Viper SmartStart - Start your car from virtually anywhere with your iPhone

 

Once again, the reason why you should buy an iPhone is as a substitute for your car keys. Viper SmartStart is an iPhone application that can be used to unlock / lock the car door, opened the luggage, the panic button to start the engine.

 

But do not like it, because to make your car can be compatible with this application, you also have to buy an instrument that is issued by Viper Viper Smart System that will be installed in the car. With the Viper Smart System, all kinds of cars can be "connected" with the iPhone just as we install a car alarm.

In additional to iPhone, iPod Touch turned out to also be used and the price of this application itself is free but to buy the Viper Smart System is a tool you need to pay U.S. $ 499

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Avicos - Speaking interactive dashboard avatar could replace owner’s manuals

Audi in collaboration with Germany's Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) developed a technology called the Avatar-based Virtual Co-driver System (AviCoS). AviCoS made ​​to work with existing monitoring systems in the Audi car called the Audi Mulitmedia Interface.

As the name implies, will be an avatar will appear on screen to help you explain everything related to cars. All the information you need will be assisted this avatar and you can tell by the voice in which Voice Recognition technology (voice recognition) will be able to adjust all sound so that all commands can be heard well.

In addition will be answered through verbal, through our existing monitors can also see the information visually either through pictures or video. You also do not have to worry about the accident since the system can not be used when the car is running fast.

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Plugless Power getting ready for real - wireless Chevy Volt charging

 

This time Plugless Power seems ready to make a wireless charging technology for all electric cars. Indeed Plugless Power itself is not new because it has many other manufacturers who make similar technology but there are some advantages possessed Plugless Power.

Among Parking Pad (a place to "unify" the car with refills) are smaller, so do not bother with the place. Plugless Power also promised that as long as you're near the parking pad or does it need proper / parallel between the transmitter and receiver, can still Plugless Power rechargeable battery in the car. 

A set Plugless Power will be sold in the range $ 2000-3000 and if everything runs smoothly, Plugless Power will go on sale in 2012.

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Mercedez safety tech "Anti-crash system"

Famous car manufacturer from Germany, Mercedes, has just launched a technology security standards that can predict the circumstances in the course via video and sensors in the car. Existing sensors can detect cars, pedestrians and bicycles around us so that unwanted accidents can be avoided.

In fact, this tool can calculate the amount of damage in the moments before the accident. You can imagine if all cars will use this tool so we are confident that the accident rate in the whole world will be much reduced.

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If cars could talk then the accident rate could drop to 80%

Making cars can each "talk" to each other to avoid accidents is not the first time we hear, we also discuss the technology of the Ford here. Only technologies that can reduce these accidents are getting close to reality with the experiments carried out by the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute.

Known as "vehicle-to-vehicle" and "vehicle-to-infrastructure communication", the technology will make this one car can communicate with each other and can also communicate with traffic lights and other highway-related. Technologies that use radio signals (rather short-range radio communication) can tell a lot of things to the driver as there are cars approaching from the side, traffic lights will change color (to red) and many more.

Radio signals that there will continue to provide data on the surrounding environment and tell if there is a danger. As a result, if this is successful then he said traffic accidents can be reduced to 80%. Wow!

Oh yes, this experiment itself will be carried out with 64 cars from several car manufacturers and will be tried in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This experiment will continue until 2013.

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Ford : What if Your Car Could Talk?

 

Ford has the title "if the car can not talk". That's roughly as promised by Ford for their cars in the future. With one goal is to safety, later cars can communicate with each other to avoid accidents on the highway.

Ford (intelligent vehicle) will make us as a rider can avoid the various hazards ranging from telling a car at an intersection, a car to brake suddenly, there is a danger when going to take / move the path until the position is very dangerous blind spot.

To make the car can talk to one another, Ford utilizing Wi-Fi signals which have more advantages that can monitor all directions (360 °) so that we can know the condition of not only what is in front but in the back, right and left even the condition is not visible.

See the video how this technology can reduce traffic accidents.

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Qualcomm will launch Snapdragon processor 2.5 GHz in 2012

 

What is the processor speed for tablet / mobile phones today? As far as we are the fastest Dual Core 1.5 GHz, right? Then? In a ceremony in Istanbul, the famous company Qualcomm Snapdragon processor it shows what their plans in the future, exactly one year to the next (2012). 

In the event Qualcomm says that by 2012 will show their latest processors that have a speed of 2.5 GHz with a system might Single Core, Dual Core or Quad Core even. They said it will manufacture this year-end processors and means are in the year 2012 we will have a phone with a 2.5 GHz processor speed or nearly 2-fold from the current. 

These processors will also have Adreno Graphics, 3D, HD 1080p and supports 3G and LTE. Maybe someday mobile processors have the same speed with the PC, I mean we really can compete with a PC? 

Well, nothing is impossible in the world of technology.

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LG Optimus Q2: Android phone with QWERTY keyboard

LG Optimus Q 2 is an android phone has a QWERTY keyboard with sliding system (slides) which will soon appear on the market.

Optimus Q2 using the Android OS 2.3 by nVidia Tegra processor 2 @ 1.2 GHz and 1 GB of RAM. As for the screen itself using a screen type with a size 4 inch IPS.

On the one hand, we must know that there are additional means QWERTY keyboard makes mobile phones are getting fatter but LG claims that the Optimus Q2 thinnest and lightest among similar phones (1 / 10 thinner). Optimus Q2 have 2 pieces of a camera (VGA front and rear 5 MP) and no Wi-Fi feature.

LG Q2 Optimus new slide planned next week in Korea there but certainly there may also be sold to the world market.

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Docomo CEATEC Preview Focuses On Mobile Data Connection

What else could do the smart phone?
Many brilliant and probably never occurred to us before but DoCoMo at CEATEC exhibition showcased several new functions of a cell phone.

Although all these new functions do not all come from the phone itself but rather the addition of a cell phone cover, it's still cool.

With the help of cell phone cover, we can check the levels of UV, bad breath, nuclear radiation and fat in the body. See the video though more obvious as to what functions may then be useful to us later.

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Raytheon XOS 2 Exoskeleton : robots that provide additional strength to the army

If HAL was created to give power to people who have limitations, Raytheon XOS Exoskeleton 2 was created to help the American soldiers on the battlefield. Just like HAL, XOS 2 is a robot that imposed on a person's body that can provide significant additional strength to the person.

XOS 2 is the development of the previous series in which this new series has a lighter weight and more flexible than ever before. XOS 2 can be very helpful in battlefields ranging from helping a soldier lifted the missile to lift faster and more efficient logistics.

With the robot clothing XOS 2, the energy released is only about 50% only compared without these 2 XOS.

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BigDog - The Most Advanced Rought Terrain Robot on Earth

Many robots are created to help the soldiers carry very heavy luggage and one that is promising is the BigDog is made by Boston Dynamics. As the name implies, this robot is made to the shape of the foot that resembles a large dog leg and it does look weird but BigDog can walk with a speed of 4 mph (6.5 km / h) and can carry about 170 kg.

BigDog can walk uphill with a tilt angle to 35 degrees and could walk almost in all fields of snow to the water first. BigDog itself has a length of about 90 cm, height 60 cm and weighs 120 kg.
See his video, cool design, although it is rather strange.

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Roommates : Robot can prepare and serve breakfast

Rommates is a robot output from the Technical University of Munich, German whose job is to help home activities like cooking. This robot is equipped with a Kinect to see three-dimensional objects that are not wrong in taking or dropping food or pot. If you ask, the robot is indeed able to cook but who is shopping? So the answer is also in charge of robot James to buy food at the supermarket. 

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HAL : Carrying a paralysed man up a mountain

 

HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) is a robot outfit (Exoskeleton) that can increase the power of man to be 10x. Robot clothes made ​​by this Cyberdine strength will be tested by climbing the mountain of Mont Saint Michel in France.

Of course that will not only climb so it sounds too good to show the strength of this HAL, the climbers will climb the mountain is by holding a man named Seiji Uchida (49 years) who had been paralyzed leg. HAL has so far already being produced but mostly leased to the hospital to help people who have problems berjala. Exoskeleton technology is certainly very helpful in the future, try if all the workers at the port of wear, certainly they do not work too hard.

 

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Soinn : Robot that can learn, Think and act by itself

 

A new era of robotic technology being developed by Hasegawa Group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Called by SOINN (Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Network), a robot this one already has the "brains" and allowed him to learn, think and react themselves.

In the demo, the robot is told to pour water into the glass, making the water turns cold and diberika to someone. The robot was programmed and will be a problem when the environment changes. This is where SOINN demonstrating how all the orders done in accordance with existing conditions. If at any time the SOINN do not know how to do something, just like us lately, SOINN will find information on the Internet. If the SOINN really do not know how to accomplish a given task then SOINN will speak that he did not know how. Simply SOINN expected to think like a man that can do everything with the existing situation and conditions.

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Aimec, Can Substitute Kids at Home

Do not have children or pets are not husband and wife agreed to make the original of this English disappointed. With a background as a toy manufacturer, Tonny Ellies and his wife, Judie and then created a robot that plays home to be 'child' them. "Meet the 21st century family," said 54-year-old man as he patted shoulders Aimec robot.  

Yes, Aimec is a robot child with a high around 120 cm. Aimec or Artficially Intelligent Electronic Mechanical Companion 3 This was created with an attitude like a man. In fact, it is smart enough to make jokes, snoring during sleep and stretched when the current rise. 

Not only that, the robot is connected to the Internet through wireless connectivity that makes it all possible to find things that do not receive it. It is also linked to household appliances to be able to light the television, lights and all other electronic items. 

In addition to be able to detect sound, Aimec with an eye capable of running on wheels suitable map or following someone home. Ellis who has been creating mechanical and digital toys that have been enjoyed by millions of children around the world are hoping Aimec prototype could be the first commercial robot affordable and useful at home. 


"Ten years every home will have a robot. They will help cut the grass, cooking, cleaning the house and other jobs," he says robots Ellies closing will be available in stores with prices around USD 256.

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Fish Robot is ready to track ocean pollution

A flock of advanced robots ready to roam the oceans to detect pollution. It's just that their makers may have to be vigilant so that this expensive robot was arrested the fishermen because of its form like a fish. Robot fish created by researchers in England and will be deployed in Spanish waters.

With a length of 1.5 meters, the robot equipped with detectors to identify sources of marine pollution, such as oil tankers or chemicals in the waters. Price robots about 20,000 pounds per unit.

The robot can operate autonomously and is designed to explore the oceans over the past few months. It takes about 3 years for researchers at Essex University for making it.

Huosheng Professor Hu as one of the managers stated that the robot is expected to prevent the spread of pollution by tracking the source. If the trials succeed, the robot will be deployed in various parts of the world to conduct mission ready sama.Sekawanan sophisticated robots roam the oceans to detect pollution. It's just that their makers may have to be vigilant so that this expensive robot was arrested the fishermen because of its form like a fish.

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REEM-H2 Humanoid service robot

Reem-H2 is a PAL Robotics robots from the duty to serve humans in a variety of purposes such as giving information on the mall or at the hospital. Robot Reem-H2 has a touch screen that displays the information needed by anyone and there is a voice and face recognition features.

Reem-H2 can also be assigned as a delivery when required, it's just not too much luggage. Reem-H2 has a 1.70 m high and weighs 90 kg and there are many sensors such as microphones, stereo cameras, lasers, ultrasounds, accelerometers and gyroscopes.

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'Walking Truck' Legged Vehicle

Because of the limitations of the wheels that are only effective on flat surfaces and with the intention of working the system mimics the human foot that can run on any terrain, made ​​project-legged vehicle.

In 1960, General Electric and Ralph Mosher build a 3000-pound, four-legged robot, dubbed the "Walking Truck." Although never seen, you can still check out the fantastic footage of this vehicle.

Sponsored by the military, many-legged vehicles spend a lot of money and so far that can be made is "Walking Truck". a vehicle that is very hard to control, not to mention the speed is very slow rate.

Walking Truck is currently in the U.S. Army Transport Museum in Newport News, Virginia. You can learn more about the mechanism of retro and see more fantastic photos at the Center for Cybernetics and David Buckley.

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