Sharp is introducing a new range of solar-powered LED streetlights. These self-contained lights charge during the day, and switch
on automatically when darkness falls. They can operate for 10 years straight without maintenance. They make use of new,
high-intensity LED spotlights, which are ideal for public parks. The LEDs illuminate with a directed light and don’t send light into
the sky (thus causing light pollution). The streetlights also feature a Seismic Motion Sensor that detects the occurrence of a major
earthquake. If an earthquake is detected, the light turns on at full brightness during the night, to assist during possible power interruptions.

Via: Sharp Press Release

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Coming text:cell phone microscope .
How to "make" convert,(adapt with plug in devices) a cellphone
HIV-ADES blood testing device .
yes you can use that old picture phone for something grand.

Turn Your Cellphone Into a High-Powered Scientific Microscope‎ - 3 days ago Other researchers have created cellphone laboratory kits, but this new microscope is the
most compact, simple and inexpensive design created so
far. ...

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GUERILLA GARDENING: Strategies for Greening the Hood
By Abigail Doan: On Gardening

Regardless of whether you are an urban, suburban, or rural dweller, there is inevitably a patch
of neglected turf in your neighborhood that might need a bit of TLC and greening. If you see
hidden gardening potential between sidewalk cracks when others see decay and abandon,
well then, you might be a budding guerrilla gardener and not even know it! The guerrila gardening
phenomenon is currently sweeping the globe as folks are finding innovative ways to come
together for the optimization of neglected land and paved surface area. It’s a turf war for some,
or a poetic gesture for others, but either way, citizens are rolling up there sleeves to create
gardens in the most unlikely spaces and places.

via:Inhabitat

(more…)

Build Marvelous Hanging Gardens in your own backyard!
By Attitude on Environment

If the Aztecs and the Incas could do it, then surely so can you in this time and age. While they
might not be on a scale as grand and spectacular as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, they still
might be good enough next time you bring your girlfriend home. If that is not a reason enough
for you to get started, then I don'tt know what is. I actually do, but let's not talk about it here.

Here is a wonderful way to build your own hanging garden in your very own backyard.
The grander you want it to be, the more effort that has to go in. But when you are done
with it, you will be more than happy with the outcome. To top it all off, now you can build
it using the power of mighty Apollo or in a more modern language- the sun. Here is a simple
and efficient way to build your own Hydroponic re-circulating solar powered system. I still
like to call it "gardens in the air-powered by the sun".

The method of building is very easy. All you need is a solar panel to power your under
water motor, lots of containers to put your plants in and of course some wooden or
concrete structure. I suggest you use earth pots rather than plastic ones as shown
in the video. You obviously can improvise both with the shape and structure. So delve
in and discover the art. What more, we have a video this time and not just a set of
photographs and lots of paragraphs to show you how to do it.

Click Here to see Video via:ecofriend

Save Money and Energy with an Energy Monitor at 12:04 PM Posted by vergelimbo

energy-detective-md

Save money on rising
energy bills, while slashing your carbon footprint at the same time, with an energy
monitoring device. A good example is The Energy Detective (TED), which starts at $139.

The Energy Detective is a small display that indicates household electrical usage in real
time and projects your monthly bill — all without using batteries. Research has found
that real-time energy feedback leads consumers to reduce their electricity consumption.
According to the company you'll save 15 - 20% on each bill, which would amount to
hundreds of dollars a year.

It's really quite simple: If you can measure it, you can manage it. You can make small
adjustments through the day and see how the savings add up. For example, you may
decide you don't really need to run that space heater, or be reminded to turn off lights
and appliances. You can even interface the TED with your computer, so you can do
advanced logging and analysis of your home's energy data.

via: the daily gree

Sunday, December 21, 2008 http://cgullworld.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.htmlCellphone Hacked To Analyze Blood And Detect Diseases

U.S. researchers have modified the cell phone to bring a portable device
that can analyze blood and detect disease on the spot at rural places and
developing countries. Dr. Aydogan Ozcan, University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA) and his team have hacked the cell phone to make them as portable
medical devices that can be used to analyze the blood in patients and detect
any disease.

Such devices will come in handy in villages and in developing countries where
medical instruments, medical labs and hospitals are scarce and expensive.

Dr. Ozcan converted the regular cell phone by adding a light-emitting diode (LED), a plastic
light filter and wires and converted into a portable blood tester that is capable of detecting HIV, malaria, and other illnesses.

The phone images blood cells sample with a camera sensor built
and is lighted with a filtered-light source (coherent light). This
image is then analyzed with Dr. Ozcan’s custom software and interprets the results within minutes. This eliminates the need
to send the samples to labs and wait hours or days to get the results back.

The picture below shows a Sony Ericsson cell phone converted into a LUCAS (Lensfree Ultrawide-ﬁeld Cell-monitoring Array platform based on Shadow imaging) imager. The protrusion at the back is the light source to illuminate the samples for imaging purposes.

Cellphone used as a portable blood detector. Photo: Wired.com

The second picture shown here connects the cell phone
to the computer for analyzing the blood sample. This is
for demonstration purpose, eventually the software will
be downloaded into the cell phone to get results directly.

Cellphone uses a software to analyze blood. Photo: Wired.com Posted by cgull at 6:56 PM

LEDs And Smart Lighting Can Save Trillions Of Dollars

Philips' Living Colors LED Lamp. Photo: Philips.

U.S. Scientists predict that Light-emitting Diodes (LEDs) and Smart Lighting techniques
could save trillions of dollars in the next few years if more embrace them instead of the
fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent lamps.

E. Fred Schubert and Jong Kyu Kim, professors at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
have written a report and firmly believe LEDs will revolutionize the lighting industry the
same way transistors did for the electronics industry.

Recently there have been number of innovations and when they are adopted in the coming
years we can save trillion dollars in costs savings coupled with a massive reduction in the
amount of energy required lighting homes and businesses worldwide.

The professors predict that a new generation of lighting devices based on LEDs will replace
the light bulb in the next few years and will help us save considerable amount of money and
also have environmental benefits. LEDs are safer than the fluorescent lamps and compact
fluorescent lamps (CFL) and consume less energy than both.

The LEDs consumes 20 times less power than conventional light bulb and five times less
power than CFL.
Schubert and Kim have written a paper on this subject called
“Transcending the replacement paradigm of solid-state lighting” in the December 22, 2008
issue of Optics Express.

They expect LEDs will be widely used in healthcare, transportation systems, digital displays
and computer networking areas.

Another advantage the LEDs have is that they can be tweaked to work in any situation.

Schubert and Kim believe that if all the light bulbs in homes and businesses are replaced
with LEDs in the next 10 years, they derive the following benefits:

• Energy savings of 1.9 × 1020 joules
• Electrical energy consumption would be reduced by terawatt hours
• Financial savings of $1.83 trillion
• Carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 10.68 gigatons
• Crude oil consumption would be reduced by 962 million barrels
• The number of required global power plants would be reduced by 280

They want the industry and researchers to work together and develop a comprehensive
LEDs lighting system technology.

Schubert and Kim wrote in the paper:

"Deployed on a large scale, LEDs have the potential to tremendously reduce
pollution, save energy, save financial resources, and add new and unprecedented
functionalities to photonic devices. These factors make photonics what could be
termed a benevolent tsunami, an irresistible wave, a solution to many global
challenges currently faced by humanity and will be facing even more in the years
to come,"

The smart light application with LEDs can not only be
used in homes but also can be used

for rapid biological cell identification, interactive roadways, boosting plant
growth and reduce the risk of certain type of cancers.

We can expect LEDs to be a major force in the next few years.
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CMOS Micro-Camera Module for Mobile Phones.pdf

http://pr.fujitsu.com/en/news/2001/10/4-2.html

Fujitsu Limited
2001-0185E

Fujitsu Introduces World's Smallest, Lightest
CMOS Micro-Camera Module for Mobile Phones
Allows greater flexibility of design for mobile phones,
expanding range of use to include video images

MB86S02 Tokyo, October 4, 2001--- Targeting the next generation of mobile phones for the broadband Internet era, Fujitsu Limited today introduced the world's smallest (7.80 mm x 6.98 mm x 4.98 mm; 0.27 cc, 0.3 gram) CIF^*1-compatible CMOS color image sensor module (110,000 pixels) with built-in lens.

The advent of new broadband mobile communications services including video images is creating demand for ultra-compact mobile camera attachments that can capture moving images. As a result, demand for CMOS image sensors, which are much smaller than CCD^*2 cameras and consume far less power, is expected to grow.

The small size of Fujitsu's new CMOS color image sensor module, the MB86S02, allows it to be mounted on thin profile and popular fold-up mobile phone models, and permits a design in which the camera position can be freely rotated, thereby greatly increasing the flexibility accorded mobile phone designers. Fujitsu was able to achieve the world's smallest and lightest micro-camera module by replacing the previous two-chip (image sensor IC and color processor IC) structure with a single chip solution featuring a built-in lens and utilizing its proprietary bump chip carrier (BCC^*3) assembly technology.

In addition, use of a power-efficient AD converter results in record low power consumption (30 mW when operating at 15 frames/second) for CIF-compatible CMOS sensors. Moreover, Fujitsu's proprietary process technology employs small, highly sensitive light-receiving pixels, so that the light receiving elements are miniaturized (optical system: 1/7"), have higher sensitivity (twice the sensitivity of previous models), and reduce noise to one-half that of previous models.

Fujitsu intends to further develop and quickly bring to market new CMOS color sensor module products for notebook PCs, PDAs and mobile phones with enhanced features and functions geared toward the broadband Internet era.

MB86S02 Product Highlights

Optical system size 1/7 inch

Total number of pixels 373 (H) x 301 (V)

Effective number of pixels 357 (H) x 293 (V)

Pixel size 5.5 square microns

Color filter RGB primary color

Voltage 2.6V to 3.0V (Typ. 2.8 V)

Power consumption 30 milliwatts (operation at 15 frames/second)

Clock input frequency 9 MHz

Serial interface I²C method^*4

Type of output YUV= 4: 2: 2 (digital)

Additional functions Auto gain control^*5
Auto white balance^*6
Auto flicker cancel^*7
Scanning direction variation^*8
Gamma correction^*9

Camera module Size: 7.80 mm x 6.98 mm x 4.98 mm
F value: 2.8
Angle of view: 55 degrees (horizontal)
Structure of lens: Plastic single lens

Shipment From mid-October 2001

Sample Price 5,000 yen (not including tax) for camera module

Sales target 500,000 units per month

Terminology

*1 CIF (common intermediate format)
The image output format used for such products as videophones
*2 CCD (charge coupled device)
An electric charge-coupling element that converts light into electrical signals
*3 BCC (bump chip carrier)
A type of surface-mounted package
*4 I2C (Inter-IC)
A data transmission standard developed by Philips Corporation
*5 Auto gain control function
The function that automatically controls image brightness
*6 Auto white balance function
The function that automatically controls image colors
*7 Auto flicker cancel function
The function that automatically detects and eliminates noise (flickering) in an image
*8 Scanning direction variation function
A function that reverses the image vertically or horizontally; can be used to right the image when the camera is upside down.
*9 Gamma correction function
The function that corrects output signals to the display input characteristic so that the image is linear in intensity.

About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of Internet-focused information technology solutions for the global marketplace. Its pace-setting technologies, best-in-class computing and telecommunications platforms, and worldwide corps of systems and services experts make it uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities of the Internet to help its customers succeed. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5.48 trillion yen for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001.
Internet: http://www.fujitsu.com/

Press Contacts: Customer Contacts:

Chiaki Kuwahara, Nancy Ikehara
Fujitsu Limited, Public Relations
Tel: +81-3-3215-5259 (Tokyo)
Fax: +81-3-3216-9365
E-mail: pr@fujitsu.com Fujitsu Limited, Electronic Devices Group
ASSP and Solution Division
Tel: +81-42-532-2131
Fax: +81-42-532-2414
e-mail: edevice@fujitsu.com

Please understand that product prices, specifications and other details are current on the day of issue of the press release, however, may change thereafter without notice.

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Ask any scientist ( evan your under paid High school science teacher ) all of the real questions about the American goals in space .
Many never question the most basic of the so called space mission issues .

#1. What is the total absolute number of human beings that will ever be able to live in "space or off planet ?

#2 What is the total amount in money fuel ,food what ever of the Innumerable materials required to maintain that life .

#3 How much time will it take to place our resources wherever ? Based on Fuel and Weight costs what is the total cost of the maximum
number of humans that can ever be deployed ( in any possible solar future ) in permanent habitat in living quarters off earth in outer space
or on a moon or a “ better planet ” ?

#4 What does that mean to majority of human beings left on earth with less resources and no means of “escape”?

One answer is : Number of human beings = 1000

Fuel cost = All available matter on earth.

Time line = 100 years starting now!

So why did this space race continue even though most of the word population ( 80 % live in poverty) when they could be fed
housed educated and contributing if freed from debt ?

Why in deed?
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It's amazing, but it's true! An ornithopter is a device that flies by flapping its wings - just like a real bird! The Ornithopter Zone is the ultimate resource on these exciting machines. Our web site has video clips, articles, free plans, and a lively discussion forum. We even have an online store where you can buy your own flying bird or dragonfly models!
http://www.ornithopter.org/

Machines That Fly Like a Bird!
flying bat ornithopter
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WHAT IS? AN ORNATHOPTER

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AN ORNATHOPTER SOLD AS A KIT OR A PLAN .... WHAT IS AN ORNATHOPTER ?

I AM LOOKING FOR INFO ON AN ORNATHOPTER ?

READY MADE OR KIT OR PLANS PREFERABLY PLANS ..

IT IS AN ANTIQUE FLYING TOY MADE OF WOOD & POWERED

BY A RUBBER BAND THERE ARE 2 TYPES THAT INTEREST

ME FIRST IS THE MORE COMMON FIXED WING THE SECOND

IS FANTASTIC THE WINGS FLAP LIKE A BIRD IT LOOKS LIKE

A SINGLE WING VERSION OF THE WRIGHT BRO. 'S

http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/inventor/wright/

BUT THE MODEL HAS A VERY SMALL WING SPAN BY COMPARISON

TO THE COMMERCIAL KITS ITS ABOUT 12 INCHES ACROSS AND IT

WAS SOLD AS A KIT OR A PLAN .... ANY IDEAS ARE WELCOMED ...

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Flapping Flight Links
Animal Flight

Bird Flight Web Site
This is our favorite web site about all animals that fly!

Animal Planet - Eagle Cam
Mini TV cameras on a real eagle in flight!

Ornithology Lecture Notes
Info on bird flight from Gary Ritchison, Eastern Kentucky University.

Winged Migration
Web site for a stunning documentary film showing birds in flight.

University of California Museum of Paleontology
Extensive info on vertebrate flight.

Adaptive Airfoils
Richard Dryden's neat site on flapping wings.

Photos of Birds in Flight
From How Birds Fly by David Goodnow.

James Marden
Origin of insect flight, with video.

Ornithopters

Educational Multimedia Research Center
Watch online this Indian TV program, a great introduction to ornithopters.

Talos Perdix Ornithopter Design
John Bailey's site focusing on human-powered ornithopters.

How Ornithopters Fly
Excellent info about the projects of Horst Räbiger.

Tailspin Aviation
A great supplier of freeflight model kits, including an ornithopter.

DelFly Radio Controlled Ornithopter
Developed by the micro air vehicle team at Delft University of Technology.

Trivrat
Sanjay Jogi's human powered ornithopter concept.

Otto Lilienthal Museum
Learn about aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal.

TrueFly
Albert Kempf's flying toucan. Great section on how birds fly.

Research of Kevin Jones
Describes a successful micro air vehicle and flapping thruster.

Objets Volants Insolites Radio-Commandés
Robert Korobelnik's web site featuring Sean Kinkade's Skybird.

CIA Museum Tour
Look for the dragonfly and fish developed for spying.

Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
French web site describes RC ornithopters in Japan. Great photos!

Adaptive Airfoils
Richard Dryden's ornithopter experiments.

Entomopter Project
Micro air vehicle by Robert Michelson.

University of Toronto
Manned ornithopter project.

Karura
Human-powered ornithopter project led by Kazuho Kawai.

Velko Velkov
An inventor's proposal for a manned ornithopter.

Boris Doukarevitch
Proposed sailplane-to-ornithopter conversion.

Alan Stewart
Man-powered flight project.

Other Bio-Mimetic Locomotion

Hobie Mirage
Kayak powered by flapping fins.

Kevin Clague's Lego Page
Walking machines made of Lego.

http://www.ornithopter.org/

Environmentally and Technologically Advanced Crappers

By Gavin D.J. Harper

Hot on the heels of 'Pee standing up for the Earth' come these bogtastic urinals for Europe.
One pint of water per flush might be something to write home about on your side of the pond,
but here in Europe, we've already seen our fair share of water-less urinals.

It turns out that the two main problems with not having water run around your loo after each
pee are odor and blockage. Odor isn't as much of a problem as you would think, as specially
designed traps can pretty much eliminate smells escaping. The other problem is blockage -
solids and salts accumulate in the traps of waterless urinals - however, two litres of hot water
a week poured down them is enough to ensure they stay clear.

Furthermore, the people at IFO have solutions for times when you just have to sit down.
Some of their loos will clear the bowl using as little as two litres of water for less serious
matters - whilst effectively clearing the bowl using as little as four litres - a shade over a
U.S. Gallon.

Furthermore, taking water out of the equation altogether - with a solution that may seem a
little extreme to the average U.S. consumer - but one which might appeal to EcoGeeks is the
'composting toilet' - now being carried at Home Depots - a compost toilet biologically digests waste
to produce harmless compost as a waste product. If the balance of biological functions in a
composting toilet is maintained at the correct levels then it should emit no odor at all!

via:ecogeek

GUERILLA GARDENING: Strategies for Greening the Hood

By Abigail Doan: On Gardening

Regardless of whether you are an urban, suburban, or rural dweller, there is inevitably a patch
of neglected turf in your neighborhood that might need a bit of TLC and greening. If you see
hidden gardening potential between sidewalk cracks when others see decay and abandon,
well then, you might be a budding guerrilla gardener and not even know it! The guerrila gardening
phenomenon is currently sweeping the globe as folks are finding innovative ways to come together
for the optimization of neglected land and paved surface area. It’s a turf war for some, or a poetic
gesture for others, but either way, citizens are rolling up there sleeves to create gardens in the
most unlikely spaces and places.

via:Inhabitat

(more…)

Build Marvelous Hanging Gardens in your own backyard!

By Attitude on Environment hydroponic-re-circulating-system 7071

If the Aztecs and the Incas could do it, then surely so can you in this time and age. While they
might not be on a scale as grand and spectacular as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, they still
might be good enough next time you bring your girlfriend home. If that is not a reason enough
for you to get started, then I don'tt know what is. I actually do, but let's not talk about it here.

Here is a wonderful way to build your own hanging garden in your very own backyard.
The grander you want it to be, the more effort that has to go in. But when you are done
with it, you will be more than happy with the outcome. To top it all off, now you can build
it using the power of mighty Apollo or in a more modern language- the sun. Here is a simple
and efficient way to build your own Hydroponic re-circulating solar powered system. I still
like to call it "gardens in the air-powered by the sun".

The method of building is very easy. All you need is a solar panel to power your under
water motor, lots of containers to put your plants in and of course some wooden or
concrete structure. I suggest you use earth pots rather than plastic ones as shown
in the video. You obviously can improvise both with the shape and structure. So delve
in and discover the art. What more, we have a video this time and not just a set of
photographs and lots of paragraphs to show you how to do it.

Click Here to see Video

via:ecofriend

Save Money and Energy with an Energy Monitor

at 12:04 PM Posted by vergelimbo

energy-detective-md

Save money on rising
energy bills, while slashing your carbon footprint at the same time, with an energy
monitoring device. A good example is The Energy Detective (TED), which starts at $139.

The Energy Detective is a small display that indicates household electrical usage in real
time and projects your monthly bill — all without using batteries. Research has found
that real-time energy feedback leads consumers to reduce their electricity consumption.
According to the company you'll save 15 - 20% on each bill, which would amount to
hundreds of dollars a year.

It's really quite simple: If you can measure it, you can manage it. You can make small
adjustments through the day and see how the savings add up. For example, you may
decide you don't really need to run that space heater, or be reminded to turn off lights
and appliances. You can even interface the TED with your computer, so you can do
advanced logging and analysis of your home's energy data.

via: the daily gree

Sunday, December 21, 2008 http://cgullworld.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html

================================================================

BaffleGabThesaurus

Coming text:cellphone microscope .
How to make a cellphone HIV-ADES blood testing device .
yes you can use that old picture phone for something grand.

make it solar stupid
window phone3
http://www.ornithopter.org/

CMOS Micro-Camera Module for Mobile Phones.pdf
http://pr.fujitsu.com/en/news/2001/10/4-2.html

Fujitsu Limited
2001-0185E

Fujitsu Introduces World's Smallest, Lightest
CMOS Micro-Camera Module for Mobile Phones
Allows greater flexibility of design for mobile phones,
expanding range of use to include video images

MB86S02 Tokyo, October 4, 2001--- Targeting the next generation of mobile phones for the broadband Internet era, Fujitsu Limited today introduced the world's smallest (7.80 mm x 6.98 mm x 4.98 mm; 0.27 cc, 0.3 gram) CIF^*1-compatible CMOS color image sensor module (110,000 pixels) with built-in lens.

The advent of new broadband mobile communications services including video images is creating demand for ultra-compact mobile camera attachments that can capture moving images. As a result, demand for CMOS image sensors, which are much smaller than CCD^*2 cameras and consume far less power, is expected to grow.

The small size of Fujitsu's new CMOS color image sensor module, the MB86S02, allows it to be mounted on thin profile and popular fold-up mobile phone models, and permits a design in which the camera position can be freely rotated, thereby greatly increasing the flexibility accorded mobile phone designers. Fujitsu was able to achieve the world's smallest and lightest micro-camera module by replacing the previous two-chip (image sensor IC and color processor IC) structure with a single chip solution featuring a built-in lens and utilizing its proprietary bump chip carrier (BCC^*3) assembly technology.

In addition, use of a power-efficient AD converter results in record low power consumption (30 mW when operating at 15 frames/second) for CIF-compatible CMOS sensors. Moreover, Fujitsu's proprietary process technology employs small, highly sensitive light-receiving pixels, so that the light receiving elements are miniaturized (optical system: 1/7"), have higher sensitivity (twice the sensitivity of previous models), and reduce noise to one-half that of previous models.

Fujitsu intends to further develop and quickly bring to market new CMOS color sensor module products for notebook PCs, PDAs and mobile phones with enhanced features and functions geared toward the broadband Internet era.

MB86S02 Product Highlights

Optical system size 1/7 inch

Total number of pixels 373 (H) x 301 (V)

Effective number of pixels 357 (H) x 293 (V)

Pixel size 5.5 square microns

Color filter RGB primary color

Voltage 2.6V to 3.0V (Typ. 2.8 V)

Power consumption 30 milliwatts (operation at 15 frames/second)

Clock input frequency 9 MHz

Serial interface I²C method^*4

Type of output YUV= 4: 2: 2 (digital)

Additional functions Auto gain control^*5
Auto white balance^*6
Auto flicker cancel^*7
Scanning direction variation^*8
Gamma correction^*9

Camera module Size: 7.80 mm x 6.98 mm x 4.98 mm
F value: 2.8
Angle of view: 55 degrees (horizontal)
Structure of lens: Plastic single lens

Shipment From mid-October 2001

Sample Price 5,000 yen (not including tax) for camera module

Sales target 500,000 units per month

Terminology

*1 CIF (common intermediate format)
The image output format used for such products as videophones
*2 CCD (charge coupled device)
An electric charge-coupling element that converts light into electrical signals
*3 BCC (bump chip carrier)
A type of surface-mounted package
*4 I2C (Inter-IC)
A data transmission standard developed by Philips Corporation
*5 Auto gain control function
The function that automatically controls image brightness
*6 Auto white balance function
The function that automatically controls image colors
*7 Auto flicker cancel function
The function that automatically detects and eliminates noise (flickering) in an image
*8 Scanning direction variation function
A function that reverses the image vertically or horizontally; can be used to right the image when the camera is upside down.
*9 Gamma correction function
The function that corrects output signals to the display input characteristic so that the image is linear in intensity.

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Baffle Gab Thesaurus

A.

1.Integrated

2.total

3.systematized

4.parallel

5.functional

6.responsive

7.optional

8.synchronized

B.

1.Management

2.organizational

3.monitored

4.reciprocal

5.digital

6.logistical

7.transitional

8.incremental

C.

1.options

2.flexibility

3.capability

4.mobility

5.programing

6.concept

7.time-phase

8.projections

Harvard Magazine June 1974 P 51

"Baffle-Gab Thesaurus.
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As any self-respecting bureaucrat knows, it is bad form indeed to use a single, simple
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or S.B.P.P.

The S.B.P.P. has aptly obscure origins but appears to come from a Royal Canadian
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A sort of mini-thesaurus of baffle-gab, it consists of a three-colum list of 30 overused
but appropriately portentous words. Whenever a GS-14 or deputy assistant secretary
needs an opaque phrase, he need only think of a three digit number-any one will do as
well as the next-and select the corresponding "buzz words" from the three columns.
For example, 257 produces Systematized logistical projection," which has the ring of
absolute authority and means absolutely nothing.

Broughton's baffle-gab guide:

A
0) Integrated
1) Total

2) Systematized

3) Parallel

4) Functional

5) Responsive

6) Optional

7) Synchronized

8) Compatible

9) Balanced

B
Management

Organizational

Monitored

Reciprocal

Digital

Logistical

Transitional

Incremental

Third-Generation

Policy

C
Options

Flexibility

Capability

Mobility

Programming

Concept

Time-Phase

Projection

Hardware

Contingency

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link it with one from Column B. You may, of course, combine two or more selections from Column
A before you find an appropriate (or arbitrary) word from Column B.
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"Baffle-Gab Thesaurus."

Permutations of meaning in different fields require at times a potential of reintegration
often we "sample" multiple realities over time they can become codified and some what static
one might find that condition beyond tolerable where the sense of what is and "what should be"
have gone far beyond what might be logically or quantitatively nominative. Often that
circumstance will appear to contain no option save the "normal" corse or a red state of panic,
or striking out blindly from within one or the other fictive realms of or role play test as in
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such as in the straight forward example in western societies wherein elder males game play with
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straggle or of the true or false perception there is no point if "HE" is not in charge which it
is self evident factoid all mammals begin borne have breast human kind is "branded" with nipples
proof enough yet "Mankind" persist in a blinding furry to prove "His" masculinity and power over
life by hoarding plundering warring destroying as many methods as there has ben men to utilize
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occupational stiles or professional parlance for example any variety of sports announcer, good cop
bad cop or stumping politician a doctor almost any type of recognizable language stile or Genre
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Animal Flight

Bird Flight Web Site
This is our favorite web site about all animals that fly!

Animal Planet - Eagle Cam
Mini TV cameras on a real eagle in flight!

Ornithology Lecture Notes
Info on bird flight from Gary Ritchison, Eastern Kentucky University.

Winged Migration
Web site for a stunning documentary film showing birds in flight.

University of California Museum of Paleontology
Extensive info on vertebrate flight.

Adaptive Airfoils
Richard Dryden's neat site on flapping wings.

Photos of Birds in Flight
From How Birds Fly by David Goodnow.

James Marden
Origin of insect flight, with video.

Ornithopters

Educational Multimedia Research Center
Watch online this Indian TV program, a great introduction to ornithopters.

Talos Perdix Ornithopter Design
John Bailey's site focusing on human-powered ornithopters.

How Ornithopters Fly
Excellent info about the projects of Horst Räbiger.

Tailspin Aviation
A great supplier of freeflight model kits, including an ornithopter.

DelFly Radio Controlled Ornithopter
Developed by the micro air vehicle team at Delft University of Technology.

Trivrat
Sanjay Jogi's human powered ornithopter concept.

Otto Lilienthal Museum
Learn about aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal.

TrueFly
Albert Kempf's flying toucan. Great section on how birds fly.

Research of Kevin Jones
Describes a successful micro air vehicle and flapping thruster.

Objets Volants Insolites Radio-Commandés
Robert Korobelnik's web site featuring Sean Kinkade's Skybird.

CIA Museum Tour
Look for the dragonfly and fish developed for spying.

Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
French web site describes RC ornithopters in Japan. Great photos!

Adaptive Airfoils
Richard Dryden's ornithopter experiments.

Entomopter Project
Micro air vehicle by Robert Michelson.

University of Toronto
Manned ornithopter project.

Karura
Human-powered ornithopter project led by Kazuho Kawai.

Velko Velkov
An inventor's proposal for a manned ornithopter.

Boris Doukarevitch
Proposed sailplane-to-ornithopter conversion.

Alan Stewart
Man-powered flight project.

Other Bio-Mimetic Locomotion

Hobie Mirage
Kayak powered by flapping fins.

Kevin Clague's Lego Page
Walking machines made of Lego.

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Christopher Columbus: The Untold Story

Christopher Columbus Claiming the Americas Many people are surprised to learn that Christopher Columbus and his men enslaved native inhabitants of the West Indies, forced them to convert to Christianity, and subdued them with violence in an effort to seek riches. For readers who are skeptical or wish to learn more, this page contains information that can be confirmed by consulting the sources cited. After reading this page, please also see Examining the Reputation of Columbus.

In Pursuit of Profits

On April 17, 1492, before his first voyage to the Americas, Columbus negotiated a business contract with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, entitling him to 10% of all profits. In this contract, the Spanish sovereigns agreed:

"that of all and every kind of merchandise, whether pearls, precious stones, gold, silver, spices, and other objects and merchandise whatsoever, of whatever kind, name and sort, which may be bought, bartered, discovered, acquired and obtained within the limits of the said Admiralty, Your Highnesses grant from now henceforth to the said Don Cristóbal [Christopher Columbus] ... the tenth part of the whole, after deducting all the expenses which may be incurred therein." [1]

After his fourth and final voyage to the Americas, Columbus summed up his feelings about gold in a July 7, 1503, letter to Ferdinand and Isabella: "Gold is most excellent; gold is treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world." [2]

After Turning Out the Jews

Beyond profits, Columbus sought to convert native people to Catholicism. In the prologue to his journal of the first voyage, Columbus wrote to Ferdinand and Isabella:

"YOUR HIGHNESSES, as Catholic Christians and Princes who love the holy Christian faith, and the propagation of it, and who are enemies to the sect of Mahoma [Islam] and to all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Cristóbal Colon, to the said parts of India to see the said princes ... with a view that they might be converted to our holy faith .... Thus, after having turned out all the Jews from all your kingdoms and lordships ... your Highnesses gave orders to me that with a sufficient fleet I should go to the said parts of India .... I shall forget sleep, and shall work at the business of navigation, so that the service is performed." [3]

The Enslavement of Native People

On October 12, 1492 (the first day he encountered the native people of the Americas), Columbus wrote in his journal: "They should be good servants .... I, our Lord being pleased, will take hence, at the time of my departure, six natives for your Highnesses." These captives were later paraded through the streets of Barcelona and Seville when Columbus returned to Spain. [4]

From his very first contact with native people, Columbus had their domination in mind. For example, on October 14, 1492, Columbus wrote in his journal, "with fifty men they can all be subjugated and made to do what is required of them." [5] These were not mere words: after his second voyage, Columbus sent back a consignment of natives to be sold as slaves. [6]

Yet in an April, 1493, letter to Luis de Santangel (a patron who helped fund the first voyage), Columbus made clear that the people he encountered had done nothing to deserve ill treatment. According to Columbus:

"they are artless and generous with what they have, to such a degree as no one would believe but him who had seen it. Of anything they have, if it be asked for, they never say no, but do rather invite the person to accept it, and show as much lovingness as though they would give their hearts." [7]

Nonetheless, later in the letter Columbus went on to say:

"their Highnesses may see that I shall give them as much gold as they need .... and slaves as many as they shall order to be shipped." [8]

Pope Gives the Americas to Spain

Following Columbus' discovery, Pope Alexander VI issued a May 4, 1493, papal bull granting official ownership of the New World to Ferdinand and Isabella. To these monarchs, the Pope declared:

"We of our own motion, and not at your solicitation, do give, concede, and assign for ever to you and your successors, all the islands, and main lands, discovered; and which may hereafter, be discovered, towards the west and south; whether they be situated towards India, or towards any other part whatsoever, and give you absolute power in them." [9]

This decree did not go unchallenged. Francis I of France, for example, later quipped: "The sun shines on me as well as on others. I should be very happy to see the clause in Adam's will which excluded me from my share when the world was being divided." [10]

Nonetheless, the Pope's declaration ultimately had dire consequences for native inhabitants of the Americas. Beginning in 1514 Spanish conquerors adopted "the Requirement," an ultimatum in which Indians were forced to accept "the Church as the Ruler and Superior of the whole world" or face persecution. If Indians did not immediately comply, the Requirement warned them:

"We shall take you and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their Highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods, and shall do all the harm and damage that we can." [11]

Often the Requirement was read to Indians without translation, or in some cases even from ships before crew members landed to kill Indians and take slaves. [12]

Columbus Day: A National Holiday

Since 1971 Columbus Day has been celebrated in the U.S. as federal holiday, and on October 9, 2002, President George W. Bush issued a presidential proclamation celebrating "Columbus' bold expedition [and] pioneering achievements," directing that "the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day in honor of Christopher Columbus." [13]

Missing from this proclamation was any mention of violence, slavery, religious persecution, or the pursuit of gold. Yet Columbus himself was more forthcoming about how he should be remembered. In a letter penned a few years before his death, Columbus wrote: "I ought to be judged as a captain who for such a long time up to this day has borne arms without laying them aside for an hour." [14]

Sources

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Here is a wonderful way to build your own hanging garden in your very own backyard.
The grander you want it to be, the more effort that has to go in. But when you are done
with it, you will be more than happy with the outcome. To top it all off, now you can build
it using the power of mighty Apollo or in a more modern language- the sun. Here is a simple
and efficient way to build your own Hydroponic re-circulating solar powered system. I still
like to call it "gardens in the air-powered by the sun".

The method of building is very easy. All you need is a solar panel to power your under
water motor, lots of containers to put your plants in and of course some wooden or
concrete structure. I suggest you use earth pots rather than plastic ones as shown
in the video. You obviously can improvise both with the shape and structure. So delve
in and discover the art. What more, we have a video this time and not just a set of
photographs and lots of paragraphs to show you how to do it.

Click Here to see Video

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Save Money and Energy with an Energy Monitor

at 12:04 PM Posted by vergelimbo

Save money on rising
energy bills, while slashing your carbon footprint at the same time, with an energy
monitoring device. A good example is The Energy Detective (TED), which starts at $139.

The Energy Detective is a small display that indicates household electrical usage in real
time and projects your monthly bill — all without using batteries. Research has found
that real-time energy feedback leads consumers to reduce their electricity consumption.
According to the company you'll save 15 - 20% on each bill, which would amount to
hundreds of dollars a year.

It's really quite simple: If you can measure it, you can manage it. You can make small
adjustments through the day and see how the savings add up. For example, you may
decide you don't really need to run that space heater, or be reminded to turn off lights
and appliances. You can even interface the TED with your computer, so you can do
advanced logging and analysis of your home's energy data.

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Cellphone Hacked To Analyze Blood And Detect Diseases

U.S. researchers have modified the cell phone to bring a portable device
that can analyze blood and detect disease on the spot at rural places and
developing countries.

Dr. Aydogan Ozcan, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his team
have hacked the cell phone to make them as portable medical devices that
can be used to analyze the blood in patients and detect any disease.

Such devices will come in handy in villages and in developing countries where
medical instruments, medical labs and hospitals are scarce and expensive.

Dr. Ozcan converted the regular cell phone by adding a light-emitting diode (LED),
a plastic light filter and wires and converted into a portable blood tester that is
capable of detecting HIV, malaria, and other illnesses.

The phone images blood cells sample with a camera sensor built and is lighted
with a filtered-light source (coherent light). This image is then analyzed with
Dr. Ozcan’s custom software and interprets the results within minutes. This
eliminates the need to send the samples to labs and wait hours or days to
get the results back.

The picture below shows a Sony Ericsson cell phone converted into a LUCAS
(Lensfree Ultrawide-ﬁeld Cell-monitoring Array platform based on Shadow imaging)
imager. The protrusion at the back is the light source to illuminate the samples for
imaging purposes.

Cellphone used as a portable blood detector. Photo: Wired.com

The second picture shown here connects the cell phone to the computer
for analyzing the blood sample. This is for demonstration purpose, eventually
the software will be downloaded into the cell phone to get results directly.

Cellphone uses a software to analyze blood. Photo: Wired.com

Posted by cgull at 6:56 PM

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LEDs And Smart Lighting Can Save Trillions Of Dollars

Philips' Living Colors LED Lamp. Photo: Philips.

U.S. Scientists predict that Light-emitting Diodes (LEDs) and Smart Lighting techniques
could save trillions of dollars in the next few years if more embrace them instead of the
fluorescent and Compact Fluorescent lamps.

E. Fred Schubert and Jong Kyu Kim, professors at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
have written a report and firmly believe LEDs will revolutionize the lighting industry the
same way transistors did for the electronics industry.

Recently there have been number of innovations and when they are adopted in the coming
years we can save trillion dollars in costs savings coupled with a massive reduction in the
amount of energy required lighting homes and businesses worldwide.

The professors predict that a new generation of lighting devices based on LEDs will replace
the light bulb in the next few years and will help us save considerable amount of money and
also have environmental benefits. LEDs are safer than the fluorescent lamps and compact
fluorescent lamps (CFL) and consume less energy than both.

The LEDs consumes 20 times less power than conventional light bulb and five times less
power than CFL.
Schubert and Kim have written a paper on this subject called
“Transcending the replacement paradigm of solid-state lighting” in the December 22, 2008
issue of Optics Express.

They expect LEDs will be widely used in healthcare, transportation systems, digital displays
and computer networking areas.

Another advantage the LEDs have is that they can be tweaked to work in any situation.

Schubert and Kim believe that if all the light bulbs in homes and businesses are replaced
with LEDs in the next 10 years, they derive the following benefits:

• Energy savings of 1.9 × 1020 joules
• Electrical energy consumption would be reduced by terawatt hours
• Financial savings of $1.83 trillion
• Carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 10.68 gigatons
• Crude oil consumption would be reduced by 962 million barrels
• The number of required global power plants would be reduced by 280

They want the industry and researchers to work together and develop a comprehensive
LEDs lighting system technology.

Schubert and Kim wrote in the paper:

"Deployed on a large scale, LEDs have the potential to tremendously reduce
pollution, save energy, save financial resources, and add new and unprecedented
functionalities to photonic devices. These factors make photonics what could be
termed a benevolent tsunami, an irresistible wave, a solution to many global
challenges currently faced by humanity and will be facing even more in the years
to come,"

The smart light application with LEDs can not only be
used in homes but also can be used

for rapid biological cell identification, interactive roadways, boosting plant
growth and reduce the risk of certain type of cancers.

We can expect LEDs to be a major force in the next few years.
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Fujitsu Introduces World's Smallest, LightestCMOS Micro-Camera Module for Mobile Phones

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Fujitsu Introduces World's Smallest, Lightest
CMOS Micro-Camera Module for Mobile Phones

Fujitsu Introduces World's Smallest, Lightest
CMOS Micro-Camera Module for Mobile Phones