Car on the balcony - an Unusual Parking

The problem of shortage of places for cars in the parking lot of an apartment building elite class rather extraordinary solved in the new residential skyscraper Hamilton Scotts in Singapore. There is room for two cars in each apartment there is depending on what floor is located. Yes, cars can be parked directly   in the same apartment!

Skyscraper Hamilton Scotts in Singapore has 56 floors and a few tens of thousands of square meters. However, this space in the building is still not enough to organize a multi-level parking. Rather, it exists, but its size is modest, and because it is used exclusively as a place for cars to visitors of this skyscraper. Themselves as residents of Hamilton Scotts leave their cars directly to the apartments.

The fact is that through all the fifty-six floors of a skyscraper Hamilton Scotts are not only passenger elevators, freight elevators and calculated exactly for transportation between the levels of building cars. One needs only to residents of the house drove his car into the elevator, specify the desired floor and apartment number, and cars in a couple of minutes will be in place.

Each apartment in the skyscraper Hamilton Scotts has two guaranteed seats for cars. Moreover, this high-rise garage is usually separated from the living room apartment glass wall, so that people can enjoy in their expensive cars, sitting upright on the couch and reading a magazine or watching TV.

Hamilton Scotts is the world's first skyscraper with a similar system of parking. It should also be noted that this building is one of the most expensive residential real estate on the planet, and the monthly rent one apartment it is worth 14,000 Singapore dollars (about 10 US $ 675).

Soon The Moon Will be a Wi-Fi Hotspot

Free Wi-Fi has become so widespread phenomenon that stickers on the windows of the cafe, announcing free hotspots in major cities have become something like atavism. However, the location of the new hotspot can impress even the most advanced technocrats: The world's first scientists were able to send a wireless internet signal through 384,400 kilometers separating Earth and the Moon.

Successful demonstration, conducted by researchers from NASA and MIT, means that the future conqueror of the moon can Chekina in the Sea of ​​Tranquility and send lunar self at a higher rate than the fastest network here on Earth.

The team will present the obtained results of the experiment, June 9 at the Conference on Laser Technologies CLEO in California.

To create a link with the Moon, scientists used four separate telescopes in New Mexico, which transmits a signal to a receiver mounted on an orbiting satellite, the Moon. Each of these telescopes is about 15 centimeters in diameter and works in tandem with the laser transmitter, which transmits information in the form of coded pulses of infrared light.

Since the atmosphere of our planet distorts the signal as it moves toward the moon, all four telescopes transmit light through the different columns of air, each with its own degree of distortion. This approach increases the chance that at least one beam will reach the satellite and establish communication with the moon.

And I must say, this relationship is not bad. Scientists were able to transmit data from the Earth to the moon at a speed of 19.44 megabits per second and the "download" data from the Moon to the stunning 622 megabits per second. At the request of the British technical analysts, it is more than 4,000 times faster than today's broadcasts.

So, in light of recent events, we still have only one question that what will be the password?

GF7 Flying Car Reaches 550 MPH in the Air

It is difficult to say which came first in the vehicle with the name GF7 flying car or plane. After all, it can both ride on public roads, and climb into the sky to fly there with the speed of 885 kilometers per hour.

The company is not the first year working on designing cars that are able to push the wings and rise into the sky. And for a long time it was the only successful firms working in this direction. But in the near future it will have competition designer Greg Brown (Greg Brown) and engineer Dave Fawcett (Dave Fawcett) introduced the concept of a flying car GF7.

GF7 on earth can move using traditional electric travel at speeds up to 160 kilometers per hour and pass on a single battery charge up to 200 km. But this car will have two folding wings, which, when deployed, will be able to pick it up at the sky.

But to accelerate, take off and fly vehicle GF7 will not have due to the electric and jet engines. Supply of its stroke is about one and a half thousand kilometers and a top speed 885 miles per hour. In this case, it can reach a height of 11 kilometers, which is not even close to cars.

Brown and Fossett promise to present the first working copy of a flying car in four years. And if you run into production, GF7 will cost 3.4 million US dollars. For the money, of course, you can buy a conventional jet, but he does not know how to ride through the streets in the auto mode!

German Airport Uses Robot Valet To Park Cars

Last week, at the airport of Germany has its first service robot, which takes care of parking travelers.

Departing, they can leave their cars at the entrance level parking complex Parking PLUS. Leaving it, they click on a special touch screen, confirming that the car no one left. And the service robot named "Ray" takes her.

This robot can measures the car, picks up the car with a fork lift, and then takes to it to the parking lot, where it determines a suitable place out of 249 available. Ray is capable of carrying standard machines up to 3.31 tones.

It is claimed by Airport authority that our product is attractive for business travelers who arrive at the airport shortly before departure, looking for the optimal parking, and returned in a few days," says managing director of Airport Thomas Shnalke.

Robotic parking fee is EUR 29 per day or € 4 per hour. Although the airport is targeting this service mainly for businessmen rushing, it is available to everyone.

If customers of German Airport will use the services of a service robot, the management of the complex indicates the possibility of expansion of the new system.

Futurama Terminator and a Nintendo same processor

Eight processor MOS Technology 6502 was born in 1975, the year. Its creators Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch made ​​sure that the development could compete with similar devices from other famous companies: at low cost microprocessor from MOS Technology performance is not inferior to the model group Motorola and Intel.

Line of processors 6502 and Zilog Z80 played a crucial role in the wide spread of home computers in the late 1970s. People at first could not believe that it is possible to buy a computer 5-6 times cheaper products Motorola and Intel: Chuck Peddle developed SBCs KIM-1 bought up not too eager, waiting to catch. Only when the Giants went on microelectronics more than twofold decrease in prices to consumers realized that cheap computers its real and 6502 sales skyrocketed.

Powerful and inexpensive processor used in the home desktop computers Apple and Atari, and is widely used in game consoles, including one of the most popular in the world Nintendo Entertainment System.

The revolutionary development of MOS Technology has left its mark in culture: the chip MOS 6502 served as the basis for the development of "Terminator" in the eponymous 1984 film of the year with Arnold Schwarzenegger. This is an eight-bit processor and became part of another robot Bender of the popular cartoon series "Futurama". As explained by the head writer of the series, David Cohen, at school it with your friends had to write a program compiler for the Apple II Plus, on which stood the 6502 chip, and it was then that the idea of ​​a robot with an eight-processor in the head.