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Archive for April 6th, 2010

General Motors has announced it is moving more than 500 fuel cell experts from advanced development laboratories to core engineering functions to prepare fuel cell technology for future production.

Over 400 fuel cell engineers will report to the company’s Powertrain Group to start production engineering of fuel cell systems. The automaker added that 100 workers will transfer to GM’s Global Product Development organization to begin integrating fuel cells into future product lines. Additionally, over 150 fuel cell scientists and program support will remain as part of the automaker’s Research and Development center. They will continue advanced research in hydrogen storage, fuel cells and program commercialization. The decision of the largest American automaker is aimed at expediting its efforts to produce vehicles that displace petroleum through energy diversity.

GM Vice President Research and Development and Strategic Planning Larry Burns stands with the company’s E-Flex Fuel Cell variant. “Eight years ago we said that hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle technology could make a major contribution to solving the energy and environmental challenges facing the automobile industry,” said Burns. “Today’s announcement signals another important milestone as we move fuel cell vehicles closer to future production.”

“Moving our fuel cell experts from advanced development laboratories to our core engineering organizations highlights our strong commitment to developing electrically-driven vehicles using diverse energy sources” said Tom Stephens, the GM Group Vice President of Global Powertrain.

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Too often we think about gadgets like small devices made for us to have fun: mp3 players, cell phones, PDA’s, music players. So we forget about the ones made to help people and really change their life.

This article is about the gadgets that improve people life and aren’t so known as party and funny gadgets. I’m going to talk about the gadgets built for people with disabilities, devices that help this people to have a better life. The majority of these gadgets are made for the blinds so I will start with those.

Electronic eyes

This high-tech device recognizes the white stripes of a pedestrian crosswalk and reads traffic lights could tell a blind person when it’s safe to cross the street. The electronic eyes are being developed at Kyoto Institute of Technology.

Braille PDA’s and computers

The Braille Display allows blind users to use standard computers or PDA devices. The Braille gadgets use refreshable Braille displays, which raise small dots through holes in a flat surface to create Braille that refreshes as the user inputs commands. So a blind person will be able to play music, read books, take notes, making presentations or reviewing/editing documents.

PC with a screen reader

Screen readers access information displayed on computer monitors and interpret that information via text-to-speech output. This software must be used along with text to speech synthesizers to allow the blinds to use the computer easy.IBM offers Home Page Reader, special software to read and navigate Web pages for those who are blind.  Read more...

Notebook also called as laptop is an extension of desktop computers. It is smart and slick in look, light in weight, consume less power, make nearly no noise and most importantly can be easily carried to anywhere. In fact due to its portable feature as well as with the advent of Wi-Fi features, usage of notebook has been increased rapidly in the last few years.

You do not need to get entangled with wires while accessing internet. Just carry your notebook and enjoy working from anywhere you feel like. Sounds awesome right? Earlier notebook was considered to be a luxurious item which was accessible only among the riches, but not anymore. With the sharp fall in its price, notebook is with in the affordable reach of everyone now.

Even big notebook manufacturers like HP, Dell are quite confident that soon the sell of notebooks will outdo the sell of desktops. These days many notebook manufacturers designed lightweight notebooks also called ultraportables especially for students and business travellers. These notebooks usually weigh less than 3 pounds.

One of the common problems users always complain about notebook is its small screen. Several accessories like DVD burner or 17-inch LCD screen are available by which you can make your laptop screen look every bit as good as your desktop screen. Similarly some users might not be satisfied with the tiny speakers of notebook. You can go for Logitech speaker accessories to enhance the sound capacity.  Read more...

We’ve reviewed the experts’ recommendations and users’ comments on a wide range of netbooks, and here we recommend 4 highly rated ones.

Firstly, what are netbooks? Like the meaning of “responsible” (as in “who really is responsible for the deep economic mire we find ourselves in – greedy bankers or incompetent ministers?”) everybody seems to have a different point of view.

For the non-techy they are small, very portable laptops which are more likely to be used for basic wordprocessing, emailing, surfing the net, and watching and listening to video, pictures and songs on the move. Later models are now able to play more sophisticated games, and even do some video editing, though this is still best left for a more powerful laptop or desktop. They are at the smaller end of the screen sizes, up to 11 inches (measured diagonally), though there are no hard and fast rules.

Don’t get confused with notebooks – notebooks a bit bigger, and less portable, lying between the netbook and the laptop; nor are they “tablets” – the most famous of which is the newly launched iPad. Tablets have no keyboard and are principally for playing media and surfing the web, not more serious multi-tasking.

The important thing is that netbooks are designed to be very portable laptops – though a recent survey of US owners found that 60% never took them out of the house! Most have inbuilt wifi to connect to wireless internet wherever you are, or have the capability to link to the internet via a 3G link (like a phone).  Read more...

A laptop is indeed a superior variant of the desktop computer technology and there is no doubt that it is better than the desktop PCs in several ways. It offers a superior degree of flexibility, reliability and affordability besides coming up with advanced features and functionality to its credit. Being space-conscious and sleek in appearance, it can easily be placed in any home and office setup. Moreover, it can be easily carried to any place as per the discretion of its user.

The growth of laptops was not that easy and comfortable as it seems today; the earlier laptops were heavily priced and out of the reach of the middle-class users. Not only this, they were originally not as advanced as they are today, justifying their price at every stage of usage.

If you are looking for the world class yet cheap laptops then the online and traditional markets have enough options for you. The modern day cheap notebooks are nothing short of perfection at their very best.

Some of the latest laptops in the present day market are the Acer TravelMate 4233WLMi, Acer TM 6292, Acer Ferrari 1005WTMi and Acer Aspire 5583WXMi. These Acer laptops display how perfection can change lives in the best possible ways. The Acer laptops are giving enough to the Microsoft laptops when it comes to customer satisfaction and advanced features. This is the primary reason why these Acer laptops are obvious choice for millions of customer worldwide these days.  Read more...