Micro flying robots

Seiko Epson Corporation has developed the FR Micro Flying Robot, the world’s smallest (according to Epson’s research) flying prototype microrobot.
The first version was released in November 2003, the second lighter and more advanced successor version with an image sensor unit and bluetooth control was released in August 2004.

The company hopes it’ll be suitable for security, disaster rescue and space exploration. Well, maybe even for doing some degree project. A swarm of little robots flying in space? Why not.

Smith & Wesson 686

This sturdy double action revolver will fire both .38 Special and the more powerful .357 Magnum convertible so it gives the shooter the option to shoot either cartridge type according to need. The minimum shot capacity (6 or 7 rounds) and the higher recoil of these revolvers when compared to semi-automatic pistols are to some degree compensated by the fact that they are generally more reliable and less complex to learn to shoot.

the following features it consists

• Weight: 1.30 kg (empty)
• Calibre: .38 Special / .357 Magnum
• Capacity: 6 rounds (Model 686P holds 7 rounds)

Release OF Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 5

Mozilla Corp. unveiled the final beta of Firefox 3.0 on april 2 2008 and will move on to the release candidate stage by freezing changes as early as next week.Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 landed on Mozilla’s download servers early on the 2 April’s afternoon.

Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s interface designer, highlighted several changes to the open-source browser. Among them are improved UI integration with the underlying operating system, performance gains from additional changes to the JavaScript engine, and an unspecified number of bug fixes and modifications for features new in Firefox 3.0, such as full-page zoom and bookmark backup and restore.

Beta 5’s release was delayed somewhat by the discovery last week of a serious bug in the Mac version of the browser, which required fixing before Mozilla would sign off on the preview.

Updated release notes also published on that day noted that Beta 5 includes more than 750 changes since the rollout of Beta 4 about three weeks ago. That day’s beta will be the last for Firefox 3.0, Mozilla’s chief engineer has said, and developers will be moving on to Release Candidate 1.

Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, said last week that he expects Firefox 3.0 to run through three release candidates before the final version. Mozilla has targeted June for delivering the browser.

Firefox 3 Beta 4 can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in 40 languages from Mozilla’s site.

However, as has been its practice with every beta, Mozilla again warned casual users against using the preview. “Firefox 3 Beta 5 is a developer preview release of Mozilla’s next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only,” the release notes read.

Features in Facebook

facebook in known as social networking website that was unleashed  on February 4, 2004. The facebook website is  owned and operated by Facebook . The free-access website allows users to join one or more networks, such as schools ,collages,universities  to easily connect and interact with other people.

Users “can post messages for their friendsand relaitives  to see, and update their personal profile to notify campus community that some American schools and other universities . friends about themselves. The name of the website refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a coumunity.”

Mark founded Facebook while still a student at Harvard university . Website membership was initially limited to only Harvard students, but was soon expanded to the entire Ivy League. Later it expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and finally to anyone aged 13 and over.

The BBC Micro Processor

The designers BBC Micro computer have revealed that how it led to the development of one of the world’s two dominant processor architectures.

According to Personal Computer World “Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber were Cambridge graduates working for a local start-up called Acorn in the early 1980s when the BBC launched its Computer Literacy Project, one of the most successful mass-education exercises ever.”

Acorn was one of seven companies that submitted designs for a machine that would provide a standard platform for a series of TV teach-ins on computing. Wilson and Furber were very efficient designers and they happened to develop a prototype in just five days and the company won the contract. The project then got a sales of around 12,000, and eventually reached 1.5 million.

Microchips in Brain

first microchip operation was held at Saint Petersburg Scientific Ear, Throat, Nose and Speech Research Institute.it was a successful operation for Russia institution .

According to Yuri Yanov Russian otolaryngologist the this chip provides an amazing hearing power then a normal person .

It is big success for Russia .

The author of the hi-tech decision is the German company Medel, a monopolist in the acoustic implantant industry. The chip is implanted under the skin near the temple; the magnet in the outer side holds an audio processor. The resonator is put in the inner ear.

but at the present this chip is very expensive for most of the people .

the Russian authorities and the manufactures of this chip are thinking to how to decrease its purchasing rate at the present