“The new i20 is the car that could replace the Hyundai Getz in Australia from next year and Hyundai claims the diesel version will use just 4 litres per 100km, less than the Fiat 500 diesel (4.2L/100km) and the Toyota Prius (4.4L/100km).
The Euro-styled i20 will replace the Getz in Europe towards the end of this year but Hyundai Australia is yet to confirm whether the car will be sold down under.”
“The product attempts to be silent both visually and functionally by having the cap in the downward position. By lifting up the cap the user proportionally increases the volume. The further the cap goes up the louder the sound gets. To tune the radio you simply rotate the cap and receive feedback of tuning quality via the LED on the front.”
“In a bid to cut mounting annual fuel bills of Rs 8,000 crore, Air India is to shed weight on its flights by carrying less food, newspapers and a half-filled water-tank on board.
Air India aircraft will now be put on a diet…The fly-light programme is expected to bring down fuel costs by Rs 400 crore this fiscal, a senior Air India official said.
Apart from this weight-loss programme, a dust-free regime is also proposed as dust in aircraft adds to its weight, leading to an increased fuel consumption.”
“You may remember that, some time ago, I blogged about an interesting little computer curio called the Space Cube. Quite simply, it’s one of the smallest PCs in the world, with each side measuring around 2 inches square. I wrote that it looked cool, ran on a 300MHz processor and that it probably wouldn’t be sold outside of Japan, if at all.
Well, now, we’ve actually gone and got hold of one - the only Space Cube in the UK that’s running Linux, in fact. In the flesh it’s even more impressive than in pictures, inspiring awe and provoking disbelieving reactions across the PC Pro office. It’s actually quite difficult to comprehend just how small the PC is so, for your delectation, we’ve been taking pictures of the Space Cube next to some everyday objects.”
“Day to day, the things we do as security professionals can be pretty complex. From a control perspective, it is fairly common to take a product category-like view and work from there. But nowadays, the security functions being performed have all been defined and anything “new” really is a flavor of something we’ve already done (this is why those of us who’ve been in the industry for awhile lament that everything’s been done before).
It may be useful to have a set of “atomic security functions” that act as building blocks so that all other solutions can be shown to be combinatorial or derivative of these functions. All of these functions are inline - between source consumer and target provider.”
