Deals worth Rs. 1,000 crore expected in IETF: CII

Industry chamber CII on Tuesday said it expects business deals worth around Rs. 1,000 crore during the upcoming International Engineering and Technology Fair (IETF) here that will be attended by big brands such as Tata Motors, LG, Toyota and Mitsubishi.

The three-day engineering fair from February 10-12 in the national capital will have 250 companies participating from all over the world.

“We are expecting a business of Rs. 1,000 crore this time as the fair is in Delhi. Last year we earned Rs. 400 crore when it was organised in Bangalore,” former CII President and Chairman (Trade Fairs Council) Rajive Kaul told PTI.

The 19th edition of IETF will focus on eco products and is being organised by industry chamber CII with Japan and UAE among the partner countries.

“Japan is the partner country with its latest technology, with its eco products, UAE is the focus country,” Kaul said.

India’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki and Toyota Kirloskar will be there with its latest models of Etios, Fortuner and Corolla and eco-friendly auto components.

The theme of IETF 2011 is ‘Green Productivity for Sustainable Energy and Environment’

He said there is a major increase of consumers who buy and use eco products.

The major participants include the UK, China, Russia, Italy, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia.

The fair will be inaugurated by Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma and UAE’s Minister of Foreign Trade Sheikha Lubna Bint Al Qasimi and Japanese Ambassador Hideaki Domichi will also be present.

On the expected footfall, he said, “We are expecting around 25,000 business partners this time from 14,000 in the previous year.”

The Water Pavilion, part of the three-day event, will provide sustainable solutions for water management and is being organised in closed association with Delhi Jal Board.

Companies like Jindal Steels, Toshiba, Tata Group, Voltas will exhibit their products ranging from electronic goods, cars, pumps to stainless steel items.

Source: The Hindu

PHILIPS CLINISCAPE TABLET PC - A Gadget for Med Techos

PHILIPS CLINISCAPE TABLET PC

Philips has officially launched its new tablet PC for clinicians, called CliniScape. Previously only known as Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA),the CliniScape (MCA104 model) was just unveiled at the World of Health IT annual congress in Vienna, Austria.

The CliniScape mobile clinical assistant enables nurses and physicians to take more informed clinical decisions at the point of care by using an ultra-ergonomic and medical grade always connected touch-screen device that integrates all the features needed to increase patient safety and reduce administrative workload.
CliniScape has been designed specifically for the hospital environment.Its ergonomic,lightweight design is medical grade, and includes a long-life battery and a large 10″ XGA pen-controlled touchscreen. Its intuitive interface means that healthcare professionals require minimal training whilst providing significant benefits. The device can help to reduce medication errors, positively identify staff and patients, fill out charts, capture vital signs, write up reports and validate blood transfusions as well as closely monitor the healing of wounds.

The Mobile Clinical Assistant category was defined by Intel’s Digital Health Group, with direct input from nurses and physicians worldwide. CliniScape can be used to access any hospital information system and also integrates with the latest releases of Philips’ medical technology platforms, IntelliVue Clinical Information Portfolio (ICIP) and iSite PACS, and with the integrated digital camera, nurses can take and insert patient pictures directly into the ICIP electronic medical record.

MOTOLORA with its Android-based Milestone XT720 all set to blow the Indian market

Motorola already has a “Milestone” on sale in India which is known as the Motorola “Droid” elsewhere.

We are talking about another Milestone here is its new Smartphone, ” Milestone XT720 ” in the Indian market with a stock build of Android that should make it a great Android product for Indian customers.

The Motorola Milestone XT720 features a large 3.7-inch TFT touch screen with 16m colors and a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels. The Android v2.1 powered device has 512 Mb of RAM and 512 Mb of ROM.

The Smartphone also has 8 Mega Pixel Camera with Auto focus Xenon Flash. It only 160g and has the dimensions of 116 x 60.9 x 10.9mm. It comes with an internal memory of 150MB which can be expanded upto 32GB.

As for connectivity solutions it offers, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA, Bluetooth v2.0 A2DP, Micro USB v2.0 and also supports A-GPS. The Smartphone has inbuilt support for 3G Phone, HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps; HSUPA 5.76 Mbps and with a Processor of 550Mhz. The 1390 mAh Li Ion battery of the phone offers talk time of upto 270 minutes on 3G network and up to 540 minutes of talk time on GSM network.

It also offers SMS, MMS, EMAIL and Push Email along with support for HTML Browser. Among other multimedia features it has a 3.5mm Audio jack, FM Radio with RDS and it can play videos at 720p@24fps. The Smartphone will be available in Black state color.

Portable GPS Tracker

This must be one of (if not the) coolest spy gadgets I’ve ever reported on. It’s sort of a cross between a USB memory stick and a GPS receiver and what it does is store where ever you take it on the flash memory.

The Portable GPS Tracker is pretty small so you could either always carry it on you or use it in 007 spy mode by planting it on a person or vehicle you want to monitor. You may be wondering how you retrieve the stored info and secret routes, well that’s where it gets really cool.
Once the tracker has done it’s travels and it’s back in your possession you simply connect it to you PC and download the data. This data can then be plotted on Google Earth, Mapquest, maps.google.com and Virtual Earth to show exactly where it’s been, how long it took and how it got there.

I just think this is so cool (may of said cool a record number of times in this post) it obviously has the spy functionality of tracking somebody else but to me it is even more useful for tracking your own holidays and backpacking adventures. So not only can you bore visitors with your holiday snaps you can also show them exactly where you went.

Full feature list:

• Records time, date, location, speed, direction and altitude
• Works with Google Earth, Mapquest, maps.google.com, Virtual Earth
• Location points are downloaded into its software and then mapped
• Battery duration is 5 to 7 days of typical operation with 4,000 records
• Requires 2 AAA batteries (not included)
• Dimensions: 4″ x 1 1/4″ x 3/4″
• Comes with TrackStick, lanyard, software CD

Capturing More Light with a Single Solar Cell

 

The most efficient solar cells typically have several layers of semiconductor materials, each tuned to convert different colors of light into electricity. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have now made a single semiconductor that performs almost the same job. More importantly, they made the material using a common manufacturing technique, suggesting it could be made relatively inexpensively.

Several research groups are developing semiconductor materials that harness more of the energy in sunlight, based on an idea that dates back to 1960 for changing how semiconductor materials in solar cells interact with light. But the materials used in that research tend to be very difficult to make.

Much work remains before the Lawrence Berkeley lab material could be used in a practical solar cell, but in theory it could convert nearly half of the energy in sunlight into electricity—three times as much as most single-layer (or single-junction) solar cells. Such a solar cell could also cost less than the layered (or multi-junction) solar cells currently needed to achieve high efficiencies, since it would require only one semiconductor material.

In a conventional semiconductor material, it takes a certain amount of energy to free an electron and generate electricity.  Photons that have less energy—say, the photons in infrared light—don't generate electricity. And if a photon has more than the minimum—for instance a photon in energetic ultraviolet light—the extra energy is wasted as heat.