Tiny Dots Make New LEDs Easier on the Eyes

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are prime candidates for replacing inefficient incandescent bulbs but have a few things working against them. They can provide a pleasing warm light or they can be energy-efficient, but they haven't been able to be both at the same time.

On Tuesday, two small companies showed off an LED lamp that's both very power-efficient and produces a light similar to that of a standard tungsten or halogen bulb.

Tiny Dots

The LEDs in the lamp shine through a thin layer of "quantum dots," a scattering of particles of very small but precisely controlled size. When light hits them, they emit light of a different color, much like the "phosphor" layer of a fluorescent tube. The magic of quantum dots is that the color they emit can be controlled very accurately by adjusting their size, which means less wasted energy and more pleasing color.

The dots are so small that more than 10,000 of them could be could be lined up over the width of a human hair. The Quantum Light lamp is made by Nexxus Lighting of Charlotte, N.C., which demonstrated it at the Light Fair trade show in New York. The lamp will go on sale late this year at an as yet undetermined price. Nexxus already sells a version of it that lacks quantum dots, yielding a bluer, harsher light, for around US$100.

The more pleasing light produced by quantum dots could allow LEDs to outshine compact fluorescent bulbs, which are energy-efficient but have taken time to win over consumers, said Bill Blackley, vice president at Nexxus.

"A hundred years, incandescents have been around. That's what people want," Blackley said.

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Stone lion of Agravat

Once upon a time, there was a small country in West Germany. It was called Agravat, which meant small yet beautiful. Agravat was a small kingdom that has many natural resources, especially jewels. The people prospered under the reign of a wise king.

The King wanted to celebrate the 100th years’ anniversary of Agravat Kingdom. He ordered a famous sculptor, Mustapo to carve a huge stone lion, a symbol of Agravat Kingdom. The King gave Mustapo one year to finish his work. The sculptor traveled around the countryside. Finally he found the right spot at northern region of Agravat. Mustapo set to work immediately. He carved the giant granite rock alone day and night. The stone lion of Agravat was completed in the end of the year. But Mustapo died out of exhaustion. He didn’t get a chance to report the result to the King yet. So, no one knew about the magnificent stone lion. And the lion stood proudly alone in the jungle, hidden from the people of Agravat.

One day, an evil witch arrived in the jungle. The witch was looking for a vault to store her treasures. She has taken them from the villagers. The witch cursed any villagers who disobeyed her into stone. The witch thought the lion’s mouth would make an excellent vault. So she put her treasures into its mouth. Then she cast a spell on the stone lion. And the lion became alive. The huge stone lion could speak although it couldn’t walk or move.

The lion roared and roared but he couldn’t scare away the evil witch. The witch says, “Silence! Guard my treasures well!” The witch left soon afterwards. The lion couldn’t take out the items in his mouth although he tried hard. So the stone lion became the guardian of the witch’s treasures.

The witch kept robbing precious items from the villagers daily. Some of the poor villagers have starved to death because they didn’t have any money to buy foods.

A brave lad from the village, Frank, secretly followed the witch to her vault. He waited patiently till the witch left. Frank told the stone lion about the villagers’ misery and the lion wept.

The lion opened its mouth. He said, “Go in. Take one item that belonged to you.” Frank climbed the stone lion. He entered the mouth without fear. There were mountains of gold coins, jewels and other precious items in the witch’s vault. But Frank only took a jade amulet, which belonged to his family. He thanked the stone lion for his kindness.

The news spread quickly in the villages. Many villagers went to the stone lion to get back their treasures. The lion’s rule never changed. The villager could only take one item, which belonged to them when he/she entered the vault.

Most of the villagers, except Voltra, followed the lion’s rule. Voltra was a rich merchant who came to reclaim his treasures. He took a big pearl and a gold necklace when he first got out of the lion’s mouth. The stone lion scolded him. Voltra lied, “Please, I need the money to cure my mother’s illness.” The lion felt sorry for him so he let him go.

Voltra was a greedy man. He took a large diamond, which wasn’t his, in his second visit to the stone lion. The lion scolded him again. Voltra lied, “Please, this belongs to my brother. I’m taking this back for him.” The lion pitied him and let him go again. The stone lion didn’t know Voltra had lied to him. Voltra didn’t have any brother. And he was an orphan so he didn’t have any mother either.

Voltra took a large chest filled with gold coins in his third visit to the stone lion. The lion asked, “Why do you take it? It wasn’t yours!” Voltra smiled. He lied, “My wife is pregnant now. I need money to buy her healthy foods. I promise to repay you in few months.”

The stone lion stared to Voltra’s ring finger. There was no wedding ring. The stone lion roared. Then he yells angrily, “LIAR! You are a bachelor!” The lion ate the greedy man.

The evil witch returned to store more treasures few days later. She found Voltra’s corpse inside her vault. The lion said, “This man is a thief. So I ate him.” The witch praised the lion for guarding her treasures well.
She didn’t need to worry about her treasures anymore. So she seldom visited her vault now.

The villagers still secretly visited the stone lion to get their treasures back. Voltra’s death has taught them about greed. They obeyed the lion’s rule. And the stone lion of Agravat became a hero for the villagers.

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Microsoft's Windows 7 test implies holiday launch

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. has released a near-final version of the Windows 7 operating system that adds a few new features, including a way to run Windows XP applications.
The Windows 7 "release candidate" was made available to a large group of technology-savvy testers Thursday and will be ready for anyone to download and try out starting Tuesday. The release candidate is typically the version used by Microsoft's corporate customers to test how the new system will work for them. Software developers, hardware makers and other partners also base their next-generation products on this version because they trust that it's stable and close to finished.
Microsoft published the Vista release candidate about five months before the final version went on sale to consumers. If Windows 7 were to follow the same trajectory, it could be available by the start of October. Officially, Microsoft expects to start selling Windows 7 by the end of January 2010, but has said this week that it is possible it could launch in time for the holiday shopping season.
The software maker is counting on Windows 7 to win over businesses that put off upgrading to Vista, which got off to a rough start because it didn't work well with many existing programs and devices.
And Microsoft drew criticism from consumers when many computers advertised beforehand as "Vista capable" were actually too weak to run Vista's highly touted new interface and other features. People who wanted to upgrade Windows XP computers found their graphics cards and other components weren't up to the task.
The new system is already set up for a smoother debut because it shares much of Vista's underlying technology, which means hardware and software makers have had more than two years to catch up to a more demanding set of requirements. And Microsoft has pushed the notion that the high-end version of Windows 7 will run on many more computers than Vista, including tiny, low-powered laptops called netbooks. Today, Microsoft sells Windows XP, a much less profitable version of its operating system, to PC makers like Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to install on netbooks.
On Thursday, Microsoft revealed that the basic requirements for running a high-end version of Windows 7 aren't much different from those needed to run the bulkier versions of Vista. However, critics said the Vista requirements for memory and other components should have been set higher, and Microsoft says Windows 7 is better at managing memory and not bogging down less-powerful machines.
Microsoft unveiled a few new features in the release candidate that didn't exist in the January beta, including something called "Windows XP Mode." The feature, available for the release candidate as a separate download, will let people run many XP-era programs from a Windows 7 computer.
The release candidate also adds a way for people to access music and other media files stored on their home PC over the Internet from other Windows 7 machines.

SIM Card Making Rich

Your mobile phone users who like mutually SIM card to find a cheap phone out so ago to remove the card? Try to think-think again. Inside the card was in fact have emasnya! Used a mobile phone because the old and does not conduct frequent sold ago removed by the board also contains gold, copper and silver.

Does not believe, a company in Singapore and Japan have started to become a member of paramilitary troops Mandiri (cool nickname for pemulung), a special mobile phone SIM card and the older the person removed. The process of scavengers and mobile phone SIM card used is the same with regular skipper pemulung: kumpulannya submit the results to mengolahnya own processing or to separate components in the existing SIM card or mobile phone. Of millions and thousands of phone cards that are collected, they can wash kiloan pure gold and tens and even hundreds of pound of copper, silver, tin and more miscellaneous.

From which the gold or the metal-metal came? In the circuit chip in a mobile phone or SIM card (GSM) or RUIM (CDMA), there emasnya. Gold is used because it is able to deliver the best electronic cash is better than copper. Manufacturer or mobile phone SIM card / RUIM did not reduce or negate the noble metal matrix, although the amount in each unit may only seperseribu grams.

Nah, if successful collect one million used the SIM card, we can hope to get 1,000 grams or one kilogram pure gold. And if we can analyze the phone used, the more gold, silver and copper that we can get.

Yokohama Metal Co Ltd, a company pemulung find the fact that mobile phone and SIM card is a gold mine that really great. If one ton of material that is taken in the conventional gold mine just acquired about 5 grams of gold, a ton of phone that used dilebur can be obtained 30 times, alias 150 grams of gold.

Can Rp 45 million a month

Paramilitary troops Mandiri gold from Singapore, and Japan, will enter Brazil and offer purchase a SIM card used with the price of Rp 100 or Rp 1,000 per phone. They will build a factory to melt means of communication before, drag the gold, copper and silver available.

Let us count the opportunities for pan gold from the SIM card from some of the existing telecommunications operator in the country. We start with Telkomsel. This year, 52 million customers already. With the growth of subscribers who average 30% a year, Telkomsel need 200%, even 300% of the SIM card from a customer aktualnya.

According to a petinggi Telkomsel, business competition to create a tight level of churn - the number of customers who switch service - very high. To gain customer growth as 1.5 million a month at this time, Telkomsel should sell 12 million of the card (starter pack - SP).

This means, of course Telkomsel have 10.5 million SIM cards that are removed so pulsanya exhausted. Not of PT Indosat, Excelcomindo (XL), and eight other wireless communication service.

Total one month can be collected up to 25 million "card dead". If the weight per card 2 grams, then the total number of around 50 tons. If all of that was compiled and taken logamnya, akan gained about 25 kilograms of gold a month, and about 100 kg of copper.

With 10,000 mobile phone used to destroy or seberat one ton (assumed average weight per 100 grams mobile phone), then will be 150 grams of gold, 100 kg of copper and 3 kg of silver. This is outside the plastic, or timahnya who is also obtained.

Metal-metal can be sold earlier in the form of ingot (metal raw materials) that the price is quite sizeable, as berkadar or 99.99% if the 24 carat gold. If the price of gold world of Rp 300,000 per gram, each month of the SIM card and RUIM fed ex only can wealth Rp 7.5 billion at least. When capital is 25 million times Rp 100, Rp 2.5 billion alias.

This number will increase income with the sale of copper which could reach Rp 1 billion, also from the carton so that dilebur pulp. Ten thousand former purchased the phone around Rp 10 million worth of gold produced akan Rp 45 million, and copper worth Rp 1 billion. This outside sales of silver and tin.

However, in our country, not many phones that are removed. The growth of mobile or wireless subscribers are still comparable with the number of entry of new mobile phone. Used mobile phone market is more crowded than a new mobile phone market, as many community members from a particular layer tends gonti turns mobile phones, trade in the new phone has a 3 months later.