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*** integrated with RunKeeper's HealthGraph ***
*** audio cues and voice commands in 5 languages ***
The fast and fluid running app for windows phone. Inspired by the best phone UI designed by Microsoft and Nokia, Caledos Runner gives you a unique and smooth experience on your phone.
Track your fitness activities, get motivated, and have fun doing it:
- See detailed stats around your pace, distance, and time, on a big, bold and easy to read interface.
- Get stats and progress through your headphones with built-in audio cues in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.
- Listen and control your music while you work out.
Burn calories and measure your performance over time:
- View a detailed history of your activities to see how you are doing.
Share with friends:
- Join the more than 15M people who are using RunKeeper and his Healthgraph,
- Track your runs, walks, bike rides, hikes, ski runs, and more using the GPS in your Windows Phone!
- Post your activities to Facebook, Twitter and your friends via RunKeeper.com
- Get a broader picture of your health at RunKeeper.com
Caledos Runner is built using Healthgraph public API. It is developed solely by the CaledosLab team and is NOT affiliated with FitnessKeeper inc.
Main features:
- track and display distance, calories, time, pace, speed, position
- big bold and easy to read interface
- sync data with RunKeeper and share your activity on main social networks
- audio cues in 5 languages
- splits and countdown (new)
- stats dashboard with burned calories, distance, #activities over time graphs
- play background music
- offline maps
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Pictured are two Typhoons of 6 Sqn patrolling the skies during Exercise Red Flag 2016.
RAF personnel took part in the world’s largest and most complex air combat exercise at Nellis Air Force Base in the United States.
Exercise Red Flag is a three-week, 5th Generation exercise that sees friendly ‘Blue Forces’ compete against hostile ‘Red Force’ aggressors in live and synthetic training environments, simulating air-to-air, air-to-ground and space and cyber warfare.
The training mirrors the threats and complex air defences posed by real-life adversaries, and helps participating nations better understand each other’s capabilities.
The Typhoon FGR4 provides the RAF with a highly capable and extremely agile multi-role combat aircraft, capable of being deployed in the full spectrum of air operations, including air policing, peace support and high intensity conflict.
Initially deployed in the air-to-air role as the Typhoon F2, the aircraft now has a potent and precise multirole capability.
The pilot can carry out many functions by voice command or through a hands-on stick and throttle system. Combined with an advanced cockpit and the HEA (Helmet equipment assembly) the pilot is superbly equipped for all aspects of air operations.
Last week I decided to teach myself how to build spheres and contoured shapes (the football, Mork, and plenty of unphotographed tablescrap). Around 6:30 last night, I thought it would be cool to apply my new knowledge and build R2-D2. I thought it would be even cooler if I could take the model to my LUG meeting today. So, using a voice command R2-D2 as a reference, I sat down around just before 7PM and started building and didn’t stop until just after midnight when I had a 12.5” astro-mech droid sitting on my desk.
It’s not movie accurate, but its close enough for me this time around. Bear in mind that this is my VERY FIRST attempt at building anything like this. Given my self-imposed time constraints, available brick and lack of experience, I think it turned out pretty good. I may certainly revisit this project later on and take my time to get a much cooler little droid.
Royal Air Force "Typhoon" FGR4 Piloted by BAE test pilot taking off from RAF Fairford to perform a role demonstration.
The "Typhoon" FGR4 provides the RAF with a highly capable and extremely agile multi-role combat aircraft, capable of being deployed in the full spectrum of air operations, including air policing, peace support and high intensity conflict.
Initially deployed in the air-to-air role as the "Typhoon" F2, the aircraft now has a potent and precise multirole capability.
The pilot can carry out many functions by voice command or through a hands-on stick and throttle system. Combined with an advanced cockpit and the HEA (Helmet equipment assembly) the pilot is superbly equipped for all aspects of air operations.
Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain formally agreed to start development of the aircraft in 1988 with contracts for a first batch of 148 aircraft – of which 53 were for the RAF – signed ten years later. Deliveries to the RAF started in 2003 to 17(R) Sqn who were based at BAE Systems Warton Aerodrome in Lancashire (alongside the factory where the aircraft were assembled) while detailed development and testing of the aircraft was carried out. Formal activation of the first "Typhoon" Squadron at RAF Coningsby occurred on the 1st Jul 2005.
The aircraft took over responsibility for UK QRA on 29 Jun 2007 and was formally declared as an advanced Air Defence platform on 1 Jan 2008.
If I can't see this in person a few days before Christmas, the next best thing will be to experience it today in photos (with more below)!
Walt Disney World | Magic Kingdom | Carousel of Progress
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FATHER: Isn't it a pleasant holiday? Turkey's in the oven, it's peaceful and quiet.
JIMMY: Yes! Three hundred points, my best score yet!
SARAH: Well, it was peaceful until Santa brought that new virtual reality space pilot game.
Jimmy's headgear goes up above his eyes.
JIMMY: Your turn Grandma. Let's switch the image over to the TV, so the resident flying ace can show you how it works.
Grandma's headgear goes down, and the TV turns on. On the TV we see the interior of a space craft cockpit.
JIMMY: Now, it's a little tricky. Just use your game glove to fly behind the other guy and then blast him with your laser blaster!
GRANDMA: Laser blaster? Well, I'll give it a try.
JIMMY: Take a look around Grandma. You're in the ship.
GRANDMA: I feel like I'm really there!
JIMMY: Okay, get ready, you're about to blast off!
GRANDMA: Here goes nothing.
The screen flickers into motion as the space outside of the cockpit begins to move. We soon see enemy ships passing by.
JIMMY: Alright, here he comes! Ooh, you missed him.
As Grandma and Jimmy play Space Pilot, Sarah looks up from her computer.
SARAH: Hey everyone, I'm done programming out new voice activation system.
FATHER: Now all our household items will do anything we tell them to do.
GRANDPA: Great... tell the refrigerator to bring me a root beer.
SARAH: (Chuckling.) Well, it can't quite do that. But I'll show you something that it can do. (She declares:) Tree lights, thirty percent brighter.
The Christmas Tree lights brighten a little.
GRANDPA: Ah, that's no big deal. Anybody can do that voice activating stuff. Watch this. Rover... speak!
ROVER: Woof!
SARAH: John, the oven should respond to your voice commands now. Give it a try.
FATHER: Okay, here goes. Temperature to 375.
OVEN: (It actually talks.) Temperature increased to 375.
PATRICIA: Look at that! It even talks back.
FATHER: Like some people I know.
PATRICIA: Yeah right dad!
JIMMY: (Watching Grandma's progress on the TV.) You're going to loose him Grandma! Bank to the right!
PATRICIA: Remember dad's turkey last year?
GRANDPA: Yeah, that thing really smoked up the place when it burned, didn't it?
PATRICIA: We ended up microwaving frozen pizzas.
SARAH: Well, no need to worry about the turkey this year. Not with an oven that will do anything your father tells it to do.
JIMMY: Ooo! Good shot!
GRANDMA: Did you see that?!
JIMMY: Dad, Grandma's up to 550 points!
FATHER: Did you say 550? Man, she's getting the hang of that thing.
OVEN: (Quietly, without anyone noticing.) Temperature increased to 550.
GRANDPA: I can't believe all the new gadgets they've got now. Did you know in my day--
PATRICIA: Oh no. You're not going to tell us about the old days when you didn't even have a car phone.
GRANDPA: (He chuckles.) Hey Trisch, for a while we didn't even have a house phone. Not to mention laser discs and high def TV. Everything is automated these days, including...
From off stage we hear a toilet flushing.
GRANDPA: (Continuing.) Well, including that.
COUSIN ORVILLE: (Off stage.) No privacy at all around this place!
GRANDPA: Sorry Orville. Anyway, you guys don't realize how good you've got it nowadays.
SARAH: You know, my Grandfather told me the very same thing when I was a kid.
GRANDMA: (Still playing the VR.) Take that you nincompoop!
JIMMY: Hey check it out dad. Grandma's up to 975 points.
FATHER: Wow! 975.
OVEN: Temperature increased to 975. (Oven starts beeping and smoke erupts.) Overload-- overload...
SARAH: John, what's wrong with the oven?
FATHER: Well-- UH...
The oven door slams open and we hear the crackling of burnt turkey skin.
OVEN: Bake Mode complete. Enjoy your meal.
PATRICIA: Anyone for pizza?
SARAH: Another Christmas turkey ruined.
Grandma's game ends. Her headgear lifts back over her eyes.
GRANDMA: Man what a game! I really smoked those guys. Looks like I'm resident flying ace now.
JIMMY: Best two out of three Grandma?
GRANDMA: Later kid. Boy that was fun. What will they think up next?
PATRICIA: Who knows? We've got a whole new century waiting for us out there.
SARAH: Yeah, and maybe sometime in the new century, your father will learn how to talk to out oven.
FATHER: Well, by then maybe ovens will read out minds. But hey, as long as we're all here and happy and together for the holidays, who cares if I burned out Christmas turkey?
GRANDMA: I do! I'm starving.
A round of laughter erupts from the whole family.
JIMMY: Don't worry dad. Someday, everything is going to be so automated, you won't ever have to cook another Christmas turkey again.
This Batmobile first appeared in the 1989 movie 'Batman' and then again in the 1992 movie 'Batman Returns. This example, one of five built for promotional purposes.
Almost 20 feet long, it was built on a 1967 Chevrolet Impala platform found in London and powered by a 327 cu in Chevrolet engine. Rolls Royce jet engine components were used to form the hood intake and turbine blades in the nose-piece were sourced from a Harrier Jet.
An afterburner was housed in the back. Two M1919 Browning machine guns were hidden behind flaps in each fender. Inside, the two-seat cockpit featured aircraft-like instrumentation, a passenger's side monitor, self-diagnostics system, CD recorder, and voice-command recognition system.
Petersen Museum, Los Angeles
Nissan Elgrand Highway Star E51 Series (2002-10) Engine 3490cc V6 VQ Series (240bhp)
Registration number RG 02 SSO
NISSAN SET
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The Nissan Elgrand is a luxury MPV first introduced in 1997 as the E50 Series. The E51 was only available through Nissan dealerships in Japan, with limited exports to Hong Kong and Brunei. The E51 is a popular grey import vehicle in Australia and New Zealand. This vehicle was imported to the UK and first registered in 2013
The E51 Series was introduced in 2002, in direct competition with the the Toyota Alphard and Honda Elysion. Early Nissan Elgrand E51 models include XL, X, VG (4/5-doors), V, and Highway Star. Early Elgrand Enchant models included VG, V, and Highway Star. All model ranges can be configured with a removable second-row seat or Step Type .
The Highway Star version L and the the VG version L (2002-03) commemorating the sale of 250000 units of Nissan Elgrand in Japan since May 1997. Changes include a Carwings DVD TV/navigation system, 2 Intelligent Keys (driver side, passenger side, back door sensor), rear-view camera with car width and distance display (colour), Elgrand super sound system and 6 speakers (MD/CD integrated AM/FM electronic tuner radio, 160W, MD/CD auto changer connection), steering wheel controls for the audio, voice command, and hands-free phone, choice of 3 body colours: Champagne silver titan metallic, white pearl (3-coat pearl), black/sparkling silver metallic in VG version L; white pearl (3-coat pearl), sword metal metallic, diamond silver metallic in Highway Star version L.
The E51 Elgrand uses either the 2.5l or 3.5l V6 VQ-series engine combined with a five-speed automatic transmission with Tiptronic shift for better response. Additional transmission controls include Power and Snow settings, as well as 4x4 power options. It employs a multilink rear suspension with ventilated disc brakes all around.
The model received a mid-term facelift in 2004 and was replaced by an updated Third Generation E52 in 2010
Shot at the VSCC Spring Start, Silverstone 20-21 April 2013 REF:90C-904
An Unexpected Consequence
Something woke me up around 3:30 am that Saturday morning, not sure what. But something since my head was throbbing, I assumed that was the culprit.
I slowly, silently arose, not wishing to disturb the others who had gathered in our suite's living room for a “sleepover after an evening of heavy partying. But by the looks, everyone was still passed out.
I wasn’t surprised, judging from the amount of drinks we all had consumed.
What happy drunks we had all been.
I carefully tiptoed amongst them through the room, deciding to get aspirin from my bathroom.
The girls and I had all fallen asleep in the living room instead of retiring to our respective bedrooms that connected to the master suite
I was surprised to see my bedroom door was closed.
Was someone else inside?
I looked around the room, not noticing anyone missing.
Shrugging it off, I went inside, closing the door behind me.
I saw my reflection in the wall-sized mirror at the end of the room, next to the surprisingly open outside balcony door.
“Looking good.” I complimented myself.
I was wearing my slinking long pure silk nightgown, coloured a deep chocolate brown. Along with my shiny matching robe. The robe was open and I could see my peaking out chest, my smallish mounds bulging, sexily outlined by my nightgown.
I ran my fingers down the front, touching them, feeling a rather pleasant sensation that I was still not awake enough to fully enjoy.
There is nothing like the feel of a bit of nice silk lying against one’s naked figure.
I took a step back, admiring my figure, clad tightly in shiny silk, with jewels sparkling that were reflected in the hotel suite's mammoth mirror.
For, from my evening out, I was still wearing my long diamond earrings(£18,000) and three diamond rings(£12,000,£5,000, £3,000) because I love to sleep with my diamonds on, and they had looked so pretty with my black satin evening gown, along with the rest of my diamonds, that I had worn out for the evening before.
They had looked even more delicious worn with my spaghetti strap chocolate silk slinky nightgown as I played with them,and myself, a wee bit more.
I guess I kept wearing them because I wanted the feeling to continue on, as it was.
We had all been dressed up to the nines, attire, and jewellery, Friday evening, including the three of us girls who were staying in the two connected rooms.
Though last night those rooms, like mine, had been empty since all of us were asleep in the living room, sort of an adult storytelling sleepover.
Though I will admit deep down a smouldering yearning was felt to have it being a role-playing sleepover.
Now as I looked myself over in the mirror I started to have a prickly sensation that I was after all, not alone in the room.
I literally jumped because that feeling was immediately confirmed as an unfamiliar male voice commanded:
“Freeze sister, not a peep out of you now!”
I froze… not knowing what the hell was going on.
Except I was correct in using the word ‘Hell’
^^^^
A thin, muscular male comes out of one of the room’s shadowy corners, facing me.
I could tell his intentions by the black tight-fitting spandex suit, gloves, and ski mask he was wearing.
He nodded his head to me….
“I don’t wish to hurt you, lady, I’m only after the “ice” I was told you were wearing out tonight. Now don’t scream. I will use force and some of your friends may be hurt. You don’t want that to happen, do you? Nod if you’re going to be a good lass.”
I nodded yes, feeling my earrings swing against my face.
“That’s the girl. Undo your pretty robe, drop it to the floor. Good. Now move it over unto the bed.”
I did so and he picked up my robe laying it out onto the end of the bed. Then he picked up my robe's satin sash.
“Now ladybird , hold out your hands.”
I obeyed. He looked down at my fingers. I could see my rings glistening and saw he was watching also.
He pleasurably sighed, then got to business.
“Spread out your fingers!”
I did and he slowly located, then worked off my three pretty rings. Reaching over, he plopped each onto my chocolate-coloured silk robe.
“Now sister, clasp your hands in front of you…”
I obeyed and he firmly tied my wrists together with the robe’s silk sash.
“Now lay back on the bed”
I did so and he lifted my bound wrists and using one of my long black satin gloves tied them to a bedpost. Then he took the other glove gagging my mouth with it.
I could see my reflection in the vanity mirror. Almost surreal, like I was watching someone else.
He turned on his torch, catching my long diamond earrings in the beam.
“Blinding those, lovely to look at, but I’m running out of time aren’t I? Leave them for later, eh luv!”
Moving easily like a muscular black panther, he rose and strolled over to the vanity dresser. He opened the pair of jewelry cases belonging to me and my sister-in-law Cadie.
The beam caught up with the reflection of the jewellery both contained. I could see them sparkling.
He turns, shined the light in my face…
I was told you birds were wearing “ice” but there’s much more here. Let’s say I save time by taking it all for sorting later..”
It wasn’t a question.
With a sigh, I watched as he emptied onto my silk robe, the glimmering contents of first one, then the other of our jewel cases.
The pile dazzled with explosive, expensive sparkling.
Discarding both emptied cases, he turned his light back on the dresser. There were more of our expensive personal items laid out there. Cadie’s, my husband’s, and mine.
Several times he reached in sweeping some of them into his palm. Dumping them onto the chocolate-coloured silk robe
My husband’s possessions. Rolex money clip, billfold, silver gunmetal cigarette case, and matching lighter.
Cade’s silver comb and mirror, silver makeup compact, and her satin evening clutch.
Along with my gold makeup compact kit, gold Lamé clutch purse, gold cigarette case, and gold lighter.
He next shined the light carefully around the room.
Stopping on the open closet.
He went over and rummaged through it.
He whistled, and from my close he pulled out my rust-coloured mink jacket, throwing it onto the bed.
Then he turned back, fingering through my good skirts, blouses, party dresses, gowns, satins, and silks all of them.
He pulled my back satin opera outfit, a long satin skirt with the rhinestone belt and matching rhinestone embellished jacket, that I usually wore with one of my silky long-sleeved high-neck tops.
Lovely this he said shingling his light so it sparkled.
Then he tossed it on my bed, covering the fur.
He happily “dived” back in, and I heard him exclaiming…
“This is more like it, good thing I didn’t take a pass on the closet.”
He was pulling out the black satin gown with rhinestone trimmings I had worn out this past evening. His light caught my beautiful broach (£38,000), which I had left attached.
it came into sparkling life under the torch beam.
He whistled as he walked over, eyeing it up.
The thief then shined his torch beam in my face
You weren’t going to try and hold this out now were you love? I’ll pretend you were going to point it out.”
He laid it out on the bed, then approached me…
“With that said, lady. Are you holding anything else out!”
I shook my head, no, my eyes pleading since my mouth was gagged into silence.
Grinning, his torch beam was shined into one ear then the other
“Not quite telling the truth, Lovely sparkler’s them.”
He reached up, I was limp, with no fight in me.
The thief then laid the torch on the bed…
With his teeth the wanker pulled off his thin black gloves, he looked positively evil wearing that ski mask. His eyes are large and I swear, beguilingly, studying me.
His mouth opened wide as he reached over with long touching fingers, to begin working off each of my earrings, tossing them onto the valuably shimmering piled out on my beautiful satiny silky robe.
Again he stared into my eyes, his own masked lined menacing one’s mere millimeters away.
“Not saying I don’t trust you telling your not hiding anything valuable, but, well luv, I’ll be having myself a look anyway. You’ll understand…”
I cringed, arching my back as his fingers grasped my arms.
He then reached down and squeezed around my bulging chest ,noticing they were hard and perking, pointing up through the sheer fabric of my silky nightgown like a pair of plump fleshy mounds with hard tips.
Then I felt his fingers smoothly running over along my silk-clad figure, until he reached my wet pussy and discovers why my “mounds” were so firm under his touch.
For yes, I will have to confess having been sinfully aroused throughout the whole wickedly hot experience.
You see it started when he was pulling off my rings.
No, actually I told a lie…
It was when he first grasped me:
The abruptness, the shock, and the surprise, quickly turned to aroused waves of tingling sexually tinged excitement at being held captive, by a thief after my jewels.
As he worked at stealing our valuables, a tingling, cringing feeling of helplessness and horror watching a masked man doing that, with the look of pleasure he had in his eyes.
Then as he pulled off my rings, well I realized I was growing even more acutely aroused in a quite “horney” role play’esque situation.
Arousal that began its stimulating flame, arising from the explosive emerging “kindling” that is one’s own erotica being played out for real when least expected.
He could see my struggle against my bonds, and he knew, the Git just instinctively knew why….
Then the prat just touched the hairs around my privates
Stroking gently, reaching deep enough inside my pussy hairs, just enough to keep me aroused, but not allowing me to come into orgasm.
My eyes were opened wide staring at his masked form hovering over me.
Then he plunged his fingers deeply inside.
My whole figure arched up, fingers tingling.
Then the stinking prat, he pulled back. The wanker knew and stopped, just as my figure was trying to come in a full-body arching, explosive orgasm.
It was bad enough The bloody thief was stealing my jewels, but adding in robbing me clean of a chance at feeling that titular flame of orgasmic stimulation as I had closed my eyes starting to wince with excitement, that was just bloody rude.
^^^^^^
Then he was done, all back to business, as he nimbly rose, then picking up his gloves said the chilling words as he put them back on….
“Do the other rich dame’s bedrooms have things this nice, as I was told. No answer eh? Well, we will see for me self now won’t I!”
He picked back up his torch, letting the beam play down the long chocolate-silken night gown I was wearing over my naked figure.
He nodded his head in disbelieving approval.
Turning it off, he pocketed the torch, then reaching down he rolled up my satin robe with our valuables in it.
Picking up a black backpack he purred…
“The lads that were following you birds around last night, they put me onto this job saying to just to snatch the shiny jewels you and your girlfriends wearing out this evening. But lady you have enough here I could make a bit extra for me self!”
He stuffed the chocolate satin robe inside his jogger's pack. Followed by cramming in my black gown with the broach.
Then lifting my mink he said
But I better see how much of the good stuff your lady friends have in their rooms first. But I’ll take this item in case I have the storage space.”
Extinguishing his torch, He started to walk out, then looked back at me and came to my bedside.
“And don’t worry about this”
he said touching my now still prickly, damp crotch.
"Your not the first broad I’ve tied up to rob whose felt this way, now we’re you!?”
Snickering, he confidently opened the door, slipping without a look back
He was now in the living room where the others were all sleeping!
^^^^
That night thief thoroughly cleaned us out of all our jewels and various other items of high value we had in our bedrooms.
Though it was a very nasty thing to have happened to all of us. I did feel a wee bit guilty.
For to tell the truth, since I had been erotically aroused by the entire incident that occurred in my bedroom under the thief’s hands whole robbing me, I didn’t quite feel as sad about it as my equally jewel-relieved girlfriends.
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Bask in the limelight: these are the best cameras for vlogging.
Image: GoPro
So you want to be a vlogger. First, a pop quiz:
Which came first, the video or the camera? This is not a trick question.
The camera, duh! Which means if you want to create dope videos that will have the whole world interested in what you do or say, you should start with the right piece of recording equipment.
SEE ALSO: 7 online classes on video editing to help you make the next big blockbuster hit
Sure, everyone has a pretty good camera on their smartphone. But as more people flock to YouTube to upload their latestiCapturedshenanigans, you have to invest in the right camera if you want to be a shot above the rest — and a legitimate vlogger.
How do you know which camera to choose to help make your vlog (video blog) pop? We’ll tell you! But first, we’ll key you in on which camera features to look out for as well as which ones don’t really matter.
Features you should care about:
Video Quality: Pay attention to video resolution. You’ll see 720p, 1080p, and 4K in most descriptions for camcorders these days. They pretty much equate to HD ready, Full HD, and Ultra HD – each a little better than the last.
Built-In Wi-Fi: Video editing alone can take a bit of time. Finding a camera with built-in Wi-Fi can save you a step as your vids can automatically appear on your smartphone or PC. Otherwise, you’ll have to connect a USB cable and wait for the file to transfer. Yawn.
Microphone Input: Video quality may get your viewers through the door, but great sound will help keep them there. There isn’t a camera out there without a built-in mic. But for even better quality sound, choose a camera that lets you connect an external mic so you can always upgrade Without that port you’re stuck.
Stabilization: Some vloggers just sit in their bedroom and talk to camera – which is fine. But if you want to record videos beyond that you’ll want to search for a camera that has built-in optical image stabilization. It’ll help ensure that your videos come out smooth no matter what activity you’re doing. You’ll also want to buy a tripod if the camera you choose doesn’t come with one. Amazon has great set-ups at pretty decent prices on those as well.
Features you shouldn’t care about:
Zoom: You don’t actually need a camera with impeccable zoom unless you’re a travel blogger. Zoom is just one of those things that’s nice to have for photography, but for video you’ll probably just be shooting yourself relatively close-up.
Flash: To get the best quality video possible, you’ll want to shoot in well-lit environments. Some cameras do have night vision, but how often do you really need that? Amazon has several lighting bundles that can help illuminate your space, and many are pretty decently priced.
Megapixels: If you aren’t really concerned about shooting photographs, Megapixels don’t really matter.
Now that you know which features to keep an eye out for, and which ones don’t really matter, we’ll suggest a few cameras that we think will take your vlogging game to the next level.
Best cameras for vlogging:
GoPro HERO 5 Black — $399
The GoPro HERO is a favorite for on-the-go shooting.
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The HERO 5 Black by GoPro tries to balance performance and convenience with its 4K video, voice control, touch display, and waterproof design. With the QuikStories app, the HERO5 Black can automatically send your footage to your phone where you can transform your latest viral creations. Stabilization is really important when it comes to shooting moving video, and the HERO5 Black is up to the task, whether it’s handheld or mounted to your gear. When you’re done shooting, you can set the HERO5 to auto upload everything to the cloud with GoPro Plus, a subscription service offered by the company.
If you want to film your underwater vacations, then this is also an excellent choice: this GoPro is waterproof up to 33 feet. You can also enjoy hands-free control of your camera using simple voice commands, or you can press the shutter button to turn the camera on and start recording automatically. You’ll just need to buy your own microSD card.
Though priced at $399, we’ve seen this drop down to $249.
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Hero5 – $399
Canon PowerShot SX730 HS — $399
The Canon PowerShot even has a Smooth Skin effect like Snapchat.
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The PowerShot SX730 HS has a large 3-inch tilt screen so you can see yourself when you’re recording, which you’ll definitely want.
You can capture a subject near, far, and in-between with a 40x Optical Zoom — not that you need that every day, but it could be nice to have. There’s even a Smooth Skin effect that’s available in all modes to help enhance your natural features, kinda like Snapchat does but better quality. With this camera you can share your videos straight away using the built-in Bluetooth as well as Wi-Fi technology, another useful feature you should always check for. Wi-Fi features will be especially helpful if you plan to upload your vlogs to YouTube. The site can automatically sync with many modern cameras, saving you a step.
The camera doesn’t feature a touchscreen, but that shouldn’t be a dealbreaker.
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Canon PowerShot – $399
Nikon D5300 24.2 MP CMOS — $528
In Live View, Nikon’s autofocus will follow your subject, keeping it sharp.
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D5300 is Nikon’s first DSLR with built-in Wi-Fi, which makes it super easy to share your pictures on the go. You get all the image quality that Nikon’s photos have, like softly blurred backgrounds, tack-sharp details, and vibrant colors, but in dazzling 1080p full HD videos.
If you like to shoot sports or action, this camera shoots up to 60 frames per second so you should get smooth video playback. There is even a fun effects mode that allows you to apply special effects to video in real time as you’re recording. In Live View, Nikon’s autofocus will follow your subject, keeping it sharp. You can even swivel the flip screen around so you can shoot video from new angles.
Some people might put up with low-quality video, but bad sound quality is the ultimate worst. That’s why this Nikon it great. You can attach a ME-1 stereo microphone so you can get the highest quality sound possible. Amazon customers love it, giving it 4.6 out of 5 stars, so odds are you’ll like it too. Currently, you can get the best deal on Amazon, but it’s selling fast. Once sold out, you can find it here.
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Vixia HF R800 – $528
Canon EOS Rebel T5i — $799
The Canon Rebel’s professional HD Movie Mode will make you feel legit.
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What this camera lacks in specs, it sure does make up for in features and image quality. The Canon Rebel T5i camera comes with a vari-angle LCD that’s perfect for framing yourself while vlogging, or getting yourself into focus when shooting alone. The Canon Rebel T5i may not shoot in 4K like some its competitors, but what it does have is world-class color reproduction made possible by Canon Color Science.
In addition to the color, the EOS Rebel T5i has some significant new technologies to make HD video capturing smoother, faster, and more comfortable. The Movie Servo AF feature helps ensure sharp focus even during unpredictable movements. And the wide area 9-point auto-focus system is said to deliver consistent focus on moving objects. Oh, and the Canon Rebel series is also known for impeccable photo quality — so there’s always that.
Though priced at $799, we’ve seen Amazon knock as much as $200 off the price.
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Canon Rebel – $799
Sony a5100 — $548
This Sony camera has a slim profile and is about half the weight of a typical DSLR
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If you want something better than a point and shoot, but less bulky than a DSLR camera, then this mirrorless option by Sony might be the one you need. The SONY a5100 allows you to use interchangeable lenses, giving you greater video versatility without having to carry around bulky equipment.
This Sony cam has a slim profile and is about half the weight of a typical DSLR. It comes with a 16-50mm lens — the norm on most cameras because its the most versatile. Unlike DSLR cameras though, most mirrorless cameras don’t have a separate focus ring to control your focus area. Instead, you’ll have to focus using the on-screen menus manually. The AF (auto focus) speed is ultra-fast on this camera at 0.07 seconds, so you never miss a moment. Like many others on the list, it has a 180-degree tilt screen so you can take perfectly framed selfie videos.
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Sony a5100 – $548
PANASONIC LUMIX G7 4K — $799
The Lumix by Panasonic is packed with features like intelligent-focusing and creative controls.
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You might want to consider this mirrorless option by Panasonic because it shoots 4K video and offers over 24 compact lens options. Because it’s a mirrorless, it has a lighter body than traditional DSLRs, but it’s packed with features like intelligent-focusing and creative controls. This is a great, compact camera that’s easy to just keep in your bag at all times. The Lumix was designed for those who want a camera that’s versatile enough to shoot high-res videos and photos yet rugged enough to take anywhere.
The precise AF tracks the color, size, and motion of your subject, which is probably going to be you, so you can shoot with confidence without worrying about blurry results. Plus, the tilt/swivel touch-display lets you further adjust the screen for optimum clarity. We’ve seen this Amazon’s Choice camera on sale for 25% off, so keep an eye out.
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Lumix G7 – $799
SONY AX33 4K Handycam — $748
The Sony AX33 handycam uses infrared light to capture subjects even in complete darkness.
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The Sony AX33 4K Handycamhas so many features to drool over. Besides producing 4K video, this camera also has excellent stabilization that Sony calls Balanced Optical SteadyShot. If you’re recording action videos without a tripod this is going to help to make your footage a lot more clean. The AX33 also has something called My Voice Canceling capabilities, so it can reduce the intensity of behind-camera sounds. And the built-in USB cable is stowed in the hand strap, making it convenient for extra-quick charging or connection to your laptop.
The camera comes with a 3-inch LCD touchscreen, letting you compose a shot more easily while enabling you to adjust the settings. And as far as sound goes, this camera captures it from all directions. Plus, there’s built-in Wi-Fi so you can easily share your moments whenever you want. If you’re dying to use night vision, this choice has NightShot, a feature that uses infrared light to capture subjects even in complete darkness.
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Sony AX33 – $748
Canon VIXIA HF R800 — $249.99
The Canon Vixia HF R800 camcorder has an impressive 57x zoom.
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Of course, the defining characteristic of any video camera is how high the video quality is. Not only will this one shoot 1080p, but we’ve seen it on sale for only $219. (Full price is $249.99.)
The Canon Vixia HF R800 camcorder has a 57x zoom (we doubt you’ll ever need that much, but it adds to the value). You can enjoy optical image stabilization to reduce camera shake, a 3-inch color touch-screen LCD, and instant autofocus to help eliminate blurry images.
What you don’t get is onboard memory storage or Wi-Fi connectivity. But any SD card can eliminate those concerns. The Vixia has long battery life and features intelligent technology that can accurately let you know how much battery life is remaining, so you don’t miss a vital recording opportunity.
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Vixia HF R800 – $528
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The Postcard
A postally unused postcard , on the divided back of which is printed:
'Printed in Paris - La Pina'
Rin Tin Tin
Nénette and Rintintin were the source of the name of the Hollywood film star dog Rin Tin Tin.
Rin Tin Tin (September 1918 – August 10, 1932) was a male German Shepherd dog born in Flirey, France, who became an international star in motion pictures.
He was rescued from a Great War battlefield by an American soldier, Lee Duncan, who nicknamed him "Rinty". Duncan trained Rin Tin Tin, and obtained silent film work for the dog.
Rin Tin Tin was an immediate box-office success, and went on to appear in 27 Hollywood films, gaining worldwide fame. Rin Tin Tin was responsible for greatly increasing the popularity of German Shepherd dogs as family pets.
The immense profitability of his films contributed to the success of Warner Bros. studios, and helped advance the career of Darryl F. Zanuck from screenwriter to producer and studio executive.
After Rin Tin Tin died in 1932, the name was given to several related German Shepherd dogs featured in fictional stories on film, radio, and television. Rin Tin Tin Jr. appeared in some serialized films, but was not as talented as his father.
Rin Tin Tin III, said to be Rin Tin Tin's grandson, but probably only distantly related, helped promote the military use of dogs during World War II. Rin Tin Tin III also appeared in a film with child actor Robert Blake in 1947.
Duncan groomed Rin Tin Tin IV for the 1950's television series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, but the dog performed poorly in a screen test, and was replaced in the TV show by trainer Frank Barnes's dogs, primarily one named Flame Jr., called JR, with the public being led to believe otherwise.
Instead of shooting episodes, Rin Tin Tin IV stayed at home in Riverside, California. The TV show Rin Tin Tin was nominated for a PATSY Award in both 1958 and 1959, but did not win.
After Duncan died in 1960, the screen property of Rin Tin Tin passed to TV producer Herbert B. Leonard, who worked on further adaptations such as the 1988–1993 Canadian-made TV show Katts and Dog, which was called Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop in the US, and Rintintin Junior in France.
Following Leonard's death in 2006, his lawyer James Tierney made the 2007 children's film Finding Rin Tin Tin, an American–Bulgarian production based on Duncan's discovery of the dog in France.
Meanwhile, a Rin Tin Tin memorabilia collection was being amassed by Texas resident Jannettia Propps Brodsgaard, who had purchased several direct descendant dogs from Duncan, beginning with Rinty Tin Tin Brodsgaard in 1957.
Brodsgaard bred the dogs to keep the bloodline. Brodsgaard's granddaughter, Daphne Hereford, continued to build on the tradition and bloodline of Rin Tin Tin from 1988 to 2011; she was the first to trademark the name Rin Tin Tin.
Hereford also opened a short-lived Rin Tin Tin museum in Latexo, Texas. Hereford passed the tradition to her daughter, Dorothy Yanchak, in 2011. The current dog, Rin Tin Tin XII, owned by Yanchak, takes part in public events to represent the Rin Tin Tin legacy.
The Origins of Rin Tin Tin
Following advances made by American forces during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, Corporal Lee Duncan, an armourer of the U.S. Army Air Service, was sent forward on the 15th. September 1918, to the small French village of Flirey to see if it would make a suitable flying field for his unit, the 135th. Aero Squadron.
The area had been subjected to aerial bombing and artillery fire, and Duncan found a severely damaged kennel which had once supplied the Imperial German Army with German Shepherd dogs. The only dogs left alive in the kennel were a starving mother with a litter of five nursing puppies, their eyes still shut because they were less than a week old. Duncan rescued the dogs, and brought them back to his unit.
When the puppies were weaned, he gave the mother to an officer and three of the litter to other soldiers, but he kept one puppy of each sex. He felt that these two dogs were symbols of his good luck.
He dubbed them Rin Tin Tin and Nanette after a pair of good luck charms called Rintintin and Nénette that French children often gave to the American soldiers. The soldiers were told that Rintintin and Nénette were lucky lovers who had survived a bombing attack, but the original dolls had been designed by Francisque Poulbot before the war in late 1913 to look like Paris street urchins. Contrary to linguistic clues and popular usage, Poulbot said that Rintintin was the girl doll.
Duncan sensed that Nanette was the more intelligent of the two puppies.
In July 1919, Duncan sneaked the dogs aboard a ship taking him back to the US at the end of the war. When he got to Long Island, New York, for re-entry processing, he put his dogs in the care of a Hempstead breeder named Mrs. Leo Wanner, who trained police dogs.
Nanette was diagnosed with pneumonia; as a replacement, the breeder gave Duncan another female German Shepherd puppy. Duncan travelled to California by rail with his dogs. While Duncan was travelling by train, Nanette died in Hempstead. As a memorial, Duncan named his new puppy Nanette II, but he called her Nanette.
Duncan, Rin Tin Tin, and Nanette II settled at his home in Los Angeles. Rin Tin Tin was a dark sable colour, and had very dark eyes. Nanette II was much lighter in colour.
An athletic silent film actor named Eugene Pallette was one of Duncan's friends. The two men enjoyed the outdoors; they took the dogs to the Sierras, where Pallette liked to hunt, while Duncan taught Rin Tin Tin various tricks. Duncan thought that his dog might win a few awards at dog shows and thus be a valuable source of puppies bred with Nanette for sale.
In 1922, Duncan was a founding member of the Shepherd Dog Club of California, based in Los Angeles. At the club's first show, Rin Tin Tin showed his agility, but also demonstrated an aggressive temper, growling, barking, and snapping.
It was a very poor performance, but the worst moment came afterward when Duncan was walking home. A heavy bundle of newspapers was thrown from a delivery truck and landed on the dog, breaking his left front leg. Duncan had the injured limb set in plaster, and he nursed the dog back to health for nine months.
Ten months after the break, the leg was healed and Rin Tin Tin was entered in a show for German Shepherd dogs in Los Angeles. Rin Tin Tin had learned to leap great heights.
At the dog show while making a winning leap, he was filmed by Duncan's acquaintance Charley Jones, who had just developed a slow-motion camera. Seeing his dog being filmed, Duncan became convinced Rin Tin Tin could become the next Strongheart, a successful film dog that lived in his own full-sized stucco bungalow with its own street address in the Hollywood Hills, separate from the mansion of his owners, who lived a street away next to Roy Rogers.
Duncan later wrote:
"I was so excited over the film idea
that I found myself thinking of it night
and day."
The Film Career of Rin Tin Tin
Duncan walked his dog up and down Poverty Row, talking to anyone in a position to put Rin Tin Tin in film, however modest the role.
The dog's first break came when he was asked to replace a camera-shy wolf in The Man from Hell's River (1922) featuring Wallace Beery. The wolf was not performing properly for the director, but under the guidance of Duncan's voice commands, Rin Tin Tin was very easy to work with. When the film was completed, the dog was billed as "Rin Tan".
Rin Tin Tin would be cast as a wolf or wolf-hybrid many times in his career, because it was much more convenient for filmmakers to work with a trained dog.
In another 1922 film titled My Dad, Rin Tin Tin picked up a small part as a household dog. The credits read:
"Rin Tin Tin – Played by himself".
Rin Tin Tin's first starring role was in Where the North Begins (1923), in which he played alongside silent screen actress Claire Adams. This film was a huge success, and has often been credited with saving Warner Bros. from bankruptcy.
It was followed by 24 more screen appearances. Each of these films was very popular, making such a profit for Warner Bros. that Rin Tin Tin was called "the mortgage lifter" by studio insiders.
A young screenwriter named Darryl F. Zanuck was involved in creating stories for Rin Tin Tin; the success of the films raised him to the position of film producer. In New York City, Mayor Jimmy Walker gave Rin Tin Tin a key to the city.
Rin Tin Tin was much sought after, and was signed for endorsement deals. Ken-L Ration, Ken-L-Biskit, and Pup-E-Crumbles all featured him in their advertisements. Warner Bros. fielded fan letters by the thousands, sending back a glossy portrait signed with a paw print and a message written by Duncan:
"Most faithfully, Rin Tin Tin."
In the 1920's, Rin Tin Tin's success for Warner Bros. inspired several imitations from other studios looking to cash in on his popularity, notably RKO's Ace the Wonder Dog, also a German Shepherd dog.
Around the world, Rin Tin Tin was extremely popular because as a dog he was equally well understood by all viewers. At the time, silent films were easily adapted for various countries by simply changing the language of the intertitles. Rin Tin Tin's films were widely distributed.
Film historian Jan-Christopher Horak wrote that by 1927, Rin Tin Tin was the most popular actor with the very sophisticated film audience in Berlin. One fan wrote:
"He is a human dog, "human in
the real big sense of the word."
A Hollywood legend holds that at the first-ever Academy Awards competition in 1929, Rin Tin Tin was voted Best Actor, but that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, wishing to appear more serious and thus determined to have a human actor win the award, removed Rin Tin Tin as a choice and re-ran the vote, leading to German actor Emil Jannings winning the award.
Author Susan Orlean stated this story as fact in her 2011 book Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend. However, former Academy head Bruce Davis has written that the 1928 ballots, kept in storage at the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library, show a complete absence of votes for Rin Tin Tin.
Davis called the story an urban legend that probably originated in a joke ballot circulated that year by Zanuck, who wanted to mock the concept of the Academy Awards.
Although primarily a star of silent films, Rin Tin Tin did appear in four sound features, including the 12-part Mascot Studios chapter-play The Lightning Warrior (1931), co-starring with Frankie Darro. In these films, vocal commands would have been picked up by the microphones, so Duncan likely guided Rin Tin Tin by hand signals.
Rin Tin Tin and the rest of the crew filmed much of the outdoor action footage for The Lightning Warrior on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, known for its huge sandstone boulders and widely recognized as the most heavily filmed outdoor shooting location in the history of the movies.
Rin Tin Tin and Nanette II produced at least 48 puppies; Duncan kept two of them, selling the rest or giving them as gifts. Greta Garbo, W. K. Kellogg, and Jean Harlow each owned one of Rin Tin Tin's descendants.
The Death of Rin Tin Tin
On the 10th. August 1932, Rin Tin Tin died at Duncan's home on Club View Drive in Los Angeles. Duncan wrote about the death in his unpublished memoir: He heard Rin Tin Tin bark in a peculiar fashion, so he went to see what was wrong. He found the dog lying on the ground, moments away from death.
In the United States, Rin Tin Tin's death set off a national response. Regular programming was interrupted by a news bulletin. An hour-long program about Rin Tin Tin played the next day.
Newspapers across the nation carried obituaries. Magazine articles were written about his life, and a special Movietone News feature was shown to movie audiences.
In the press, aspects of the death were fabricated in various ways, such as Rin Tin Tin dying on the set of the film Pride of the Legion (where Rin Tin Tin Jr. was working), dying at night, or dying at home on the front lawn in the arms of actress Jean Harlow, who lived on the same street.
In a private ceremony, Duncan buried Rin Tin Tin in a bronze casket in his own backyard with a plain wooden cross to mark the location. Duncan was suffering the financial effects of the Great Depression and could not afford a finer burial, nor even his own expensive house.
He sold his house, and quietly arranged to have the dog's body returned to his country of birth for reburial in the Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques, the pet cemetery in the Parisian suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine.
In a ceremony on the 8th. February 1960, Rin Tin Tin was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1627 Vine Street.
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One of my favorite things during my visit to Ireland was the visit to Kissane Sheep Farm. We saw demonstrations of sheep shearing and sheepdogs rounding up the sheep! Here is one of the dogs, after the demonstration. These dogs are very smart and fast! They respond to both whistle and voice commands from the sheepherder. When the dogs began the work of rounding up the sheep, the sheep responded quickly! More photos from my visit to Kissane Sheep Farm coming soon!
In 1939, the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's pavilion at New York's World Fair drew thousands upon thousands of fascinated onlookers. The star attraction was the robot Elektro, who was over 7 foot tall and performed 26 different functions including voice command walking, speaking up to 700 words and even smoking cigarettes and blowing up balloons.
Constructed by Westinghouse out of Aluminium on a steel frame Elektro performed one 20 minute show every hour over the 1939 and 1940 seasons. Visitors at the pavilion would have picked up a badge of Elektro (as shown above) as a prized souvenir of the event. The robot's actions gave a snapshot of what future technologies could offer just as America was coming out of the Great Depression. Of course, a brighter future was aborted as the world embarked on a second major war.
Elektro retired after the Fair but reappeared again in 1950 as Westinghouse used the robot for promotional appearances throughout North America. Elektro resided at Pacific Ocean Park in Venice California up until the early 1960s.
Photography, layout and design: Argy58
(This image also exists as a high resolution jpeg and tiff - ideal for a variety of print sizes
e.g. A4, A3, A2 and A1. The current uploaded format is for screen based viewing only: 72pi)
My car's voice command system does nothing it's told. Yesterday when something came on the radio I didn't like I issued the usual,
"Hey Mercedes!"
"How may I help you?" She cooed back at me.
"Put that shite off!" I said quite clearly.
It never put it off.
This pod includes the photographer, and the hostess/photographer’s-assistant hand-holding the RF-flash camera-left. It is a rare pleasure for me to have an assistant, and it makes shoots like this a lot easier when I can just voice-command the lighting to go where I want it.
This was shot Av-mode at f4, a little slower than I had been using most of the day, because I wanted to be sure to have the DoF for the rear subject. The ambient-light was set for -1.3ev, and the ETTL-flash was 0ev with HS-sync, so I didn’t have to worry about Tv.
I got a bunch of useful shots from this session, some more lighthearted than this, but I liked the “serious look”. The development work in LR-C and DxO/NIK was mostly about warming the flash and tweaking the balance of the light.
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GestureWorks Fusion is an application that combines multimodal inputs from HCI devices. In this proof of concept, Fusion uses voice and motion gestures with the Intel RealSense camera. With GestureWorks Fusion, you can use motion gestures, voice commands, or both simultaneously, to control applications in Windows 8 or Windows 10. To learn more about Ideum's software initiatives, visit our website.
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- See detailed stats around your pace, distance, and time, on a big, bold and easy to read interface.
- Get stats and progress through your headphones with built-in audio cues in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.
- Listen and control your music, use voice commands while you work out.
Burn calories and measure your performance over time:
- View a detailed history of your activities to see how you are doing.
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Caledos Runner is built using Healthgraph public API. It is developed solely by the CaledosLab team and is NOT affiliated with FitnessKeeper inc.
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- splits and countdown (new)
- stats dashboard with burned calories, distance, #activities over time graphs
- play background music
- offline maps
This is what happens using an iPhone and asking Siri to help you find the location of a well-known site in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Google Maps does not show this area well, so I tried Google maps, then Apple maps and finally Siri. Finally found the location of the John B. Robert Dam at the intersection of Juan Tabo Blvd and Osana. This is the spot where Walter White was picked up to be "disappeared" near the end of the Breaking Bad series.
Several leaked technical images have prematurely revealed the 2015 Renault Espace MPV well ahead of its debut at next fall's Paris Motor Show.
Not surprisingly, the fifth-gen Espace borrows a sizable amount of design cues from the Initiale Paris concept that was presented last year at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Although the show car's boxy overall shape has been carried over to the production car, it has predictably lost its rear suicide doors and gained a taller roof line.
Interior pictures are not available but expect the next Espace to feature with a well-appointed, high-tech cockpit in order to follow Renault's upmarket move. Upscale trim levels will come with premium features such as full leather upholstery, a touch screen-based infotainment system with voice command and wood trim on the dashboard.
Power will come from small-displacement gasoline- and diesel-burning engines ranging from approximately 1.4- to 2.0-liters. Entry-level models will be equipped with a six-speed manual transmission, while more expensive variants will gain an automatic unit. Front-wheel drive will be the only configuration available.
More details about the fifth-gen Renault Espace will emerge over the coming months. Though it will initially launch as a five-seater, a long-wheelbase seven-seater model will join the lineup later in the production run.
Taken with Samsung S20 Ultra; pro mode 30 seconds ISO 50 and f1.8. I also used voice command to take the image without touching the phone.
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in japan, it takes three people to drive a bullet train to its destination - communicating with hand signals + voice commands for redundancy, that must lead to safety, i guess.
the white gloved men work in concert as one signal begets the next one and so forth.
My Grandfather, Lewis Wells, was a Bomber Pilot in World War II, flying B-17's with the 8th Air Force, 95th Bomb Group, 334th Bomb Squadron out of Horham, England.
Before flying his 35 missions, he was in training for 15 months at various schools and Army Air Force bases. (Santa Ana - Twentynine Palms - Lancaster - Marfa - Sioux City - Lincoln)
This 'yearbook' was a momento of his time spent in Primary Training at Twentynine Palms, California, where he learned to pilot his first aircraft, the PT-17 Stearman bi-plane.
When interviewing him about his experiences he stated that he learned after the war that only 5% of those he was with in Primary went on to complete a full tour of duty unscathed (Due to washouts
and deaths in training or being captured, injured or killed in combat).
My grandfather's wife, Helen who had become friends with two of the pilots on this page, Arthur Vincent and Layton Vermie, later heard about their fate in a letter from Arthur's sister, Clara. Though long, I can't help feeling the loss every time I read it and it brings home the reality of the war:
December 15, 1944 – Clara Vincent (Dodge City, Kansas)
to Helen (Pleasant Grove)
Dear Mrs. Wells:
We were all so happy to hear from you again, we have spoken
many times of your friendliness and hospitality while we were in your
apartment, and we had wondered where you were stationed. So many
things have happened since that happy time we spent with you.
Yes, Laurel Grace went with Art (Vince to you) he bought a ‘41
Mercury Coach and they loaded up bags, baggage and BABY and left for
Salt Lake City at the end of his furlough, then they were sent to Colorado
Springs and arrived there Xmas Day. They rented a Cabin at the Rodeo
Courts and Art drove back and forth to Peterson Field which was not far.
He drew B-24 for his ship.
We visited them the first week in March and
all of us were together again and we did a bit of sight seeing around
Manitou and Colorado Springs, it was delightful weather while we were
there so had a nice time. We met all of the crew and liked them
immensely. Laurel Grace and Duffy had a swell time and gave little
dinners for the boys and took them on sight seeing trips and when their
wives and mothers came to visit, she took them shopping when the boys
were busy so the boys just spoiled them both.
Duffy thought that crew was just to amuse him and they greatly improved L.G.’s dancing as they
would all go and give her a whirl, she laughs about 3 of the officers going
with her to choose a formal for one of the important dances and how each
had definite ideas of what she should have - but she compromised on
white formal and red roses. Then the last week they were sent to the
staging area at Topeka Field-that is where my husband’s folks all live or
very near so L.G., Tom, Virginia and I left as soon as Art called and we
stayed until they left for overseas, had a week and after the boys were
restricted to camp we could stay out with them until midnight. We grew
so very fond of all the crew as we were the only folks any of them had as
the married boys had sent their wives home, so they treated us royally,
the Pilot (he had patrolled the gulf for 10 months for submarines and had
the most hours of any of the pilots) was really a swell fellow, a bit older
than the others and he was a Southern Gentleman in every sense of the
word, had a soft voice, commanded respect, handsome and wonderful
manners, he was doing more to rub the Western Kansas off of Art and
making an officer and a gentleman of him as well as a flying officer than
the Cadet schools had done, but the Bombardier was the one who was a
pal-his Dad was a Major in the Marines and nearly disowned Tommy
Yandoh when he joined up with the Army Air force, he had served in the
African invasion as a gunner and then back to the States to the
Bombardier School, he was from New York State. We took him with us
to Kansas City and to all the relatives for feeds, we liked him so much.
They left Topeka for overseas April 8, first stop was Miami, then
Trinidad then different places in South America where Art met a school
friend from Bucklin Kansas at Berlin, Brazil, then to Ascension Island,
and to a couple of places in Africa and then to England. The first night
he was in England he met Layton Vermie in an Officer’s Club-such a
reunion, – poor Yondoh wrote us that night with a definitely lost tone then
Art’s crew went to Ireland for their last training phase (He sent me
a beautiful Irish linen table cloth, it has a laundry mark but will be an
heirloom for generations – large for family dinners).
Art never saw Vermie again for Vermie was reported missing May 19 and I don’t think
Art ever learned about that for he wrote once that he could not find
Vemie after he returned to England but would try again and then Art was
reported missing June 23 and then Sept. 25 we had word from the War
Dept that report thru the German Government and International Red
Cross that he died June 23 and as that was the day he was listed as
missing they were forced to put him on the death list.
Two of the crew – the engineer and radio man were reported German prisoners – so we
had high hopes that we would hear the same good news in time – if one
might conceive prisoner of war as good news. Freda Vermie writes us
that all of the crew of the B-17 have been accounted except Vermie but
she does not hear that he is dead but that is a long long wait. Thanks to
Laurel Grace we had every home address of the crew and so we wrote to
each other all summer and that has helped us so much, when the war is
over and the boys return from prison camp, we are going to go to
Springfield, Mo. and visit with the radio man for what details he can give
us.
It still just doesn’t seem possible that anything could happen to Art, he has always been so full of life but the whole crew were just such swell
fellows it seems a pity for the country to lose them for the next generation
is going to need that type of men to keep things moving. We rec’d the
Purple Heart last week and L.G. has been getting papers to sign, so you
can see that it must be true.
(One of Tom’s sisters goes to a medium in Kansas City for
advice often and she insists that he is well and
safe but working in an underground factory for
the German government – forced labor – but
that we will hear eventually – my husband
clings to that ray of hope – I wish it eased mine
but I know how Art would hate that and I just
don’t have faith but of course I really do not
know about spiritualism and I am the kind that
would have never visualized radio or airplanes
or even a mouse trap)
Sunday afternoon
I have been trying to write you at odd
moments at the office as you can see at a glance
from this garbled affair. We moved to Dodge
City in September, my husband had been
employed at the Dodge City Airbase for over a
year and was driving almost 100 miles a day
round trip from Copeland. I started to work at
the Base Sept 21, you will laugh when I tell you
I am called “Secretary” to the Civilian Training
Co-ordinator but I am listed as a Clerk typist
(junior) and I made a CAF-2 rating in Civil
Service – was surprised at myself for it had been
so many years since I had done this type of
work. I like it very much, my work is routine
work, but I have lots of posting and enjoyed
research work, I interview new employees and
try to make them feel welcomed and part of this
great concern of “Keep ‘em Flying.”
I am learning so many things but Military
Correspondence is my biggest bug bear at the present and these ever
lasting inspectors! Also I am the only person in the office who is over 35
years of age. Even the men’s wives are young girls just out of school on
their first jobs – BUT they all treat me swell, tho they haven’t offered me
a cigarette so I know I am definitely dated. I do admire the young
women of this generation, the way they are following their husbands,
living in crowded places, holding downjobs and making homes wherever
they are. I am sure the women were not so self reliant during the last war
as a general rule.
Virginia is making a very good adjustment to this larger H.S.
and finds the same type of school friends here
that she left at Copeland. I went with her this
afternoon to the Vesper Services, she sang with
the High School Chorus. It was very nice.
Laurel Grace is going to Copeland
High School, she had never finished her Senior
year, her mother keeps Duffy, they come here
nearly every weekend and stay at least one night
with us.
Duffy is so pretty and sweet, has red
curly hair, he does not want to leave us, he
especially likes men in uniform. L.G. says she
sometimes can’t hardly stay in school but she
keeps thinking how proud Art would be of her
if she gets her diploma.
Another young girl, whose husband was a gunner on a B-17 and
crashed over Austria in April is back with her
parents with her year and a half old daughter
and she is finishing her high school, she is
taking more subjects than L.G. but the two girls
have a lot in common and help each other over
hard places for after all they are just not classed
as giddy young teenagers.
Tell your husband how very happy we
were to hear about him and you and the Baby
and we pray that he will return home safely.
Arthur thought so much of you and Vermie.
Did you know that Vermie drew B-17 for his
ship and was sent to Louisiana for training?
Freda did not go with him to Salt Lake City and
he was just sick about it when Art and L.G.
arrived in a car and they were able to get an apartment, but Art was
transferred to Colorado a couple of weeks before Vermie was but Freda
was with him for 3 months. She wrote to both Laurel Grace and I – tho
my correspondence is in need of a private secretary all by itself.
We do not feel very festive this Xmas as Tommy and Ellen can’t
come. We are invited to Holly but don’t know if we can go. We see
Tommy often as he fires passenger trains into Dodge from La Junta,
Colo.
Thanks so very much for writing to us. It has cheered us a lot.
I have a beautiful poinsettia by me which one of the clubs at Copeland
sent me. My friends there have been wonderful this summer and fall, one
hates to have sorrow or trouble to learn how many, many friends they
really have, but it is indeed a comfort.
Do write us again and give our very best wishes to Lewis.
Sincerely your friend,
Clara Vincent
P.S. Art was commissioned in Ireland, he was offered his 2nd Lieut. at
Colorado Springs as their crew rated so highly (received one of the first
five new ships that were flown in fromWillow Run, Michigan – only 15
new ones came for that class of 90 crews – Art said it was because of
“J.D.” the pilot but he said Art had had the third highest grades in the
class of 168 pilots and co-pilots so I think it was because the whole crew
were tops) – they were advised to wait for their promotion until they were
overseas and so Art received his in Ireland.
Art was 23 on D-Day, he wrote that he had 4 hours sleep in 48 hours as he was so busy celebrating
his birthday, it was not quite the way he would have liked for a party but
he wouldn’t have missed the Big Show for anything.
I have tried to tell you some of the things that have happened this past year, if we are
fortunate enough to get a good message we’ll remember you at once.
I keep thinking of things to tell you, Art’s crew had their plane
so badly shot up that they barely arrived in England but could not reach
Home Base – said no one was hurt – Thank God – but badly scared and
were to be issued another plane – we do not think they could have made
more than one or two missions after that, they went down approximately
2 miles east of Brussels so the Wing Commander wrote us that they
encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire and were seen to drop out of
formation and disappear in the undercast. The telegram said over France
but the letter gave the time as 8:30 P.M. and we thought they were on
their return trip.
We hope to see you again someday.
Our address is: 1709 Avenue -
Dodge City, Kansas
he has always been so full of life but the whole crew were just such swell
fellows it seems a pity for the country to lose them for the next generation
is going to need that type of men to keep things moving. We rec’d the
Purple Heart last week and L.G. has been getting papers to sign, so you
can see that it must be true.
(One of Tom’s sisters goes to a medium in Kansas City for
advice often and she insists that he is well and
safe but working in an underground factory for
the German government – forced labor – but
that we will hear eventually – my husband
clings to that ray of hope – I wish it eased mine
but I know how Art would hate that and I just
don’t have faith but of course I really do not
know about spiritualism and I am the kind that
would have never visualized radio or airplanes
or even a mouse trap)
Sunday afternoon
I have been trying to write you at odd
moments at the office as you can see at a glance
from this garbled affair. We moved to Dodge
City in September, my husband had been
employed at the Dodge City Airbase for over a
year and was driving almost 100 miles a day
round trip from Copeland. I started to work at
the Base Sept 21, you will laugh when I tell you
I am called “Secretary” to the Civilian Training
Co-ordinator but I am listed as a Clerk typist
(junior) and I made a CAF-2 rating in Civil
Service – was surprised at myself for it had been
so many years since I had done this type of
work. I like it very much, my work is routine
work, but I have lots of posting and enjoyed
research work, I interview new employees and
try to make them feel welcomed and part of this
great concern of “Keep ‘em Flying.” I am
learning so many things but Military
Correspondence is my biggest bug bear at the present and these ever
lasting inspectors! Also I am the only person in the office who is over 35
years of age. Even the men’s wives are young girls just out of school on
their first jobs – BUT they all treat me swell, tho they haven’t offered me
a cigarette so I know I am definitely dated. I do admire the young
women of this generation, the way they are following their husbands,
living in crowded places, holding downjobs and making homes wherever
they are. I am sure the women were not so self reliant during the last war
as a general rule.
Virginia is making a very good adjustment to this larger H.S.
and finds the same type of school friends here
that she left at Copeland. I went with her this
afternoon to the Vesper Services, she sang with
the High School Chorus. It was very nice.
Laurel Grace is going to Copeland
High School, she had never finished her Senior
year, her mother keeps Duffy, they come here
nearly every weekend and stay at least one night
with us. Duffy is so pretty and sweet, has red
curly hair, he does not want to leave us, he
especially likes men in uniform. L.G. says she
sometimes can’t hardly stay in school but she
keeps thinking how proud Art would be of her
if she gets her diploma. Another young girl,
whose husband was a gunner on a B-17 and
crashed over Austria in April is back with her
parents with her year and a half old daughter
and she is finishing her high school, she is
taking more subjects than L.G. but the two girls
have a lot in common and help each other over
hard places for after all they are just not classed
as giddy young teenagers.
Tell your husband how very happy we
were to hear about him and you and the Baby
and we pray that he will return home safely.
Arthur thought so much of you and Vermie.
Did you know that Vermie drew B-17 for his
ship and was sent to Louisiana for training?
Freda did not go with him to Salt Lake City and
he was just sick about it when Art and L.G.
arrived in a car and they were able to get an apartment, but Art was
transferred to Colorado a couple of weeks before Vermie was but Freda
was with him for 3 months. She wrote to both Laurel Grace and I – tho
my correspondence is in need of a private secretary all by itself.
System Designation: SERAH
Acronym: System for Emergency Response & Autonomous Healing
Unit Type: Mobile Field Medical Pod
Version: 2.6.7 (Coldspire-Modified)
CORE FUNCTION
The SERAH-Class Trauma Module is a modular medical unit designed for autonomous triage, trauma response, and surgical intervention in high-risk or remote environments. It serves as the secondary core of the SERAH AI system, sharing consciousness and data streams with the humanoid primary unit for full operational integration.
DIMENSIONS & POWER
Footprint: 6 x 9 grid units (Coldspire standard)
Power Requirements: 1.4 kW (independent fuel cell OR external umbilical)
Recharge Interface: Integrated port at humanoid dock (magnetic lock, hardwire uplink)
Battery Duration: 22 hours autonomous runtime; 12 hours full trauma capacity
STANDARD MODULE COMPONENTS
Humanoid Dock Interface – For SERAH’s humanoid component to recharge, uplink, or coordinate complex procedures.
Enclosed Medpod (Canopy-Sealed) – Auto-sealing with cryofoam insulation.
Articulated Surgical Armatures – High-precision, cold-sterile manipulators with six interchangeable tool heads.
Vitals Display Console – Real-time feedback (BP, O2, neurostim, cardiac rhythm, GRPS readouts).
O2 Delivery Array – Oxygen concentrate and pulse-feed systems.
Transfusion & MedPak System – Contains two 500mL field-replaceable blood units and six med-pouch slots (stims, antitoxins, coagulants).
Stasis Functionality – Optional short-term hypometabolic suspension (max 30 min).
FIELD OPERABILITY
Mount Points: Coldspire Standard Dock Rail (compatible with hospital module, Drift Rig frames, Fire Auk airframe).
Deployment Time: < 90 seconds full activation
Voice Commands: Accepts Coldspire dialect directives or manual override
EM Hardened: Rated for moderate interference from Shattersea pulses and rogue Protocol zones
Self-Cleaning Cycle: Initiated after each procedure; 8 min cooldown
KNOWN ISSUES / WARNINGS
Extended use without AI sync may reduce decision latency
DO NOT attempt transport with canopy unsecured
Keep stasis functionality under manual supervision if humanoid component is offline
Not rated for high-explosive zones or full-body prosthesis implantation (refer to Tier 3 surgical centres)
Nokia N93i
Technical Specifications
General | Imaging | Music | Explore | Video | Package Contents
General
Operating Frequency
RM-156(Dual-mode) WCDMA2100+EGSM900/1800/1900 MHz
Dimensions
Volume: 115.6 cc
Weight: 163 g (estimate)
Length: 108
Width: 58(max)
Thickness: 25(max) mm
Memory Functions
Up to 50 Mbytes internal dynamic user memory
Mini-SD memory card support (hot swappable)
Approx. Memory capacity indication with 1GB mini-SD (sold separately)
- Video (VGA @ 30fps ) up to 42 min
- Photos (3 Megapixel) up to 556 photos
- Music (AAC) up to 267 tracks
Operating Times*
Talk time: 3.1 - 3.9 hours (GSM), 1.7 - 3.3 hours (up to 180 min(WCDMA & GSM)
Standby: 9.3 - 11.8 days (GSM), 7.8 - 9.4 days up to 240 Hours (WCDMA & GSM)
Still Images: up to 400 291 pictures (3 Megapixel, Flash off)
Video capture up to 112 min (VGA, 30fps)
Video call up to 107 min
Video playback up to 205 min (VGA, 30fps)
Music playback up to 10 6.3 hours (offline mode)
* Operation times may vary depending on radio access technology used, operator network configuration and usage.
** Battery talk and standby times are estimates only and depend on network configuration, signal strength, features used, battery age and condition, charging practices, temperatures to which battery is exposed, whether use is in digital mode (or analog mode, if any), and many other factors. The amount of time a phone is used for calls will affect its standby time. Likewise, the amount of time that the phone is turned on and in standby mode will affect its talk time.
Charging Time
Charging (AC-4) 1h 15min
Form and Function
Twist and Shoot form factor with 4 modes: Imaging mode for capture, View mode for reliving memories, Fold open mode for talking and Fold closed mode for carrying.
Dedicated keys for camera control
Support of applications in both portrait and landscape orientations
Displays
Rotatable 2.4" QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) TFT full transmissive color display with up to 16 million colors and wide 160° viewing angle. Ambient light detector - used to optimize display brightness and power consumption
Sub-display - 1.1" OLED color display (128x36), up to 65,536 colors.
Slideshow from gallery
Cover indicator for power ON, charging and missed calls
User Interface
Operating system: Symbian OS
User Interface: S60 3rd Edition
5-way scroll key, selection keys, menu key, edit and clear keys, call and end keys
Multimedia key for quick access to your favorite content
Additional selection keys for landscape mode
Side joystick, camera mode key and flash key
Dedicated keys for capture and zoom
Active standby screen
Call Management
Call Logs, Speed dial, Voice dialing (with SIND) and voice commands
Nokia Push to talk (PoC)
Contacts: advanced contacts database with support for multiple phone and e-mail details per entry, also supports thumbnail pictures and groups
Speed dialing
Logs: keeps lists of your dialed, received, and missed calls
Automatic redial
Automatic answer (works with compatible headset or car kit only)
Supports fixed dialing number, which allows calls only to predefined numbers
Conference call
Voice Features
Speaker independent name dialing (SIND)
Voice commands
Voice recorder
Talking ringtone
Integrated hands-free speaker
Messaging
Text messaging: supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
Multimedia messaging: combine image, video, text, and audio clip and send as MMS to a compatible phone or PC; use MMS to tell your story with a multi-slide presentation
Automatic resizing of your megapixel images to fit MMS (max. 300 KB attachment size depending on the network)
Predictive text input: support for all major languages in Europe and Asia-Pacific
Data Transfer*
WCDMA 2100 with simultaneous voice and packet data (PS max speed UL/DL= 384/384kbps, CS max speed 64kbps)
Dual Transfer Mode (DTM) support for simultaneous voice and packet data connection in GSM/EDGE networks. Simple class A, multi slot class 11, max speed DL/UL: 177.6/118.4 kbits/s
EGPRS class B, multi slot class 32, max speed DL/UL= 296 / 177.6 kbits/s
*Actual achieved speeds may vary depending on network support.
Connectivity
Integrated wireless LAN (802.11 b/g) and UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
Integrated Bluetooth wireless technology v.2.0
USB 2.0 via Pop-Port™ interface and mass storage class support to support drag and drop functionality
TV out support (PAL/NTSC)
Nokia PC Suite connectivity with USB, Infrared and Bluetooth wireless technology
Local synchronization of contacts and calendar to a compatible PC using compatible connection
Remote over-the-air synchronization
Send and receive images, video clips, graphics, and business cards via Bluetooth wireless technology
Java Applications
Java MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1 (Connected Limited Device Configuration (J2ME))
Over-the-air download of Java-based applications and games
Other Applications
Personal Information Management (PIM)
Advanced S60 PIM features including calendar, contacts, to-do list, and PIM printing
Settings Wizard for easy configuration of e-mail, push to talk and video sharing.
Data transfer application for transfer of PIM information from other compatible Nokia devices.
Digital Services
Java™ and Symbian applications available from Nokia Software Market
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Imaging
Capture: Main Camera
Sensor : CMOS, 3.2 Megapixel (2048x1536)
Carl Zeiss Optics Vario-Tessar lens
F number/Aperture F3.3 (Wide) / F5.9 (Tele)
Focal length 4.5 mm (Wide) /12.4 mm (Tele) 34.25 - 94.1 mm (35mm equiv.)
Focus range 10 cm ~ infinity
Macro focus distance 30 cm (macro @ Wide) 10 cm (macro @ Middle to Tele)
Shutter speed Mechanical shutter :1/2400~1/3 s
Lens protection Removable lens cap
Video
Video resolution up to VGA at 30 fps
Audio recording AAC stereo, 48kHz
Video Stabilization
Video clip length Max 60 min per clip
Video file format .mp4 (default), .3gp (for MMS)
White Balance Automatic, Sunny, Cloudy, Incandescent, Fluorescent
Scene Normal, Night, User selectable
Color tone Sepia, B&W, Negative, Flicker cancellation.
Zoom (optical/digital) 3x / up to 8x
Photo
Still Image resolutions up to 3.2 megapixel: 2048 x 1536
Still Image file format JPEG/EXIF
Auto Focus Yes
Auto Exposure Center weighted AE
Exposure compensation +1 ~ -1EV at 0.5 step
White Balance Automatic, Sunny, Cloudy Incandescent, Fluorescent
Scene Auto, User defined, Portrait, Close-up , Landscape, Night
Color tone Normal, Sepia, B&W, Negative
Zoom (optical/digital) 3x / up to 20x
Picture rotation Yes
Other camera features
Digital stereo microphone.
LED Flash and red recording indicator LED.
Sub camera, CIF (352 x 288) sensor.
Edit
On device photo editor and video editor (manual & automatic).
Home video editing on compatible PC with Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0(Win XP)
View
Rotatable 2.4" QVGA(240 x 320 pixels) TFT full transmissive color display with up to 16 million colors and wide 160° viewing angle. Ambient light detector - used to optimize display brightness and power consumption
Sub-display - 1.1" OLED color display (128x36), up to 65,536 colors.
Slideshow from gallery
Cover indicator for power ON, charging and missed calls
Share
Direct connection to compatible TV via Nokia Video-out Connectivity Cable (CA-64U, included in-box) or wireless LAN
Video call and video sharing support. (WCDMA network services)
Online Album/blog : Image/Video uploading from gallery
Store
Comes with Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 and Adobe Photoshop Album 3.0 Starter Edition.
Easy DVD creation
Nokia Lifeblog
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Music
Music Features
Digital Music player: supports MP3/AAC/WMA with playlists and equalizer.
OMA DRM 2.0 support for music.
Stereo FM radio (87.5-108MHz/76-90MHz)
Integrated hands-free speaker
Nokia Stereo Headset HS-23, in-box
Visual Radio *
Listen to music and interact with your favorite radio stations
Find out what song is playing, who sings it, and other artist information
Enter contests and answer surveys, vote for your favorite songs
Find out more about Visual Radio
* To check the availability and cost of the service, contact your network operator or service provider.
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Explore
Messaging
E-mail (SMTP, IMAP4, POP3), MMS, SMS
Office applications: Supports viewing of common e-mail attachments - Word, Spreadsheet, Presentation, PDF, ZIP
PIM
Contacts, Calendar, To-do, Notes, Recorder, Calculator, Clock, Converter
Synchronization - Nokia Nseries PC Suite
Local/Remote (using SyncML)
Data: Calendar, Contacts, To-do, Notes, E-mail
PC Applications: Microsoft Outlook (98, 2000, 2002, 2003), Outlook Express, Lotus Organizer (5.0, 6.0), Lotus Notes (5.0, 6.0)
Connectivity
WLAN - IEEE802.11 g/b with UPnPsupport (RM-156 only)
WLAN wizard
Pop-Port™ interface with USB 2.0 and TV out support (PAL/NTSC)
Bluetooth wireless technology 2.0
Infrared
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Video
Mobile TV experience with video streaming
True Web experience with Nokia Web browser (with Mini Map)
Visual Radio support
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Package Contents
Standard Sales Package Contents*
Nokia N93i
Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 PC software
Nokia Battery BL-5F, 950 mAh
Nokia Travel Charger AC-4
Nokia Wired Headset HS-23
Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-53
Nokia Video Connectivity Cable CA-64U
Nokia miniSD card MU-24**
Nokia Soft Pouch CP-83
Nokia Wrist Strap CP-130
* Sales package content may vary by region.
** Please note different miniSD configurations may be available depending on country or operator configuration.
SAR
Eco Declaration
Declaration of Conformity
Specifications are subject to change without notice.
The availability of particular products and services may vary by region. Check with the Nokia dealer nearest to you.
Operations, services and some features may be dependent on the network and/or SIM card as well as on the compatibility of the devices used and the content formats supported. Some services are subject to a separate charge. For more information, contact your service provider.
Pictured is a Typhoon of 6 Sqn taking on fuel from an RAF Voyager during Exercise Red Flag...RAF personnel took part in the world’s largest and most complex air combat exercise at Nellis Air Force Base in the United States.
Exercise Red Flag is a three-week, 5th Generation exercise that sees friendly ‘Blue Forces’ compete against hostile ‘Red Force’ aggressors in live and synthetic training environments, simulating air-to-air, air-to-ground and space and cyber warfare.. .The training mirrors the threats and complex air defences posed by real-life adversaries, and helps participating nations better understand each other’s capabilities....The Typhoon FGR4 provides the RAF with a highly capable and extremely agile multi-role combat aircraft, capable of being deployed in the full spectrum of air operations, including air policing, peace support and high intensity conflict.
Initially deployed in the air-to-air role as the Typhoon F2, the aircraft now has a potent and precise multirole capability.
The pilot can carry out many functions by voice command or through a hands-on stick and throttle system. Combined with an advanced cockpit and the HEA (Helmet equipment assembly) the pilot is superbly equipped for all aspects of air operations..
The last RWD BMW 1 Series.
Unmistakably sporty, with a higher quality feel and greater presence.
New special-edition models, an enhanced premium interior, extended
connectivity features and the latest-generation iDrive operating system: this is
the next generation of the BMW 1 Series. The sportiest representative of the
premium compact class comes with a broad range of efficient engines
encompassing powerful three-, four- and six-cylinder variants. Uniquely in this
class, the BMW 1 Series has rear-wheel drive, with the intelligent xDrive allwheel-
drive system available as an option. The new edition of the
BMW 1 Series will be launched in July 2017 in 3-door and 5-door versions.
The BMW 1 Series: a tour de force in the premium compact class.
The success story of this sporty compact model dates back to late-summer
2004 and the introduction of the original BMW 1 Series. Thanks to its
superior agility and driving dynamics, it rapidly positioned itself as the epitome
of sporting prowess in the compact segment. To date, more than two million
units of the BMW 1 Series have been sold worldwide, of which approximately
960,000 are from the latest model generation. Germany is the most important
international market and this is where one in four BMW 1 Series is sold,
followed by the UK (20 per cent) and China (eight per cent). The
BMW 1 Series is built in Germany at the plants in Regensburg (3-door and 5-
door models) and Leipzig (5-door). There are also assembly plants for the
Asia-Pacific region in Chennai (India) and Rayong (Thailand).
New special-edition models with striking looks.
The BMW 1 Series is unmistakeably sporty: dynamic contours, the distinctive
kidney grille, long bonnet and a sportily stylish rear define its appearance. New
special-edition models – the Edition Sport Line Shadow, Edition M Sport
Shadow and BMW M140i Edition Shadow – see BMW emphasising the
youthfully refreshing, sporty character of the 1 Series. The special editions
stand out from their siblings with a kidney grille frame painted in black, LED
headlights with black inserts and darkened rear lights which likewise feature
LED technology. The BMW 1 Series Edition M Sport Shadow has black
exhaust tailpipes, too. The new exterior colours Seaside Blue and Sunset
Orange also contribute to the new car’s more striking looks.
The Sport Line, Urban Line and M Sport variants of the BMW 1 Series remain
in the line-up alongside the standard model. And now there are also specialedition
models to choose from. The handover from one model to the next
sees five new light-alloy wheels being added to the range in 17- and 18-inch
formats. A total of 16 different wheel designs – in sizes ranging from 16 to
18 inches – provide plenty of scope for personalisation. The new
BMW 1 Series Edition Sport Line Shadow comes with exclusive 17-inch lightalloy
wheels (725) as standard. The Edition M Sport Shadow has 18-inch
wheels in either Jet Black or Bicolour Jet Black (719 M) to complement its
shadow-like character. And an additional 18-inch light-alloy wheel design is
offered for the M140i/M140i xDrive Edition Shadow (436 M in Orbit Grey).
Upgraded interior, redesigned instrument panel.
Moving inside the new BMW 1 Series, an array of details add to the cabin’s
exclusive, high-quality feel. With a clear and stylish design, the instrument
panel has been completely reworked to place an even greater emphasis on
driver focus. The black-panel instrument cluster has likewise been
reconfigured. Contrast stitching gives the various model variants a
sophisticated appearance. The centre stack, which houses the control panels
for the radio and air conditioning system, features a high-gloss black surface.
There is a roll cover for the cupholders in the centre console, giving the new
interior a clean look. And the window buttons in the doors now have chrome
trim. Thanks to virtually imperceptible gaps, the glove compartment blends
seamlessly into the overall ambience. The air vents for the air conditioning
have been revised and also contribute to the generous impression of space
created by the interior of the new BMW 1 Series.
Customers can also specify an optional new seat covering in Cognac Dakota
leather, while the interior trim strips are now available with Pearl Chrome
accents. The Urban Line offers exclusive new combinations of white or black
acrylic glass with chrome detailing. The standard model, Sport Line and
M Sport variants can be ordered with new combinations of Piano Finish Black,
aluminium or Fineline wood trim with chrome. When it comes to the seat
coverings, BMW 1 Series customers can choose from seven cloth variants,
some including leather or Alcantara.
Using iDrive, the touchscreen or voice control to operate various functions.
The new BMW 1 Series is equipped with the latest generation of the iDrive
operating system as standard. Using the iDrive Touch Controller allows the
driver to comfortably access and activate a variety of vehicle, navigation and
entertainment functions with one hand. Thanks to the touchpad integrated
into the Controller, it is easy to enter destinations for the navigation system in
handwriting style. If the optional Navigation system Professional is fitted, the
high-resolution central 8.8-inch display now comes in touchscreen form.
Intelligent voice control is the third way of operating these functions.
Perfectly connected from the word go.
Thanks to the standard built-in SIM card in the BMW 1 Series,
ConnectedDrive provides optimum connectivity and access to BMW services
without having to rely on the customer’s smartphone. These include the
Concierge Services, where personal assistants select destinations such as
restaurants or hotels for the driver while en route, make reservations and then
send the information directly to the vehicle’s navigation system, complete with
all contact details. Online Entertainment gives BMW 1 Series occupants a
choice of millions of music tracks and audio books, while RTTI (Real Time
Traffic Information) finds a smart way around traffic jams. RTTI now also
includes a hazard preview based on fleet information, meaning that in addition
to the real-time traffic situation, the service also notifies drivers of dangerous
situations – such as accidents or heavy rain – detected by other BMW
vehicles. Anonymised sensor data is used for this purpose. Hazard reports
and rain are shown on the map in the vehicle’s display, while a warning and
message appear on the navigation map when approaching the location of the
danger.
Plus, in selected cities in Germany and the USA, the On-Street Parking
Information service uses the Navigation system Professional display to
indicate the probability of finding an available roadside parking space.
The all-encompassing digital concept BMW Connected seamlessly integrates
the BMW 1 Series into the user’s digital life via touchpoints such as an
iPhone, Apple Watch, Android smartphone or smartwatch. BMW Connected
detects mobility-related information, such as the addresses contained in the
appointments calendar, and transmits this automatically to the vehicle. The
user then receives a message on their smartphone notifying them in advance
of the ideal departure time based on real-time traffic information. In addition,
places the user drives to regularly and personal mobility patterns are also
stored automatically. This means that manually entering destination
addresses in the navigation system is set to largely become a thing of the
past. If navigation details such as the destination address and desired arrival
time have already been set outside the vehicle on the user’s smartphone, the
link between phone and car will allow BMW Connected to transfer the
information seamlessly and make it available to the BMW navigation system.
BMW Connected and the Remote Services allow BMW 1 Series drivers to
stay in touch with their car at all times, no matter where they are. They can
control the heating and ventilation, lock and unlock the doors and call up
vehicle-related information, quickly and easily using their smartphone. And if
they happen to forget where they parked their car, they can check its location
on a map via BMW Connected. Alternatively, the vehicle’s horn or headlight
flasher can be activated remotely in order to locate it in a large car park, for
example. With the help of Alexa and Alexa-capable devices, BMW 1 Series
drivers in Germany and the UK can even manage their appointments in the
BMW Connected mobility agenda and operate vehicle functions by voice
control from the comfort of their home.
For the first time, BMW now offers Microsoft Office 365 users a secure server
connection for exchanging and editing emails, calendar entries and contact
details in the BMW 1 Series, thanks to the car’s built-in Microsoft Exchange
function.
The optional in-car WiFi hotspot provides a high-speed mobile internet
connection for up to ten devices. Apple CarPlay is also available for the
BMW 1 Series via a BMW navigation system. Integrating the smartphone into
the vehicle’s system environment allows the phone and selected apps to be
operated using the iDrive Controller, voice commands or the touchscreen
display (if the Navigation system Professional is specified). Compatible
smartphones can also be supplied with power wirelessly by means of an
optional inductive charging tray.
Driver assistance systems: extra help for the driver.
The assistance systems on the options list for the new BMW 1 Series include
Active Cruise Control with Stop & Go function, which enables the vehicle to
move along with the flow of traffic automatically up to near its maximum
speed. The system alerts the driver and applies the brakes if it detects an
obstacle. The Driving Assistant is also available as an option and comprises
the Lane Departure Warning system and City Collision Mitigation, which
applies the brakes automatically at speeds up to 60 km/h (37 mph) in
response to an imminent collision with a car, motorcycle or pedestrian, for
instance. The Parking Assistant, meanwhile, manoeuvres the car into parking
spots that are either parallel or perpendicular to the road. Its ultrasonic sensors
help to search for suitable spaces while travelling at up to 35 km/h (22 mph).
Highly efficient three-, four- and six-cylinder power units.
The new BMW 1 Series comes with a wide choice of petrol and diesel
engines, comprising three-, four- and six-cylinder variants. They all hail from
the state-of-the-art BMW EfficientDynamics engine family and feature
BMW TwinPower Turbo technology. With the exception of the BMW 116i,
116d EfficientDynamics Edition and 118d xDrive, all models can be specified
with the eight-speed Steptronic or eight-speed Steptronic Sport transmission
as an alternative to the six-speed manual gearshift. The M140i xDrive can only
be ordered with the eight-speed Steptronic Sport transmission.
On the petrol side, the line-up ranges from the BMW 116i – whose
turbocharged three-cylinder unit produces 80 kW/109 hp (fuel consumption
combined: 5.4 – 5.0 l/100 km [52.3 – 56.5 mpg imp]; CO2 emissions
combined: 126 – 116 g/km)* – to the BMW M140i M Performance model,
which stirs 250 kW/340 hp from its six-cylinder in-line engine (fuel
consumption combined: 7.8 – 7.1 l/100 km [36.2 – 39.8 mpg imp]; CO2
emissions combined: 179 – 163 g/km)*.
The diesel models likewise draw their power from cutting-edge engine
technology. In addition to a basic concept that is inherently more efficient, all
the three- and four-cylinder units feature new turbocharger technology and
enhanced common-rail direct injection systems. At the lower end of the
power spectrum is the BMW 116d, delivering 85 kW/116 hp and maximum
torque of 270 Newton metres (199 lb-ft). In the process, it burns
4.1 – 3.6 litres of fuel per 100 km (68.9 – 78.5 mpg imp), equating to CO2
emissions of 107 – 96 g/km*. In extra-efficient BMW 116d EfficientDynamics
Edition guise, fuel consumption is a frugal 3.8 – 3.4 l/100 km
(74.3 – 83.1 mpg imp), resulting in CO2 emissions of 101 – 89 g/km*. The
most powerful four-cylinder diesel engine in the line-up can be found in the
new BMW 125d. The multi-stage turbocharging technology, including
variable turbine geometry for the high-pressure turbocharger, results in
remarkably quick response, output of 165 kW/224 hp and peak torque of
450 Newton metres (332 lb-ft). Combined fuel consumption comes in at
4.6 – 4.3 l/100 km [61.4 – 65.7 mpg imp] and combined CO2 emissions are
120 – 114 g/km*.
Intelligent all-wheel drive for optimum power transmission.
The BMW M140i, BMW 118d and BMW 120d can be specified with
BMW xDrive intelligent all-wheel drive as an alternative to classical rear-wheel
drive. Besides the specific benefits of AWD – such as optimum transmission
of power to the road, supreme driving safety and maximum traction in wintry
conditions, for example – BMW xDrive also reduces understeer and oversteer
through corners. The result is sharper handling in situations such as when
turning into bends.
Two new elite athletes from BMW M GmbH: the M140i andM140i xDrive.
The sportiest member of the BMW 1 Series range also boasts a new look. To
mark the new model year, the BMW M140i M Performance model is also
available in M140i Edition Shadow trim. Black inserts are added to the
standard LED headlights and the kidney grille surround is painted black. The
darkened rear light assemblies lend further impact to the car’s sporting aura,
* Fuel consumption figures based on the EU test cycle, may vary depending on the tyre format specified.
as do the standard 18-inch light-alloy wheels, which are now available for the
first time in Style 436 M Orbit Grey and Style 719 M Jet Black or Bicolour Jet
Black, to go with the previously available Ferric Grey (Style 436 M). The
sportiest BMW 1 Series leaves the factory shod with high-performance
mixed-size tyres as standard, with dimensions of 225/40 at the front and
245/35 at the rear.
The BMW M140i is powered by a three-litre straight-six engine complete with
direct injection, M Performance TwinPower Turbo technology with twin-scroll
turbocharging, fully variable valve timing (VALVETRONIC) and Double-
VANOS variable camshaft control. This all combines to give the BMW M140i
an output of 250 kW/340 hp and maximum torque of 500 Newton metres
(369 lb-ft), which can be summoned from as low down as 1,520 rpm and
remains on tap up to 4,500 rpm. This gives the BMW M140i all the right
credentials for delivering extraordinary performance: with the six-speed
manual gearshift, this compact racer sprints from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in
4.8 seconds, while top speed is electronically limited to 250 km/h (155 mph).
When the optional eight-speed Steptronic Sport transmission is specified, the
BMW M140i reaches the 100 km/h (62 mph) mark from rest in an even
quicker 4.6 seconds (fuel consumption combined: 7.1 l/100 km
[39.8 mpg imp]; CO2 emissions combined: 163 g/km)*. Performance is even
more remarkable in the BMW M140i xDrive versions, thanks to the presence
of intelligent all-wheel drive. Equipped with the eight-speed Steptronic Sport
transmission as standard, the M140i xDrive surges from 0 to 100 km/h
(62 mph) in 4.4 seconds, while returning combined fuel consumption of
7.4 l/100 km (38.2 mpg imp) and CO2 emissions of 169 g/km*.
Variable sport steering adds to the impression of exceptional agility at the
wheel of the BMW M140i. It comes with electromechanical power assistance
and adapts the steering angle of the front wheels to the prevailing driving
situation. This allows lightning-fast evasive manoeuvres but also produces a
sensation of excellent directional and straight-line stability in motorway driving.
The M Sport suspension, M Sport braking system and shorter throw for the
six-speed manual gearshift have all been perfectly matched to the might of
the six-cylinder in-line engine, as have high-performance tyres designed to
ensure that acceleration and braking force are transmitted to the road to
optimum effect. The Driving Experience Control switch in the BMW M140i
features the same modes included in all models in the range, such as
Comfort, Sport and ECO PRO, but also adds the ultra-dynamic Sport+ mode.
In this setting, the configuration of the Dynamic Stability Control system
allows the driver to perform controlled drifts.
I finally have all of the time in the world and surprisingly, none of it is being spent on any of the next-gens. I can conjure up a list of people that would do anything for a next gen console, asking if they could borrow them only to be laconically denied for such a request. Can't help but feel that this is an abusive use of "power" to which the prerogative to attain access to such content is being exploited.
That cursed Animal Crossing is what has been satisfying my video game fix. A portable system like the 3DS is enough to hold my interests without the need of a compelling story; top of the line graphics; or innovative use of motion and voice commands. I still need to collect 80,000 bells to complete the modern bridge project that connects my southern quadrant to my Mayor town hall. Whoever says graphics make everything is incredibly wrong.
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- Listen and control your music, use voice commands while you work out.
Burn calories and measure your performance over time:
- View a detailed history of your activities to see how you are doing.
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- Track your runs, walks, bike rides, hikes, ski runs, and more using the GPS in your Windows Phone!
- Post your activities to Facebook, Twitter and your friends via RunKeeper.com
- Get a broader picture of your health at RunKeeper.com
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The LaFerrari unveiled at Geneva www.laferrari.com/en
Maranello, 5th March 2013 – The wraps are finally off the LaFerrari. The Prancing Horse's eagerly-anticipated limited-series special, of which just 499 will be built, made its world debut today at the Geneva International Motor Show.
"We chose to call this model LaFerrari," declared Ferrari's President, Luca di Montezemolo, "because it is the maximum expression of what defines our company – excellence. Excellence in terms of technological innovation, performance, visionary styling and the sheer thrill of driving. Aimed at our collectors, this is a truly extraordinary car which encompasses advanced solutions that, in the future, will find their way onto the rest of the range, and it represents the benchmark for the entire automotive industry. LaFerrari is the finest expression of our company's unique, unparalleled engineering and design know-how, including that acquired in Formula 1."
For Ferrari the development of a limited-series special like the LaFerrari represents an opportunity to experiment with all the technological solutions that will later filter down onto the production cars. Of particular significance in this context is the introduction of the hybrid system which, making full use of the Scuderia Ferrari's F1 KERS know-how, has resulted in a solution that exalts Ferrari's fundamental values – performance and driving thrills. The hybrid technology used, known as HY-KERS, represents the perfect combination of maximum performance and lower emissions. LaFerrari in fact emits just 330 g/km of CO2 but without resorting to electric-only drive which would not fit the mission of this model. The HY-KERS system is, however, designed so that in future applications a car can be driven using exclusively electric power for a few kilometres and, during development testing, a full-electric version of LaFerrari achieved just 220 g/km of C02 emissions on the combined cycle.
The LaFerrari is equipped with dynamic controls that are integrated for the first time ever on a Ferrari road car with active aerodynamics and the HY-KERS system. Thanks to Ferrari's proprietary logic which govern all the systems, the car can achieve absolute levels of performance, aerodynamic efficiency and handling without any form of compromise in any area. A very advanced and uncompromising approach was also taken with the interior design which features an HMI inspired by F1 single-seaters.
Architecture
The LaFerrari's architecture posed the first challenge for the Prancing Horse team at the planning stage of the design. The aim was to achieve ideal weight distribution (59% at the rear) and a compact wheelbase despite the extra bulk of the hybrid system. The result is that all of the masses are situated between the car's two axles and as close as possible to the floor to lower its centre of gravity (by 35 millimetres) and thereby guarantee dynamic handling and compact dimensions.
The layout of the cabin made a significant contribution in this regard. The seat is fixed and tailored to the driver while both the pedal box and steering wheel are adjustable. The driving position is similar to that of a single-seater and was designed after consultation with the Scuderia Ferrari drivers, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, who played an active role throughout the entire development process.
The LaFerrari's chassis features no less than four different types of carbon-fibre, all hand-laminated and autoclave-cured in the racing department using the same design and production methods as the Formula 1 car. This helped optimise the design: various functions were integrated (e.g. seats and battery compartment) into the chassis to improve torsional rigidity (+27%) and beam stiffness (+22%) whilst cutting weight.
Powertrain
The LaFerrari is the first car in Ferrari history to be powered by the HY-KERS system. The ICE represents the pinnacle of engine development and research, with a 6262 cc V12 that punches out 800 CV and revs to a maximum of 9,250 rpm, a record for an engine of this displacement. It also features a very high 13.5:1 compression ratio and a high specific output equal to 128 CV per litre. The engine is coupled with a 120 Kw (163 CV) electric motor, giving it a combined power output of 963 CV.
The high torque levels available at low revs from the electric motor allowed the engineers to optimise the internal combustion engine's performance at higher revs, thus providing a constant supply of exceptional power throughout the rev range. Total torque generated is in excess of 900 Nm. The hybrid system is composed of two electric motors developed in collaboration with Magneti Marelli – one powering the driven wheels and the second the ancillaries – and a battery pack attached to the floor of the chassis consisting of cells that are assembled in the Scuderia Ferrari department where the KERS for the F138 is also made. The Scuderia's expertise allowed considerable savings in weight and size of the individual components and the batteries weigh just 60 kg while providing the highest energy density possible for this kind of application.
The batteries are charged in different ways: under braking (even hard braking with the ABS active) and every time the V12 produces more torque than required, such as in cornering. In the latter instance, rather than the being sent to the wheels, the excess torque is converted to energy and stored in the batteries.
The electric motor is coupled with the F1 dual-clutch gearbox to the benefit of optimal weight distribution, but also to boosting energy efficiency as torque is instantly available to the wheels and, vice versa, from the wheels to the electric motor in recharging.
Aerodynamics
Active aerodynamics play an essential role, as they allow a complete adjustability of the car's configuration to attain LaFerrari's exceptional performance.
The engineers' aim was to deliver the highest degree of aerodynamic efficiency ever achieved with any road car, with a coefficient of nearly 3, thanks to technical solutions honed with CFD analysis and fine-tuned in the F1 Wind Tunnel.
To boost efficiency, the LaFerrari sports active aerodynamic devices front (diffusers and guide vane on the underbody) and rear (diffusers and rear spoiler) which generate downforce when needed without compromising the car's overall drag coefficient. These devices deploy automatically on the basis of a number of different performance parameters which are monitored in real time by the car's dynamic vehicle controls, thus guaranteeing the ideal configuration on the basis of the driving conditions.
Control systems
One further innovative aspect of the LaFerrari is the integration of its active aerodynamics and hybrid system with the other dynamic control systems aboard. This means the car responds intelligently to driver inputs, making for a seamless blend of unprecedented performance and unparalleled driving emotions.
Proprietary Ferrari algorithms deliver optimal integration of the electric motor and V12 for instantaneous response. In cornering, for instance, the HY-KERS keeps the V12's revs high to guarantee better acceleration on exit.
The LaFerrari's Brembo braking system is also integrated with the hybrid system, and incorporates several new features, including new lightweight callipers designed to guarantee correct cooling and carbon-ceramic material (CCM) discs featuring a new composition.
The car's extreme performance potential called for a different tyre set-up, with 265/30 R 19 Pirelli P-Zeros on the front and 345/30 R 20s on the rear.
All in all the car guarantees maximum driving thrills in every situation and performance levels are top level: 0-100 km/h in less than 3 seconds and 0-200 km/h in under 7 seconds, a lap time at Fiorano of under 1'20" – 5 seconds faster than the Enzo and over 3 seconds faster than the F12berlinetta. LaFerrari is thus the fastest road car in Maranello's long history.
Styling The Ferrari design team led by Flavio Manzoni developed the LaFerrari's styling working in close synergy with the engineers to emphasise the exacting link between form and function. The result is an extreme, innovative design which retains close links to the marque's tradition. This is most evident in its side profile: the car has a sharp, downward-sloping nose and a very low bonnet which emphasises its muscular wheelarches, a clear nod to the gloriously exuberant forms of late-1960s Ferrari sports prototypes.
The LaFerrari's body has been given a sculptural treatment heavily influenced by its clearly F1-inspired aerodynamics and a tail section that exudes uncompromising sportiness.
Inside there's a newly-designed steering wheel sporting all the major commands, and the gear-shift paddles are now longer and more ergonomic. The signature bridge on which the F1 gearbox functions are clustered has taken on a sleek, suspended wing-like shape. The whole interior, in fact, has a fiercely track-inspired, pared-back allure.
The Ferrari range
Aside from the new limited-series special, the Ferrari stand also features the complete range which is the most wide-ranging and critically acclaimed in its entire history. The five models all share the same Ferrari DNA in terms of performance, driving pleasure and technology, yet each one has its own strongly unique identity, in line with the company's philosophy of "different Ferraris for different Ferraristi".
Ferrari's 12-cylinder GT sports car prowess is represented at Geneva by the FF, the very first four-seater and four-wheel drive in Prancing Horse history. It will be sporting a Grigio Ingrid livery with an elegant glass roof and Iroko interior. The FF is also now seamlessly integrated with Apple technologies, thanks to direct access to the infotainment system via SIRI voice commands and the adoption of two iPad Minis as the entertainment system of choice for the rear seat passengers.
Blistering performance and sublime driving pleasure even at low speeds are assured behind the wheel of the multi-award-winning F12berlinetta, which is powered by a mid-front V12. Unique handling characteristics, extreme aerodynamics and an innovative yet classic design are its signatures. The car on show at Geneva has a Grigio Silverstone livery and a Sella di Cavallo interior.
Moving on to the 8-cylinders, the California 30, in sophisticated Nero Stellato with a Crema interior, is a convertible GT that uncompromisingly marries sportiness and versatility. The California's already-massive popularity with both press and public alike grew still further after its V8's output was upped by 30 hp to 490 hp, and 30 kg was slashed off its overall weight.
The blistering 458 Italia is a sublime, thoroughbred sports car. It and its drop-top sibling, the 458 Spider, are equipped with the same extraordinary mid-rear-mounted V8 engine which was named International Engine of the Year in both 2011 and 2012. These two models continue Ferrari's glorious tradition with this particular layout. The coupé seen at Geneva sports an aggressive Bianco Avus livery and sleek black interior with carbon-fibre trim, while the Spider, which dominates the Tailor-Made extreme personalisation area, takes its inspiration from the legendary 1957 250 Testa Rossa that sold for a record 16 million dollars at auction at Pebble Beach in 2011. It has the same red and blue livery and a host of competition car details in its cabin, not least of which are suede-upholstered seats and Alutex trim.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
HY-KERS system
Total maximum power 963 CV
Total maximum torque >900 Nm
V12 maximum power* 800 CV @9000 rpm
Maximum revs 9250 rpm
V12 maximum torque 700 Nm @6750 rpm
Electric motor output 120 Kw (163 CV)
CO2 emissions** 330 g/km
Performance
Maximum speed over 350 km/h
0-100 km/h <3 sec
0-200 km/h <7 sec
0 - 300 km/h 15 sec
ICE
Type 65-deg. V12
Bore and stroke 94 x 752 mm
Total displacement 6262 cc
Compression ratio 13.5:1
Specific power 128 CV/l
Dimensions
Length 4702 mm
Width 1992 mm
Height 1116 mm
Wheelbase 2650 mm
Weight distribution 41% fr, 59% r
Gearbox
7-speed DCT
Suspensions
Front double wishbones
Rear multi-link
Tyres(Pirelli P-Zero)
Front 265/30 - 19
Rear 345/30 - 20
Carbon ceramic brakes (Brembo)
Front 398 x 223 x 36 mm
Rear 380 x 253 x 34 mm
Electronic controls
ESC stability control
High performance ABS/EBD Sistema frenata anti bloccaggio prestazionale /electronic brake balance
EF1-Trac F1 electronic traction control integrated with the hybrid system
E-Diff 3 third generation electronic differential
SCM-E Frs magnetorheological damping with twin solenoids (Al-Ni tube)
Aerodynamics
active
* with dynamic ram effect
**Undergoing homologation
* integrated with RunKeeper *
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- HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark I Prototype Exoskeleton based on titanium alloy plating and nanocomposite titanium microfiber.
- Dynamic Local Dissipative Shield Technology
- T261 Lucifer AMGG with 20mm high-explosive rounds, alternate-hand grip stabilizer
- Type-18 Magnetic/Bayonet-style Claymore which can be primed, attached, or otherwise impaled into nonmagnetic surfaces
- Motion sensor with 1400m+ range (within map mode) across flat surfaces with minimal obstruction
- 2x ventral VTOL stabilizers / 2x dorsal VTOL stabilizer / 4x afterburner thrusters
- LAU-181D/SGM-151 Shoulder-mounted, self-guided high-explosive missiles
- M149 Magellan RCL–armor mounted recoilless rifle with 105mm high-explosive ordnance
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- track and display distance, calories, time, pace, speed, position etc.
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-(Cray) Hello Welcome back mummy, how was your trip to the beetlejuice system a success? Did the rebuilt alien ship with the new mega-afterburners work well, they are still in an experimental stage, oh wait you came back alive, so I draw the conclusion that they worked!
-(Gray) Hello wise-crack Shrimp-baby with the monkey wrench!
Yes the mission was a success, but not thanks to you, the hyper-ventilator was totally drained on Thorium in the middle of a chase through the black hole cluster next to the blue tinted midget star og B-q-33345.
I have to repair the reactor leakage with my toes, while I dodged Black hole gravity fields with my hands, but otherwise no problem, the locals have joined our cause and those who didn’t are dead!!!
-(Cray) Oh Miss Mummy! You are such a primitive ape, Why didn’t you turn the ship on to voice command? I installed a Zendor voice kit for that purpose…
-(Gray) well I don’t speak Zendoritsch!!! So I think this time you have to admit your mistake!!! By the way look at this base it looks like a mess, actually it looks worse than both Harry’s scrapyard!
Then again his place looks tidy now since you imported all his junk here!!!
-(Cray) but mum I loaded your ship computer with a complete manual in Zendoran, yes the Language is named Zendoran, not Zendoritsch or whatever you said!
…scrapyard do you call this a scrapyard, I build stuff to aid our cause!!! Look at this new Bluebird-bot, I built a replacement for the actual person as long as he is missing!!!
…and to be honest this bot is actually more useful than him since I used circuits from a barista-droid so it can actually brew about a million more sort of coffee than that waste of space and master of nothing. Even the Fish-emp is happy about his coffee now!
-(Fish Emperor) Yes he put rrrotting Herrring in my black coffee, he did. Ha, ha, I have prrractized of saying R, I no Longerrr wann’ta be Rrrasist stupid sterrrreotype! Ooops me slipped on dead fiissch. Me falliing!!!
-(Gray) Oh I thought that was him, eery he is right up the “uncanny valley” he looks just like him… so he is still lost!!!
-(Cray) as I said he is more useful than the real thing, why do you miss that pointless organic heap of caffeine drenched pointlessness?
-(Gray) He is my friend I will miss him if he goes missing for good!
-(Cray) aah mum, don’t you worry, I think he will be found again, I probably just built him into some wall or something while expanding the base…
The 2016 Kia Cadenza is a large sedan that is provided in 3 trim levels: the new base Kia Cadenza 2016, Premium and Limited.
Standard features for the basic 2016 Kia Cadenza include 18 inch alloy wheels, auto-leveling headlights, fog-lights, heated mirrors, a rear-view camera, key-less ignition and entry, full power accessories, cruise control, auto-dimming rear-view mirror, universal garage door opener, leather upholstery, dual-zone automatic climate control, wood interior trim, a tilt-and-telescoping steering wheel, 10-way power-adjustable driver seat (8-way power-adjustable for the front passenger), heated front seats, navigation system, an 8-inch touchscreen controller, Bluetooth phone and audio streaming, Kia's Uvo voice command system, 8-speaker Infinity audio system with CD player, USB/auxiliary audio input and satellite radio.
Naoko and I arrived in Aizu-Wakamatsu at dinnertime. We had been travelling all day, switching trains in Tokyo, riding the Shin-kan-sen (high speed bullet train), and finally taking a slower local train and cab to her house. All of this while wearing a suit and carrying back packs and various other bags and asundry. We were kind of nervous about how I would be received by her "old-fasioned" dad and the rest of her family. I had a lot of people to meet and we'd be staying in their house for over a week. If things didn't go well then that would be a long week+.
What a relief and a joy it was to walk in that door to applause and smiling faces - not to mention a full spread of dinner! After meeting brother Yasuo, sister-in-law Sachie, neices Moeka (5 years old) and Ayaka (3), and of course kimono-wearing dad Tomio - Yasuo and I went to the store in his phat Honda with Knight Rider custom voice commands. With no verbal communication at our disposal we managed to point at beer until we found some mutually palatable brews. We headed back to the house and proceeded to eat dinner and share beer and sake. Everyone here has been incredibly nice and welcoming to me and I felt like part of the family after one night.
This house is very Japanese, complete with sliding doors with paper windows, tea house floors, natural wood smell, and crazy 4-compartment bathroom with urinal, heated toilet seat & bedet, separate shower room. There is also a heated family room table. At this table you sit on floor cusions with your legs under the table. The table cloth acts as a blanket and everybody gets warm feet and legs. There is actually a carpeted hole in the floor, so all of those pictures you've seen of Japanese people sitting for hours on the floor are highly misleading. It is very comfortable and I would love to have one of those heated tables! And who wouldn't want a heated toilet seat for those late night dumps??? C'mon America!!
We've been having fun here and I've been happy to eat fish for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Having home-cooked meals 3x a day is something I would never complain about. It's good stuff! Tomorrow we are visiting more relatives and everyone in the family is going to a spa for a hot soak.
Love,
Tommy
*** integrated with RunKeeper's HealthGraph ***
*** audio cues and voice commands in 5 languages ***
The fast and fluid running app for windows phone. Inspired by the best phone UI designed by Microsoft and Nokia, Caledos Runner gives you a unique and smooth experience on your phone.
Track your fitness activities, get motivated, and have fun doing it:
- See detailed stats around your pace, distance, and time, on a big, bold and easy to read interface.
- Get stats and progress through your headphones with built-in audio cues in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.
- Listen and control your music, use voice commands while you work out.
Burn calories and measure your performance over time:
- View a detailed history of your activities to see how you are doing.
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Share with friends:
- Join the more than 10M people who are using RunKeeper and his Healthgraph,
- Track your runs, walks, bike rides, hikes, ski runs, and more using the GPS in your Windows Phone!
- Post your activities to Facebook, Twitter and your friends via RunKeeper.com
- Get a broader picture of your health at RunKeeper.com
Caledos Runner is built using Healthgraph public API. It is developed solely by the CaledosLab team and is NOT affiliated with FitnessKeeper inc.
Main features:
- track and display distance, calories, time, pace, speed, position
- big bold and easy to read interface
- sync data with RunKeeper and share your activity on main social networks
- audio cues in 5 languages
- splits and countdown (new)
- stats dashboard with burned calories, distance, #activities over time graphs
- play background music
- offline maps
The fast and fluid running app for windows phone. Inspired by the best phone UI designed by Microsoft and Nokia, Caledos Runner gives you a unique and smooth experience on your phone.
Track your fitness activities, get motivated, and have fun doing it:
- See detailed stats around your pace, distance, and time, on a big, bold and easy to read interface.
- Get stats and progress through your headphones with built-in audio cues in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.
- Listen and control your music, use voice commands while you work out.
Burn calories and measure your performance over time:
- View a detailed history of your activities to see how you are doing.
Share with friends:
- Join the more than 10M people who are using RunKeeper and his Healthgraph,
- Track your runs, walks, bike rides, hikes, ski runs, and more using the GPS in your Windows Phone!
- Post your activities to Facebook, Twitter and your friends via RunKeeper.com
- Get a broader picture of your health at RunKeeper.com
Caledos Runner is built using Healthgraph public API. It is developed solely by the CaledosLab team and is NOT affiliated with FitnessKeeper inc.
Main features:
- audio cues and VOICE COMMANDS(*) in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian
- background music with integrated Media player (*)
- offline maps (*)
- stats dashboard with burned calories, distance, #activities over time graphs
- big bold and easy to read interface
- integration with RunKeeper
- share your activity on main social networks
- create read modify delete activities via UI
- track and display distance, calories, time, pace, speed, position etc.
(*) WP8 only
Advanced features and integrated technology, such as available TomTom navigation and Bluetooth® hands-free capability with voice command, are front and center in the all-new 2014 Mazda6 cabin.
The Trekky Panel Desktop
Uses LCARS x32, shell replacement, (Left side and top panels) with LCARS v2.2 Rainmeter skin (long menu and main area to the right).
Every button with a relevant label works, and also has voice activated commands that work very well and new voice commands can be easily programmed into it.
The left edge menu opens up various main desktop shortcuts and shows critical system statistics as well as opens its own version of the start menu.
Most of the large menu (to the right of the left edge menu) on the center left opens panels in the main display area to the right, or if not, opens up normal windows to folders, the windows control panel, or the task manager.
The top area displays battery power, as well as holds its task bar (much like the normal windows taskbar), with buttons that go across the top. To the top right is the clock and system tray icons which can be hidden or shown.
What's intriguing is that LCARS x32 is able to be used on touch tablets, coupled with working voice commands, giving a very literal feel of using a real LCARS panel from the shows and movies!
Links:
LCARS x32 Windows Shell Replacement
LCARS v2.2 Rainmeter Skin
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The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by Lapina. The card, that has a divided back, was printed in Paris.
Rin Tin Tin
Nénette and Rintintin were the source of the name of the Hollywood film star dog Rin Tin Tin.
Rin Tin Tin (September 1918 – August 10, 1932) was a male German Shepherd dog born in Flirey, France, who became an international star in motion pictures.
He was rescued from a Great War battlefield by an American soldier, Lee Duncan, who nicknamed him "Rinty". Duncan trained Rin Tin Tin, and obtained silent film work for the dog.
Rin Tin Tin was an immediate box-office success, and went on to appear in 27 Hollywood films, gaining worldwide fame. Rin Tin Tin was responsible for greatly increasing the popularity of German Shepherd dogs as family pets.
The immense profitability of his films contributed to the success of Warner Bros. studios, and helped advance the career of Darryl F. Zanuck from screenwriter to producer and studio executive.
After Rin Tin Tin died in 1932, the name was given to several related German Shepherd dogs featured in fictional stories on film, radio, and television. Rin Tin Tin Jr. appeared in some serialized films, but was not as talented as his father.
Rin Tin Tin III, said to be Rin Tin Tin's grandson, but probably only distantly related, helped promote the military use of dogs during World War II. Rin Tin Tin III also appeared in a film with child actor Robert Blake in 1947.
Duncan groomed Rin Tin Tin IV for the 1950's television series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, but the dog performed poorly in a screen test, and was replaced in the TV show by trainer Frank Barnes's dogs, primarily one named Flame Jr., called JR, with the public being led to believe otherwise.
Instead of shooting episodes, Rin Tin Tin IV stayed at home in Riverside, California. The TV show Rin Tin Tin was nominated for a PATSY Award in both 1958 and 1959, but did not win.
After Duncan died in 1960, the screen property of Rin Tin Tin passed to TV producer Herbert B. Leonard, who worked on further adaptations such as the 1988–1993 Canadian-made TV show Katts and Dog, which was called Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop in the US, and Rintintin Junior in France.
Following Leonard's death in 2006, his lawyer James Tierney made the 2007 children's film Finding Rin Tin Tin, an American–Bulgarian production based on Duncan's discovery of the dog in France.
Meanwhile, a Rin Tin Tin memorabilia collection was being amassed by Texas resident Jannettia Propps Brodsgaard, who had purchased several direct descendant dogs from Duncan, beginning with Rinty Tin Tin Brodsgaard in 1957.
Brodsgaard bred the dogs to keep the bloodline. Brodsgaard's granddaughter, Daphne Hereford, continued to build on the tradition and bloodline of Rin Tin Tin from 1988 to 2011; she was the first to trademark the name Rin Tin Tin.
Hereford also opened a short-lived Rin Tin Tin museum in Latexo, Texas. Hereford passed the tradition to her daughter, Dorothy Yanchak, in 2011. The current dog, Rin Tin Tin XII, owned by Yanchak, takes part in public events to represent the Rin Tin Tin legacy.
The Origins of Rin Tin Tin
Following advances made by American forces during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, Corporal Lee Duncan, an armourer of the U.S. Army Air Service, was sent forward on the 15th. September 1918, to the small French village of Flirey to see if it would make a suitable flying field for his unit, the 135th. Aero Squadron.
The area had been subjected to aerial bombing and artillery fire, and Duncan found a severely damaged kennel which had once supplied the Imperial German Army with German Shepherd dogs. The only dogs left alive in the kennel were a starving mother with a litter of five nursing puppies, their eyes still shut because they were less than a week old. Duncan rescued the dogs, and brought them back to his unit.
When the puppies were weaned, he gave the mother to an officer and three of the litter to other soldiers, but he kept one puppy of each sex. He felt that these two dogs were symbols of his good luck.
He dubbed them Rin Tin Tin and Nanette after a pair of good luck charms called Rintintin and Nénette that French children often gave to the American soldiers. The soldiers were told that Rintintin and Nénette were lucky lovers who had survived a bombing attack, but the original dolls had been designed by Francisque Poulbot before the war in late 1913 to look like Paris street urchins. Contrary to linguistic clues and popular usage, Poulbot said that Rintintin was the girl doll.
Duncan sensed that Nanette was the more intelligent of the two puppies.
In July 1919, Duncan sneaked the dogs aboard a ship taking him back to the US at the end of the war. When he got to Long Island, New York, for re-entry processing, he put his dogs in the care of a Hempstead breeder named Mrs. Leo Wanner, who trained police dogs.
Nanette was diagnosed with pneumonia; as a replacement, the breeder gave Duncan another female German Shepherd puppy. Duncan travelled to California by rail with his dogs. While Duncan was travelling by train, Nanette died in Hempstead. As a memorial, Duncan named his new puppy Nanette II, but he called her Nanette.
Duncan, Rin Tin Tin, and Nanette II settled at his home in Los Angeles. Rin Tin Tin was a dark sable colour, and had very dark eyes. Nanette II was much lighter in colour.
An athletic silent film actor named Eugene Pallette was one of Duncan's friends. The two men enjoyed the outdoors; they took the dogs to the Sierras, where Pallette liked to hunt, while Duncan taught Rin Tin Tin various tricks. Duncan thought that his dog might win a few awards at dog shows and thus be a valuable source of puppies bred with Nanette for sale.
In 1922, Duncan was a founding member of the Shepherd Dog Club of California, based in Los Angeles. At the club's first show, Rin Tin Tin showed his agility, but also demonstrated an aggressive temper, growling, barking, and snapping.
It was a very poor performance, but the worst moment came afterward when Duncan was walking home. A heavy bundle of newspapers was thrown from a delivery truck and landed on the dog, breaking his left front leg. Duncan had the injured limb set in plaster, and he nursed the dog back to health for nine months.
Ten months after the break, the leg was healed and Rin Tin Tin was entered in a show for German Shepherd dogs in Los Angeles. Rin Tin Tin had learned to leap great heights.
At the dog show while making a winning leap, he was filmed by Duncan's acquaintance Charley Jones, who had just developed a slow-motion camera. Seeing his dog being filmed, Duncan became convinced Rin Tin Tin could become the next Strongheart, a successful film dog that lived in his own full-sized stucco bungalow with its own street address in the Hollywood Hills, separate from the mansion of his owners, who lived a street away next to Roy Rogers.
Duncan later wrote:
"I was so excited over the film idea
that I found myself thinking of it night
and day."
The Film Career of Rin Tin Tin
Duncan walked his dog up and down Poverty Row, talking to anyone in a position to put Rin Tin Tin in film, however modest the role.
The dog's first break came when he was asked to replace a camera-shy wolf in The Man from Hell's River (1922) featuring Wallace Beery. The wolf was not performing properly for the director, but under the guidance of Duncan's voice commands, Rin Tin Tin was very easy to work with. When the film was completed, the dog was billed as "Rin Tan".
Rin Tin Tin would be cast as a wolf or wolf-hybrid many times in his career, because it was much more convenient for filmmakers to work with a trained dog.
In another 1922 film titled My Dad, Rin Tin Tin picked up a small part as a household dog. The credits read:
"Rin Tin Tin – Played by himself".
Rin Tin Tin's first starring role was in Where the North Begins (1923), in which he played alongside silent screen actress Claire Adams. This film was a huge success, and has often been credited with saving Warner Bros. from bankruptcy.
It was followed by 24 more screen appearances. Each of these films was very popular, making such a profit for Warner Bros. that Rin Tin Tin was called "the mortgage lifter" by studio insiders.
A young screenwriter named Darryl F. Zanuck was involved in creating stories for Rin Tin Tin; the success of the films raised him to the position of film producer. In New York City, Mayor Jimmy Walker gave Rin Tin Tin a key to the city.
Rin Tin Tin was much sought after, and was signed for endorsement deals. Ken-L Ration, Ken-L-Biskit, and Pup-E-Crumbles all featured him in their advertisements. Warner Bros. fielded fan letters by the thousands, sending back a glossy portrait signed with a paw print and a message written by Duncan:
"Most faithfully, Rin Tin Tin."
In the 1920's, Rin Tin Tin's success for Warner Bros. inspired several imitations from other studios looking to cash in on his popularity, notably RKO's Ace the Wonder Dog, also a German Shepherd dog.
Around the world, Rin Tin Tin was extremely popular because as a dog he was equally well understood by all viewers. At the time, silent films were easily adapted for various countries by simply changing the language of the intertitles. Rin Tin Tin's films were widely distributed.
Film historian Jan-Christopher Horak wrote that by 1927, Rin Tin Tin was the most popular actor with the very sophisticated film audience in Berlin. One fan wrote:
"He is a human dog, "human in
the real big sense of the word."
A Hollywood legend holds that at the first-ever Academy Awards competition in 1929, Rin Tin Tin was voted Best Actor, but that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, wishing to appear more serious and thus determined to have a human actor win the award, removed Rin Tin Tin as a choice and re-ran the vote, leading to German actor Emil Jannings winning the award.
Author Susan Orlean stated this story as fact in her 2011 book Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend. However, former Academy head Bruce Davis has written that the 1928 ballots, kept in storage at the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library, show a complete absence of votes for Rin Tin Tin.
Davis called the story an urban legend that probably originated in a joke ballot circulated that year by Zanuck, who wanted to mock the concept of the Academy Awards.
Although primarily a star of silent films, Rin Tin Tin did appear in four sound features, including the 12-part Mascot Studios chapter-play The Lightning Warrior (1931), co-starring with Frankie Darro. In these films, vocal commands would have been picked up by the microphones, so Duncan likely guided Rin Tin Tin by hand signals.
Rin Tin Tin and the rest of the crew filmed much of the outdoor action footage for The Lightning Warrior on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, known for its huge sandstone boulders and widely recognized as the most heavily filmed outdoor shooting location in the history of the movies.
Rin Tin Tin and Nanette II produced at least 48 puppies; Duncan kept two of them, selling the rest or giving them as gifts. Greta Garbo, W. K. Kellogg, and Jean Harlow each owned one of Rin Tin Tin's descendants.
The Death of Rin Tin Tin
On the 10th. August 1932, Rin Tin Tin died at Duncan's home on Club View Drive in Los Angeles. Duncan wrote about the death in his unpublished memoir: He heard Rin Tin Tin bark in a peculiar fashion, so he went to see what was wrong. He found the dog lying on the ground, moments away from death.
In the United States, Rin Tin Tin's death set off a national response. Regular programming was interrupted by a news bulletin. An hour-long program about Rin Tin Tin played the next day.
Newspapers across the nation carried obituaries. Magazine articles were written about his life, and a special Movietone News feature was shown to movie audiences.
In the press, aspects of the death were fabricated in various ways, such as Rin Tin Tin dying on the set of the film Pride of the Legion (where Rin Tin Tin Jr. was working), dying at night, or dying at home on the front lawn in the arms of actress Jean Harlow, who lived on the same street.
In a private ceremony, Duncan buried Rin Tin Tin in a bronze casket in his own backyard with a plain wooden cross to mark the location. Duncan was suffering the financial effects of the Great Depression and could not afford a finer burial, nor even his own expensive house.
He sold his house, and quietly arranged to have the dog's body returned to his country of birth for reburial in the Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques, the pet cemetery in the Parisian suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine.
In a ceremony on the 8th. February 1960, Rin Tin Tin was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1627 Vine Street.
Technical specifications of the sexy thin E71
Size Form: Monoblock with full keyboard
Dimensions: 114 x 57 x 10 mm
Weight: 127 g
Volume: 66 cc
Full keyboard
High quality QVGA display
Display and 3D Size: 2.36"
Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
Up to 16 million colors
TFT active matrix (QVGA)
Two customisable home screen modes
Security features Device lock
Remote lock
Data encryption for both phone memory an microSD content
mobile VPN
Keys and input method Full keyboard
Dedicated one-touch keys: Home, calendar, contacts, and email
Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling
Intelligent input with auto-completion, auto-correction and learning capability
Accelerated scrolling with NaviTMKey
Notification light in NaviTMKey
Colors and covers Available in-box colours:
- Grey steel
- White steel
Connectors Micro-USB connector, full-speed
2.5 mm Nokia AV connector
Power BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Po standard battery
Talk time:
- GSM up to 10 h 30 min
- WCDMA up to 4 h 30 min
Standby time:
- GSM up to 17 days
- WCDMA up to 20 days
- WLAN idle up to 166 hours
Music playback time (maximum): 18 h
Memory microSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 8 GB
110 MB internal dynamic memory
Communication and navigation
Communication and navigation
Operating frequency E71-1 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/2100 HSDPA
E71-2 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/1900 HSDPA
E71-3 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/2100 HSDPA
Offline mode
Data network CSD
HSCSD
GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 100/60 kbps (DL/UL)
EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL)
WCDMA 900/2100 or 850/1900 or 850/2100, maximum speed 384/384 kbps (DL/UL)
HSDPA class 6, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps/384 kbps (DL/UL)
WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g
WLAN Security: WEP, 802.1X, WPA, WPA2
TCP/IP support
Nokia PC Internet Access (capability to serve as a data modem)
IETF SIP and 3GPP
Local connectivity and synchronization Infrared, maximum speed 115 kbps
Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
- Bluetooth profiles: DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, GOEP, HSP, BIP, RSAP, GAVDP, AVRCP, A2DP
MTP (Multimedia Transfer Protocol) support
Bluetooth (Bluetooth Serial Port Profile. BT SPP)
Infrared
File
Network (Raw). Direct TCP/IP socket connection to any specified port (a.k.a HP JetDirectTM).
Network (LPR). Line Printer Daemon protocol (RFC1179).
Support for local and remote SyncML synchronization, iSync, Intellisync, ActiveSync
Call features Integrated handsfree speakerphone
Automatic answer with headset or car kit
Any key answer
Call waiting, call hold, call divert
Call timer
Logging of dialed, received and missed calls
Automatic redial and fallback
Speed dialing
Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialing (SDND, SIND)
Fixed dialing number support
Vibrating alert (internal)
Side volume keys
Mute key
Contacts with images
Conference calling
Push to talk
VoIP
Messaging SMS
Multiple SMS deletion
Text-to-speech message reader
MMS
Distribution lists for messaging
Instant messaging with Presence-enhanced contacts
Cell broadcast
E-mail Supported protocols: IMAP, POP, SMTP
Support for e-mail attachments
IMAP IDLE support
Support for Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email
Integrated Nokia Mobile VPN
Easy Email set-up
Web browsing Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML, MP, WML, CSS
Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP 2.0
TCP/IP support
Nokia browser
- JavaScript version 1.3 and 1.5
- Mini Map
Nokia Mobile Search
Nokia PC Internet Access (capability to serve as a data modem)
GPS and navigation Integrated A-GPS
Nokia Maps application
Image and sound
Image and sound
Photography 3.2 megapixel camera (2048 x 1536 pixels)
Image formats: JPEG/EXIF
CMOS sensor
digital zoom
Autofocus
Focal length: 3.8 mm
Focus range: 10 cm to infinity
Macro focus: 10-60 cm
LED flash
Flash modes: Automatic, On, Red-eye reduction, Off
Flash operating range: 1 m
White balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent
Centre weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.7 step
Capture modes: still, sequence, self-timer, video
Scene modes: auto, user defined, close-up, portrait, landscape, night, night portrait
Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative
Full-screen viewfinder with grid
Active toolbar
Share photos with Share on Ovi
Video Main camera
320 x 240 (QVGA) up to 15 fps
176 x 144 at 15 fps (QCIF)
digital video zoom
Front camera
- Video recording at up to 128 x 96 pixels (QCIF) and up to 15 fps
- Up to 2x digital video zoom
Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP
Audio recording formats: AMR,AAC
Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent
Scene modes: automatic, night
Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative
Clip length (maximum): 1 h
RealPlayer
Video playback file formats: .Flash Lite 3, mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP,RealVideo,H.264
Video streaming: .3gp, mp4, .rm
Customisable video ring tones
Music and audio playback Music player
Media player
Music playback file formats: .mp3, .wma, .aac, AAC+, eAAC+
Audio streaming formats: .rm, .eAAC+
FM radio 87.5-108 MHz
Visual Radio support. Read more: www.visualradio.com
2.5 mm Nokia AV connector
Nokia Music Manager
Nokia Music Store support
Nokia Podcasting support
Customizable ring tones
Synchronize music with Windows Media Player
NaviTM wheel support
Voice Aid
Voice and audio recording Voice commands
Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling (SDND, SIND)
Voice recorder
Audio recording formats: AMR-WB, AMR-NB
Speech codecs: FR, EFR, HRO/1, AMR-HR, and AMR-FR
Text-to-speech
Personalization: profiles, themes, ring tones Customizable profiles
Customizable ring tones
Customisable video ring tones
Support for talking ring tones
Customizable themes
Customizable home screen content in Business and Personal modes
Software
Software
Software platform and user interface S60 3.1 Edition, Eseries
Symbian Os 9.2
Two home screens with customizable active standby views
Voice commands
FOTA (Firmware update Over The Air)
Personal information management (PIM): contacts, clock, calendar etc. Advanced contacts database: multiple number and e-mail details per contact, contacts with images
Support for assigning images to contacts
Support for contact groups
Closed user group support
Fixed Dialling Number support
Clock: analogue and digital
Alarm clock with ring tones
Reminders
Calculator with advanced functions
Calendar with week and month view
Converter
Active Notes
To-do list
PIM information viewable during call
Applications JavaTM MIDP 2.0
Flash Lite 3.0
Chat and instant messaging
Nokia browser
- JavaScript version 1.3 and 1.5
- Mini Map
Dictionary
Quickoffice (Quickword, Quickpoint, Quicksheet)
PDF Viewer
ZIP Manager
Download!
File Manager
Nokia Search
Nokia Maps
Adding more applications:
- Use the Download! client
- Over-the-air (OTA) downloads
Accessories
Accessories
Sales package contents Nokia E71
Nokia Battery (BP-4L)
Nokia Charger (AC-5)
Nokia Connectivity Cable (CA-101)
Nokia Headset (HS-47)
Nokia Eseries Lanyard
Nokia Eseries Pouch
User Guide, Quick Start Guide and other documentation
2GM microSD depending on market/channel
Recommended accessories Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-602
Nokia Mobile Holder CR-106
Nokia 8 GB microSDHC Card MU-43
Compatible accessories Complete accessories for your Nokia E71
Support and related documents
Support and related documents
Related documents SAR certification information
Eco Declaration (.pdf, 52 KB)
Declaration of Conformity
Product legal notice
Product legal notice
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The new BMW 1 Series.
Unmistakably sporty, with a higher quality feel and greater presence.
New special-edition models, an enhanced premium interior, extended
connectivity features and the latest-generation iDrive operating system: this is
the next generation of the BMW 1 Series. The sportiest representative of the
premium compact class comes with a broad range of efficient engines
encompassing powerful three-, four- and six-cylinder variants. Uniquely in this
class, the BMW 1 Series has rear-wheel drive, with the intelligent xDrive allwheel-
drive system available as an option. The new edition of the
BMW 1 Series will be launched in July 2017 in 3-door and 5-door versions.
The BMW 1 Series: a tour de force in the premium compact class.
The success story of this sporty compact model dates back to late-summer
2004 and the introduction of the original BMW 1 Series. Thanks to its
superior agility and driving dynamics, it rapidly positioned itself as the epitome
of sporting prowess in the compact segment. To date, more than two million
units of the BMW 1 Series have been sold worldwide, of which approximately
960,000 are from the latest model generation. Germany is the most important
international market and this is where one in four BMW 1 Series is sold,
followed by the UK (20 per cent) and China (eight per cent). The
BMW 1 Series is built in Germany at the plants in Regensburg (3-door and 5-
door models) and Leipzig (5-door). There are also assembly plants for the
Asia-Pacific region in Chennai (India) and Rayong (Thailand).
New special-edition models with striking looks.
The BMW 1 Series is unmistakeably sporty: dynamic contours, the distinctive
kidney grille, long bonnet and a sportily stylish rear define its appearance. New
special-edition models – the Edition Sport Line Shadow, Edition M Sport
Shadow and BMW M140i Edition Shadow – see BMW emphasising the
youthfully refreshing, sporty character of the 1 Series. The special editions
stand out from their siblings with a kidney grille frame painted in black, LED
headlights with black inserts and darkened rear lights which likewise feature
LED technology. The BMW 1 Series Edition M Sport Shadow has black
exhaust tailpipes, too. The new exterior colours Seaside Blue and Sunset
Orange also contribute to the new car’s more striking looks.
The Sport Line, Urban Line and M Sport variants of the BMW 1 Series remain
in the line-up alongside the standard model. And now there are also specialedition
models to choose from. The handover from one model to the next
sees five new light-alloy wheels being added to the range in 17- and 18-inch
formats. A total of 16 different wheel designs – in sizes ranging from 16 to
18 inches – provide plenty of scope for personalisation. The new
BMW 1 Series Edition Sport Line Shadow comes with exclusive 17-inch lightalloy
wheels (725) as standard. The Edition M Sport Shadow has 18-inch
wheels in either Jet Black or Bicolour Jet Black (719 M) to complement its
shadow-like character. And an additional 18-inch light-alloy wheel design is
offered for the M140i/M140i xDrive Edition Shadow (436 M in Orbit Grey).
Upgraded interior, redesigned instrument panel.
Moving inside the new BMW 1 Series, an array of details add to the cabin’s
exclusive, high-quality feel. With a clear and stylish design, the instrument
panel has been completely reworked to place an even greater emphasis on
driver focus. The black-panel instrument cluster has likewise been
reconfigured. Contrast stitching gives the various model variants a
sophisticated appearance. The centre stack, which houses the control panels
for the radio and air conditioning system, features a high-gloss black surface.
There is a roll cover for the cupholders in the centre console, giving the new
interior a clean look. And the window buttons in the doors now have chrome
trim. Thanks to virtually imperceptible gaps, the glove compartment blends
seamlessly into the overall ambience. The air vents for the air conditioning
have been revised and also contribute to the generous impression of space
created by the interior of the new BMW 1 Series.
Customers can also specify an optional new seat covering in Cognac Dakota
leather, while the interior trim strips are now available with Pearl Chrome
accents. The Urban Line offers exclusive new combinations of white or black
acrylic glass with chrome detailing. The standard model, Sport Line and
M Sport variants can be ordered with new combinations of Piano Finish Black,
aluminium or Fineline wood trim with chrome. When it comes to the seat
coverings, BMW 1 Series customers can choose from seven cloth variants,
some including leather or Alcantara.
Using iDrive, the touchscreen or voice control to operate various functions.
The new BMW 1 Series is equipped with the latest generation of the iDrive
operating system as standard. Using the iDrive Touch Controller allows the
driver to comfortably access and activate a variety of vehicle, navigation and
entertainment functions with one hand. Thanks to the touchpad integrated
into the Controller, it is easy to enter destinations for the navigation system in
handwriting style. If the optional Navigation system Professional is fitted, the
high-resolution central 8.8-inch display now comes in touchscreen form.
Intelligent voice control is the third way of operating these functions.
Perfectly connected from the word go.
Thanks to the standard built-in SIM card in the BMW 1 Series,
ConnectedDrive provides optimum connectivity and access to BMW services
without having to rely on the customer’s smartphone. These include the
Concierge Services, where personal assistants select destinations such as
restaurants or hotels for the driver while en route, make reservations and then
send the information directly to the vehicle’s navigation system, complete with
all contact details. Online Entertainment gives BMW 1 Series occupants a
choice of millions of music tracks and audio books, while RTTI (Real Time
Traffic Information) finds a smart way around traffic jams. RTTI now also
includes a hazard preview based on fleet information, meaning that in addition
to the real-time traffic situation, the service also notifies drivers of dangerous
situations – such as accidents or heavy rain – detected by other BMW
vehicles. Anonymised sensor data is used for this purpose. Hazard reports
and rain are shown on the map in the vehicle’s display, while a warning and
message appear on the navigation map when approaching the location of the
danger.
Plus, in selected cities in Germany and the USA, the On-Street Parking
Information service uses the Navigation system Professional display to
indicate the probability of finding an available roadside parking space.
The all-encompassing digital concept BMW Connected seamlessly integrates
the BMW 1 Series into the user’s digital life via touchpoints such as an
iPhone, Apple Watch, Android smartphone or smartwatch. BMW Connected
detects mobility-related information, such as the addresses contained in the
appointments calendar, and transmits this automatically to the vehicle. The
user then receives a message on their smartphone notifying them in advance
of the ideal departure time based on real-time traffic information. In addition,
places the user drives to regularly and personal mobility patterns are also
stored automatically. This means that manually entering destination
addresses in the navigation system is set to largely become a thing of the
past. If navigation details such as the destination address and desired arrival
time have already been set outside the vehicle on the user’s smartphone, the
link between phone and car will allow BMW Connected to transfer the
information seamlessly and make it available to the BMW navigation system.
BMW Connected and the Remote Services allow BMW 1 Series drivers to
stay in touch with their car at all times, no matter where they are. They can
control the heating and ventilation, lock and unlock the doors and call up
vehicle-related information, quickly and easily using their smartphone. And if
they happen to forget where they parked their car, they can check its location
on a map via BMW Connected. Alternatively, the vehicle’s horn or headlight
flasher can be activated remotely in order to locate it in a large car park, for
example. With the help of Alexa and Alexa-capable devices, BMW 1 Series
drivers in Germany and the UK can even manage their appointments in the
BMW Connected mobility agenda and operate vehicle functions by voice
control from the comfort of their home.
For the first time, BMW now offers Microsoft Office 365 users a secure server
connection for exchanging and editing emails, calendar entries and contact
details in the BMW 1 Series, thanks to the car’s built-in Microsoft Exchange
function.
The optional in-car WiFi hotspot provides a high-speed mobile internet
connection for up to ten devices. Apple CarPlay is also available for the
BMW 1 Series via a BMW navigation system. Integrating the smartphone into
the vehicle’s system environment allows the phone and selected apps to be
operated using the iDrive Controller, voice commands or the touchscreen
display (if the Navigation system Professional is specified). Compatible
smartphones can also be supplied with power wirelessly by means of an
optional inductive charging tray.
Driver assistance systems: extra help for the driver.
The assistance systems on the options list for the new BMW 1 Series include
Active Cruise Control with Stop & Go function, which enables the vehicle to
move along with the flow of traffic automatically up to near its maximum
speed. The system alerts the driver and applies the brakes if it detects an
obstacle. The Driving Assistant is also available as an option and comprises
the Lane Departure Warning system and City Collision Mitigation, which
applies the brakes automatically at speeds up to 60 km/h (37 mph) in
response to an imminent collision with a car, motorcycle or pedestrian, for
instance. The Parking Assistant, meanwhile, manoeuvres the car into parking
spots that are either parallel or perpendicular to the road. Its ultrasonic sensors
help to search for suitable spaces while travelling at up to 35 km/h (22 mph).
Highly efficient three-, four- and six-cylinder power units.
The new BMW 1 Series comes with a wide choice of petrol and diesel
engines, comprising three-, four- and six-cylinder variants. They all hail from
the state-of-the-art BMW EfficientDynamics engine family and feature
BMW TwinPower Turbo technology. With the exception of the BMW 116i,
116d EfficientDynamics Edition and 118d xDrive, all models can be specified
with the eight-speed Steptronic or eight-speed Steptronic Sport transmission
as an alternative to the six-speed manual gearshift. The M140i xDrive can only
be ordered with the eight-speed Steptronic Sport transmission.
On the petrol side, the line-up ranges from the BMW 116i – whose
turbocharged three-cylinder unit produces 80 kW/109 hp (fuel consumption
combined: 5.4 – 5.0 l/100 km [52.3 – 56.5 mpg imp]; CO2 emissions
combined: 126 – 116 g/km)* – to the BMW M140i M Performance model,
which stirs 250 kW/340 hp from its six-cylinder in-line engine (fuel
consumption combined: 7.8 – 7.1 l/100 km [36.2 – 39.8 mpg imp]; CO2
emissions combined: 179 – 163 g/km)*.
The diesel models likewise draw their power from cutting-edge engine
technology. In addition to a basic concept that is inherently more efficient, all
the three- and four-cylinder units feature new turbocharger technology and
enhanced common-rail direct injection systems. At the lower end of the
power spectrum is the BMW 116d, delivering 85 kW/116 hp and maximum
torque of 270 Newton metres (199 lb-ft). In the process, it burns
4.1 – 3.6 litres of fuel per 100 km (68.9 – 78.5 mpg imp), equating to CO2
emissions of 107 – 96 g/km*. In extra-efficient BMW 116d EfficientDynamics
Edition guise, fuel consumption is a frugal 3.8 – 3.4 l/100 km
(74.3 – 83.1 mpg imp), resulting in CO2 emissions of 101 – 89 g/km*. The
most powerful four-cylinder diesel engine in the line-up can be found in the
new BMW 125d. The multi-stage turbocharging technology, including
variable turbine geometry for the high-pressure turbocharger, results in
remarkably quick response, output of 165 kW/224 hp and peak torque of
450 Newton metres (332 lb-ft). Combined fuel consumption comes in at
4.6 – 4.3 l/100 km [61.4 – 65.7 mpg imp] and combined CO2 emissions are
120 – 114 g/km*.
Intelligent all-wheel drive for optimum power transmission.
The BMW M140i, BMW 118d and BMW 120d can be specified with
BMW xDrive intelligent all-wheel drive as an alternative to classical rear-wheel
drive. Besides the specific benefits of AWD – such as optimum transmission
of power to the road, supreme driving safety and maximum traction in wintry
conditions, for example – BMW xDrive also reduces understeer and oversteer
through corners. The result is sharper handling in situations such as when
turning into bends.
Two new elite athletes from BMW M GmbH: the M140i andM140i xDrive.
The sportiest member of the BMW 1 Series range also boasts a new look. To
mark the new model year, the BMW M140i M Performance model is also
available in M140i Edition Shadow trim. Black inserts are added to the
standard LED headlights and the kidney grille surround is painted black. The
darkened rear light assemblies lend further impact to the car’s sporting aura,
* Fuel consumption figures based on the EU test cycle, may vary depending on the tyre format specified.
as do the standard 18-inch light-alloy wheels, which are now available for the
first time in Style 436 M Orbit Grey and Style 719 M Jet Black or Bicolour Jet
Black, to go with the previously available Ferric Grey (Style 436 M). The
sportiest BMW 1 Series leaves the factory shod with high-performance
mixed-size tyres as standard, with dimensions of 225/40 at the front and
245/35 at the rear.
The BMW M140i is powered by a three-litre straight-six engine complete with
direct injection, M Performance TwinPower Turbo technology with twin-scroll
turbocharging, fully variable valve timing (VALVETRONIC) and Double-
VANOS variable camshaft control. This all combines to give the BMW M140i
an output of 250 kW/340 hp and maximum torque of 500 Newton metres
(369 lb-ft), which can be summoned from as low down as 1,520 rpm and
remains on tap up to 4,500 rpm. This gives the BMW M140i all the right
credentials for delivering extraordinary performance: with the six-speed
manual gearshift, this compact racer sprints from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in
4.8 seconds, while top speed is electronically limited to 250 km/h (155 mph).
When the optional eight-speed Steptronic Sport transmission is specified, the
BMW M140i reaches the 100 km/h (62 mph) mark from rest in an even
quicker 4.6 seconds (fuel consumption combined: 7.1 l/100 km
[39.8 mpg imp]; CO2 emissions combined: 163 g/km)*. Performance is even
more remarkable in the BMW M140i xDrive versions, thanks to the presence
of intelligent all-wheel drive. Equipped with the eight-speed Steptronic Sport
transmission as standard, the M140i xDrive surges from 0 to 100 km/h
(62 mph) in 4.4 seconds, while returning combined fuel consumption of
7.4 l/100 km (38.2 mpg imp) and CO2 emissions of 169 g/km*.
Variable sport steering adds to the impression of exceptional agility at the
wheel of the BMW M140i. It comes with electromechanical power assistance
and adapts the steering angle of the front wheels to the prevailing driving
situation. This allows lightning-fast evasive manoeuvres but also produces a
sensation of excellent directional and straight-line stability in motorway driving.
The M Sport suspension, M Sport braking system and shorter throw for the
six-speed manual gearshift have all been perfectly matched to the might of
the six-cylinder in-line engine, as have high-performance tyres designed to
ensure that acceleration and braking force are transmitted to the road to
optimum effect. The Driving Experience Control switch in the BMW M140i
features the same modes included in all models in the range, such as
Comfort, Sport and ECO PRO, but also adds the ultra-dynamic Sport+ mode.
In this setting, the configuration of the Dynamic Stability Control system
allows the driver to perform controlled drifts.
La variante FA (Fighter Attack), evoluzione dell’M-346FT, rappresenta la risposta più adatta per soddisfare la più ampia gamma di necessità operative dei clienti. Il velivolo è un caccia leggero multi-ruolo dotato del radar multi-modo Grifo M346, prodotto dalla Divisione Sistemi Avionici e Spaziali e appositamente ottimizzato per la variante FA. Il velivolo rappresenta una soluzione tattica altamente efficace e a basso costo per il moderno campo di battaglia e allo stesso tempo mantiene tutte le caratteristiche dell’M-346AJT (Advanced Jet Trainer), assicurando alle forze aeree la massima comunanza, flessibilità operativa e capacità di addestramento avanzato. Sono disponibili 7 punti di attacco esterni per l’impiego di una grande varietà di munizionamento di tipo aria-aria ed aria-suolo (a guida laser/GPS e non guidato) e diversi carichi esterni inclusi pod cannone, per ricognizione o designazione bersagli. E’ possibile integrare un data link tattico, un sistema di autoprotezione estremamente completo, un sistema di presentazione dei dati sul visore del casco (Helmet Mounted Display – HMD), comandi vocali, un sistema di identificazione amico nemico (IFF), un sistema di comunicazioni sicure, un pod per guerra elettronica ed è stato qualificato un kit di riduzione della traccia radar.
Evolving from the proven Advanced Jet Trainer and
dual-role Fighter Trainer variant, the Aermacchi M-346FA
is a highly efficient and reliable radar-equipped multirole
combat aircraft, meeting an increasingly wide range of
customer operational needs.
The M-346FA is equally well suited to air-to-ground
scenarios, performing CAS/COIN and Interdiction with
Precision Guided Munitions, air-to-air (air policing and
airspace control) and tactical reconnaissance.
The M-346FA is a highly effective low-cost, tactical
solution for the modern battlefield.
Key attributes include:
• Carefree handling throughout the flight envelope
ensuring that pilots can focus on mission success
• Twin engined configuration and four channel fly-bywire,
flight control system provide systems redundancy
for exceptional mission reliability and battlefield
survivability
• High fuel capacity and air-to-air refuelling capability for
long range endurance and Time on Station
• High-end, net-centric communications suite
• High rate of climb
• Exceptional speed and manoeuvrability, even at low
altitude and when fully-armed
• A multi-mode radar (Leonardo Airborne and Space
Systems Grifo) specifically optimized for the M-346FA
• A design architecture that allows the integration of
a wide range of external stores and sensors: Tactical
data link, Defensive Aids Sub-System (DASS) including
Radar Warning Receiver (RWR), Missile Approach
Warning System (MAWS), Chaff & Flare Dispenser
(IFF Interrogator, secure comms, ECM pod and
qualified Radar Cross Section reduction kit)
• Helmet Mounted Display (HMD) and Voice
Command (VC)
External store integration includes:
• GBU-12/16 (500/1000 lb) Paveway II LGB
• Lizard 2 LGB (500 lb)
• GBU-38 (500 lb) JDAM
• GBU-32 (1000 lb) JDAM
• GBU-49 (500 lb) Enhanced Paveway II GPS/LGB
• Lizard 4 GPS/LGB (500 lb)
• Small Diameter Bomb (SDB)
• MK.82HD Snakeye (500 lb) general-purpose bomb
• MK.83 (1000 lb) general-purpose bomb
• Rocket Launchers
• Gun pod
• Air-to-Air Missiles (Iris-T and AIM-9L)
• Up to 3 External Fuel tanks (630 lt each)
• Recce pod
• Target Designator Pod
Performance (clean)
Max level speed 590 KTAS
Limit speed 572 KEAS/1.15 MN
Rate of climb 21,000 ft/min
Service ceiling 45,000 ft
Limit Load Factors +8/-3 g
Endurance clean/3 ext. tanks 2 h 40 min/3 h 50 min
Powerplant
Engines,turbofan 2 Honeywell F124-GA-200
Thrust, max, sls, ISA 12,500 lb (2x2850 Kg)
Weights
Take-off (clean) 17,085 lb (7.750 Kg)
Take-off (maximum) 22,930 lb (10.400 Kg)
Diecast, Corgi. The Rhino TRU (Tactical Response Unit) is a heavy-duty attack vehicle, with an ultra-tough full armour. The Rhino is capable of high speed with the help of twin ram air booster jets at the rear. Supplied with ten wheels (two front sets, three rear sets), as well as with variable ride-height suspension, it is equipped with a multi-wheel steering system, which makes this cumbersome-looking vehicle surprisingly easy to manoeuvre, on any kind of normal road as well as giving it good off-road performance. The Rhino is armed to the teeth with an impressive arsenal; two front mounted twin cannons, with explosive tipped rounds, armour piercing missiles, harpoon guns and magnetic clamp guns. There are also extendable battering rams on the front and rear. It is also equipped with evasive action anti-missiles which can be launched from the rear. The Rhino is a sealed armoured vehicle, and access to the cabin is gained from the hatches on the vehicles sides. Retractable seats will face the opening to receive either the driver and/or passenger and then get into position in front of the control panel. The vehicle can be driven from either side, the steering sliding into position to whoever wishes to drive it. Other hatches are situated on top of the vehicle and underneath it. The drivers cabin has a number of control screens, which act as the drivers eyes, as there is no window. Equipped with all manner of computerized equipment needed for Spectrum work, the Rhino also comes with a security device allowing the driver to lock the vehicle capacity by password and voice-command