Gigabyte P27K And P25W Gaming Notebooks - Tech Specs, Features & Price

Computex 2013 saw the launch of two new powerful gaming laptops from GIGABYTE. The company has come up with these gaming notebooks - P27K And P25W - with NVIDIA GeForce GTX cards. Designed like a sports car, both 15.6-inch P25 and 17-inch P27 sport FHD 1080p displays with full featured PC connectivity, 4th generation Intel Core i7 processors and backlit keyboards. The P25W notebook, which is launching by late June at a price of $1299~$1799, comes with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M graphics card in a chrome yellow, silver trim chassis. Boasting two 256GB mSATA SSDs and 1TB HDD that supports superior RAID 0 Technology, this notebook comes with a Blu-ray...

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Honda & Top Gear UK Build Lawnmower With 130 mph Top Speed

Top Gear UK is well known for its ludicrous activities, whether it’s their plan of building a food blender with a V8 engine or sending a Reliant Robin as a space shuttle Top Gear have always lived up to their “ambitious but rubbish” tagline. Recently they came up with an idea to spice up the humble lawnmower that would break speed records while managing to clean up grass, so instead of fooling about they decided to call in some expert assistance. Soon Honda answered their call and sent in their Team Dynamics to get cracking. The team started with a Honda HF2620 mower fitted it with a VTR 1000cc engine and steering rack from a Morris Minor....

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Amazon India Launched - Should Flipkart And Other E-commerce Sites Worry?

While regular browsing and surfing on the internet, I came upon something fascinating. With an interest in window shopping and preparing a wish list for things I would like to buy later, I linger around online shopping portals frequently. The best part of online shopping portals is that you could right away compare the prices of a single product in various other portals and buy it from the one that offers you the cheapest price. I generally order things from Flipkart and books from Infibeam. I never trusted ebay, in reaction to all the terrible experiences people have had. And sometimes the biggest among these players, Amazon. This online...

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Printed Electronics Made 10x Efficient With New Process

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a better way to control the flow of ink during the electronics printing process. The new method allows fewer defects in the end-product and also improves its overall electrical efficiency. Printed electronics is used to create lightweight & low-cost solar cells and also in manufacturing flexible electronics screens. However, the big problem with current methods is that the efficiency of these products is far lesser than than traditional electronics products. New process developed at Stanford is called FLUENCE aka fluid-enhanced crystal engineering. The research team expects that this new...

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High Frequency Sound On Plant Matter To Create Biofuels - Iowa State University

Iowa State University researchers are employing high-frequency sound waves to break down plant substances for creation of bio-fuel. The research includes pretreating a wide range of feedstocks like witch grass, corn stover, and soft wood with constant ultrasound, thus enhancing the necessary chemical reactions needed to tansform the biomass into high-value biofuels and chemicals. All these findings shall be presented at the 21st International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2013) being held from June2-7 in Montreal. The researchers discovered that they could substantially up the efficiency of removing lignin (the substance that binds cellulose...

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Toshiba Excite 10.1 Inch Tablets - Pure, Pro & Write Launched

Toshiba Corporation, the Japanese multinational company, has had an interesting line-up with its Excite series of Android tablets. Today adding new products to this series are three 10.1 inch tablets - the Excite Pure, Excite Pro and Excite Write. Along with these, Toshiba has also launched a keyboard dock which is optional and works with all the three new Excite tablets. With varied price tags, each of the three tablets has something different to offer that makes its stand out among its peers. For instance, Excite Pro and Excite Write models are the first Toshiba tablets to feature a 2560 x 1600 native screen resolution, currently the highest...

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Sony Introduces Xperia M, A Sibling To The Flagship Xperia Z

The Xperia Z Has earned quite a lot of accolades for its new OmniBalance design, so taking this design to the mid/lower end market Sony has launched the Xperia M. On the front it has got a 4-inch FWVGA (854 x 480) display that is accompanied by a scratch resistant glass. The Xperia M runs Android 4.1 on a 1 GHz Qualcomm MSM8227 (dual core) processor with 1 GB of RAM. In terms of photography it has a 5 megapixel fast capture camera with auto-focus and HDR and a front VGA for video calls with a dedicated shutter key. The Xperia M also features colour-changing illuminations for notifications. In terms of internal memory it has a meagre 4GB out...

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Mahindra Verito Vibe Launch Tomorrow. Price Expected To Be Rs. 5.30 Lakh

Indian car maker Mahindra is all set to launch the new Verito Vibe tomorrow. The price of the car is expected to be about Rs. 5.3 Lakh ex-showroom in Delhi for the base varient. Looking at the teaser, it appears that Mahindra Verito Vibe is a compact saloon. It'll be a smaller (<4m) modification of the company's flagship sedan Verito. The company is expected to enter competition with the likes of Maruti Suzuki Swift, Ford Figo, Nissan Micra and others. The car is expected to be made available with Diesel engine at the launch and no Petrol varient has been planed. We'll only have to wait for official word on this tomorrow. Because...

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MTS Duet In India For INR 4,799 - A Dual SIM Budget-Friendly Smartphone

Mobile TeleSystems or MTS, the wireless voice, broadband Internet, messaging and data services company headquartered in Delhi, India is here with a new product of its own. The MTS Duet is a Dual SIM smartphone that supports CDMA as well as GSM networks. The company says that this is its 'strategy to offer greater choice' to users. Powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the MTS Duet features a 3.5-inch (8.8cm) display with capacitive touch screen that has a HVGA resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. As you can see the price cut has lead to a this low-end feature look of this smartphone. The budget-friendly piece is running a top a Android...

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Lensless Camera Created By Bell Labs Never Goes Out Of Focus!

Image processing has undergone many innovations with time, which has always boosted up the quality. But it has always followed the same principle that it works on, that is, using a lens to create an image and a recorder to capture all the photons. Though the way these captured photons go through imaging has drastically changed with better and efficient algorithms, a new technique may bring in a revolution. The people at Bell Labs, New Jersey are calling it 'Compressive Sensing', which means that the data taken from the images are not much different from each other, but only have fractional changes in their measurements and are redundant. With...

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Saker S-1 - The Mach 0.99 Personal Jet With Operating Cost Of $2/Nautical Mile

If you are a busy businessman who doesn't want to wast time (and don't mind spending money to save time) then you might just look at the beautiful beast called Saker S-1. It's military jet inspired personal jet that aims to reach 0.99 aka almost equal to the speed of sound. The company says that it will cruise at a speed of Mach 0.95 and reach the top speed of Mach 0.99. This two seater plane will shave an hour off a 1500 nautical mile flight (approximately 2778 km) as compared to its closest competitor. The Saker S-1 is designed to take off and land on runways as short as just 1500 ft. It can climb at the rate of 14,000 ft/min and have...

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World's Thinnest 500 GB & 1 TB HDDs Launched - Seagate & Western Digital

Looks like we've a war of the hard disks. Seagate recently announced the world's thinnest 500GB HDD that is just 5mm thick. The ultra-thin HDD looks like SSD and costs just $89. In the meanwhile, Western Digital too announced a 500GB HDD with very similar specs as that of Seagate. It's likely to find place in the new machines from ASUS and Dell. What's more interesting is that Western Digital has just announced another 'world's thinnest' 1TB hard drive that is just 2 mm thicker than its younger brother, at just 7mm. The company claims that it features StableTrack which secures the motor shaft at both ends to reduce vibrations during...

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Geyser - Cyclic hot water fountain

  Geyser   Cyclic hot water fountain   Natural geysers form when underground chambers fill with water and are heated geothermally. When the water is heated to its boiling point, the geyser erupts, spewing its contents, and the cycle starts again.    Ring stand Metal ring Hot plate or other heat source Plastic food container Glass tubing (.5 to 1 meter in length) Boiling or Erlenmeyer Flask One-hole rubber stopper Plumber'sputty Timing device (stopwatch or clock) 1) Drill a hole in the center base of your plastic container (a sharp,...

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Gas Model - Caged molecules do their thing.

  Gas Model   Caged molecules do their thing.    The atomic theory of matter tells us that a gas is made up of tiny particles called atoms (or molecules, which are combinations of atoms), which are constantly in motion, smashing into each other and the walls of their container, if there is one. Here is a highly visual model of this idea.    12 or more Styrofoam balls, approximately 1-1/4 inches (3 cm) in diameter (available in craft or fabric stores), or table tennis balls. A paintbrush. Latex...

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Fog Chamber - Make a portable cloud in a bottle. Now you see it; now you don't!

    Fog Chamber   Make a portable cloud in a bottle. Now you see it; now you don't!   Clouds form when invisible water vapor in the air is cooled enough to form tiny droplets of liquid water. In the atmosphere, this usually happens when moist air cools as it rises to higher altitudes. At higher altitudes the pressure is lower, so that the gas expands, loses internal energy, and cools. You can accomplish the same cooling effect by rapidly expanding the air in a jar.    One 1 gallon (3.S liters) clear glass or plastic jar...

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