The 2008 Mazda MX-5 Miata
Source: Car and Driver.com
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
ICON A5: Sporty Light Weight Plane
ICON A5: A Cute and Sporty Light Weight Air Craft
Icon A5 were intended for novice or sport pilots who have received the FAA’s license new. It was designed with low-cost, easy-to-fly and easy-to-store concept. A5 really a sleek amphibious light weight sport aircraft with foldable wings that make it compact enough to tow home and store in your garage.
“We designed it so that people who don’t know airplanes know that something has changed,” Kirk Hawkins, ICON’s chief executive officer.
This two-seat aircraft was powered with a reliable 100-hp Rotax 912 ULS engine. Runs on auto gasoline or aviation gasoline with 20 gallon tank. Just required 750 feet distance to take off and landing and able to fly up to 105 knots or 120mile/hour.
The 46 inches cockpit features smart ergonomic, interior styling that createdto feel as today's premium automobiles. Equipped with all the necessary controls for the flight in convenient and easy to reach console. A good moving GPS system to let you know your current position and where to headed.
Optionally, Icon A5 equipped with complete airplane` parachute as a safety measure to brings your aircraft in case of emergency.
“It not only has to perform well, it has to look like it performs well,” Kirk Hawkins.
“We designed it so that people who don’t know airplanes know that something has changed,” Kirk Hawkins, ICON’s chief executive officer.
This two-seat aircraft was powered with a reliable 100-hp Rotax 912 ULS engine. Runs on auto gasoline or aviation gasoline with 20 gallon tank. Just required 750 feet distance to take off and landing and able to fly up to 105 knots or 120mile/hour.
The 46 inches cockpit features smart ergonomic, interior styling that createdto feel as today's premium automobiles. Equipped with all the necessary controls for the flight in convenient and easy to reach console. A good moving GPS system to let you know your current position and where to headed.
Optionally, Icon A5 equipped with complete airplane` parachute as a safety measure to brings your aircraft in case of emergency.
“It not only has to perform well, it has to look like it performs well,” Kirk Hawkins.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
'Leopard': The Advanced Technology Chair
Very impressive!That's my first word while reading to Tech On news letter. Why not? They putting "Oki Turns Robot Leg into Office Chair" as the title!
Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd and Okamura Corp has team up together to developed a concept model of an office chair that employs robot technologies. These new advanced chair used Oki's leg-shaped robot as the base of the chair, and they name it as "Leopard".
Looking to the chair it self, seem like no any significant different to compare to other models in the market. Some friend of mine said,"... there's many other chair out there may look more sophisticated!". But, let's look a bit closer to this 'Leopard' before we turn off our face.
Oki developed the Robot Leg technology and presented at an academic conference in 2005, but this is the first time that the technology has been employed in a commercial product.
The Robot Leg is mounted with springs and driving units such as motors, but to design these kind of chair they change the motor with mechanical hydraulic cylinders.
The thigh area of the Robot Leg corresponds to the seating surface of the chair. The seating surface is tilted forward when it is empty. By then, when it is occupied, it significantly sinks and, at the same time, the seat back moves to the position where it fits the occupant's back, providing "seating comfort akin to being held in someone's arms". So on when the occupant stands up, the seating surface follows the movement of the occupant, helping the occupant to stand up.
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Oki and Okamura will continue the development, aiming to release the product in May 2009. Their major challanges for mass production is the material they using now. Carbon fiber reinforced resin, which provides strength and light weight at the same time may reconcidered as to ensure the price are affordable to market.
Rather they will succeed with the new office innovation? Just wait until we can test the product later by 1st Q next year. And, "I would like to see how 'Leopard' will make us feel more enjoying our office hour..."
Looking to the chair it self, seem like no any significant different to compare to other models in the market. Some friend of mine said,"... there's many other chair out there may look more sophisticated!". But, let's look a bit closer to this 'Leopard' before we turn off our face.
Oki developed the Robot Leg technology and presented at an academic conference in 2005, but this is the first time that the technology has been employed in a commercial product.
The Robot Leg is mounted with springs and driving units such as motors, but to design these kind of chair they change the motor with mechanical hydraulic cylinders.
The thigh area of the Robot Leg corresponds to the seating surface of the chair. The seating surface is tilted forward when it is empty. By then, when it is occupied, it significantly sinks and, at the same time, the seat back moves to the position where it fits the occupant's back, providing "seating comfort akin to being held in someone's arms". So on when the occupant stands up, the seating surface follows the movement of the occupant, helping the occupant to stand up.src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
Oki and Okamura will continue the development, aiming to release the product in May 2009. Their major challanges for mass production is the material they using now. Carbon fiber reinforced resin, which provides strength and light weight at the same time may reconcidered as to ensure the price are affordable to market.
Rather they will succeed with the new office innovation? Just wait until we can test the product later by 1st Q next year. And, "I would like to see how 'Leopard' will make us feel more enjoying our office hour..."
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
eMobile's Cheapest Mobile Phone
eMobile Ltd of Japan in June, 2008 has released H11HW, so claimed as cheapest mobile phone. With the initial cost just around Yen5,980 (about US$55)which carry 2 years contract, it's equal to roughly half the price handset from other competitors.
Phone's specification:
Phone's specification:
- Manufacturer: Huawei Technologies
- Dimension: 97.8 x 49.5 x 17.5 mm
- Weight: 105 g
- Supported protocol: WCDMA ( HSDPA) / GSM
- Function: Voice, videophone
- Bluetooth: Bluetooth 1.2 compliant
- Display: 2"LCD , 176 x 220 pix
- Camera: CMOS 2Megapix
- Battery: Li-Ion rechargeable 850mAh
- Others: AC adapter, headset, USB cable
The mobile phone was developed by Huawei Technologies Co Ltd of China from the U550 handset designed for Europe. They used MSM6260 mobile telephony chipset from Qualcomm Inc of the US which normally used in the low-end model as to reduce the cost. However the phone was equiped with Japan latest manufactured camera as to handle critical quality demand.
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