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Futuristic Babypods!

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I can only hope that we don’t destroy the earth to an extent that would render air unbreathable, but it seems like it’s an approaching reality. The Air Baby-car is a conceptual baby pram that creates a protective pod around the baby, while allowing the left and right wheels to be inlets and outlets for air respectively. The Air Baby-carriage houses an air purifying unit that gets working on the air that enters through the inlet, so the air your baby breathes is free of contaminants… something that is essential for little children, given how low their immunity is at that age. Not only does the air entering teh pram get purified, the air exiting the outlet is purified too, so that the parent in turn breathes uncontaminated air! Who thought one pram could play such a large role in a family’s well-being?!

Designers: Huang-yiqi, Liu-yiqi, Zheng-yonghao, Zhao-bingcong and Zhou-junbin.

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Baby’s safe day out

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The Strollever may look like a baby stroller from Tron or Oblivion, but it’s just a humble little tot carriage designed to keep your earthling safe and sound.

The highlight of the Strollever is its gyroscope suspension system. No matter what terrain you travel on, your baby always remains safe and upright. Coupled with features like UV resistant glass, headlamps, storage, and hub-less wheels, this pram is like a Bentley for your little one!

Designer: Kim Hyeonseok

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Micron first to market with phase-change memory modules for portable devices (video)

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Look out silicon and magnetic storage, here comes glass. Micron has announced production of the first commercial cellphone phase-change memory (PCM) modules, a type of flash RAM that works by changing a crystal solid to an amorphous state. The 1Gb chips will share a circuit board with 512Mb of standard volatile memory, just enough to go in feature phones for now -- but the company claims it will eventually offer larger modules for smartphone and tablet storage as well. PCM could scale to much faster speeds than conventional NAND flash, since it doesn't require a time-sapping erase before rewriting -- and with read speeds of 400MB/s, it's already into regular flash territory while still just a first generation product. Once the tech gets even quicker, PCM could even replace volatile RAM, allowing more secure storage in case of a power loss and reducing device costs and power usage. That means the glassy new kid could eventually bump silicon-based storage altogether -- ending its 40-year plus reign as king of the memory substrates. To see some of the ways it trumps NAND, check the video after the break.

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Phase change memory breakthrough could lead to gigahertz-plus data transfers, make SSDs seem pokey

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Often considered the eventual successor to flash, phase change memory has had a tough time getting to the point where it would truly take over; when it takes longer to write data than conventional RAM, there's clearly a roadblock. The University of Cambridge has the potential cure through a constant-power trick that primes the needed hybrid of germanium, antimony and tellurium so that it crystalizes much faster, committing data to memory at an equally speedy rate. Sending a steady, weak electric field through the substance lets a write operation go through in just 500 picoseconds; that's 10 times faster than an earlier development without the antimony or continuous power. Researchers think it could lead to permanent storage that runs at refresh rates of a gigahertz or more. In other words, the kinds of responsiveness that would make solid-state drives break out in a sweat. Any practical use is still some distance off, although avid phase change memory producers like Micron are no doubt champing at the bit for any upgrade they can get.

Phase change memory breakthrough could lead to gigahertz-plus data transfers, make SSDs seem pokey originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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