Robotics, metrology labs for RP

Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has committed a donation of over $3 million to set up high technology laboratories for robotics and metrology at two of the country's premier universities.
The move is also hoped to give birth research and development industry in the country, officials said.
Global Storage Technologies (GST), the information technology storage division of Hitachi, launched this week its Integrated University Program (IUP) under which it will donate cutting -edge equipment for robotics and metrology laboratories at the University of the Philippines-Diliman and the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), both in Quezon City.
Aside from the donation, Hitachi GST will also provide scholarships, research grants,sponsorships, and on-the-job training in engineering, sciences and statistics to students and faculty members of UP, ADMU, De La Salle University, Mapua Institute of Technology, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, and University of Santo Tomas.
Dr. Truan Tran, Hitachi GST Philippines president and general manager, told education and IT reporters that the donation was an investment in the country for research and development capabilities on hard disk drive manufacturing and technology.
With such capability, Tran said Hitachi GST could help Filipino universities produce engineers and scientists knowledgeable on hard disk drive technology and start an industry in the country.

Adventure in Barcelona

Participants in the two-week Adventure in Barcelona Program this sem-break under the auspices of Institute for Foreign Study(IFS) will give participants a taste of Spanish art, architecture, cuisine and language.
While on this two-week immersion program, participants will contemplate the works of architect/designer Antoni Guadi and Salvador Dali as well. A visit to Figures, Dali's hometown, is a must.
Antoni Gaudi (1852-1928), architect and designer, is the most internationally prestigious figure in Spanish architecture.
His outstanding works include Sagrada Familia, Park Guell, Palau Guell, Finca Miralles, Casa Batillo. Casa Mila "la Pedrera'', Casa Calvet, the lamposts for the city of Barcelona and Colegio teresiano, among others.
Gaudi collaborated with some of hte finest artisans of his time using materials such as wrought iron, ceramics, mosaics, furniture and many more, incorporating architectural elements in the construction process.

Ginebra, Air21 to maintain team core

Barangay Ginebra and Air21 are like to keep the nucleus of their respective teams, having figured in a finals battle which could well be long remember as among the feircest ever seen in PBA history.
Both teams hinted that they would keep the team core intact and to become even more competitive in the next season starting Oct. 4
Ginebra has several transactions to do with practically the entire team, including top players Mark Caguiao and Jayjay Helterbrand, becoming free agents at the end of the 2007-08 campaign.
Four ,players in the reserved list, including 1996 MVP Johnny Abarrientos, have seen thier contracts expired.
Ginebra Coach Jong Uichico said they have a special plan for Abarrientos, looking to develop the player as skill coach for the Ginebra guards.
"We need him to teach our young guards. Withall his experience, we know he can be a big help in developing our younger players," said Uichico.
Air21 coach Bo Perasol for his part, said the management has advised him they would keep the core of the team.
Persol's main rotation of Gary David, Arwind Santos, Ranidel de Ocampo, Wynne Arboleda, Nino Canaleta, Homer Se and Egay Billones have great maturity in powering hte express to their best-ever finish in a tourney in the just-concluded Fiesta Conference.
"We've yet have a long discussion but the management said we'll be keeping the core fo the team, "said Perasol.
Maenwhile, Rob Reyes has become the third Fil-Am draft hopeful to submit complete documentary reqiurements, making him eligible for the 2008 PBA Rookie Draft slated Sept.31 at the Market Market Place in Taguig.
Reyes arrived from the United states Thursday morning in time to join two-day PBA Rookie Camp at the Emilio Aguinaldo College gym in Manila Friday and Saturday.
Two other Fil-Am who have submitted the required documents are Kevin Delafu and Solomon Mercado.
Forty-three of the 46 applicants showed up on the first day of the two-day camp conducted by PBA supervisor of officials and camp director Ramil Cruz.

Interactive Toy Concepts R/C Cooler

We first caught a glimpse of the awesome R/C Cooler by Interactive Toy Concepts at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, and now it's finally available for purchase. This radio-controlled cooler is the ideal summer gadget. Not only does it keep six of your favorites beverages cool while you're sitting at the pool, but you can also use the included wireless remote to steer it over to your chair. That's right: no more bribing your significant other to grab you another beer, or making your kids fetch you another soda. With the remote, you can move the cooler forward and backward and spin it left and right, up to 30 feet away. It will be shipping at the end of June for $69.95 on Solutions.com.

ALZHEIMER'S SIGNS

Here are some of the early warning signs of Alzheimer's disease. If five or more of these statements apply to you or a loved one, consult your doctor to see if you may be affected.
1. Having difficulty finding words, finishing sentences, or remembering people's names.
2. Repeating questions or statements.
3. Forgetfulness that's out of the ordinary.
4. Needing reminders to go shopping or taking medication.
5. Needing help with usual daily activities.
6. Needing reminders to keep appointments, for family occasions or holidays.
7. Becoming more irritable.
8. Changes in driving (getting lost, driving unsafely)
9. Having difficulty balancing a cheque book.
10.Not participating in conversations like you used to.
11.Becoming sad or crying more often.

Take this checklist and discuss it with your doctor. Help your doctor make the best possible evaluation.

Acer TravelMate C312XMi (C310 Series)

ACER'S newest tablet PC for the mobile professional may not be the lightest or the most portable we've seen, but the spec sheet and the benchmark results prove that it'll perform with the best of them on the office desk.
Just like ant other tablet PC we've seen before, this silver-and-black portable folds up normally like a notebook for your desk. If you need to work on your toes with the digital pen, the screen twists 180 degrees to the left and folds down over the keyboard. Five buttons below the 14.1-inch XGA screed are for enabling the Windows Task Manage, Function (for tablet and pen settings), scrolling up and down, and changing the screen orientation from landscape to portrait mode.
Every function and features you need on a portable computer is positioned along the edges of this tablet PC. It sports a DVD-RW drive at the left edge, one USB port, and SD and PCMCIA card slots at the right side. The rest of the connections (audio ports, mini-Firewire, DVI/VGA display out, LAN/Modem connections, S-video out, and two USB ports) are found at the rear. The pressure-sensitive digital pen stores securely into a slot at the top of the screen.

Review All Hot Rod™

Get your hot rod ready for action, then light it up on 10 of the hottest drag strips in the country. Build it, race it, live it.


Get some grease under your fingernails as you custom build the meanest machine on the strip. Take your car for a spin from the scrap heap to the winner’s circle.

Your garage your way! Pick your parts for straight-line performance or add custom paint and decals.

Take your fire-breathing metal monster to 10 tough drag strips and push your car to the limit.


Do what it takes to get cash for your ride.
Sell whatever spare parts you can find.

Do the wrenching yourself—start out with 40 classic and sport compact hot rods that need a little work and a lot of garage time.

As real as it gets! Get ready for real life breakouts, reaction time, dial-ins and disqualifications.

Inject your street rod with powerful aftermarket chassis, engine and body parts to create your own customized speed machine.

Put your money where your motor is— Punch the accelerator in tough Grudge Matches to earn cash for more upgrades.

Take your smokin’ hot rod to the Pump Gas Drag Events to win it all and make it to the virtual cover of HOT ROD® Magazine.



Hot Road : American Street Drag

When it comes to your ride... put your wrench where your mouth is.

Building and driving fast street cars is what Hot Rod® is all about. Now you can make that screamin’ street machine of your dreams. Use your wrenching experience to go from mediocre to merciless speedster then take her out to the track for a down and dirty drag race.

Take over the garage upgrading your body, chassis & engine with hundreds of parts for 1,000s of combinations.


Spend your hard-earned cash to build a real performance car and push it to the limit at 6 street and drag strip tracks.


Build the perfect combination of speed, balance and handling that crushes the competition.

Scout the Auto Shopper for the car of your dreams, selecting from 20 cars of legendary style, hand picked by the editors of Hot Rod® Magazine.

Build the street rod of your dreams with custom paint jobs and awesome decals.

Turn your car into a racing champ with hundreds of new and used engine, chassis and body parts, including turbo-boosting nitro.

Watch the Events Calendar for the next street event, but make sure there’s enough time to finish your upgrades.

Put some cash back in your wallet at the Hot Rod American Drag Race Tour. Take your car all the way to the top to win big bucks and get on the virtual cover of Hot Rod® Magazine.

Shuttle XPC SP35P2 Pro

As well as having room for speedy processors, there are four sockets to accommodate up to a total of eight GB of dual channel mode DDR2-800 RAM. The four SATA2 (with RAID functions) and two external eSATA ports provide for almost limitless hard disk space, and a new mini card slot supports Intel Turbo Memory (Robson) and its faster system boots and application loadings.

This aluminium SFF PC, through its integrated PCI Express X16 slot, supplies all the bandwidth necessary to accommodate the quickest graphics cards and, thereby, run professional graphics applications and complex 3D games.

“The Shuttle XPC Barebone SP35P2 Pro slots seamlessly into Shuttle’s team of exceptionally high performance small form factor PCs,” explains Tom Seiffert, Head of Marketing & PR at Shuttle Computer Handels GmbH. “With the ending ‘PRO’ comes a SFF PC barebone offering a rich equipment package previously not featured in the high performance segment of our product range.”

A fingerprint scanner ensures greater system protection, and system information is easily viewed via the front panel display. There is also the Speed-Link function allowing for the direct transfer of data between two PCs via USB cable, and rapid network connections, at gigabit speed, are achieved through an integrated network chip.

The optimal ICE2 Heatpipe cooling system is, for the first time in this model, expanded to the Northbridge, Southbridge and MOSFET modules, and a separate OASIS Heatpipe cooling system also improves the thermal properties of the most important components.

A particularly efficient, 80 PLUS certified 400-Watt power supply takes care of this black powerhouse, without compromising its performance, and solid capacitors guarantee a longer life for the entire main board.

Nokia N93i Cellphone

Hey guys! Check this out, an ultimate cellphone you'll need when you travel my country Philippines. You can capture the happiest moments as you enjoy travelling.

The original Nokia N93 is a fantastic phone with one real drawback.. it's a bit of a brick. At 180 grams, the N93 is one of the heaviest and largest phones on the market. So, as a remedy to this Nokia have come up with the N93i which is slimmer and lighter... but only just.

The Nokia N93i weighs 163 grams and measures 108 x 58 x 25mm (compared to the N93 which is 118 x 56 x 28mm). Nokia have also improved the display in the N93i which is now in 16 million colours and has a wider viewing angle.

There's a reason for all this weight though.. as with its predecessor, the N93i is a feature packed digital imaging phone with a very high quality 3.2 megapixel with 3X optical zoom, VGA resolution video capture, TV output, an FM radio, a large 2.4" 240x320 pixel display, multimedia player, miniSD expandable memory, Bluetooth, 3G and WiFi support plus the Symbian S60 operating system. Everything else is pretty much the same as the N93, so we won't dwell on it here.

Nokia say that the talktime on the N93i is 1.7-3.3 hours on 3G, 3.1-3.9 hours on GSM which is significantly less than the N93's quoted 5 hours maximum talktime. Both the N93i and N93 have similar (but not identical) batteries - the N93i comes with the BL-5F 950mAh unit, the N93 has the BP-6M 970mAh one, so perhaps Nokia are being a little more conservative when it comes to the battery life figures. Either way, the N93i will drain the battery pretty quickly, and if using WiFi and Bluetooth, you can expect an even shorter battery life. But.. a bigger battery would mean a heavier phone, and you can see the problem.

The N93i has had a bit of a makeover too.. it's a sleeker, shinier phone than the original version and overall this perhaps makes the N93i look less intimidating than the older, chunkier model.

Nokia say that the N93i will be available during Q1 2007 for an unsubsidised price of around €600/£380 before tax.

Air Traffic Control, how does it keep you safe?

While flying, have you ever wondered how the pilot knows where he is going? Perhaps you felt uneasy as you thought of the dozen or hundreds of airplanes crisscrossing the skies at the same time. How do they keep from colliding?

Such question are natural concerns for travelers. However, statistic show that travel by commercial airline is quite safe, in fact safer the traveling by motorcycle or car. A key factor contributing to its safety is the air traffic control.

Monitoring what the pilot cannot yet see is very important in this age of high-speed air craft. Imagine that two commercial jets are on a head-on course. By the time the pilots spot each other with the naked eye, they may have only second to avoid impact! It is air traffic control's responsibility to prevent that situation from occurring. Long before the pilots see each other, they will have been given instructions to keep them a safe distance apart.

HEALTHY TEA LIFESTYLE

The tea leaf holds within it many benefits. Tea time brings more than just a relaxing break from the hustle and bustle of daily life. Regular tea drinking will promote an over-all healthy lifestyle for you.
* TEA ENHANCES-If you experience sluggishness and physical discomfort, you could just be needing a regular dose of tea. Tea with its antioxidants, boosts flow to all your organs, helping them properly.

* TEA SAVE YOU FROM STROKE-Stroke creeps up on us unawares. One of the causes of stroke is when blood clots in the arteries. Tea may reduce your risk of stroke because drinking tea helps keep your arteries smooth and clog-free.

* TEA REDUCES CHOLESTEROL-Trying to kick that cholesterol-laden diet? Make tea a part of your daily routine. Tea contains antioxidants called polyphenols that help lower cholesterol levels.

* TEA REJUVENATES-Ever wonder why they serve you hot tea in a spa? Tea is aromatic and soothing, it completes the ''me-time'' experience. It quiets you and gives you a sense of well-being.

* TEA DETOXIFIES-Bacteria produce toxins that are harmful to your health. These cause different diseases in the human body. Tea effectively flushes out unwanted waste from the body, including toxins.

* TEA LIFTS-Get rid of stress during the work day by downing a cup of tea. Theanine, a free amino acid found in tea plants, promotes a stress-free state. Drinking tea rapidly revives you, giving your body and mind a gentle lift. So you can focus on what you have to do.

* TEA FIGHTS DIABETES-Living with diabetes is not easy. Recent studies show that tea can be an effective toll against diabetes because it dramatically boosts insulin activity in the body. So take your tea sugar-free today.