Audi Headlight Technology
The new Audi A6 intends to challenge a lot of technology found in its competitor models, one of these innovations is the new all LED headlights. The A6 will be the first executive saloon in the market to have all LED headlights, an optional extra in exchange for the more familiar halogen or bi-xenon lamps that come as standard.
The Audi A6s advanced LED headlight units emit a strong white light that is similar to daylight, and use just 40 watts of electricity each, making them yet another important weapon in the battle against energy consumption. The advanced LED units use just four one-chip and five two-chip LEDs to create dipped-beam light, and 24 white LEDs to make up the daytime running lights in each headlight. This keeps power consumption and maintenance down, and gives excellent life span.
All LED headlights are not new in the Audi line-up, the Audi R8 was the first ever production car to feature all-LED headlights and now are becoming common across the Audi range. The advanced all LED headlights will also be available on the new A7 Sportback and Audi A8 luxury saloon.
The all LED headlights are further enhanced by intelligent systems such as adaptive light control and high-beam assist, which give maximum visibility without dazzling other road users. Simply put the adaptive light system adapts the light provided by the headlights to the driving conditions, with different arrangements of light when driving in the city, country roads and on motorways.
The Audi high-beam assistant automatically varies the range and width of the headlight beam between dipped and full according to the road conditions. The system also incorporates an all-weather function that uses the rear view mirror camera to detect the lights of on-coming traffic and adjust the headlight intensity to give optimum visibility in varying conditions without disturbing other road users.
The Audi A6 is now available to order from Audi Bury St Edmunds, prices start from 30,145 for the 2.0 litre TDI model. The all LED headlight upgrade costs an additional 2,710.
Smart Glass Technology for Innovative Interiors
Smart Glass Technology has given construction contractors, engineers, architects and interiors designers a completely new way to define interior spaces. Smart Glass Panels use low energy electric currents to control the opacity of the glass via manual or automatic triggers. Smart Glass Technology can be used for skylights, doors, windows, dividers and partitions. Ships and planes can utilise a similar application to Smart Glass but engineered from scratch resistant polycarbonate which is more lightweight.
Whether you are going for the bold futuristic look or an understated modern interior – the ‘openness’ associated with glass elements is an appealing way to increase space. Smart Glass adds to this by allowing you to control privacy levels of defined interior sections with a remote or with the flick of a switch.
Interior application example one: Boardroom
Creating a separate sales or boardroom area with smart glass walls allows you to create spacious interiors which can be switched to privacy mode in an instant. The frosted glass doubles its usefulness by also being an ideal surface for screen projections.
Interior application example two: Featured Display Area for Car Launch
A circular room section containing the new car is installed as a chamber in the centre of the launch room. Guests can be congregate and relax in close proximity to the new product without actually viewing it until the ‘unveiling’. Guests can then view the car from all exterior angles whilst allowing you to control direct access to the product at your discretion.
Interior application example three: Hygienic Room Divider for upmarket Spa
Utilising Smart Glass Technology room dividers allows you to construct eye catching interiors with a clever use of light. Privacy on demand is complimented by the easily cleaned glass panels. No need to worry about fussy blinds and curtains.
Products using Smart Glass Technology provide significant benefits to end-users. These benefits include:
– Immediate Control of light.
– Improvement in users’ comfort, health and privacy.
– Greater security.
– Energy savings through reduced cooling and lighting costs.
– Cost-effectiveness and functional relative to solar shading or other smart window technologies.
– Durability – solid state technology with no moving parts.
– Protection of people and interior furniture and other valuable items from UV damage.
– Exceptional optical qualities.
This technology is available from a variety of suppliers but you will need to be watch out for the companies who promise to add smart glass laminates to existing glass surfaces. Laminates have a shorter lifespan and are less effective than glass panels which are manufactured with the electrochromatic layers in mind from the very beginning
[Top]Running Shoes Technology
Recent developments in science and design mean that many running shoes are more technical than ever. With advanced computer modeling software, creators can now develop shoes that work exactly in line with how humans run.
UK-based company, Reebok are credited with one of the first purpose-built sports shoes when, in the late 1800’s they released a pair of shoes designed for running that featured spikes. Something that had never been done before, the inventor, a keen runner himself, found that the spikes provided more grip on softer surfaces and helped him to run more fast than previously.
Two of the biggest companies in the sporting footwear market were actually founded by brothers. Adi Dassler created Adidas, while his brother Rudolph formed Puma. Established in 1925, Adidas also featured spiked footwear to help runners, this time offering a selection of varying styles for runners of varying distance.
Extensive research was performed in the early 1970’s to see exactly how humans run. Research that in modern time, with the benefit of computer software, is much simpler than it was then.
The research concentrated on the damage caused to the human body, especially the knee and thigh joints as a result of prolonged running on different surfaces.
The results of the study revealed three main methods of running; Neutral, Supenation and Pronation.
The Natural running style is where the runners foot lands flat on the ground and rolls neither inwards or outwards, but the foot travels directly in a straight line. This style of running is often the best for endurance running.
Pronation – This is where the foot rolls inwards as it hits the ground, and moves to the side as it travels forwards. Common injuries caused by this type of running are Tarsel tunnel syndrome, shin splints and bunyons.
Supenation – The opposite of Pronation – In this case, the foot rolls outwards. Excessive supenation can cause shin splints and ankle sprains.
There are now different versions of running footwear developed to cope with whatever style of running you have. Many shoes use different density of foam in parts of the sole to offer extra and firmer cushioning where needed to help minimise damage to your body with excessive running.
Other developments in running shoes include the Air Sole from Nike which was created in 1972. The inventor put rubber into his waffle machine at homeand stuck the resulting ‘waffle sole’ onto a standard pair of running shoes. The runners who tested the new invention remarked on how good they found it, and the lightweight sole revolutionised the running shoe market.
In more recent times, brands such as Skechers have entered the running footwear arena.
[Top]The Benefits And Drawbacks Of Voip Technology
BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS OF VOIP TECHNOLOGY
VoIP has become so popular that every where in the world you will find this technology evolving exponentially. No matter which business you are running, to be able to get the fullest output you should be relying on the VoIP usage. Like any other technology VoIP has many advantages that is attracting people from all over the world and from any size and type of business to implement the use of VoIP systems. Some of the benefits of VoIP are as follows.
Advantages:
1.Cost Reduction: The VoIP implementation means lowering the total cost of operations and maintenance of the telephony. The cost of both the data and the voice networks are lowered with the usage of IP telephony.
2.Simplification: The equipment and wiring costs are further lowered by the use of integrated systems. As the communication is made through a single wire the systems are more simplified but efficient.
3.Less Complex: The overall implementation of the IP telephony systems universally allows the system to be less complex.
4.Advanced Features: The advance feature like video conferencing and tele presence is done by the integration of data and voice over the same medium. This increases the efficiency of the overall system.
5.Lower Call Rates: The VoIP enables all the international calling to be performed at a lower call rates. The calls are cheaper than the local existing PSTN calls.
6.Mobile System: The IP Telephony is done via MAC addressing thus the system is mobile; it can be plugged anywhere in the network.
7.Flexible: The system makes sure that the voice can be delivered any where in the world regardless of the media the other side is using.
8.Increased Bandwidth: The high data rates makes it efficient to deliver voice using less bandwidth.
Disadvantages:
Like any other thing in this world VoIP also has some disadvantages regardless of its vast benefits.
1.VoIP telephones are still dependent on the wall power. This means that if there is no power the VoIP phones are useless. They can’t function when there is no power. The system uses the phantom power provided by the central office. If there is no power the traditional phones still works but VoIP systems need to be more stable when it comes to the power source.
2.VoIP systems can’t be integrated with the digital videed with the digital video recorders and security systems. Although all these syslthough all these systems use the phone lines but they can’t be integrated into the VoIP system.
3.In case of emergency VoIP calls are not very reliable. In some cases these calls might not function as we want them to and thus a local phone line serves the best.
4.VoIP systems are susceptible to different factors like call packet loss, jitter and latency. These factors lower the call quality. Also the VoIP systems can easily be attacked by viruses and hackings.