105° Wide-angle Lens Automatic Accident Recording Car DVR

Wide-angle Lens Automatic Accident Recording Car DVR with GPS

Product Description

This product can be used with any vehicle for automatic detection and recording audio and video evidence,real-time map tracking ,speed recording ,and G-force activity.Blackbox can also be used to provide invaluable evidence for insurance needs and help avoid fraudulent claims.It is an objective eye for insurance claims,accident video recording ,GPS logger,tracking and reviewing route and speed,DVR with built in memory,record 360 second segments of video.

Automatic Accident Recording Car DVR

Features:

G-sensor apparatus and time sensor capable of automatic recording GPS tracking for logging the location of recording
Record high-quanlity video and audio data for 360 seconds before and after any accident
Bulit in software intergrates functionality of Google maps and G-sensor apparatus
Store hours of video ,reviewable anytime on removable SD card
Configured for easy manual operation and anytime recording
GPS tracking for logging and reviewing your route
Supports up to 32GB of memory
105° wide-angle lens ,placement rotatble by 140° for recording the whole scene
Automatic accident recording,manual video/audio recording control
102° Wide-angle Lens Automatic Accident Recording Car DVR

Specifications:

1. Imaging sensor: 1/5-inch color CMOS
2. Video resolution: 656*488
3. Video: VGA,30fps
4. Viewing Angle: 102°
5. Video format: ASF
6. Minimum illumination: 0.1 Lux
7. Operation system: support 512MB∼32GB
8. GPS/Google Maps: supported
9. Pre-event recording duration: 2-60 seconds(adjustable)
10. Post-event recording duration: 10-300seconds(adjustable)
11. Gravity sensor sensitivity: ±2～±8g
12. Power supply: 5V
13. Consumption current (Max.): 550mA
14. Dimension: 127*52*32mm(W*D*H)
15. Approx.weight: 110g
16. Operating temperature: 0°C∼50°C/32°F∼122°F
17. Operating humidity: 15∼85%RH
18. Approved: CE FCC
19. Recording Mode: Auto mode by shock sensor,manual mode by manual recording button

HD pixel Snake Tube Endoscope, USB Endoscope, Adjustable Light Digital Endoscope

HD pixel Snake Tube Endoscope, USB Endoscope, Adjustable Light Digital Endoscope

This Super eye with long "arm" is to explore the mysteries of somewhere that you cannot reach but you want to have a look. It has 200 x microscopes with LEDs, making sure that you will see what you want to see. The LEDs lightness are adjustable to fit your purpose. Just plug the USB cable with PC, then you will see pictures showed on PC screen. Features: You can have this USB endoscope to reach the place that you cannot reach but you still need to with ultra slim snake-type scope with LED around the end of the endoscope, so you still can see in a dark environment USB interface, easy to install, enough for checking even a small soldering / transistor.
Specifications:

• Working Platforms: Windows MAC Linux
• Magnification: 1/10-1200 times
• Photograph: Taken by the software
• Videography: High compression
• Light Source: LED illumination (USB interface)
• Focusing: Manual
• Pixels: 1.3-5m
• Display Speed: 15-30fps
• Interface: USB2.0
• Size: 62mm x500mm
• Video with extra-long time-11hours long & 3.6GB of memory video

• Scope of applications, such as: Antique inspection, beauty parlor, auto inspection, Industrial inspections, home appliances, medical treatment, education, Justice Appraising, Printing others

Electric car network gets first test in Israel

ROSH HAAYIN, Israel — Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has begun rolling out the world's first nationwide electric car network. Now, will the drivers come?

After more than $400 million in outlays and more than a year behind schedule, dozens of electric cars have hit the road in Israel, the test site Agassi chose for his Better Place venture. Four stations where the cars can get a new dose of juice when their batteries run out are operating, and the plan is to ramp that number up within months.

The concept: to wean the world from oil and eliminate the biggest hurdles to environmentally friendly electric cars — high cost and limited range.

To do this, Better Place has jettisoned the fixed battery. Instead, drivers can swap their depleted batteries for fully charged ones at a network of stations, receiving a full, 160-kilometer (100-mile) range in five minutes. Better Place owns the batteries, bringing down the purchase price of the cars using the network.

People driving shorter distances, the vast majority of customers, can plug in their batteries each day to chargers installed at their homes, offices and public locations, which will fully recharge in six to eight hours.

He faces a wall of skepticism. A major concern is "range anxiety": Will the car conk out because its battery is drained, stranding the driver in a dicey neighborhood, en route to the hospital, or with three wailing kids in back?

Rising fuel prices worldwide still haven't sent electric car sales surging, noted U.S.-based automotive expert John McElroy. "It may not be an energy price issue," he said. "Consumers may simply decide that electric cars don't offer the range they need."

Agassi, a former top executive at software giant SAP AG, said he is ready to prove his doubters wrong. "We're driving a car that most people said would be a fantasy," he said.

The swappable battery model aims to reassure drivers about range and show they don't need to sacrifice convenience or cash to switch to electric.

So far, the four Better Place battery stations are set up in central and northern Israel. During the second half of the year, around 40 stations are due to be operating across the country. But even before that, the company says enough will be up that a motorist could make the 500-kilometer (300-mile) drive from Israel's northern tip to its southern end.

Agassi has raised $750 million from investors including General Electric Co. and HSBC Holdings PLC since founding Better Place 4 1/2 years ago.

French automaker Renault has begun selling a sedan, the Fluence, customized to use the stations, priced in Israel at roughly $32,000, comparable to other sedans sold here. Currently, about 140 are on the road, most driven by Better Place employees.

The Fluence should start becoming available to the general public within weeks. Leasing companies, which buy about two-thirds of the more than 200,000 new cars sold annually in Israel, have ordered more than 1,800, and private customers have ordered several hundred more.

Compared to electric or hybrid cars in other markets, the sales numbers in this nation of 6 million might not be as humble as they seem: In 2011, Chevrolet sold about 7,700 Volts and Nissan sold under 10,000 LEAFs in the U.S., which has a population of more than 310 million.

"It interests all fleet managers we talk to," said Shai Dahan, CEO of Eldan Transportation, a top Israeli leasing group.

Better Place, which had promised to have thousands of cars on the road last year, acknowledges the rollout is behind schedule, mostly because of bureaucratic hurdles and production issues at Renault.

Better Place has also spent years testing its integrated system designed to allow its operation center, which is connected to every car, to monitor the vehicles and correct problems remotely. For instance, its software notifies drivers when their batteries are running low and directs them to the nearest switching station.

Israel sales director Zohar Bali predicts up to 5,000 Fluences will be silently running on Israeli roads and highways within a year.

Israel was chosen for the experiment in part because of its tech-savvy population. Also, with 80 percent of the population living in a narrow, densely populated stretch along the Mediterranean coast, it provides a perfect laboratory for the charging network.

Better Place claims it can shave up to 20 percent off the annual cost of owning a car, especially if gas prices, now around $8 a gallon here, continue to rise. Drivers buy access to the switching stations and charging spots through a monthly package ranging from under $300 to over $500, depending on mileage.

Israelis are taking notice. Better Place says more than 80,000 people in this country of 7.8 million have trekked to its visitor's center, situated at an abandoned oil reserves depot outside Tel Aviv.

What happens in Israel could decide how broadly Better Place deploys.

So far the Fluence is the only model compatible with the grid, but Renault's Middle East director, Jean-Christophe Pierson, says the company is considering a more compact model. Better Place is also in contact with other carmakers.

Denmark is set to become Better Place's second launch site this year. Australia is to become its first major market, with deployment in the capital, Canberra, also this year. Small-scale projects are in place in Hawaii and California. Amsterdam is the next European target after Denmark.

The company also has its sights set on China, where it already has opened a demonstration battery switching station.

Agassi sees the "tipping point" for electric cars coming in two to three years, propelled by dropping prices of cars and batteries. By 2017, he expects 50 percent of all new car sales in Israel to be electric.

The largest investor is The Israel Corp., whose holdings include Israel's biggest oil refinery and deep water oil drilling.

Idan Ofer, whose family controls The Israel Corp. and who serves as Better Place's chairman, said he saw no contradiction between his oil and clean-tech holdings.

Film giant Kodak "knew about digital photography. And look what happened. They still went bankrupt because they didn't do anything about it," observed Ofer. "There are many examples. I don't want to be there."
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iPhone battery life solved(ish)

John Davidson
Could this be yet another reason to head into a Brookstone store the next time you’re in the USA? As if another reason were necessary.
The purveyor of the world’s coolest electronic knick-knacks that you didn’t know you desperately needed until you saw them, has just announced a deal with Lilliputian Systems to sell the latter’s fuel cell charging device, which can charge an iPhone dozens of times before the fuel cell needs replacing.
The charger, said to itself be the size of a thick smartphone, uses butane cartridges as its energy source, and converts that butane into electricity, which then can be used to charge any device with a USB plug.
The butane cartridges are each about the size of a disposable cigarette lighter (indeed, they will be manufactured by the makers of said cigarette lighters), and will each cost “about the same as coffee from Starbucks”, a Lilliputian Systems executive said. It’s good to see Starbucks coffee finding a use as a metric like that. Better that than using it as a beverage. Frankly, I’d rather drink the butane.
Basically that means that, if you’re willing to carry around something the size of an extra mobile phone, you’ll be able to go one, possibly two weeks without needing a power supply for your phone. More realistically, it means you’ll be able to pop one of these into your bag, and not worry about charging emergencies for months on end.
Of course, announcing a deal is one thing. Actually having an elusive fuel cell charger in the store is quite another. These things have been bouncing around research labs forever and a day, but have been hard to commercialise for reasons I’ll get into in a moment.
Announcing the Brookstone deal, Lilliputian Systems said it would “make a formal product announcement in the coming months”. Let’s just hope it materialises.
The science of fuel cells can be a little daunting for non-scientists like me, but it seems that fuel cells convert liquid fuels directly into electricity by oxidising the fuel at very high temperatures. That’s opposed to, say, burning the fuel to heat water and using the steam to drive a turbine. Fuel cells are things that skip those intermediate steps.
In any case, the operative words there are “very high temperatures”. As far as I can tell (going back to a Newsweek article about Lilliputian Systems that was written in 2008), Lilliputian’s fuel cell operates at about 800 degrees Celsius, which of course would burn a hole through your bag (through your anything, really) except for the fact its innards have been encased in a vacuum, to keep the heat in.
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Elsewhere on Lilliputian’s website the company claims that its fuel cells are “reliable, safe (approved for use on aircraft) and environmentally friendly”, though convincing some TSA operative that they’re not a butane-powered bomb may be altogether another matter, when you try to bring one of these things home from the USA.
But this is the claim that sold me, again from Lilliputian’s website:
When compared to Lithium-Ion cell phone battery alternatives, Lilliputian’s solution provides a 5—10x improvement in volumetric energy density (energy density by volume) and 20—40x improvement in gravimetric energy density (energy density by weight) at a fraction of the cost.
If that’s true, that will be something to fly home about.
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OM-D HLD-6 Power Battery Holder

 

The OM-D HLD-6 Power Battery Holder ($299.99 direct) is an optional grip that is compatible only with the Olympus OM-D E-M5 ($1,299.99, 5 stars) digital camera. Like the camera, the grip is fully weather sealed, so you can shoot with it in almost any type of environment.
It features a unique design that allows you to choose between adding only a front handgrip to the camera, or to also add a vertical CANON 7d battery grip. The standard handgrip adds screws into the bottom of the E-M5, and includes a Shutter button and Control dial. The vertical battery grip screws into the bottom of the handgrip, adding a Shutter button, two Control dials, and two Function buttons that you can use to control the camera when it is held in a portrait orientation. There’s a space in that grip for a second battery, although one is not included—you’ll have to buy it separately. Event shooters will appreciate the longer battery life and the ability to more easily control the camera when taking vertical shots.
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Digital Photography Review tests Nikon D800

Digital Photography Review (DPR), one of the web’s most trusted resources for all things digital photography, has just completed its in-depth review of the Nikon D800. When Nikon announced the D800 back in February, it was not exactly what many people expected as it was more of a medium format challenger than a successor to the immensely popular Nikon D700. Still, people were quick to fall in love with the camera (provided you could find one), and now, three months after announcement, the first review by a world-renowned authority has been published.
So, how does the D800 do? Answer: very well.
Overall, the staff at DPR loved the D800 fopr the simple reason that it represents a clean, evolutionary step-up from the D700. Bottom line: anyone familiar with the D00 will immediately feel at home with the D800. In addition, it is noted that the D800 feels less substantial than its predecessor despite being virtually the same size. In addition, the D800 features the same levels of weather-proofing as the D700 and inherits all of its predecessor’s handy, external controls, too.
In terms of image quality, according to DPR, the D800 can still deliver at the high ISOs that made the D00 so popular, but with triple the resolution, which is no small feat. However, people looking to buy a D800 for its by-far best in class resolution should be warned: technique in the form of fast shutter speeds and/or tripods are a must, as are top-notch lenses as any lesser glass probably will not be able to fully resolve the 36Mp sensor, making the lens, not the camera, the limiting factor. In addition, DPR noted that the D800 is best in class for dynamic range, too. .
As for other things to like about the D800, they read like a laundry list: three crop modes, dual memory slots, improved live view, a 100% viewfinder, auto ISO being linked to lens focal length, an overall excellent video mode, and USB 3.0 output (perfect for those massive files).
As for complaints? Well, they’re more nit picks than anything else. First of all, changing AF nodes is more complex than on the D700, which simply required moving a switch. Second complaint (but one that is no surprise if you read the spec sheet) is that the D800 can only do 4fps, which is a little on the slow side come 2012, especially considering that the D700 can do 6fps (and 8fps with the battery grip).
Overall conclusion? Praise of the highest level. .
Want to buy a D800 in the Cleveland area? Well, there’s Cleveland-based Dodd Camera, with its downtown superstore. In addition, there are many smaller Cleveland metro area chain stores in the Cuyahoga County area, too. Live West of Cleveland? Loomis Camera, located in downtown Elyria, Lorain County, is another place to go for all your photographic needs. Both are authorized Nikon dealers. As for pricing and availability, the D800 sells for $2999..
Hint: since the D800 is back-ordered, order yours right away before the ‘line’ gets any longer or Nikon decides to jack up its prices again.
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Is Lithium-Ion A Borgia Battery?

I've recently learned that lithium-ion batteries might be a triple threat - Borgia batteries - cherished by eco-royalty, poisonous in the extreme, and explosive enough to wreak havoc in a $25 million laboratory that was built to safely manage dell inspiron 1501 battery explosions.
Is it a battery or a WMD?
On April 11th five employees of the advanced battery laboratory at the General Motors (GM) Technical Center in Warren, Michigan were hurt when extreme testing of a prototype lithium-ion battery pack from A123 Systems (AONE) released chemical gases that exploded inside a testing chamber. Four were treated at the scene and one was taken to a local hospital. The injuries were not life threatening.
About 1,100 employees who work in the Warren facility were evacuated while a HAZMAT team spent four hours taking air samples inside and outside the building. While most of the evacuees were able to return to work, it's unclear how long it will take to repair about $5 million of damage to the battery laboratory and resume operations.
GM quickly advised the media that the incident didn't involve a battery for the GM Volt and technically there was no battery explosion at all. Engineers were simply conducting extreme overcharge tests on a prototype hp mini 110-1014tu battery and it failed, which is exactly what you'd expect.
Or is it?
The fact that there was a battery failure and vented gases ignited doesn't surprise me. The fact that the explosion was violent enough to cause major structural damage to a purpose-built facility that was designed to safely manage the occasional battery explosion is very troubling. The chemical composition of the gas that allegedly caused the explosion is a nightmare. The terrifying aspect is that these issues are being ignored, or at least swept under the rug, to protect the tarnished image of GM's Volt.
On Friday the 13th, Torque News reported:

The battery involved in the Wednesday morning explosion didn't actually explode but rather gases created in the testing chamber ignited and caused the massive explosion. During the extreme testing process, hydrogen sulfide gas collected in the testing area and when that cloud of gas ignited - we had the massive explosion that injured five and did significant damage to the Alternative Energy Center testing area including blowing out windows and at least one 8" thick door. Afterwards, the reports indicate that the battery for acer aspire 5920g pack itself was still intact.

It may just be my lawyer's fascination with words and sentence structure, but the second sentence of that paragraph sure sounds like an unattributed direct quote from somebody in the know at GM.
I'm not a chemist, but I have substantial oil and gas experience including three years as legal counsel for Boots & Coots, the largest oil field disaster response firm in the world. Because of that experience I know that hydrogen sulfide gas (H2S) is:

• The reason rotten eggs stink;
• Explosive at concentrations of 43,000 to 460,000 PPM; and
• One of the deadliest poisons known to man.

In the US, Occupational Safety and Health Regulations prohibit exposure to H2S concentrations above 100 PPM without a full facepiece pressure demand self-contained breathing apparatus.
A Wikipedia search shows that an H2S concentration of 150 PPM paralyzes the olfactory nerve, killing the sense of smell; 800 PPM is the lethal concentration for 50% of humans with five minutes of exposure; and concentrations over 1,000 PPM can cause immediate respiratory arrest after a single breath.
That makes H2S sudden death by poisoning at 2.3% of the concentration required for an explosion.
If a comparable failure occurred in a moving car, the driver would be incapacitated in seconds while his vehicle careened into a crowded latte bar before exploding.
I know there's nothing inherently dangerous in the anode and cathode materials for today's advanced lithium-ion batteries. In fact I was surprised by the reports that a lithium-ion battery for Dell Latitude D630 could generate enough H2S gas to cause an explosion. When I started to ask questions, however, I learned that any number of electrolyte additives, separators, binders, fillers and ancillary cell materials could release highly toxic fumes from a failing cell or battery pack.
The active materials may be wonderful in their own right, but everything that goes into a cell must be carefully evaluated for its capacity to chemically interact with other cell materials and pose a serious threat to human health and safety.
We know the process failed at least once.
GM's "industrial accident" may be a one-off oddity if it was testing an exotic lithium-sulfur battery or something else that's radically different from conventional lithium-ion batteries. It may also be just the tip of an iceberg, the first example of unintended interactions between cell components that can render large format lithium-ion batteries too dangerous for use in passenger vehicles or other enclosed spaces.
100 years ago the Titanic was heralded as an engineering marvel until a completely unexpected turn of events in April 1912 forced engineers to question their basic assumptions. I believe the GM explosion should at least force some soul searching.
For four years I've heard nothing but safety talk from lithium-ion Apple a1280 Battery manufacturers, ideologues, politicians and would-be end users. This is the first report I've seen that threatens to burst the bubble. If H2S gas was generated in GM's advanced battery laboratory we need to know how much H2S gas was generated, how it was generated and how long the process took. We also need to know to a certainty whether similar problems might exist in large format lithium-ion batteries from other manufacturers. I understand that every battery manufacturer wants to keep its secret sauce recipe proprietary, but there comes a time when customer safety has to take precedence over competitive advantage.
I'm the first to admit profound confusion over the facts that have been reported so far. But there seems to be a consensus that a poisonous gas was generated by a failing battery, concentrations rose to explosive levels in the testing chamber, and the resulting explosion caused major structural damage to a facility that was built in 2009 and designed to withstand catastrophic battery failures.
Under the circumstances, I'm convinced that somebody who doesn't have a political, ideological or economic interest in the safety of lithium-ion batteries needs to get on the ball and conduct a comprehensive independent investigation to find out exactly what happened and whether comparable risks exist in the battery packs used by Fisker Motors, Ford (F), Tesla Motors (TSLA), Nissan (NSANY.PK), Toyota (TM) and others. I can only hope that an upcoming NHTSA technical symposium with battery manufacturers and automakers will mark the beginning of more rigorous regulatory oversight.
Borgia battery? Inaccurate descriptions from reporters? Prototype testing of a truly unique battery chemistry? Or simply a conventional automotive grade lithium-ion Kodak cx6330 Battery that was pushed beyond design limits and failed spectacularly? The difference has to be understood before we go much further.
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This article was first published in the Spring 2012 issue of Toshiba pa3420u-1brs Batteries International Magazine and I'd like to thank editor Mike Halls and cartoonist Jan Darasz for their contributions.

Reporter's Notebook: Battery plant to boost Chicago economy

A Los Angeles company building charging stations in Chicago for electric vehicles is jumping into the battery business.

350Green LLC, which is installing 280 charging stations in Chicago and the suburbs, confirmed Thursday that it plans to open a $3.5 million assembly plant on Chicago's Northwest Side to produce Acer Aspire 7735Z batteries to store electricity produced by the sun, wind or, during off-peak times, from the electrical grid.

The idea, said Mariana Gerzanych, chief executive of 350Green, is to tap those batteries during peak demand times on the grid — like on hot summer days when air conditioners are being used. Electrical grid operators pay so-called peak shavers like 350Green for agreeing to tap stored battery power to reduce demand on the grid.

"It will make a big difference in the industry," Gerzanych said. "As the electric car industry grows, we can connect it more and more to solar."

The Acer Aspire 5742 batteries are small, but some will have about the same storage capacity as those used in the all-electric Nissan Leaf, Gerzanych said. The first are expected to roll out by January. Gerzanych said the plant would employ about 86 people.

The facility, to be located at 2500 W. Bradley Place, would be paid for in part by a $1.5 million grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and $800,000 in tax-increment financing from the city. Both subsidies have been approved and are in the final sign-off stages, according to Gerzanych.

Byron shutdown still a mystery: Almost three months after the Byron nuclear plant suddenly lost power, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is trying to determine what happened and whether a similar outage could occur at other nuclear plants.

According to a special inspection report released late last month, inspectors spent 15 days at Byron trying to get to the bottom of the outage. The plant lost off-site power, which was supposed to automatically trigger backup diesel generators to turn on. But the generators had to be switched on manually. As a result, a 1,136-megawatt nuclear unit at Byron shut down.

No one was injured, but the NRC said it wants to be sure it doesn't happen again.

The plant is owned by Chicago-based Exelon. The NRC said it is working to determine if plant operators could have prevented the incident or if a larger design problem caused the system breakdown.

Illinois riding the wind: Other than California, Illinois installed more new wind capacity than any other state in 2011, spending $1 billion, according to an annual report from the American Wind Energy Association released Thursday.

The state ranks fourth in the nation for wind capacity installed, with enough to power about 750,000 homes. About 30 facilities making wind components employ 6,000 people in Illinois. Illinois has the third-highest number of jobs in the wind industry, after Iowa and Texas.

Still, wind is a fraction of the state's overall energy footprint. About 3.2 percent of electricity is produced by wind turbines, just above the national average of 2.9 percent.
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NU student-run company wins $100K: NuMat Technologies, a startup company led by students at Northwestern University, won $100,000 in financing last month at the second Clean Energy Challenge. The company developed a technology that can produce fuel tanks for natural gas-powered vehicles that are cheaper, safer and have a larger capacity than what is available.

More than 100 early-stage and student-led companies applied to the Challenge. Ten early-stage finalist and eight student finalists presented business plans to a panel of investors, corporations and entrepreneurs at an event in Chicago. The finalists were coached by volunteer mentors working with the Clean Energy Trust, a nonprofit technology accelerator in Chicago.

Need the Most Life from Your Laptop’s Battery? Use IE, Not Chrome

We regularly test the four most popular browsers for speed, but what about laptop battery life? If you're on a laptop, an extra 20 minutes can make a pretty big difference. Weblog 7Tutorials did a battery life test of each browser, and found that Internet Explorer was the most likely to give you a noticeable battery boost.
They used the Peacekeeper battery test on Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera, on a clean install of Windows 7 using the Power Saver power plan, and run three times to get an average for each browser. Internet Explorer 9 came out ahead, providing 104 minutes of ibm thinkpad t40 laptop battery life in the Peacekeeper test, with Opera not far behind at 100 minutes. Firefox lagged behind a bit at 92 minutes, while Chrome got almost 20 minutes less, lasting only 85 minutes.
Obviously, your mileage may vary on this, but it's a good thing to know if you're in a bind and need to squeeze every ounce of Acer Aspire 3000 battery from your laptop. Hit the link to read more about their methodology and the results.

mcheung05

The problem is that if you use IE, you'll inevitably end up chucking your laptop across the room in frustration and your laptop batteries will be destroyed.
(just kidding IE9 really isn't that terrible)
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dagwud

It isn't "using IE" that's really the problem. It's "coding so that IE shows something at least close to what you originally had in mind and looks perfect in Firefox and Chrome." (Edit comment)

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I just dislike the reverse: devs that code sites for IE and a watered down version for your Chrome/Firefox. I'm looking at you, Juno Web Mail and Microsoft Outlook Web Access. (Edit comment)

mmceorange

OWA works great for me in Chrome, I use it all the time. I also use sharepoint for work, for which IE tab extension works pretty well (Edit comment)

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Really, now, IE9 seems to do fine on most things I make and test in Firefox. (Though the lack of text-shadow is annoying...) (Edit comment)

Bilbo Baggins

But it forces you to use the light version unless in IE. (Edit comment)

cjgriesmeyer01

Have you used IE9? I've seen more and more websites telling me I need Chrome, Firefox, or Opera to use the site. This absolutely kills me at school, to the point where I used a bypass to restore command prompt function and wrote up some registry code so I could join the administrator workgroup and install Chrome. Not to mention the stupid "compatibility view". Why do I need to turn that on? Why would they not just leave it on all of the time? (Edit comment)

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Is Your New iPad Fibbing About Whether It Is Fully Charged?

There is no question that the new iPad battery is bigger and, as a result, can take longer to recharge than its predecessor.

However, one analyst says that his testing shows that it may take longer to fully charge than the iPad indicates. DisplayMate’s Ray Soneira said last week that the iPad continues to charge well after the device shows 100 percent.
In follow-up testing, Soneira said that the iPad is only about 90 percent charged when it first indicates it is fully powered up. The iPad, Soneira said, will run more than an hour longer, if left to fully charge.
AllThingsD’s Walt Mossberg noted in his review that the new iPad delivers on its impressive claim of 10-hour socal battery life, starting when the tablet’s indicator said it was 100 percent charged.
Soneira plans to offer full details of his findings in an updated report on Monday.
Apple representatives were not immediately available for comment.

By Comment: I hate how apple modifies indicators.  if it's 85% after X hours let it display 85% and communicate to users 85% will last X hours.  If it really takes X+2 hours to reach 100% charge document it.  It reminds me of the whole 3G bar debacle on iphone 3G.  Real engineers would not indicate 100% charged at some other capacity number other than fully charged.

 

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Johnson Controls Raises Battery Prices To Charge Up Margins

Johnson Controls, the automotive Motorola Two Way Radio Batteries manufacturer, has decided to raise the price of its lead acid batteries sold in the U.S. and Canada by 8%. The company has said that this hike is in response to the tightened environmental, health and safety regulations because of which it has to make increased investments in its infrastructure.

The company is upgrading its manufacturing facilities after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued stringent air standards for lead emissions in 2008 and in January this year. It is investing $162 million in its North American recycling centers to make them compatible with recommended environmental standards.

See our full analysis of Johnson Controls here

Last year, the company raised the cost of its Acer Aspire 5732z Battery by 5% – 9%, citing the rising raw material prices and delivery costs as the reason. This is unlikely to impact the company’s business as demand for its products has been strong due to a pickup in the business of automotive manufacturers and their ramp up of production world-wide.
The margins for the company have remained steady for the past few years but the recent price hike might push them up slightly.
Automotive batteries is the most important division of Johnson Controls, accounting for nearly 33% of our $38 stock value. The Canon G-10hi Battery division enjoys a healthy margin of better than 19% (adjusted by Trefis for pension and other items) which is right there with the best in the industry.
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Laptops with long battery life 2012

As we review laptops throughout 2012, we'll add their hp campaq battery life stats here. If battery's the most important thing to you, this is the place to look.

We run two separate Dell latitude d630 battery tests when we test laptops at CNET Australia — a heavy test, which turns up screen brightness and volume to full and plays back a 720p H.264 video; and a light test, which sets screen brightness to 40 per cent and visits three different websites every 20 seconds until business notebook nc6220 battery  exhaustion.

While our database is still building due to introducing these benchmarks in November 2011, we will keep updating this article throughout the year as laptops come in for review, with the eventual aim of splitting the charts into screen sizes. Keep in mind that there's a massive spread here in both size and performance capability — Dell inspiron 1420 battery isn't the only thing to consider.

A Point Of View

Welcome!

I can think of few superior methods to developing skill as a photographer than with the bar bill on expenses, not to mention the lenses, and a beautiful model in the frame. As this approach has yet to be authorised, the least I can do is open the idea out to discussion: hence this blog.
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There has never been for me - up until now at least - a gorgeous muse under studio lights but there have been plenty of gorgeous locations, or there would have been, if I hadn’t missed photographing them all. My travel photos of the world are proof of that. The end result is to begin a necessary education in discovering how to frame a picture - for a man who can barely make a bed.
And so it goes for all of us. We want better images so we need to know what works and why. This blog is an attempt to do just that. That last points sticks, I hope. This isn’t designed to be a lecture on what camera you should buy, or a thesis on the history of photography. It is to tap into forty years of expertise available at Ted’s and look at how to get better pictures. Regardless, it will only ever be a point of view. Sometimes, with luck, it may not even be mine - if the guests turn up - but always yours too. A forum in the best sense of the word.
Ultimately, of course, it’s the pictures that do the talking, or, we hope, the shouting - so let’s work on that. Now, isn’t that a nice idea.

International Battery owes Pennsylvania millions

International laptop Battery, which surprised local officials when it abruptly closed its Upper Macungie plant last week, owes Pennsylvania more than $2 million, and state lawyers are initiating efforts to recover some of the debt.
State officials are also in discussions with the company regarding a project for which International Sony vgp-bps13a/b battery received an $800,000 grant in 2010. That project has not been completed.
“This is a big deal,” said Sen. Lisa Boscola, D-Northampton. “We want to get back as much of that money as we can, so we can give it to other companies and help them succeed.”
The situation highlights how government-funded economic development — taxpayer investments in private companies that are expected to generate a return through job creation — sometimes goes bust. In the aftermath, the government officials and business executives who publicly announced their partnerships retreat behind closed doors to clean up the mess.

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“This is very common,” said Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, aWashington, D.C., nonprofit that monitors government investments in companies. “As you would expect through a recession, lots more deals are falling short.”
Pennsylvania offered several million dollars in assistance to lure International latitude d630 battery to the Lehigh Valley from New Jersey in 2008, expecting the company to create hundreds of good-paying engineering and manufacturing jobs. Four years later, all of the company’s employees have been laid off and International inspiron 14v n4030 battery is selling its assets and equipment to pay an undisclosed amount of debt.
That means the state may have to get in line with others trying to get paid. A major stakeholder in the company is Greenwich, Conn., hedge fund Wexford Capital, which invested $35 million in International battery for Dell Inspiron 6400 in 2010. Several of the firm’s partners have backgrounds in corporate restructuring and bankruptcies, according to its website.
International Battery made rechargeable lithium-ion cells and batteries for military and industrial uses. The company, which was expected to employ 250 people within three years of opening, notified employees last week that it would be immediately closing. It’s unclear how many workers were at the plant on Snowdrift Road at the time it closed, though the company reported having 80 workers last year. Company officials have not returned calls.
“The market for energy storage, including lithium ion inspiron 1545 battery, has been extraordinarily challenging,” International Battery said in a statement emailed to The Morning Call on Tuesday. “While International dell inspiron 1545 charger Battery has a unique product and green manufacturing process, it has not been able to reach profitability. Unfortunately, given the challenging market, it was unable to raise additional capital to fund its operations. While it is no longer manufacturing any products, it is focusing on selling its assets and technology. Moneys received on account of these assets will be used to pay creditors.”
Its abrupt closure upends terms of various agreements International Battery had with the state, requiring new negotiations.
By closing, the company defaulted on a $500,000 opportunity grant it received in 2008 from the state Department of Community and Economic Development. International Dell Studio 1747 AC Adapter Battery was supposed to stay in business through 2012 as a condition of receiving the assistance, department spokeswoman Theresa Elliott said. Because it closed before that time, it has to repay the state, she said.
“Our office of chief counsel will be notifying the company of their default under the contract and begin the process of recouping the $500,000 grant,” Elliott said Monday.
Weaknesses in the state’s Opportunity Grant program were highlighted in a 2007 report by the state auditor general’s office. The program doled out more than $200 million in grants from 2000 to 2005, but lacked adequate oversight to ensure the jobs promised were being created, and the Community and Economic Development Department waived millions of dollars in penalties against grant recipients that failed to meet their obligations, according to the report.
In addition to the Opportunity Grant, International inspiron n5010 battery owes nearly $1.7 million on a low-interest state loan it received to purchase equipment, according to the department. The company was current on the loan as of February. The department would not comment further on the remaining balance until it speaks with International Battery representatives, who had yet to notify the department about its closure as of Tuesday afternoon, Elliott said.
International toshiba pa3356u-1brs battery in November 2010 received an $800,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to design, build and test a power storage system for such renewable electricity sources as solar and wind. Such a storage system would make wind and solar power more viable, according to the state.
The project is 80 percent complete, said DEP spokeswoman Amanda Witman. The department had conversations with International Dell vostro 1400  Battery representatives Tuesday about transferring the project to another company so it can be completed, Witman said. The state’s investment is in equipment that can be sent to another company, she said.
“There is a grant contract that exists between International Battery and DEP, which is designed to resolve these types of situations,” Witman said. “There is an ongoing dialogue between International Dell studio 14z battery and DEP to resolve this situation. Because it is an ongoing issue, DEP can provide no further comment until the matter has closed.”

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Motorcycle Owners Must Prepare for Potential Summer Battery Damage, Says CTEK

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - March 9, 2012) - Cold, winter conditions are often associated with damaging motorcycle batteries, leading owners to be extra precautious during colder months of the year. However, leading smart battery charger producer CTEK is advising motorcycle owners to be just as cautious during the spring and summer months as damage is just as likely during the warmer months of spring and summer.
The majority of damage to Acer Aspire 5250 batteries happens during the summer months due to a number of factors. One of the leading causes is a lack of maintenance, whilst misunderstanding of the charging process and confusion about how battery chargers work are other problems that can easily be avoided with the use of a smart battery charger.
One of the most likely problems a motorcycle owner will face during the summer months is overheating. Without the use of a smart charger, an uncontrolled charge could be used on the battery, risking fluid loss through overheating or boiling. This will cause the Canon mv940 Battery to become unusable due to dried out cells.
Sulphation could also occur, an effect of leaving a battery undercharged. This problem is commonly only addressed during the winter, but with factors such as alarms and trackers taken into account, it becomes apparent that the problem could still affect motorcycles throughout the year. Batteries may also dry out through the plates becoming damaged, a problem easily avoided in the first instance through the use of a smart charger.
Jan-Ulf Soderberg, Head of Brand and Marketing at CTEK, commented: "Motorcycle owners must be aware of the potential risks of  Sony PCGA-BP1N Battery damage during the summer months. Although winter is when most people feel maintenance is most important, motorcycle owners are under just as much risk during the hot, summer months, and as such must ensure they regularly check and maintain their batteries to avoid potential damage."
Motorcycle owners should look towards a smart battery charger to assist with the Acer Aspire 5735 Battery maintenance and charging process. The CTEK XS 0.8 smart charger, for example, maximises the performance of lead-acid batteries and comes inclusive with a practical and easy to understand display, making the battery charging process as easy to understand as possible.

Cook County judge faces battery charge after Daley Center incident

A Cook County judge is free following her arrest on charges of misdemeanor Dell latitude d630 battery for allegedly shoving a sheriff's deputy and tossing a set of keys at a security checkpoint in the Daley Center downtown.
Judge Cynthia Brim was taken into custody by deputies Friday afternoon, processed into the lock-up at the Daley Center and released, according to sheriff's office spokesman Frank Bilecki.
At about 4:45 p.m., Brim -- who presides in the Cook County courthouse in Markham -- approached deputies and asked if they had found any keys, Bilecki said. "They don't know who she is, and she never identified herself," he said.
Deputies showed her three sets of keys that had been left at the checkpoint, Brim claimed one set and walked away, Bilecki said. But about 10 minutes later, she returned, tossed the keys toward one deputy and shoved another in the chest with both hands, he said.
At that point, Bilecki said, the deputies handcuffed Brim, placed her under arrest and took her to the detention area in the Daley Center, which houses numerous Cook County Circuit Court courtrooms. She was charged with misdemeanor sony vgp-bps2 battery and released on bond Friday evening, he said.
Brim's arrest followed a Thursday incident in which she went on an extended tirade while on the bench in a courtroom in Markham. Brim, a "floating judge" who fills in for other judges, was hearing traffic cases from South Holland when she began behaving erratically, according to sources.
Markham Acting Presiding Judge Brian Flaherty eventually asked Brim to leave the courtroom, and she complied. Because it happened in traffic court, there was no recording or transcript made of what Brim said.
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans' office later released a statement that Evans was aware of the Thursday incident and was looking into it.
In May 2010, Brim was one of four judges Evans reassigned and paired with mentor judges because their judicial conduct had been questioned. "I do not want any unacceptable behavior of a few judges to undermine the credibility and integrity of our entire system of justice," Evans said in a news release at the time.
Evans' move came after a FOX Chicago News/Better Government Association investigation that showed some Cook County judges were leaving court earlier than they were supposed to.
Evans could not be reached Saturday to comment on Brim's arrest.
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Test suggests iPhone battery issue not a hardware problem

According to research carried out for me by an iPhone app developer, the Toshiba pa3285u-1brs Battery issue that some iPhone 4 and 4S owners are experiencing is not, as some have suggested, related to the hardware.
The developer, who at this point wishes to remain anonymous, approached me late last week to discuss the issues he was experiencing with one of his two iPhone 4S handset. The problem he was seeing was pretty much along the lines of what others are reporting - rapid drop in Fujifilm Finepix z1 Battery when the handset is doing little or nothing.
Nothing new there, but what I thought was interesting was that he had two handsets, one that was displaying the battery problem that some people are screaming about, and another that wasn’t. He admitted that the two handsets were very different in their configuration and had different apps installed. One was a test bed for apps he develops, the other was his day-to-day use handset. It was his day-to-day handset that was displaying the ACER Aspire 9300 battery problems.
Both handsets were bought at the same time (direct from Apple for delivery on launch day), both are connected to the same network (AT&T) and both handsets are now running iOS 5.0.1. This to me was strong evidence to suggest that the problem affecting iPhone handsets was not a hardware issue. However, so that we could totally rule out this being a hardware problem the developer took things a step further. He factory reset both handsets and then recovered them from a backup. However, rather than reloading them with their original backup, he swapped them over. He reloading his day-to-day handset with the backup from his development handset, and loaded the development handset with the backup from his regular day-to-day handset.
Would the Canon Digital Ixus 330 Battery problem stay with a specific handset or swap over with the software?
The problem jumped handsets. Now the handset that was his development test bed (but loaded with the apps and settings from his day-to-day handset) is displaying the battery drain problem. The other handset (the one that was displaying the problem), is showing excellent Canon Nb-4l Battery life.

Note: This is a sample of one so bear that in mind. Ideally I’d like to try this with multiple handsets, but I don’t have access to armloads of iPhones.

The problem, it seems, is down to software. What exactly (whether it’s an app or set of apps, or a setting somewhere), we’re still not sure. However, I am now convinced that this problem ISN’T a hardware issue and will eventually be fixed by a software update.

Sidenote: As an aside, I think that iOS 5.0.1 has introduced the Toshiba Satellite Pro 2100-405eg Battery bug to my iPhone 4. Typically the handset would drop about 3 - 4% battery capacity overnight (around 7 hours). Since installing iOS 5.0.1 I’ve noticed a much bigger drop of around 15 - 20% with no change in how I’m using the handset. I’ll keep a closer eye on this over the next few days and see if the pattern holds true.

RE: Tests suggests iPhone battery issue not a hardware problem

bradmiller@... 14th Nov

Shortly after installing iOS 5 on my 3GS I discovered the issue to be with the wireless synch. I have very good battery life untill I enabled the wirelles synch feature in Itunes and synched my phone. After that the drain on the Sony VGN-B3VP Battery life became terrible. I reconnected my phone to the laptop and dissabled wireless synch and the problem resolved and now I have my origianl battery life or slightly longer than what I was getting before iOS 5. Seems the phone is contstanatly looking for my laptop to synch to even when not plugged in when the wireless synch is enabled. Others should try this and see what the results are. I have not found a way of disabiling this feature from the phone settings but inly ny unchecking this feature in Itunes.

Actually, only certain ZDNet bloggers troll about it being hardware problem

dderss 14th Nov

@bradmiller@... ... even though it was known right from the start that this is software issue given the fact iOS 5 influenced this way on some of iPhone 4 and iPhone 3Gs devices. Also, Apple itself said that this is software issue.

RE: Tests suggests iPhone battery issue not a hardware problem

SackScratcherton 14th Nov

@Johnpford This is why I thought multitasking was a bad idea. Just because Android does it doesn't mean Apple should have followed suit. Not every crammed-in feature from Android is a good one.

In an environment where anyone with a computer can cobble together an Android or iOS app, it seems unwise to open up resource utilization while the app is no longer running to the masses.

I'd love to see a services API to run apps in the background, one that constrains their resource utilization.

I am with you - no multitasking for iPhone or Winphone 7(.5)/8

Solid Water 14th Nov

@SackScratcherton

I talked to my son today who has iP 4S. He says he tried to disable everything that he found on the Internet being said should help to no avail. His iP 4S dropped 10% of the charge in 10 minutes when he was playing solitaire...

He was also saying that after he uses applications they do not quit, so he has to kill them manually. Imagine that!

From what I see the same is true about Winphone - until they do not do real multitasking like Android does they are good enough. As soon as they start multitasking they will be like any other smartphone on the market.

This leads me to a thought - do not do multitasking if do not know how to do it right.

Note:
I still have Sony Clie NX-60 PDA with 800x600 screen that I bought quite a while back (to read books). It is AMAZINGLY fast for the device with a 200 MHz CPU. That is where my train of thoughts about multitasking came from.

RE: Tests suggests iPhone battery issue not a hardware problem

Champ_Kind 14th Nov

@Johnpford I found that the issue, at least for me, is Location Services. I can have all apps closed, the phone totally cold restarted (hold home and sleep until the Apple logo appears then goes away), but until I restart Location Services, it keeps draining the Acer Aspire 5742 Battery.

@bradmiller@, my WiFi sync doesn't kill the Canon Nb-8l Battery  at all, even when performing a full backup. Having WiFi N available makes it faster than USB syncing ever was.

RE: Tests suggests iPhone battery issue not a hardware problem

Rama.NET 14th Nov

@comp_indiana
Why should I turn it off? I have a smartphone and as a user I expect it to work properly as mentioned. I don't care about platform, whether it is powered by iOS, Android or Windows, it should work as mentioned when it was sold. And as a consumer I expect premium quality because I paid top $ because I was told device wasmade with premium parts and quality of itself as its manfacturer was touting.

Reality

use_what_works_4_U 14th Nov

@Rama.net
In an ideal world I agree with you 100%. in the real world of software development it's not so simple. It is possible that the culprit is a combination of apps/features that, on their own, are harmless but put together cause a huge problem. Ideally the vendor should catch it, in reality it is impossible to test every possible configuration of software on any given device. That's how the real world is for Apple, Microsoft, Google, HTC (I speak from experience with my HTC phone) and pretty much everyone else out there. If you want a really rock-solid product, wait for the X.1 (not X.0.1) release.

I had similar results, but didn't quantify them as nicely.

flightning 14th Nov

I bought a 16GB 4S on Verizon, restored my data from my previous 3GS, the Olympus Sp-310 Battery lasted 6 hours and the phone was always hot. I went online and tried all the tweaks that were suggested and was able to bring Acer Travelmate 505 Battery life back to normal, even better than my 3GS. After two days I realized I needed more storage so I bought a 32 GB 4S and transferred the 16GB 4S to my wife. Both phones were reset, I restored my 4S backup onto the new 32GB phone. Both of us have had zero battery life issues, she actually goes 3+ days on a single charge and has no over heating issues on the same phone I couldn't keep alive 6 hours. This was done weeks before the iOS 5.0.1 update was made available.

We can stress these devices...

wellcraft19 14th Nov

@flightning
True, but we can also these days so easily load "too much" SW on these devices and we tend to treat them as small portable computers - which they are not. A phone is still hampered by the amount of "energy" one can expect to store inside the "physical volume". That energy just do not last for certain processor/power hungry apps. Just like we can load a Nissan Micra with bags of concrete, it would just not run very well, or far.
There are more apps out there than there are educated users. I think most Smartphones, by it based on iOS, Android, WP, or webOS, do an amazing job. Competition will push the envelope even further, but in essence, we the users are the beta testers or real test bed - since the combinations of SW/HW are essentially endless.

RE: Tests suggests iPhone battery issue not a hardware problem

swiftsmile12 14th Nov

When both the phones are reset, why restore it from a back up ? Just leave them as they are brand new phones and see if there is Canon Legria Hf m306 Battery issue on either of the phones (say both phones lose 50% in 6 hours). I would fully charge the phones and then start loading some apps (say 5 apps) on one phone and see the battery after 6 hours. Then fully charge the phone again and load 5 new apps.

RE: Tests suggests iPhone battery issue not a hardware problem

Christian D. H. 14th Nov

That sounds like a very independent and objective source of information... I'm holding out on buying the phone until this is fixed, if it ever gets fixed. One would reckon that development of iOS is done in emulators where memory use is measured, which makes it smell like a hardware problem they didn't anticipated like the last launch of iPhone 4. Moreover if it was for sure a software issue Apple would be stupid not to go live with this information.

RE: Tests suggests iPhone battery issue not a hardware problem

augustus_rome 14th Nov

@augustus_rome
comp_indiana
boycott will be shown in the next release all customers are not fools or blind fanbois. there are alternative products. apple was portrayed as a perfect product company. that halo was punctured when the antenagate happened. now with HP Compaq Business Notebook 6715b Battery gate that reputation is pretty much shredded. let us see how the competition take advantage of this window of opportunity.

RE: Tests suggests iPhone battery issue not a hardware problem

non-biased 21st Nov

@augustus_rome Your right, not all customers are fools that would believe anything you post. As soon as you have to resort to antennagate (try spelling it right) and CASIO Exilim Zoom EX-Z70 Charger batterygate to prop up your pathetic little rant you lost all but the fools. But by all means please do boycott Apple products, it will leave one more on the shelf so that one less person has to wait on production to catch up with demand.

RE: Tests suggests iPhone battery issue not a hardware problem

Narg Updated - 14th Nov

@Userama Agreed, but at least on Google you can install a 3rd party app to take tighter control over apps that multitask. Apple should take this step too and allow th user control over what apps to allow to multitask and which ones not to. Or at least allow the devs the ability to set if their app stays running or not. I'd much rather have seen iOS not allow any app to stay resident unless the developer programmed it specifically to do so. There are so many apps still that don't behave well while "suspended" on iOS. But in the users control, there's a LOT of apps that I'd prefer not continue to stay operational in the background suspended or not. When I want an app to stop, I would prefer not to have to take the multiple step process to manually kill it each and every time. This kind of falls into the thought of: Aren't computers supposed to work for us? Why do I need to take so many extra steps to ensure a clean operation environment on my iPhone? iOS itself should provide the ability to ensure operation like we want it to. (I know, asking too much )