The Necker Nymph is an "underwater plane"! This prototype has been introduced by Richard Branson the chairman of both "Virgin" and "Virgin Atlantic Airlines" companies.
This "submarine-plane" will be able to dive to depths of 10.000 meters (almost 32808.399 feet). Currently the engine can only dive to 40 meters(131.23 feet), the future models will be able to dive deeply.
The Necker Nymph prototype has been inspired from space shuttle. It has small wings and a cockpit offering an amazing 360° view.
According to Richard Branson, 1 week rental of such "underwater plane" will cost about $25.000; add to that the requirement of sojourn in his own island and the rental of his catamaran too.
After the space and the sea, Richard Branson innovations will continue to make what was impossible possible!
"Necker Nymph" the Underwater-Plane
NEC reveals battery-less remote control prototype
Getting tired from changing batteries of your remote control? That will be something from the past because NEC Electronics has developed a prototype of battery-less remote control for TV: The remote uses the energy generated from the button-push actions. Those actions generate an electrical energy that satisfies to power ON/OFF the TV, to change volume or to switch channels.
Specifically, this battery-less remote control uses "Piezoelectricity" semiconductor from “Sound power generation” and it uses a new technology called: “Vibration power generation” which bases on vibration that occurs when you press the button on the remote control with your fingers.
According to NEC Electronics Company, this technology is being promoted to TV set manufacturers, to realize it into practical use by 2011.
This battery-less remote control will be a good solution to get rid of batteries (as they are environment pollutants) and use a green energy instead.
Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition processor
Intel® Corporation has launched a new processor: “The Core i7 Processor Extreme”, it turns at a clock speed of 3,33 GHz and it supports the 64 bit PC architecture too. According to Intel this is “The highest performing desktop processor on the planet”.
This Intel processor comes with many technologies such "Intel Virtualization Technology", "Enhanced Intel Speedstep Technology", "Intel Quick Path Interconnect (QPI)", "Error detection using CRC and correction using Link Level Retry", "Intel Smart Cache"…
The Core i7’s cache memory is of 8 MB using level 3 cache system and comes with 8way cache associativity providing an improved cache bit-rate on load/store operations.
In addition, the Core i7 Extreme has enough power management capabilities such the multiple low-power states and energy saving.
Intel Core i7 Extreme processor can be mounted on a motherboard that features 3 memory channels and DDR3 (including 800MHZ and 1066MHZ speeds), the memory DIMMs per channel must be at least 512MB, 1GB or 2GB. We want to notice that Core i7 Extreme is able to handle up to 24GB of system memory.
