Robotic Army..

ROBOTIC ARMY are autonomous robots or remote-controlled devices designed for military applications.Such systems are currently being researched by a number of militaries. Already remarkable success has been achieved with unmanned aerial vehicles like the Predator drone, which are capable of taking surveillance photographs, and even accurately launching missiles at ground targets, without a pilot. A subclass of these are Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles, which are designed to carry out strike missions in combat.

Advantages
Major Kenneth Rose of the US Army's Training and Doctrine Command outlined some of the advantages in robotic technology in warfare:"Machines don't get tired. They don't close their eyes. They don't hide under trees when it rains and they don't talk to their buddies ... A human's attention to detail on guard duty drops dramatically in the first 30 minutes ... Machines know no fear."
Increasing attention is also paid to how to make the robots more autonomous, with a view of eventually allowing them to operate on their own for extended periods of time, possibly behind enemy lines. For such functions, systems like the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot are being tried, which is intended to gain its own energy by foraging for plant matter.

Potential risks
In 2009, academics and technical experts attended a conference to discuss the impact of the hypothetical possibility that robots and computers could become self-sufficient and able to make their own decisions. They discussed the possibility and the extent to which computers and robots might be able to acquire any level of autonomy, and to what degree they could use such abilities to possibly pose any threat or hazard. They noted that some robots have acquired various forms of semi-autonomy, including being able to find power sources on their own and being able to independently choose targets to attack with weapons. They also noted that some computer viruses can evade elimination and have achieved "cockroach intelligence." They noted that self-awareness as depicted in science-fiction is probably unlikely, but that there were other potential hazards and pitfalls.

Some experts and academics have questioned the use of robots for military combat, especially when such robots are given some degree of autonomous function.The US Navy has funded a report which indicates that as military robots become more complex, there should be greater attention to implications of their ability to make autonomous decisions.

UMAR BIN ZULKIFLI
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FUTURE HAND PHONE

Introduction

Illustration 1:First generation phone which were bulky

Back to the era of when the cell phone was introduced in 1983 where the first commercial hand phone which was Motorola DynaTAC 8000x.The introduction of this new gadget was extremely exploded in the science and technology fields. It was in big size and bulky so it was not easy to bring them along together.Illustration 1 shows how was the first generation phone and then when the revolution of hand phone started. From the first generation (1G) long time ago up to fourth generation (4G) there are many new communication companies were developed such as Celcom, Maxis, T-Mobile, Softbank and many more. The production of hand phones are getting bigger since there are lots of producers such Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and the size become much more smaller also much more functions and applications. Who knows ten years later the hand phone maybe doesn’t look alike what we have seen today as the innovation are continuous. The future hand phone also may cover many functions from other gadget that can be used in one hand phone only.

    

  

Descriptive of Future Phone:-

Simple-most of this concept phone hold on this main purpose- simple, however, it does not mean this kind of phone is lack in term of function. This concept phone is perfect in all prospects. So, in can be concluded that this kind of phone is simple but perfect. We can observe just from its physical concept, it truly told us that what we had said before is true.

Light-as we can see before, our great-grandfather used that kind of bulky phone. It such wasting way of use because it requires a lot of energy. As a result we might easily exhausted and tire. At the same time, we might be ashamed as we have to hold this big bulky phone all over the street while we get call from somebody. Huh! I can stand this way all my life time! I must create and develop one new light and small phone. That might be the dialog of Motorola-the first developer that introduce the new small and simple phone-Motorola MicroTAX 9800X.

Portable-as we flashback to back era when the phone was first introduced to the public, we can see that there was a huge giant hand phone which size almost like our arm. Whenever we are going some where and we need to bring that ‘giant’ how do you think we are carrying that? Its weird right and we can only bring it in our car not our pocket. Yes from the time being the size of the phone become smaller and more portable. But how do you think in the future? The phone will be more portable as we can say we might not realize we are bringing it together with us. Maybe one day you will get shock when you see the phone just look alike with the lipstick.

Eco friendly- as the time changes the resources used to produce parts of the phone are going to decrease and also will cause pollutions. Most of the unused parts cannot be recycled so this will cause pollution. So the future phone is made from suitable and recycle resources to produce it components.This what is going to be in the future as when the phone are not being used anymore it can be recycled and why it is call eco friendly phone.

TELEPORT MACHINE

Teleporting is one of the most popular invention  science fiction that we are facing these days and Dulyawat Wongnawa has designed the Teleport Fridge concept. This concept fridge can teleport food from one place to another, which eliminates the time and distance a user has to travel to buy fresh groceries from a store or a farm. This Teleport Fridge has used the touchscreen technology to create the interface for the teleportation way which is effective and user friendly. This concept will let you have your supplies right inside your fridge only by placing orders by phone or email to the grocery store.

                         In 1993,research has been made by Charlie Bennet at New York State that he shows how to transmit quantum information from one point to other in space to another without traversing the intervening space.This depends on strange quantum phenomenon called entanglement.The  two particles share same existence.Physics have use exactly this same ideas to teleport photons,atoms and ions.It is insane and out of the mind thats particles can be teleport in out of expectation distance. 
 

http://www.tuvie.com/teleport-fridge-futuristic-fridge-which-teleport-your-food/

Muhamad Muslim bin Samsudin
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FLYING CAR!!! IS IT IMPOSSIBLE?

Have you ever daydreamed about your car taking off and flying over the road?
Have you experienced driving your car in the traffic jam and your time is wasted just like that?


Imagine that you just need to press one button and your car will be flying up to the sky.

It’s so fantastic!

Flying car (aircraft), or roadable aircraft, is an automobile that can legally travel on roads and can take off, fly, and land as an aircraft.


HISTORY OF FLYING CAR
Flying Car has been made before in the early year 1965 by expert engineer.
In that time, flying car didn't get any intention by the government and consumer because the cost of flying car is not affordable.
The engineer also faces a lot of difficulties to make the flying car. 


Fact : (Paul Moller has spent 40 years and millions of dollars developing his Skycar. He is now very close to developing the first mass-marketed flying car. In 1965, he demonstrated his first attempt, the XM-2, which hovered off the ground but didn't go anywhere. In 1989, Moller unveiled the M200X, which has now flown 200 flights and can go as high as 50 feet (15.24 meters)).

Attempt of some engineer:


•Curtiss Autoplane - In 1917, Glenn Curtiss, who could be called the father of the flying car, unveiled the first attempt at such a vehicle. His aluminum Autoplane sported three wings that spanned 40 feet (12.2 meters). The car's motor drove a four-bladed propeller at the rear of the car. The Autoplane never truly flew, but it did manage a few short hops. 

•ConvAirCar - In the 1940s, Consolidated-Vultee developed a two-door sedan equipped with a detachable airplane unit. The ConvAirCar debuted in 1947, and offered one hour of flight and a gas mileage of 45 miles (72 kilometers) per gallon. Plans to market the car ended when it crashed on its third flight.


•Avrocar - The first flying car designed for military use was the Avrocar, developed in a joint effort between Canadian and British military. The flying-saucer-like vehicle was supposed to be a lightweight air carrier that would move troops to the battlefield.

Moller's latest design, the Skycar M400, is designed to take off and land vertically, like a Harrier Jet, in small spaces. It can reach speeds of 400 mph (644 kph), but will cruise at around 350 mph (563 kph), and it has a range of 900 miles (1449 km). Gasoline, diesel, alcohol, kerosene and propane can be used to fuel the Skycar, and its fuel mileage will be comparable to that of a medium-sized car, getting 20 miles (32.2 km) to the gallon. The initial cost of a Skycar will be about $1 million, but once it begins to be mass produced that price could come down to as low as $60,000.

The four-seat Skycar is powered by eight rotary engines that are housed inside four metal housings, called nacelles, on the side of the vehicle. There are two engines in each nacelle so that if one of the engines in one of the nacelle fails, the other engine can sustain flight. The engines lift the craft with 720 horsepower, and then thrust the craft forward. The Wankel engine replaces pistons of a conventional engine with a single triangular rotor spinning inside an oval-shaped chamber, which creates compression and expansion as the rotor turns. There are three combustion chambers in the Wankel, with a crankshaft between them.

So, it is not impossible to have flying car in the road and sky in the next ten years.
Get ready to have one!


Referrences:

• (http://inventors.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=inventors&cdn=money&tm=169&gps=342_174_1276_551&f=00&tt=3&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//travel.howstuffworks.com/flying-car.htm)
• http://www.technewsdaily.com/-darpas-flying-car-could-transform-warfare-0458/

WAN MUHAMMAD AFIFUDDIN BIN WAN AKASHAH
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Invisibility Cloak : Is it possible?

Can you imagine, you have the ability to be invisible, what should you do?  Long, long ago, people always said it is ridiculous to be ‘unseen’, and they always said it just a myth or fairy tales. Anyone who are watching Harry Potter will also realized that the cloak that Harry’s used can be invisible, so, they cannot be detected by the other people, in one scene in that movie. (If I’m not mistaken, you can watch it in Harry Potter, The Sorcerer Stone.)

Is it possible to be invisible? (Please read it ‘invisible’ not ‘invincible’ because both words have different meaning.) I will show you some facts and innovation that are having done and still keep in progressing, to develop this type of technology. I guess it is right to begin with a little bit introductions about this technology.

There are a research from Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, demonstrated the first working ‘invisibility cloak’ by using metamaterials.¹

 Before we proceed, what is actually ‘metamaterials’?

Rodger M. Walser of the University of Texas has defined the ‘metamaterials’ as “macroscopic composites having a manmade, three-dimensional, periodic cellular architecture designed to produce an optimized combination, not available in nature, of two or more responses to specific excitation”.²

For this time being, ‘invisibility cloak’ is not completely done yet. It is admitted by the scientists at Duke University, as the metamaterials could render an object invisible by absorbing all the light, unfortunately, it is only effective in two dimensions and at microwave frequencies.³

 In another word, we could say that it is a ‘baby-step’, and the researches must be vigorously continuous to make it becomes reality in the future.

It shows us, this technology is still new and need a lot of effort for the innovation among the scientist. However, I am positively believe, this technology will be augmented used after decades of research.

In the future, you can be a magician; disappearing yourself only by having an invisible cloak. Do you really want to do it? 

References:

1)  www.futureforall.org/physics/invisibility_cloak.htm

2)  www.azonano.com/details.asp?ArticleID=1968

3) Michio Kaku, Small Scale Invisibility Cloaks,  bigthink.com/ideas/19268

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