Google enters into the television – New Technology

     Samsung Gear Live with Google’s Android operating Wear. Photo: Samsung
     

Several smart watches with Google’s operating system unveiled at Google’s developer conference I / O on Wednesday. And in addition to the cell phone and the computer takes Google now also in the car to your TV as Here is the news from the conference.

Samsung, LG and Motorola showed off their smart watches based on Google’s Android operating Wear, unveiled in March this year.

Samsung’s Gear Live and LG’s G Watch can be ordered directly for between 1300 and 1500 crowns. Motorola’s smart watch Moto 360, coming later this summer, unlike the other two a round shield, and a look that is more reminiscent of a traditional clock.

Gear Live is similar to Samsung’s previous model Gear 2 which was based on its own operating system Tizen. Samsung tried initially with the standard version of Android, but realized that the power consumption was too high.

Android Wear is specifically designed for small Fitted appliances watches, and supports both rectangular and round screens. It relies also heavily on Google’s Google Now – a voice-controlled assistant that collects information from the user’s calendar, e-mail and daily habits to quickly provide information that the user may need in the moment.

During the initial presentation at the developer conference I / O mattered Google ambition to Android and its apps to work seamlessly on different devices. Centrally is a new graphic design that Google calls Materials Design, which clearly can be seen in the Android Wear.

It is characterized by clear colors and minimalist design with a lot of air. On a special website may app developers tips on design principles.

Much of the presentation focused on Android as today according to Google has a billion active users sending 20 billion text messages and makes 93 million “selfies” day.

More news, besides the clever bells, comes to increase the use of Android.

A general new version of the operating system, Android L , going to fall. Innovations will include a more boundless difference between apps and web pages as tabs on the same screen. Also new is a search function that shows pictorial searches directly in a kind of slide show. Also new is the lower power consumption based on a development project called Project Volta, and the option to delete mobiles in the distance even if they restored to factory settings – a feature that Apple previously launched.

Android One is the name of a type of package for the development of very cheap mobiles. The package includes besides operating a batch of simple components at low price. As examples mentioned Google a collaboration with the Indian manufacturer Micromax, which has developed a smartphone with 4.5-inch screen and dual sim card for under 100 dollars. Android One begins in India was the first country.

Android Auto is a special version of the operating system designed for cars, focusing on navigation, communication and music. Very controlled by voice commands, and it should be possible to synchronize some parts of an Android mobile with the car’s systems. Although the Android Auto has the feature Google Now a central function.

Both Apple and Microsoft has previously announced its investment in the auto industry.

Android TV replaces Google’s previous project for televisions – Google TV – which had very limited success. The system is a kind of extension of the small usb plug Chromecast stuffed into the TV and allows one to stream content to your TV from the Internet or from a mobile phone or tablet with Android.

The Android TV, intended for televisions and set-top boxes, there are also apps. According to Google, Sony and Sharp to launch devices with Android TV in 2015.

A common development tools for Android will make it easy to develop apps that work on all different platforms – mobile, tablet, TV, car, clock.

Another first is that some Androidappar starts working on laptops belonging Chromebook – computers that are based on making the most directly in the browser, mainly based on Google’s own web-based network services.

Linked to the Android Wear launched Google also Google Fit – a function to collect data from various hälsoappar. Apple has previously launched a similar feature called Healthkit.

In concluding his presentation shared Google charges a small kit in cardboard that makes mobiles a simple 3d mesh. The box holding the phone in place and an associated app projected two images side by side on the screen, which together provide a stereo image when each eye sees a respective image. For the DIY kit is also required two lenses to look at the screen at a short distance.

The kit is similar to the Swedish mask Binopad developed by Univisual Technologies, however, also corrects the images on the screen so they are not perceived as distorted when viewed through the lenses.

Seedlings stores arsenic – New Technology

Researchers from the University of Skövde has developed a new type of plant to absorb arsenic from the soil and store the poison in their roots.

Arsenic is extremely toxic to humans and can lead to diabetes, cancer and fertility damage from prolonged exposure. Meanwhile, it is one of the most common elements in the earth’s crust.

In Southeast Asia exposed millions of people daily for arsenic, either by drinking contaminated water or by eating crops grown on arsenic poisoned farmland. Also in other parts of the world, including Sweden, have arsenic in the soil has become a problem that creates great anxiety.

At the University of Skövde ongoing research with the aim to remove or reduce the accumulation of arsenic in food and the environment. Now, researchers have developed a plant that stores arsenic in the roots, while the other parts of the plant can serve as food.

idea is that the poisonous roots should be sorted out so that the arsenic in them can be used in industry. That creates a purifying cycle.

– One can compare our breakthrough in this research with the “golden rice” which was developed in the 1990s as an aid project to help children in Asia and Africa. It was a rice which, among other things, to put carotene and iron to rice to address the vitamin A deficiency, with blindness as a result, affecting many children at risk of poor areas, says Abul Mandal, Professor of Molecular Biology at University of Skövde, in a press release.

research has been conducted on a tobacco plant. The next step is to move to a crop of great social and economic importance, such as rice and wheat.

Foods that are free from arsenic or have significantly reduced levels of arsenic could protect millions of people around the world from matbaserad arsenic poisoning and its deadly consequences, writes University of Skövde in the press release.

Airbag in ships save lives – New Technology

Airbags triggered by a ship collision should keep the hull afloat. The idea is worth developing says Professor Jonas Ringenberg at Chalmers.

     Samples with inflatable pillows. Photo: Susy video
     

idea behind airbags at sea was developed within the EU supported project Susy. In the autumn of 2013 an attempt was made in a medium-sized tanker in the Greek port city of Chalkida.

challenge is to quickly inflate the cushions from small containers . Besides, it has given much thought to where the pads should be placed.

The choice has fallen on the placement in the space between written in double-hull vessels, As in the ballast tanks. The plastic on the pads need to be reinforced with Aramid fibers (Kevlar) to withstand the rigors

For inflation favors the project cartridges with a mixture of potassium nitrate, which used in the powder and epoxy and iron oxide. The heat generated by the chemical reaction may need to be cooled with a spare cartridge containing compressed air, or through the heat exchanger before the gas enters the airbag.

one of the commission’s experts, Egbert Ypma, is hesitant about the placement of the pads. He argues that they become almost impossible to inspect and maintain, making rescue system unreliable.

But the Swedish participant in the project, Professor Jonas Ringenberg at Chalmers, believe that the idea is well worth trying.

– It is a step towards improving safety.

He is backed by Reinhard Ahlers from Bremen, who believes that there is scope for refinements of the technique of inflation and other issues. German rocket technology from Astrium, now Airbus Defence and Space, can help with the exhaust technology and German-British efforts to optimize the material in air bags.

Children solsprej inhaled into the lungs – New Technology

     ”If the particles would come down in the alveoli, they can cause inflammation,” says Dr Karlsson, environmental toxicologist at the Karolinska Institute in Solna Photo: Jörgen Appelgren
     

Many sunscreen sprays containing nanoparticles that can be drawn into the lungs. Young children are especially känsliga.Inom EU is banning the sprays on the way.

In New report identifies SSNC benefits, risks and regulations for nanoparticles in different products. Nanoparticles are invisible to the eye, the smallest is only a millionth of a millimeter in diameter.

– Nanotechnology is both good and bad. The report highlights some products it is inappropriate to use them, says Mikael Karlsson, until recently chairman of the Nature Conservation.

Common solsprej containing titanium dioxide nanoparticles, belongs to them. Studies have shown that only 20 percent of the sunscreen sprayed on the body of skin contact. The rest float around like particles in the air. The risk is that the particles are inhaled and causes damage to the lung tissue. It has been the EU’s Committee on Consumer Protection, SCCS, found in 2013 and 2014 after a massive review of research studies.

In recent years, many manufacturers switched to using nanoparticles of metal oxide titanium dioxide in sunscreen. The reasons are two: it protects against a larger portion of the UV spectrum and the cream becomes transparent on the skin instead of white.

Titanium dioxide is the only physical sunscreens that are authorized in the EU. It works by reflecting the sun’s rays away from the skin. Titanium dioxide is also the sunscreen recommended for children under two years.

Hanna Karlsson is environmental toxicologist at the Karolinska Institute in Solna. Her focus is on metal oxides and their effects on lung cells. She is skeptical of all spray forms with nanoparticles.

– One gets a different kind of exposure if inhaled particles. We have huge areas of the lungs where it can take a pick. If the particles would come down in the alveoli, they can cause inflammation and where it is not at all the way to the blood, she says.

In her research, she has found that lung cells located in the liquid of titanium dioxide particles in nano form can damage DNA, which in turn may increase the risk of cancer. She has bought products with nanoparticles but never like spray.

– Right now there are too many uncertainties and therefore I avoid spray forms.

Children may be particularly vulnerable, according to Erik Melén a pediatrician at Sachs’ Children’s Hospital and the research on children’s exposure to airborne particles at the Karolinska Institute .

– In general, one can say that young children and even newborns, are more sensitive to particulates and air pollution than older children and adults . That is partly because they do not have the same ability to filter particles, so they can get further into the respiratory tract and lungs, he says.

What could happen then?

– What we have seen is that children exposed to higher levels of air pollution have poorer lung function later in life. So there is a risk that there could be permanent damage if exposed early in life.

Scientists believe that both nanoparticles and larger particles airborne can cause the effect. It is precisely airborne nanoparticles as EU scientific committee SCCS lifts warning flag for. As for creams, where the nanoparticles constitute more than 25 percent, they contrast the green light. Risk assessment is likely to be pushed through. Then it must also be incorporated into Swedish law.

pharmacy chain Apoteket AB has already opted out solsprej using titanium dioxide nanoparticles.

– In general, we follow the SCCS recommendations to the letter. The sprays are inhaled problem that is decisive, says Pär Svahnberg ingredient expert in pharmacy.

For the consumer, it is not easy to know what the sprays contains, or even if it is a spray. Because when Ny Teknik wonder why the pharmacy despite it sells a product called “Sunless Tanning Spray”, which contains nanoparticles of titanium dioxide, the answer is:

– It is an unfortunate name chosen because it is a liquid and not an aerosol. Exposure-wise, this corresponds to a skin cream. I’ll recommend that they change the name.

Peter Jansson, the trade association Chemical Engineering supplier Association, is an expert on law and technology issues as well as on sunscreen. He is well versed in the SCCS safety.

– When it comes to spray with nanoparticles that are biopersistent (not broken down in the body, reds defects) have SCCS a clear writing. The industry has no reason to go against it, he says.

The label shall state clearly whether a solsprej contains nanoparticles.

But even if it does not say anything so it can still be nanoparticles because “those using titanium dioxide in their products can not guarantee that they completely exclude the faction, “said Peter Jansson.

Is the conclusion that one should avoid sunscreen sprays completely?

– I would not use it on my two year old daughter. Maybe at the legs of my older children.

Nätexperten: Ericsson must act quickly – New Technology

Great Battle and then exclusion. Analysis The house Gartner believes that three systems suppliers dominate the market ahead of the next generation networks will.

     NYT in 2014: 24

     NYT in 2014: 23

     Bengt Nordström. Photo: Fredrik Stehn
     

For several weeks Ny Teknik told of future networks to cope with the huge increase in traffic. The new network is a network that will be built on the operators’ terms – and it places tough demands on the system providers.

analysis house Gartner believes that Cisco, Ericsson and Huawei will be the three largest system providers for technology shift when NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) and SDN (Software Defined Networks) and the new network architecture is introduced.

– Huawei will definitely be one of the three major systems suppliers. I’m sure Cisco and Ericsson. But Ericsson must act quickly, they have some catching up to do in terms of NFV and SDN, says Akshay Sharma, an expert in network infrastructure at Gartner.

Today, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei, NSN and ZTE the six largest system suppliers for the telecom industry. Their combined turnover exceeds a trillion dollars per year.

Cisco believes it will be tough for the Chinese suppliers come.

– Cisco has a great location and has been there from the beginning. Our assessment is that Cisco and Ericsson will succeed best among the six systems suppliers. Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, NSN and ZTE will have difficulty competing. Although Intel will likely have a good position, said Fredrik Wester, chief technology officer at Cisco.

– About two or three years we will To see what systems vendors are performing best, he says.

Cisco wants to enter the ranks of the system supplier that delivers the important nodes that handle telecommunications traffic, such as GGSN for mobile network traffic.

GGSN becomes in the future, a virtualized software running in the data center.

– My prediction is that Ericsson, Huawei and NSN and Alcatel / Lucent is the largest system providers of backbone nodes and service nodes for telecom networks in five years, says Bengt Nordström consulting firm North Stream.

– But Samsung may be one of the major system suppliers to the telecom industry. Samsung has received contracts with Vodafone and can even become a supplier to Vodafone in Europe. There may also be some form of consolidation between NSN and Alcatel-Lucent, says Bengt Nordström.

– Cisco aims to become a supplier of backbone nodes and service nodes for telecom networks. My assessment is that Cisco will not have any substantial part of that market, says Bengt Nordström.

Children solsprej inhaled into the lungs – New Technology

     ”If the particles would come down in the alveoli, they can cause inflammation,” says Dr Karlsson, environmental toxicologist at the Karolinska Institute in Solna Photo: Jörgen Appelgren
     

Many sunscreen sprays containing nanoparticles that can be drawn into the lungs. Young children are especially känsliga.Inom EU is banning the sprays on the way.

In New report identifies SSNC benefits, risks and regulations for nanoparticles in different products. Nanoparticles are invisible to the eye, the smallest is only a millionth of a millimeter in diameter.

– Nanotechnology is both good and bad. The report highlights some products it is inappropriate to use them, says Mikael Karlsson, until recently chairman of the Nature Conservation.

Common solsprej containing titanium dioxide nanoparticles, belongs to them. Studies have shown that only 20 percent of the sunscreen sprayed on the body of skin contact. The rest float around like particles in the air. The risk is that the particles are inhaled and causes damage to the lung tissue. It has been the EU’s Committee on Consumer Protection, SCCS, found in 2013 and 2014 after a massive review of research studies.

In recent years, many manufacturers switched to using nanoparticles of metal oxide titanium dioxide in sunscreen. The reasons are two: it protects against a larger portion of the UV spectrum and the cream becomes transparent on the skin instead of white.

Titanium dioxide is the only physical sunscreens that are authorized in the EU. It works by reflecting the sun’s rays away from the skin. Titanium dioxide is also the sunscreen recommended for children under two years.

Hanna Karlsson is environmental toxicologist at the Karolinska Institute in Solna. Her focus is on metal oxides and their effects on lung cells. She is skeptical of all spray forms with nanoparticles.

– One gets a different kind of exposure if inhaled particles. We have huge areas of the lungs where it can take a pick. If the particles would come down in the alveoli, they can cause inflammation and where it is not at all the way to the blood, she says.

In her research, she has found that lung cells located in the liquid of titanium dioxide particles in nano form can damage DNA, which in turn may increase the risk of cancer. She has bought products with nanoparticles but never like spray.

– Right now there are too many uncertainties and therefore I avoid spray forms.

Children may be particularly vulnerable, according to Erik Melén a pediatrician at Sachs’ Children’s Hospital and the research on children’s exposure to airborne particles at the Karolinska Institute .

– In general, one can say that young children and even newborns, are more sensitive to particulates and air pollution than older children and adults . That is partly because they do not have the same ability to filter particles, so they can get further into the respiratory tract and lungs, he says.

What could happen then?

– What we have seen is that children exposed to higher levels of air pollution have poorer lung function later in life. So there is a risk that there could be permanent damage if exposed early in life.

Scientists believe that both nanoparticles and larger particles airborne can cause the effect. It is precisely airborne nanoparticles as EU scientific committee SCCS lifts warning flag for. As for creams, where the nanoparticles constitute more than 25 percent, they contrast the green light. Risk assessment is likely to be pushed through. Then it must also be incorporated into Swedish law.

pharmacy chain Apoteket AB has already opted out solsprej using titanium dioxide nanoparticles.

– In general, we follow the SCCS recommendations to the letter. The sprays are inhaled problem that is decisive, says Pär Svahnberg ingredient expert in pharmacy.

For the consumer, it is not easy to know what the sprays contains, or even if it is a spray. Because when Ny Teknik wonder why the pharmacy despite it sells a product called “Sunless Tanning Spray”, which contains nanoparticles of titanium dioxide, the answer is:

– It is an unfortunate name chosen because it is a liquid and not an aerosol. Exposure-wise, this corresponds to a skin cream. I’ll recommend that they change the name.

Peter Jansson, the trade association Chemical Engineering supplier Association, is an expert on law and technology issues as well as on sunscreen. He is well versed in the SCCS safety.

– When it comes to spray with nanoparticles that are biopersistent (not broken down in the body, reds defects) have SCCS a clear writing. The industry has no reason to go against it, he says.

The label shall state clearly whether a solsprej contains nanoparticles.

But even if it does not say anything so it can still be nanoparticles because “those using titanium dioxide in their products can not guarantee that they completely exclude the faction, “said Peter Jansson.

Is the conclusion that one should avoid sunscreen sprays completely?

– I would not use it on my two year old daughter. Maybe at the legs of my older children.

The technology is expected to hit big in telecom – New Technology

Tomorrow’s networks requires new equipment. System vendors such as Ericsson, Huawei, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent with several promising new products which means that virtually all of today’s intelligent network products will be replaced.

Last week, told Ny Teknik that operator Deutsche Telekom in a few years to implement a major change of the grid in Germany. Many believe that the model that DT uses is the one that will hit it big.

In recent months, there has been published a steady stream of press releases about new products for virtualization, known NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) and SDN (Software Defined Networks).

NFV and SDN are two of the technical linchpins of the new network. The modernization will give network operators a big boost, with dramatic increase network capacity, new services and features in addition to substantially lower prices compared with current products.

But modernization will take time. Before the operators decide on new national network, they want the new products are verified in large-scale operation with several million users.

According Pontus Nyrelli , Technical Manager at Alcatel-Lucent, has the network operator is a new network architecture in service with millions of users today. Fredrik Wester, chief technology officer at Cisco, believes that it will take at least a year before any network there.

– I think we have network operators that have virtualized services based on NFV and SDN in large-scale operation within 12 to 18 months, he says.

Ericsson does not want this week commenting on how far the suppliers come up with the new technology.

– to introduce a new network architecture is a gradual process. Although much can be done soon, it will take many years before it is clear, says Tommy Ljunggren, head of network architecture in TeliaSonera Group.

Network operators AT & T and Deutsche Telekom are two operators who are betting that demonstrate leadership in their home markets.

– I know that one of the major Asian operators in 2013 made an invitation and wanted to procure a total of virtualized network equipment. But no supplier could meet the requirements, says Bengt Nordström in consultancy Stream North in Stockholm, which among other things helps network operators with the purchase of network equipment.

– I do not think there are functional products this year or next year either which meet network operators’ requirements, he says.

Bengt Nordström emphasizes that there is a gap between what many large network operators want to buy and what the system vendors are actually capable of delivering.

– Operators must go hand in hand with suppliers and introduce new technologies step by step and it’s a process that takes a great many years, says Bengt Nordström who do not believe in a rapid shift in technology.

At the same time there are important commercial issues to be resolved.

– Network operators want an open standard in their data centers. They want to be able to purchase applications from different vendors and run them on the same platform. They want to be able to mix both hardware and software. But according to what I know, its large system vendors today only proprietary platforms such as virtualized core network nodes and service nodes, says Bengt Nordström.

The technology that gets the football party to boil – New Technology

Not only the players, but also the art, should be in the best shape for the World Cup. New Technology’ve checked aerodynamic ridges and TV broadcasts in 4K.

1. Debut for målkameror

For the first time in the World Cup will målkameror be used to determine whether the ball crossed the goal line or not. The system from German Goal Control based on high-speed cameras and advanced image processing.

Each goal guarded by seven cameras that take 500 frames per second. The ball’s position is determined by means of image recognition. Algorithms calculates the position of the ball based on the information from the different cameras. The accuracy is reported to be a few millimeters.

Within a second shall judge a vibrating signal to a wristwatch if the ball completely crossed the goal line.

second Ball with less spin

World Cup ball in South Africa four years ago received much criticism for its unpredictable trajectory.

Net VM ball Brazuca, have been developed to provide a more stable and predictable path.

It has a ribbed surface and consists of six propeller-shaped panels of polyurethane glued together. The ridges and seams are deeper compared to the previous World Cup ball and designed so that the ball does not suddenly change direction in the air, for example at a free kick.

The ridges also helps the ball moves faster through the air. With a smooth ball arises a large area of ​​turbulence behind the ball. A grooved ball generates turbulence closest surface of the ball, which helps to suck down air behind the ball and thereby reduce the turbulence there. The force that slows the ball will be less.

3. Shoes in strumpformat

Four years of development, the manufacturer Nike have put down on a new type of football boot which will be launched in time for the World Cup. The top goes up over the ankle like a sock, and the consensus is that it barely be felt on the foot. The shoe lacks traditional lacing and tongue that can slide sideways. A new manufacturing technology transferred under section gradually in the more sock-like upper.

4. World Cup television in 3840 pixels

If 3d was the thing at the last World Cup, so it’s 4K in force in Brazil.

4K, or ultra-HD is the new standard resolution for TV with 3840 pixels in width, nearly four times more than current HD standard. For more people to open their eyes to 4K Sony collaborates with the football association FIFA to live three matches in the ultra-HD, including the final. Although the official World Cup film from Fifa will be filmed in ultra-high definition.

The outside of the stadium is the world’s largest joint panel in a stadium. It is 170 meters wide and 20 meters high, and is made up of 34,000 LED’s power-points from Osram Owned Traxon.

5th App gives fans a voice

For those who want to know all about the World Cup is a jungle of apps to download to your mobile and tablet device.

Gothenburg company Fotball Addicts not only provides full control of the team and results, but also gives fans a collective voice.

The app Forza Fotball it is possible to speak up on teams, players and coaches. In Forza 90 ‘review of fans the players during the game, and vote for the man of the match.

So we work on – but we do not have to – New Technology

     Although we very well could work remotely with today’s technology so we are drawn to the office. Photo: Colourbox
     

We are working more but do not get paid and are at work every day, although we do not have to. It reveals a new thesis.

Man will be in place on the job. Otherwise it does not count. The social norm is still as strong, although we very well could work remotely with current technology.

Longing to bounce ideas and working in teams are other reasons why we go to work every day, according to Kristina Trygg’s Thesis in Human Geography, Stockholm University.

Read the full article here.

New 3D technology uses suspended particles – New Technology

Suspended particles are guided to form images and animations. Japanese researchers have developed a new technique for creating three-dimensional images.

In the book of Peter Pan uses the fairy Tinker Bell magically dust to get the siblings Darling to fly to Neverland. Three Japanese scientists from the University of Tokyo, Nagoya Institute of Technology and Sony takes into sound waves to get the particles to float and form images and animations. In both cases, known technology behind the “Pixie Dust” – fairy dust.

Using standing sound waves to get particles that are floating in nothing new. But until now nobody has been able to control hundreds of particles in real time. The researchers Yoichi Ochiai, Takayuki Hoshi and Jun Rekimoto managed the feat by developing a way to control the distribution of the acoustic field. The result is a new 3d technology.

So far the letters and figures created in “screens” from 25 x25 cm to 100 x 100 cm. The particles are moving at a speed of up to 72 cm per second, the spatial resolution (each pixel) is 0.5 mm and the hovering 4.25 mm apart. The density of the material can be up to 7 grams per cubic centimeter.

technology will be presented in detail at the annual computer-graphics conference and Siggraph in Vancouver, Canada, in August and in the upcoming issue of the journal ACM Transactions on Graphics (Volume 33, Issue 4).

Zonkänslig gps control bus – New Technology

     Laddhybridbuss with collision warning technology. Photo: Volvo
     

A zonkänslig gps takes over part of the driver’s work in Volvo laddhybridbussar. The technique determines where the bus is going to the electric power and diesel respectively, and the maximum speed it can have in different areas. Volvo also test the collision avoidance system on the buses.

We call the technique Zone Management. In the first place, this gives environmental benefits. We have zero discharge areas where the bus only runs on electricity. It can walk quietly through neighborhoods and slowly over the places frequented by many people, says Helena Lind, Press Manager at Volvo Buses.

Laddhybridbussen goes about 8 km on electricity on a single charge, which takes place at the end of the line engines. If the distance is greater, one can also optimize fuel consumption using GPS control, and choose which zones are most suitable for electric and diesel power.

– We have also begun to test collision avoidance system for city buses running on electricity. When the bus becomes quiet in city traffic, and can get closer to people and travelers by its emission and noise-free, requires technology that can handle this.

Volvo laddhybridbussar the past year has been tested on line 60 between Redbergsplatsen and Masthugget in Gothenburg. Compared with the diesel fuel consumption has been reduced by 80 percent, and the total energy consumption by 60 percent. During the spring, the buses used Zone Management.

-It has worked well and will now be included in all our hybrid buses, says Helena Lind.

Transmission plant will find new generation technologies – New Technology

industry focuses on field trips to increase interest in engineering. New Technology has complied with children and parents in the Scania factory in Södertälje.
– Seeing the robots I’ve been looking forward all the time, says Benjamin Roxberger, 10 years.

Along with classmate Joel Ekeberg visiting Benjamin Roxberger Scania in Södertälje a Friday in May, instead of sitting in the school bench in Edboskolan in Huddinge.

Through the initiative” The industry takes the game “involved some 15 children and their parents. The goal is to showcase Swedish industrial target urbanites aged 30-45 years with children of their own.

Scania transmission plant, participants follow production line from casting to finished shaft in the gearbox. Industrial robots lathes and mills alternately. The orange robots looks much like the two boys had imagined. They also think it’s pretty clean, and that there are enough people in the factory.

– Robots work faster, but can not teach themselves, says Benjamin Roxberger.

He also has a clear idea of ​​why Scania uses robots.

– They work without pay and will never retire. People do not work as much.

Benjamin and Joel is interested in technology and likes math. But Joel’s favorite subject in school is handicraft. He wants to be an inventor when he grows up.

– You can come up with new things and make lots of money. But I have enough invent in my spare time and have a regular job first.

– The most fun is to conceive and build a solution. The drawing is saved in the head.

to get yourself controlling a robotic arm with a joystick along an obstacle course was one of the highlights of Scania. Best of all was offroad skiing in the world’s strongest truck. Benjamin Roxberger think it was a learning day.

– Without reconnaissance no idea who our teacher Elisabeth Wallin usually says, he says .

Transmission plant will find new generation technologies – New Technology

industry focuses on field trips to increase interest in engineering. New Technology has complied with children and parents in the Scania factory in Södertälje.
– Seeing the robots I’ve been looking forward all the time, says Benjamin Roxberger, 10 years.

Along with classmate Joel Ekeberg visiting Benjamin Roxberger Scania in Södertälje a Friday in May, instead of sitting in the school bench in Edboskolan in Huddinge.

Through the initiative” The industry takes the game “involved some 15 children and their parents. The goal is to showcase Swedish industrial target urbanites aged 30-45 years with children of their own.

Scania transmission plant, participants follow production line from casting to finished shaft in the gearbox. Industrial robots lathes and mills alternately. The orange robots looks much like the two boys had imagined. They also think it’s pretty clean, and that there are enough people in the factory.

– Robots work faster, but can not teach themselves, says Benjamin Roxberger.

He also has a clear idea of ​​why Scania uses robots.

– They work without pay and will never retire. People do not work as much.

Benjamin and Joel is interested in technology and likes math. But Joel’s favorite subject in school is handicraft. He wants to be an inventor when he grows up.

– You can come up with new things and make lots of money. But I have enough invent in my spare time and have a regular job first.

– The most fun is to conceive and build a solution. The drawing is saved in the head.

to get yourself controlling a robotic arm with a joystick along an obstacle course was one of the highlights of Scania. Best of all was offroad skiing in the world’s strongest truck. Benjamin Roxberger think it was a learning day.

– Without reconnaissance no idea who our teacher Elisabeth Wallin usually says, he says .

Saab’s submarine business slowed by the German government – New Technology

     Stirling engines are an important part of Kockums submarine technology. Photo: TT
     

Saab purchase by Kockums going slower than anticipated. Reportedly, the federal government in Germany oppose the deal.

Defense Group Saab and shipyard owner, German Thyssen Krupp, said in the spring that they agree about selling Kockums to Saab. A non-binding agreement was written on.

However, according to the German renowned magazine Die Wirtschaftswoche can purchase negotiations slower than expected.

Federal Government is concerned that the German fuel cell technology, which makes the country’s submarines silent under the surface, to have been transferred to Kockums. There are fears that the secrets could leak. Although Thyssen Krupp assures that any knowledge transfer has not taken place, the government can consider that the sale to another country requires approval of the Federal Security Council. It handles just including arms export business.

According to the magazine should Thyssen Krupp and the federal government to remain in constant contact with each other in Kockums case.

On May 26, also met the relevant top politicians – Defense Minister Karin Enstrom and her German colleague Ursula von der Leyen – in Stockholm. Materials Collaboration was on the agenda. But the main focus was on Ukraine crisis, says Enströms press secretary Henrik Hedberg for New Technology. He does not want any closer than clarify what the ministers were talking about.

According to Wirtschaftswoche, plans can also be dashed as Thyssen Krupp’s majority owner is against the deal.

While driving the Swedish investment company Cevian Capital, which now has 15 percent of the shares in Thyssen Krupp, the spin-off of the Swedish part. Company is also poised to increase its ownership and hence its influence in the German group.

Here at home, there are strong hopes that the deal still must get rid of.

– It does really matter what the German government is doing. Saab may be the start of a new shipyard, says an inside source.

According person has ThyssenKrupp to choose whether to receive some money now, or no later, the facility in Karlskrona. The yard is said to have to be renovated for many millions.

At Saab would not comment on what is said in negotiations.

“Saab is in a position where it is impossible for us to talk about a possible future in this area, “says the company’s press officers Helena Dahlberg in an email.

But as leaked Saab has made a bid for Kockums. ThyssenKrupp is entering position to get paid more.

For Saab herons billion order for two new Swedish submarines, called A26, and on halvtidsmoderniseringar on two or three of the submarines of the Gotland class.

Tracking devices revealed luxury car thieves on E4 – Aftonbladet

Last Saturday was recovered three stolen luxury cars of the BMW mark along the E4 highway, at the lake. The cars could be located using tracking devices. The last year has 19 cars for a total value of just over 18 million found thanks to the new technology.

When police raided a trailer along the E4 : an at Vättern on Saturday found a stolen BMW. Track transmitter that was hidden in the car meant that the police could be headed to the right place. But when the trailer was checked in its entirety, it was bingo. Two more stolen BMW cars were on board, a total police could seize three luxury cars worth a total of three and a half million dollars.

– Many times it so that the “prank call” collects several cars on a trailer for profitability reasons, and now we are so lucky that there was a car with a tracking device along with two other stolen cars, says Klas Wassberg at Guard Systems which sells the track transmitter which this time was successful.

Cars for 18 million

Increasingly tracking devices coming to market. Those Guard Systems provides under Klas Wassberg resulted in 19 recoveries of cars worth more than 18 million since September 2013. A transmitter costs about 1400 dollars to buy more than a few hundred dollars in operating costs per year.

Should insurance companies pay for this equipment to their customers?

– Absolutely. It should be included when you take out the insurance, says Klas Wassberg.

League exploded in Skåne

Using tracking devices could police tracing even blow up a luxury car league that raged in southern Sweden.

When did a crackdown on their premises they found three recently stolen cars of the BMW X5.

During the search they found objects from another six stolen cars. The police were using tracking devices to locate a stolen BMW X5 to a store in Ängelholm. The police put surveillance on the premises and it was not long before the two men appeared, driving alone in the further a stolen BMW X5. They made a raid and managed to arrest the two men. In the premises again found two recently stolen luxury cars of the same brand.

– Did not these cars have tracking devices, we probably had never found them. It is important to develop this technique to prevent these thefts, says Göran Kellner, chief investigator for the insurance company If.

Manipulated security

All the stolen cars were equipped with an immobilizer system. There is a security system which means that when the key is turned in the lock, there is a readout of an electronic code stored in the key. If the code is correct, start the car. During an investigation of the stolen cars so you could see that someone tampered with immobilizer systems for the cars to be able to use them.

Fann tools and key shells

search warrant of the premises and the men’s residence, they found one tool and blank key shell with the men’s fingerprints and DNA. These have been used to install new electronic codes of keys to use them. They also found items that could be linked to another six stolen luxury cars. Although these cars were equipped with immobilizer system.

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Industry couples slowly – New Technology

The connection of machines in industrial processes go right slowly. But more and more manufacturers are using the web to diagnose their products among customers.

Everything more gadgets connected to the network. The message we hear all the time. Even machines in industrial processes are now connected to the mobile network and the Internet. But the connection is slower than for consumer gadgets, vehicles and buildings.

– One reason could be that the efficiency of industrial processes already right way. Many have installed programmable logic controllers, plc, says Martin Glaumann, partner at Arthur D Little.

M2m is an abbreviation of the English term Machine-to-machine, which means that the machines communicate with each other without human intervention. IoT stands for internet of things, ie, devices that communicate over the network.

Martin Glaumann is the author of Connected Things , which describes the Nordic m2m market, and which was published last spring.

market for online industrial processes is still a small part of the total m2m market in the Nordic region. This segment accounts for only 3 percent. The largest is connected buildings followed by online consumer gadgets, and then it still does not mobiles and laptops included.

The annual growth rate for the entire Nordic m2m market is 30 percent by 2017., it is twice as fast as the rest of the world. But for industrial processes expected a slower pace in the future: an annual increase of 11 percent.

driving force to connect industrial processes is increased productivity and competitiveness, according to the report. The inhibitory activity is high integration costs and long life of existing machinery.

number of Swedish production plants connected to the machines via the mobile network and the Internet or to streamline production are not many.

Then it is easier to find examples of manufacturers in Sweden who use the web to look after diagnosis , maintenance and service of its products among customers.

ABB’s service robots, as described on the previous pages, is only an example. Siemens in Finspong has a similar setup. Thanks to sensors in the gas turbines, Siemens can offer its worldwide customers various maintenance services through online.

Even Esab is currently in the process of launch a pilot project for remote maintenance of their welds.

Extremely complicated medical equipment also checked up on the Internet. The medical technology company Elekta’s advanced linear accelerator for cancer treatment has as 2 000 alarm points, which are used to help customers with remote analysis, updating software and service planning.

The major machine manufacturers will thus distance service as a chance for new revenue and an argument for being able to sell more of their products.

– A good example of proactive maintenance, which allows for new business models, says Martin Glaumann.

The network operator diets from four networks to one – New Technology

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The telecommunications industry is gearing up for upheaval. The existing networks are not sufficient for the dramatic growth of traffic on the internet. The solution is to merge the networks for fixed telephony, mobile telephony, Internet and television services and build something completely new with 50 times more capacity or more.

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     Patrik Wallström.

     Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder. Photo: Punkt.se
     

Network operators worldwide struggle with the problem. German Deutsche Telekom is in the forefront and has developed Tera Stream, a new network architecture for future networks. The goal is to start large-scale deployment 2016-2017, according to informed sources.

– We have proven that our new network architecture Tera Stream works in A pilot network in Croatia, says Axel Clauberg, responsible for Terastrem at Deutsche Telekom.

Traditionally, large network operators such as Deutsche Telekom, Telia and Telenor separate networks for mobile and fixed telephony, Internet and TV. That is what must change. Deutsche Telekom will close the old fixed telephone network in Germany in 2018. Syllabus is that the GSM network and 3G networks will be integrated with Tera Stream which also takes care of fixed broadband and 4G.

The Swedish computer technician Peter Löthberg singled out as the main architect of Tera Stream, but Peter himself would not confirm its role in detail. He says that he has played a pivotal role in establishing Tera Stream.

– Deutsche Telekom asked me to bring forward proposals for a new network architecture. My ambition is to try to reduce the amount of equipment in the network so that Tera Stream becomes as cheap as possible, says Peter Löthberg.

Above all, the capacity of the core network that increases tremendously heavily in Tera Stream, compared with today’s networks. Many other operators are heading in the same direction. AT & T stated lie flush with Deutsche Telekom, but AT & T has not yet published its new network architecture.

– Tera Stream has revolutionized the internet and telecommunications industry, says Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder, säkerhetsschef and Quality Manager at The Internet Infrastructure Foundation.

– Tera Stream represents a vision that many network elements, but each operator has different starting points and paths towards the vision. Tera Stream is a good vision that shows the new technological opportunities, says Tommy Ljunggren, head of network architecture in TeliaSonera Group.

Telia is now working on its future network architecture and how new technologies can best be used, for example, so-called virtualization that has long been used in large data centers, which means that specialized equipment is replaced with software that runs on standard servers. It provides increased flexibility, and a central task for architectures that Tera Stream is faster and easier to offer new services of various kinds to subscribers.

– When Tera Stream is running and verified on a large scale, other operators will be forced to build similar architectures. It may take some years before it is finished standard products. My assessment is that operators Telia and Telenor will introduce similar network architecture, but it will take a few years, says Patrik Wallström, technical expert on Internet Infrastructure Foundation.

In the spring of 2014, AT & T reported that they begin to invest in the new technology this year. Industry experts estimate that AT & T in 2020 introduced the new technology in areas of the U.S. where it is profitable. AT & T has chosen Ericsson as one of several suppliers.

– I estimate that Deutsche Telekom and AT & T today is at least one year ahead of its nearest competitors when it comes to introducing new technologies. In 2020, the 20 largest operators caught up with Deutsche Telekom and AT & T. Then there are standardized products and skills available, says Aksay Sharma, an expert in network infrastructure at research firm Gartner.

Axel Clauberg report that Deutsche Telekom now working to get many vendors offering products for Tera Stream. He emphasizes that the operators can not expect to in the future get paid more of their usual household today. Hence, the requirement that Tera Stream to deliver at least 30-50 times higher capacity but without the usual subscriber may pay more. This places a heavy demand on Tera Stream.

Footnote: New Technology has repeatedly tried to talk with Ericsson Tera Stream. But Ericsson declines to comment.

Five corpse found in Finland – Aftonbladet

Police in Oulu were alerted to a basement after complaints about the stench.

On the spot, they found the remains of at least five children.

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder, writes Ilta Sanomat.

It is still very unclear about the five dead children who were found on Tuesday in Oulu in western Finland.

But according Ilta Sanomat called a caretaker police for help in locating a stench in the rental house’s basement.

Woman Arrested

In a basement, police found some form of “packages” that contained the remains of five children. Reportedly, the 35-year-old woman told police that it is her child, which she received for a period of between five and ten years ago.

How old were the kids when they were killed has not yet been possible to determine, but it is at least full-term fetus.

Not known to police

A technical investigation to determine the age of the children, and when they were killed has begun, but the answer will, according to the police to linger.

According to the woman, these are about the stillborn fetus that she was not clear reason chosen to save. She has not been able to give the police any explanation.

Allegedly, the woman recently moved into the current apartment building, and should then have brought with them the dead children.

Last Friday, the suspect 35-year-old woman sought custody. She is not known to the police already.

Students and teachers from Burea school year eight took the chance to learn more … – Norra Västerbotten

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Students and teachers from Burea school year eight took the opportunity to learn more … Norra Västerbotten The students’ task was to build a robot out of Lego that can push other robots out of a ring without being left out. To help them, they had among other sensors that react to light. LTU’s goal is to get children and teenagers interested in technology . more »

The proportion of employees in low-wage countries to increase ‘- New Technology

     The trend of increasing staff in low-wage countries is extremely clear at Tieto. The percentage will increase further with Håkan Dahlström, former mobile manager who changed the industry. Photo: Helene Ahlbom
     

In the IT consulting company Tieto work 45 per cent of workers in low-wage countries. And the percentage will öka.Telia Sonera’s former mobile chief, Håkan Dahlström, is one of the new bosses who will implement the strategy.

Tieto has suffered through a number of tough years and reduced staff by almost a quarter since 2011. Last year’s savings program is almost completed. But if it was the last one is not clear. The news that management is left to the share of employees in these countries will increase, what the industry calls employees offshore.

Since April 1 this year Håkan Dahlström responsible for Tieto’s business public sector.

– Percentage off shore will increase even with me, says Håkan Dahlström, with 1300 employees, including over 900 works with product.

– But we also employ in Sweden. Here we are looking for expertise in the development of more advanced solutions, he says.

trend of a greater share of private developers in countries like China and India is strong in many Western IT consultants. At Tieto is the extremely clear.

In 2005, Tieto, then known as TietoEnator, 1200 of its total of 15 000 employees in low-wage countries. The proportion was only 8 percent.

Now it’s 45 percent, and the proportion will increase further.

– Some of our customers prioritizing low costs, and employees off shore is still cheaper, says Håkan Dahlström.

– But we also have customers that manage information about patients and nations’ security, preferring that we manage the business locally.

Håkan Dahlström could be 14 years at TeliaSonera, before the fall of 2012 had to leave the company. Then CEO Lars Nyberg explained that “the pace of change has not been high enough.”

– We had different opinions about how the business would conducted, says Håkan Dahlström today.

A highlight during the years at TeliaSonera was to become the world’s first commercial launch of 4g, December 2009.

– But the most fun was to be with and reverse the Swedish mobile store, to the growth and improved profit margins.

With a little distance to the mobile adventure is the enormous power that the development of mobile data had, once it took off, which surprised him most.

– And the huge impact with Iphone was something by far.

While mobile manager got Håkan Dahlström also endured harsh criticism from its customers. In particular, the spring of 2012 when Telia decided to not allow ip calls like Skype in all their mobile subscriptions.

– It may not was the smartest thing we did. But as a manager one must not be afraid of criticism. One must dare to try, says Håkan Dahlström.

– And that’s also what I think will be fun to work at Tieto. That we should dare. Dare to go before, and challenge ourselves and our clients.

The secret behind the world’s most energy efficient car – New Technology

It is produced in 200 copies, weighs 795 kg and cost a fortune.
Ny Teknik have test driven one-liter car, the world’s most energy efficient car.

Volkswagen XL1 is small and easily. Self should be small and pretty to smoothly tricks down in the car. Ny Teknik test pilot hits his head on the carbon fiber roof.

The spectacular model, called “one-liter car” because fuel consumption is less than one liter of diesel per 100 km. That makes it the world’s most fuel-efficient car, according to Volkswagen.

As early as twelve years ago, the company’s then-CEO Ferdinand Piëch an acclaimed travel from Wolfsburg to Hamburg in the company’s first enlitersbil. It was an extreme prototype that was never intended to be made. But today’s XL1 is ready for the market and are manufactured in 200 copies.

Though it there with enlitersbil is not entirely true. XL1: an cheat with little electric power to meet the low diesel consumption. The car is a plug-in hybrid, where the electric motor plus lithium ion battery provides a range of 50 km. Then, take a diesel over.

This way you can run 100 km on 0.9 liters of diesel. Carbon dioxide emissions will then be 21 grams per kilometer, provided that the battery is charged with fossil-free electricity.

The low fuel consumption has two explanations: extreme aerodynamics and hard dieting. Little XL1 is not higher than the average six year old, 115 cm. The body is pear shaped and has enclosed rear wheels, but no mirrors.

The car’s total weight is 795 kg, about 600 kg less than a VW Golf. Most of the steel is replaced by reinforced carbon fiber, aluminum and other lightweight materials. Power Steering missing, but narrow tires and low weight makes the steering quite easy though. Though the test ride is noisy – even soundproofing missing

Suddenly you hear a rattling sound behind your car. A hovering helicopter? Nope, it’s the engine that kicks in when I press a little extra on the gas pedal.

What extreme car cost? 1.1 million. But Volkswagen has not developed a car manufactured in 200 copies to make money. Instead, some of the technology from the project come in handy in future energy-efficient vehicles.

Model: two-seater plug-in hybrid.

Weight: 795 kg.

Height: 1153 mm .

Diesel Engine: Direct injection, turbo diesel, two-cylinder, 0.8 liter. 48 hk/35 kW.

Electric power: 27 hk/20 kW electric motor.

Lithium ion battery 5.5 kWh gives a range of 50 mil.

Top Speed: 160 km / h

Acceleration 0-100 km / h: 12.7 sec.

Fuel consumption: 0.9 litres/100 km when the battery is fully charged.

Cw value (as measured in the wind tunnel): 0,189.

Miscellaneous: Gull-wing doors.

Price: 1.1 million kronor.