MIT Artificial Magic Wallet, Suitable For Shopaholic

MIT researchers design a wallet that can understand the financial condition of its users. Not everyone can put the brakes on their impulsive desire to shop.

However, now it can be overcome by the presence of three magic wallet made by the scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

With purses called Proverbial Wallet, users can more easily control their spending, because the purses are designed to be able to know the financial condition of the owner.

The first wallet purse called Bumblebee, is a purse that is equipped with a vibrator. Purse will vibrate each time the account owner of a wallet that was changing. Every time the financial transaction occurs, the wallet will know about it.

He could vibrate with the resonance pattern can be programmed. Even he could also be set to warn of fraud attempt, when the wallet trembled in the absence of a purchase transaction.

Meanwhile, another wallet-called Peacock, can inflate or deflate along with the financial condition of the owner.

The Mother Bear wallet model can be opened or closed in accordance with the financial condition of the owner. It was equipped with a hinge connected to the Internet and know the position of the bank account owner.

When the money the owner is still thick, still easily open the wallet tesebut open. Meanwhile, when the financial condition had been reduced, then the wallet will be increasingly difficult to open, 'forcing' the owner of the wallet to be more frugal.

Purses are connected with the owners bank account data via an Internet connection, via Bluetooth signals emitted by mobile phones. This platform utilizing microprocessor embedded in the wallet. But it also requires an application embedded in mobile phones.

From the data input from the internet about the account owner's wallet, then this system will issue commands to the vibrator or motor output hinges on the wallet.

"This is a way to make something that has no physical properties, such as bank accounts, could be felt physically,''said Henry Holtzman, research director who designed these purses.

Most importantly, these purses are expected to make money the owner can be more 'durable' and in control.

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Acer Will Cut Workers In China

For the sake of bringing change for the better, sometimes the employer must take certain steps best. Correspondingly, a leading electronics manufacturer Acer, based in China reportedly agreed recently will soon be laying off most of the workers there.

As we all know, last year was the toughest year in the process of recovery after the economic recession in the IT segment between 2008 and 2009. And not a few of the perpetrators of the TI has taken important steps with one of them was forced to lay off their own labor which is actually the most important part for this.

These unfavorable conditions have led to many employees who are victims of this dismissal that reportedly has reached thousands of people every month. But when the recovery happened last year, then there are several companies that started hiring people again.

More specifically, a report prepared by Digitimes claimed that Acer is reportedly going to cut about 10 percent of the total workforce in the country in China. And who will be affected is estimated at more than 100 people.

The maneuver was selected because, Acer want to streamline operations and eliminate redundancy as well as integrating production, logistics and marketing resources that exist with people who came from Founder Technology.

While the Founder will provide cost service in Suzhou, the Acer itself seems to still have to prepare marketing most branded PC business.

Despite the layoff plan along with all other changes that have been planned, there is the possibility of such world-class PC makers to increase notebook sales by 13% to 15% in 2011 in China.

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Could Humans Can Crawling Walls Like Spiderman?

Ever imagine yourself blessed with advantages such as Spiderman, which can creep in tall buildings? Of course it does not seem to make sense, right? Anything could have happened especially after scientists at Cornell introduces us to the tools that can make us crawl on the walls like Spiderman. Hm, how could you?!

The small size tool using the theory of surface tension of water to perform absorption (adhesion) and the ability to crawl like a super hero. This application will be installed on shoes or gloves, so that later people use it to attach to and crawl on the wall.

The device consists of a base plate patterned with microscopic holes. The bottom is a water storage container and its center is a porous layer. The electric field is applied using a 9 volt battery that pumps water through the device and cause the droplets of water through the top layer. The voltage drops on the surface of the open to make this tool more gripping surface.

To disable this adhesion power, electric field just behind, and water withdrawn through the pores, the pores through the wall created between devices and other surfaces with water droplets.

"In our everyday experience, these forces are relatively weak," said Paul Steen, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. "But if you make it in large volumes so you can control it ... you can get a stronger adhesion power."

So far, the device was only useful on objects or creatures that are small. For example, one prototype was made with about 1,000 holes measuring 300 microns, and able to withstand the load of about 30 grams.

But the researchers found that when they reduce the size of the hole and pack in a larger volume, the power will get stronger adhesion. They estimate that a single device with millions of holes measuring 1 micron to withstand loads greater than 6.8 kg.

Steen imagine the future of this prototype on a larger scale, after the pump mechanism is perfected, and adhesive bonding can be made even more powerful. He also imagined the water droplets will close with a thin membrane that quite a lot to control the pump but thick enough to eliminate the former wet.

Steen apparently seemed more interested in imagining a tool that can be used as supporting a criminal act than to use it to protect the world.

"Imagine you can make credit card-sized tool, then put it in an instant the door and that door will open itself," said Steen. "It's interesting to imagine.

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