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insect eye for camera

The ability of insects that can see the nocturnal or in darkness at night, inspiring professor Eric Warrant of Lund University in Sweden to collaborate with automakers Toyota developed a special camera for the night.

This collaborative project aims to develop a new type color camera that would help motorists drive more safely at night.

Several years ago, when Toyota wanted a new way of developing a special security features on their cars, they began an investigation in the field of bio-mimetic or bio-inspiration. The second term refers to the development and manufacturing technology solutions to make the nature and living things as an example to emulate. Toyota then contacted Warrant to learn more about his research that reveals the nature of insects that are nocturnal active.

“For example, there are many things that can be learned from beetles that live in cow dung, which are nocturnal active,” said Warrant, as quoted by Science Daily, Tuesday (19/1/2010).

For 25 years, Warrant and his team at the Department of Biology, Lund University research study focused on the sight of insects, especially the ability to see in the dark.

The study of living things such Warrant is beetles, bees and moths. These three types of these insects have the ability to see the nocturnal. After investigation, beetles, bees and moths have eyes with lenses coated simultaneously working to create a single image in the eyes of animals.

Cells sensitive to light in the retina of their eyes have the capacity to exploit the light, even when in the dark or the light is very weak supply. When night fell, the sensitive cells begin to work together and create a flexible retinal function.

In addition to Warrant, mathematician from Lund University Henrik Malm help change the ability of insects that great vision into a mathematical algorithm. This algorithm forms the basis for creating a digital image for all types of cameras used in the dark or at night.

“The algorithm that we have found a method to imitate insect eyes in improving visual perception in the dim light,” said Malm.

Night-vision cameras that mimic the insect’s eyes are now on trial by Toyota to be immediately applied to production cars Toyota

faster download

Akamai Web monitoring firm released the results of research on cities that have the fastest broadband Internet access throughout the world.

Sandy is a city in Utah, United States, which was considered as a city that has the fastest access speed broadband connections in the world with an average bandwidth of 33.4 megabits per second (Mbps).

Later in the Israeli city of Beersheva with the speed of 25.1 Mbps, was named the city with the second highest internet speed.

Predicate city with the third fastest internet fell in continental Europe, precisely in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, with a speed of 24.7 Mbps.

As for the country category, South Korea at the top with access speeds average 14.6 Mbps each city.

Row behind him is Japan with 7.9 Mbps, Hong Kong 7.6 Mbps, 6.2 Mbps Romania, Sweden and Ireland 5.7 Mbps 5.3 Mbps speeds.

blognavi quotes from WebUser, Friday (14/1/2010), the average velocity
the global Internet research by Akamai is 1.7 Mbps. Unfortunately, Indonesia does not mention how many there are in the position.

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watching tv

The results of recent studies say, watching television may increase risk of dying from heart disease was almost five times. This also applies to those who love idleness and often linger in front of the computer.

A recent study conducted professor David Dunstan and his team from the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute found that people who spent more than four hours watching TV 80 per cent more at risk of death from heart disease than those who watched TV less than two watch.

Dunstan said, risk is stalking the people who rarely move, which most activities only move from one seat to another seat, a long time watching TV or sitting at the computer.

“Even though a person has an ideal weight and look healthy, too often sit without doing any activity in the period long enough to affect blood sugar levels and in their bodies,” said Dunstan, as quoted from the Telegraph, Tuesday (12 / 1 / 2010).

In their study, researchers conducted a survey of approximately 8800 adults. The participants then were in control during the seven-year study to measure levels of cholesterol and their blood sugar. Not forget, a habit they spent watching TV was included in the study.

The research found, for six years 87 people died of a heart attack and another 125 due to cancer. In these findings, other factors such as smoking and blood pressure tingggi not included. For that reason the researchers suggested that we should avoid sitting too long in order to reduce the risk of dangerous diseases.

nexus one

Google certainly has Nexus One ship exclusively through his official online store. The phone is sell for USD179 or IDR 1, 6 million with a two-year contract from the operator T-Mobile USA or USD529 or IDR 4, 9 million without a contract. This means, Google has joined with 20 other Android phones that have been flushing in almost all the world, both from HTC, Motorola and other brands.

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islate apple

News about the presence or the Apple Tablet called iSlate been busy. Specifications of this iSlate also been leaked on the Internet. As quoted blognavi from Techtree, Wednesday (6/1/2010) iSlate will have the screen size of 7.1 inches with the operating system Mac OS X version 10.7 Leopard Cloud. Also reported that iSlate be launched on 26 January. But for the new marketing began in March 2010.

Viewed from the side of hard instruments, iSlate going armed with an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz speed, with 3MB of L2 cache. Also armed iSlate memory 8GB DDR3 1066Mhz RAM, 120 GB storage 4200rpm HDD, a built in iSight camera, and built in projector. Other features that are standard such as Gigabit Ethernet, SD Card slot, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and WiFi-called ‘Airport Extreme’.

What’s interesting here is the Leopard operating system, which connected with the server cloud, for the purposes of data storage, data recall and so on. Other features such as iTunes, Mail, Safari, Spotlight, and so on are included in Mac OS X version is 10.7.