Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Investor builds entire city in order to rent as a technology laboratory – German Economic News
A US investor is building an entire city without inhabitants as a test laboratory for innovation. The CITE will get a functional infrastructure with roads, water, electricity, church and the airport and will cost a billion dollars. Anyone can rent the city to test new technologies such as driverless cars or alternative energy supplies under real conditions, without having to refer to the residents into consideration.
In the US state of New Mexico created a privately funded test center for innovation called CITE (Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation). CITE is, according to the responsible Pegasus Global Holding serve as a means for the audits, evaluation and marketing of innovations and future technologies.
It is a test environment offer for technologies, to integrate them into urban infrastructure without having to take residents into consideration. Through countless sensors and measuring devices in all lines, buildings and streets is also intended to provide detailed measurement results about the impact of technology on the economy, for example in the field of energy, transport, telecommunications, security and agriculture.
CITE is to a completely connected to the structural and supply power plant, which was modeled after a mid-sized American city, including all urban, suburban and rural areas, with roads, buildings, power supply, water and sewerage, telecommunications network, town hall, schools , airport, shopping center, church and service stations – even art and graffiti there should be and everything else this includes – apart from the inhabitants. In contrast to the well-known Chinese ghost towns, however, the lack of people is intended, the US magazine Atlantic therefore speaks of a “reverse ghost town”.
As a representation of the modern city wants it CITE enable customers so that benefits and the cost of your proposed innovation and technology, it was extensively and undisturbed for testing hardware or software under real conditions – without being disturbed by annoying people or to interfere with the life-like city dwellers
. It is not a prototype of the city of the future, but rather a realistic city of our time, as the head of Robert Brumley project the Atlantic explained: The CITE should “have several layers of older technology and on top of newer technology. So not only fiber optic cables, but also copper. “In the end, should the city look like a” fully active, inhabited, living, breathing city whose population is one day suddenly disappeared “. It should look as abandoned by the people, and not as if the people have never lived there.
If the building is as expected completed in about four years, CITE is making it the largest research laboratory planet: It simulates a habitat that would provide about 35,000 inhabitants and is expected the Pegasus Holding at the end cost one billion US dollars
The investor is convinced that the demand for such a test center there and with the rental. the terrain can recoup the investment. At present, the idea in particular for networking traffic is interesting: carmakers and IT industry work more closely together in order to develop self-propelled vehicles. However, this can only test a fraction of the possible technologies in real traffic, because they get no road approval for risky or untried innovations. Even Smart City projects such as smart grids and new distribution options can be tested without the same to run the risk that in an emergency, stand thousands of people without electricity.
Hyperloop test track: Elon Musk is facing stiff competition in California – Business Week
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies after a report by the Technology Portals “Wired” signed the contract with the landowners in California, on the floor built the test track for the first Hyperloop train should be. It will be about eight kilometers long and will be built along Interstate 5.
On the system, however, because of their short length just 320 km / h top speed possible .
Elon Musk, who introduced the system in 2013, but has nothing to do with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, announced plans to build its own test track, which have the same length and will probably occur in Texas. There are to be tested Hyperloop designs.
The tube in which 28 passengers are transported in a capsule in speed of sound with the help of magnetic levitation, to high speeds by . achieve a partial evacuation to reduce friction
The schedule of Hyperloop was ambitious from the very beginning: in mid-2014 should be the construction of the first prototype start, which should be completed early 2015. In the first quarter 2015 it wanted Hyperloop Transportation Technologies show. But the ultimate goal is not short tubes, but a link between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The journey should take 35 minutes.
Test Track is 100 million US dollars cost
The challenge at higher speeds will be the tube that must be manufactured with extreme precision. Slight deviations may here have fatal consequences when the high-speed train it happened. In addition, the partial vacuum must be maintained – because only so the speed can be achieved at all. A leak could have fatal consequences. A small error on the entire route could have significant consequences, which could make the system highly vulnerable.
The test road shall for information of “Wired” about 100 million dollars cost to be collected in the context of an IPO. . A tube between Los Angeles and San Francisco (640 km) would extrapolated accordingly cost about 8 billion US dollars
That would still much cheaper than what the state plans: A high-speed rail line that both the connecting cities, is expected to cost 67.6 billion US dollars.
This article was first published on golem.de.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Even parked Volvo drives viewers to the winds – ABC Online
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Embarrassing glitch at presentation: Volvos own parked car riveted viewers … – ABC Online
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- Zooooom – How good are current electric cars
-
Despite cheap gasoline: The FOCUS guide will show you what you need to consider everything when buying an electric car. We have it all down and put together all the important models and figures in a compact PDF for you.
Click here for more info and download
Also in the video: This brake test goes horribly wrong
iPhone 6s: 12MP Sony camera sensor & RGBW technology – Giga.de
The rumor mill around the next iPhone from Apple simmers. According to Japanese media, the iPhone 6s will feature a 12 megapixel camera from Sony and have RGBW technology.
Each new generation iPhone Apple introduces some new features to improve the image and video quality. When coming iPhone 6S is a new camera sensor from Sony provide a good quality of the recordings. The sensor is supported by the so-called RGBW technology in addition to the usual color pixels (red, green and blue) and white pixels has.
The combination should help to achieve better image quality in low light conditions. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have known about an 8-megapixel camera. Actually the RGBW technology should be used already during the current iPhone duo. However, the engineers wanted to wait for Apple still until the technology meets our own quality standards. Moreover, the iPhone 6s should not receive dual cam according to Japanese sources.
The art world expected this year for a successor to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus will be probably presented not in August, but only at a later stage
Source:. AppleInsider
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