Techonlogy News 2012 Update: Foxconn To Employ 1 Million Robots

Everyone’s preferred Taiwanese consumer electronics manufacturer Foxconn has announced that it will raise its robotic workforce to 1 million in the next three years.

Foxconn, which is world’s largest maker of computer components, assembles products for Apple, Sony and Nokia. It currently employs over 1.2 million people but only 10,000 robots. However, by 2014, Foxconn plans to increase that number to 1 million. The company’s founder Terry Gou broke the news during a “company dance party” this Friday, saying that the new bots would help reduce rising labor costs and increase efficiency.

Apart from its affiliation with Apple, Foxconn has regularly made headlines over its treatment of employees, and a string of suicides amongst its workers. The company also notably operates a company-owned community, drawing unavoidable comparisons to American coal towns. Whether these new robots will help improve company’s working conditions or image remains to be seen. What also remains to be seen is whether such an enormous addition to Foxconn’s robotic workforce will lead to human layoffs, or simply larger production capacity.

The Simpy Amazing Shape-Shifting Battery Which Fits Every Size!

Rechargeable batteries are a solution for keeping batteries out of the landfill, but you still have to have the right size for your device, which means buying more batteries. What if you could buy just a small handful of batteries that fit all of your devices? That’s the solution presented by The A to D Battery, a single nickel hydroxide battery core wrapped in memory foam that you can simply squish right into that remote control.

The battery is a AA size core with a memory foam wrap that expands to fit larger slots, up to size D.

Gadjitz writes, “Given the small capacity of the battery, it’s hard to imagine that it would provide much life for any gizmo. But when you really need something to work right now, being able to grab a one-size-fits-all battery would be the very definition of convenience.”

We fully agree – some devices call for D batteries because it needs that much juice to run. Plus, we aren’t sure how your devices would react to having memory foam jammed into them. Heat is one issue, and foam that wants to expand (and therefore bust out of the battery slot) is another. Perhaps a solution is a memory foam wrap that can be removed when using smaller sizes, and added on when needing the core to fit into larger battery slots. But the concept itself is appealing.

Designing more sustainable batteries is not an easy task, and most designers bomb on the idea. However, there are a few designs that have stood out as having potential, like batteries wrapped in a solar cell for recharging, or batteries you could shake to recharge. It’s a tough job, but we’re glad designers are taking a crack at dreaming up solutions that can help us cut down on grid energy consumption as well as materials consumption. And, waxing optimistic, if designers keep up the innovation, perhaps we won’t need batteries at all one day.

But untill we see this battery into life, here is a small hack to make a battery adapter

 

 

Do you value your life more or your photography? Ask Vadim!

Vadim Mohorov, a Russian photographer, risks his life аnd limb tо tаkе absolutely thrilling phоtоs оf sреctаculаr sсеnеrу.

 

Do you know about the new Apple iPhone 5 Concept?

Rumours for the new Apple iPhone 5 is getting the top talk of the town. We know its very early for Apple to release another phone since its not much time when the iPhone 4s was launched. Its always been a cracker strategy by Apple that they release their product quite after a time but whatever they release, becomes a sellout in stores since Apple has been producing very fine and superb finished products for their customers and what so ever it is, if you are having an Apple product you are having a world in your hand.

Talking about the the new rumoured iPhone 5, we came to know that Apple has been working eagerly on their new phone after the launch of 3rd generation iPad. Starting from the design all up to now we have heard from various sources that the new phone will be having a boat like curve shape giving it edge display advantage as well. Moreover its rumoured that the new iPhone 5 will be sim less. Now this is something new and strange, as the rumoured iPhone 5 will not be having any port for sim so all the data will have to get downloaded from the carrier to mobile first. The screen size will be in a great focus for the developers as the more big it is, the more appealing it is. Other features would be Siri, 4G LTE technology, Enhanced Retina Display and removing of the physical button on the body. The phone as a whole would have screen divided in three parts, the upper part would be for the display of data connectivity and the lower would be for controlling multi tasking apps. So thats all by now lets see how they people bring out the new iphone.