Gadgets Launched In India Last Week

Adata's DashDrive Durable HD710: Adata Technology has introduced the DashDrive Durable HD710 %u2013 a portable rugged hard drive in India. Engineered with USB 3.0 interface, the device comes in three colours - yellow, black and blue. It comes in three variants - 500GB, 750GB and 1TB.

  Asus's Eee Pad Transformer Prime: Asus has finally launched its much-awaited Eee Pad Transformer Prime in India. The tablet is touted to be the world's first quad-core CPU tablet. Running Android 3.2 Honeycomb (with a free upgrade to Android 4.0), the device has a unique design. It can be transformed to notebook mode with a full QWERTY chiclet keyboard dock. Powered by a NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core CPU, the tablet sports a 1.2 megapixel front camera and an 8 megapixel rear camera and has 1 GB RAM. It also includes a micro HDMI port and a micro SD card slot. At 8.3mm, it is thinner than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Apple iPad 2. The company has only launched the 64GB model.

Price: Rs 49,999

Canon's PIXMA E500 printer: Keeping cost in mind, Canon announced the launch of their new affordable multi-function PIXMA E500 printer in India that uses affordable ink as well. The printer is suitable for home and small office users who have large printing volume and desire a printer with low running cost per page with high quality printing.

Price: Rs 5,999 

Nokia's Asha 303: Expanding its Asha portfolio, Nokia has announced the launch of its first touch and type QWERTY device with Nokia Music Unlimited on the Series 40 platform, the Nokia Asha 303. The device runs on a powerful 1GHz processor and has 3G capabilities to deliver faster Internet and social networking experience. The device features a 2.6-inch capacitive touchscreen with a 320 x 240 pixel resolution. The Asha 303 comes pre-loaded with Angry Birds and Whatsapp. One can watch Live TV on the pre-installed Zenga TV app. The company has not revealed its pricing yet, but it's coming soon to a store near you. 

The ATab tablet: AcrossWorld Education in association with Delhi-based Go Tech has announced to launch a tablet called the ATab at Rs 5,000. Expected to be available in India from the second week of March 2012, the 7-inch ATab is targeted towards the education sector. The ATab uses Google's Android OS and is powered by a 1.1 GHz processor. It comes with 512MB of RAM and 2GB of inbuilt memory, expandable up to 16GB. AcrossWorld says that the WiFi tablet will also come with an external 3G USB dongle, but does not mention whether the price of the dongle is included in the Rs 5,000. The tablet will be available in five colour options.

Price: Rs 5,000 


Fujitu's Notebooks: Fujitu India has launched four new notebooks in India - the Fujitsu Lifebook LH531, the Fujitsu Lifebook SH531, the Lifebook AH531 and the Fujitsu Lifebook A531 . Targeting primarily SMBs, all notebooks are powered by Intel core processors. The Fujitsu Lifebook LH531 is the cheapest of all.

Price: Rs 25,000 onwards 

Intex's Sense mobile phone: Intex Technologies have launched the Sense %u2013 a touchscreen phone with a 3.2-inch display. It comes with the Intex Application Store, the WStore, and is preloaded with 41 International and popular games. It has an inbuilt memory of 79 MB and comes with a 4GB microSD card. It sports a megapixel camera and a 1.3 megapixel front camera.

Price: Rs 3,690 

Epson's PictureMate PM245 printer: Epson has launched the new PictureMate PM245, which is a completely portable 4 x 6 compact photo printer. The printer promises cost effective performance, alongside superior print quality. It delivers 4-inch x 6-inch photos and allows users to offer customisable special prints for their ID or passport photos as well with just the click of a button.

Price: Rs 10,999 

The Genius HS 300N Rear Band headset: Now a Rear Band headset has been launched under the Genius label. Dubbed HS 300N Rear Band headset, it can be worn as a head band and is ideal for chatting or listening to music, says the company. It comes with a foldable design and is highly portable, as it would easily slip into one's bag. The in-line volume control makes it convenient to control the volume.

Price: Rs 575 

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Sony Introduce New Tablet PC Xperia Tablet.




Sony Xperia Tablet Specification

• WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
• Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
• Infrared port Yes
• USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
• OS Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
• Chipset Nvidia Tegra 3
• CPU Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A9
• GPU ULP GeForce
• Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, compass
• Messaging Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
• Browser HTML, Adobe Flash
• Radio No
• GPS Yes
• Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
• Colors Black
• 16/32/64 GB storage, 1GB RAM
• Camera 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus

10 Awesome Hybrid Animals Must watch

Check out these 10 awesome hybrid animals! Some are naturally occuring, while others have been bred. Includes wonders like the Zebroid, Liger, Beefalo, Leopon among others!

Zebroid = Zebra + Equine





A zebroid (also zebra mule and zebrule) is the offspring of any cross between a zebra and any other equine: essentially, a zebra hybrid. In most cases, the sire is a zebra stallion. Offspring of a donkey sire and zebra mare, called a zebra hinny, do exist but are rare. Zebroids have been bred since the 19th century.The zebroid showed in the picture above, Eclyse, is a very unusual one, because of her coloring. With her über distinct makings, it's really hard not think she's a Photoshop mock-up.
  

Liger = Lion + Tiger

The liger is a hybrid cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a female Panthera tigris (Tiger) and is denoted scientifically as Panthera tigris × Panthera leo. A liger resembles a giant lion with diffused stripes. They are the largest cats in the world, although the Siberian Tiger is the largest pure sub-species. Like tigers, but unlike lions, ligers enjoy swimming. A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion is called a tigon

Beefalo = Buffalo + Cow

What do you get when you cross a cow with a buffalo? The Beefalo!

Beefalo are a fertile hybrid offspring of domestic cattle, Bos taurus, and the American bison, Bison bison (generally called buffalo in the US). The breed was created to combine the characteristics of both animals with a view towards beef production.

Cama = Camel + Llama

This hybrid animal, the product of breeding a llama and a camel, has been the only creature of this kind since her birth in 1995. Camas are humpless and have the long fluffy coat of a llama. Their ears are half way in length between camels and llamas, but they have the strong, desert-ready legs of a camel.

Leopon = Leopard + Lion

The Leopon is the result of breeding a male leopard with a female lion. The head of the animal is similar to that of a lion while the rest of the body carries similarities to leopards. The first documented leopon was bred at Kolhapur, India in 1910.

Savannah = Serval + Domestic Cat

The Savannah Cat is created by breeding an African Wild Cat, called a Serval and a domestic cat, usually an exotic looking domestic cat such as a Bengal, Oriental Shorthair, Egyptian Mau, or a Serengeti's. The offspring created by this combination are large domestic.

Grizzly Polar = Polar Bear + Brown Bear





Also known as Grolar Bear, this bear hybrid is a rare ursid hybrid that has occurred both in captivity and in the wild. In 2006, the occurrence of this hybrid in nature was confirmed by testing the DNA of a strange-looking bear that had been shot on Banks Island in the Canadian arctic.

A number of polar bear hybrids are described as Ursid hybrids, a term that designates any hybrid of two species within the Ursidae family. Polar bear hybrids with Grizzly bears have been reported and shot, but DNA techniques were not available to verify the bears' ancestry.

 

Toast of Botswana = Sheep + Goat



An unusual case of a sheep-goat hybrid was reported by veterinarians in Botswana in 2000, called the "Toast of Botswana". The animal was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep that were kept together.

The hybrid was intermediate between the two parent species in type. It had a coarse outer coat, a woolly inner coat, long goat-like legs and a heavy sheep-like body. Although infertile, the hybrid had a very active libido, mounting both ewes and does when they were not in heat. This earned the hybrid the name Bemya or rapist. He was castrated when he was 10 months old because he was becoming a nuisance.

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Kochia Hill - Hitachi Seaside Park Japan

Autumn landscape at Kochia Hill, part of Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka city, in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. These fluffy hill creates a peculiar yet attractive view in autumn when the branches and stems turn bright red.



Here, visitors are welcome to walk among the bushes and climb to the top of the hill to get a nice view down the red hill and across the large park. Although the most famous is its autumn foliage, the hill shows a different charm when the shrubs are still green, before turning ablaze.



Kochia Hill Japan

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The Largest Swamp in the World

The Sudd is a vast expanse of swampy lowland region in central South Sudan, formed by the river White Nile. The area which the swamp covers is one of the world's largest wetlands in the Nile basin. Its size is highly variable, averaging over 30,000 square kilometers, but during the rainy season depending on the inflowing waters, the Sudd can extend to over 130,000 square km or an area the size of England. 08 more images after the break...

The Sudd is drained by headstreams of the White Nile, namely the Al-Jabal (Mountain Nile) River in the centre and the Al-Ghazal River in the west. In the Sudd, the river flows through multiple tangled channels in a pattern that changes each year. Papyrus, aquatic grass, and water hyacinth grows in dense thickets in the shallow water, which is frequented by crocodiles and hippopotami. Sometimes the matted vegetation breaks free of its moorings, building up into floating islands of vegetation up to 30 km in length. Such islands, in varying stages of decomposition, eventually break up.

The Sudd is considered to be nearly impassable either overland or by watercraft. Thick with reeds, grasses, water hyacinth, and other water loving plants, the Sudd can form massive blocks of vegetation that can shift position and block navigable channels creating an ever-changing network of water. Sometimes there is no channel a boat can travel on that will lead through the bog. For centuries this region has prevented explorers from travelling along the Nile and is only sparsely inhabited by the pastoral Nilotic Nuer people. 

Village in the swamps of the White Nile near Bor, Jonglei, South Sudan

In the late 1970s construction began on the Jonglei (Junqali) Canal, which was planned to bypass the Sudd and provide a straight, well-defined channel for the Al-Jabal River to flow northward until its junction with the White Nile. But the project, which would have drained the swamplands of the Sudd for agricultural use, was held up for several years because of disruptions arising from the civil war in South Sudan. By 1984 when the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) brought the works to a halt, 240km of the canal of a total of 360km had been excavated.

One of the reasons for proposing the canal project was to improve water supply in Egypt. Almost half the water of the White Nile is lost in the swamps as vegetation absorbs it or animals drink it. The canal's benefits would be shared by Egypt and Sudan, with the expected damage falling on South Sudan. The complex environmental and social issues involved, including the collapse of fisheries, drying of grazing lands, a drop of groundwater levels and a reduction of rainfall in the region, may however limit the scope of the project in practical terms. The draining of the Sudd is also likely to trigger massive environmental effects comparable to drying of Lake Chad or the draining of the Aral Sea.

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