AMD has launched the new AMD Opteron™ 6200 Series processors. As the world’s only 16-core x86 processor on the market. The folks at AMD say that this processor is just it when it comes to handling the demands of cloud computing, virtualization and server technology. According to tests conducted AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors deliver 84% greater performance than the Intel Xeon X5670 processor which is its current competitor. It also minimizes power and cooling costs at fewer than 5 watts per core.
We are currently not sure of how many brands in the market carry this particular processor but we know for a fact that the Dell PowerEdge Servers and HP ProLiant G7 servers are going to be the first ones to pack it. Also known is that AMD will be showcasing their latest products at the 2011 Supercomputing in Seattle, Washington scheduled for November 14-17.

The Solar Ship is being developed by a company of the same name and is designed as a heavy hauling, slow moving aircraft that can fly in and out of remote and rugged areas. Most of its lift is generated by aerodynamics, but helium can be used to enhance its ability to take off and land in confined areas. The solar ship isn’t here to compete with the jet powered planes and helicopters. The trucks that carry heavy loads to remote places maybe, mainly because they are slow, expensive to operate and carry a limited load capacity.
The company points out that the Solar Ship isn’t a lighter-than-air vehicle like a blimp or an airship. Instead it’s an inflatable heavier-than-air vehicle that can be filled with normal old air, or get that bonus performance with helium. Thrust can come from a variety of engines including electric motors that can be powered by solar cells covering the massive inflatable wing. When it comes to agility and speed this craft is indeed slow compared to other aircraft. The company lists three sizes that are being developed with a top cruise speed of 75 miles per hour. But the smallest Solar Ship on the drawing board has a payload of more than 1,600 pounds and a range of almost 1,600 miles. Next up is one projected to have a payload of more than 5,500 pounds that can be carried more than 3,000 miles.

Other possible missions include hauling supplies to support disaster relief in developing countries, a platform for scientists to allow a quiet and near hover like observation platform with long endurance, a military observation platform with the same qualities or simply a simple people mover to connect remote outposts or villages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HERE ARE SOME VERY MEMORABLE AND INSPIRING QUOTES BY THE MAN WE KNEW AS JOBS.

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” – via

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” – Wikiquote, as quoted in The Wall Street Journal (Summer 1993).

“We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.” – ABC News, Jobs on Mac OS X Beta

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

“I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.”

“Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better.” – Wikiquote, Interview in Rolling Stone magazine, no. 684 (16 June 1994)

“Bill Gates‘d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.” – The New York Times, Creating Jobs, 1997

“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.” – YouTube
“My job is not to be easy on people. My jobs is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” – All About Steve Jobs

“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.” – Wikiquote, as quoted in Fortune magazine (4 January 2000)

“Click. Boom. Amazing!” – Macworld keynote 2006

“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” – Inc. Magazine

“That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works” – New York Times, The Guts of a New Machine, 2003

“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?” – As quoted or paraphrased in Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur’s Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own (2009) by Robert Tuchman

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – via

“I mean, some people say, ‘Oh, God, if Jobs got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.’ And, you know, I think it wouldn’t be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that’s what I try to do.” – CNNMoney

“It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That’s what we get paid to do.” – CNNMoney

“So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.” – CNNMoney

“When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself.
They’ll want to do what’s best for Apple, not what’s best for them, what’s best for Steve, or anybody else.” – via

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.” – Fortune

“Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” – Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Think Different, narrated by Steve Jobs

“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.” – Fortune

“So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.” – Classic Gaming

“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.” – Macworld

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address

“I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.” – Wikiquote, as quoted in Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World’s Most Colorful Company (2004) by Owen W. Linzmayer

“I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.” – Businessweek

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” – Businessweek

“I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.” – The Seed of Apple’s Innovation

“It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much.” – The Seed of Apple’s Innovation

“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” – Businessweek, 1998

“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.” – Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998

“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

“It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.” – Playboy interview, 1985

“I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I’m only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I’ve got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.” – Playboy, 1987

“I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” – Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address

“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?” – Steve Jobs’ famous question to John Sculley, former Apple CEO

“The products suck! There’s no sex in them anymore!” – Businessweek

“The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.” – As quoted in Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World’s Most Colorful Company (2004) by Owen W. Linzmayer

“If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth — and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.” – Fortune, 1996

“You know, I’ve got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can’t say any more than that it’s the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.” – Fortune, 1995

“Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could — I’m searching for the right word — could, could die.” – TIME, 1997

Apple fans its official! The next iPhone is going to be introduced on October 4th during one of its typical media events with the location being Apple headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop. They haven’t exactly said it is the i-Phone 5 (could be i-Phone 4S) but its a safe assumption considering Apple is sticking with tradition and unveiling a new phone to replace the old one at the top of the tree.

“Let’s talk iPhone” is the catch phrase on this one. The one piece of evidence that supports just an iPhone 5 being launched is that phone icon in the invite and the very clear “1″ in the top right corner. Clearly Apple has been watching the rumors and multiple iPhone launch suggestions, and maybe this is their way of clearing things up. We should expect just one iPhone (5) come October 4.

After months of speculation the Finnish based mobile manufacturer has announced that the handsets are now available in both 16GB and 64GB variants. The 16GB model is going for a not-so-small price of €480 (about $650), or the 64GB version for the similarly steep price of €560 (roughly $757).

Nokia is however not going to launch the product everywhere and some of the absentees on the list include USA and Germany. To explain this Nokia in a statement said;
“After the very positive reception to the launch of the Nokia N9, the product is now being rolled out in countries around the world. At this time we will not be making it available in the US. Nokia takes a market by market approach to product rollout, and each country makes its own decisions about which products to introduce from those available. Decisions are based on an assessment of existing and upcoming products that make up Nokia’s extensive product portfolio and the best way in which to address local market opportunities.”

The N9 has AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colour, 480 x 854 pixels, 3.9 inches (~251 ppi pixel density),3G HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.7 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot,microUSB v2.0,8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, dual LED flash,Standard battery, Li-Ion 1450 mAh (BV-5JW) with standby of Up to 380 h (2G) / Up to 450 h (3G),Dolby Mobile sound enhancement; Dolby Headphone support.
Check out the video.

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RED CEO Jim Jannard in a quote attributed to Stephen Pizzo, co-founder Element Technica and partner of 3ality Technica said “After watching a demo of RED’s laser projector I’ve been struggling to find a way to describe it. Comparing it to traditional professional systems is completely inadequate. I have never witnessed 3D that was as bright or brighter as the best 2D projections until now. It generated the best color, best dynamic range and best images I have ever seen in 3D or even 2D. When I learned we were watching at 1/4 of its total resolution I was speechless. It was so clean and so vibrant the only thing I can compare it to is Cibachrome. That’s it, a giant moving Cibachrome!”

If you know anything about RED you definitely know that the company puts out some of the best pro-quality digital video cameras on the market. While this is really great there has often been a challenge when it comes to watching all that 4K(4,000 pixels of horizontal resolution) footage as the screens always dissolve the quality. But not any more! You may be wondering what Cibachrome is, well, Cibachrome is a photographic processes known for its image clarity and color purity. You may check out the Sony’s VW1000ES home theater projector.
Now if there is one thing CEO Jim Jannardis known for, is his ability to build hype and mystery, so yes, details about the projector are still scarce, but we know it won’t be using Texas Instrument’s 4K DLP chip.

VATIVE’S OPINION

Its been a while since I was this excited about the possibility of watching a 3D movie. Its so exciting that the only question I have is, when?

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If you haven’t heard of the Bulb-Sound-Speaker then you need to be upgraded!

The Bulb-Sound-Speaker a brain child of Castiglione Morelli. So what exactly is it? Well, it’s, as you might have guessed from the name, a light bulb that’s actually a speaker.So how does it work? It’s powered in the same way bulbs are, via the screw-in bit there, and then there’s a Bluetooth transceiver and Altec Lansing speaker. You plug the other part of the unit into your iPod and there you have it, sound coming from your light bulb.

Despite the mere fact that its cool it also gives you options e.g when you’ve just moved into a new house and you either don’t have speakers or they are still packed in boxes

VATIVES OPINION

Its a pretty cool idea, it not only capitalizes on space but also offers you ‘sound from above’.

If you love beautiful and authentic lamps then you are probably like me. Thats why I want you to check out the following with your hand over your mouth – you know, so that you don’t drool your keyboard.
Check this out and tell me if this ain’t something.
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If you have owned a bicycle then you know how the tires keep on loosing pressure so often. Bicycle tires lose pressure due to air molecules diffusing through the rubber sidewalls. This requires cyclists to fill their tires on a fairly regular basis due to the high operating pressures (up to 120 psi) and thin sidewalls of most bicycle tires. PumpTire solves this problem by incorporating a pumping mechanism directly into the tire. And this means … fewer pinch flats, no more pumping, hands stay clean, less time getting ready and more time on the saddle.

Imagine taking your bicycle out of the garage and never having to fill up the tires or even check the pressure. Or imagine yourself being able to change your tire pressure on-the-fly with a simple adjustment from the handlebars. Well, this is the concept that PumpTire founder Benjamin Krempel is hoping to introduce to the market. He is turning to Kickstarter to fund the project, which includes designing, testing, and manufacturing a pair of self-inflating bike tires.

The PumpTire team is looking to raise $250,000 to make this project a reality which will be spent as follows
We are looking to raise $250K to make PumpTire a reality. This is a large sum of money for Kickstarter projects and equates to about 5,000 tires. The money will be primarily used for four purposes:
1. Completing the engineering design. This will require us to work with vendors and engineering firms to find the right materials and processes to make the product robust and lightweight. Although we have various working prototypes, we’ll need money to make sure each part of the system works properly.
2. Testing. Once we’ve completed the production design we will build and test prototypes to see what we got right and what needs additional engineering.
3. Purchasing tooling. We will need to have molds built for each type of tire as well as the lumen and the individual pieces in the control valve assemblies.
4. Purchasing materials. And finally, we need to pay for the materials and components that go into each tire assembly.

Read more at http://www.kickstarter.com

After creating Watson the guys at IBM are at it again and this this time around its with an experimental chip designed to function like a real brain. Developed as part of a DARPA project called SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics), IBM’s so-called “neurosynaptic computing chip” features a silicon core capable of digitally replicating the brain’s neurons, synapses and axons.

To achieve this, researchers took a dramatic departure from the conventional von Neumann computer architecture, which links internal memory and a processor with a single data channel. Instead, IBM integrated memory directly within its processors, wedding hardware with software in a design that more closely resembles the brain’s cognitive structure. The von Neumann computer architecture though faster uses way to much energy hence the need for the switch. Though it limits data transfer speeds it allows the system to execute multiple processes in parallel i.e just like humans do.

The main aim of IBM is to eventually create a smaller (in size) system that can analyze more complex data, learn and consume less power.

Read more at IBM