Angelis Labor Gabriel

Angelis Labor Gabriel: "GABRIEL - Debut September 2008

A true reference turntable equipped with a base that can accept up to four arms. The materials used include aluminum, bronze and stainless steel. The turntable and arm are totally decoupled at several points - beneath the base, beneath the turntable and beneath the pin, using a magnetic field calibrated and controlled with great precision.

Type: magnetic levitation
Transmission: double Belt in special material
Thrust block: Magnetic levitation with absolutely no friction or noise. The tolerance levels of the mechanical parts are incredibly low.
Power supply: Three speeds, 33 – 45 – 78 rpm with fine regulation. The motor is controlled by two electronic cards, the first controls the speed electronically and the second card reduces the motor vibrations by means of electrical adjustment of the phase of the motor itself.

The Gabriel Arm is made in Modena, Italy in the same factory where they construct precision parts in highly technical alloys for Ferrari. The arm is a very sophisticated achievement of which we are very proud. The Gabriel turntable and arm require absolutely no antiskating and in fact have no provisions for it. The turntable system is composed of three parts - the table and base for one to four arms; the 13-inch arm; and the cartridge. The Gabriel frame consists of two cone sections created by overlapping bronze with aluminium. These sections are joined by an aluminum rod. The first cone supports the turntable bearing, the second the arm and its mount. The assembled unit is quite tall and heavy: over 30 kilos. In terms of appearance, this is one of those analog monuments which catches everyone's eye the first time they see it."

Luminária Conceito

Uma luminária conceito com design interessante.

Características:

1. nome: Ra
2. projeto de Ettore Cimini,
   
3. dois braços inteiramente ajustáveis de aço
   

Wired é uma americana de publicação mensal, com sede em San Francisco, Califórnia, que aborda questões envolvendo a tecnologia e sua influência sobre a cultura, economia e política.

Link: Wired

Wired - Vaporware - 2008

A revista Wired tradicionalmente, ao fim de cada ano, lança sua lista de produtos planejados, aguardados ansiosamente, mas que nunca foram lançados (Vaporware).

São produtos anunciados, noticiados e nada acontece.

Ai vai a lista de "ganhadores".

Vaporware 2008: Crushing Disappointments, False Promises and Plain Old BS

Algumas imagens:

Windows 7 - Novas imagens

Algumas telas do Windows 7. A semelhança com o Windos Vista é imensa.

O Windows 7, virá ao mundo com três propósitos princiapais:

1. manter o domínio da Microsoft no ambiente de desktop
2. manter o Linux longe dos netbooks; e
3. substituir sumariamente o Windows Vista.

Audi R-Zero

Aeroporto Conceito

Coflot

Um site muito interessante e diversificado, sobre design e inovação.

http://www.coroflot.com/

Laptop conceito da Prime:

1. três telas OLED
2. uma tela central de 13″
3. duas telas laterais
4. as três juntas formam painel widescreen de 26″
5. fabricado em alumínio
6. duas placas gráficas
7. dois processadores
8. bastante ventilação
9. capaz de jogar os jogos mais exigentes em widescreen com o máximo de resolução possível.
10. Portfolio do designer Kyle Cherry no Coroflot.

Northgate Reality

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O Mercado caiu em uma mesmice onde só se fala de performance seca. Eu estou pouco me lixando se o Firefox 3.1.5.1 é 3,14% mais rápido que o Opera 10.4.1 quando executado em noites de Lua Cheia com o notebook virado em direção a São Francisco."

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Nvidia reveals the personal supercomputer | News | TechRadar UK

Nvidia reveals the personal supercomputer News TechRadar UK: "Harnessing the power of the GPU beyond just basic graphics output has been inevitably bigged-up by Nvidia as the next big computing leap. Such confidence has it that general processing GPUs (GPGPUs) will be in everyone's PC of the future that it has released a range of high-end GPU-based plug-in cards under the name Tesla.
The numbers make for compelling reading with the latest 10-series products in Nvidia's Tesla range quoting up to 960 cores and up to 4 teraflops of performance. Before you get all over-excited though, the cores referred to are in fact shader processor threads.
Unless your chosen application runs optimally under an accelerated floating point environment, you won't see much of Nvidia's quoted '250 times the computing performance of a PC'. That said, Nvidia's CUDA programming environment (see below) is designed to tap into Tesla's specifically designed architecture and start the ball rolling for the next generation of mainstream application development."

Transistor faz 61 anos | Meio Bit

Transistor faz 61 anos Meio Bit: "Uma invenção nascida no Bell Labs, em 23 de Dezembro de 1947, iria mudar o mundo, a cultura e o comportamento da humanidade. Se hoje uma pessoa consegue saber, em segundos, com a precisão de metros onde está no planeta, o invento fundamental, é ele, o transístor. Os físicos John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Bradford Shockley receberam o prêmio Nobel de Física em 1956."

CES 2009 To Witness 512GB SSDs From Toshiba - Gizmo Watch

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Supercomputador no desktop | Meio Bit

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concept robots: Tokyo taxi concept robotics

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