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LG Mobile Phones today announced the release of two new handsets, the L1200 tri-band world phone with integrated camera, and the stylish and compact C1300 clamshell phone, both of which are available immediately to Cingular Wireless customers. Cingular Wireless was the first carrier in the U.S. to offer LG's line of handsets for the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) and continues to be their key partner as LG introduces two new GSM handsets.
Whether it's fashion week in Paris, the theater in London or baseball in Atlanta, the L1200 world phone offers mobile phone connectivity worldwide (GSM/GPRS 850/1800/1900 MHz systems - Europe and US only). The LG L1200 handset allows consumers to globetrot freely while keeping completely connected at all times with instant messaging, text messaging and multimedia messaging capabilities, as well as a one-touch Internet access button. Additionally, the L1200 is the first GSM handset from LG to feature an integrated VGA camera with digital zoom, resolution adjustment, white balance and color effects adjustments, along with photo caller ID display. Designed in LG's trademark sleek clamshell design, the L1200 from Cingular Wireless offers users a mobile phone for experiencing and capturing everything life has to offer, around the world.
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Servants rather than masters is how Emirates Team New Zealand's design co-ordinator Andy Claughton views the role of the syndicate's new design team.
The review of the disastrous 2003 defence concluded the approach - design-led rather than sailor-led - was one of its major failings.
"The whole aim of the programme is to get the ownership of the design back into the sailing team," Claughton said.
"We are trying to run a more integrated approach this time. We want much more dialogue from the sailors through to the designers through to the sail designers."
Russell Coutts' contribution to the design process both for Team NZ and Alinghi has been seen as a major factor in their successes.
"He is a one-off," Claughton said. In 1995 and 2000 he was vocal about the kind of boat he wanted ... he understood the mechanics of how boats work. We don't have one guy but we have to find among the sailing team a voice or voices that will drive us to a conclusion they like.
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Nissan's latest Concept car, the Qashqai, has won a prestigious award at this year's Sunday Times Motor Show Live at the NEC, Birmingham, England. It made it to the top of the judges' list in the best Concept/Prototype category of the Institute of Vehicle Engineers (IVehE) Motor Show awards. The Qashqai was first exhibited at the Geneva Motor Show in March this year.
A number of expert automotive engineers and designers, all members of the Institute of Vehicle Engineers, were chosen to study and inspect new cars and concept vehicles on display at the British Motor Show. A stringent scoring system was used as the panel of judges worked their way through the different categories.
James Walker, Executive Director of the IVehE, said, "The Nissan Qashqai was picked out for its high quality of design and execution. This vehicle has lots of innovative features with an excellent load carrying capacity, aided by an outstanding seat configuration, which when folded up vertically gives exceptional accessibility to a well-designed interior."
He added, "The Qashqai is an excellent example of a modern lifestyle car, sophisticated for city life and adaptable for rural sporting use, with the ability to carry sports equipment from bicycles to surfboards."
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Penn State environmental engineers have removed and replaced one of the most expensive parts of their prototype microbial fuel cell and the device now costs two-thirds less and produces nearly six times more electricity from domestic wastewater.
Earlier this year, the Penn State team was the first to develop a microbial fuel cell (MFC) that can generate electricity while simultaneously cleaning domestic wastewater skimmed from the settling pond of a sewage treatment plant. Now, they've shown that by modifying their original MFC to make it cheaper, they can also boost electricity production from about 26 milliwatts per square meter to about 146 milliwatts per square meter.
Bruce Logan, the Kappe professor of environmental engineering, directs the project. He says, "The new design has moved the technology closer to our goal of 1,000 milliwatts per square meter."
Microbial fuel cells produce current through the action of bacteria that can pass electrons to an anode, the negative electrode of a fuel cell. The electrons flow from the anode through a wire to a cathode, the positive electrode of a fuel cell, where they combine with hydrogen ions (protons) and oxygen to form water.
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NASA artificial intelligence (AI) software has designed a satellite antenna scheduled to orbit Earth in 2005.
The antenna, able to fit into a one-inch space (2.5 by 2.5 centimeters), can receive commands and send data to Earth from the Space Technology 5 (ST5) satellites. The three satellites will help scientists study magnetic fields in Earth's magnetosphere. NASA scientists have spent two years developing the evolutionary AI software that designed the antenna.
"The AI software examined millions of potential antenna designs before settling on a final one," said project lead Jason Lohn, a scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center. "Through a process patterned after Darwin's 'survival of the fittest,' the strongest designs survive and the less capable do not."
The software started with random antenna designs and through the evolutionary process, refined them. The computer system took about 10 hours to complete the initial antenna design process. "We told the computer program what performance the antenna should have, and the computer simulated evolution, keeping the best antenna designs that approached what we asked for. Eventually, it zeroed in on something that met the desired specifications for the mission," Lohn said.
"Not only can the software work fast, but it can adapt existing designs quickly to meet changing mission requirements," he said. Following the first design of the ST5 satellite antenna, NASA Ames scientists used the software to 're-invent' the antenna design in less than a month to meet new specifications - a very quick turn-around in the space hardware redesign process.
Scientists also can use the evolutionary AI software to invent and create new structures.
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