London could have a floating airport in the future

Before anyone is confused, we do not mean that the airport afloat in the air, but in water. That's the idea behind a high conceptual airport technology called "London Britannia Airport" and that will be established in the estuary of the River Thames in London.
Gensler architectural firm behind this proposal is expected to cost no less than $ 80,000 million. As we said, the building would be located on the estuary of the river above English and have four runways floating 5 kilometers each. The airport access would be through a high-speed subway. What if you drive? For there is no problem, as close to the airport, and obviously on earth, there will be three terminals to leave our vehicles .
The proposed signature also includes some modifications to the current Heathrow Airport. The old airport would become a green airport and flights in excess would be sent directly to the airport runways Britannia. But that's not all, as Heathrow would also become a kind of ecological city with accommodation for 300,000 persons.
It is estimated that flights can be made 24 hours a day since being in the middle of the estuary, the sound of the planes will not be a problem. Much of the energy of the building be achieved through turbines would be located around the airport.

 

In the past, both in the U.S. and Japan sought to create airports like this, but nothing was realized due to the high costs. Will it become a reality in London? 

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Google Patents gloves similar to those used Take Cruise in Minority Report

 

In a few years they will sell gloves with sensors in the fingertips, like what Tom Cruise used in Minority Report.

Increasingly we approach our homes to the technology we see in movies, but I think we have much to transport us as do Star Trek. At least now we will be able to use the technology that uses gloves Tom Cruise in Minority Report.
Well, not the exact same but very similar as these gloves possess a processor powerful enough to recognize objects, compare images, and send orders. But we must not get so excited because these gloves are not as advanced technology so it will need another device to interact with them. These gloves with cameras and motion sensors were patented last year but only approved the request last week.
The sensors are going to be able to find in the fingertips and allow us to record the hand movements and translate into orders for the device. "Like human nature," they say in the patent. At least for the first version of the gloves, we'll need another device to interact with them but hopefully for the version 2 can be used alone. In addition, the sensors capture the lateral movement, the zoom and move back to the different screens .
Google obviously we are presenting devices interesting as not to forget what Project Glass lenses, augmented reality glasses were presented in early July at the developer conference Google I / O. With these glasses you can record and send images to other devices, and to see them through their own lenses. It's still a bit early to talk about prices but if you know that your marketing will begin in 2014.

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iPad Mini would be presented in October iPhone 5 in September

 

There are still no official details about the iPhone 5, and no one really knows if Apple is working or not on an iPad Mini. The rumors flying around the net lately and one is still fairly supported by several sources. This particular rumor says that iPad Mini not debut alongside the iPhone 5 on September 12 as most people thought. It seems that on that date will only be presented the new iPhone, but the iPad Mini would be filed only in the month of October, which can result in a very good marketing strategy for Apple as it is about products that are quite expected by consumers.
Hopefully you will not have to wait much longer to witness the technology to incorporate these two devices.

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Rockchip: the world's thinnest tablet?

 

In the market we can find all kinds of tablets, all equipped with different technology to meet the needs of all types of consumers. The CRC Chinese manufacturer has just introduced a tablet that is said, is the world's thinnest, a dual-core 10.1 inch Rockchip called CRC. The device, which runs at 1.6GHz, has a great screen with resolution of 1220 × 800 pixels and has 1GB of RAM and a high-end graphics processor.
The price, weight or dimensions of Rockchip not yet been announced, but at least we know we have WiFi, Bluetooth, 2 cameras , USB and HDMI ports, 3G connectivity and a microSD card slot.

We hope to have more news soon as this tablet looks very promising.

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Even babies have their own robots

How can a 5 month moving by itself? You can not, but could through the use of a robot, but it is a kind of robot-sitter, but a robot used to carry babies and forth at will.
This new generation of robots, equipped with modern technology , are aimed at babies with mobility problems, so parents have to worry a little less for their children.
Carole Dennis is a therapist in New York City, and she and her team want that small babies with similar problems and movement can grow properly like the rest.

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Carbon network allows a battery to recharge 120 times faster

 

From South Korea comes this new technology , which allows the batteries to recharge at incredible speeds ranging from 30 to 120 times faster than normal.
How is this possible? Thanks to the carbon bearing networks batteries as indicated in the title. How does this work? To explain it is better to make an analogy.
Imagine you have a bucket of ice, but empty. You need to fill it with water, but do not want to spill the water, so you have to fill the gaps carefully one by one, so you can take forever. Now imagine that you use the tap has several sugarcane output for water, and each is for a hole in the bucket: this way, you'll fill the bucket faster. For this new system of charging for the battery works the same way.
Thanks to carbon networks, magazines are powered battery all at once, thus allowing recharge time are severely diminished. A battery that took 6 hours to recharge it would recharge in only 3 minutes. Now that's speed, is not it?
Now I just need to wait for this to become commercial.

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HTC beats Apple in a court action on the screen desblockeo

The high court in London determined that HTC will not have to pay anything to Apple in a dispute that began a year ago. The Swedish company was able to cancel the European patents on the block, to prevent future process for violation of copyright.
 
The main one is the "Slide to unlock" ("slide to desblockear" present in several Android phones). The English court says the technology can even be used by Apple, but its development was a copy of "obvious" in an old feature of HTC phones, which now occurs in iPhones.
Other patents rejected talk of a keyboard with support for multiple languages ​​and a system that identifies points on the screen, activated by several hints. Apple does not comment on the decision, but it was acid in a statement where he said "competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."

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Galaxy Note 10.1 officially

 

Previously we saw that was in pre , but now the Galaxy Note 10.1 was officially presented. Of course it was revealed the full specifications of the tablet as well as price. At first glance, is a tablet that ensures performance and comfort, and it is an ideal equipment for designers as it comes with a great stylus, S Pen.
One of the most attractive features of this tablet is that it comes with apps such as exclusive Note S, S Planner, Crayon Physics, Adobe Photoshop Touch and Polaris Office which can be used with the S Pen and the technology palm rejection, thanks to which we can keep our designs are damaged due to contact with the palm of our screen. Let the software and let us now turn to the part of hardware , since the presence of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is quite evident.
As will mean, 10.1 Note the Galaxy has, indeed, a 10.1-inch screen, which also has a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. In addition it has a 1.9-megapixel front camera, and a standard 5 megapixel camera. Inside is a Exynos processor 4412, which is a quad-core 1.4GHz marching and also is accompanied by 2GB of RAM. Regarding the internal memory is consumer choice and may be 16, 32 or 64GB, and it is also our choice if we want the WiFi-only version or the version with 3G and WiFi.

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Nuance Nina, new voice assistant for smartphones

 

Nuance is the company behind voice recognition systems and the Siri of Apple . Now the firm has decided to launch an app to provide smartphones with this type of attendees: Nuance Nina. It is clear that the moment this application is aimed at developers.
Nina uses the technology of speech recognition company and combines it with a voice biometrics, enabling it to be recognized not only what the user says, but also can recognize who says it. Developers of IOS and Android can now be done with the app Nina to start doing tests.

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HTC smartphone could present a 5-inch Full HD in September

 

Smartphones HD are those with a screen resolution of approximately 1280 × 720 pixels (also known as 720p). Such phones have been around for almost a year, and now HTC seeks to lead the new generation with the launch of a smartphone than 5 inches which would screen Full HD resolution, ie 1920 × 1080 pixels (1080p).
It appears that this phone would be announced in September or October. Apparently have a Snapdragon processor S4 (probably quad-core), take a GPU Adreno 320 and of course you will have Android operating system, and most likely and which carries the version Jelly Bean.
What will it cost? When will the market? What will? What technology incorporated? We do not have these answers, but if the sources are wrong then HTC will answer these questions in a couple of months, you only need to be attentive, although our attention may be diverted by the arrival of phones like the iPhone 5 of Apple and the Galaxy Note 2 from Samsung.

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New type of radar can see through walls

 

At University College London (part of the University of London), designed a radar capable of identifying changes in frequency, which gives you the ability to detect objects and people moving across a wall. Karl Woodbridge and Kevin Chetty have built a prototype of the radar which is the size of a suitcase. Under the Radar is a radio wave receiver with two antennas and a signal processing unit. Investigators say they were able to use the device to determine location, speed and direction of a person.
The most interesting thing is that the technology of radar also allows you to capture changes in frequency through a brick wall up to 30 centimeters wide and it can not be detected because it does not emit any type of wave, only receive. Is expected to be completed when the device can be used by the military and the police.
There is a small drawback with the radar and it is needed that the other side wall has a wave-emitting source, such as, for example, a WiFi router (as seen in the figure).

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Maily, the app that introduces children to the world of email

The technology is widely used by adults for one thing: communicate. For our children begin to take their first steps in this great world that is Internet may do so by sending and receiving emails. But services such as Gmail, the new Outlook and others may not interest the children, so it was developed an app for iPhone called Maily, which is aimed at children from 4 to 9 years old.
Maily to send and receive mails. As its users are younger, have bright colors and can add stamps to messages, also gives our children the opportunity to draw pictures to send messages and write by hand. There is a feature that allows you take a picture with iPhone camera and can be sent also by mail.
Maily is available free on the App Store.

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HP launches new laptops with attractive designs

 

Have already been put on sale a couple of new notebooks from HP that measure 14 inches, the HP 2149se and HP g4-g4-2169se, both available via Walmart and priced at $ 500 and $ 630 dollars respectively. Both are female-oriented laptops or anyone who likes a lot of colors inspired designs and butterflies. Let's see how they differ.
The g4-2149se HP has a modern processor technology launched this year, the A6-4400m AMD dual-core architecture Trinity, beside which we find a 500GB hard drive and a Radeon HD 7520G, plus 4GB RAM.
The g4-2169se HP has a better processor than her younger sister, as it is an Intel Core i5-2450m and third generation also has a 640GB hard drive. It also has 4GB of RAM, Intel graphics card HD 3000 is not as good as the Radeon just mentioned. Note that this model has Bluetooth connectivity.
The specifications in common they share is the aforementioned RAM, a battery of 5.5 hours of battery life and a DVD burner. Both are good for everyday tasks such as notebooks have noticed.

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Note Galaxy is already in pre-10.1

 

If you prefer to leave the popular, and instead of getting a tablet like the iPad from Apple or Amazon Kindle Fire opt for something a little less known, then a good choice for insurance is the new Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, which is already in presale and can be yours for $ 750, a cost that I think is a bit exaggerated. Keep in mind that this price is for the white model and unlocked.
In any case, it may seem exaggerated or not, when you buy the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 Notice will be making a tablet whose technology includes a processor Exynos quad-core 1.4GHz. Besides this has 16GB of internal memory and generous touch screen measures 10.1 inches and has a resolution of 1280 × 800.
Other specifications that have leaked a few days ago Android 4.0 include 2GB of RAM and a 5 megapixel camera, but has not been officially confirmed.

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Swumanoid, the Japanese robot could replace the lifeguards

 

Scientists at the Institute of Technology in Tokyo have been very busy lately Swumanoid in developing a humanoid robot capable of swimming and one day could be the replacement of the lifeguards.
Swumanoid The prototype is able to swim and crawl to 0.64 meters per second, you can swim back and even butterfly swimming style that many regard as the most difficult because it is the most stressful, but being a robot, fatigue is not a problem.
The main objective of the team that is developing the Swumanoid is to one day help save the lives of those who are drowning. Are also expected to be used to collect data and repeating patterns to analyze hundreds of times, helping to refine the techniques of human swimmers.

Maybe in 10 years to see these robots saving people on the beaches around the world.

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Biometric Shoe, the shoe that identifies who will fit

 

Strangely, the gait of a person can give us some details about it, but it can also serve as a way to identify someone, or do any of you do not know perfectly the steps of some of his relatives? Well, at least in my case, that is. Regardless of whether your case or not, the Biometric Shoe is a new type of shoes that can identify the person using them. How is this accomplished? By the pressure exerted over by a person walking, and this in addition to providing partial information on the individual characteristics may also help identify it.
Researchers are working on the development of the Biometric Shoe, able to identify people by their gait. The idea is to use the pace and pressure of each person to walk like a future identification protocol, which surely requires some technology bonus on top of that employed in the shoe. Which is used in this way should imply that the walking style of each person is totally unique, but do not see why it can not be copied.
What do you think about it?

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Digg load again

 

You know Digg? If you do not know the name, was an English website that became very popular, but then began his big drop to the point of being sold at only $ 500,000. Betaworks was the one who bought Digg about a month ago and a half ago, and has been responsible not only redesign but also launching a new application for iPhone.
John Borthwick, CEO of Digg, says the site has now been recreated from scratch and has a new structure, not to mention also that it is much more profitable than the old Digg.
The new Digg preserved, obviously, the purpose of the above, as it is still a great platform to share links, news , blogging and to collect any information from different areas today, including science, sports, business, entertainment and technology .
If you miss the old Digg, you can stop by the new, still preserves the old domain: digg.com

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Consumers will spend $ 2.1 trillion in 2012 with technology

 

By the end of 2012, consumers worldwide will spend $ 2.1 trillion in digital information and entertainment products and services, according to projections by Gartner. This means an increase of $ 114 billion for 2011.

The pace of sales growth should rise to U.S. $ 130 billion a year, with the total jumping to $ 2.7 trillion by 2016.

The consultant explained that the amount will be used to purchase mobile phones, computing and entertainment, media and other intelligent services, the services needed to make the devices connected to work, and software and media content to be consumed by it all.

"The biggest consumer segments in the technology are and will remain, mobile services, mobile phones and entertainment services," said Amanda Sabia, principal research analyst at Gartner.

Only the mobile focus 37% of total global technology spending this year. It is the equivalent of U.S. $ 0.8 trillion, but almost come to a trillion dollars, efetivemente in 2016. The cell, in turn, get the cake with 10% (U.S. $ 222 billion in 2012, nearly $ 300 billion in 2016), and part of the entertainment, also with 10% (U.S. $ 210 billion and almost $ 290 billion .)

The projections also indicate that the mobile application stores will grow to U.S. $ 18 billion by the end of this year, reaching $ 61 billion in 2016. And spending on digital reading (books, magazines, newspapers, etc.) will be $ 5 billion in 2012 and $ 16 billion in 2016.

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Time to write to the movement of our eyes

 

The dr. Jean Lorenceau, University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, has developed a device by which the movements of our eyes can be used as a way of writing.
This product was not developed earlier because of a simple cause: lack of technology. The human eye produces many involuntary movements, and these to be interpreted by the device became anything but writing desired. With some new developments, dr. Lorenceau been able to use an optical illusion called "reverse-phi motion" which was widely studied last year. Finally, with the addition of this illusion to the system, it was possible to monitor the voluntary movements of the human eye.
Lorenceau says that with practice 90 minutes a person can use the system to write about 20 characters per minute. Yes, there is a great speed, but for many people with various disabilities, is a new form of expression. In addition to letters, you can also use the system to write numbers and drawings.

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Samsung sales outweigh the iPhone

 

IPhone fever can still be appreciated in all corners of the planet, but despite this, Samsung managed to sell almost twice as smartphones Apple during the second quarter.
According to data disclosed by the firm Strategy Analytics, Samsung sold 50.5 million smartphones during the second quarter, ie between April and June, taking over 35% market share, while Apple had sales of 26 million units, achieving one 18% of total. Everything indicates that the main sales come from the models Samsung Galaxy S.
An interesting detail is that if we put the values ​​of Apple and Samsung, the two manage to sell more smartphones than other companies combined.
All these data lead us to highlight what we already know: the technology of smartphones from Samsung and the Apple iPhone is an unusual quality.

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