Bladeless Fan

The latest thing making air waves around is a Bladeless Fan created by Sir James Dyson(British). Of course its created a lot of theories about its working,but the fact it still has blades. But..on the inside of the tube(cylinder) like structure or the stem.

The bladeless design is better as it focuses air rather than throwing it in front and around the turbines.

The fan has a Corona which is designed in such a way that it distributes the air created by the real turbine fan on the inside.In engineering terms we rather call it fixed blades.The fixed blade (corona) distributes the air evenly.It has a sort of aerofoil (Aircraft wing shaped)shape on the inside. It has set a platform for its future applications in various fields.

The air which passes the corona creates a draft of air and drags in more air.

This desktop fan is pretty good if you have small  kids at home who tend to put fingers in the blade and injure them self.

Although this is an innovation there are also speculations on the patent rights as this fan is almost similar to a fan created by a Japanese inventor in the year 1981 (I guess the patent rights have been declined). The fan costs a very steep $300 for a 10inch model and $330 for a 12inch model. Its not really worth unless you are a crazy gadget freak and have money to spare.

Claytronics

In terminator 2(1991) the villain T1000 could acquire any shape be it a bike or a cop or a pair of aviator sunglasses.Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus first coined the term in their book; Programmable matter:Concepts and Realization.

A subset of broader sciences of programmable matter,Claytronics is the name given to the research being conducted at the School of Computer Sciences of the Carnegie Mellon University. Catoms(clay+atoms) or reconfigurable atoms the fundamental  building blocks of an emerging engineered world.

Basing the entire concept on the electrostatic conversation among these sand grain-sized particles,the science of programmable matter aims at giving tangible shapes to information and making the impossible real
The concept is a bit confusing and sounds unrealistic---imagine your coffee mug converting in your watch or into your mobile phone or say your laptop. Its one technology which uses;brings almost all fields of Engineering together.

We have already seen this happen in movies like Transformers and District 9.

The technology is very premature to bring promising prototypes yet,but it has already aroused hope in the industrial fields ranging from Defense to health care, entertainment to construction.

The day may not be far when jobs like agriculture and animal husbandry become redundant because by just manipulating the atoms we will create what we want.In modern society anything is possible if a chip made from something like silicon(sand) can perform so many calculations and tasks why not this is possible.

Lotus's True Hybrid Engine

What is a Hybrid engine??

Hybrid engine's are a special type of engines which have two sources of power.The most popular hybrid engines these days are gas electric. They combine the power of non polluting  electric motor with gas engine.The gas engine and brakes (regenerative braking) help keep the batteries charged.
Generally, in a full hybrid, the electric motor takes control of the car when its cruising, or when slowly accelerating. When more power is necessary , the gas engine comes in to give the acceleration expected.By giving the electric motor to take control hybrids are able to a get better fuel economy than their standard counterparts with only gas engines. But since a lot of the energy is conserved when the car is braking, hybrid cars  give better mileage in city driving. Which is just opposite case in gas cars.

Lotus's Hybrid Engine

Lotus has come up with a new engine which they will setup a in a hybrid vehicle. The  engine made its debut in a concept segment that was at the biggest motor show the Frankfurt Motor Show. The engine features include all aluminum 1.2L engine and has 3-cylinders, It will be used in the Range Extender unit.

The new series hybrids are being developed with special technology, it makes sense that one important part of the power train—the engine is been designed and engineered for the purpose, isnt’t it?

It’s a fact that most of the Hybrid cars make use of regular existing engines with adaptation and minor tweaks. As a result the efficiency is compromised. But lotus has considered this point and has made a special engine for its new Range extender unit. The engine weighs just around 56kg in mass which is really great thanks to its all aluminum body.

It has an optimized twin-valve port-fuel injection,combustion system that has high thermal efficiency, low fuel consumption, multi-fuel capability [methanol  or ethanol] and a 35KW peak output from a 1.2L ,low-cost architecture. This was said by Lotus Engineerings Technical Director Simon Wood  in an interview.


Technical specs of the Engine

General – 1.2 L, 2 valves,3-cylinder,SOHC

* Belt drive

* All aluminum

* Balance shaft

Bore and Stroke                       –   75.0 x 90.0(Millimeter)

Engines Compression ratio        –  10:1

Maximum power produced        –  35 KW (47 BHP) @ 3500 RPM

Maximum Speed of the Engine  – 3500 RPM 
Construction                           – Mono block with Exhaust Manifold Integrated

Fuel System                             – Lotus EMS,Port fuel injection system

Fuel                                        – methanol/ethanol

Weight                                    – 56 kg

The engine can runs either on alcohol-based fuels or gasoline. No word yet from Lotus on a possible production vehicle, Lotus also helped develop the Tesla Roadster's chassis and it builds on a contract basis in the past.

Moto Cliq

Every tech savvy person by now know about Google's Android platform for mobile phones and internet devices.

Its almost been a couple of years by now since its release, Now we are seeing big manufacturers coming up with their handsets.

It definitely is a platform with huge potential cause its open source .

Anyone can develop applications for it and hence we are already seeing a lot of free apps.The handset manufacturer Motorola unveiled its first Google Android device, the Motorola Cliq, to a packed house at the Mobilize '09 conference in San Francisco.

Definitely the company has  huge expectation on this handset.

The company is already going through a lot of ups and downs an has been lagging behind competition.

Moto Cliq (model name MB220)

The handset by looks great it has a sliding full qwerty keyboard and a bright touch screen.Motorola has also developed an app called  "MotoBlur" (Motorolablur).

Motoblur is an app and service that syncs information from all the various connections you have in your daily life,Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and your e-mail accounts, and automatically give updates to your home screen.
You can even comment on a status update right from your homescreen with having to open any app.

One great aspect of Motoblur is that it backs up all your data to a Motorola-run server, so even if your phone gets lost or stolen you can remotely wipe your data ,all your information will be backed up to the server. You can recover all your data on a new handset to same as the time you lost it.

Physical design

Measurements and build
The Cliq features a slider design and dimensions are 4.49 inch tall by 2.28 inch wide by 0.62 inch thick and it weighs 5.6 ounces. The size is decent ,neither too small or too big, but more than anything, the build quality of the phone is impressive.

It has a really solid construction and just feels like a well-made handset.
 

Touch screen
There's a 3.1-inch HVGA touch screen on the front with a 320x480 pixel resolution. It's not the sharpest ,but still, the display is very clear and vibrant. The device, the touch screen is responsive. You also get several navigation buttons below the display.
 

Keyboard
When you slide open the phone, you will be welcomed by the Motorola Cliq's full QWERTY keyboard,which  look excellent. The buttons are a good size and have a nice bubbly shape to them. It ranks pretty high in our list of QWERTY devices as far as the keyboard.

Motorola Cliq’s official features and specs include:

• Android 1.5 OS
• 163.00 grams (5.7 oz)
• WCDMA 900/1700/2100, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
• GSM 850/900/1800/1900
• 3.1 inch, 320 x 480 pixels touchscreen display
• Custom homescreen with Live Widgets
• Android Market
• GPS, Turn by Turn directions, Google Maps with Street View, E-Compass
• Wi-Fi
• Android HTML Webkit browser
• 3.5mm headset jack
• Bluetooth
• 5MP autofocus camera
• Qualcomm MSM7201A Processor, 528 MHz
• 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM
• 2GB MicroSD card in the box
• 1420 mAh battery
• Talk-time: up to 6 hours of continuous talk time
• Standby time: up to 13.5 days
• 114 x 58 x 15.6 mm (4.49 x 2.28 x 0.61 in)

We’ll probably find out the official price in the fourth quarter of this year, when the Cliq should go on sale.

Intel Atom

Intel Atom Background
 

Intel Atom is new the new range of processors from Intel.
These processors are out to replace the older Celeron brand by Intel for several ranges of x86 CPU targeted at low cost personal computers. These processors run all IA32 computer applications,but their performance is lower when compared to other higher-priced Intel CPU brands.

 

• Some Tech Specs
 

Produced-                                               From April 1998 to present
Common manufacturer                            Intel
Socket(s)                                                LGA 775,Slot1, Socket 370,478
FSB speeds-                                            66 MHz to 800 MT/s
Max.CPUclock -                                       266 MHz to3.6GHz 
Instruction set-                                       x86-64,x86
Microarchitecture-                                  NetBurst, Cor,P6 
Min. feature size-                                   250 nm to 65 nm

Intel Atom

                                  

The Intel Atom is Intel's line of low-power, low-cost and low-performance x86 and x86-64
microprocessors. Atom, with code-name's of Silverthorne and Diamondville, was first announced on March 2, 2008.
The Intel Atom processor is the smallest processor ever from Intel and has been designed with the world's most tiny transistors and manufactured on industries latest 45NM  High-K technology. The Intel Atom processors are designed for simple,netbooks and nettops at affordable rates netbooks and nettops offer high device mobility for a better experience and longer battery life in case of netbooks.They are strong pretty rugged and small and sleek in design, and offers freedom and extension of being wireless.
Great for Internet, these devices and are an affordable option for, photo,video, education and viewing, social networking,e-mail, messaging, browsing,voice over IP and numerous other Internet applications.

• Some Tech Specs-
Core name(s) -                                            Diamondville,Silverthorne

Package(s) -                                                441-ball μFCBGA 
Produced -                                                 2008–present

Instruction set -                                         SSE, SSE3,SSE2,x86-64,x86,MMX
Common manufacturer(s) -                          Intel
Max. CPU clock -                                         800 MHz to 2 GHz
FSB speeds -                                               400 MHz to 667 MHz
Cores -                                                       1, 2
Min. feature size -                                      45nm

Why Intel Atom??

Intel Atom is one of the most power efficient processor in the world.
It is Designed for decreasing power consumption,Atom has many features present in Core 2 processors for lower power consumption such as Dynamic cache sizing & Enhanced Speed Step technology. The processors also utilize many new features and techniques - "clock gating"  which switches off system clock and changes it to idle logic blocks, CMOS Front Side Bus and others for energy efficiency, As the result, the Atom CPU have a much lower Thermal Design Power (TDP) than previous generation of low power processors.
All Atom processors are manufactured in small form factor I.E.  22mm x 22mm for all and 13mm x 14mm for the Z series.
With file sharing and higher system up times on the rise these days you can't afford to keep a power guzzling Quad core / Core i7 P.C.s Turned on for hours or days or weeks.. They consume a lot of power and there is hardly any need for the huge processing power. Its not green at all .You can instead assemble a cheap Intel atom system and and run it at 5to10% of the power needed by mainstream systems.Plus these is less need of space considering the itx form factor which is available now.
You can recover the price of your hardware by the power cost saving in a couple of year or even less for that matter.

Here's a list of Atom Processors

Intel Atom CPU chart

The chart below includes information on almost all Atom microprocessors. 
Intel Atom processors:

	Model↑	Core    name	Freq.         (MHz)	FSB  (MHz)	L2 cache (KB)	Cores	TDP (Watt)		Core              Voltage    (V)
	Z550	Silverthorne	2000	533	512	1	2.4 / 2.64		1.1
	Z540	Silverthorne	1867	533	512	1	2.4 / 2.64		1.1
	Z530P	Silverthorne	1600	533	512	1	2 / 2.2		1.1
	Z530	Silverthorne	1600	533	512	1	2 / 2.2		1.1
	Z520PT	Silverthorne	1333	533	512	1	2 / 2.2		0.9 - 1.1
	Z520	Silverthorne	1333	533	512	1	2 / 2.2		1.1
	Z515	Silverthorne	800	400	512	1	0.65		1.1
	Z510PT	Silverthorne	1100	400	512	1	2 / 2.2		0.9 - 1.1
	Z510P	Silverthorne	1100	400	512	1	2 / 2.2		1.1
	Z510	Silverthorne	1100	400	512	1	2		1.1
	Z500	Silverthorne	800	400	512	1	0.65		0.85
	N280	Diamondville	1667	667	512	1	2.5		0.9 - 1.1625
	N270	Diamondville	1600	533	512	1	2.5		1.1
	330	Diamondville	1600	533	1024	2	8		1.1
	230	Diamondville	1600	533	512	1	4		0.7 - 1.2

This Video From Intel will help you understand better

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