Atif’s Blog

Michelin has come up with some cool wheel design with embedded disk brake and motor controlled suspension system. According to the source, the motor driven suspension offers response time of 3/1000ths of a second. I am eagerly waiting to see this in production.

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Nice (France) - A company called Moteur Developpment International (MDI) has developed an engine that runs very efficiently on compressed air. Installed in a prototype car, the four-cylinder engine delivers enough power for speeds of 68 mph, with a range of 124 miles. And the best part, it can be completely refueled from [...]

Boston (MA) - A team of students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a novel fuel source.  Bacteria feed on plant waste in an enclosed cylinder, providing enough electricity to power cell phones and other small devices.  Could this be an infinite power supply in the future?
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Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have reported successful testing of nanoscale devices that are capable of generating small amounts of electricity from blood flow or the contraction of blood vessels in the body.
Regents’ Professor Zhong Lin Wang and his colleagues at Georgia Tech’s School of Materials Science and Engineering state that the nanogenerators [...]

Thanks to Mr. Tariq Mustafa to bring my attention towards this brilliant concept for Mobile VoIP.
According to the Fring website,
The fringâ„¢ mobile VoIP solution is designed to optimize the embedded internet capabilities within the subscriber’s handset. The fringâ„¢ solution establishes a Peer-To-Peer VoIP connection between calling parties, enabling true VoIP sessions between fring-enabled [...]

I attended IPv6 summit on 30th June, 2007. This was a good event with informative speeches by the renowned speakers of the networking industry. The best session was by Mr. Khalid Raza (Cisco Distinguished Engineer). He talked about the grass root level issues and hurdles in Pakistan Telecom scenario. The focus of his speech was [...]

Given the stop and go nature of traffic in New York City, the promise of increased fuel efficiency from hybrids is too good to pass up. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced yesterday on the “Today” show that every yellow cab will be a hybrid by the year 2012.
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It is often said that the number of TCP-IP addresses available on the Internet is running low but this time there are specific dates for when the addresses are predicted to run out. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority predicts they will run out on April 17, 2010 while the Regional Internet Registries is predicting a [...]

IBM today simultaneously launched the fastest microprocessor ever built and an ultra-powerful new computer server that leverages the chip’s many breakthroughs in energy conservation and virtualization technology. The new server is the first ever to hold all four major benchmark speed records for business and technical performance. At 4.7 GHz, the dual-core POWER6 processor doubles [...]

IBM has joined the WiMax Forum, an industry organisation that promotes the upcoming wireless standard. WiMax is designed to deliver high-speed wireless internet access over a wide range, and operators expect the technology to provide internet connections in metropolitan areas as a replacement for DSL and cable broadband.
The technology is also expected to bring internet [...]