Gadgets and New Technologies

Today I will show you the miracles of Modern technologies Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Diesel Generators.

Uninterruptible power supplies

UPS systems provide power protection for uninterruptible power supply.

A quality UPS provides redundancy and therefore offers greater protection of any critical equipment.
UPSes are great when you are working on something really important and there is a short power surge or brownout, and in case of a long lasting blackout you can get the machine to suspend, hibernateor shut down when batteries are low.

Of course the UPS can only provide power for a while, typically a few minutes, but that is often enough to ride out power company glitches or short outages.

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Pilette is the smallest Bluetooth headset in the world. Due to a high-performance microphone Pillete provides optimal talk quality combined with a very reduced and intuitive design. (Read the full post about ‘Pilette’…)

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Tessera has come up with a brand new camera phone lens technology known as OptiML Zoom, offering up to 3x optical zoom without the need for actual moving parts. This is made possible by combining a new lens design as well as algorithms that replace a standard optical zoom lens’s mechanical functions. Since there are no moving parts to contend with, Tessera’s lens can be manufactured to be smaller and will definitely be more affordable compared to current optical zoom modules. The image above is for illustrative purposes only, and is not the real deal. (Read the full post about ‘OptiML Zoom from Tessera’…)

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Force Dynamics has tweaked their 301 Driving Simulator to cater for Super Mario Kart, allowing the chair to let the driver experience what it feels like when making one’s way through the wacky and imaginative world of all the courses in the SNES hit. Heck, even when your character makes a jump, the 301 chair itself will even leap up accordingly, so make sure you do not take anything heavy before having a go at this.

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I’m a huge, huge Flip camera fan, but if I had money to spend and a really serendipitous life where there was good stuff to record more often than not, I’d invest in Sony’s Handycam camcorder, HDR-TG1. This hot little device will be available on May 30, 2008, in time for summer fun, the wedding season, vacations, and all your sun-filled adventures. The HDR-TG1 is a small and slim titanium encased camcorder that delivers full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution video recording. In spite of this device being enormously sexy, expensive, and seemingly fragile, it’s actually built for taking everywhere and for the fumble fingers in all of us. The titanium body is protected with Premium Hard Coating to provide resistance to even the smallest scratches. (Read the full post about ‘HD in the palm of your hand - Sony Handycam HDR-TG1′…)

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A laptop isn’t exactly the most ergonomic device to use while seated on a bed, which is where the Airboard Pump concept comes in. This laptop surface, designed by Ki-Seung Lee will adjust its own height to best fit whatever activity you are currently engaged in, be it reading, writing/drawing or surfing the web. It can be raised thanks to an integrated pump, or lowered by deflating it. I say work and rest shouldn’t mix, so it would be best to have a dedicated work area while reserving the bed as a place of relaxation and sleep. (Read the full post about ‘Airboard Pump Concept’…)

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Now here’s a truly electrifying dress in every sense of the word - Amanda Parkes’ dress generates power when the wearer moves, relying on kinetic energy as a result of natural gestures of the human body in motion. Piezoelectric material located around the joints of the elbows and hips of the garment will generate power in response to applied mechanical stress, where this electricity will be stored as voltage in a tiny centralized battery. I sure hope there won’t be a short circuit somewhere as I might be deemed as a liar then with my pants on fire. (Read the full post about ‘Dress Generates Power via Kinetic Energy’…)

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Security vendors are more than a little upset over a new contest being introduced to the Defcon hacker conference this year. The contest is called The Race to Zero and the following is an excerpt explaining what the contestants have to do, taken from the Race to Zero website:

The event involves contestants being given a sample set of viruses and malcode to modify and upload through the contest portal. The portal passes the modified samples through a number of antivirus engines and determines if the sample is a known threat. The first team or individual to pass their sample past all antivirus engines undetected wins that round.

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Soldiers have it so good these days, with technology aiding them on the battlefield unlike their counterparts in the past. The Handwear Computer Input Device (HCID) from RallyPoint is a new computer interface glove that allows soldiers to operate computers in the field without the need to remove their hands off their gun, thanks to a bunch of built-in sensors which can be used to activate radio, navigate electronic maps and send commands. No idea when HCID will be deployed - I sure hope the final version will look more refined than what we have here. (Read the full post about ‘Handwear Computer Input Device’…)

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Everyone’s favorite all-in-one desktop system received slightly bumped up specs after the online Apple store went down for a few minutes this morning. This will come as no surprise to Mac fanboys as there were a number of rumors about the upcoming changes last week. Apple has a nicely written 1200 word press release about the changes, but what it comes down to is an incremental upgrade to the iMac. The most important move is that the latest Core 2 Duo processors (Penryns) have found their way on to the computers, including ramping all the way up to 3.06GHz on the top-of-the-line 24-inch model. This $2199 system includes NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics with 512MB memory, making it more powerful than most people would expect from something so sleek. (Read the full post about ‘Apple outfits iMac with Penryn processors’…)

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