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2006 Trends in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles AUVs

January 11th, 2010

In 2005 we witnessed researchers and scientists come out with new designs and applications for AUVs Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and Underwater ROVs Remotely Operated Vehicles. Some still call AUVs; UUVs or Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. All of which had significant advances in 2005.

ROVs for instance proved their self worth in rescuing Russian Submersible crewmembers who were stuck under an underwater cable and running out of oxygen. AUVs assisted in the New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Disaster and Solar Powered AUVs are currently working with bio-remediation and environmental clean up teams in Lake Ponchartrain.

At MIT Marine Lab researchers and Grad Students put together robotic fish using polymer muscles and skeletal actuators, which powered the AUVs like a fish wiggling thru the water.

The United States Navy and the US Coast Guard ordered many unmanned autonomous vehicles for underwater surveillance of shipyards, harbors and coastlines. These units will also be used to guard the Navy fleet from underwater enemy submarine threats as well. In 2006 we will see major contracts awarded to defense contractors using net-centric systems including AUVs to patrol our coastlines.

We will see AUVs, which are self recharging from the sun and from underwater wave motion generators which will be omni-present. We will see more monitoring of volcanic vents and studying of deep see creatures that the world has never seen with incredible video footage that will put previous undersea science fiction movies to shame. All this in 2006.

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World Sport. Tv Watchers and Competitions Vacations Business Accelerated by Way of World Cup Soccer Football Game

December 29th, 2009

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Propelling the Wind with Your Mind

July 28th, 2009

They say that human intention is one of the species greatest assets and indeed few who have stopped long enough to consider this and philosophize a bit could disagree. Consider also that the human body can produce energy beyond its self, about 1 watt or so can be said to come from one’s fingertips. Bid deal right?

One watt is such a small amount of energy why even consider it at all? Well it maybe a little amount of energy, but that is a significant factor as one watt of energy is enough to do some things. Like what you ask? Well like propel air movement inside an enclosed paper bag for instance. How much air and how much propulsion?

Well not much, but enough to be measured and so is it then true that you can control wind with your mind? Well indeed if that were true then yes it would be true that you could control wind or rather airflow within a small area with your mind. But we all know that all air is connected to all other air in our atmosphere right? And we have probably all heard of the butterfly affect where one small change somewhere can cause a bigger change somewhere else you see?

So if you could control the airflow inside a plastic bag could you or a group of humans control the airflow inside of a room? How about inside of a Gymnasium or Aircraft Hangar? Stadium or what about the airflows in a valley when the air was so still in the early morning? Now you see the point of why something could be interesting to study? Well so did our online think tank as we attempted to address these issues ourselves? Experimentation should be done; yes or no? Consider all this in 2006.

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Online Gaming Rental Shops and How You Can Truly Make the Very Most of them

July 18th, 2009

In years gone by, when you sought to hire computer games, you had to go out to the shop, wander along ceaseless displays to see the one you actually wanted, and then race it back the day after to avoid getting hit with overdue charges. With this state of the art service for net video game rentals problems like that are thankfully done with.

This new facility allows you the luxury to relish playing your favored choices repeatedly without these constraints and annoyances. So, to take full advantage of the range of your subscription, find following a selection of helpful hints and tips

Opt for The Right Net Video Game Leasing Charges

If you begin to hire video games online, you’ll want to decide how large a subscription to get. You don’t want to take too small an option and have no more gaming time before the end of the month but even so you should avoid paying more than you need to, as well. Initially you must settle on the amount of titles and the amount of usage you’ll typically need each week.

Next thing, opt for the additional benefits of each package. Very often you can obtain an open-ended deal or opt for the selection that lets you keep the titles as long as you would care to. This will make the greater outlay on a monthly subscription well worth it.

Prioritize and List Your Top Net game rentals When hiring computer games on the net, the rental agreement tallies with you and your life rather than pressuring you into adjusting to the provider’s schedule. It’s also dead easy and affordable to use, and using these simple pointers you can obtain the greatest returns when subscribing for video games online…

Plams TV/ Projectors at a Glance

July 4th, 2009

Plasma TV’s are the best of the big screen TV line. They have great sleek designs that allow optimal viewing pleasure. You home theater will look its best with a plasma TV in the center. Let, me make you fully aware of some of its technical issues. Plasma TV usually has a limited amount of choices on what it can connect to. This means if you have a number of output cables that must be connected to the TV. You best choice would be to purchase an outside electronic box , such as a tuner. The other problem comes in its dollar value, which can limit your choices. They are priced higher than other types of TVs. So your choice is limited, bigger non-plasma TV or smaller plasma TV.

Projectors are becoming popular than ever. This brings a real movie theater appeal to the home. This often shows a clear image with the high end technology and right conditions. You will have to know that your environment needs to be exactly right to project the best picture, so your home theater may have to be transformed. There are colored screens that can be purchased, white and gray being the most popular. White is best for the windowless room. While gray is used if there is a small amount of light that can affect the projectors image. The main down side to projectors is some models run loud and tend to get hot. This is distracting when trying to watch a movie. They will have to be maintained correctly to keep it’s life.

If you have any questions on which is best for your home, there are professional home theatre installers that are willing to help you make the right decisions.

Stationary Exercise Bikes for NASA

June 5th, 2009

Should we go ahead and put stationary bikes in all the spacecraft, space station and Lunar Bases? Recently the concept came up in an online think tank when one member suggested that we hook them up to charge batteries too. Then a debate erupted over all this and it was called a hair-brained idea. One member then stated;

“I never said that exercise was useless or unwanted, I merely pointed out that the crew’s exercise energy is a “drop in the bucket”. My purpose was to point out just how much energy a human is “worth”.”

Incorrect as his immediate goal as exhibited was to shoot down the idea and belittle the concept designer? Looks like a revenge thing as people disrespected often want revenge, that is human nature one supposes. But it also asks on the Forum at the top that; “humans are not allowed please!” He exhibited human behavior on the think tank site? We are past that.

Prior to this the combative behavioral problematic youth stated; “Reality rears its ugly head again, spewing red-hot truth to vaporize the delusions of fools.”

So any one reading this would assume that only a delusional fool would attempt to capture energy from a stationary bike?

http://www.econvergence.net/electro.htm

http://www.whynot.net/view_idea?id=372

http://www.whynot.net/view_idea?id=1089

http://www.middlebury.edu/NR/rdonlyres/22DC37FE-9FA5-4EF5-92F0-379D97DB0BF5/0/pedalgenerator.pdf

This is from MIT:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~nathan/nepal/research/research.html#Generators

I guess your next email is to MIT to tell them that they are a bunch of morons too and have no business making stuff like this because it is not reality based? Yah right? You see so often humans who pretend to be brilliant so often have problems due to their combativeness and miss understanding of the problem you see. Consider all this in 2006.

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Market Your Company’s Services with Online Videos

January 30th, 2009

Videos on the Web are an excellent tool to market your firm’s services. Sure, there are many other types of marketing approaches available which include article writing to blogging, from press releases to e-mail. Nevertheless, nothing says “cool, connection, and creative” like a video.

Each week more & more organisations of different sizes are producing video commercials about their services. They are not only just putting them on their company sites, but they are putting them to their own blogs. To gain universal twenty-four-seven visibility, business videos are being added to countless video-sharing sites like YouTube & Kwego. And why not ? it is economical, easy-to-do, and can have a major difference, in many cases, on the traffic it sends to your firm’s site.

There are many other reasons why videos are a successful way to advertise your business. Vidify’s business video solutions are focused on maximising your business revenue cost-effectively.

Video commercials enjoy an extensive distribution channel: Videos by their very nature are straightforward to “package” which means they are good to fit into a series of different distribution channels. You can put them on your companies website or blog, if you want you can even load them onto your desktop computer & show them in a loop at a chosen business show. You can add them to several online video-sharing sites. You can copy them onto DVDs & give them away or sell them. You can even forward them by email.

Promotional videos are a valuable way to advertise. As our experience with technology evolves, so do the methods in which companies like to interact with others. Most people are visually oriented meaning that is how they best understand and work with their world. This makes internet videos the idyllic company strategy to communicate to today’s consumers.

These are just a number of the numerous reasons why short format videos might be an effective way to promote your firm’s services. Discover more about this area to see how you could exploit your valuable time, money, & energy to talk with your target industry in a modern and interesting way.

Find out about Video Production & Distribution - Part One

November 22nd, 2008

The clever old Chinese anecdote has a great implication; the tale expressed the fact that we all identify with an occasion considerably more when it is observed. Through video production or videography it is possible to record a chain of occasions. Vidify offer unique video production and distribution solutions. Visit the website.

These days in each business presentations, video footage is recurrently employed. Using video production services it is viable to supply the essential communication to several different potential consumers to help attract them. Video production currently is used for several reasons; however, numerous online promotional videos and awareness associated presentations are usually manufactured in order to achieve desired commercial targets.

Audio video productions are in fashion & are therefore used in roughly any variety of business activity. Video production agencies at the outset by & large work with a certain brand of client or a corporation that looks to create a short format online video commercial, a presentation or an assortment of video clips. The total work of video production is frequently carried out by one or two freelancers; nonetheless there are a handful of good online specialist video production agencies around at the moment.

Involvement of music composers, cameraman and script writers are also typical when creating internet video presentations. What’s more, marketing firms & PR firms have only recently become involved with many aspects of online video production and marketing.

Shoulder Launched, Man Portable Laser Anti-Aircraft or SCUD Missile Defense System

August 28th, 2008

Is it possible to replace our Patriot missiles in the battlespace with man portable laser weapons with in the next three to five years? Can we make these a shoulder launched or easily transportable to set up on a temporary stanchion and ready to fire at will? Can we use compressed gas canisters for the chemical laser system of the defense weapon? If so would these be less weight and more bang for the luggability for the men carrying these units into the battlespace? Would it be better to simply mount the system into a fast moving robotic Sandia Labs “Sarge” type unit or would it simply be easier to mount the whole friggin thing on the DARPA Challenge Award Winning Volkswagon?

One positive aspect to a laser system is unlike the Patriot Missiles, you do not have to take all those missiles with you only the gas canisters to light up the laser unit. Could you have enough seconds on the target with a man portable unit to take out a SCUD Missile? Would you have enough power output? If this devices was on a backpack could the soldier even aim it and hold it steady enough to take out such a fast moving target using hand-eye coordination? Probably not, as the human would need an electronic lock-on and fire device associated with the system. So then could one say that this devices would be very high-tech, complicated, difficult to use and with all its needed electronics too heavy and “Murphy” prone?

Indeed and the man portable would not work if fired off the shoulder because a human is a top heavy organic unit and would wobble when firing something that has to be that accurate in time and 3D space to work, which a laser must be to take out an incoming aircraft or missile. Should it be mounted on a tripod unit like the multi-Stinger systems? As why would you want a shoulder launched system, as men hesitate and have to wait for orders, choke under pressure and by then the missile has gone by, you lose.

Would it be better to mount such a system on a robotic unit floating off shore or an aerial mine field, with pre-determined protocols and just let everyone in the world know the stuff is there and don’t be flying in at Mach 1 or greater unannounced then it will be disintegrated and will disappear into a million tiny pieces of debris.

The more you ask of such a man-portable or shoulder launched device the bigger the weapon becomes, the project gets and thus eventually you run up the costs and cannot compete with current already proven systems. This of course makes it quite a challenge, but also worthy of the effort of man’s mind, as war is a sense which gives us purpose or so it has been said in past and present periods by philosophers of the sound and fury.

Now then is this possible, can we really make something that is lightweight, easy to fire, accurate to a grape fruit size at 1-3 miles while the target travels at the speed of sound or greater? Hard to say if this is a feasible endeavor, although such a defensive weapon is needed for our “Blue Force” in the Battlespace can it actually be built and if so, will it actually work? Think on this.

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