Acquisition enables product spin-off for mooring technology group
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- Antenna rising for HDTV on PC
Acquisition enables product spin-off for mooring technology group
Creamer Media's Engineering News – Jun 6, 2008
Meanwhile Trelleborg Harbour Marine has developed a docking-aid system (DAS) to assist in manoeuvring the vessel towards the jetty during the last 200 m of approach reports the company. SmartDock measures vessel distance and angle and speed of approach using lasers mounted on the jetty. The data is displayed and logged in the marine monitoring personal computer (PC) in the control room and typically is also made available to the pilot on a jetty-mounted large display board and over telemetry to a hand-held monitor. While experience is essential to effective mooring management it cannot be completely relied upon at all times and may be limited particularly at greenfield marine facilities reports the company. As vessel size increases berthing dynamics will also change and a DAS provides the data necessary to enable personnel to clearly follow agreed procedures such as keeping vessel docking speed below the agreed site limit. A typical DAS consists of two laser sensors a controller a central PC with software and remote-display devices such as a display board for each berth. As with all the jetty monitoring systems multiple berths can be interfaced to a single control point for integrated operator display logging and reporting.
Acer Sees Linux as Key to Low-cost Laptops
PC World – Jun 6, 2008
Several of the new low-cost laptops announced recently come either with. Acer for example developed One Page a homepage for the laptop that pops up before the OS loads so people can start navigating through their computer more quickly.
Antenna rising for HDTV on PC
Seattle Times – Jun 7, 2008
So you’re sitting around totally bored with the same old PC bored with word processing bored with spreadsheets bored with Web browsing bored with music bored with news bored with grainy YouTube videos. Then you realize it’s Sunday night and it strikes you: What you really want to do is watch “Desperate Housewives. ” On your computer. Well for a hundred bucks you can satisfy that high-definition craving with the Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick… Well for a hundred bucks you can satisfy that high-definition craving with the Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick. Plug this nifty little gadget into a USB port on your computer hook up an antenna or cable feed to the other end and you’re in business — HDTV in a window on your desktop or full-screen if you prefer. The software bundle includes a digital video recorder (DVR) so you can record your favorite shows while you’re not there. There’s even a tiny remote control so you can watch without getting out of your chair. The Pro Stick also has an intriguing feature I was only vaguely aware of. It’s a circuit called a QAM tuner which brings in unscrambled digital broadcasts including some in high-definition directly from a cable company feed — without a cable box high-def or otherwise.
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