Honda Jazz Si made ​​its debut in Geneva

Car Honda Fit (or Jazz in many markets) was able to gain good popularity in the world. Auto economical, comfortable to drive and decently looking. However, it lacks something. Perhaps the case in the "sporty" and no badges "Si".

And to earn this designation, avtomobilchik gained new dampers, larger stabilizer bars and a modified steering system of an electric drive and a three-liter six-cylinder engine from the Accord ... no, this car is not received.

Seriously, the car is equipped with four-cylinder engine capacity of 1.4 liters and output of 98 horsepower. It is hardly worth wasting time on the installation of large stabilizers stability. Jazz Si distinguish from other models will help to set new shestnadtsatidyuymovyh drives, "clad" in a low-profile tires.

Cheetah robot set a speed record for walking machines

Modern robots are widely used defense structures and law enforcement. The most common stand-alone machines are used in situations where human presence is associated with a potential threat to his health or life. In this regard, the U.S. Defence Agency is constantly working to improve the car and improve their overall effectiveness. One of the latest achievements of the robot is the Cheetah.

Cheetah was created by Boston Dynamics as part of DARPA M3 (Maximum Mobility and Manipulation - maximum mobility and manipulation). The project includes work on four main areas: development of new tools to improve production methods and processes, improvement in the management of mobility and manipulation, as well as a demonstration prototype. In the video we see how a robot named Cheetah gallops at a speed of 28.8 km / h, thus establishing land speed record for walking robots. The previous record was set as many as in 1989, when the robot was overclocked to a speed of 21 km / h

Given the fact that the word «cheetah» translated to English means "cheetah", where it can be concluded that this biologically inspired machine. Cheetah is designed in such a way that it follows the movement of this cheetah in the wild, force push the limbs increases due to the fact that the robot bends and arches his back at every jump. At the moment we are dealing with one of the early prototypes, which moves through the supply to the hydraulic pump, and it jumps exclusively on a treadmill. Later this year, tests will be held fully autonomous version of the field.

Shipbuilding in Russia: The world's first icebreaker "oblique stroke"

The Baltic Shipyard "Yantar" and the Finnish company Arctech Helsinki Shipyard in the summer will begin construction of a unique ice-breaker "oblique stroke." The vessel's hull will be built at Russian shipyards, and equipment will be engaged in Finnish icebreaker. Icebreaker "oblique stroke" breach the ice, leaving a width which is several times greater than the width of his body.

The innovation consists in the fact that half of the hull does not mirror the same. The left side gradually expands from the stem, and almost twice as rounded to the stern. Due to the special arrangement of the three rudderpropeller icebreaker can leave a channel width greater than the width of his body. A vessel of this type will be built in the world for the first time.

The fact is that when the tanker is much wider than the ice-breaker, it is necessary to attract second icebreaker. Asymmetrical breaker can be replaced by two large icebreakers. Because he can prodelyvat the ice channel, moving not only the nose, but stern.

If the breaker is in a very wide or large-vessel, he may turn to 30-45 degrees, and by combining the direction of flow of water to attack the ice across the board.

Icebreaker has a length of 76 meters and a width of 20.5 meters. The ship is moving at a speed of 14 knots, the speed of the ice thickness of 1 meter of 3 knots, the data contained in the presentation of an icebreaker Arctech Helsinki Shipyard. For comparison, a series of icebreakers "Arctic" are designed to move at a speed of 2-3 knots (4-5.5 km / h) in the ice thickness of 2.8 meters.

The vessel can also be used to combat oil spills in seas. It is equipped with a skimmer, which passes through the filtration of oil slick and the separation of oil from water.

Icebreaker can pass through ice up to 1 meter. However, through such thick ice breaker can carry out maneuvers only forward and backward. In a state of "oblique stroke" icebreaker can swim through the thick ice only 60 cm can cut through the ship channel is 50 meters wide, that is the channel width exceeds the width of the shell is 2.5 times.

It is planned that the ship will be launched in early 2014. The tests will take place in February - March 2014 in the Gulf.

Fuses for skates

I cringe every time I see the horses in horror films. You know, the same thing happens to everyone! We all know that we must be careful, but no one is safe from harm, the more-with such terrible things, like the blades of skates.
Kootsu defense mechanism protects the blade skates, and a person from this blade. Special technology will help to establish a defense mechanism, without any effort and risk, and the rubber sole of this device will allow you to walk on skates as in ordinary shoes.

Samsung introduced two-core player Galaxy Player 70

Samsung Electronics has shown in the domestic market of new development - the player called Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 3.6, which for unknown reasons, for many the company has called its "mini-tablet." The new device is the latest element in a line of Galaxy S WiFi, received the status of the most compact in the family.
The touch screen model has a size of 3.65 inches. The device is equipped with a gigahertz processor called ARM Cortex A8, and running the operating system for mobile devices such as Android 2.3.

With the help of new items, you can play mini-games to download and install programs from the store Samsung Apps, as well as corporate Android Market. In addition, the new service the company has a Social Hub, through which users can communicate more conveniently. It combines all the addresses e-mail, contacts, and accounts in social networks and instant messaging user in a list.

In sale the GPS-navigator Freelander V600

The Chinese company began selling Freelander your new car GPS-navigator. New codenamed V600. The basic specifications of the device are presented below.

In his work Freelander V600 GPS relies on a 468-MHz processor and a 7-inch touchscreen display with 800 x 480 pixels. On board there are 128 MB of RAM type DDR2, 8 GB of internal storage space, expansion connector for microSD-cards (up to 32 GB), an exact copy of the card Kay Rucker, built-in FM-radio, MP3/MP4 player, preinstalled software for reading electronic books, games, and the operating system Windows CE 6.0. Battery capacity is 1500 mAh.

Retail price of GPS-navigator V600 is 950 yuan (150 dollars).

The network has a specification laptop Dell Alienware M17x R4

The American company Dell is preparing to enter the fourth generation of gaming laptops Alienware M17x. Graphic subsystem video card innovations can boast of AMD or Nvidia, based on the basis of 28-nanometer GPU. The choice will be offered to the user card AMD Radeon HD 7970M and Nvidia GeForce GTX 660M and GTX 675M. The choice will also be presented 17.3-inch display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels or 1600 x 900 pixels. There will also be available 17.3-inch 3D-Full HD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels.

No matter which display is selected, the graphics adapter will be connected through the port eDP (embedded DisplayPort). Laptop Alienware M17x R4 will be available in black and red color options execution and will be bundled with an AC adapter with 240 Tues At the heart of the laptop will be based on a 22-nanometer processor Intel Ivy Bridge. Unfortunately, at this point is unknown or the exact release date, nor the cost of a laptop Dell Alienware M17X R4.