The article states that they are putting this into house fans. I'm guessing not much since they hardly use enough power to justify investing in expensive but more effecient equipment
This is perhaps one of the most amazing devices I have read about recently. If this turns out to be true it could revolutionize the amount of energy the world consumes. And if it scales electric cars may gain even more momentum. Below is the article text.
The Techno Maestro's Amazing Machine Kohei Minato and the Japan Magnetic Fan Company
A maverick inventor's breakthrough electric motor uses permanent magnets to make power -- and has investors salivating
by John Dodd
NEW! -- See video of motors working.
When we first got the call from an excited colleague that he'd just seen the most amazing invention -- a magnetic motor that consumed almost no electricity -- we were so skeptical that we declined an invitation to go see it. If the technology was so good, we thought, how come they didn't have any customers yet?
We forgot about the invitation and the company until several months later, when our friend called again.
"OK," he said. "They've just sold 40,000 units to a major convenience store chain. Now will you see it?"
In Japan, no one pays for 40,000 convenience store cooling fans without being reasonably sure that they are going to work.
The maestro
The streets of east Shinjuku are littered with the tailings of the many small factories and workshops still located there -- hardly one's image of the headquarters of a world-class technology company. But this is where we are first greeted outside Kohei Minato's workshop by Nobue Minato, the wife of the inventor and co-director of the family firm.
The workshop itself is like a Hollywood set of an inventor's garage. Electrical machines, wires, measuring instruments and batteries are strewn everywhere. Along the diagram-covered walls are drill presses, racks of spare coils, Perspex plating and other paraphernalia. And seated in the back, head bowed in thought, is the 58-year-old techno maestro himself.
Minato is no newcomer to the limelight. In fact, he has been an entertainer for most of his life, making music and producing his daughter's singing career in the US. He posseses an oversized presence, with a booming voice and a long ponytail. In short, you can easily imagine him onstage or in a convertible cruising down the coast of California -- not hunched over a mass of wires and coils in Tokyo's cramped backstreets.
Joining us are a middle-aged banker and his entourage from Osaka and accounting and finance consultant Yukio Funai. The banker is doing a quick review for an investment, while the rest of us just want to see if Minato's magnetic motors really work. A prototype car air conditioner cooler sitting on a bench looks like it would fit into a Toyota Corolla and quickly catches our attention.
Seeing is believing
Nobue then takes us through the functions and operations of each of the machines, starting off with a simple explanation of the laws of magnetism and repulsion. She demonstrates the "Minato Wheel" by kicking a magnet-lined rotor into action with a magnetic wand.
Looking carefully at the rotor, we see that it has over 16 magnets embedded on a slant -- apparently to make Minato's machines work, the positioning and angle of the magnets is critical. After she kicks the wheel into life, it keeps spinning, proving at least that the design doesn't suffer from magnetic lockup.
She then moves us to the next device, a weighty machine connected to a tiny battery. Apparently the load on the machine is a 35kg rotor, which could easily be used in a washing machine. After she flicks the switch, the huge rotor spins at over 1,500 rpms effortlessly and silently. Meters show the power in and power out. Suddenly, a power source of 16 watt or so is driving a device that should be drawing at least 200 to 300 watts.
Nobue explains to us that this and all the other devices only use electrical power for the two electromagnetic stators at either side of each rotor, which are used to kick the rotor past its lockup point then on to the next a
One of the interesting tricks the programmer makes is allowing much of the code to execute with-out emulation. It just tells the program that it is running on a certain type of os by wrapping a xbox/nt wrapper around threads that run on normal xp/nt os. This eliminates much of the emulation overhead.
The author claims to be able to run the game w/ 4x overclocking on a 2.8ghz pentium. Seems like todays hardware can handle it.
This is really great work but there's much more to be done before this is an All Purpose Xbox emulator. Currently, It only plays Turok. Which is based on the 4627 XDK. Other games based on this are:
Aggressive Inline
Battle Engine Aquila
EggMania
Kelly SLater's Pro Surfer
Rayman Arena
Sega GT 2002
Shadow of memories
I certainly have thought more than two seconds about trusted computing and am not giving a knee jerk reaction. I don't believe I implied the MS would be looking at my porn.
In fact, in the future I'd like to be able to run MS software(would be a TC app) when there is a need and non TC apps when there isn't. I don't want to have to modify my computer or bios just to do that.
I understand all of the benefits of trusted computing, but still find it hard to accept for two reasons.
First, I don't beleive that any system that is physically in the users hand is secure. Given enough time and motivation crafty end users will crack the system. For an example we need look no further than mod-chips and video game systems.
Second, I'm a tinkerer. I love to play around with new technology and software. Ultimately this technology would be in everything from your computer to your dishwasher. I'd hate to lose that ability to dig around the machine and software myself or have to pay extra to modify my computer and devices to gain that back.
It seem to me that they had good reason to be monitoring the call. The phone was monitored because the owner was know to be meeting with militant islamists.
What's really interesting is that the terrorist didn't realize that the sim card is what identifies you and not the phone. They kept buying new phones and using the same card.
I'm not a microsoft support but I think it is a little remiss not to include the next generation of Outlook in your review. It seems to be the "most popular" client everywhere I've ever worked.
Port knocking would help defeat a virus that spreads by exploiting unpatched or 0-day expoitss running on ports that need to be exposed.
This would allow you to let in legitimate traffic while holding back a virus trying to exploit port 1434. It wouldn't matter how long Microsoft took to write a patch. The number of request from a virus slowing down the network is another story.
One interesting way to use this would be to forward incorrect knocks to a honeypot instead of the legitamite service. Then the attacker could never determine if he had indeed knocked successfully and would waste time running around in a fake system giving you valuable data about there intrusion methods and freeing up the actual service for legit users.
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They then make you agree to this. It's pretty funny
This seems like a truely great idea that could save many lives and convert danegerous land to a usefull purpose. Some obvious questions come to mind.
How hardy are these weeds? Can they grow in desert like climates?
Also how do you get rid of the weeds once your ready to grow new crops
I think the speculation is that trace amounts of water would be present. Or that it would be locked away in rocks. If it was mud that would mean lots of water.
We should have let X10 keep there pop unders with out charging them the fee for patent infringement. Now there mad and have launched there improved X17 plasma at us!
I was looking into how much it would cost to buy a 25W laser and build an X Y plotter to run it and came across this article describing how you could write off 57% of the cost because it is basically a machine tool.
Slashdot Mirror
Here are the patents this one from 1988 and this one from 1997. Only time will tell if they work
The article states that they are putting this into house fans. I'm guessing not much since they hardly use enough power to justify investing in expensive but more effecient equipment
This is perhaps one of the most amazing devices I have read about recently. If this turns out to be true it could revolutionize the amount of energy the world consumes. And if it scales electric cars may gain even more momentum. Below is the article text.
The Techno Maestro's Amazing Machine
Kohei Minato and the Japan Magnetic Fan Company
A maverick inventor's breakthrough electric motor uses permanent magnets to make power -- and has investors salivating
by John Dodd
NEW! -- See video of motors working.
When we first got the call from an excited colleague that he'd just seen the most amazing invention -- a magnetic motor that consumed almost no electricity -- we were so skeptical that we declined an invitation to go see it. If the technology was so good, we thought, how come they didn't have any customers yet?
We forgot about the invitation and the company until several months later, when our friend called again.
"OK," he said. "They've just sold 40,000 units to a major convenience store chain. Now will you see it?"
In Japan, no one pays for 40,000 convenience store cooling fans without being reasonably sure that they are going to work.
The maestro
The streets of east Shinjuku are littered with the tailings of the many small factories and workshops still located there -- hardly one's image of the headquarters of a world-class technology company. But this is where we are first greeted outside Kohei Minato's workshop by Nobue Minato, the wife of the inventor and co-director of the family firm.
The workshop itself is like a Hollywood set of an inventor's garage. Electrical machines, wires, measuring instruments and batteries are strewn everywhere. Along the diagram-covered walls are drill presses, racks of spare coils, Perspex plating and other paraphernalia. And seated in the back, head bowed in thought, is the 58-year-old techno maestro himself.
Minato is no newcomer to the limelight. In fact, he has been an entertainer for most of his life, making music and producing his daughter's singing career in the US. He posseses an oversized presence, with a booming voice and a long ponytail. In short, you can easily imagine him onstage or in a convertible cruising down the coast of California -- not hunched over a mass of wires and coils in Tokyo's cramped backstreets.
Joining us are a middle-aged banker and his entourage from Osaka and accounting and finance consultant Yukio Funai. The banker is doing a quick review for an investment, while the rest of us just want to see if Minato's magnetic motors really work. A prototype car air conditioner cooler sitting on a bench looks like it would fit into a Toyota Corolla and quickly catches our attention.
Seeing is believing
Nobue then takes us through the functions and operations of each of the machines, starting off with a simple explanation of the laws of magnetism and repulsion. She demonstrates the "Minato Wheel" by kicking a magnet-lined rotor into action with a magnetic wand.
Looking carefully at the rotor, we see that it has over 16 magnets embedded on a slant -- apparently to make Minato's machines work, the positioning and angle of the magnets is critical. After she kicks the wheel into life, it keeps spinning, proving at least that the design doesn't suffer from magnetic lockup.
She then moves us to the next device, a weighty machine connected to a tiny battery. Apparently the load on the machine is a 35kg rotor, which could easily be used in a washing machine. After she flicks the switch, the huge rotor spins at over 1,500 rpms effortlessly and silently. Meters show the power in and power out. Suddenly, a power source of 16 watt or so is driving a device that should be drawing at least 200 to 300 watts.
Nobue explains to us that this and all the other devices only use electrical power for the two electromagnetic stators at either side of each rotor, which are used to kick the rotor past its lockup point then on to the next a
One of the interesting tricks the programmer makes is allowing much of the code to execute with-out emulation. It just tells the program that it is running on a certain type of os by wrapping a xbox/nt wrapper around threads that run on normal xp/nt os. This eliminates much of the emulation overhead.
The author claims to be able to run the game w/ 4x overclocking on a 2.8ghz pentium. Seems like todays hardware can handle it.
This is really great work but there's much more to be done before this is an All Purpose Xbox emulator. Currently, It only plays Turok. Which is based on the 4627 XDK. Other games based on this are:
Aggressive Inline
Battle Engine Aquila
EggMania
Kelly SLater's Pro Surfer
Rayman Arena
Sega GT 2002
Shadow of memories
I've never imagined that a 1ghz computer could capture in real time stats from a video feed. This is amazing.
It's not a joke unless amazon is in on it.
I certainly have thought more than two seconds about trusted computing and am not giving a knee jerk reaction. I don't believe I implied the MS would be looking at my porn.
In fact, in the future I'd like to be able to run MS software(would be a TC app) when there is a need and non TC apps when there isn't. I don't want to have to modify my computer or bios just to do that.
I understand all of the benefits of trusted computing, but still find it hard to accept for two reasons.
First, I don't beleive that any system that is physically in the users hand is secure. Given enough time and motivation crafty end users will crack the system. For an example we need look no further than mod-chips and video game systems.
Second, I'm a tinkerer. I love to play around with new technology and software. Ultimately this technology would be in everything from your computer to your dishwasher. I'd hate to lose that ability to dig around the machine and software myself or have to pay extra to modify my computer and devices to gain that back.
This is definatley in access of the 145 Pound(money not weight) allowence:
Not sure why this warrents an ask slashdot when a quick search found this:
Gateway Stores
Circuit City
Dell Direct Stores
Or if your feeling artistic:
Apple Stores
It seem to me that they had good reason to be monitoring the call. The phone was monitored because the owner was know to be meeting with militant islamists.
What's really interesting is that the terrorist didn't realize that the sim card is what identifies you and not the phone. They kept buying new phones and using the same card.
Sorry for the previous post I have since RTFA and noticed that an Outlook review is included. My apologies.
I'm not a microsoft support but I think it is a little remiss not to include the next generation of Outlook in your review. It seems to be the "most popular" client everywhere I've ever worked.
Port knocking would help defeat a virus that spreads by exploiting unpatched or 0-day expoitss running on ports that need to be exposed.
This would allow you to let in legitimate traffic while holding back a virus trying to exploit port 1434. It wouldn't matter how long Microsoft took to write a patch. The number of request from a virus slowing down the network is another story.
One interesting way to use this would be to forward incorrect knocks to a honeypot instead of the legitamite service. Then the attacker could never determine if he had indeed knocked successfully and would waste time running around in a fake system giving you valuable data about there intrusion methods and freeing up the actual service for legit users.
I think you are wrong
4. You must be a Certified Patriot! In our view, it is exceptionally patriotic to be a member of Hacktivismo and to advocate civil liberties all over the world. And we don't view people who agree with George Bush, John Poindexter, John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney, or Don Rumsfeld as very patriotic at all. It is patriotic to disagree with Mr. Bush and other friends of Big Oil. But neither we nor George Bush can decide unilaterally whether you are a Certified Patriot merely based on your politics or point of view. A "Certified Patriot" has come to mean anybody (even communists, militia members, muslim extremists, animal-rights activists, tree-huggers, vocal critics of John Ashcroft, and card-carrying members of the ACLU) not listed as a "Specially Designated National" or "Blocked Person" by the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC"). The OFAC list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons [PDF] is located here [PDF] or here [text file]. The most recent changes [PDF] to the SDN and Blocked Persons List are published here [PDF]. IF YOU ARE NOT ON THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT LIST, THEN YOU, TOO, ARE A CERTIFIED PATRIOT! Congratulations! ;-)
They then make you agree to this. It's pretty funny
...Just my $.2...
This inflation is getting out of control. Damn you GW!
This seems like a truely great idea that could save many lives and convert danegerous land to a usefull purpose. Some obvious questions come to mind. How hardy are these weeds? Can they grow in desert like climates? Also how do you get rid of the weeds once your ready to grow new crops
I would expect to see many announcements like this in regards to the Mars mission as it is great propaganda.
I think the speculation is that trace amounts of water would be present. Or that it would be locked away in rocks. If it was mud that would mean lots of water.
I currently have my girlfriend hooked on the latest Mario Kart.
We should have let X10 keep there pop unders with out charging them the fee for patent infringement. Now there mad and have launched there improved X17 plasma at us!
I was looking into how much it would cost to buy a 25W laser and build an X Y plotter to run it and came across this article describing how you could write off 57% of the cost because it is basically a machine tool.