24 Jul 2009 we started selling modular phone Modu Phone. Now the smartphone in which you can personally pick up the camera, display, processor or battery according to your taste, persistently developing Google, but the search giant did not even stutter, and the Israeli company Modu took and released a cell-phone designer many years ago.
Modu Phone is one of the first modular phone
However, “to Shoe a flea,” and make phone repair parts is extremely small, then the manufacturer could not, therefore, Modu transformed with ready-made buildings: the gadget can be turned into MP3 player, or install the base unit in the car stereo, netbook, or connect it with a camera and a GPS module (not in a hurry to laugh — remember how pathetic he worked with navigation communicators of the time, not to mention the simple cell phones).
A young company, of course, illusions did not build and was not able to establish a large-scale production of “kit” for your mobile phone. So the engineers Modu has developed tools by which a third-party company could develop original covers with built-in stuff for the phone unit. Only those third-party manufacturers looked at the idea of a startup, waved his hand and went on to create covers for iPhone with added functionality.
Ideas in bulk, only a mobile phone was too simple and expensive, to replace all at once
Why did this happen? Partly because of the high cost of the base unit Modu itself. In the basic “piece of iron” there was nothing outstanding display with the resolution of 128×96 (if Nokia put the mobile phone with 640×200 pixels in 2001), no 3G it is not supported (and even then, EDGE is not quoted), had 2 GB in all, the operating system could not withstand any competition even with the “smacks” after the announcement of the iPhone Symbian.
Of course, without active investments in the platform and accessories the interest in this device has been extremely low, and even the “mistakes” of Modu T in 2010 did not save the developers — the company went bankrupt and the project was closed. Then a set of patents acquired by Google, which for five consecutive years feeds buyers “breakfasts” and promises in a short time the modular smartphone Google Ara. We can only hope that the company that gave us Android, will not disappoint fans of smartphones-designers.
The initiative Modu picked up by Google, which is developing a modular smartphone Ara
July 24, 1847, there appeared a rotary printing machine. Up to this point almost 400 years for the printing of books and Newspapers used wooden presses of Gutenberg, the principle of which resembled a wine press (or “wholesale” the balance of stamps on hundreds of pages).
Such a mechanism is already in those years was too expensive and slow, because of what the media did not think about any numbers, while the American engineer Richard Howe gave the printers “tool”.
Rotogravure printing machine is already turned 168 years old, but the rest she’s not going
Instead of a flat relief mechanism, which endured to the inventor proposed a scheme in which the paper feeding and the application of the information posted permanently moving cylinders. Already the first samples of such a machine allowed to stamp 14 thousand copies of the newspaper per hour! This, incidentally, four Newspapers per second — even in the 21st century a typical computer printers can not boast of such speed.
Modern rotary printing machines and do work at incredible speeds, printing at 500 meters of paper per minute.
However, in the production of Newspapers and magazines of machines of the traditional type gave way to digital offset printing machines. Such models already such ultra-fast laser printers, and instead of the drum, transfer the image on a special film, which multiplies copies with very expensive and effective types of toner. Classic rotary machines only in the production of textiles and Souvenirs.
July 24, 2006, the Corporation AMD bought for $5.4 billion, the largest developer of graphics processors — ATI Technologies. For such expenses Advanced Micro Devices decided for several reasons. The company planned to combine the development of computer processors and graphics cards under one wing, to develop a chipset (a chip that connects the processor, graphics, RAM, drives, etc.), to gain a foothold “United front” in laptops and counter Intel, until she learned to produce effective graphics built into the processor.
In 2006, AMD decided to acquire the developer of video cards
Absorption has not been painless AMD Corporation for a long time could not settle the debts with creditors and some time was Presanella money from the various investment funds. At the same time Intel released the extremely successful Core 2 Duo processors, and NVIDIA has hit competitor graphics cards based on the architecture of G80 — enthusiasts were delighted with the announced GeForce 8800.
Radeon HD 2900XT was the first card issued after the purchase of ATI by AMD Corporation
Due to the slow pace of development of new processors AMD tried on the role of “always catching up” to similar Intel products. But the graphic division has come up after a year and a half, when at the end of 2007 Radeon HD 3850 imposed competition to the GeForce 8800 GTX and Ultra.