Sailing superyacht from Vaudrey Miller Tenders

Sailing superyacht from Vaudrey Miller Tenders

New Zealand shipyard Vaudrey Miller Tenders continues to amaze the public for its futuristic projects yachts A. At this time the company worked with the famous designer Philippe Starck and the Bureau of Ocke Mannerfelt, which is well known for his projects of racing boats. The result was presented in the boat rather unusual style: bright orange cockpit in the form of the soap dish in contrast to the metal hull.

The ship's length - 10 m. The boat is quite a powerful engine of 315 hp Yanmar The hull is made of composite materials with the addition of carbon fibers. Teak deck and stairs provide additional comfort and convenience aboard. The interior space has two sofas, plus a double bed and a toilet. The boat has a shower with fresh water.

Windshield in the cockpit at the helm and skipper saves passengers from the wind by fast driving. The boat is designed for very quick and pleasant ride at anchor.

Orange Power Pump - mobile phone charging in the campaign

Excellent device called the Orange Power Pump offers mobile phone operator Orange. It is used for charging mobile phones, and is very simple. A small turbine is operated using a standard foot pump. Dimensions of the invention are useful 129h54h47 mm, this charge fits easily into a travel bag. It should be noted that the Orange Power Pump is an environmentally friendly device. Included with the charger is a set of adapters so that the charge can be any phone. For the first time Orange Power Pump was unveiled at the festival in Glastonbury (Glastonbury), where more than one year demonstrated the interesting and creative invention.

Orange Sound Charge - T-shirt with a mobile phone charging

For the past few years, mobile phone operator Orange is an unusual variety of public chargers for mobile phones (see note Orange Power Pump - mobile phone charging in the campaign. This year, the operator Orange has developed a t-shirt-charging Orange Sound Charge.

It has a piezoelectric film (used in acoustic Hi-Fi-speakers), which is like a big microphone, absorbs external sound waves through the quartz crystals and transforms them into an electrical charge. Over the weekend the noise level of 80 dB is generated up to 6 W / h of electricity, which is enough to charge the two standard mobile phone or a smartphone.

Visitors to the music festival in Glastonbury have the opportunity to try out Orange Sound Charge in action, and perhaps in the near future it will be available for sale worldwide.

ZEHST - Green hypersonic rocket plane

The European aerospace giant EADS on Sunday unveiled its plans for a "green supersonic transport" ZEHST ("Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation"). The project was presented a day before the opening of the Le Bourget air show. As conceived by the European aircraft giant Airbus, the airliner will be different minimal emissions into the atmosphere. They hoped that by 2050 it will be able to fly the distance from Paris to Tokyo in just 2.5 hours.

Agence France-Presse reported that a 4-foot model Zehst will be presented and on display at Le Bourget. In accordance with the developments of aircraft designers, climb the new aircraft will use biofuels, and then will switch to rocket fuel.

Modern airliners fly at an altitude of 10 kilometers from the earth. It is planned that Zehst «rise" to 32 kilometers. Next to land, the pilot turns off the rocket engines and floats down to earth, just before the landing including conventional engines. During the flight airliner able to deliver to the destination of 50-100 passengers. European experts are developing the project jointly with Japanese colleagues.

Solar Sinter - Sun 3D printer

German designer Markus Kaiser has developed a device that allows sunlight through to create from ordinary sand three-dimensional objects. The device, called The Solar Sinter large Fresnel lenses used to focus the sun's rays. They allow you to achieve a single point temperature equal to 1400 - 1600 degrees Celsius. That's enough to bake the sand glass forms. Glass objects are created layer by layer in a special box that is under the lens. Surprisingly, the device delivers energy to the sun, too. All servos cost of energy derived from solar power.

The machine works fully automatic, with the movement of the sun during the day watching the special sensors, rotating platform so that the working surface got the maximum amount of light.

Plans for the Mars Exploration 2016-2018

NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) began to experience a new rover, which will go to the Red Planet in 2016. Two years after his return, scientists plan to send another expedition to Mars, which will explore the planet's surface for the presence of life.

The spacecraft, called Entry, which is a descent demo module (EDM), will scan the Martian atmosphere as long as no land on the planet. The ship will also sample a variety of space environment on Earth and take first in the history information about electrical fields on the surface of Mars.

Project ExoMars in 2016 should start in January 2016. Flight to Mars would take nine months, the earth. The research will consist of two parts: the landing ship EDM on the Martian surface and atmosphere of the Red Planet Scan Orbiter Trace Gas Orbiter. The latter will collect information for two Earth years, measuring the level of methane and other gases that could possibly have a serious impact on the current state of the planet.

ExoMars 2016 - this is the first of two planned missions to Mars, which are jointly developing the NASA and ESA. The second expedition to the planet in 2018 ExoMars spacecraft will travel Rover, which will search Mars for evidence that existed on the planet, but maybe there is life. The ship will be equipped with a special drill, with which it will drill the surface of Mars by two meters in depth. Scientists suggest that living organisms may be hiding from the harmful ultraviolet deep underground, where they are much more likely to survive than on the surface.

Source: www.space.com

The device turns any TV into touch

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan has demonstrated the possibility of a new gadget that can turn any TV set (regardless of the size of its diagonal) in sensor device. Of course, the first such device to be claimed on a TV with a big diagonal, since the real touch screen large fly into penny. With the new device from ITRI use touch screens in the home becomes more affordable.

The device consists of two sensors are attached to the upper and lower corner of one side of the TV. They can determine exactly where your fingers on the screen, respectively, allow the user to interact with any image (unless, of course, the program supports touch controls). In addition, the gadget recognizes excellent multiple contact, ie already familiar to scroll with two fingers, "pinch" to reduce / enlarge otlchino will work. Unfortunately, in recognition of the pressure force of such a device is unlikely to, but without it, home users have excellent opportunities for program management on large screens.