Google tests balloons to beam internet from near space

Google is launching balloons into near space to provide internet access to buildings below on the ground.

About 30 of the superpressure balloons are being launched from New Zealand from where they will drift around the world on a controlled path.

Attached equipment will offer 3G-like speeds to 50 testers in the country.

Use Your Eyes Instead of a Mouse to control Computer

It's hard to imagine a computer you can control with your eyes, but the technology exists and should be available on store shelves in the next couple of years.

Swedish company Tobii, a pioneer in eye tracking technology, has come up with a way to control the screen of a laptop or desktop with your eyes that's actuate within a quarter of an inch.

The technology was first made available to people with handicaps, but it's progressed and will soon be available to the general public.

Pretty soon you can read e-mails with your hands behind your head, scrolling up and down with your eyes. Or if you're playing FIFA soccer you can decide where to shoot the ball by looking at the upper left corner of the goal.

Source: Yahoo News

A380 - The World’s First Super-jumbo Aircraft

A380 - The World’s First Super-jumbo Aircraft:

The Airbus A380 first took to the skies in April 2005. The test flight was a success but the aircraft needed many more tests before being cleared for commercial use.

The Airbus A380 came about as the result of thousands of people working together. It involved a network of more than 100 international suppliers as well as partners in more than 20 countries. This matches the industrial scale involved in a space program.

Fast Facts about A380:

• Cost: $375.3 million
• Passengers: 525 people in three-class configuration or up to 853 people in all-economy class
• Space: 5,146 square feet of floor space; 49% more than the current next-largest airliner, the Boeing 747-400 with 3,453 square feet
• The Airbus A380 made its maiden flight on 27 April 2005 from Toulouse, France, and made its first commercial flight on 25 October 2007 from Singapore to Sydney with Singapore Airlines

World’s Most Expensive Cell Phones

Most people enjoy having a quality cell phone, but they also recognize that cellular phones are a consumable good and will have to be replaced within in a few years. For this reason, people often do not purchase the most expensive cell phone when they purchase their mobile. Some, though, must have a costly mobile phone. The world’s most expensive cell phones were made to satisfy just that type of person.

Ulysse Nardin’s The Chairman – up to $49,500

The Chairman by Ulysse Nardin is the world’s most expensive Android smartphone, and includes both a touch screen and a physical number pad. The Ulysse Nardin name is most often associated with luxury watches and that fact shows in the Chairman’s sophisticated design. The volume controls look like watch buttons and the crown between them can actually be wound to generate power for the device. In fact, the phone features a kinetic rotor power system visible through the backplate.