The most realistic simulator pilot

The most realistic simulator pilot

German Aerospace Center (DLR) is developing an original simulator, which creates the most realistic illusion of flight. The cockpit is installed on a movable mechanical arm of the popular attraction "Robocoaster", able to rotate in all directions. In this mechanism itself is also moving along the guide rails 10 meters long, which creates the feeling of acceleration.

Using the cockpit-capsules with solid screens across the inner surface allowed to create the most realistic picture, which complement the background noise recorded in real flights. Thus the device acts on all the main senses of the operator, submerging it completely in virtual reality.

Simulator is unique in the fact that it allows you to simulate movement on almost any form of transport from car to jet fighter. For flight simulation used ready-made customizable templates with aircraft of different weight and power, as well as a variety of weather conditions.

Features of the new simulator is very broad. Currently, the prototype has some limitations for safety reasons, for example, disabled a simulation of collision with the ground, battle damage, etc. Also in the cockpit provides the emergency stop button of the program, which returns a capsule in a horizontal position and lowers it to a safe altitude.

Art Project - the largest museums in the world in an interactive project Google

Art Project - the largest museums in the world in an interactive project Google

Google and 17 major museums in the world February 1, 2010 year, announced the launch of large-scale art project Art Project, which allows from anywhere via the Internet to get to the museum halls and see the pictures in an unprecedented high resolution.

The London gallery Tate, Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Paris Versailles, as well as two Russian Museum - The State Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery (TG) - just some of the participants, who combined their collections with powered by Google.

Art Project - a thousand pictures, placed in the Internet space and 385 rooms, Stitch (360) technology used for the well-known service Google Maps Street View, which gives the possibility of virtual tours.

Interface of the new service gives the user a lot of possibilities - from detailed examination of works of art, to study the history of the work, the history of museums themselves and information about the artists. Interactive functions allow you to create your own album and share them with other users, go to related videos on YouTube, and so on.

In addition, each museum has chosen one painting from his collection for the filming of ultra-high resolution - about seven billion pixels - on its own technology Google.

The Tretyakov Gallery, for example, chose the work of Alexander Ivanov, "The Appearance of Christ to the people" in Moscow visited the Google team with their equipment and lighting, and shooting one of the pictures taken almost daily.

The project authors suggest that while the service is gaining momentum, there is no implementation timeframe, as well as limitations on the number of participants. For example, if one of the first museums were not included some of the world's most famous museums, this only means that at the moment for various reasons they do not participate, but can join the Art Project later.

Project website: Google Art Project

Battery, powering the whole house

Battery, powering a home

American researchers have created a battery capable of producing up to 20 kilowatt-hours. This is enough to power up on the day the whole house. The battery works in conjunction with sodium and sulfur. Sulfur-sodium batteries - this is a secondary chemical current source, known for its high specific energy, in which the anode is sodium, electrolyte - sodium aluminate (solid electrolyte), the cathode - a mixture of elemental sulfur with graphite. The main disadvantage of using such a battery is the high operating temperatures (above 300 degrees Celsius) and the associated risk of ignition of sodium.

However, the researchers say they have good connections to work already at 93 degrees Celsius. The secret of this battery is the presence of the ceramic membrane, which separates the sodium and sulfur. The positive sodium ions pass through the membrane, leaving the electrons, which in turn and create electricity. Ceramatec says that the batteries will be ready for entry into the market in 2011, with a cost of approximately $ 2,000.

Portable Hard Drive Verbatim SureFire FW800

Portable Hard Drive Verbatim SureFire FW800

External Hard Drive Verbatim SureFire from the same company deserves the good reviews, primarily because of its practicality and small size.

It all started with a small disk, the owner of which at one time seemed not only advanced, but megaprodvinutym person in the IT-sphere. To date, the amount of information is necessary to have daily increased in a lot of times, and even more capacity flash drives is not enough. So there were an external hard drive.

The company Verbatim, it can be said is the direction of removable media from the moment they are born. So new Verbatim SureFire is also developing the company's experts and in contrast to the previous model are practical and light weight.

In addition to a similar size hard drive impresses potential clients, mostly working in the IT-sphere, for which the optimization of the site - it's not outlandish phrase, and everyday work, rather appreciable capacity, the presence of a complete USB-cable, and sometimes irreplaceable the manual.

Speaking of the appearance of the device, you can tell that the designers did their best, combining practicality and style, as the matte finish does not leave on the surface of fingerprints, and, of course, is resistant to scratches, which is suitable for the number of people who love to carry these devices in their pockets - and why not? It should be noted that apart from Verbatim SureFire elegant body, which performs more functions and heat transfer, equipped with miniature rubber feet, allowing negate the already small vibration during operation.

Of course, the format 2.5''is not so widely distributed among external hard drives, which leads to the popularity of this model, especially among fans of new products, as well as professionals who have dedicated such a sphere of activity as site promotion> and work in the IT-sphere - this means earning a living. Although in addition a number of obvious advantages over previous models justifies this choice one hundred percent. By the above-mentioned advantages can be added to the excellent exchange rate of USB2.0 and FireWire. It should be noted and the compatibility of the device with the technology of Automatic Acoustic Management, which makes it almost universal.

The company Verbatim, which put on the market for computer technology Verbatim SureFire and is now on the crest of a wave. Hopefully it will delight us with new developments in the future.

The model is available in 250 GB, 320 GB and 500 GB, a rotational speed of 5400 revolutions per minute, there is a cache of 8 MB. These drives come with HFS + file system and is compatible with Time Machine on systems Mac OS X Leopard.

• 7-year warranty from the manufacturer!


• Portable Portable Hard Drive


• The body is made of lightweight, durable aluminum


• The surface is resistant to the appearance of fingerprints


• Comes with carrying case and connecting cable


• Compatible with all ports USB


• Support for FireWire 800


• Weight: 186 g


• Dimensions (W x H x D): 81 x 128 x 15 mm


• Formatted for Mac computers and is ready to use with Time Machine


• The package includes: hard drive, USB 2.0 cable, power cable for USB, FireWire 800 - 400 cable, FireWire 800 - 800 cable, User Manual, protective case.

C-17 Globemaster III made its first flight on biofuel

C-17 Globemaster III made its first flight on biofuel

The U.S. Air Force Base Edwards (Edwards Air Force Base, California) during the period 23 to August 27, 2010 passed flight tests, during which the American military aircraft transportnyy Boeing C-17 Globemaster III made its first flight on a mixture of conventional fuel grade JP-8 and biofuels.

During the test was first used a mixture of 50% JP-8, to 25% - of the fuel produced by processing of beef fat, and 25% - of biofuels made from recycled coal. During the test flight is a mixture of fuel fed to the first one engine, then two and so on. Thus, during the last test flight, a mixture of biofuels and JP-8 was applied to all engines transporter; C-17 is powered by four turbofan jet engines.

Earlier flight on biofuel in the United States have already committed attack A-10 Thunderbolt II fighter and F/A-18 Super Hornet. It should be noted that these aircraft flew on a mixture of 50 percent of JP-8 and the same amount of fuel derived from false flax, cabbage family plants are not used for food. In flight, the C-17 fuel derived from coal and animal fat was used for the first time.

In the U.S., a program to convert all aircraft on the new type of fuel that would allow the military to save considerable money to buy kerosene. As expected, the Air Force, being the largest consumer of fuel in the U.S., transferred all of its planes on biofuel by 2016, all military aircraft must obtain a certificate of fitness for use of biofuels by 2012.

In November 2009, the U.S. Air Force began to establish a Center for Fuel Studies aerospace industry. This center will develop an alternative fuel for fighter jets, which in term will generally not use the traditional jet fuel in aircraft. On the establishment of the center will be spent around $ 2.5 million.

Source: www.af.mil

Explosion on the Moon - LCROSS mission is completed

Explosion on the Moon - LCROSS mission is completed

October 9, 2009 year in 11:31:20 UTC / 4:31:20 PDT (15:31 Moscow time) research probe LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) on a predetermined plan, hit the surface of the lunar crater Cabeus. In the beginning, served their , the step of «Centaur», which flowed at 2.5 km / c, faced with the moon and knocked out from the surface of the Earth's satellite about 350 tons of lunar rocks, making thus a test crater. The collision came a pillar of lunar dust in height Nine kilometers. About 4 minutes apparatus LCROSS studied the composition of the dust, after which he ran with the moon.

Three spectrometer installed on the LCROSS, looking for traces of water ice in the dust particles was determined by their chemical composition. In addition, five cameras were filming collision until the last moment of existence of the probe. All of the cameras immediately transmitted to Earth.

During the clashes are a few dozen professional observatories, such as telescopes behalf of the Keck 10 m in diameter and four-meter infrared instrument on IRTF in Hawaii, as well as mnogozerkalny Telescope MMT, located above the Arizona desert. By the way, LCROSS launch date is to adjust the location of a Hawaiian observatory - the best island observatory in the world. orbiter to study the lunar surface, NASA LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) also witnessed a double collision, only this time from space.

Source: http://blogs.nasa.gov

WiMAX-communicator for Russian users

WiMAX-communicator for Russian users

The manufacturer HTC commissioned by the Russian company "Scartel" made the first batch of WiMAX-communicators, especially adapted for use in Russia.

The fact that the company "Scartel" won first place in Russia on the distribution of WiMAX-communicator HTC production, gives users the right to expect high quality and excellent functionality of the new communication device. However, some are confused by the fact that the main competitors' Scartel "is still not found the event of any threat to themselves - whether provision of WiMAX technology in the market communicators actually quite pointless, or intelligence of competitors all together make a mistake, when advised not to get involved in the fight for market supply of WiMAX services. Whatever it was, but the correctness of an assumption, we learn later.

To Russia will ship HTC T8290, which is a communicative device that works with the standards as GSM, and with and WiMAX. The average operating frequency is then equal to 2.5 GHz.

As the device is equipped with a system of OSes Windows Mobile 6.1. Also, in the presence of a digital camera (5 mega pixels), GPS-navigation and gravitational centers. Heart device - the processor to 528 MHz, listing the amount of flash memory, equal to 512 MB and 256 MB of RAM provided. Standard screen - touch screen - 9.5 cm on the diagonal, with a working resolution of 480x800 pixels. It is very convenient navigation is implemented, and sensors can operate anything - including your fingers.

The rear panel has a logo Yota, which is one brand name under which the "Scartel" wants to promote technology WiMAX. Today in Moscow and St. Petersburg has a network of "Scartel," but by the end of the year its plans to expand another thousand base stations to make a better cover.

Actually, according to a company of competent professionals "Scartel" your order has decided one of the biggest problems of unpopularity technology WiMAX, because until now in Russia were absolutely no devices that can operate with WiMAX. In addition, networks, and then there are still not there, because there was very WiMAX-receiving device. Say what you will - but a good idea, but what will come of this - see later.

The company has put HTC in Russia so far only about a thousand communicators, but at the moment it comes to buying large quantities. Estimated price communicator - about twenty-two thousand, and for those interested in just to inform you that on the front panel logo emblazoned HTC.

By the way, the client company initially took care of the amateur video, and ordered a model that has a fairly large screen with decent resolution, able to convey the beauty of the quality of what is happening on the screen quality on the monitor.

There is information that was originally designed device should perform the command "Lebedev Studio", but due to existing differences of some cooperation with the famous designer has been abandoned.

On the solution of "Scartel," ordered his own device for their needs, other companies, users of WiMAX, it was a lot. Thus, practically all the opinions agreed that the technology is more suitable for notebooks. For example, Catherine Neva - the company spokesman, "COMSTAR - United TeleSystems" JSC was of the view that the network posed by the firm to be more effective for laptops with built-in WiMAX-adapters from Intel. Such a network in Moscow already exists, and will be launched before the end of this year.

Actually, by the company "Scartel" had previously been forced to make another firm - "Sky Link", due to the fact that in her work are important devices that support is not very common in the Federation standard CDMA-2000 / 450.