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Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Presents PAC-PAD 1

Semi-Auto Rifle H and K PSG-1

Samsung Galaxy Mini 2

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US Army’s 1.8-gigapixel camera helicopter drone

Japanese military flying orb camera

DARPA’s HTV-2 Second Flight

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Microsoft Windows 8 on 82-Inch Touch Screen for Windows Lovers

We don’t have 100 fingers, theoretically the supported limit of Windows 8 on the 82-inch capacitive touchscreen display we just had a chance to go hands-on with at the company’s latest OS demo at Mobile World Congress, but things looked pretty impressive even with just 10. The display we saw is manufactured by a company called Perceptive Pixel, and it may even look familiar — it’s the same glass screen used by television news networks like CNN.
But, unlike the giant touchscreens you’ve seen on TV, this guy is connected to a standard off-the-shelf PC running Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The glass panel is constructed of optically-bonded Gorilla Glass, so there’s very little space between the picture and your hand, making for a much more realistic user experience. Naturally, this monitor is all about the visuals, so you really need to see it in action to get an accurate impression of just how slick the experience can be. Jump past the break for our hands-on.
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Microchip that Deterministically Sorts Cells Using a Naturally Occurring Rolling Mechanism

Researchers from MIT and Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a microchip that deterministically sorts cells using a naturally occurring rolling mechanism. Cell rolling is known to occur, for example, in inflammation, where carbohydrate ligands on the circulating leukocytes bind to selectin molecules on the endothelium, causing the leukocytes to slow down, and then be pulled toward areas of inflammation
Here’s how MIT press statement describes this new cell sorting microchip:

The device takes in mixtures of cells, which flow through tiny channels coated with sticky molecules. Cells with specific receptors bind weakly to these molecules, rolling away from the rest of the flow, and out into a separate receptacle.

The cell sorters, about the size of postage stamps, may be fabricated and stacked one on top of another to sift out many cells at once — an advantage for scientists who want to isolate large quantities of cells quickly. The device doesn’t necessarily require an external pump to push cells through the chip, which makes it a portable, affordable option for use in laboratories or clinics, where cell samples may be taken and sorted without specialized equipment.

“We’re working on a disposable device where you wouldn’t even need a syringe pump to drive the separation,” says Rohit Karnik, the d’Arbeloff Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “You could potentially buy a $5 or $10 kit and get the cells sorted without needing any kind of [additional] instrument.”

The initial proof-of-principle design was relatively simple: Cells were injected into a single inlet, which gave way to a large chamber coated on one side with sticky, roll-inducing molecules. The incoming cells flowed through the chamber; the cells that bound to the molecules rolled to one side, then out to a collection chamber.

However, the researchers found that in order to allow target cells to first settle on the chamber’s surface, long channels were required, which would make the device too large. Instead, Choi came up with a surface pattern that causes cells to circulate within the chamber. The pattern comprises 10 parallel channels with 50 ridges and trenches, each ridge about 40 microns high. The researchers coated the ridges with P-selectin, a well-known molecule that promotes cell rolling.

They then injected two kinds of leukemia cells: one with receptors for P-selectin, the other without.

They found that once injected, the cells entered the chamber and bounced across the top of the ridges, exiting the chip through an outlet. The cells with P-selectin receptors were “caught” by the sticky molecule and flipped into trenches that led to a separate receptacle. Through their experiments, the team successfully recovered the cells they intended to sift out with 96 percent purity
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iLaunch Rocket Launcher for iPhone Hands On

The iLaunch Rocket Launcher is a missile launcher controlled by your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. Licensed by Apple, this beauty will work with any device running iOS 5.0.1 or higher. After a quick charge and setup, you’ll be able to strike fear into coworkers as far as 25 feet away. Claim more than 1400 square feet of your office by firing at will (and Will, that chatty guy from PR). With the iLaunch Rocket Launcher, you can finally have some peace and quiet in your cube.
Product Specifications:

Shooting distance of around 25 feet (will keep people far away!)
270 degree horizontal rotation, vertical flexibility of over 40 degrees
Battle with other iLaunch Rocket Launchers in your office
Can be used indoors or outdoors
Air powered pistons fire foam darts in succession on an automatic rotation
Rechargeable battery, just plug into your computer USB port
Wirelessly controlled via Bluetooth
Use touchscreen control or G-sensor control
Package contains:
iLaunch Rocket Launcher
Rechargeable Lithium Battery (1000mAh, 3.7V)
USB charging cable (27 inches long)
4 foam missiles

Instructions:
Free iLaunch Controller App is available on the App Store
Compatible Devices: iPod Touch (3rd or 4th gen), iPhone 4S, 4, or 3GS, iPad, iPad2
System Requirements: iOS 5.0.1 or higher
Dimensions: approx. 4.8″ x 3.2″ x 4.9″
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Self Monitoring Glucose Meter – DNA Detector for Disease Diagnosis

Researchers from Illinois University at Urbana? Campaign have converted a common at-home glucose meter to quantitatively detect DNA fragments.

The investigators were able to detect hepatitis B DNA fragments in concentrations that rival the sensitivity of traditional DNA detectors.
Some details from a press release by the American Chemical Society:

Their test takes place in a liquid containing sucrose (a sugar that isn’t detected by glucose meters). First, a bacterial or viral DNA fragment is captured and concentrated on beads. Then, the researchers add an enzyme that is stuck to a different DNA (which can bind to the bacterial or viral DNA). The enzyme, called invertase, turns the sucrose into glucose, which the glucose meter can measure.
Study abstract in Analytical Chemistry:

Herein we report application of personal glucose meters (PGMs), which are widely available, low cost, and simple to use, for quantitative detection of DNA, including a hepatitis B virus DNA fragment. The quantification is based on target-dependent binding of DNA-inverse conjugate with the analyte DNA, thereby transforming the concentration of DNA in the sample into glucose through invertase-catalyzed hydrolysis of sucrose. Instead of amplifying DNA strands through PCR, which is vulnerable to contamination commonly encountered for home and field usage, we demonstrate here signal amplifications based on enzymatic turnovers, making it possible to detect 40 pm DNA using PGM that can detect glucose only at the mm level. The method also shows excellent selectivity toward single nucleotide mismatches.

Press release: Adapting personal glucose monitors to detect DNA
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Japanese military flying orb camera

What you are seeing here is not done with wire removal, but we are seeing a flying robot ball. It bears a strong resemblance to the torture ball robot from the original Star Wars movie, but this doesn’t have a needle on it, but a camera.
Yes, the purpose of the flying robot ball is to float in and take pictures. Its ball shape makes it more resistant, it case it bumps into walls.

This flying orb was designed by the Japan’s Ministry of Defense Technical Research and Development Institute. It can travel at a top speed of 40 miles per hour, and files on a single propeller with eight wings. You can see more of it on a video after the jump.
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Ford Fusion 2013 – Fuel Economy

You can not help but notice the 2013 Ford Fusion, a midsize category-busting car hell-bent on improving suburban driveways around the world. The new Fusion is the first car that very clearly articulates the ONE Ford mantra (cars designed for a global market) and the company’s Kinetic design language (which debuted on the Eco concept car launched in Fall 2011 in Frankfurt).
Ford sold Aston Martin (in 2007) and Jaguar (in 2008) along with the other brands in their Premier Automotive Group. Perhaps the best thing the come out of that experience was the importance of design and how it can elevate a very expensive hand made car as well as a car you’ll find all over your neighborhood and in the parking lot Premier Automotive Group at every mall. There was no shortage of comments at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit yesterday that the new Fusion looked “Aston-like” or “Jaguar-like,” things you don’t usually hear about the most crowded and pedestrian segment of the automobile market. Part of this may be attributed to the raised hexagonal grill, narrow lights and rear license plate surround, which Ford’s VP of Global Design and Chief Creative Officer J Mays says “create a terrific stance.” Sexing up the midsize market is good for Ford, and good for all customers who seek to be inspired by design regardless of price point.
The Fusion brings a new level of features to an inexpensive, accessible caror, as Mays puts it, “a car you are proud to drive.” Standard features include Ford’s Sync voice-activated control system and a lane drifting warning system. Options include blind-spot warning and automated parallel parking systems—things you’re more likely to see on high end luxury cars. Ford offers the extremely fuel efficient Fusion in five different four cylinder engines—an existing gasoline engine, two new Eco Boost turbo engines, a hybrid and plug-in hybrid. Mays elaborates, “the mpg on this car is truly spectacular—26 mpg on the standard model, 47 mpg on the Eco Boost Hybrid, and 100 mpg on the Energy model. It’s just game changing.”
From what we’ve seen so far, Ford has come together to achieve something their competitors have failed to do—create an economy car that is desirable, practical, and affordable. I’m looking forward to road testing it.

The 2013 Ford Fusion will be available in the U.S. mid-2012 (with all models available by Fall 2012), and will be available in Asia and Europe as the Mondeo in 2013.
Ford Fusion 2013 – Fuel Economy - Gadgets Valley

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Canon EOS 5D Mark III Hands On

Nikon recently announced its D800 multimedia-machine DSLR, the internet was already abuzz with folks wondering how Canon would fire back. That follow up comes today in the form of the full-frame Canon 5D Mark III.
On the photography front, the most notable improvement is the completely redesigned auto-focus system. The Mark III offers 61 AF points, 41 of which are crosstype. That’s a huge upgrade from the nine total points offered by the 5D Mark II for which AF performance may have been its biggest detractor. That also bests Nikon’s D800, which has 51 total AF points, 15 of which are cross-type, and five which are double cross-type. The final number of points you have access to with either of those cameras when shooting ultimately depends on the maximum aperture of the lens attached. It also offers six different auto-focusing modes, compared to 2 on the Mark II and the AF modes have been made much more prominent in the menus to make navigating them much faster.

The Mark III checks in at 22.3-megapixels which is only a modest hop from the Mark II’s 21.1, but the sensor has received a complete overhaul. Gapless micro lenses, similar to those found on the sensor of the Canon 1D X, channel light into the photo diodes much more efficiently. As a result, the new sensor, according to Canon, offers nearly two additional stops of noise reduction in JPEG shooting at higher ISO’s compared to the Mark II. To compound the effect, Canon also incorporated “on chip noise reduction,” into its sensors, killing off potential noise before information even hits the Digic 5+ processor.

Canon employs their latest, greatest Digic 5+ chip to handle the Mark III’s image processing, which they claim to be 17x faster than the Digic 4 processor found in the Mark II, and 30% faster than the ordinary Digic 5 processor. This helps bring the Mark III’s burst capabilities up to 6 fps, compared to 3.9 fps on the Mark II. That’s also two better than the 4 FPS max (without the battery grip) offered by Nikon’s D800.

Metering is handled by a 63-zone (up from 35 in the Mark II), dual-layer metering system they’ve dubbed iFCL. It stands for Focus, Color, Luminance, and it uses information from the AF points to help provide more accurate and consistent exposures. Canon also shrunk the size of its spot-meter point, which now comprises just 1.5% of the sensor, compared to the 3% meter on the Mark II.

The Mark III’s native ISO range of 100 to 25600 is expandable, when shooting stills, all the way up to 102,400 (two stops higher than the D800) and down to 50. When switched over to video mode there’s a hard-stop at 25,600, same as its predecessor.

Expanding on the video capabilities, some folks will no doubt be slightly disappointed to see that 1080p capture is still capped at 30 fps rather than the smoother 60 fps frame rate. There are some notable video upgrades though, including an external microphone jack and a headphone jack, which film makers have been craving for years. Maximum clip time has been jacked up to about 30 minutes (up from 12 in the Mark II) and you can now manually control audio levels during video recording.

While the video upgrades aren’t exactly monumental, Canon already has a rather large segment of the HDSLR market, so fixing a few long-standing gripes from users might be enough to keep users firmly entrenched in the Canon camp.

From a design standpoint, the Mark III takes more than a few pages out of the 7D’s book. In fact, the top of the camera is exactly identical, with the exception of a locking mode dial (first made standard on the 60D). Mark II upgrades will have to get used to the on/off switch moving to directly below the mode dial. The backside of the camera also looks strikingly similar to the 7D. The Live view button has moved to the top right portion on the back of the camera. Canon also incorporated a “Creative Photo Button,” and a “Photo Rating Button,” which saves on-the-fly star ratings in an image’s metadata. You’ll likely use the latter much more often than the former.

Other physical upgrades include a slightly larger 3.2” 1.4 million dot LCD (compared to the 3” LCD found on the Mark II). It’s nice, but we were a bit surprised not to see a Various-Angle screen on a machine with so much video firepower. Viewfinder coverage has also been nudged up to 100% as it is in the 7D. Canon placed great emphasis on improving weather seals on the Mark III body, and while its not quite as water and dust resistant as the 1D X, its ability to survive the elements definitely surpasses the Mark II.

One simple, but crucial inclusion is that of a secondary card slot, giving it one CF and one SD. While most cameras with two slots allow users to split RAW and JPEG files on individual cards, Mark III users can take it even further, splitting two different size JPEG or two different size RAW files. Speaking of which, the Mark III offers three different RAW file sizes including RAW (which is 22.1 MP), M-RAW (10.5 MP) and S-RAW (5.5 MP).

A newly redesigned shutter cuts lag time down to 59 milliseconds, compared to 75-millisecond lag time on the Mark II. Other new features include a Silent Continuous Shooting Mode, which we witnessed in person, and are pretty impressed with. When in this mode, the burst rate is cut down to 3 seconds, however the decrease in shutter noise is very noticeable.

Set to ship late March, the 5D Mark III will run you $3500 for body only, or $4300 for the body and a 24-105 F4L IS lens. That makes it a full $500 more expensive than than the D800, which might make a significant difference. Needless to say, we’re excited to get the new camera in the lab and see just how much improvement Canon has made.

Canon has also released a few new accessories for the 5D Mark III. Here’s a quick rundown:

Wireless File Transmitter WFT-E7A $849.99

Plug it into the camera’s USB port and it’ll hop onto a WiFi network. From there, you can use it to transfer files and synchronize multiples cameras shooting at the same time. It also has built-in Bluetooth connectivity.

GP-E2 GPS Receiver $390

A pretty standard GPS tagging dongle tracks capture locations as well as universal time code. It also tracks camera movement and uses a compass to record the direction the camera is pointing when the shutter is fired.

BG-E11 Battery Grip $490

The 5D Mark III’s battery grip accepts two LP-E6 batteries and has a new multicontroller and M. Fn button in addition to a full set of grip controls. Like the camera body, it’s made from magnesium alloy and shares the same burly weatherproofing.
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US Army’s 1.8-gigapixel camera helicopter drone

All right, the Iranians might have shot down one of those drones from the US, but we are quite sure the US Army is already light years ahead in terms of technology as well as next generation drones. In fact, the US Army recently tested a helicopter drone that would make for the perfect spy machine – especially when it sports a 1.8-gigapixel camera on it. This drone aircraft is capable of hovering around, and will not require a runway in order to take-off or land, now how about that?
This particular technology employed promised “an unprecedented capability to track and monitor activity on the ground”, where another three of these sensor-equipped drones are on track to see action in Afghanistan in either May or June next year. While Boeing was first off the blocks in building these drones, other firms are still able to throw in their bid to manufacture the rest. It will take a year of deployment in order to learn all that they can about the drone, its capabilities and limitations, resulting in a record compilation that will pave the way for a superior model down the road.
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Swann HD PenCam Hands On

If you want to spy on someone first device need is a camera that can capture photos and record video,the most important thing is it must easy to carry and handle that is where the Swann HD Pen-SWVID-PEN720 Cam is the best.
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Sony Xperia -Your Mobile PlayStation Hands On

Game lovers are waiting for this Android smartphone from long time, get down to brass tacks, Xperia PLAY Station by Sony is first ever Android smartphone certified for Play Station.
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Skype for Windows Phone Released

Skype released its app for the Windows Phone operating system on Sunday on the Windows Phone Marketplace, a couple of months after releasing the beta version of the app.The app, available in 18 languages, brings users of phones running Windows Phone into the mainstream of 200 million people who use the Skype service every month on Smartphone and tablets running Android, iOS, and Symbian, computers and laptops running Mac and Windows, and connected TVs.
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Skype Humoticons-Next Generation Emotions

Skype has provided numerous handy features for Facebook users. Skype Humoticons is latest addition in the list. Skype Humoticons encourages Skype and Facebook users to mimic the expressions seen in Skype emoticons, and then take pictures of their efforts and post them in the app’s gallery or their Facebook walls
Skype Humoticons-Next Generation Emotions

Google’s Zerg Rush

Google has hidden a new Easter Egg on its homepage that’s bound to get gaming geeks hyped. Type the words “zerg rush” into the search bar on the Google.com site and you’ll see your search result on what seems like a normal page until the “O”s from the Google logo start multiplying and “attack” the list of links and images until the page is eviscerated.
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