Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Winter Jackets: Down is fun – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Last winter, which was not really as we still remember well, presented at the Munich ISPO American Company Primaloft a novel insulation material. “Performance Down Blend” is a mixture of natural goose down and synthetic microfiber.

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You want the best of both components – heat output, ease, cuddly comfortable fit here, insensitivity to moisture and rapidly drying there – unite. In the preparation of the finished Primaloft down so that they are water resistant and do not clump together, and then blended them with synthetics to form a homogeneous quantity. For winter 2014/15 is now the first garments of different brands come with this material onto the market.

One of these is the skier jacket LFT (for Light Fit Technology) Head, which we have already tried briefly. The outside of robust ripstop fiber is designed sporty simple, but the carrier expected within an original color orgy in horizontal stripes. In between is the Primaloft hybrid material consisting of 60 percent white duck down and 40 percent synthetic fiber. This allows the LFT-jacket put in the washing machine. According Primaloft the properties of its material at least ten washes long not change.

Toasty warm, breathable, lightweight (just 1000 grams in size 52) is a jacket for skiing before, it is easily extensible and thus, despite athletic crisp cut easily. The collar can be good seal against rain and snow. Stark also: long vents under the arms, large, easily accessible pockets, removable powder skirt, elasticated cuffs with thumb hole, waterproof zips

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The front zipper can not open additional from below, the solid peaked hood is a bit tight, should forward pass through the helmet. Nevertheless, strong product. Head it can also pay tidy with 550 euros for men and 500 euros for the ladies version. Only one question remains: Will’s once again correctly Winter

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Information Technology vs. Car makers: Battle of the industries of the future of the car – RP ONLINE

Berlin. There was a time when car manufacturers build cars and computer companies built computer. But today almost every car a rolling computer with dozens of sensors. The boundaries blur.

“company’s technology industry moving ever deeper into the former territory of the auto industry”, says auto expert Thilo Koslowski from the IT market researcher Gartner. The meet not only the vehicles but – what is more serious – the business model. “I’m not sure if the majority of the auto industry is prepared to withstand the pressure of new players,” says Gartner analyst.

Also, industry expert Stefan Bratzel see new players coming. “Especially the Big Data player in the IT industry play in the future in the value chain of the automotive industry a very important role,” he says. The carmaker acted currently on the model of “co-opetition”: cooperation and competition at the same time. Thus, they work together on the one hand, especially with Apple and Google to bring smartphones and apps into the car. “On the other hand, they see the IT player as a future competitor for the mobility customers of the future and want to give them no comprehensive access to the car,” says Bratzel.

The battle for the future of the car has started

In the next few weeks the battle for the future of the car is equal fought twice in the spotlight: The electronics fair CES in Las Vegas and then the auto show in Detroit, the heart of the American vehicle industry. The CES that previously traditionally TV, Hifi or computers were introduced, was also used for car show in recent years more and more. Last year, Audi CEO Rupert Stadler was chauffeured to his keynote speech in a self-driving car company on the stage.

This time assumes Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche this central image. Shortly before the show a pioneering partnership was announced: The South Korean electronics giant LG to deliver with its stereo cameras, the “eyes” for the automated Mercedes cars. BMW wants to Las Vegas next week an advanced system to avoid collisions show, as well as a car that can be traveling alone, thanks to its sensors without a driver in the car park. Audi promises two world premieres.

When Google in the fall of 2010, its fleet of self-propelled Toyota revealed who had quietly already covered more than 200,000 kilometers, was that the car industry as a shock and a wake-up call. Since then, the car manufacturers have caught powerful. Always new driving assistance systems that remove the driver work about traffic jams, find step by step the way into everyday life. VW has a emergency stops Wizard Volvo XC90 model brakes if necessary even at intersections to prevent a collision

But in the end it’s about much more than apps, smartphone or even automated driving. The digitization plows on long term, the whole business has to offer. “Technology can fundamentally changed how and where to reach a customer – and how to create added value for him,” says Gartner expert Koslowski. And here doing the auto industry, which was strong engineering-heavy in large parts still very difficult. Large parts of the industry are in a rigid: “I do not think people have realized how much the whole car is verdigitalisieren in the future.”

The German carmaker experiment ever thus, mobility instead of vehicles for sale. BMW, operating the car-sharing service and Hamburg. Daimler has the counterpart car2go, the taxi app MyTaxi and the service moovel which is to calculate the optimal route by car, bicycle or public transport.

But the change could go much deeper than that. While the auto industry still sees a more or less active driver in the center, is a potential future rival like Google entirely on the computer. In the small round two-seater of the Internet Group neither steering wheel nor the pedals are provided – even if Google has to incorporate them not definitive test vehicles, because it is so required

“Google is more interested. the “lost time” in the car returned to the people, “it describes Koslowski. Also Bratzel expected that the occupants are increasingly concerned with things other than driving. The time in the car and doing data collected wanted to use the new players for new value-added offerings and business models. These services could be more relevant to consumers in time as the car itself

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Monday, December 29, 2014

CES2015: ARCHOS makes its smart home technology for open standard – Android user – News

With the smart home devices from Archos allows cameras to connect temperature sensors, sockets switches and other devices and controlled over a central gateway via Android tablet or mobile phone. The technology will be an open standard now.

“At the present time the user wants to retain control over everything. The focus of this trend is the home. No matter where we are, whether at work or elsewhere – we want to know what is happening at home. And we want to control the home, even if we are not there. With the open smart home system, ARCHOS positioned in a leading role for the home of the future, “said the CEO of ARCHOS Loic Poirier.



Home networking for anyone with the open 433 MHz Standard

Based on the ARCHOS Smart Home Gateway built-in 433 MHz technology, makes the ARCHOS system an integrated control system for networked homes and offers compatibility with all major brands such as Somfy, DI.O Chacon, Blyss, Otio, Conrad and many more . manufacturers

With the new “Learning & amp; Control “function allows users to link their entire existing components of home networking from their smartphone or tablet from each other and control: shutters, garage doors, plugs, lamps, etc. By smartphone or tablet can be accessed from anywhere in the world on these components and if the individual components are integrated into the smart home applications, they can be linked together for a user-friendly home automation.

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All components can be controlled via app. Image: ARCHOS

The opening of the Archos Smart Home system allows compatibility and linking with IP cameras from the market leader FOSCAM. So videos are transferred directly from the place of origin on the smartphone or tablet. The functions of IP cameras (HD video, infrared night shots, moving messages, 360◦-moves, etc.) can be used in smart home integration programs that were created with the user-friendly Smart Home app – so, for example, opening a door, a trigger video recording, which is then streamed to the smartphone user.

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For the flexibility of the connections between the Connected Objects, social networks and other apps has its ARCHOS Smart Home Smart Home Tablet and the app open for service automation IFTTT (app idea of ​​IFTTT). This Internet-based automation service enables smart links between the components and online tools by using the simple recipe “If This, Then That”. With IFTTT users can define and automate tasks; turn on the light, for example, at the homecoming activate the thermostat to “nest”, or via Twitter.

ARCHOS its product line of connected devices at CES 2015, the Sands Expo Hall AC, stand no. 70,437th

Source: Press release from Archos (which we completely adopted here with minor amendments)

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Help for Hawking: New Technology says next thought ahead – THE WORLD

In 1985, Stephen Hawking has spoken for the last time with his own voice. Whether he writes books or lecturing: The world-renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author uses a computer to which he assembles word for word his sentences. For 30 years, he is dependent for any form of communication on technical assistance. Stephen Hawking suffers from a variant of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In this incurable disease, the nerve cells that are responsible for the movement of muscles die.

For a long time contributed Hawking’s computer or with your thumb. But since 2008, he is unable to move his fingers. Since then registered an infrared sensor on his glasses, the motion of a single cheek muscle. Per minute, he managed only one or two words. To write a text up to this point, but Stephen Hawking would have required about one and a half hours. For a person with a lively spirit communication is to hard to bear ordeal.



Three years of development

has recently Hawking receive a special gift. Computer specialists from Intel have written together with the startup SwiftKey software for his computer. The heart of the three-year development work is a feature that very aptly the words guess who wants to use Hawking. He can use it to write about ten times faster than previously reported Lama Nachman, a development engineer at Intel. This Hawking would require up to this point in the text, only about 20 minutes.

Stephen Hawking said his life will change and tried with the new language skills the public. He gave the TV channel BBC interview and spoke to journalists and invited guests.

The 72-year-old really hope that from its prototype, other benefit people with similar disabilities. If the medicine could no longer help the must do the technique. “The most important improvement for me is the correct prediction of the next word that I will use it,” Hawking.

Stephen Hawking speaks now twice as fast

              The physicist Stephen Hawking can only communicate using a voice computer. Now he scored for the first time a software update. Now he can “talk” twice as fast . Source: The World

The principle is similar to the automatic spell correction and word recognition, which is already available as an app for smartphones. Hawking’s version is much more effective and focused more on the quality of the texts. The user of a mobile phone will usually tap as fast as possible. The phone is to correct mistakes, but overall the mobile phone user takes to language rather carelessly. Hawking, however, is considered to be a perfectionist.

For Hawking, it is too costly to select individual letters on a keyboard. On the screen of his computer, the cursor is automatically kept letters, numbers, syllables or Word suggestions. If he jerks her cheek muscle, that item is selected and used in the text. Hawking can also Skype, go to their email program or web browser.

After each decision, the computer stops and builds a new listing on the on screen. The more precise the prediction of the next action, the faster work Hawking. On average, the physicist must select only a fifth of the letters to create a text that says Nachman.



The end of the keyboard

For some examples of the software follows a simple logic: Hawking is conducting research into the formation of black holes in the universe. The system automatically looks up the word “black”, “hole” in the correct grammatical form. The term “black hole” (the black hole) is for Hawking to write now with a single action, says Lama Nachman.

Applying this idea to an ordinary mobile phone, as it is before the end of the keyboard. For the first few characters of a message, the panel may still be useful, then the Hawking process in terms of speed and accuracy could be superior to the search for the next letter or word.

are even greater benefits when writing longer texts, letters or e-mails. If the word processing relies on different databases, they could also provide those writers sentence blocks that have difficulties with their own texts. Technical assistance from the database can be orders, complaints, or write to the authorities succeed better. Also love letters could get a completely different quality.

Professor Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford, deals with the …

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30 years he held the Persian Luca chair of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. During his studies, first signs of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) had shown he is confined to a wheelchair for years because of the. Here Hawking is in June 1990 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge -. In the presence of the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald

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In May 2010, he met Queen Elizabeth at a garden show in England.

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The computer converts the words in language. Hawking retained its old art voice, though the developer wanted to give him another that rather resembles his original voice. “This clear, robotic feel has become a kind of trademark,” Hawking said, “I do not want to exchange it for a more natural voice with a British accent.”

There were of course other approaches, such as Hawking could control his computer. The American neuroscientist Philip Low tried to read Hawking’s brainwaves. A device in a headband on the size of a matchbox recorded EEG of the physicist on.



tested idea of ​​zebra finches

The idea was tested at Stanford University in zebra finches low. The EEG should change when Hawking thinks intently at something specific. But although Hawking trained a lot, low could not filter out the noise of the EEG signal. The physicist was very disappointed.

The fact that the method works in humans basically proved the neuroscientist Adrian Owen. He studied with imaging the brain activity of coma patients. In five of more than 50 subjects he could see reactions

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Modern technology: How can cruise ships prevent seasickness? – Reuters

They are like floating cities, and the possibilities of activities on board are usually as diverse as land: Modern cruise ships – the largest of which are more than 350 meters long and offer holiday atmosphere for more than 5000 passengers – can easily forget the Crusaders that he is at sea. Shopping malls, swimming pools, sports arenas, miniature golf courses, cinemas and concert halls, and even generous gardens to stroll in nature vacationers enjoy at or below deck -. If they can move

One thing is different at sea than on land, the ship is constantly in motion. And these movements, the rollers about the longitudinal axis and the pitch about the lateral axis or preferably a combination of both, many people can cause problems. You get seasick, and it’s with the diversified recreation over.

For a long time the shipyards is thus working on techniques to minimize these movements of the ship. The first fin or wing stabilizers have been patented in 1898 – at that time than along the hull extending rigid wings. Even with the pumping of ballast water in special tanks rolling experimented long. This system is also now used for equalization, so to keep ships lying at anchor or in port created in an upright position. – Especially for cargo ships loading and unloading very important

For the voyage by sea However, lateral stabilizers have prevailed, who now use almost all major cruise ships. They work like oversized fins and a good bit below the waterline are laterally extended from the fuselage. Rotatable about the longitudinal axis, they generate depending on the position up or down force and thus counteract an unwanted part of the movement of the ship. They are computer controlled and constantly in motion. However, they increase the resistance of the ship and thus fuel costs and reduce and the pace of the holiday steamer.

A new, innovative approach to prevent such unwanted vessel movements now have the company Hoppe Marine and Marintek found from Norway. They have developed a ship which produces in its interior waves to break the waves of the sea.

Germany makes it to # 2 on the most innovative countries worldwide. But the position is threatened.

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Special water tanks in the hull computer-controlled wave movements that counteract the external forces of the oceans , So far, though there is only a small model in the basin experiment, however, was able to demonstrate that this technique works quite effectively. The first ship equipped with this technology, Hyundai Heavy Industries is building in South Korea. It should be 155 meters long, can accommodate more than 800 passengers and are launched in June 2015. Whether this the dreaded seasickness a thing of the past, of course, has to yet to be proven. But in any case, an even quieter section of the cruise story is with this innovation ushered well.

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Vulnerability: How uncertain are scanners and smartphones – Business Week

At the start of its annual meeting show hackers of the Chaos Computer Club once again how easily they can overcome techniques of everyday life. So that they are compromising companies that advertise security.

hackers of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) have made public at the beginning of their annual meeting several vulnerabilities in common technology. Fingerprint recognition technology and facial recognition technology can outwit, as the expert in January Krissler proved. He managed to copy a fingerprint of Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen from a photo.

he had created with the help of software the thumbprint and wished him well publish online, Krissler said on Saturday evening at the Chaos Communication Congress 31C3. For as a copy of a fingerprint satisfy a cell phone photo. . “If the light conditions are right somehow, that’s no problem”

For face recognition submit a photo

What you can do with potentially Krissler showed a different fingerprint: With one out fake latex prepared he was able to overcome a fingerprint sensor. He already cracked the fingerprint sensor of Apple’s iPhone. To bypass a software for face recognition, was enough a printed photo. “Iris recognition is now probably permanently broken,” Krissler. Said

Security researcher Karsten Nohl and mobile expert Tobias Engel showed weaknesses in technology in mobile network UMTS. The gaps allow the interception of calls, unauthorized reading of SMS and the location of people around the world, as the two experts said in their presentations on Saturday night.

The privacy German mobile operator

  • T-Mobile

    privacy: 58 percent (out of a possible 100 percent)

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  • Vodafone

    privacy 44 percent (out of a possible 100 percent)

  • E-Plus

    privacy: 33 percent (out of a possible 100 percent)

  • O2

    privacy: 19 percent (out of a possible 100 percent)

The culprit is a protocol called SS7. About communicate SS7 telecommunications companies. This will ensure, inter alia, for a correct forwarding of calls. However, the protocol is insufficiently secured as angel showed. So hackers and spies can query the location at which a mobile user is located at a specific phone number

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    Be careful when passing your mobile number. . Write these not on your business card

  • Eavesdropping

    The calls over cellular networks with the GSM standard is not eavesdropping. . Therefore lead conversations with confidential content through the phone

  • Access Protection

    Use Key lock and device lock code and change these passwords at regular intervals.

  • Wireless interfaces

    Disable basically all wireless interfaces such as WLAN or Bluetooth access points when these . are not required

  • Public Hotspots

    Use your public hotspots with increased caution. . Avoid sensitive applications such as online banking in untrusted Hotspots

  • Permanent Control

    Let. your mobile devices never out of sight and do not give your smartphone also Manipulations can be made in a few seconds

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    Good Apps

    Install apps only from trusted sources. Many require far-reaching access to sensitive data and functions. . Check these privileges are really necessary for the benefit of the app

  • Security Updates

    Make sure that there are security updates for your operating system and installed software.

  • SIM card

    Let with mobile phone loss of your SIM . card blocked immediately

  • sale and disposal

    Normal Erase does not destroy all data in the rule. The memory must be overwritten physically before a sale or disposal.

In addition, an attacker a telephone call in Forward background on yourself before sending it to the original destination. “There are reports that that is exploited,” Angel told Deutsche Presse-Agentur. A Ukrainian suppliers have noticed such Forwarders in its network.

Vodafone and German Telekom had previously responded to reports about the weaknesses and they closed on their networks. Also Telefonica O2 and E-Plus took measures against the gap.

On Sunday it should go to secure communication and gaps in major computer programs in lectures. Last year, more than 9,000 people attended the conference, this time even more participants were expected. Until Tuesday to more than 200 speakers talk, plus there are hundreds of hands-on offers.

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Saturday, December 27, 2014

New models and technology: EUR 24 billion: Audi announces record investments … – ABC Online

In the premium manufacturer competition, Audi plans to increase its investments and put more money especially in the development of new models and technologies. The carmaker wants 2015 to 2019 around 24 billion euro investment – 2 billion more than previously planned. This was announced on Saturday Audi in Ingolstadt with.

The plan had extremely economical combustion engines and techniques to increase the efficiency to meet the stringent CO2 requirements worldwide. Audi also increased its global manufacturing network. On the German locations Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm account for more than half of the planned investments. More than one billion euros wants the world’s second largest premium carmaker put in new plants in Mexico and Brazil.



Investments in electric mobility, networking and lightweight

“Sustainable growth is our top priority. This is why we invest heavily in the fields of innovation electric mobility, networking and lightweight,” said Audi CEO Rupert Stadler , 70 percent of all investments are planned for new models and innovative technologies. Audi is reportedly reach the mark of 1.7 million shipments this year. The range will be expanded in 2020 to 60 models from the current 50

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Language Computer: A technology for Stephen Hawking – Berliner Morgenpost

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Language Computer

The new software can guess very accurately the words that wants to use the famous physicist

By Rainer Kurlemann

In 1985, Stephen Hawking has spoken for the last time with his own voice. Whether he writes books or lecturing: The world-renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author uses a computer to which he assembles word for word his sentences. For 30 years, he is dependent for any form of communication on technical assistance. Stephen Hawking suffers from a variant of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In this incurable disease, the nerve cells that are responsible for the movement of muscles die.

For a long time contributed Hawking’s computer or with your thumb. But since 2008, he is unable to move his fingers. Since then registered an infrared sensor on his glasses, the motion of a single cheek muscle. Per minute, he managed only one or two words. To write a text up to this point, but Stephen Hawking would have required about one and a half hours. For a person with a lively spirit communication is to hard to bear ordeal.



Three years of development

Recently, Hawking has received a special gift. Computer specialists from Intel wrote together with the start-up company SwiftKey software for his computer. The heart of the three-year development work is a feature that very aptly the words guess who wants to use Hawking. He can use it to write about ten times faster than previously reported Lama Nachman, a development engineer at Intel. This Hawking would require up to this point in the text, only about 20 minutes.

Stephen Hawking said his life will change and tried with the new language skills to the public , He gave the TV channel BBC interview and spoke to journalists and invited guests. The 72-year-old really hope that other people will benefit from its prototype with similar disabilities. If the medicine could no longer help the must do the art.

“The most important improvement is Right for Me predicting the next word that I want to use” said Hawking. The principle is similar to the automatic spell correction and word recognition, which is already available as an app for smartphones. Hawking’s version is much more effective and focused more on the quality of the texts. The user of a mobile phone will usually tap as fast as possible. The phone is to correct mistakes, but overall the mobile phone users with speech goes to rather sloppy. Hawking, however, is considered to be a perfectionist.

For Hawking, it is too costly to select individual letters on a keyboard. On the screen of his computer, the cursor is automatically kept letters, numbers, syllables or Word suggestions. If he jerks her cheek muscle, that item is selected and used in the text. Hawking can also Skype, go to their email program or web browser.

After each decision the computer stops responding and builds a new offer on the screen. The more precise the prediction of the next action, the faster work Hawking. On average, the physicist must select only a fifth of the letters to create a text that says Nachman. For some examples of the software follows a simple logic: Hawking is conducting research into the origin of black holes in the universe. The system automatically looks up the word “black”, “hole” in the correct grammatical form. The term “black hole” (the black hole) is for Hawking to write now with a single action, says Lama Nachman.



The end of the keyboard

Applying this idea to an ordinary mobile phone, as it is the end of the keyboard before. For the first few characters of a message, the panel may still be useful, then the Hawking process in terms of speed and accuracy could be superior to the search for the next letter or word. Are even greater benefits when writing longer texts, letters or e-mails. If the word processing relies on different databases, they could also provide those writers sentence blocks that have difficulties with their own texts. Technical assistance from the database can be orders, complaints, or write to the authorities succeed better. Also love letters could get a completely different quality.

The computer converts the words in language. Hawking retained its old art voice, though the developer wanted to give him another that rather resembles his original voice. “This clear, robotic has become a kind of trademark,” Hawking said, “I do not want to exchange it for a more natural voice with a British accent.”

There was Of course, other approaches, such as Hawking could control his computer. The American neuroscientist Philip Low trying to read Hawking’s brainwaves. A device in a headband on the size of a matchbox recorded on an EEG of the physicist. The idea was tested at Stanford University in zebra finches low. The EEG should change when Hawking thinks intently at something specific. But although Hawking trained a lot, low could not filter out the noise of the EEG signal. The physicist was very disappointed.

The fact that the method works in humans basically proved the neuroscientist Adrian Owen. He studied with imaging the brain activity of coma patients. In five of more than 50 subjects he could see reactions

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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Technology Trends – What 2015 digitally important – Süddeutsche.de

Can mesmerized Apple to buy his SmartWatch? The tech bubble burst? May I put on my grandma’s sofa virtual reality glasses? Answers to these questions and a look at the tech 2015.

From John Kuhn San Francisco

Let’s start with the most unpleasant question:

Bursts the tech bubble in 2015

“bubble Who says that there is a? bubble? “, answer the optimists from the country’s raining bills, also known as Silicon Valley.

Internet and software are here to stay and grow, but may in the face of absurd investors reviews (five billion US dollars be allowed a question for a coworking provider 425 million for a marijuana delivery service): Is optimism a synonym for “money like a drunken man in the village pub bang on the head”

To get back to the question: The answer to Bladder question is “no”, which is related to unbridled liquidity, ordinary economic outlook in the US and the low oil price, which should make for low interest rates until the middle of the year. The party is not over, even if in the basement throw some startups money lavishly in the kiln.



Everything on mobile

However, that will even admit pessimists, the digital transformation process actually stunning. The mobile Internet the second great era has begun after the World Wide Web, the giant fixed internet run the risk of entering into such a pants by Calvin Klein in the washing machine (if anyone remembers this brand) .

At the end of this year should the Google market share in mobile advertising drop to well below 50 percent, Facebook in 2015 its 20 percent increase significantly. With location-based and tailored to personal Intererssen smartphone Advertising Mark Zuckerberg happy today its US users, Germany is expected in a few months (NB, privacy debate!). Google in turn will be profitable for many years, but the first time implies a loss of special status, as it already IBM, Microsoft, and Yahoo have experienced (if anyone remembers the brands).

That Google for its non Data spectacles sold probably now have to set up your own store in headquarters Mountain View, shows the problem of Wearables : Wearable Technology should act decently and well made, the carrier, but above all must not suddenly look like a cyborg – published three errors so, attach the glass.

Is a clock the last word?

Apple in the spring watch Apple Watch is a surprisingly imperfect product (can not be used without a phone, probably low battery life), but significantly less googelig. Apple’s reputation as a status symbol mark is sufficient to introduce enough buyers to the digital mode. This will in turn allow experts proclaim the SmartWatch age again. As early as in 2013 and 2014. ‘/ P>

The eternal recurrence of the same forecast has indeed the advantage that a) at any time they might actually arrive and b) at the end no one checks to see who danebenlag. However, whether the wrist is really the right place on the body to smoothly interact with digital technology? The imagination of the author is here almost as limited as with the notion that NFC payment services as Apple Pay electronic cards foreseeable displace (the e-mail address for protesting Apple fans can be found at the end of this article ).

Reliable forecasts for the virtual reality is to get … well, unrealistic. After all, it can be said that the demos were always better in the course of this year and the start of the Oculus Rift will cause a stir and long aesthetic treatises on the arts pages (probably in the second half of 2015).

Several companies and open source projects are currently working on applications that are still far away from Holodeck visions. So we postpone the question of whether we really have to do it with a significant new Internet-surface, in the year 2016. The main hindrances from fashionable aspects of the way: It looks pretty stupid, with a gigantic virtual reality helmet on his head enter the bus or sitting at Grandma on the couch.

drones arrive at Amtsschimmel

Perhaps in 2015 more people with 3-D printers as the Oculus Rift come into contact, because the price drop makes the devices now theoretically for the home affordable. Faced with a flood of printed vases is a crash of the flea market prices for flowers vessels to fear, otherwise, however, the hype seems at present over before it has even started.

Also civil drones put their triumphant success, at least until she gets the red tape from the sky. Your Regulation will provide for discussions, as further About (output open) encryption as a result of monitor (supervisor vs. tech firms vs . Activists vs. apathetic public), the social consequences of the automation (writes the next year journalism robot this text?) and the evaluation of sensors data (should Sonntagsfahrer for their caution ?. get a cheaper car insurance)

Industry 4.0 and other hollow phrases

2015, technologies worth a look, the place only in a few years real mass application: New research in artificial intelligence and robotics determine the direction of new applications. If we understand it. And who at parties the phrase “not Bitcoin, but the block chain behind it is the real innovation because it enables a truly decentralized Internet” says that although drives all interlocutors to flight, but applies in a few years as visionary. Or spinner (the fate of many tech Prophet).

Other trends such as the “Internet of Things “, the POS will let it ring from tech conference organizers, but the user still only very slowly interesting. Who wants to join his front door to the Internet when the key opens the door

And anyway? Before we talk about the “Internet of Things” or hollow phrases like “Industry 4.0″, we were Germans just happy , finally patchy ‘Internet of fast speeds “aka enjoy broadband network. But we have to be patient a few more years.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

The influence of 3D printing technology on our daily lives – 3Druck.com


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3D Systems CEO Avi Reichental and CCO will will.i.am at the International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in 2015 in Las Vegas talk about the impact of 3D printing technology on our daily lives.

In addition to the new products and applications such as the 3D printer for food, ChefJet, and the new Consumer Cube 3D printer , the company will expand to the international electronics and technology trade show exhibit his entire repertoire of consumer and prosumer 3D printing technologies. Avi Reichental and will.i.am are on the 3D Systems press event under the slogan “Home Of The Now” products showcase, which is already the influence of 3D printing in our daily represent life.

“The powerful portfolio of products and experiences did we are showcasing at CES Proves how the 3D printed lifestyle is now more accessible, more intuitive, more stylish, more delicious, more sustainable and more fun than ever before, “says Cathy Lewis, Chief Marketing Officer, 3DS. ” As part and parcel in our “Home of the Now” experience, we are showcasing cutting-edge products did can impact every part of our lives today -. not years from now “

The CES 2015 is from 6 to 9 January 2015 Las Vegas

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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Technology for 2015 – Financial GodmodeTrader.de

technology stocks have finally convinced. The Nasdaq 100 is interesting -. Not least because it is set up as balanced

D he world every year changed faster . Particularly evident this was in the last five to seven years. Smartphones let us now routinely convenient access to all data available worldwide and provide data itself. The integration of information and location coordinates has changed many things. The world has become smaller through new channels of communication and even if there are legitimate criticism of some developments. The trend is not reversed, but make

Additional growth probably

Innovations such as the SmartWatch have shown that customers are by no means any invention of technology giants also good. Enforced instead have the numerous services from Google, smartphones from Apple or Google’s Android operating system and social networks. The retail industry is changing. Incubators such as Rocket Internet set for years that internet retailers in the long term gain the upper hand. What’s the problem, future furniture to order online? Customer-friendly solutions and competitive prices have already pushed the department store in favor of Amazon for the generation under fifty. The growth potential in the technology sector is therefore still great. Especially when you consider buyers in today’s poorer regions.



Balanced mix attracts investors to

The most popular technology index of the world is still the Nasdaq 100. D ie the largest companies in the industry are represented there. With this Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Intel, Amazon or Cisco . This mixture of relatively new technology titles and time-tested companies such as Cisco, Microsoft and Intel also makes the index for cautious investors interesting. This year we went for the ComStage Nasdaq 100 ETF UCITS (WKN: ETF011) by 35 per cent to the top – the ups and down in the markets notwithstanding. In the long term convinced the index. The total expense ratio of the ETF is 0.25 percent.

By Nico Popp

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Verizon The five most important technology trends for 2015 – Channel Partner

Ronald Wilts Check addresses with channel partners focused on the topics of software, security and e-commerce. He is also active in the event business. In his spare time he hears and reads books from science, technology and history – probably a remnant of his studies of science and of history as a subject for the Abitur.

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Networking largest technology growth drivers – OnVista (press release)

. “Internet of Things” is the next big wave of technology investors

Market Commentary: Carsten Roemhold, Fidelity Worldwide Investment

The technological development is progressing rapidly. Although the phase of the mobile Internet is still in full swing, but prospective investors already wondering what comes next. We expect that the so-called “Internet of Things” will be the next big wave will have a significant impact on our daily lives. This equipment and machinery

This networking and Internet-enabled communication devices of factory machines are intelligent networked and can draw on the Internet are to exchange and process information.

home to the refrigerator has a huge potential. The research company Gartner expects the number of devices that are connected to the Internet, will increase from the current 3.7 billion to 4.9 billion in the coming year. read more …

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Technology for 2015 – EXtra Funds

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Technology stocks have finally convinced. The Nasdaq 100 remains interesting – not least because it is set up as balanced

D he world is changing faster every year .. Particularly evident this was in the last five to seven years. Smartphones let us now routinely convenient access to all data available worldwide and provide data itself. The integration of information and location coordinates has changed many things. The world has become smaller through new channels of communication and even if there are legitimate criticism of some developments. The trend is not reversed, but make

Further growth likely

Innovations like the SmartWatch has shown that customers are by no means any invention of technology giants also good. Enforced have opted instead the numerous services from Google, smartphones from Apple or Google’s Android operating system and social networks. The retail industry is changing. Incubators such as Rocket Internet set for years that internet retailers in the long term gain the upper hand. What’s the problem, future furniture to order online? Customer-friendly solutions and competitive prices have already pushed the department store in favor of Amazon for the generation under fifty. The growth potential in the technology sector is therefore still great. Especially when buyers in today poorer regions considered.

Balanced mix attracts investors to

The most popular technology index of the world is still the Nasdaq 100. D ie the largest companies in the industry are represented there , With this Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Intel, Amazon or Cisco . This mixture of relatively new technology titles and time-tested companies such as Cisco, Microsoft and Intel also makes the index for cautious investors interesting. This year we went for the ComStage Nasdaq 100 ETF UCITS (WKN: ETF011) by 35 per cent to the top – the ups and down in the markets notwithstanding. In the long term convinced the index. The total expense ratio of the ETF is 0.25 percent.

By Nico Popp

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Ebola: IMF should be responsible for epidemic – Reuters

12/22/2014, 18:26 clock Mr. carlos santos

Researchers at the University of Cambridge raise allegations against the International Monetary Fund: Its savings targets are to have weakened health systems in West Africa, thus promoting the spread of the epidemic

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Africa is a continent that has always exploited by its wealth of raw materials ….

First, there was the Europeans …

which is served on the African raw materials …

Then came communism …

(Russia financed weapons for the wars …

and This was not done for free) …

Then came China and began as the raw materials secure

while more and more Chinese were hired instead of Africans …

and bringing the African continent should the for

humanity necessary precautions and care … finance?

Living in the Slam … without toilets …

without running water …

poultry and other animals for their own diet drink

water slurries of paths along … and feed on them.

But then monkey meat is cheaper than beef about.

And all who can not even afford monkey meat

make use of the rest of what nature has to offer to curb one’s own hunger.

The formation of the local population is negligible.

To whom it any wonder then that Ebola and other diseases can quickly develop it then?

EUROPE prefer to buy cheap in CHINA in to leave than about their own European continent manufacture or then invest a small portion of industrialization in Africa … but are rather African High fences built around people not to discharge to Europe.

There is less the IMF to allocate blame …

If the IMF is not to blame for free here. ..

but you have to ask what globalization is really there.

If globalization is just there for the rich of this globe to increase his income alone ….

then we need a new system Human !!

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E-drive and networked driving: car makers do research ahead – Reuters

Driving power: Eco-friendly drives are a big issue in the automotive industry. Source: AP

In the competition with global competitors put the German carmaker always higher billions in research and development. As the Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) reported in Berlin on Sunday, the means used worldwide in 2013 increased compared to 2012, a total of around 7 percent to 29.6 billion euros. Figures for the now outgoing year not yet called the VDA.

Wind Energy

Individual wind turbines can thanks to sophisticated technologies in their performance can be improved. In addition, solutions have been developed that optimize both performance and volume of an entire wind park. The offer of GE these control options are already available.

Approximately 93,000 employees at car manufacturers and suppliers working in research and development (R & D). “That’s one in four R & D employees of the entire German economy,” federation chief Matthias Wissmann said, according to a press release.

Among the main activities there were networked and automated driving, but also alternative propulsion methods such as electric mobility, optimizing normal internal combustion engines. The research spending is expected to continue to increase, estimated Wissmann.

Lighter, stronger, more flexible: These new materials coming soon stuck in our everyday objects – and so perhaps even change our future life completely

The home sites are for the industry after. VDA information on the research and testing of critical technologies of the future: More than half (56 percent) of all investments accounted for by Germany, whereas only about one-third of global car production German corporate brands is located in Germany. The carmaker lift in Germany according to the VDA also about a third of the research and development spending throughout the economy.

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Phablets: The Giants smartphones of the season – Business Week

22nd December 2014

Greater than conventional smartphones, tablets less than: Giant cell phones are currently in vogue. Whether extra wide, curved or with integrated pen – these are the phablets the season.

BlackBerry Passport

unusual format: The BlackBerry Passport has the dimensions of a passport – with its nine centimeters wide, it surpasses many other giants smartphones, but it still fits in the jacket pocket. And since it is also indicated: the manufacturer seeks to inspire its typical target group, the manager and management consultant, again. The device has a real keyboard with integrated trackpad that will make it easier to type even longer texts. Click here for the detailed test report

Photo: Reuters.

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Savior for the climate: How environmentally friendly electric cars really are? – Reuters

You are on everyone’s lips – and yet only rarely on the road: electric cars. They are really praised by politics and the economy as a savior for the climate. From their goal to bring 2020 one million electric cars on German roads, the federal government, however, is still miles away. No mere 20,000 Stromer whisper emission-free through the country. But are the electric cars ever likely to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and thus to improve the environmental performance sustainable?

While driving an electric car comes naturally no emissions and no harmful CO2 produced therefore. Considering, however, the generation of electricity and the production of the vehicle, the environmental benefits of electric cars is rapidly decreasing. Because in this country the power still comes in large part from coal or gas power plants. Although the share of renewables in the energy mix has already increased enormously currently has around 28 percent. But not this enough to actually exploit the potential benefits of electric cars compared to conventional internal combustion engines.

electric cars gain in corporate fleets only slowly in importance. High cost and a weakly developed infrastructure would deter fleet manager. New mobility concepts such as car sharing contrast, are all the rage.

The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Heidelberg came in a examination, it concludes that battery-powered cars throughout their life when using the German power have a similar climate balance as conventional cars.

The biggest problem here is the provision of electricity to charge the vehicle batteries. Nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse effect of electric cars to write the researchers of this fact. My conclusion: While in Germany not the vast majority of the electricity generated from renewable sources, including the carbon footprint of the Stromer sees little rosy

As a second point, scientists have identified the manufacture of batteries in. the carbon footprint of electric cars, 30 percent accounts for parts. It weighs the fact that the batteries need to be usually exchanged during the life cycle of a Stromer at least once, especially heavy. For the manufacture of high performance batteries consumed plenty of energy.

But in city traffic with a service life of more than 100,000 kilometers, ie as an e-taxi about, the electric car could beat already LCA of a comparable diesel vehicle. If you use the Stromer contrast, private in the city, it is so damaging to the environment as a diesel engine and 17 percent less harmful than a car with gasoline as a fuel because of to be distributed to the low mileage negative factors of the batteries in about.

Stromer came before early

  • It started in 1881

    Historically seen, the electric car has often to early at all: Five years ago Carl Benz’s first car with a gasoline engine already drove the first electric car. In the early days of the automobile, electric cars alleged equal footing with steam car and incinerators. But then began a century of electric car flops. Not only the limited capacity of the energy storage prevented until now the breakthrough of electric cars.

    Technical purists begrudge today Mercedes authorship of the automobile. They complain that not Carl Benz built the first automobile in 1886 the story, but the Frenchman Gustav Trouvé five years earlier.

    The inventor and electrical engineer had 1881 installed in a three-wheeled bicycle by the English manufacturer “Starley Coventry” an electric motor. With lead-acid batteries reached the vehicle, more rolling test bed as a vehicle, a top speed of twelve miles an hour and managed a range from 14 to 26 kilometers.

  • From tricycle on the coach to the car

    A year later built the English Professors William Edward and John Perry also an electrically powered tricycle. Control of the velocity was carried out by the circuit of the ten storage battery cells. Each had a capacity of half a kilo-watt hour at a voltage of 20 volts. The engine produced 0.37 kW / 0.5 hp. To further pioneering achievement of the vehicle, the first electric lighting joined in a motor vehicle.

    Werner Siemens built in 1882 in Halensee near Berlin a coach with electric drive. The vehicle could carry several people, but ran across a 520 meter long test track is not automatically connected to a battery, but was drawing power from an overhead line.

    The honor of having built the first real car with electric drive is due, the “Coburg Maschinenfabrik A. flakes”. The four-wheel electric car for two passengers rode 1888. 2011 debuted a reconstruction of the vehicle in Stuttgart for the first time.

  • Early success

    Since the end of the 19th century, the lack of suitable roads yet was not foreseeable that the car would qualify for useful transport for overland travel, celebrated electric cars as urban transport over short distances considerable success. Especially as you drive to work silently. In view of the dense railway network which was penetrated every corner of the world, appeared a competing transport in response to a question that nobody had ever asked. In Germany alone established more than two dozen manufacturers of electric vehicles

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  • The Lohner-Hub Porsche

    The drive system also helped a young Austrian engineer a breakthrough. The 24-year-old Ferdinand Porsche designed in 1899 for the active since 1821 Carriage and Wagon Bauer “kuk Hofwagenfabrik Jakob Lohner & amp; Co” in Vienna a car with so-called “hub motors”. The motor is directly in the wheel space and provides without the use of drive shafts for direct propulsion. With four of these engines Porsche realized by the way the first four-wheel drive car history.

  • Alt-known electric car problems

    Since the weight of battery reached about one and a half tons of acceptable range, Porsche designed the same as the first hybrid drive with a petrol engine from Daimler, who provided as a generator, the wheel hub motors with energy. The Lohner-Porsche celebrated its premiere in 1900 at the World Exhibition in Paris. By 1906, about 300 of these vehicles that cost Austrian crowns 10000-35000 and primarily as taxis and at the Vienna firefighters were deployed emerged. Because of the low range of the Lohner-Porsche flopped but in the long term.

  • Strong market share in the US

    In 1900, the United States provided the cars with petrol engines only accounted for 22 percent of the total fleet. 40 percent went to steam car, 38 percent of electric cars. In New York even every second automobile was an electric vehicle. 1912 reached its peak electric boom in the United States. 20 Manufacturer hewed 33,842 electric vehicles.

  • Sudden loss of significance

    With the rapidly progressing development of high-speed and high-performance gasoline engines at the beginning of the 20th century, lost electric cars suddenly important and only survived in niches, for example, as delivery vehicles.

Also, scientists at the University of Minnesota, the LCA of electric cars have adopted and developed appropriate computer simulations. In their calculations they added the factors of electricity and battery production for the simulation of material cycles, weather and climate changes and also assessed the effects of elevated particulate matter and ozone levels on human health

Their result. Electric cars only affect positive environmental balance and contribute to improved air quality, if the electricity for their preparation and their use and from clean, renewable sources of energy comes from. However, the current is only generated by coal-fired power plants, caused electric cars, according to US researchers per kilometer than twice as much particulate matter and ozone as gasoline. Your bleak conclusion: 3000 additional deaths per year as a result of its resulting air pollution

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