According to Panasonic, the new Toughbook C1 is the lightest convertible Tablet PC in the world with a WXGA (1280 x 800 pixels) with touch technology of 12 inches and weighing only 1.48 kilograms when use a regular battery. The C1 only approximates the weight of their rivals when use a dual battery. The new Toughbook C1 includes a dual-hinge design that makes the opening moves and separate hinge rotation and reduces the risk of rupture of the same with regular use. (more…)

The eye makeup that she took her mesmerizing looks and the legendary beauty of Queen Nefertiti, and other celebrities of the ancient Egyptian royalty was more than that.
Christian Amatore of the department of chemistry at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and his colleagues have revealed that the attractive eye makeup could also be used to help prevent or treat eye diseases to also act as an agent against infections.
Thousands of years ago, ancient Egyptians used lead-based substances such as cosmetics, including an ingredient for eye makeup. Some Egyptians believed that makeup also played a “magic” by which the ancient gods Horus and Ra protect against several diseases to the wearer. However, modern scientists had largely discarded, until now, the possibility that the makeup had medicinal effects, since the lead-based substances can be quite toxic. (more…)

The cell has a recycling program to collect and dispose of unneeded components inside. By way of autophagy, kidnaps and digested organelles aged, damaged proteins and other components that fall apart and recycle without endangering its life. Researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) led by Antonio Zorzano, head of the Medicine program Molecular and professor at the UB, have identified a new gene that promotes cell autophagy. The article has been published in EMBO Reports that stands in the “Hot off the press.” (more…)

A Duke University engineers have created a new generation of lenses that could greatly improve the capabilities of telecommunications and radar systems, providing a wide field of view and a level of detail than that possible today.

But they designed the lens does not look like a lens as usual lens. While traditional lenses are made of transparent substances such as glass or plastic, and have highly polished surfaces, the new lens is more like a shutter in miniature. Despite this, their ability to control the direction of electromagnetic rays that pass through it dramatically exceeds that of a conventional lens. (more…)