New Nintendo 3DS

Nintendo was forced to postpone the launch of a new portable game console, Nintendo 3DS, until next year. The failure of Nintendo Co. Ltd. launched the newest toy gacoan, Nintendo 3DS, to the market this year directly to make the performance of one of the world's largest toy producer console was dropped.

According to Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo Co. Ltd., the company predicted would bear the loss of up to 2 billion yen during the six month.

One of the main causes of the slow Nintendo's three-dimensional presence in the market due to a delay of the production process. In addition, the strengthening of the yen helped aggravate the condition of the sale of Japanese products, including Nintendo.

If Nintendo can deliver the Nintendo 3DS at the end of this year, this product will compete directly with games made by Sony Corp. and Microsoft plan would launch his latest product at the same time. You see, launched at the end of the year is the right time because the market is already looking forward to the presence of the latest gaming products.

To be sure, Nintendo will still launch 3DS. Precisely in February next year in the Japanese market, and in March specifically for the American market. Products worth 25,000 yen 12,000 yen more expensive than the Nintendo DS product, can display three-dimensional images without the need to wear glasses in three dimensions.

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Honda Jazz Hybrid at Paris Motor Show

Honda Jazz Hybrid launch world's first appearance at the Paris Motor Show. Jazz Hybrid is a hybrid car that combines a conventional engine that uses gasoline as a fuel with an electric motor Integrated Motor Assist (IMA).

Jazz Hybrid bearing the gasoline engine with a capacity of 1.3 liter, 4 cylinder, equipped with intelligent variable valve timing and lift electronic control (i-VTEC), and assisted by an electric motor (IMA). With the help of electric motors, carbon dioxide emissions Jazz Hybrid only 104 grams / km. Gasoline consumption were pretty efficient, only 23 km / liter.

As such Hybrid Jazz is much more economical fuel consumption than the second generation Jazz.

Gasoline consumption of a car is determined by the quality of gasoline, weather, traffic conditions and the way the car driving. That's why the factory test data is always higher than the test data on the highway because testing in the factory conditions are ideal.

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Samsung SE-S084D DVD Writer

An external optical drive is intended for owners of ultra-portable notebook or netbook.

As is known, the market is now many outstanding products of ultra portable notebooks or ultra-thin, or netbooks. This compact ultra-portable computers generally come with an optional optical drive. That is, users who need to buy the drive separately.

Samsung SE-S084D is intended to meet the above requirements. Users only need to connect the USB cable into the device and port on the netbooks, for example, the netbook has been able to directly use the dvd writer.

In the connecting cable, Samsung also provides an additional USB connector that serves as a backup if the USB port on the computer can not supply sufficient amounts of power that causes the drive can not be used or the power shortage during combustion.

The method used to embed a tray loading CD or DVD. To open the tray, users can simply touch or mencolekkan finger on the cover drive. After the disc is inserted, Samsung says, about 190 milliseconds later, the data can be accessed.

If connected to a video device that supports USB, an external optical drive can also be directly used. For example, if you want to see the film through the projector, if your projector supports input via USB, then stay put DVD movies into this drive, connect to a projector, is completed.

When tested, when used to write to DVD-R media, Samsung SE-S084D can write with an average speed of 5.98 x. When writing to DVD-R DL media, he wrote velocity reaches 3.75 x and when writing to CD media, the average write speed of this drive reached 18.87 x.

There is no problem when writing or reading to a media DVD-R or CD-R. Literacy drive is pretty good. However, when writing to DVD-R DL media, it seems Samsung SE-S084D little obstacles. Similarly, when examined with Surface Scan inherent property of Nero 9, the results show there is a part of the offerings that were given the category Bad.

This problem may be solved by the newer firmware later. Fortunately, Samsung's Firmware Live Update feature on this drive. Condition, the computers that use the SE-S084D DVD Writer must be connected to the Internet.
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Will Robots Clean Up Future Oil Spills

Cleaning oil spills can be costly business. If eco-friendly robots can take over and clean all the mess it will be good for marine life and humans too. MIT is developing Seaswarm robots that will utilize a special substance to absorb and collect oil from the sea surface. If everything turns out well, these robots can be used commercially in a year. These robots work best collectively. They can detect the oil spills on their own and then convey the message to their robotic group and chalk out a strategy among themselves to clean the mess.

Design of a Seaswarm:
Assaf Biderman supervised this project at MIT. He is also the associate director of MIT’s Senseable City Lab. According to him the $20,000 robots will be put on exhibition in Venice, Italy. The Seaswarm robots give the appearance of a conveyor belt of a treadmill. The conveyer belt contains material which the MIT guys call a paper towel for oil spills. It can absorb up to 20 times its weight in oil. This belt floats on the sea surface and connected to an ice cooler. When it turns the belt pushes the robots frontward and absorbs the oil with the aid of a nanomaterial. This nanomaterial is designed to attract oil and repel water. Biderman explains it as a carpet rolling on the surface of the water.

How Seaswarm works:
After soaking up the oil on the sea surface the robot can burn it on the spot or it can leave the oil in a bag which can be collected later. The heater is located on the “ice cooler” part of the body. The oil stored in the bag can be reused. According to Biderman, robots are good team players. They coordinate with one another with the help of GPS location data. They devise a strategy to clean up the mess in an effective way.

Advantages of Seaswarm:
Cost effective: If the Seaswarm robots are being deployed at the oil spill site they prove to be relatively cheap, quick and effective at cleaning up oil spills. Otherwise cleaning oil spills is quite costly as it need big ships and trained crews in large numbers. Biderman is of the opinion that if the Seaswarm robots would have been used at the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, the robots would have cleaned up the oil in two months. The cost of the whole operation would have amounted to $100 million to $200 million. If we care to look at the statistics about 800 skimming boats were in service to clean up the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. It would have needed only 5,000 to 10,000 of MIT’s autonomous robots to complete the same task.

Eco Friendly: The Seaswarm robots use clean and green solar energy. They need only 100 watts of power, or about that of a bright light bulb for their operations. You can utilize them on sea for months and they won’t ask for overtime for working incessantly.

Stability: Biderman says, “Because it (conveyor belt) adheres to the surface of the water, it cannot capsize,” he said, “So it can withstand quite severe weather. Imagine this like a leaf that lands on the surface of the water and moves with the waves and the currents and cannot be flipped over.” The robots can work under extreme conditions and rough weather. Biderman said MIT’s oil-sopping robot would be most effective in situations like the recent oil disaster, where oil is spread out.

Damage can be confined to a smaller area: Biderman shares his opinion, “Ideally, when spillage happens, the best thing to do is to contain it right where the spillage occurs. But quite often the oil goes out of containment, and this is where this technology would be most effective.”

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Early Detection of Diabetes

Scientists in London, England, found a way to detect the possibility of having diabetes 10 years. "This test works by detect the molecular genetic level in the blood, molecules called microRNA (MIR), which also can detect people at risk of heart attack or problems with blood vessels." Told by Dr. Manuel Mayr, research leader at the University of London King.

Diabetes is a disease that can snatch the vision, the kidneys, even the heart. A disease that has killed thousands of people. Nevertheless, many people who just shrugged when asked about the possibility of this disease because their symptoms can indeed invisible.

World Health Organization (WHO) and International Diabetes Federation estimates more than 50 percent of people with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes. They are generally new diabetes discovered during treatment for other diseases. The majority of patients with diabetes come to the doctor had brought a pile of complications.

London scientists this invention can be used as reference precautions for patients who have the possibility of diabetes.

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