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Electronic Cigarettes From Netherlands
Electronic cigarettes already know throughout the developed world. However, the Dutch were able to push this idea a step further - began selling electronic joint!
The Netherlands is its benevolent attitude towards marijuana famous - it is therefore no surprise that the first joint e-originated right here. Problem solved simply with the law, e-joint contains the active ingredient THC ** , and even tobacco or nicotine. Moreover, it is sold with several fruit flavors. Njoint CEO E-Menno Contant said: "The Netherlands is well known throughout the world for its tolerant and liberal attitude towards soft drugs, if the introduction of this new product should be noted that until we annoy or disturb other people and it will remain within the law, everything is fine. " * joint - self-produced marijuana cigarette ** tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the main psychoactive substance resins is attributed to him 75-100% psychological effects. Its abundance in the plant varies from almost zero to 95% of the contained cannabinoids. Marijuana prepared from quality hemp grown hydroponically, can also have 20% THC in the dry state.
How Cliris cleans up your glasses?
Swiss designers have decided to break with your startup, which should finally help people clean their glasses so that the glass has finally been scratched or greasy. This elegant box uses ultrasonic technology and biodegradable cleaning and disinfecting eyeglass lens.
The process is quite simple. CLIR Simply plug into wall socket, insert the glasses into it and wait a few minutes. The device is then filled with a special cleaning liquid and will "wash". Gives you a fluid with Clirisom and used like a printer cartridge lasts about 30 cleaning cycles. One such cartridge will cost about 20 euros, the price of the device but do not know yet. See if the company manages to raise money to launch the operation.
Bionic Kangaroo bounces quite like real!
Germans at the first place in the production of luxury cars aimed at the new segment - robotic animals.
Imagine that you come with your small baby to the zoo, the weather will change over time to not too favorable, but your descendant will force-majeure want to see his favorite pet. So i happen soon climb out of burrow creature, but you do not like something. But how do you explain son or daughter, that's what we know from books and television is the only robot clothed in animal skins?
Maybe it's just a crazy fiction, and maybe that was ever really such a scenario, we will see. Manufacturer Festo recently introduced its technological innovation, artificial kangaroo BionicKangaroo that completed portfolio animal robots (Chaika, dragonfly, penguin or insects). my objetive is to develop a robot whose movement would be almost identical with real animals.
The hardest to create a kangaroo, which should move exactly like natural targets, was to maintain stability while jumping on relatively thin legs. 7 kg meter tall and weighing machine but it apparently can quite reliably. Scientists gave him because technology that mimics the tendon tension , like the Achilles heel. Joining plastic, metal and rubber makes the robot really believable.
The power of Technology
If you do not know what is a lucid dream, In short, a lucid dream is that state in which dreaming, but at the same time you are aware that you are dreaming.
We connected the new Inception in the introduction, but the beginning comes, apparently, from antiquity. Greek thinkers were aware that they can control or observe some dreams even during their deployment. And after them - many others. Hence the desire to discover how to initiate, control, or use in practice these lucid dreams is not new, rather the contrary.
The device has several programmable options including the pattern that you want to try lucid dream initiation (13 models Alagic), rapid eye movements to initiate a lucid dream attempt, number of attempts, the speed signal reproduction and brightness LEDs ...
Why use lucid dreams? Some artists (and even developers) say that so find inspiration, others fail to decipher secret, solve problems, receive extraordinary insights and even premonitions about famous people. But most people who try to experience such dreams are content to play the superheroes, fly or enjoy the experience of a dream consciously terrible coloring the limits of reality no longer exists. And at $ 95 sounds like a fun nevertheless extremely affordable!
CardSharp - a folding knife
The "body" is made of polypropylene (hinged guaranteed "life") and the stainless steel blade used in surgical instruments. The effective length of the blade is only 76 mm, this knife could not be legally anywhere in the world . Weight reaches only 13 grams and thickness - 2.2 mm.
When incorporated into the card, the blade is protected from contact with other objects, which prevents the blunt. May even be washed in the washing machine.
Cybermouses
Leonar3Do
Leona3Do comes from Hungary. It's a device that still resembles a mouse, even in that it involves the use of hand and has buttons. But this technology comes garnished with a pair of 3D glasses and allows complete manipulation of an object "virtual". There could be an excellent tool for 3D designers (and I saw somewhere a plugin for Maya to use it), but mostly - according to the authors - the modern processes of education, in which learning is based on interaction with the object of study.
LeapMotion
In a way, which suggests
LeapMotion resembles another Microsoft technology, namely the already famous
sensor Kinect for consoles Xbox 360 .
Tobii Rex
If you're even more lazy, do not
have to use your hands (almost) all. Those from Tobii have developed a
technology aimed ... the user's eyes and moves the cursor seemingly no activity
on the part of the device uses. The only problem is what to do with the cursor
when you reach a certain point. Blink? You stare at them a little, to give him
to understand the computer that you are interested in that place? Weird. But
perhaps we could get used with it.Tobii suggest complementary use a touchpad or
keyboard.
Emotiv Epoc
The Emotiv Epoc proposed by is
actually a portable electroencephalography. Is not as accurate as a medical
EEG, but still is able to detect differences in brain waves caused by thoughts
"up", "down", "rotate", "close" or
"make disappear".
The Newest World’s Thinnest Mechanical Watch : Piaget Altiplano 38mm 900P
For 2014 Piaget will
once again hold and retain the title of "world's thinnest watch" with
the Altiplano 38mm 900P. For years now Piaget has been releasing mechanical
watch after mechanical watch exclusively dedicated to the notion of being the
thinnest possible of that type. This practice began long ago with lots of
success. In 1957 they released the 2mm thick 9P movement and in 1960 they
released the famed 12p automatic movement. Sometimes Piaget gets de-throned in
a particular "ultra-thin" category by another brand who is able to
cut out another fraction of a millimeter from the thickness of a case of
movement. This year they take the title of absolute world's thinnest mechanical
watch back with this actually very ultra-thin creation that is just 3.65mm
thick, and whose movement is merged to the case.
Over the lat few years who
has been the most interested in "ultra-thin?" Pretty much everyone.
The notion of a very thin mechanical watch has been a haute horology trend as
of late. What really amused us is when for marketing purposes a lot of brands
simply starting adding "ultra thin" to watches that frankly weren't
any different than the year before. It seems as though someone decided that
10mm or under was "ultra-thin." Well you could stack close to three
Piaget Altiplano 38mm 900P watches next to a 10mm which watch. The moral of the
story is that not all "ultra thin" is created equal. So it is
important to note who the major players are.
While there are some
others, the real masters of "ultra-thin" are brands like Piaget,
Audemars Piguet, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger-LeCoultre and perhaps Arnold &
Son (who released the world's thinnest tourbillon watches with the UTTE (reviewed here) - though we will see what
they continue to do in that department in the future. Ultra-thin movements are
very interesting, but at some point how thin is thin enough? And beyond some
threshold point does more thinness matter for wearability? I'd say that
anything 5mm or less is going to wear pretty much the same, being of a similar
practical height on your wrist. When you start to shave off fractional amounts
of size you are simply getting into the realm of bragging rights. But that is
OK. Toys for grown men are frequently about being able to brag to your friends.
I think it is important to
discuss what ultra-thin is all about and what goes in to it. It is actually
more difficult to accomplish than people understand. When aBlogtoWatch
visited Piaget in 2011 we got a first hand look at how they design and
manufacture their thinnest movements. It is true that the caliber 900P did not
exist yet, but as mentioned above, Piaget has been producing very thin
movements for decades. It is actually much more difficult as well to assemble a
thin movement than a normal one. It isn't just matter of cleverly reducing
space, but it is about properly machining all the parts. Machines that don't
have too many parts touching can have high tolerances. When you have all the
necessary gears crammed into a roughly 2mm thick area, everything is extremely
close to touching one another and much lower tolerances as possible.
The 900P for example has
gears and element so incredibly thin I am surprised they can be assembled
without breaking the parts. This is also the first time Piaget has released a
movement that is not only integrated into the dial, but is also integrated into
the case. That is really what makes the 900P so unique. It isn't just a thin
movement placed into a thin case like most other Piaget Altiplano watches, but
rather a new form of unified entity. How does that work? Well clearly there is
no distinct dial as it is integrated into the movement. The mainspring barrel
isn't connected to the mainplate either, but exists off to the side, further
reducing space. Some of the gears are almost half the thickness they would
normally be, and the entire movement (along with case) is still comprised of
145 parts. Manually wound (of course), the power reserve is about 48 hours.
On the dial of the
Altiplano 38mm 900P you have just the time with hours and minutes, along with a
view of some of the movement including the balance wheel as well as much of the
gear train and also the mainspring barrel with winding system. In black and
steel-tone colors mixed with the red color of the synthetic rubies, it makes
for an elegant view that cannot escape being designed to appeal to watch
lovers. It is also worth noting that if you unscrew the caseback, the entire
movement pops out. That is because the caseback is actually the rear plate of
the movement. All of this was done for the case of size mitigation. Piaget
really wanted to ensure no one would come out with anything thinner, anytime
soon. I have a feeling that no one will. In fact, if you've noticed the lack of
distinct values for the thickness of the case and movement, they aren't offered
by Piaget. As it is unclear where the case ends and the movement begin (given
the design), they can only offer the 3.65mm thickness value of the entire piece
as a whole.
Crazy Concept: Nissan Bladeglider
This week’s Crazy Concept is the electric (EV) BladeGlider from Nissan, and, not unlike Jean-Claude Van Damme doing the splits between a couple of 18-wheelers, the BladeGlider manages to straddle both ends of the crazy/awesome spectrum. You won’t be able to tear your eyes away from the spectacle of it all.
Unveiled at this week’s
Tokyo Motor Show, the BladeGlider is somewhere between Marty McFly’s ride from Back
to the Future and a fighter jet—it certainly looks as though it could take
to the skies. Nissan have taken their expertise working with sustainable
engineering and lithium-ion technology first seen in their top-selling Leaf EV,
as well as their upcoming Le Mans debut next year in the form of the ZEOD RC
(Zero Emission On Demand Racing Car) and upped the ante.
The BladeGlider’s unique
wedge-shaped design is both awesome and slightly repulsive, a catch-22 of
exotic sports car styling. It’s not that we hate what’s going on here; it just
seems odd for an electric maker to venture into the performance luxury electric
market without some care for beauty. Think: the BMW i8, Tesla or
even the superpowered LaFerrari.
As Francois Bancon,
division GM of Strategy and Product Planning at Nissan, puts it, “The goal was
to revolutionize the architecture of the vehicle to provoke new emotions,
provide new value and make visible for consumers how zero emissions can help
redefine our conception of vehicle basics." Redefine they do.
From a technical perspective, Nissan’s glider-inspired
vehicle was created to develop the next generation of aerodynamics across their
entire lineup. The BladeGlider achieves a lower drag while
generating a substantial downforce, allowing the vehicle to hug the road: The
narrow front (only one meter wide) helps to balance the vehicle; having the
wheels closer together reduces drag and increases maneuverability for top
cornering power, with an intense 30-70 front-rear weight distribution ratio.
The BladeGlider intensifies its downforce and play in the wind using a
heavy-duty carbon-fiber underbody.
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Within the cockpit built
for one, kind of like an electric Egoista,
the jet pilot will be guided to his or her aircraft-style steering wheel by a
plethora of yellow fluorescent lighting and will have access to the latest
technology, including relief maps and atmospheric conditions.
Considering the company is
reportedly unveiling its own version of Google Glass at Tokyo as well, the sky
must be the limit for Nissan’s cutting-edge product development. We hope so,
anyway. We’re counting on those flying cars. At this point in
development engine and performance specs are not publicly available, but check
out Nissan-Global.com for
the latest news.
The Hublot MP-05 LaFerrari Watch
It is just like Ferrari to one-up someone.
Hublot's relationship with Ferrari continues with vigor into 2013 with the
introduction of the intensely engineered Masterpiece MP-05 LaFerrari watch.
With 50 days (days!) of power reserve this timepiece is record setting, and it
also has a tourbillon escapement. There haven't been a lot of watches in the
Hublot Masterpiece collection: those watches which represent the top level of
in-house made mechanical wonder at the brand. The LaFerrari is one of them
however. Hublot's take on luxury sometimes takes the form of gold and diamonds,
but much of the time is about performance, mechanical intrigue, and modern
design. The MP-05 is one of those.
Visually speaking,
the MP-05 LaFerrari is an extension of the Hublot La Cle Du Temps (hands on
there). Those both share a sleek, tapering black case with semi-organic design
as well as horizontally mounted tourbillons that peek out on the lower part of
the case. The MP-05 LaFerrari goes much further to incorporate design DNA from
the 2013 LaFerrari car (where the name is borrowed from). Both the watch and
the car are purposeful in their look, but also are given smooth lines. Much of
the dial is open, with an impressively shaped sapphire crystal and view into
much of the Hublot made caliber HUB9005.H1.6 manually wound movement.
The MP-05 LaFerrari
watch will come in a matte black case done in titanium with a rubber strap. The
design is progressively entertaining with its unabashed expensiveness and focus
on bragging-right spec specs. In fact, with a slightly similar design and look,
the Hublot MP-05 is a Rebellion T-1000 killer. Rebellion's watch also tells
time on barrel drums like T-1000, and also has a similar long power reserve.
Rebellion was known for breaking a few records with the 40 day power reserve in
the T-1000 collection. Nevertheless Hublot sweeps in to create a watch with an
even longer power reserve, and then just throws in that tourbillon. So in some
ways the MP-05 watch is simply a removal of Rebellion's main item of pride and
offering those bragging rights to Hublot.
With carbon fiber on the case, there are some
light design cues in the watch from the Ferrari car. The top crystal is one,
and the entire case design is meant to mimic the shape of the beautiful car, though
it is a light connection. The Ferrari relationship allows Hublot to experiment
in new areas and work with the famous automaker to produce rather original
timepieces such as this one. It doesn't even mater that the MP-05 isn't that
easy to read (even though the numerals all have SuperLumiNova on them). Limited
to just 50 pieces, this is another completely wild watch, and precisely the
reason we get excited to meet with Hublot in this and all other years at
Baselworld. Price for the Hublot Masterpiece MP-05 LaFerrari watch will be
about 300,000 Swiss Francs.
GALLERY
At One Button Away
Yes, obviously you're not a fashion victim, but we are convinced that you are a victim gadget. So you could plan a little in terms of personal style and with some intelligent applications for smartphones and tablets.
ANDROID
Apart from the usual applications, this gives the
latest fashion news and access to online shopping price comparison, this
application helps you to organize your wardrobe. And the thing
you can do anytime, anywhere. Then you can group by preference in the
application and Sunday, for example, you can create your outfit during the
whole week following and save another 10 minutes to sleep in the morning. The
cost? Free ...
It is an interactive
application where, apart from a lot of tips and useful information related to
clothing, can interact directly with stylists for their input. You do not know
what to wear to a meeting or a party? No problem for the owners of this
application, you need to pay only £ 6.72, you take a picture with the camera
built into the application and send it for advice.
You will be aware of
all the collections shown at fashion week in the world and you can download
pictures to save them in your device so that you have access to them anytime.
Download it immediately because it's free.
APPLE
It is a free
application MrPorter.com site that gives you tips, an encyclopedia of men's
style, video tutorials and lists of the clothes that you should have in
wardrobe every season. Plus access to more than 140 brands in the world to be your shopping
easier.
Wear a tie every day
because you have no choice? Why do not you surprise them all with another way
to look? This application provides all sorts of types of knots , depending on
collar, face shape, and other information that will make you an expert in ties.
It costs $ 0.99.
You want to let the
mustache grow Or maybe you feel like letting your locks ... Using this
application, which gathered images with different haircuts, beards, mustaches
on celebrities , on fashion runways and in normal people, you'll be able to
upload a picture that you already have in your phone to apply the desired
pattern, and thus looks very real, not out of a cartoon. Free ...
New optical disk to store data for a billion years!
Researcher Jeroen de Vries, University of Twente in Netherlands, has developed a new optical storage device.
The new unit is made of tungsten and silicon nitride (nitride
- nitrogen compounds of metals and some non-metals), which should provide data
storage for an extremely long time - it is estimated that up to a billion
years.
Hard drives are very
sensitive to external magnetic fields and mechanical faults and normal life
expectancy is much longer than 10 years, such as CDs, DVDs and flash drives ,
each has its own Achilles heel. “The researcher decided to solve this problem
by proposing their own storage devices. Chose materials such as tungsten, which
can withstand very high temperatures, encapsulated in silicon nitride, which is
highly resistant to breakage and deformation. Intends to do as hard disk that
could be used to store important data of the human race and for conservation
despite death for civilization ".
The device stores
information through QR codes in tungsten, which can easily decode smartphones
today. each pixel code itself is also a second set of much smaller QR codes .
The investigator put the device at a temperature of 200 ° C for one hour and it
was observed that showed no visible degradation. The device is damaged only to
approximately 440 ° C, but the data is still readable.
