Imagine A World Without Wires

wirelessThe power is everywhere, like god. You wouldn’t know where the power is coming from. You don’t need cords or batteries for your gadgets and computers. The laptop could be recharged when the machine gets within several feet of a transmit resonator. This reasoner could be embedded in tables, work surfaces, and even behind walls. This is one of the Intel’s technology which relies on an idea called magnetic induction. A principle similar to the way a trained singer can shatter a glass using the voice (frequency). Power can be put into magnetic fields at a transmitting resonator at the wall socket. The receiving resonator is tuned to absorb energy from the magnetic field.

In this research, Intel has built a sample light bulb to make a 60-watt glow from an energy source 3 feet away. This was achieved with high efficiency and only a quarter of the energy has been lost. Researchers admitted the technology will be on market in at least five year.

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Dell to fix the Faulty Laptop Keyboards

Dell  A limited number of Dell Vostro 1310 and 1510 laptops with the wrong keyboard layout were shipped in Europe in the middle of April. The flaw was noticed by a Dell customer in UK. In  Dell Vostro 1310 the bottom row of letters on the keyboard was shifted to the right. That’s because the left Shift key is over sized and a new key, \, is placed between the Shift and Z keys, moving the entire row so that it doesn’t comply with a traditional keyboard layout. Dell will replace the keyboards for customers who have received the laptops with faulty keyboards. The laptops haven’t shipped in other parts of the world, so other regions aren’t affected by the glitch.

Cotribute to One laptop per child project

One Laptop per childThe One Laptop per Child association (OLPC) is a non-profit organization, set up to oversee The Children’s Machine project and the construction of the XO-1 “$100 laptop”. Both the project and the organization were announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2005. The goal of the foundation is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves. To that end, OLPC is designing a laptop, educational software, manufacturing base, and distribution system to provide children outside of the first-world with otherwise unavailable technological learning opportunities. Contributions can be made either by donations or by volunteering to create activities for the laptop.

Laptop wipes all data if stolen

laptop.pngBackStopp a hosted service created by a U.K company,can automatically wipe hard disk data on machines taken from authorized locations. If a laptop is reported missing– or even just moved from a designated spot- the system can reach out and execute a file deletion process that clears the laptop of all important data. There is also a feature to take picture of the thieves and send it back to analysis. The price for the service starts with $19/month.