Technology Help Soldiers Know Where the Bullet was Fired From ?

The soldiers in the near future will be able to identify correctly the bullets were fired from any direction in the case was ambushed or fired, thanks to an acoustic wave sensing device weighs less than 0.9 kg that they wear on their bodies.

This compact device called Individual Gunshot Detector (IGD), including 4 children ultrasonic sensors, which function “listen” and analyze sound waves emitted from the bullets fired at, so that informed soldiers shot the direction and distance of the bullet through a small screen, helping them determine the location of its guys are shooting.
We are conducting military machine equipped with IGD to 13,000 troops in Afghanistan and in the next 12 months will be regularly distributed additional 1,500 machines per month for them. Have this equipment, the soldiers would easily take the initiative on the battlefield than the rest of their problems when the gun is a gun that distinguish us from the camp or the enemy camp alone.

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Just-Eat Closes $48 million Funding To Scale Globally

Takeaway online ordering service, has closed a funding round of $ 48 million co-led by two leading venture capitalists, Greylock Partners and Redpoint Partners with existing investors Index Ventures also participating.

Just to eat now plans an international deployment. Now it is in ten countries and three continents and more than 15,000 restaurants. The company claims to generate over 500 million dollars of revenue for local businesses in 2011, buying links from the normal position of restaurant and order systems with an aggregator site that takes orders for takeout food.

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Meet the First Smartphone HTC Windows 7

Continue to provide information on new products xda.cn HTC, probably due to the CTIA 2011 to be held next week in Orlando, Florida. This opens a new smartphone with Windows 7 as the phone always "Ignite shown above, but this time with sliding QWERTY keyboard.

First HTC is slimmer and more compact current HTC Pro 7 with a 3.7-inch WVGA display, 512 MB ​​of RAM and a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash. Subscribe by email and more information about HTC Prime.

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AT & T allows free calls to Japan in late March

One can imagine many of you, like us, have made ​​desperate calls to relatives and friends in Japan in recent days, no matter the cost. Now, faced with otherwise devastating news, we have some good news to share courtesy of AT & T. Ma Bell offers backup wired and wireless billing for calls made on AT & T between March 11 and March 31. Under the plan, AT & T Wireless postpaid not be charged for text messages and international long distance Japan from the United States and Puerto Rico. Similarly, the fixed line residential customers can borrow up to 60 minutes of direct dialing to Japan. Of course, this is a blatant theft of advertising, but it seems really useful.

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Japanese officials fear nuclear fusion in partial

A massive earthquake that struck the northeastern coast of Japan on Friday, taking 1,200 lives, with thousands still missing and ten thousand feared dead by police - also damaged several nuclear plants there.

On Sunday, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary said Yukio Edan partial melting in the complex nuclear Fukushima Dai-ichi, probably in progress. Partial melting following an explosion Saturday at a unit complex, where operators are working to cool the reactor core by injecting sea water and boron in the containment vessel.

Also on Sunday, according to Tokyo International Atomic Energy Agency of Japan Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported a state of emergency in the school, Onagawa plant nuclear energy, while its three reactors was maintained under control, warning of emergencies involving radioactivity readings in the area above the permitted levels.

Eric Talmadge and Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press reported:

    "More than 170,000 people had been evacuated as a precautionary measure ... Edan said the radioactivity released into the environment until the time was so small that it posed no health threat. A total collapse - the collapse of a system power plant and its ability to keep temperatures under control - could release uranium and harmful contaminants into the environment and pose major risks, general health. "

As to the frightening prospect of multiple nuclear fusions in the country, millions of Japanese homes still without power, water and food today.

Natural disasters could have caused even greater damage if not for the investments of Japan in the early-warning systems, and constant updating of building codes to deal with earthquakes, especially.

Japan Meteorological Agency warned of strong aftershocks in front, his website suggests 70 percent of earthquakes of magnitude 7 class on March 16, 2011.

As oil prices are skyrocketing, so general, and energy demands are increasing the head of U.S. power, Steven Chu, recently asked Congress to consider an American standard of clean energy, including with nuclear renewable sources like solar and wind energy. The situation in Japan, however, highlights the controversy surrounding the appointment nuclear as a clean energy source.

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Motorola Released Update for Xoom-Preparing Flash 2.10

In a notice to users, Motorola said the company has released the first firmware update for the tablet of Xoom. The update will include some improvements to fix "summer time", and support for Adobe Flash 10.2. Although the update was in effect from last night, but did not know the arrival of Flash 10.2.

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Y Combinator is backing Chirply Threadless for paper products

You're probably tired of going back to Hallmark time and again by the same letters seriously grandmother has been sending for years, and I would be surprised if we are running out of occasions that demand a card with a single-line cheese or a stanza of poetry corny. Fortunately, YC-backed Chirply, which starts this week, is breathing new life into greeting cards - and notebooks and wrapping paper - by creating a community of origin, where designers can submit new ideas for products paper. Users like you can vote on their favorite designs, which the ideas that receive the highest number of votes became champion and became real products, live and printed by Chirply team.

But Chirply model is not just copy and paste Ye Olde crowdsourcing in the paper industry, is offering "crowdsourcing" with a financial incentive. Designers whose ideas collect the most votes are awarded a prize of $ 300, plus an additional 10 cents for each printed with your design. Compared with Hallmark, which does not accept unsolicited artwork for their cards and pay their staff and designers commissioned a flat rate with no chance of royalties, Chirply is opening the field to budding designers there trying to see their ideas come to life. What's more, according to the founders Chirply as sales increase, so will the size of the awards, so you can finally put the study of art degree to work! For money!

In the spirit of giving, TechCrunch Chirply offers readers the opportunity to request a free card that can be done in TC unique landing page here. One per person, please do not get greedy.

Although Chirply co-founders and brothers Palrecha Neel Gagan and technology have a history - Gagan was an employee at the beginning of Loudcloud and Vontu engineer - told TechCrunch that it reserves the bands in the basement early in high school and even founded a label, so they know what it is to support artists. Or in this case, the designers.

Still, the Palrechas know what they are against it, saying that Hallmark spends $ 60 million a year in the design of their cards and companies like Threadless have made one or two dollars in the space of clothes, "crowdsourcing," Sure, role in general, is not sexy, so that a large majority of companies go after crowdsourced t-shirts, but the industry greeting card industry is a $ 10 billion in the U.S., "said Gagan TechCrunch. Although Chirply has jurisdiction in the landscape and sites like Tiny Prints Minted arrivals, for example, specializes in the sell greeting cards. Chirply, however, the views of articles of paper space as a green field. Those competitors that do not exist or have found their niche, specializing in gift paper, cards or selling in large quantities.

Chirply also expects to beat its competitors by offering competitive pricing, quality design and heavier weight. Your cards are sold at $ 4 per piece and $ 30 for a set of 10, to compare this with Papyrus, for example, which sells similar cards from $ 6 to $ 10. While Papyrus offers a selection of cards for under $ 4, the card stock is cheaper and the options are mainly to seal designs hash again. Not to mention, if you are sensitive to green, all products will Chirply post-consumer waste and green to the gills, and if you are a design snob, you'll be glad to know that your cards printed on paper 120 pounds instead of £ 80 Now that the actions of stalwart.

Chirply plans to eliminate high overhead costs, avoiding the brick and mortar stores, the performance of all businesses online through their website. Paper products will be tangible and digital, but do not expect their stores to be anything other than the type of Internet.

Chirply launching this week will open the forum to design presentations, and presentations will be open to the general public (and ongoing) thereafter. Also offer the most exclusive products and competitions, as a design company with such a to-be-named comic book to be launched in the near future. Palrecha did not say what, but I hope I can send my father Mr. Freeze card sometime soon.

Finally, although you may spend most of their time punking your friends with Someecards, Chirply allowed to vote for the best card in the slogans and messages were printed on their cards so that its implementation starting with few resources can send personalized Christmas cards for the local venture capital and angels. Just in time for Valentine's Day!

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