Seagate Pulsar, The first Solid State Drive (SSD)

Seagate has announced the first Solid State Drive (SSD) product for Enterprise Market call “Pulsar™”

The Pulsar SSD is designed to meet OEM performance, power, size and reliability requirements for enterprise blade and general server applications.

The Pulsar SSD based on Single-level cell (SLC) technology optimizes SSD reliability and endurance

Where the SSD can offer up to 200GB capacity, using SATA 3Gb/s interface to support current blade server chipsets, and it can offer up to 30,000 read IOPS and 25,000 write IOPS. Seagate Pulsar SSD will speeding at 240MB/s sequential read and up to 200 MB/s sequential write speeds.

Specification:

• Single-level cell (SLC) technology optimizes SSD reliability and endurance
• 0.44 percent AFR for high reliability and endurance
• Up to 200GB capacity in a 2.5-inch form factor and 7mm z-height
• Power loss data protection to ensure against data loss upon power failure
• 5-Year Limited Warranty
• SATA 3Gb/s interface to support current blade server chipsets
• Leveraging industry-leading, global enterprise support
• Industry-leading SSS and SSD standards development through JEDEC and SNIA

Seagate planned to show off their new Pulsar SSD at CES in January 2010. Unfortunately, there are no details on pricing as yet.

Developed: Seagate


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JVC J4 Robot , A small humanoid robot

JVC has developed a small humanoid robot of their own called the “J4 Robot ”

The J4 Robot has a height of 20cm, weight of 770 g and 26 different joints. It can receive commands via Bluetooth, has voice recognition capabilities.The J4 has two CMOS cameras inside its head, with plans to support face and obstacle recognition and animated LED eyes.

The J4 Robot use battery is lithium ion and allows for about 90 minutes of operation time. For the body materials, the legs are aluminium and the torse plastic resin. There are two kinds of actuators that vary depending on their use. It is made primarily of goods currently available on the market, but some portions have been modified. The gears were created by JVC.

As for it’s role in your life, JVC commented that with camcorders and home theater equipment becoming increasingly complex, consumers could use J4 as a robotic universal remote. Which is kind of a silly answer, considering a gorgeous little cherry red robot like this needs no more purpose than looking cool.

Besides the universal remote idea, JVC could market the J4 as an all-purpose electronics gadget: an alarm clock, email reader, weather forcaster, mp3 player, and home surveillance system.

Unfortunately they don’t have any plans to actually market the J4, which comes as a sad blow to robot enthusiasts everywhere. With news all dried up, one can only wonder if and when we’ll ever see him again.

Designer: Japan Victor Corporation (JVC)





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RoboScooter Folding reduces your parking

The RoboScooter is folding electric scooter ,developed by Smart Cities Group

The RoboScooter Folding was designed to allow transportation practical and affordable in urban areas while reducing the negative effects of widespread use of vehicles-traffic congestion, parking, noise, air pollution and fuel use.

The RoboScooter Folding that designed from an alloy of aluminum and a simple design, this scooter only weights 50 kg., or half of its motorized equivalent. It has a range of 30 km for a maximum speed of about 50 km /hrs. Designers hope to weight of 10 kg.

The RoboScooter Folding will be entirely electric, with at least one lithium-ion battery pack that can be swapped out for another, fully charged one. And although the exact mechanics haven’t been finalized, the scooter will have the ability to fold into itself, with its rear wheel sitting alongside the front one. That covers the cool stuff that might convince you to eventually buy or rent one.

The RoboScooter’s biggest innovation are designed to serve as approximate functional equivalents of 50cc gasoline-powered scooters. ,The Roboscooter is clean, silent and needs slight parking space. Compared to the 1,000 to 1,500 parts of an equivalent gasoline-powered scooter, The Roboscooter only integrates 150 parts, which makes it simple, cost effective and easy to maintain.

Moreover, the detachable batteries are very small in size and can be recharged in their racks. their battery packs are also small enough to be conveniently removable, which opens up the possibilities of charging spare batteries at home, and of battery vending machines that accept discharged batteries and provide fully charged ones.

Developed : Smart Cities group

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“Squibble” Portable Braille Interface

While modern gadgets have revolutionized the lifestyles of contemporary users, technology still remains a bane for the visually impaired. Raising a ray of hope

A portable Braille interface called “Squibble” that provides tactile, audio and high contrast visual feedback for the blind, allowing users to access their mobile phones and other technology anytime.

The Squibble gives the chance for personal interaction as well as freedom, as it neatly fits into a pocket and connects via Bluetooth. Moreover, it tries to negate the stigma of assisted products and provides a stylish and desirable solution for a market segment that is often neglected.

The Squibble designed to maximize the internal space, using an external metal chassis to maintain rigidity. The Squibble uses 779 ultrasonic motors to provide tactile feedback through Braille and other universally recognizable symbols for quick access. Providing illumination through caps on each motor, the device also includes a grip that lets the blind read Braille without placing the device on a surface. When the caps press against the user-replaceable silicone cover, they provide illumination for each of the raised dots.

Designer: Andrew Mitchell

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Honda P-Nut Concept, innovate travel style for the future

In the future, one reason that makes young generation wants to live middle a city is the advantage in about the easiness for come to office, entertainment centre and all department store. Certainly, that important factor that makes their thinks such is the development of an automobile that has the change and an automobile in the future should have compact size, convenient for the city which that make the limitation in the travel of them disappears both of in about a parking lot and the easiness in the usability

Honda unveiled the p-nut concept car which be imagination show of the designer from Honda at have idea in the travel of the city man in the future. The new vehicle gets its unique name from an acronym standing for 'Personal-Neo Urban Transport' or “P-NUT”

The P-Nut be a car has 4 wheels that has length body of a car just 3,400 mm. at full the advantage because within a car have designing to three-seater be one-seat for the driver and the rear is like 1+1 be can support with one person passenger or choose that will a mattress sits for enhance the area for supplies loading or will sit until fully two-seater both left and right and the features an angular body enclosed by glass (including roof)

While, a car has the wideness just 1,750 mm. make P-Nut can get into go to narrow area on the road in a city or among crowded traffic has comfortable smoothly, include still can a parking lot has as well smoothly

For a motor was been locate at the rear and the driving moves in like rear wheels and designed to support a variety of drivetrains, together with an effective gas engine, a gas-electric hybrid or a pure electric for the driving moves in automobile electric power form or EV, the hybrid vehicle removes side mirrors for a backup camera to assist the driver.

Regard as P-Nut be one idea of creating for present to designing automobile trend in the future for correspond the usability actually

Designer: Dave Marek & Advanced Design Team

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Braille Wristwatch signal tell the time

The gadget idea will to invent the equipment helps the blind can see more and more previously. And gadget idea designing Braille Wristwatch this also, that take design from original watch is a Diesel digital watch, come to do re-design.

Braille Wristwatch can display time in Braille to the nine characters (essentially a matrix of 3X18 dots) it will signal with person wear by made into a shorthand form

The Braille Wristwatch which removes all unnecessary dots, so the users could focus only on relevant information. The new wristwatch reducing the matrix to 4×4 dots left to right, top to bottom) tells time in a more intuitive way.

Designer: Lawrence Kwok

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