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For this development the company JD Europe Components GmbH received the gold medal of the Eurobike Award 2011

Automatic transmission is called Automatic Gear Transmission (AGT). New bike system is essentially a computer that continuously receives information from multiple sensors, learning speed, torque, number of revolutions per minute.

Based on these data, the system constantly calculates the optimal gear ratio and smoothly poltical suitable gear. There is a semi-automatic mode, when the rider shifts gears by pushing the “plus” and “minus”.

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Found technological method of producing nanofibers.

Engineers from the University of North Carolina have modified a known method of manufacture of nanofibers, significantly increasing the speed of their output.

The process of forming fibers with a diameter of ~100-1 000 nm of polymer solutions is called elektrodrazenie. In the design of a typical setup for “spinning” stand out a pump that provides a continuous flow of liquid to a conducting needle, collecting plate and the high voltage source, generating a field between the needle tip and the plate. The solution is in contact with a metal needle, charged, and put into it the charges are accelerated by the electric field and involve in the movement of the surrounding substance, whereby the fluid is accelerated uniformly in the sky, in a thin stream. In the interelectrode gap, the solvent partially evaporates, and the stream turns into fiber, which is deposited on the plate and creates a porous layer.

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Currently, the international aviation and space salon MAKS deservedly occupies a leading place among major world aviation forums.

The main goal of MAKS is to demonstrate Russian high technologies and openness of the domestic market of Russia for joint projects with foreign partners.

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Researchers from the Taiwan Institute of industrial technology (ITRI) has created a new type of media called i2R e-Paper, text and images which can be printed and erased dozens of times.

Sheet i2R e-Paper is covered with plastic film with cholesteric liquid crystals which do not have Central symmetry. To get the image on this “paper” it is necessary to pass through a thermal printer. Erased by re-processing in the device.

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The company Milleniata together with LG Corporation assumes in the very near future to develop the “eternal wheels” that can store information indefinitely long time.

Of course, in addition to discs will also be released the player who can not only read data from these disks, but to write to them. M-Disc can be read in any domestic player.

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Australian designer Philip Legerski presented a draft promising sports electric vehicle, able to accelerate to a maximum speed of 500 kilometers per hour.
According to the developer, the purpose of creation of this machine, named B7, was an attempt to prove that cars of this type can be quick to look good and to manage and deliver driving pleasure.
The project Legerski involves the use in the power plant of the car is not heavy and expensive batteries, supercapacitors, which are more powerful, but smaller and lighter than lithium or metal hydride batteries used in existing electric cars. In the motion supercar will be using four electric motors – one for each wheel.

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To look into the future, it is enough to have leisure, curiosity and imagination. So I predicted the crisis, and the subsequent hatred of the bankers.
Modern futurology — something between a prose of Arthur C. Clarke and the division of scenario planning for Shell. For example, I sell a mix of lectures, research markets future food or future media and forecasts specific to the company for 10-20 years. So I created scenarios banking-2012 public libraries-2030, education-2025. Reading a lot of specialized literature, I thus use not only their imagination, but also strangers.

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Researchers from the University of Manchester, together with colleagues from the universities of East Anglia, York and Nottingham, UK, are using nanotechnology to convert solar energy into a clean fuel.
The solar energy potential is vast — just one hour of sunlight provides as much energy as man uses in a year. But nobody has yet to figure out how to use that enormous energy to produce the fuel.
Professor Wendy of Flavell (the University of Manchester and her colleagues are working to create a solar nano-device on “quantum dots” — small bundles of semiconductors that absorb sunlight. The principle of operation of the device is as follows: when sunlight is absorbed, the temperature rises on semiconductors and their conductivity increases. Then acting on the molecules of the catalyst located on the surface of “points”, they create new fuel.

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Normalizekey camera capable of capturing images with a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels and record video (720 x 480, 30 frames per second), the adepts from the land of the rising sun fit in the case the size of a normal flash drive.
This little girl called CLAP — not the miniature in the world, however, is definitely another example of the amazing compactness. The size of the new 24-gram “soap”: 3.5 x 7 x 1.5 inches.
Sensitivity new camera ISO is 100 and is not adjustable. And far from the record. Any modern smartphone will do the job better. But inside the chamber built a small magnet. They can be used to mount the camera on a metal surface.

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The US will experience world’s fastest plane.

The US will experience in a real flight the world’s fastest aircraft, capable of speeds 20 times the speed of sound. The way from new York to Los Angeles, usually takes more than five hours on this machine takes only 12 minutes and from London to Sydney – less than an hour.

If successful, the trials will be possible to speak about the approaching era of passenger suborbital space travel between different points of the planet – like in science fiction books and movies. But the main purpose of the test is not civil and military.

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