FreeValve: What is cam engine technology and why you should know it?

FreeValve

FreeValve developed by the Swedish manufacturer Koenigsegg, but today we will try to know a little more in depth. Basically, it is an idea based on the solution independently driving the intake and exhaust valves in an internal combustion engine, which allows without some key mechanical elements, such as the camshaft or timing belt.

The system, whose name literally translates as ‘free valve’ , provides complete control and programming independently acting valves, depending on the type of driving, in order to maximize performance and reduce consumption, as the case . At the moment, only the Chinese manufacturer Qoros has implemented this technology in a series model.Continue reading →

Elon Musk already awaits authorization to launch 4,425 satellites for its large global internet network

Elon Musk

Elon Musk does not rest, no matter who has several fronts with Tesla, SolarCity, OpenAI and SpaceX, there is always time to think about the next big project. And so it has been, since Musk has sent to the approval of the Federal Communications Commission of the United States (FCC) the deployment of a great satellite internet.

The project was announced in 2015 and is run by SpaceX, complete with juicy investment of Google, it is to put into orbit 4,425 satellites that would be able to provide internet access up to 1Gbps worldwide. A project that has caused doubts and is now taking the next step.Continue reading →

The iPhone 8 and its OLED screen in trouble, covering demand will not be easy for manufacturers

iPhone 8

It has long been rumored that Apple will offer OLED displays in future iPhone in August , and it will achieve one of the advances that had not yet integrated into their smartphones while competition itself had been doing time.

The problem is that the huge demand for these devices could compromise manufacturers: OLED displays are more complex to produce, and limited production could have a dangerous side effect: that only a variant of the iPhone 8 would offer such displays.Continue reading →

Workstations can also be small: The new HP Z2 Mini proves it

HP Z2 Mini

It seems that the segment of designers and creative is more fashionable than ever again, because after the presentation of products from other companies is now HP, which sets out to conquer new, land in which sees no enough options.

The gap to cover now has a new opportunity as managers of the company, presenting the HP Z2 Mini, a compact workstation featuring the latest Intel Xeon processors and NVIDIA graphics professionals.

HP Z2 Mini, a compact and quiet workstation

According to the company, this equipment is destined to “the creators of our future”. The creative and engineering sector has unmet needs according to internal studies HP: there are 5 million designers who are targets of this type of equipment, and only 42% use workstations: almost 3 million of them do not have a team tailored to your needs.Continue reading →

This USB device performs HIV testing in less than 30 minutes

USB-device-performs-HIV-testing

Today perform an HIV test represents at least two days of waiting, that when the laboratory is located in the same place where the decision was made sample. But if this is not the case, the delivery of results can last up to a week, something that happens especially in remote regions of our planet, which is where you need to act immediately.

Fortunately this could change in the coming months thanks to a joint development between Imperial College London and the company DNA Electronics, which consists of a small device that is capable of detecting HIV levels in the bloodstream.Continue reading →

Apple caution that criticism of the MacBook Pro coming from your own fans can be very serious

Apple

Something is wrong with Apple, a company that until now had been safe from internal criticism: users and fans of the brand not used to have a bad opinion of any signature moves, but everything has changed with the MacBook Pro.

The new high-end laptops have brought the Touch Bar as the main innovation, but many users complain that it has been much more what Apple has taken away than what it has given them. Goodbye to traditional USB ports, MagSafe goodbye, goodbye to the SD slots … Apple has become a company that makes dongles they say some – and oddly also manufactures smartphones and computers.

This MacBook Pro has little Pro

The renewal of Apple laptops was one of the most anticipated of recent times, especially because it had been a long time that Apple did not give a little affection to their teams. The thing not only disappointed by what was presented, but so did not show: there were no developments in other teams like the iMac or a Mac Pro that seem especially doomed to oblivion by the Cupertino company.

Criticism of the MacBook Pro does not hide the fact that Apple has managed to offer features traditionally outstanding in these computers, such as those that affect its construction or its screen. However these new dimensions have also forced decisions which some consider questionable, as the new keyboard with a new iteration of Butterfly mechanism that debuted in the MacBook or the failure to include some ports that were very helpful for professionals and general users.Continue reading →

The Huawei Mate 9 2X zoom double camera

Huawei Mate 9

As you met yesterday, the new Huawei Mate 9, its high-end phablet in the format of the 2016, comes with a photographic system in collaboration with Leica and composed of a double sensor. It is the most powerful trend among the high range of this year.

Although the system of dual camera new Huawei Mate 9 is partly continuous respect to the double sensor seen already in the Huawei P9, there are interesting developments around the two sensors, one RGB and one in black and white. We review for you all you need to know about the double chamber New Huawei Mate 9.

Two sensors, but not the same

Huawei repeats strategy for the camera of its second important terminal of the year. The Huawei Mate 9 offers a dual lens camera second generation, developed in collaboration with Leica.

The combination of sensors is now different. No longer are two sensors of the same resolution (12 MP), one RBG and other monochrome, but the Mate 9 RBG sensor resolution is maintained but increased to 20 MP the monochrome. In both cases, Huawei claims to have made them grow in size to improve the uptake of light.

As it already happened in the model P9, Huawei applies different algorithms to combine the images that take both sensors and offer a single image that offers 12 megapixels of resolution. The brightness of F2.2 both lenses is far from the minimum f1.8 we are seeing in front line terminals.Continue reading →

Five features of Google Pixel that can lead to other Android

Google Pixel

It is nothing new that every smartphone hits the market has some features that are unique to that model or brand, and all of them, the missing family Nexus was the least of these exclusives brought and finally, the development community got by for almost anyone could have it.

But the arrival of the family Pixel has put Google as a manufacturer more, with a personalization own, but whose exclusives, at least in large part, can reach any Android, well thanks to the Mountain View or developers. Five of them and can be enjoyed in other Android.Continue reading →

Microsoft has developed a couple of knobs to feel inside the virtual reality

Microsoft virtual reality

Okay, we already have devices to live experiences of virtual reality, where most are based on what we perceive through sight leaving aside the other senses, although there are one to another project that seeks to offer audio, however, It is already working on devices that help to feel by touch in virtual reality experiences.

Microsoft through its research division, Microsoft Research, is releasing the first details of a project to develop controls to feel in virtual reality, this means of devices not only give haptic feedback, but also be able to simulate virtual objects to bring a new level of reality our hands.Continue reading →

Mi Mix is ​​the phone of the future that we are surprised and Philippe Starck Xiaomi 6.4 inches unframed

Mi Mix

After staging the phone we expected, the Note 2, and its accessory for virtual reality, the Mi VR, it was his turn to a ‘One More Thing’ unexpected. It is initially presenting a conceptual phone that advances us where you want to go Xiaomi, the truth is that it has an imposing appearance, both in size, as by design. But the Chinese brand wants to sell now.

It is called Xiaomi Mi Mix and is a device in which the entire front is occupied by the screen, reminding us to work with Sharp makes many of its Japanese phones, but taking it to another level thanks to its 6.4 – inch diagonal in the panel.Continue reading →