May 10th, 2009

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is not concerned with ties between the Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) boards, though The Federal Trade Commission may worry about the matter.

Schmidt said Google is not likely to see Apple as a main competitor and he has encouraged people to be on other companies’ boards. For him, if there are issues that are competitive, he would recuse himself and he thinks that he has been well established that he recuses himself in areas of the iPhone.

Answring questions whether he would resign from Apple’s board amid FTC scrutiny, Schmidt said simply that it has nnever crossed his mind.

Smokers can now find a safer alternative to smoking, called SuperSmoker, which contains no tar or tobacco, does not burn and can be used anywhere for it does not contain first or second hand smoke.

Moreover, smokers who smoke smoking traditional cigarettes can also save their smoking costs by using SuperSmoker, though it has never been proved to be a smoking cessation device.

SuperSmoker is an atomizer that throws the taste and nicotine of a four cigarettes into the throat without flame, smoke or even malicious chemicals usually exisiting in cigarettes.
It has the form of filter tip and every filter tip contains approximately four cigarettes worth of puffs and each box contains 24 tips.

How to use it? Just charge it up from a wall socket, affix a little filter-shaped atomizer packet, then suck. The tip lights up and the smoker will get a taste of sweet release.

SuperSmoker comes in four types of filter namely - the Zero, the Normal, the Light and Menthol. The Normal contains 2,4 milligrams of nicotine while the Zero contains none, even there is also a cigar model.

Source: CrunchGear.

Wonderful VW car concept, so funny! It’s really a great car idea. As we see Park Distance Control of Volkswagen made easy.

Since July last year Martin Jetpack was revealed to the people at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture a weeklong air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. And maybe you know since then he getting some criticism for the fact that in most of Martin Jetpack flight demos.

Furthermore, the Martin Jetpack is capable of 30 minutes of flight at 60 mph and 8,000 feet, which is more than enough for your commute. The device runs on standard automotive fuel, has two primary controls via left joystick controls pitch and roll, right joystick controls yaw and throttle.

Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research IFAM in Bremen has created a robot that can go underwater, swim to the underwater cable and carry out the necessary maintenance.

Using today’s robots, the person who controls the robot has a heavy duty because it is really dark down the sea as the robot’s lamp will not help much and moreover the current keeps dragging the robot away from where it is needed to do the job.

Future robots to be created by Fraunhofer Institute will have a sensor like a sense of touch that will help detecting an  undersea setting independently. One component in this tangible capability is a strain gauge. If the robot encounters an obstacle, the strain gauge is fainted and the electrical resistance changes. The special feature of our strain gauge is that it is not glued but printed on - which means we can apply the sensor to curved surfaces of the robot.

The single printed strip is just a few ten micrometers wide, that is about half the width of a human hair. Hence, the strain gauges can be applied close to each other and the robot can identify precisely where it is touching an obstacle. The sensor is protected from the salt water by encapsulation.

To produce the strain gauges, the research scientists atomize a solution with nanoparticles to create an aerosol. A software system guides the aerosol stream to the right position. Focusing gas shrouds the beam and ensures that it does not fan out.