Hyundai Electric Car 2020

The 2020 Hyundai city car concept powered by solar technology…

Ever wondered how Hyundai cars will look like in the near distant future? Nicolas Stone, a recent graduate of the College for Creative Studies, can help you answer the question.

As a part of his design project, which has been financially supported by Hyundai, Nicolas created his vision of a four-seater city car of the future. While the concept might be featuring a a funky and colorful exterior look, it also packs some technology that we will likely never see in the vehicles.

According to Nicolas, the whole body of the car consists of transparent solar panels that are creating electricity. The electricity is then fed into a water tank to split the hydrogen from the oxygen. The hydrogen is stored and used to power the vehicle while the pure oxygen comes out the exhaust.

The process has been called “artificial photosynthesis” and has been developed by MITs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) professor Daniel Nocera. Are we ever gonna see this technology in real life? According to Daniel we will. Read more about his research and development and find details on upcoming the solar revolution.

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Futuristic Gadget Chair (G-Shell) Has Everything For A Geek’s Entertainment Needs

Over the period, there has been a complete shift in the primary function of a chair, i.e. seating the user in comfort. Expanding the function of common household furniture, British designer Jamie Martin has come up with a hi-tech seat dubbed the “Gadget Chair” that integrating game consoles, computer, TV/PVR, video & music playback and back massager in a single unit is sure to enhance the experience of the user. Incorporating miniature-cooling fans, heating elements and an adjustable lumbar support beneath the red exterior, the leather-upholstered chair also presents an ergonomic design to place you comfortably during those extended gaming sessions.

Placing an electronically adjustable 16:9 OLED screen upfront to work as a viewing platform for movies, gaming and internet access, the geeky chair too adds a number of multi-colored LED lights to project different tones on your surrounding environment, moving you in a zone far away from the real world. Surrounded by multi-directional illuminated speakers and a large sub-woofer, the user literally moves into the virtual world. The adjustable chair provides the user with an automatically retracting gaming wheel/joystick, where they can mount their keyboard/trackpad combo as well.

The ceiling-mounted motion technology allows both vertical and rotational movement, thanks to the hydraulic pistons. The chair provides a limited rotational motion to enhance the turns through the corners, allowing an altogether new gaming experience to the users. If this is not enough, it also connects multiple HD Digital TV tuners to the Mac/PC to utilize it as a 1TB high capacity PVR.

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Future PC's

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Gates was on TV this morning from Las Vegas. It was really interesting. He says we will have these things in about 4 years. WOW...looks like Bill Gates was right a couple of years ago when he said "You haven't seen anything yet" ---- whaddya think these are? look closely n' guess what they could be... PENS WITH HIDDEN CAMS?? any wild guesses now? no clue?... ladies and gentlemen... congratulations! You have just now looked into the future... yep that's right! no booing now... you have seen something that would replace your PC in the near future.... NOW SEE THIS... In the revolution of miniature of computers, the scientists are ahead with Bluetooth technology... See the forthcoming computers within our pockets .. This pen sort of instrument produces both the monitor as well as the keyboard on flat surfaces from where you can just carry out the normal operations you do on your desktop. PUBLISHED BY : Riyandi Nurfauzan I. Matric No : 0921451

Data interfaces

The amount of information available through the internet has exploded over the past decade. Advances in data storage, transmission and processing have transformed the internet from a geek’s paradise to a supporting pillar of 21st century society. But while the last ten years have been about access to information, I suspect that the next ten will be dominated by how to make sense of it all. Without the means to find what we want in this vast sea of information, we are quite literally drowning in data. And useful as search engines like Google are, they still struggle to separate the meaningful from the meaningless. As a result, my sense is that over the next decade we will see some significant changes in how we interact with the internet. We’re already seeing the beginnings of this in websites like Wolfram Alpha that “computes” answers to queries rather than simply returning search hits, or Microsoft’s Bing, which helps take some of the guesswork out of searches. Then we have ideas like The Sixth Sense Project at the MIT Media Lab, which uses an interactive interface to tap into context-relevant web information. As devices like phones, cameras, projectors, TV’s, computers, cars, shopping trolleys, you name it, become increasingly integrated and connected, be prepared to see rapid and radical changes in how we interface with and make sense of the web.

Solar Power

Is the next decade going to be the one where solar power fulfills its promise? Quite possibly. Apart from increased political and social pressure to move towards sustainable energy sources, there are a couple of solar technologies that could well deliver over the next few years. The first of these is printable solar cells. They won’t be significantly more efficient than conventional solar cells. But if the technology can be scaled up and some teething difficulties resolved, they could lead to the cost of solar power plummeting. The technology is simple in concept – using relatively conventional printing processes and special inks, solar cells could be printed onto cheap, flexible substrates; roll to roll solar panels at a fraction of the cost of conventional silicon-based units. And this opens the door to widespread use. The second technology to watch is solar-assisted reactors. Combining mirror-concentrated solar radiation with some nifty catalysts, it is becoming increasingly feasible to convert sunlight into other forms of energy at extremely high efficiencies. Imagine being able to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight and an appropriate catalyst for instance, then recombine them to reclaim the energy on-demand – all at minimal energy loss. Both of these solar technologies are poised to make a big impact over the next decade.

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Hardware: HP vs. Dell

Given IBM's second divestiture -- with more expected to follow -- HP is already the next IBM. It is the dominant vendor in the emerging media center segment, and it retains dominance in printing and imaging. HP is a strong number two to Dell in PCs and has a more comprehensive product set. With surprising strength in marketing, it is the only vendor to successfully emulate Apple's skill set and the only vendor to private-brand an Apple product. To succeed, HP must assure a high-quality experience with all of its offerings. This removes some control from product group managers, something we haven't seen in a company like HP since the Watsons left IBM. Without that, pressure to break up the company will increase, with IBM serving as the model. HP's danger is being caught in the middle; its opportunity is the chance to dominate as IBM dominated. It will all come down to teamwork.

Dell is at the opposite extreme. It operates on a simpler model that requires more partners but fewer team players, focused more on costs and less on company cohesiveness at a product level. Basically, Dell is a sales and logistics engine that operates with minimal overhead. This is the model that became the ideal in the '90s, and Gateway is now emulating it. Easier to execute but containing risks associated with technology advancement, it depends heavily on IBM and HP's inability to execute, and Microsoft and Intel adequately make up the difference. Dell's exposure is one of control: It can dominate a segment but not an industry. Should the market move to AMD and/or Linux, Dell becomes increasingly exposed, because neither of these supplies the complete core platforms that Dell requires for its model to work.

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