Those who are familiar with Tai Chiem of Melbourne Australia might be aware about the in-wheel electric motor - which helps reduce emissions and frees up space, allowing for a lighter, more efficient frame- that won the coveted prize. The Create the Future contest winners were chosen by an independent panel of design engineers and managers.

The design for an eco-friendly Movito scooter looks good and it is best for short trips. Movito is an electric scooter that will have people attracted to it, and not just because it is electric, but because it is so functional. It is expected that the two tone colors and beautiful lines will make this scooter in high demand; particularly in female population and urban consumers. Different body configurations are part of the plan to make this more marketable. Read the rest of this article »

Espresso or coffee espresso (a concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing very hot water under high pressure through coffee that has been ground to a consistency between extremely fine and powder) consumption has grown tremendously in the last decade or two all over the world particularly in urban centers. You cannot walk more than a couple of blocks without seeing espresso shop – they are found everywhere. Preparation of espresso requires an espresso machine. Latest trend is that people are buying espresso machines for homes as well. What is better than a professionally brewed espresso right at home? These machines have already become household items

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Given the growing usage of technology on an almost unimaginable scale, emissions is going up despite the awareness and so many efforts to save the planet Earth. "Whatever we do is likely to lead to death on a scale that makes all previous wars, famines and disasters small,” note one scientist. This has given birth to a newer discipline of science called Geo Engineering. Read the rest of this article »

Like Black Box in an airplane, CarChip performs some of the tasks in a car. On-board diagnostics data was once available only to professional mechanics but thanks to the developing technologies and know hows, now any one can have this facility and stay informed.

CarChip (very aptly named) is one of the easiest ways to keep an eye on your young ones’ driving habits or see what your company drivers are doing while on the road? CarChip monitors speeding, braking, acceleration and data on what happened during the last 20 seconds before any collision. Users can remove the CarChip and download data that might be very useful for preventing accidents and or even crimes. Read the rest of this article »

When robots and computers are doing everything that men used to do, it is possible to imagine robots fighting wars. Given the fast development of robotics, it is not far when robots make take over what is conventionally done by men in arms. Aerial robots, marine robots and stationary robots, and (reportedly) space robots are carrying out reconnaissance and more tasks in armies of some developed countries. Read the rest of this article »

As per the latest tech literature, Robot "is a virtual or mechanical artificial agent". In practice, it is usually an electro-mechanical system which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own. The word robot can refer to both physical robots and virtual software agents, but the latter are usually referred to as bots.” Robots have come a long way since Hisashige Tanaka (1799–1881) created an array of extremely complex mechanical toys, some of which served tea, fired arrows drawn from a quiver, and even painted a Japanese kanji character. Read the rest of this article »

A mobile robot driven by miniature ultrasonic piezoelectric motors open one route to minimally-invasive cardiac therapy. The robot is a product of the Robots Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and builds upon previous prototypes of its HeartLander. The system includes motor selection, body, and controllers, and was developed as a proof-of-concept to demonstrate mobility on the cardiac surface. Designers say the robot turns tighter and has more traction than a previous model, and represents the first step in designing a wireless mobile robot for cardiac therapy. Read the rest of this article »

The new TOMY xiao™ TIP-521 Digital Camera with Built-in Printer is a full-featured 5 Megapixel digital camera with a built-in full color ZINK™ printer. The xiao™ is a first of its kind integrated digital camera and printer that allows consumers to capture, view, and immediately print their digital images without ink, anywhere. Photos can now be viewed and shared right away - anywhere and all from one device. The xiao™ produces borderless, full-color, 2x3" (5x7,6 cm) prints in less than 60 seconds.

The xiao™ features a "retro" design and innovative built-in software to enable a variety of entertaining printing options from templates to borders. It also features an IrDA receiver so that you can print images sent to the xiao™ wirelessly from other IrDA devices. Read the rest of this article »

RED (red.com) manufacturers of the digital video camera RED ONE have announced their new camera system called RED Digital Stills and Motion Camera System.

This is not just another video camera, the specs on the higher end sensors promise to rival those of current DSLRs. As with some other famous cameras (Nikon D90, Canon 5D Mark II), digital stills and digital video are converging. The configurable system from RED is so different. The RED Scarlet and RED Epic sensors can be combined and interchanged with different lens mounts, batteries, recording modules, lenses and so on. The idea is that the camera can be configured and tailored to your needs in many ways. What is more, as technology advances and new components become available, they will integrate into this system and users won't have to upgrade their entire cameras. Read the rest of this article »

Philips and Douwe Egberts are launching a new coffee maker 'SENSEO' with fresh milk container that delivers coffees to consumers at the touch of a button.

The new SENSEO Latte Select coffee machine features an integrated, removable fresh milk container which automatically adds fresh frothed milk to make Cappuccinos, Latte Macchiatos or Café Lattes using a variety of Douwe Egberts coffee pods for total convenience at home. Read the rest of this article »

My favorite car has to be the Audi R8, if I had endless amounts of cash this is the car I would buy, Audi has just released a new version, the Audi R8 V10.The Audi R8 V10 features a 5.2 litre V10 engine which pumps out a massive 525hp, Read the rest of this article »

Readers remember when Samsung Electronics – one of the leaders in semiconductor technology - announced last month that it has begun mass producing 256 gigabyte (GB) solid state drives for use in notebooks and desktop PCs. With the addition of the high-speed 256GB drive, Samsung now offers the most extensive line of SSDs in the industry with 8, 16, and 32GB SSDs for low-density designs and 64, 128 and 256GB alternatives for the higher densities. Read the rest of this article »

Beyond personal computers, Wi-Fi chips are being put in into cameras, keyboards, mice and television. Industry guru in the know of the matter say that the current and next-generation versions of Wi-Fi have the bandwidth to offer video and can do a variety of things at lower power; energy use and wireless bandwidth have been the most common stumbling blocks to using the technology in more applications.

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Apple's iPhone is taking the market by force. According to a piece at Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog Apple has sold 8 million iPhone’s to date. But that's not an official stat from Apple, it's an approximation based on collected International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers. A joint project of AFB and Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board have been collecting iPhone IMEI numbers and recording them on a big Google spreadsheet here.

According to the IMEIs Apple has manufactured at least 5,649,000 iPhone 3Gs. When you add to that the 2.4 million first-generation iPhone’s that Apple reported selling in the first six months of 2008, you get a total of more than 8 million iPhone’s. With Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn turning out more than 800,000 units per week, Apple appears to be on a pace to build its 10 millionth iPhone before the end of September.

Revealed sales reports tell that it only took apple 74 days to sell one million of its latest version of the iPhone. At that rate sales should exceed 40,000,000 units within one year. To contrast these incredible sales numbers, you have to understand that it took apple just about a year to sell six million of the first generation of iPhone’s!

Apple has said repeatedly that it hopes to sell 10 million iPhone’s in calendar 2008. It looks like the company may meet that goal with several months to spare.

Like all other online appliances family, the iPhone too has its vulnerabilities; some of them very serious. People are buying iPhones at the same speed despite security hiccups. Savvy individuals, however, go a long way to secure the device and reduce their risk if iPhone gets lost or stolen. Wired's how-to wiki offers some valuable instructions on security your iPhone: Enable Pass code Protection, Enable SIM PIN Protection, Enable Auto-Lock, Re-map Your Home Button, and Use a Password Storing App. It is in the same milieu, there is debate going on about the harms in case this wonderful facility is given in the hands of kids.

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