Stephen Hawking

After issuing a statement about the existence of horrendous extraterrestrials, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking re-create the controversy.

No longer care about being branded ‘mad scientist’, Hawking again issued a second theory which is also surprising.

Preparing for his appearance in a documentary on the Discovery, Stephen Hawking’s Universe, which aired next week, May 9, 2010, he confessed to believe humans can explore the time.

Humans, according to Hawking, can crawl up to millions of years into the future to fill out and start again the civilization of Planet Earth that has been destroyed.

Someday, Hawking said, there will be exploration of outer space plane that could fly faster than the speed of light. One day of exploration in space equal to one year on Earth. Continue Reading

Computer in 1 Keyboard

JAKARTA - Despite been a year, Asus Eee PC Keyboard seems to remain a pioneer of computer products in one keyboard. First prototype on display at CES 2009 and became a product-preview option CEBIT 2009 Awards. The device is finally officially launched on Tuesday (05/04/2010).

The shape is like a computer keyboard with a standard QWERTY keyboard. However, in it there is the CPU. On the right side added a small screen to operate it. Overall weight of just one kilogram.

Although small, its ability is very qualified. Eee PC keyboard is designed as a mobile computer platform that can be associated with a variety of supporting devices, such as home theater, televisions, and projectors. The device is equipped with high speed wireless connection technologies ultrawideband (UWB). Continue Reading

i-Mobile Hitz 2211 XL

i-Mobile comes in collaboration with XL by introducing a qwerty phones titled i-Mobile Hitz 2211.
i-Mobile Hitz 2211 owns display 128×128 65K colors screen.
And up to May 2, i-Mobile Hitz 2211 offered with special price 499,000 rupiah from the normal price 599,000 rupiaf at Carrefour Puri Indah, MT. Haryono, Mangga Dua Square, Blue Mall Bekasi, and ITC Depok.
Specifications:
- Dual slot SIM Card (GSM)
- Dual Slot Memory (Micro SD)
- Triband GSM
- Qwerty Keyboard
- Dimension 111 x 61.5 x 13.4 mm
- Display 128×128; 65k color TFT (2.2?)
- Weight 70 g
- Internal Memory 100MB Continue Reading

Nexian NX-G381i with Telkomsel

After reported passed the inspection, Nexian NX-G381i today launch at Atriom Mall of Indonesia (MOI) collaborates with Telkomsel.
Nexian NX-G381i comes also remarked the 15th anniversary of Telkomsel by offering special price which is 299,000 rupiah.
Telkomsel also offers bonus free 1000 SMS and free 2 Mb internet access per month.
Here are the specifications of Nexian NX-G381i:
Multimedia: MP3 Player, FM Radio;
Connectivity: GPRS;
Networks: Dual GSM 900/1800 MHz;
Display: Colour LCD;
Memory: External Memory;
Others: T-Flash, Chatting Applications, Nexian Messenger, Facebook , Twitter, Handsfree, Multi Language Indonesia English;(source:ratuponsel.blogspot.com)

DARPA: The A160 Hummingbird

ON 6 December 1957 a hollow aluminium sphere the size of a small melon burst from a blazing fireball, rose a mere metre or so above Florida before landing with a thump. The US was in trouble. A month earlier, the Soviet Union had sent a 500-kilogram capsule bearing a dog called Laika into space. But here was the US unable to even notch up its first foray into orbit.

President Dwight Eisenhower responded by creating a new research agency tasked with ensuring such “technological surprises” like Sputnik would never be sprung on the US again. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), conceived in February 1958 not only still exists, it has consistently made the US military the most advanced on Earth and unleashed life-changing technologies such as the internet, GPS and the computer mouse along the way. Continue Reading

1000 mph Car

Time = 0 seconds

Strapped into a custom built seat, Andy Green prepares for the ride of his life. The pancake-flat desert stretches out for miles ahead. The computer indicates all systems are normal. He eases off the brakes and puts his foot down on the throttle. The jet engine roars into life. In precisely 42.5 seconds he’ll be travelling 1000 mph. In a car.

“It’s almost impossible to tell the difference between going supersonic in a car and in an aircraft,” says Green. He is the only person on Earth who can say that from personal experience. Green was a fighter pilot for the UK Royal Air Force for 20 years, and he is also the fastest man on wheels. In 1997, driving a vehicle called ThrustSSC, he set the world land speed record of 763 miles per hour, becoming the first and only person to break the sound barrier in a car (761 mph under standard conditions). Now, together with the Bloodhound SSC design team, he’s attempting to do it all over again, and then some. Continue Reading

innovation software to track

Innovation is our new column that highlights the latest emerging technological ideas and where they may lead.

The internet allows anyone with the appropriate hardware to freely express themselves to the world at large using a website or blog. But we are not sharing our thoughts with only other humans: web pages are read by software agents all the time, including search engine spiders and spambots.

Now a new kind of agent is starting to roam the web that can understand the emotional content of what we write – and they could soon arrive on your desktop too.

These “sentiment analysis” tools are a branch of a wider area of computer science that is trying to teach computers to understand the feelings expressed in text just as well as humans do, and the commercial applications of such technology are already starting to be realised. Continue Reading

super soldier

THE news that the US army is studying how neuroscience can “improve” its soldiers will once again raise the spectre of amoral scientists using any means at their disposal - drugs, genetic profiling, brain stimulation, cybernetic implants, brainwashing - to vault ethical boundaries in the pursuit of military aims.

The army-backed report from the US National Academies of Sciences anticipates a day when troops will be monitored by biosensors, selected by gene tests, stimulated with magnetic tweaks to the brain and enhanced with pills (see “Soldiers of the future”). This will inevitably spark discussions about the rise of cold-eyed super-soldiers who kill without emotion, and we should certainly be vigilant about the potential for “enhancement” to dehumanise troops, let alone the wider implications of this work for civilian life. Continue Reading

teaser the ultimate warrior

BATALLIONS of super-soldiers could be selected for specific duties on the basis of their genetic make-up and then constantly monitored for signs of weakness. So says a report by the US National Academies of Science (NAS).

If a soldier is struggling, a digital “buddy” might step in and warn them about nearby threats, or advise comrades to zap them with an electromagnet to increase their alertness. If the whole unit is falling apart, biosensors could warn central commanders to send in a replacement team.

As advances in neuroscience bring all this into the realms of reality, there are ethical issues to consider. Last week, the NAS released a report assessing the military potential of neuroscience, providing a rare insight into how the military might invest its money to create future armies. Continue Reading

NASA Advanced supercomputers (NAS)

Earth scientists are reaping huge benefits from research performed on NASA’s advanced supercomputers. New cube-based simulations are helping to improve estimates of ocean circulation and climate.

Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., are using a new gridding method that projects the faces of a cube onto the surface of a sphere. They found that this method covers the sphere more uniformly than a latitude-longitude grid, and that it produces more accurate results near Earth’s poles.

“The NASA Advanced Supercomputers (NAS) facilities at Ames Research Center have been critical to our cube-based approach. We were able to scale the cube at higher resolutions to improve model accuracy,” said Chris Hill, a MIT science researcher. “Without the NAS resources, both hardware and people, we would not have been able to perform these calculations in a timely manner.” Continue Reading