The DARPA equip planes with laser turrets

 

The first aircraft equipped with a system to launch lasers was a modified Boeing 747, but was not very successful to say and the project was shelved. Still, the idea still stands and the DARPA people still looking for a way to make this work. He is currently working on two projects: the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) and Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC).

HELLADS, you can see up here is a 150kW system that can be used to attack both from the air and from the ground. The idea is that the laser gun that projects can fit in a 1 cubic meter, which means that even cars could have one.

The other system, the ABC, is used as a defensive weapon. This is a turret designed to shoot any missiles that are directed towards the plane, but it becomes a little difficult since in most combat missiles come from behind, but obviously you can also shoot in that direction.

Both projects are currently well advanced and HELLADS begin testing next year.

What do you think about using technology for war?

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Eye Stick is the stick of the future

 

What we're seeing in the picture, although it seems a lightsaber taken from a Star Wars movie, is not really meant to be used as a weapon of Jedi combat. Instead, what we see is the replacement for traditional rods, but something far more impressive and useful.

Eye Stick is a conceptual cane uses ultrasonic sensors (similar to what the bats) to measure the distance between you and potential obstacles such as a wall, stairs, etc.. The device is designed to replace the current staff as we have said. Its designer, Kim Tae-Jin, gives us a brief description:

"Eye Stick reinvents the traditional cane. The use of ultrasonic waves to measure the distance to other objects is not affected by rain, fog or other weather conditions. The light projects a stick that is used to avoid possible collisions and reports hazards such as changes in ground level. Eye Stick can also provide information on their products barcode scanning through a camera. The information is then converted to voice. "

Undoubtedly the Eye Stick looks like a stick handy. We hope that someday come true.

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Apple will soon introduce a 128GB iPad 4

 

There are rumors that Apple has prepared a miniactualización for fourth-generation iPad. This is an extension memory and other changes that are destined for the called iPad 4 was launched less than 3 months.

Reportedly, the iPad 4 will now have a little more variety as there will be both a black version as a white version will also be available with cellular connectivity or WiFi connectivity only, the choice of the buyer. Besides this, the main rumor talk about an extension of the memory device, which would bring to 128GB of internal memory, which if I remember any tablet to date has. Knowing Apple, it is likely that such amount of memory the device up the price a few hundred dollars more.

We should also mention that iOS 6.1 is now closer to being released, so the next version of the mobile operating system of Apple may come included in this new version of iPad 4.

We do not know anything about price or release date, but that data will soon arrive.

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Samsung sells more smartphones than Apple and Nokia together

 

Samsung continues to prove he is the king of the smartphone market, and even now has far outpaced large companies like Apple. In fact, sales of Samsung surpass even those achieved by Apple and Nokia together. While Nokia is not selling as many phones as a few years ago, still has a slight market share.

According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung managed to sell 63 million smartphones in the last three months of last year, this amounts to a 73% increase in the number of sales when compared to the same period of 2011. Impressive, right? What's more, since this puts the Samsung market share by 29%, exceeding both Apple has 23% as Nokia which has a 3%, or in other words, Samsung surpasses sales of both companies combined.

A year ago, the Samsung market share was 23.3%, surpassed by Apple which had 23.6% and as we always seem to stand still by the same percentage, while competition continues to progress through the improvements in the technology of its terminals.

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Samsung NP550P5C-A01UB, new 15.6-inch laptop at a good price

 

The new Samsung NP550P5C-A01UB, whose price is around $ 600, has much more to offer than the traditional 15.6-inch portable in design, speed and sound quality. The chassis-A01UB NP550P5C is made of plastic and it found a chiclet keyboard that unfortunately lacks backlighting. The laptop has a thin bezel that gives a very striking look and measures just 1.2 inches thick. In addition, instead of having frequent procesadore Core i7 or Core i3 has a Core i5-3210m high level.

The 15-inch laptops usually have 4GB of RAM and a 500GB disk, but this little offer more, since it has 6GB of RAM and a 750GB disk. When it comes to internal components and hardware is well equipped as we see, but where it falls short is in the graphics department, as it has an integrated Intel HD 4000. If you wonder why the screen resolution gives us, it is 1366 × 768 pixels.

Besides all this, the Samsung-A01UB NP550P5C also has a sound system with speakers 2.1 and features a subwoofer. A level has two USB 2.0 ports, three USB 3.0, one HDMI, one VGA and LAN. It also has a card reader and Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity included.

Your operating system is the new Windows 8.

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YASHICA HS-420W, a new portable scanner

 

The scanners are great because they allow us to scan photos and documents and also do it in great quality. The problem for many scanners until several years ago is that some machines were large and not easy to move. Later began to emerge including printers and copiers and scanners plus the most recent scanners are great portable scanners.

Speaking of portable scanners, here is a new model known as HS-420W YASHICA, which will be released in a few days.

The HS-420W YASHICA is powered by two AA (Double A) and includes a microSD card reader 32GB to store the generated file after performing the scan. Includes three different grades: 300dpi, 600dpi and higher 300dpi (dots per inch). Apart from this, it has a USB 2.0 interface and has WiFi connectivity.

The HS-420W YASHICA, which incidentally measures 258mm x 32mm x 31mm and weighs 200 grams will be released in early February for $ 108.

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NEC MultiSync LCD-V652, a new 65-inch monitor

 

How many inches is the monitor of your computer or your laptop? ¿15 inches maybe? 24 inches?? Well in any case, there certainly is small compared with the new monitor from NEC, the NEC MultiSync LCD great-V652, a little monster of 65 inches, which makes it ideal for making the most of your favorite video games in HD.

The new NEC LCD monitor supports full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels) and provides us with a contrast ratio of 4000:1. Besides this, it has a brightness of 450nits and its response time is 8ms. While in some ways is a bit lower than other smaller monitors, some, however, is better.

Also noteworthy are the NEC MultiSync LCD-V652 has two great speakers of 10W each and its ports include DisplayPort, DVI-D, mini D-Sub, HDMI, BNC and LAN.

It will be released on February 15, but the price was not announced yet.

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Google's Android iOS dominate

 

The 2012 was a great year for Google-level iOS, the Apple mobile operating system. As you know, last year the company launched YouTube applications and Google Maps, which were downloaded hundreds of thousands of times by users of iOS grateful. Would you believe me if I tell you that 5 Google apps are among the 10 most used iOS in 2012? As I'm sure you would.

While Apple tried to get rid of different Google products on iOS, Apple customers have made it clear that they love the search engine company and its apps. ComScore has recently released a list of the 10 most used applications iOS and Google has taken 5 seats thanks to Google Maps, Google Play, Google Search, Gmail and YouTube, which is located between the second and sixth, while first place went to Facebook. The four remaining places belong to Pandora Radio, iTunes, Cooliris and Yahoo! Messenger.

No doubt this list clearly shows how popular Google iOS. Apple wants to get off to Google, but after the failure of Apple Maps is clear that search products are needed.

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