Wrist watch mobile phone maker company enters in Indian market

News Track India: Taking a leapfrog from Europe to India, a Netherland based wrist watchmobile phone making company on Friday has put its first step in India by opening its three outlets in capital and capital region and launching its some models to attract customers. A  Netherland - based  company Burg that Manufactures innovative wrist watch mobile phone Friday launched its five models Burg 9, Burg 10,
Burg 11, Burg 12 and Burg 13 in Delhi and Gurgaon outlets. The price of the launched ranges between Rs.9,000 to Rs.24,000. Describing the features of Burg?s product, Company?s global sales director Koen Pieters said that these wrist watch mobile phone is equipped with all features of mobile phones and wrist watch. Using their device, you can make and receive phone calls, send and receive SMS, access internet, take snapshots from its camera, do video recording and all those which a modern smart phone

contains, he said. Moreover, the features of bluetooth, image viewer and file manager are also included in it. Koen also informed that company, which is now targeting to open 20 outlets in India across the country viewing its rich and broad market. "India is emerging as one of the key market for technology products as India's expanding economy and rising disposable incomes are fostering demands for such gadgets," Koen Pieters said. "India is the next focus destination for Burg in its global road map. We will keep introducing our wide range of futuristic products for Indian consumers at their door steps," he added.  Burg already has significant presence in Italy, Germany, Russia, Mexico, United States of America, Spain, Chile, Venezuela, Norway and Switzerland. --With Agencies Inputs-- Source: News Track India

Read More........→April 16, 2012

Monkeys did sing like humans once

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Ancient monkeys used auditory cues similar to humans to distinguish between low and high sound notes, say researchers, adding that pitch perception may have evolved more than 40 million years ago to enable vocal communication and song-like vocalisations. Pitch perception is essential to our ability to communicate and make music. "But until now, we didn't think any animal species, including monkeys, perceived it the way we do. Now we know that marmosets, and likely other primate ancestors, do," said Xiaoqin Wang, professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University's school of medicine. Marmosets are small monkeys native to South America that are highly vocal and social. Other animal species have been reported to show pitch perception but none have shown the three specialised features of human pitch perception. First, people are better at distinguishing pitch differences at low frequencies than high. Second, humans are able to pick up on subtle changes in the spread between pitches at low frequencies or hertz. And third, at high frequencies, peoples' ability to perceive pitch differences among tones played simultaneously is related to how sensitive they are to the rhythm. Through a series of hearing tests, Wang's team determined that marmosets share all three features with humans, suggesting that human components of pitch perception evolved much earlier than previously thought. The American continent, with its marmosets in place, broke away from the African land mass approximately 40 million years ago, before humans appeared in Africa. So it's possible that this human-like pitch perception evolved before that break and was maintained throughout primate evolution in Africa until it was inherited by modern humans. "Another possibility is that only certain aspects of pitch perception were in place before the split, with the rest of the mechanisms evolving in parallel in Old and New World monkeys," the authors noted. "Now we can explore questions about what goes wrong in people who are tone deaf and whether perfect pitch is an inherited or learned trait," Wang concluded in a paper forthcoming in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. — IANS. Source: http://www.tribuneindia.com

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Scientist discovers plate tectonics on Mars

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The phenomenon of plate tectonics, previously thought to exist only on Earth also occurs beneath the surface of Mars, a scientist has claimed. A researcher from the University of California – Los Angeles found that the geological phenomenon, which involves the movement of huge crustal plates beneath a planet'ssurface, also exists on the red planet. "Mars is at a primitive stage of plate tectonics. It gives us a glimpse of how the early Earth may have looked and may help us understand how plate tectonics began on Earth," said An Yin, a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciences. Yin made the discovery during his analysis of satellite images from a NASA spacecraft known as THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) and from the HIRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. He analysed about 100 satellite images - approximately a dozen were revealing of plate tectonics. Yin has conducted geologic research in the Himalayas and Tibet, where two of the Earth's seven major plates divide. "When I studied the satellite images from Mars, many of the features looked very much like fault systems I have seen in the Himalayas and Tibet, and in California as well, including the geomorphology," Yin said in a statement. Mars has a linear volcanic zone, which Yin said is a typical product of plate tectonics. "You don't see these features anywhere else on other planets in our solar system, other than Earth and Mars," said Yin. The study was published in the journal Lithosphere. The surface of Mars contains the longest and deepest system of canyons in our solar system, known as Valles Marineris. Scientists have wondered for four decades how it was formed. "I saw that the idea that it is just a big crack that opened up is incorrect. It is really a plate boundary, with horizontal motion. That is kind of shocking, but the evidence is quite clear," Yin added. "The shell is broken and is moving horizontally over a long distance. It is very similar to the Earth's Dead Sea fault system, which has also opened up and is moving horizontally," Yin said. "I don't quite understand why the plates are moving with such a large magnitude or what the rate of movement is; maybe Mars has a different form of plate tectonics. The rate is much slower than on Earth," Yin added. The Earth has a broken shell with seven major plates; pieces of the shell move, and one plate may move over another. Yin is doubtful that Mars has more than two plates. "We have been able to identify only the two plates," he said. "For the other areas on Mars, I think the chances are very, very small. I don't see any other major crack," Yin added. Source: Indian Express

Read More........→August 12, 2012