Will Dell Wyse Ophelia Project Could Transform TV into a Computer

Quoted from ubergizmo.com, device slightly larger than a USB flash allows users to change the TV or monitor into interactive personal display. Dell technology being developed is able to access file photo, music or video from a personal cloud or other paid services without a PC, smartphone or tablet.

The technology is part of Dell Wyse Cloud is designed to securely access or share using a variety of applications for the job, the presentation or content. Built using Google's Android OS 4 that supports web browsing, social networking, media playback and Android apps as well as the possibility of other services. This device can also be connected to the Windows computer and the applications that use back-end systems all infrastructures including Citrix, Microsoft and VMware.

Here it is, Specification of Huawei Ascend with 3000mAh Battery

After release the Ascend P1 last year, seems bring a bad results for the company which is based in China. This year, Huawei is in the rumor it was working on a new smartphone as a successor of the Ascend P1 which is named Ascend P2.

Based on a leak that we quote via PhoneArena, the handset will come out with a processor K3V2 Hisilicon, the capacity is almost equal to the quad-core processor and is also equipped with HD panel on the 5 inches screen.

As for the other specs, Ascend P2 is also rumored to have been wrapped with 2 GB RAM, 8 GB of internal memory plus a microSD slot, and 13 MP rear camera. For convenience of use, Huawei has also refine a powerful 3000mAh battery to cover all uses of the features that have been brought.

For the price, many are predicting that the price Huawei has given for the handset around USD 279.99. FYI, this device is still unknown whether Huawei will sell globally or only locally in China.

Tech scientists to improve qubits life-span

The difference between classical
bit and qubit technology

Technology scientists from Yale university have successfully improved the technical lifespan of Qubits, the data carriers of quantum-computers.

One of the major issues with Qubits is reading the quantum state without changing it and stabalizing the qubits themselves. Lifespan is often very short, external influences degrade the integrity of the data. The Yale scientists now have developed a method to stabalize the degradation by automagically replacing the changes made by external influences by the original contents of the specific qubit based on error-correction technology. By scanning and comparing qubits on a constant basis, changes can be detected almost immediately and be recovered into their original state.

CES 2013: Smartphone, Tablet and Latest Technology

CES 2013 was over 11 last January, but if we look from the show, there are some interesting features that might determine the mobile industry this year, and it is expected there will be a new one in the MWC, IFA, or event afterwards. For example, like many devices with 5-inch screen 1080p resolution, or maybe you will be familiar if you hear a mobile device with a high resolution camera, like 13 megapixel camera? Not only that LTE networks will also continue to expand, and will be much more mobile devices that use this type of network.

The most interesting thing at CES yesterday was when Sony is bringing two of the first members of the 2013 lineup, the Xperia series. Two flagship smartphone the Xperia Z and Xperia ZL. Sony Xperia Z comes with a full HD 1080p display by 5-inch Reality Display with four core processors or quad-core. While the Xperia ZL fairly similar, but the camera is ZL pinned at the bottom right.

Huawei also brings two Android products are Ascend D2 and Ascend Mate. Both products use the Android mobile OS Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and processor with a clock of 1.5 GHz and 2 GB RAM. Ascend D2 equipped with a 5-inch screen resolution of 1080 pixels and 13 megapixel camera. While Ascend Mate powered 6.1-inch screen resolution of 720p. With the camera resolution is much smaller, which is 8 megapixels. And one product for Windows Phone 8, the Ascend W1 which is a mid-range smartphone that will run with Windows Phone 8 which debuted at CES this year.

But that may be a bit disappointing is that Samsung did not introduce a new phone in Las Vegas(although indirectly has revealed the Galaxy S II Plus). Fortunately, they showed Odyssey Ativ for Verizon that runs with Windows Phone 8. There are also mini Galaxy S III gets some new colors, and Samsung is also working on a flexible OLED display for mobile gadgets.

Which introduces many new gadgets are Alcatel. They announced six Android is Scribe X, Scribe HD-LTE, One Touch Ultra Idol, X'Pop, S'Pop and T'Pop. That's not all there are five other Android tablets Namely Evo 7 HD, Evo 7, One Touch Tab 7, Tab 7 One Touch HD and One Touch Tab 8 HD.

Next there Pantech, which brings the smartphone that will be affordable for AT & T.

There was also a ZTE announces Grand S is claimed as the thinnest smartphone with a 5-inch screen, 1080p.

While Lenovo showcase K900 Android smartphone with a 5.5 inch screen 1080p, with the new dual-core Atom processors and dual-SIM droid, then there are others like IdeaPhone S890, S720, A800 and A690.

Then there Vizio to introduce Android smartphone with 5-inch 1080p display, and a 4.7-inch 720p plus 10-inch tablet with Tegra hardware 4.

Acer showed off cheap tablet, Iconia B1-A71 with 7-inch which running on Jelly Bean, Archos introduced the Titanium 70, 80, 97 and 101, while Panasonic 4K with 20-inch screen that runs with Windows 8 and some Android. Even Polaroid is getting ready to launch two tablets Android 4.1 tablet with M10 and M7 respectively 10 and 7inchi screen

Not only mobile products (smartphones and tablets), there is also the latest generation chipset technology, which may be used on smartphones in 2013. As Qualcomm who introduced the new chipset, Snapdragon 800 (quad-core 2.3GHz Krait, Adreno 330) and 600 (dual-core 1.9GHz Krait, Adreno 320) SoCs.

Samsung is also not to be outdone, they launched the 8 core Exynos 5 Octa chipset, featuring four feature ARM Cortex-A15 cores and four ARM Cortex-A7.

STE also announced a new chipset which was named the NovaThor L8580 with quad-core Cortex-A9 CPU, which may be used in the middle-class devices.

Maybe CES 2013 is over, but soon the MWC 2013 event already waiting. It will be a wait and hope, hopefully many more gadgets and technologies will be introduced at the next event.

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Medi-tech / H+: Genetically engineered humans have already been born

Genetically engineered humans
have already been born

The earthshaking news appeared some years ago in the medical journal Human Reproduction under the

impenetrable headline: "Mitochondria in Human Offspring Derived From Ooplasmic

Transplantation." The media put the story in heavy rotation for one day, then forgot about it. We

all forgot about it.

But the fact remains that the world is now populated by dozens of children who were genetically

engineered. It still sounds like science fiction, yet it's true. In the first known application of germline gene therapy � in which an individual's genes are changed in a way that can be passed to offspring � doctors at a reproductive facility in New Jersey announced in March 2001 that nearly 30 healthy babies had been born with DNA from three people: dad, mom, and a second woman. Fifteen were the product of the fertility clinic, with the other fifteen or so coming from elsewhere. The doctors believe that one cause for failure of women to conceive is that their ova contain old mitochondria (if you don't remember your high school biology class, mitochondria are the part of cells that provides energy). These sluggish eggs fail to attach to the uterine wall when fertilized.

In order to "soup them up", scientists injected them with mitochondria from a younger woman.

Since mitochondria contain DNA, the kids have the genetic material of all three parties. The

DNA from the "other woman" can even be passed down along the female line.

Genetically engineered fetus

The problem is that no one knows what effects this will have on the children or their progeny. In fact, this substitution of mitochondria hasn't been studied extensively on animals, never mind homo-sapiens. The doctors reported that the kids are healthy, but they neglected to mention something crucial. Although the fertility clinic's technique resulted in fifteen babies, a total of seventeen fetuses had been created. One of them had been aborted, and the other miscarried. Why? Both of them had a rare genetic disorder, Turner syndrome, which only strikes females. Ordinarily, just one in 2,500 females is born with this condition, in which one of the X-chromosomes is incomplete or totally missing. Yet two out of these seventeen fetuses had developed it.

If we assume that nine of the fetuses were female (around 50%), then two of the nine female fetuses had this rare condition. Internal documents from the fertility clinic admit that this amazingly high rate might be due to the ooplasmic transfer. Even before the revelation about Turner syndrome became known, many experts were appalled that the technique had been used. A responding article in Human Reproduction said, in a dry understatement: "Neither the safety nor efficacy of this method has been adequately investigated." Ruth Deech, chair of Britain's Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, told the BBC: "There is a risk, not just to the baby, but to future generations which we really

can't assess at the moment."

The number of children who have been born as a result of this technique is unknown. The

original article gave the number as "nearly thirty," but this was in early 2001. At that time, at

least two of the mutant children were already one year old. Dr. Joseph Cummin, professor emeritus of biology at the University of Western Ontario, says that no further information about these 30 children has appeared in the medical literature or the media. As far as additional children born with two mommies and a daddy, Cummin says that a report out of Norway in 2003 indicated that ooplasmic transfer has been used to correct mitochondrial disease. He opines: "It seems likely that the transplants are going on, but very,

very quietly in a regulatory vacuum, perhaps."

Electric cars have been around since the 1880�s

The electric car prototype made by
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison
in the 1800's

The current trend in the global car market is the Electric Cars, EV�s (Electric Vehicles). And as it seems it�s not a temporary hype, the electric car is here to stay for a long time. No more dependence on gas. No more choking the atmosphere with fumes. But the technology isn't futuristic at all my dearest friends...it's positively even retro. Cars powered by electricity have been on the scene since the later 1800's and actually predate gas-powered cars!

A blacksmith in Vermont � Thomas Davenport � built the first rotary electric motor in 1833

and it to power a model train the next year. In the late 1830s, Scottish inventor Robert Davidson rigged a carriage with an electric motor powered by batteries. In his Pulitzer-nominated book Taking Charge, archaeology professor and technology historian Michael Brian Schiffer writes that this "was perhaps the first electric car."

1904 Kreiger-Brasier electric car

After this truly remarkable achievement, the idea of an electric car languished for decades. In 1881, a French experimenter debuted a personal vehicle that ran on electricity, a tricycle (ie, three wheels and a seat) for adults. In 1888, many inventors in Europe started creating three- and four-wheel electric vehicles able to carry two to six people. These �EV�s� remained principally curiosities until May 1897, when the Pope Manufacturing Company � the country's most successful bicycle manufacturer � started selling the first commercial electric car: the Columbia Electric Phaeton, Mark III. It topped out at fifteen miles per hour, and had to be recharged every 30 miles. Within two years, people could choose from an array of electrical carriages, buggies, wagons, trucks, bicycles, tricycles, even buses and ambulances made by numerous manufacturers.

1925 Rauch and Lang Electric Taxi

New York City became home to a fleet of electric taxi cabs starting in 1897. The Electric Vehicle Company eventually had over 100 of them ferrying people around the Big Apple. Soon it was unleashing electric taxis in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. By 1900 though, the company was in trouble, and seven years later it sputtered out.

As for cars powered by dead dinosaurs,  Austrian engineer Siegfried Marcus attached a one cylinder motor to a cart in 1864, driving it 500 feet and thus creating the first vehicle powered by gas (this was around 25 years after Davidson had created the first electric car). It wasn't until 1895 that gas autos � converted carriages with a two-cylinder engine � were commercially sold (and then only in microscopic numbers).

Around the turn of the century, the average car buyer had a big choice to make: gas, electric, or steam... When the car industry took form around 1895, nobody knew which type of vehicle was going to become the standard. During the last few years of the nineteenth century and the first few of the twentieth, more than 100 companies placed their bets on electric car production. According to Schiffer, "28% of the 4192 American cars produced in 1900 were electric. In the New York automobile show of that year more electric cars were on display than gasoline or steam vehicles."

electric car from 1900 designed
by founder Ferdinand Porsche 

In the middle of the first decade of the 1900�s, electric cars were got on the decline, and their gas drinking brothers were surging ahead. With improvements in the cars and their batteries, though, electric cars staged a comeback in 1907, continuing until 1913. The downhill slide started the next year, and by the 1920s the market for electrics was not more than minuscule,.

For the electric car things never got any better after that. Many companies tried to combine the best of both approaches, with cars that ran on a mix of electricity and gas. The Pope Manufacturing Company, once again in the vanguard, built a working prototype in 1898. A Dutch company and a French company each brought out commercial models the next year, beating the Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight to the market by over a century. Even Ferdinand Porsche and the Mercedes Company got in on the electric car business. Unfortunately, these hybrids never really caught on.

Electric car Oldsmobile from 1896

Didik Design, which manufactures several vehicles running on various combinations of electricity, solar power, and human power, maintains an extensive archive on the history of electric and electro-fuel cars. According to their research, around 200 companies and individuals have manufactured electric cars. Only a few familiar names are on the list (although some of them aren't familiar as car manufacturers): Studebaker (1952-1966), General Electric (1901-1904), Braun (1977), Sears, Roebuck, and Company (1978), and Oldsmobile (1896 to the present). The vast majority have long been forgotten: Elecctra, Pfluger, Buffalo Automobile Company, Hercules, Red Bug, and Nu-Klea Starlite, to name a few. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison teamed up on an electric car, and although a few working prototypes were built, they were never commercially produced. Though they have faded from mass cultural memory, electric cars have never been completely out of production.

The reasons why electric cars faded into obscurity while gas cars and trucks became 99.999 percent dominant are complex and are still being debated. If only they hadn't been sidelined and had continued to develop apace, the world would be a very different, even more advabced place.

Android Jelly Bean Users Keep Growing While Gingerbread Tend To Descending

Android 4.1 and 4.2 are now running about 10 percent of Android devices, mean while Gingerbread gradually reduce the number of its users. According to recent figures from Google, the latest version of Android is now sitting at about 10 percent of all Android devices, while Gingerbread drops below 50 percent.

Android 4.1 and 4.2 or so-called Jelly Bean, after the last two weeks on January 3, 2012, Android 1.4 users began to climb (see the graph below). These surges occur from the first two weeks of December when Jelly Bean, released in July 2012 while still in 6.7 percent of all active devices. In such devices like the Samsung Galaxy S3, The X HTC, and Google Nexus Tablet Nexus 7 and 10.

Gingerbread, which was released in 2010, probably not going to disappear any time soon, though. The number of users finally dipped below 50 percent to 47.6 percent. However, this operating system will probably continue to be used for a cheaper smartphones.

Nokia Lumia 920 Successor Will Use Aluminum Materials

Leaving only one flagship smartphone, the Lumia 920 in the current market, it makes sense if Nokia was mentioned was preparing a Windows mobile phone for the year 2013. If there is a remarkable smartphone that Nokia will release in this year, it is the material that will be used.

Yup, as reported by the website The Verge which obtained from an anonymous source close to the information, mentioned that Nokia plans to use aluminum material for at least one of its flagship Lumia Windows Phone to be launched this year.

The smartphones were originally going to be a successor to the Lumia 920, is said to have the codename as Nokia Catwalk, as well is believe will embed an equivalent hardware specifications.

The decision of Nokia's switch to using aluminum material assessed will make the device much lighter and thinner than its predecessor, the Lumia 920. Thus allowing the Finnish vendor to compete with the Apple iPhone, in terms of both size and weight, where it can�t be done through the Lumia 920, which wrapped with a polycarbonate material.