Solar Power Satellite (SPS)

         Can’t we generate solar power during night times? Yes my paper suggests a solution to generate solar power during night times. It is probably well known that we are running out of fossil fuel. Most of the energy sources we are using are non renewable. Oil and gas are not to last longer than about fifty years, whereas coal will probably last another two or three centuries. Uranium and nuclear plants will not last forever either. So, in order to provide the generations to come with energy, we have to find the way to use unlimited sources. And this is where SPS gets in action. It provides solutions to use one of the most: a renewable and unlimited source on earth: the SUN.

        The Solar Power Satellite (SPS) concept would place solar power plants in orbit above Earth, where they would convert sunlight to electricity and beam the power to ground-based receiving stations. The ground-based stations would be connected to today's regular electrical power lines that run to our homes, offices and factories here on Earth.
 
         Why put solar power plants in space? The sun shines 24 hours a day in space, as if it were always noontime at the equator with no clouds and no atmosphere. Unlike solar power on the ground, the economy isn't vulnerable to cloudy days, and extra generating capacity and storage aren't needed for our nighttime needs. There is no variation of power supply during the course of the day and night, or from season to season. The latter problems have plagued ground based solar power concepts, but the SPS suffers none of the traditional limitations of ground-based solar power.

                            
                         

gadgets

io-Jacket:

 
Although all modern gadgets have the goal to combine good-looks with multifunctional technology and effectiveness, this is so much better then the others! Why? Because you can actually wear it! It has all the cool stuff in it like a Bluetooth and built-in MP3 player or touch sensitive control pads. But the ability through which its promoted is its compatibility with GPSoverIP.

  It uses a hybrid GPS technology which enables you to look for the person wearing the jacket even inside a building. The person who wears the io-Jacket can upload the information to a mobile phone or to the internet giving the watcher (probably a deranged parent) the opportunity of observing his/her every move. Londefrey, the company which produces it has sold one for humanitarian causes carrying out an auction in the purpose of saving money for the “Humans for Humans” foundation.

It seems though that none other have been made for commercial purposes so we just have to sit and wait.

DPP-FP90 & DPP-FP70:



Koreans should be very happy people because, for now at least, their country is the only one in which Sony released their new compact printers. The two models, ‘DPP-FP90’ and ‘DPP-FP70’, provide you with dye sublimation and with high-resolution prints in just 45 seconds.

The reason why these printers are so innovative is the option of printing without the need for a PC. They can support 24 models of memory cards and have multi-slots. The ‘DPP-FP90’ has a 3.6 inch color LCD screen and the ‘DPP-FP70’ a 2.5 inch one. Because both models are equipped with ‘Bionz’, an image processor that supports up to 48M image quality, therefore enabling you to modify your photos before printing them.

The printers are also portable, so when you need to be some place else and you also need your printer you just have to grab them by their handle and take off. And also, an important feature of the printers is that they have a coating option so that your photos can be kept undamaged for a much longer period of time.

i200 iSeries Speaker:



Yes, I know you are very happy playing your favorite tunes on your iPod, you are very glad they’re stored there safely, but still, don’t you feel like it is getting pretty old just listening to them in you headphones? Well, from now on “just in your headphones” is not the only option. Jamo has though about your listening needs and decided to develop the new i200 iSeries Speaker. You can hook up your iPod to these new speakers and play as many tunes as you want because, not only that these are high quality iPod Speakers but they also serve as a charger.

As for those of you who do not own an iPod, worry not because the guys over at Jamo don’t do any kind of discrimination. Thanks to the auxiliary input you can also connect any type of MP3player or you can even listen music in your speakers from your cell phone! You can also add more Jamo speakers such as a subwoofer to expand your audio system.

the MackLockPick:



When searching for a clue or for proof forensics needs all the help they can get, and all the latest technology. Well, now they just got a boost from SubRosaSoft.com Inc. with their release of MacLockPick that can do anything from decrypting passwords to Internet history from any Mac OS X computer.

The MacLockPick is a USB Flash that can be hooked on the computer, weather it is running or not. Once the software is installed, it will subtract data from the computer’s Apple Keychain, thus providing the user easy access to any of the computers folders.

The device automatically compiles a database that can later be accessed by computers using Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Mac OS X.

SciFi Chair:



After the development of gaming chairs that move according to the games action and computer beds designed so that you end up being a “computer potato” and never see anything else weather you’re awake or sleeping, now G-Tech Neber releases a chair that confirms the theory that sitting correctly on a chair is so overrated.

This new SciFi chair is at present on show in Korea. The design includes so much chrome, that it actually looks like one of those Matrix chairs - you don’t have to take the blue pill.

The company says that, giving so much support to the back, head, hands, wrists, back and feet, the chair is completely ergonomical. Also, having the curved back, the chair gives you the opportunity to seat in any position you want. Just look at the picture, it looks so cool!

The New SwiMP3:


Imagine listening to your favorite songs during your swimming lessons or while you are bathing in your pool. What can be more relaxing then that? Well, now you can listen to your tunes while swimming and that at a very high quality thanks to the new SwiMP3. Unlike other MP3 players, which transmit sound through the air or water, this new device uses a technology, which sends the vibrations that generate the sound through your cheekbones, thus giving it a perfect clarity.

It has been proven that while listening songs, swimmers have enhanced their abilities giving them a whole new swimming experience.

The SwiMP3 is compatible with Mac and PC and supports both MP3 and WMA. It is equipped with a rechargeable battery and has a 256 MB memory. Your swimming agility will not be harmed in any way, as the device weighs only 2 ounces.

So put your wet suit on and plug yourself to the swimming experience of your life!

Radio-frequency identification (RFID)

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders.

An RFID tag is an object that can be applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radiowaves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.


A basic RFID system consists of three components:

An antenna or coil
A transceiver (with decoder)
A transponder (RF tag) electronically programmed with unique information

 The antenna emits radio signals to activate the tag and to read and write data to it. Antennas are the conduits between the tag and the transceiver, which controls the system's data acquisition and communication. Antennas are available in a variety of shapes and sizes; they can be built into a door frame to receive tag data from persons or things passing through the door, or mounted on an interstate toll booth to monitor traffic passing by on a freeway.


Human implants
 
         

Implantable RFID chips designed for animal tagging are now being used in humans. An early experiment with RFID implants was conducted by British professor of cybernetics Kevin Warwick, who implanted a chip in his arm in 1998. Night clubs in Barcelona, Spain and in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, use an implantable chip to identify their VIP customers, who in turn use it to pay for drinks.

In 2004, the Mexican Attorney General's office implanted 18 of its staff members with the Verichip to control access to a secure data room. (This number has been variously mis-reported as 160 or 180 staff members.

Security experts are warned against using RFID for authenticating people due to the risk of identity theft. For instance a man-in-the-middle attack would make it possible for an attacker to steal the identity of a person in real-time. Due to the resource-constraints of RFIDs it is virtually impossible to protect against such attack models as this would require complex distance-binding protocols

Is there life on Mars?

              



A photo taken by NASA’s Spirit Rover showed four years back shows a woman-like figure descending a shallow slope. NASA didn’t make a fuss then, but now it has created a furore, and the images were only shown on Chinese websites.


The point is if human faces can be seen in the clouds then that doesn’t mean that they are really there.


HG Wells had people running for their lives after airing War of the Worlds on the radio. And in 1976, a human face's photo from NASA's Viking orbiter had people swearing they had finally found ET.

NASA however, dismissed it as a trick of nature and lighting. Much more believable are the frozen carbon dioxide clouds on Mars.


Found recently, their unusual shape suggests Mars still has cyclical air currents like those on Earth.


Mars could have had flowing water once as rovers have found surface chemicals and what looks like a dry seabed that usually need water to form.


To see Mars for yourself you have to go to Google Mars. Just like Google Earth, it gives you high quality satellite images that you can zoom into for free.


Like Mars, other distant planets that could harbour life have been found. Not just scientists, but millions like you and me use our PCs to hunt for ET through the SETI project.