electronics and gadgets

Here i will give some tips when you are suffer from internet connection down. Most of the times we face bad internet connection due to bad server from our internet providers. Hope you to blame your internet connection providers(me too). But whatever it may be we should first check ourselves before you blame others. Let we see some things when your internet connection downs.

* First of all you should check your modem and reboot your modem once. In a sense just switch OFF your modem and wait for few seconds then switch ON your modem now.

* If you don’t have router connection then reboot your system and then boot your cable modem.

* If modem’s data light blinks then you have got a connection. If none of the light turned on then you don’t have a connection. So that you have to call your service providers.

* Open a new browser window, then open www.sensibleairspace.org if it loads you have a connection other wise read below.

* go to START -> RUN type CMD in the box then click enter, now you will see black dos screen, type ip-config/all in the blinking cursor. Now you know all your default gateway and DNS server.

* If you don’t have get internet connection with above steps then you have to try this last method. type traceroute then you will have get all the informations now.

After the success of the Eee PC 100H, Asus has introduced the Eee PC 100HA. This device is sleek and small like its predecessor and comes with a black shiny case. The Asus Eee PC 904HA is loaded with a 160 GB SATA hard disk. The Intel Atom 1.67 GHz processor provides ultimate speed with a 1 GB DDRR2 Ram. The device has a Windows XP OS and gives an impressive performance.

It weights just 1.4 Kg so it’s easy to carry. The 1.3 megapixel camera is placed above the screen and acts as a webcam. The wide 8.9-inch LED screen provides a good resolution for viewing files. When seenat 1024*600 resolution, an A4 sheet can be viewed easily without being dragged left or right.

This device has Wi-Fi connectivity. However, the port for LAN is placed at the back. Eee PC 904HA also has Bluetooth for transferring files from a PC, mobile or PDA. The Bluetooth connectivity is superb. The 6-cell Li-Ion battery provides a good backup of around five hours when used on power saver made. The Asus Eee PC 904HA has a comfortable travel keyboard. Even the touchpad of the device is good and accepts the finger gestures easily. The two buttons are also comfortable to use.

Rising electricity bills can shock just about anybody. Companies want to reduce their energy costs, just as consumers seek more efficient means to manage their own energy consumption. Smart meters could come to the rescue. These are essentially intelligence meters that can sense a home or organization’s power consumption in more detail than a normal meter. This information can either be used by a consumer to better understand and manage his usage or relayed back to the service provider for billing purpose.

“One of the areas which are increasingly benefiting from wireless sensor technologies is medical electronics. According to a report by Electronics Industry Market Research and Knowledge Network, enabling wireless sensor solutions can reduce hospitalization costs by promoting portable medical equipment. “This can collectively reduce costs for annual healthcare by $25 billion by 2012,”

Freescale’s offerings in this space include the reference design for an automated home blood pressure monitor. This is an example of how the sensing, data communication and processing capabilities of Freescale’s Flexis QE128 product family can interact to create a handheld medical solution. This low cost personal BP monitor is available at affordable price-points.

The company also offers piezoresistive pressure sensors that are suitable for medical instrumentation applications like portable digital blood pressure meters that can provide key diagnostics for healthcare patients.

Skiff has rolled out an electronic reader with 29cm full-touchscreen display. The company claims ‘Skiff Reader’ has the largest and highest-resoltion (1200*1600-pixel) electronic-paper display announced to date.

Also claimed to be the thinnest e-reader, Skiff Reader is optimised for newspaper and magazines, books and other digital content they purchase through the Skiff store.

This is the first device to feature e-paper technology from LG display. The non-glass display avoids breakage risk to the device.

Researchers at Chiba University, Japan, have developed a flying robot that flap its wings 30 times a second, just like a real humming bird.

Hiroshi Ryu, one of the researchers at the University, said the humming bird robot is equipped with a micro motor and four wings, which enable it to freely in mid-air with rapid wing movements. The 2.6gm robot is controlled with an infrared sensor and can turn up, down, right or left. Developed at a cost of $2.1 million, it could be used to rescue people trapped in destroyed buildings, search for criminals or even probe in mars. The researchers also plans to equip the robot with a mini camera by march 2011.

A new warning system for cars that alerts the driver if he gets distracted or is driving in drowsiness, has been developed spanish researchers. Professor Josi Marma Armingol, Department of Systems Engineering and Automation of the Universidad Carlos iii de madrid, says, “the information comes to the system through a video camera, located on the dashboard of the car, that measures eye blinking speed, its degree of openness or where the driver is looking in order to detect potentially dangerous situations.” This system is know as Advanced Driving Alert System (ADAS) and can be fitted on any car.

When Apple introduced the 4th generation of the IPod Nano it announced exciting new features and a return of an old favourite.

The latest Nano 4G left the shorter , wider chunkier looks of the 3G behind and made a return to the taller, slimmer version of earlier models in the IPod Nano family. However this Apple IPod is not just slim, but, manages to be the slimmest IPod that Apple has ever produced, but, do not think taller and slimmer means less screen size because the 4G matches the much shorter, wider “ fat” 3G Nano IPod in the screen size department. Apple has changed the orientation from the horizontal layout of earlier versions to a vertical orientation for this IPod, so as not lose size.

By adding an accelerometer to their IPod Nano, Apple have made it possible to view video content (which favours a widescreen format) and landscape photographs horizontally, simply by rotating your Nano by 90 degrees.

Proving that the old adage of less being more to be perfectly correct because the two versions of this IPod Nano can hold double the capacity of the earlier 3G versions. That amounts to 2000 songs in the 8G version and an astounding 4000 in its large, 16G sibling or if you are a photograph junkie, then 8,000 or 16,000 pictures, respectively.

Apple have expanded the colour options of this IPod Nano with the addition of pink, orange, yellow and purple (3G Nano offered black, blue, silver, red and green), and not just more colours, but, the colours are more vibrant and should contain, practically everyone’s favourite colour.

Another exciting feature of the new Apple IPod Nano is shake to shuffle, which requires users to shake their Nano vigorously to cause the shuffle mode to activate, which causes your Nano to randomly select music from your library.

With new features that include the Spoken Word (enabled through iTunes), which allows visually impaired users the opportunity to have text (such as artists name or song title) converted into speech, thus, dispensing with the need to see the IPod screen, and the Genius feature, which organises a playlist of suitably like minded songs, by comparing the song you are currently listening to and comparing it with similar songs within your Nano IPod.

IBM scientists have created a 3D map of the earth so small that 1,000 of them could fit on a single grain of salt.
They accomplished this through a new, breakthrough technique that uses a tiny, silicon tip with a sharp apex – 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil point – to create patterns and structures as small as 15 nanometre at greatly reduced cost and complexity.
A nanometre is a billionth of a metre. This patterning technique opens new prospects for developing nanosized objects in fields such as electronics, future chip technology, medicine, life sciences, and optoelectronics.
To demonstrate the technique’s unique capability, the team created several 3D and 2D patterns, using different materials for each one.
A 25-nanometre-high 3D replica of the Matterhorn, a famous Alpine mountain that soars 4,478 metres (14,692 feet) high, was created in molecular glass, representing a scale of 1:5 billion.
Complete 3D map of the world measuring only 22 by 11 micrometre was “written” on a polymer.
At this size, 1,000 world maps could fit on a grain of salt. A kilometre of altitude corresponds to roughly eight nanometre.
It is composed of 500,000 pixels, each measuring 20 square nanometre, and was created in only 2 minutes and 23 seconds.
A 2D nano-sized IBM logo was etched 400-nm-deep into silicon, demonstrating the viability of the technique for typical nanofabrication applications.
The core component of the new technique is a tiny, very sharp silicon tip measuring 500 nanometre in length and only a few nanometres at its apex.
“Advances in nanotechnology are intimately linked to the existence of high-quality methods and tools for producing nanoscale patterns and objects on surfaces,” explains physicist Armin Knoll of IBM Research, Zurich.
“With its broad functionality and unique 3D patterning capability, this nanotip-based patterning methodology is a powerful tool for generating very small structures,” said Knoll, according to an IBM release.
The tip, similar to the kind used in atomic force microscopes, is attached to a bendable cantilever that controllably scans the surface of the substrate material with the accuracy of one nanometre.
By applying heat and force, the nano-sized tip can remove substrate material based on predefined patterns, thus operating like a “nanomilling” machine with ultra-high precision.
These findings were published in Science and Advanced Materials.

People prefer to use internet banking either because of its benefits or because of peer pressure but rarely because of perceived prestige or celebrity endorsement, a new study says.
The research hints at how banks could improve the spread of internet banking simply by improving the services offered.
From a bank’s perspective there are many advantages to persuading their customers to adopt internet banking.
Primarily, there is the reduction in staffing, which can reduce overall costs, even if information technology and online security systems must be put in place and the reduction in buildings infrastructure required to service customers.
There is also the potential for increased revenue through increased transactions and customer activity facilitated by the ease with which they can carry out different tasks online without having to visit a bank’s premises.
Internet banking is being adopted by customers as a viable alternative to managing their money with approximately 55 million US households routinely using online banking.
Some banks are already internet only and offer preferential interest rates and terms to their customers.
However, there are many people yet to adopt online banking, which represents a significant challenge to banks that would like to increase their virtual customer base.
Understanding what makes people adopt a particular technology could be crucial to the future success of internet banking, say Weihua Shi and Kenneth Zantow of the College of Business, at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), Long Beach.
They point out that while there are various research models that have attempted to explain the adoption of new technologies, the majority of these assume that people make a rational choice based on a systematic decision process.
In many cases, this may be entirely contrary to how people behave and they suggest that it is more likely that people simply follow the herd, a USM release says.
If large numbers of people are already using a particular technology, once a tipping point is passed, peer pressure causes other people to adopt the innovation too.
But perceived prestige and celebrity endorsement rarely lure people to internet banking.
The findings were published in the International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance