HONDA ENDS DOMESTIC SALES OF CIVIC MODEL!

In the U.S., the Honda Civic is an icon long known for its reliability and chart-topping sales. In Japan, however, a case of cannibalization to the extreme has forced Honda to stop selling its Civic nameplate in its home market.

CADILLAC URBAN LUXURY CONCEPT

Long a purveyor of luxo-boats, the Cadillac name is hardly synonymous with high-efficiency urban motoring. But General Motors’ premium brand realizes that its future might need to include greener vehicles aimed at conquering congested roads, so it has taken the wraps off of its latest concept car, the Urban Luxury Concept.

Google CEO interview - Web 2.0 Summit

I came across this hugely interesting recent interview of the Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt. He talks about the general direction of the company for the future as well as some new products! He also gives subtle hints about the Nexus S here! Its 44 minute long but worth it! Check it out!

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HD Voice - A game changer for voice quality in telecoms?

I came across an interesting innovation in the telecom sector recently and I just found a detailed article about it. It is difficult to imagine, but voice communication standards were established as early as in 1937 for landline networks and nothing changed since then. Frequencies ranged from 300 to 3400 Hz. When mobile networks were created old rules were adapted and new codecs helped to economize available frequencies. CDs give you as much as 44100 Hz. Do you feel the difference with the 3400 Hz limit for mobile and landline phones? 

Hyperion Power - A solution to all the electricity needs of the world?

Can you picture a world in which small safe nuclear reactors give you a virtually inexhaustible energy supply for all the needs of a small neighborhood ( Creek Vista in DHA Karachi for example) and even power your electric cars? That is what Hyperion Power is all about. Click the read more link to find out more!

A soultion to Climate Change and Global Warming?

Former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold proposes a method to combat climate change by pumping liquid sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere through nozzles in a hose lifted more than 15 miles into the atmosphere using helium-filled balloons. As described by Myhrvold in an interview this week, the idea behind this "Stratoshield" would be to dim the sun in critical areas of the world by just enough to reduce or reverse the effects of global warming.

Eye-tracking computers - Alternative for finger print scanners?

Beeping, flashing retinal scanners are a constant, and dare I say tired, fixture in films. And why not? They serve as convenient shorthand for wealth and technological sophistication, and their utility is easy to convey.

Rare as they may be, scanners like this do exist. But researchers in Israel have developed software that can identify individuals based on eye movement, and don’t require hardware any more sophisticated than a laptop with a decent webcam. 

Light-emitting sutures, biomedical tattoos and more future medical tech

By changing the properties of conventional semiconductor wafers — from stiff and brittle to bendable and stretchable — engineers at the University of Illinois have opened the door to such devices as light-emitting diodes on a suture thread and even implantable biomedical tattoos.

John Rogers, an Illinois engineering professor, said the researchers sliced silicon and other materials thinner by a factor of 100,000 — as if creating a sheet of paper from a two-by-four. Then, to achieve mechanics similar to those of a rubber band, they structured the material in a wavy, accordion-like shape.

Hybrid batteries tease big energy capacity while charging in seconds

Ioxus Inc. is an up and comer in the energy storage industry that has plans this Monday to announce a new hybrid storage device that it hopes will radically alter batteries used in the auto, medical, and consumer electronics industries. The teased product is said to be roughly the size of a typical C-cell battery and combines the fast charge / discharge benefits of ultracapacitors with the impressive energy-to-weight ratio of a lithium-ion electrode. As a result, Ioxus says the hybrid devices can store more than double the energy of traditional ultracapacitors and charge in a matter of seconds.