Air Cars: A New Wind for America's Roads?
by Jim Ostroff
A
new carmaker has a plan for cheap, environmentally friendly cars to be built all
over the country
An air-powered car? It may be available sooner than you think at a price tag
that will hardly be a budget buster. The vehicle may not run like a speed racer
on back road highways, but developer Zero Pollution Motors is betting consumers
will be willing to fork over $20,000 for a vehicle that can motor around all day
on nothing but air and a splash of salad oil, alcohol or possibly a pint of
gasoline.
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Why the future is in your hands
Technology editor, BBC News website
Technology
editor, BBC News website
Sales of smartphones are expected to overtake those of laptops in the next 12 to
18 months as the mobile phone completes its transition from voice communications
device to multimedia computer.
Convergence has been the Holy Grail for mobile phone makers, software and
hardware partners, as well as consumers, for more than a decade.
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Firefox users gain location tool
Mozilla,
the company behind the Firefox browser, has released technology that helps
websites detect the physical location of computers.
The system will allow users, for instance, to find local restaurants when they
travel to a new town
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Google to launch iPhone competitor
Deutsche Presse Agentur
San Francisco, September 17: Next week Google will launch the first mobile phone — running its Android software in a joint initiative with T-mobile — the companies have announced.
The open-source Android system is seen as Google’s answer to Apple’s successful iPhone and as a key initiative in the internet giant’s quest to extend its dominance to the mobile web.
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NOKIA 6639
Frequency:
GSM/GPRS/EDGE network, CDMA, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, CDMA2000.
Israel set arbitrary color options :
Size : 109 48 quenching
Weight : 100 grams
Battery : Lithium Ion Battery BM12P, Convergence 9800
Standby time : 100 hours
16 million color TFT color screen parameters : 1024 768 pixels, 3.2 inches;
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Bullet resistant bras for German police
German
police women are to be issued with bullet-resistant bras to give them complete
undercover protection.
The new underwear was developed as a second barrier of defence after normal bras
were found to cause injuries while on duty.
The officers' bullet-proof vests, while stopping the force of gunshots in
attack, pushed the plastic and metal parts of their underwear into their flesh,
causing injury.
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Scientists develop `emotional` robot
London, July 30: Scientists in Britain have created an emotional robot which appears to respond to being cuddled or scared. The Heart Robot, developed by scientists at the University of the West of England in Bristol, was aimed to explore human reaction to machine that give emotional feedbacks. Heart Robot - in half robot and half puppet - is the star attraction of the 'Emotibots' exhibition at London's Science Museum.
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Air Cars
THIS
NEW DEVELOPMENT OF TATA MOTORS WAS PERFECT; THIS WILL CHANGE THE WORLD INTO
CLEAN AND COOL ENVIRONMENT.
Tata Motors to introduce Air Car - Is it the next big thing?
Tata Motors is taking giant strides and making history for itself. First the
Landrover-Jaguar deal, then the world's cheapest car and now it is also set to
introduce the car that runs on air, compressed air to be specific.
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Sony HDR-CX12
Sony
launched the first high-definition camcorder with both Smile Shutter and face
detection technologies - Sony HDR-CX12.
The Sony HDR-CX12 camcorder can record full 1920 x 1080 HD video and 10Mega
Pixel photos on Sony Memory Stick PRO Duo media and any Memory Stick PRO Duo
(Mark2) media cards.
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Firefox 3 Web browser is now out as free download
NEW YORK - The new version of the Firefox Web browser became available as a free download Tuesday. The release was delayed as visitors checking for the update overloaded Firefox's Web servers. The site was slow or unreachable for about two hours starting about 12:45 p.m. Eastern time, 15 minutes before the scheduled release time, according to AlertSite, an Internet performance monitoring company. Performance
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