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Philips Is Going To Launched New LCD Flat TV Featuring LED Backlighting

Philips sets a new benchmark for LCD picture quality with the introduction of the ground-breaking flat TV ‘42PFL9803′ equipped with LED backlighting technology. EISA ‘European LCD-TV 2008-2009′ award, the 42-inch set delivers levels of contrast and motion smoothness never achieved by an LCD before.

In its official citation, the EISA judging panel states “The new 42PFL9803 solves two of the most critical challenges in current LCD TV technology: black level and motion blur. Thanks to its genius LED backlight, featuring 2D Dimming control over 128 individual areas, the 42PFL9803’s black level can now compete with the best plasma TV sets. Not only does the new 42PFL9803 offer the unique LED LUX Backlighting technology, but it also features ground-breaking Philips technologies, including the latest generation of Perfect Pixel HD engine and the immersive Ambilight Spectra system. All these elements have been combined into a sleek design to make this the must-have purchase for consumers who demand breathtaking picture quality.”

LED LUX – LED Local Dimming Backlight Technology

The 42PFL9803 is the first LCD TV to feature Philips unique LED local dimming backlight technology, LED LUX. Until now, LCD TVs have suffered from washed-out blacks caused by light leakage from pixels that cannot be completely switched off. The LED local dimming backlight system employed by the 42PFL9803 helps eradicate this problem and deliver industry-leading black level performance.

The LED LUX system comprises of 128 segments of LED’s (1,152 LED’s in total), in 8 rows containing 16 segments. Nine LED’s are assigned to each individual segment and these LED’s can be individually dimmed to precisely control the output of each pixel. So, even if a segment contains both bright and dark portions, the pixel values of the dark portions can be dimmed to deliver optimum contrast performance.

The amount of dimming actually required by each LED is continuously calculated and re-calculated to accurately reproduce the image. Effectively, because there is no light leakage the dark parts of an image become darker and the bright parts become brighter delivering dramatically superior contrast and deep black levels with an astonishing 2,000,000:1 Dynamic Contrast ratio.

100 Hz Clear LCD with 2ms response time

The 42PFL9803 is also the world’s fastest LCD courtesy of 100Hz Clear LCD and a 2 millisecond response time which finally banishes the motion blur problem common with most other LCD TVs. 100Hz Clear LCD creates extreme motion sharpness for clear and vibrant images even with fast on-screen motion. The Double Frame Rate Insertion works with a high 100Hz refresh rate. It increases the sharpness of motion reproduction to more than twice that of conventional LCD, resulting in a performance with a response time of 2 milliseconds – the fastest LCD refresh rate in the world.

Perfect Pixel HD Engine

As well as featuring the pioneering LED local dimming backlight system, the 42PFL9803 comes fully equipped with Philips most advanced screen processing technologies. The latest Perfect Pixel HD engine processes 500 million pixels per second (double the performance of its predecessor), to deliver unrivalled sharpness and detail. Each pixel of the incoming picture is enhanced to better match the surrounding pixels, delivering a more natural and lifelike picture.

Perfect Colors is the combination of new color sources, advanced colour processing for both existing and new sources, and a Wide Color Gamut display. The powerful 17-bit Color Booster technology pumps out a mesmerizing 2,250 trillion colors, producing brilliant life-like images with natural skin and white tones.

Ambilight Spectra 2

The set boasts immersive Ambilight Spectra 2 technology, which accurately identifies dominant on-screen colors and generates accurately-matched ambient lighting from both sides of the screen onto a rear wall. The Ambilight Spectra on each side independently generates a series of colors that match a part of the picture on screen, rather than a whole block of colours on the left and right sides. Ambilight Spectra 2 also adjusts the timing of its LED’s to help enhance onscreen motion.

Integrated Digital TV tuner

Ready for future advancements in the digital era, the 42PFL9803H features an integrated MPEG-4 HDTV receiver to receive pristine high definition broadcasting where available. Connectivity Easy to use and set-up, the 42PFL9803 boasts four HDMI 1.3a EasyLink inputs to ensure easy connectivity between HDMI devices and also features an Ethernet port enabling access to the PC and all networked content.

WORLD’S SMALLEST HUMANOID ROBOT

i-SOBOT Can Dance and Mimic Animals

A new humanoid robot, certified as the world’s smallest, will be released this autumn by Japanese toy manufacturer Tomy Company. On October 25, 2007, the Omnibot 17µ i-SOBOT is scheduled to hit the market—as well as the 2008 edition of Guinness World Records, which will list the product as “the smallest humanoid robot in production.” Robotics fans look forward to i-SOBOT as a fun toy to add to their collections, but also as a leap forward in miniaturization of the advanced parts that go into these high-tech tools.

Surprising Size and Price
i-SOBOT stands just 16.5 centimeters tall, and weighs only around 350 grams. While the robot fits in the palm of your hand, it remains a fully outfitted bipedal machine, with 17 moving joints. Used throughout the body are tiny, custom servomotors developed by Tomy. The robot’s onboard gyro-sensor allows it to maintain its balance automatically as it goes smoothly through its programmed motions. i-SOBOT comes with an infrared remote-control unit, but users can also use voice commands to control it.

Tomy’s i-SOBOT architecture, the control system developed to operate this new robot, makes use of 19 integrated circuit chips that work in tandem to enable the toy’s complex actions.

i-SOBOT will be sold for ¥29,800 before tax ($248 at ¥120 to the dollar) in fully assembled form, complete with rechargeable batteries and its remote control, which features twin joysticks, programmable buttons, and an LCD screen. According to the manufacturer, this price is quite affordable for a robot of this complexity. In addition to its release in Japan, the robot will make its way to markets in the United States and elsewhere in Asia. In 2008 Tomy intends to extend sales to Europe as well. To reach its global sales target of 300,000 units, the company is localizing i-SOBOT’s software in English and Chinese in addition to Japanese.

Four Modes for Action
An attractive feature of this versatile robot is its four separate modes for controlling the action. In Remote Control Mode, the user manages the robot’s movements directly with the command buttons and joysticks on the wireless remote. In Programming Mode, the user has the option to easily choose commands from a list of available actions—182 in all— or to use the controller to create original actions, or use a combination of the two to program complex sequences that can be up to 240 steps long, with 80 steps stored in each of the robot’s three memory slots. Special Action Mode, meanwhile, includes 18 more complex preprogrammed actions, such as “hula dance” and “air drumming.” And Voice Control Mode lets the user give the robot one of 10 commands, to which the i-SOBOT can respond with a range of actions.

This robot is entertaining to the ear as well as the eye. As it goes through its actions it plays sounds from its library of nearly 100 sound effects and songs. The speaker can be turned off, too, when silent action is preferable. The toy is humanoid in form, but the designers have included playful actions in its repertoire that have it imitate the adorable movements of animals.

Tomy has taken steps to make i-SOBOT eco-friendly. The toy manufacturer is shipping the robot with three rechargeable AAA batteries from Sanyo Electric Co., whose Eneloop nickel metal hydride batteries let users keep the robot running for months without sending dead batteries to landfills. Tomy is also collaborating in Sanyo’s Energy Evolution Project by making i-SOBOT part of the programs carried out at Japanese elementary schools. The companies hope to boost children’s awareness of environmental issues by powering the fun robot with rechargeable cells.

SURFING IN THE RAIN

Internet Umbrella Lets Users Browse in Any Weather

Gray, rainy days may be about to get more colorful thanks to a new umbrella invented by Japanese researchers. The Internet Umbrella, conceived by a team at Keio University, acts as a photo browser by displaying images from the Internet as the user walks along. The handle of the umbrella contains a projector that displays images on the underside of the umbrella.

Student Inventors
The Internet umbrella, named Pileus (meaning the head of a mushroom) was created by two young graduate students. Second-year doctoral student Matsumoto Takashi, 27, and first-year master’s student Hashimoto Sho, 22, of Keio University’s Graduate School of Media and Governance were motivated by a desire to make walking on rainy days more enjoyable. Both belong to a research lab led by Professor Okude Naohito that is renowned for its interaction design research based on the concept of ubiquitous computing.

Prompted to start this project by the everyday act of using an umbrella, Matsumoto and Hashimoto combined numerous technologies to make the Internet umbrella a reality. The handle of their creation contains a camera, a motion sensor, GPS, and a digital compass. The device is controlled by rotating the grip.

Pileus has been presented or displayed in several countries, including the United States, France, and Austria, and won the Innovation Prize at Laval Virtual 2007, Europe’s biggest virtual reality convention.

Future Vision
The Internet Umbrella has two main functions. One is browsing the online photo-sharing site Flickr. Not only can the umbrella display photos from the site; using the camera in the handle it can also take pictures and upload them to the Internet via a wireless connection. Pileus users can thus view each other’s photo streams. The umbrella can also display movies from the video-sharing site YouTube.

The other key function of the device is to help users find their way around by displaying 3D maps using Google Earth. The umbrella “knows” the user’s location (thanks to GPS) and direction (thanks to the digital compass), so it can show a bird’s-eye map of the surrounding area, enabling the user to navigate streets with ease. Both functions are easily controlled by rotating the grip of the umbrella. The team is currently working on enabling photos taken with the umbrella to be displayed on the map, along with their location.

Predicting continued growth in the quantities of tagged photos and consumer-generated media on the Internet, the developers imagine a time when Pileus users will be able to view social information generated by other users anywhere in real time. On their website they stated, “This product aims to enhance people’s everyday lives by synchronizing information on the Internet and in real places.”

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About Nepal

“NEPAL”

NEPAL is a beautiful country which lies between two big countries China and India. Its one of the best and very popular south asian country for destination of Tourist. There are about 250 Millions people living in Nepal. Nepal is very rich in different Culture, World Heritage , Mountains, and Natural beauties. Nepal is the country of world’s highest mountain Mount Everest and birth place of Lord Buddha. In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. The refugee issue of some 100,000 Bhutanese in Nepal remains unresolved; 90% of these displaced persons are housed in seven United Nations Offices of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) camps.

Location: Southern Asia, between China and India
Geographic coordinates: 28 00 N, 84 00 E
Map references: Asia
Capital: Kathmandu
Area: total: 147,181 Sq. Kms
Land: 142,981 Sq. Kms
Water: 4,200 Sq Kms
Area – comparative: Slightly larger than Arkansas
Land boundaries: Total: 2,926 kms
Border countries: China 1,236 kms, India 1,690 kms
Population: 23,151,423
Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)
Maritime claims: None (landlocked)
Per Capita Income: US$ 269
Inflation: 4.4%
Gross Domastic Product: 3.6%
Political System: Multiparty Democracy with Constitutional Monarch.
People: 40 Ethnic Groups and 70 Spoken Languages.
Religion: Hindu

Topocraphy: From the world’s deepest gorge,”Kali Gandaki” to the world’s highest point on the earth ” Mount EVEREST” (8,848 M)Hilly and mountainous 77% and Terai lowlands 23%.

Weather: Climate ranges from Tropical in the low lands to Arctic in higher altitudes.

Seasons:
Winter ( December to February. -1 to 15 )
Summer (March to May, 24 to 32)
Monsoon (June to August) and
Autumn (September to November, 10 to 18)

Visa: Available at Royal Nepalese Embassies and Royal Nepalese Consulates abroad or on arrival ta Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.

Terrain: Terai or flat river plain of the Ganges in south, central hill region, rugged Himalayas in north.

Elevation extremes: Lowest point: Kanchan Kalan 70 m, highest point: Mount Everest 8,850 m (1999 est.)

Natural resources: Quartz, water, timber, hydropower, scenic beauty, small deposits of lignite, copper, cobalt, iron ore etc.

Land use: arable land: 17%, permanent crops: 0%, permanent pastures: 15%,forests and woodland: 42%, other: 26% (1993 est.)

Irrigated land: 8,500 sq km (1993 est.)

Natural hazards: Severe thunderstorms, flooding, landslides, drought, and famine depending on the timing, intensity, and duration of the summer monsoons.

Environment – current issues: Deforestation (overuse of wood for fuel and lack of alternatives); contaminated water (with human and animal wastes, agricultural runoff, and industrial effluents); wildlife conservation; vehicular emissions

TIME: Nepal Time is 5 Hours 45 Minutes ahead of GMT.

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