) is hosted on The 41st Tokyo Motor Show 2009. The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Assosiation is one of the most well-known auto shows in the world, and it began in 1954 every two years.

Tokyo Motor Show 2009, General Public Days October 24 - November 4 2009, Venue on Makuhari Messe, Chiba City. While admission is On-site Tickets : 1300 yen for adults, 600 yen for high school students; Advance Tickets : 1100 yen for adults, 500 yen for high school students; and free for younger and middle school age childreen.

One hundred and nine car and motorcycle manufacturers and auto parts makers participate in the 41st Tokyo Motor Show, and 261 passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and motorcycles are showcased. Thirtynine cars and motorcycles make their world premieres at the show. Main events include test ride programs for passenger cars, motorcycles, and electricity-assisted bicycles.

On the Passenger Cars, West Hall: Suzuki, Honda; Center Hall: Mazda, Subaru, Toyota Lexus, Daihatsu, Alpina, Lotus, Caterham; East Hall: Nissan, Mitsubishi.
On the Motorcycles, West Hall: Yamaha, Suzuki, Honda, BRP, Kymco, Adiva and Harley Davidson.
On the Carozzeria, East Hall: Suzusho, Shibax, Phiaro, Campania and CT&T.

The 41st Tokyo Motor Show 2009 : "Fun Driving for Us, Eco Driving for Earth"

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Reason to Quit Smoke

Cigarette smoke irritates the lungs and paralyses the protective cilia, tiny hari like structures that line the airways and clean out dust and dirt.

The elastic walls of the small air sacs in the lungs break down in smokers. This condition called emphysema reduces the amount of lungs tissue available for the transver of oxygen from the air to the blood.

Passive smoking may lead to asthma and other lung disorders in childreen.
Chronic infection of the lung tissue and the airways increases the risk of asthma and lung cancer, and more diseases

Cancer causing chemical in tobacco smoke
- Arsenic, used in wood preservatives
- Cadmium, used in batteries
- Chromium, used to manufacture dye, paints and alloys
- Nitrosamines, another group of DNA-damaging chemicals
- Tar, a mixture of dangerous chemicals
- Acrolein, formerly used as a chemical weapon
- Polonium 210, a highly radioactive element
- and other chemicals

Other poisons in cigarette smoke
- Carbon monoxide, found in car exhaust and used in chemicals manufacturing
- Hydrogen cyanide, used as an industrial pestiside
- Nitrogen oxides, a major component of smog
- and more poisons

Here are a few idea to get you started to quit smoke :
Improve your health, whatever your age
Giving up smoking at any age will increase your life expectancy, provided you stop before you develop cancer or another serious disease.

Save yourself thousands of pounds
Smoking is very expensive. At today's rates, smoking around twenty cigarettes a day for the next twenty years would cost you over $30,000.

Stop the stress and the guilt
More and more buildings are now non-smoking so finding a place to smoke can be quite stressful. How many times have you felt anxious because you didn’t know when you were going to get your next cigarette? Think how nice it would be not to get stressed about where you can go to smoke.

Look after those around you
If you smoke, you may be exposing your friends, partner or children to your smoke and endangering their health. Smoking may reduce your fertility and your chances of having a baby.

Look younger and more attractive
Smoking ages your skin. It also makes you smell of smoke and stains your fingers and teeth. And in the long term, smoking could damage your circulation leading to gangrene and even amputation. So give up now before it’s too late.

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TOYOTA : Solar Charging Stations

It seemed like it would only be a matter of time before Toyota would jump into the market of using renewable energy to charge a car and they have done so in a big way. The solar charging station by Toyota will be put on display at the Tokyo Motor Show 2009. While there are other charging stations on the market for electric cars, the fact that this one is solar powered has the industry abuzz in anticipation.

The solar charging station by Toyota almost looks like something that you would have seen in one of the old sci-fi movies, but this is the real deal. It works by collecting the suns energy through solar panels and then stores the energy in a battery that is later used to charge and power the vehicle. This is just another great innovation that is pushing our world to a ‘greener’ lifestyle and will use renewable energy in yet another every day application.

While there is not yet a price tag that has been placed on the device, it should be available on the general market for purchase sometime in 2010. Current estimates have it coming out in the range of “several hundred thousand yen” (a few thousand in USD). With the money that one would save on their electric bill, you would have to think that this will be worth every penny once it finally does hit the open market.

In addition to the solar charging station by Toyota has also introduced a battery charger that can be mounted directly into the vehicle. It will just about double the current voltage to charge the secondary battery of hybrid vehicles. This is another money saver that electric car owners will probably flock to once it is available to them.

A solar panel charger for an automobile is a huge breakthrough in that hybrid and electric cars are becoming more and more popular because of the falling economy and rising gas prices. If someone can use solar charging and recover the cost of their investment in just a few months, it makes even more sense to buy one of these energy efficient cars. In less than a year, you can literally be charging your car and driving down the highway at absolutely no cost to you. The world is well on its way to becoming ‘greener’ and innovative uses of solar panel chargers will lead the way.

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CEATEC Japan 2009

CEATEC (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) Japan 2009
Below of Show Information CEATEC Japan 2009 :
Duration
* Tuesday, October 6 - Saturday, October 10
Premiere Time
* Tuesday, October 6, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Exhibition Hours
* Tuesday, October 6 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
* Wednesday, October 7 - Saturday, October 10, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location
Makuhari Messe (Japan)

Hundreds of companies have gathered to showcase their latest technology and hi tech at CEATEC Japan 2009, the largest consumer electronics trade show in Asia, which is being held at Makuhari Messe near Tokyo until October 10. Here are a few photos from CEATEC Japan 2009:

VAIO Concept
Sony also displayed a few concept items incorporating their flexible display technology, such as this future Vaio notebook

Hokodate, Squit Robot
Representatives from Hakodate showcased a pair of squid robots designed to attract attention to their area. The robots are part of an unorthodox campaign that includes some entertaining tourism promotion videos

Panasonic, Full HDTV
Panasonic exhibited their latest 3D display technology, which includes 50″ 3D Full HDTV plasma displays.

Nissan, Eporo
Nissan stole the show with their demonstration of the EPORO robot concept car, which travels in groups and is designed to avoid obstacles and collisions by mimicking the behavior of fish.

Fujitsu, Kaora Concept Phone
Designed by Wataru Igarashi, the KAORA concept features a curved design that can assume various configurations to suit different uses
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Consept Bridge could Generate Electricity from Moving Cars

When people thought about telephones in underdeveloped countries it was like they would have to invest a huge sum in infrastructure in the form of poles, wires and equipments. No one imagined about cell phones at that time. They transcend most of the infrastructures. In this hour of impending depletion of fossil fuels we have to think differently. The steps may seem small today but they might leave a huge impact in future. Today we can’t be a bystander and watch the energy scene passively.

We know that solar and wind energy is the richest sources of energy. Tiago Barros and Jorge Pereira have created a design that increases the ‘green’ quotient of a bridge. We might have experienced the fact that when cars pass below a bridge, they increase the velocity of the neighboring wind. Tiago Barros and Jorge Pereira are harnessing that quality of the wind. Their designed bridge will light up itself in the night with the power generated by the cars that pass below the bridge by the day. It works on the principle of energy conversion, i.e. from wind to electric energy. The designers believe that cars passing under the bridge will add to wind velocity by up to 20%, optimizing the rotation of the panels. The cross-wind bridge will act like a multipurpose envelope. A unique kind of envelop that will capture the wind power from a network of 2,188 light-weight rotating panels. This bridge is called as Cross-Wind Bridge.

In this design an induction power system plays an important role. It exchanges wind energy through an electromagnetic band located on each panel. This culminates into a power source which is used to light the bridge by night. This clean and green source of energy will increase the green quotient by 35% because of the punctured membrane utilized in the bridge cladding. Why? Because it is made of recycled steel from the auto industry.

Tiago Barros and Jorge Pereira team consists of Ines Valente, Rob Foote III, Yoon-Young Hur, Natalie Bazile and Joao Paulo Fernandes. The cross-wind bridge is 40m in length running southwest / northwest direction over the Segunda circular highway in Lisbon. Its path’s oblique angles are positioned in such a way that they can optimize predominant wind directions. This bridge has another unique feature; it provides a tunnel for pedestrians and bikers too. Cross-Wind Bridge also reconnects and makes accessible the remaining paths of Maria Droste Vila split by the highway and surrounded by Telheiral’s residential park. Again , the bridge gives out an all inclusive message in magnetizing sustainable development and turning rural fragments into areas of public green space.
(source : alternative-energy)

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