Boston Mercedes dealership supports a trip around the world

Posted by admin | Posted on 15-02-2011

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Boston Mercedes dealership supports a trip around the world

In an effort to promote and prove the abilities of its B-Class electric fuel-cell vehicle, Mercedes-Benz has announced they will put the vehicle to the ultimate test: a trip around the world.  The journey was recently announced at the Detroit Auto Show and is set to commence January 30th.  Needles to say, from every Boston Mercedes dealership to those in LA, the entire Mercedes-Benz community, as well as supporters of a greener environment are excited to see what this new technology could offer the automobile industry.

The journey is scheduled to be 125 days long and the route will pass through 14 countries, including the southern part of the United States.  Additionally in America, the B-Class F-Cell vehicle will run from LA, up the coast of California and into Vancouver.  An exact route and the corresponding dates have yet to be released by Mercedes-Benz.

A tank vehicle will follow the B-Class vehicle since Hydrogen filling stations are not abundant throughout the world.  Hydrogen is what the vehicle runs on and the journey is, in part, an effort to increase awareness of the need for this kind of infrastructure around the world, if vehicles like the B-Class F-Cell are going to make it in the public market.  In all, Mercedes-Benz said the point of the adventure is to demonstrate the “technical maturity of the B-Class F-Cell, as well as to underscore the need for a global hydrogen filling station network.”

The B-Class F-Cell that your local Boston Mercedes dealership hopes to have on its lot in the near future uses only hydrogen and oxygen to go.  A group of fuel cells, called a fuel stack, generates electricity to propel the car.  Hydrogen enters this fuel stack on one side and oxygen enters on the other.  The fuel cells then cause the electron and the proton of the hydrogen cell to separate and electricity is created as a result.  The only by product leftover is water.  Thus, this means the B-Class F-Cell is 100% an emissions free vehicle.  Furthermore, if the hydrogen is produced in an environmentally friendly process such as through a wind-powered turbine, the entire process can be emissions free.  Most importantly, the entire process is sustainable.

Mercedes-Benz has been testing this technology for nearly four years now with vehicles leased by individuals to use as personally needed, as well as through a University Police Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.  Mercedes-Benz chose Detroit, Michigan specifically because of the cold climate.  Critics are skeptical of many alternative fuel vehicles’ ability to perform in extremely cold climates.

The Wayne State University Police Department had no complaints.  In fact, they were so happy with their experience with the B-Class F-Cell vehicles that they wrote to Mercedes-Benz asking to be considered for future test vehicles.  Mercedes-Benz plans for the B-Class F-Cell vehicle to become mainstream in the market exist in the next few years.

In the mean time, for residents of Boston, Mercedes’ ML Class may be a good alternative.  The small SUVs travel well in the snow and are a great size: not too big and not too small for the streets of Boston.  Mercedes ML Class SUVs start at just over ,000.

Check www.mbusa.com for updates about the B-Class Fuel-Cell vehicle’s trip around the world.

Russell Levron is a freelance writer and auto buff aiding a local Boston Mercedes dealership. Personally, he feels his M Class SUV is perfect for the roads of Boston. Mercedes ML-Class vehicles are reliable, of high quality and perform well.


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Digital Signage: Wrap Your Head Around This – Flexible Displays!

Posted by admin | Posted on 03-11-2010

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Digital Signage: Wrap Your Head Around This – Flexible Displays!

Research firm iSuppli boldly proclaimed last month that 2008 will be known as the year flexible active matrix displays coalesced into a global market.

According to the El Segundo, CA, -based market research group, market for flexible displays worldwide will climb from million last year to .8 billion by 2013 –a whopping 35-times increase.

Applications for the flexible displays will range from the way-out-there clothes made out of wearable displays to more conventional display applications like digital signs, electronic display cards and digital shelf labels and end caps.

If you’re not familiar with flexible active matrix technology, here’s what they are in a nutshell. After much research and development, electronics giant Philips developed a technique for producing super-thin, rollable active matrix (i.e. pixel addressable) display that can be wrapped around objects –-for example, a pillar in an airport concourse or a human body in a shirt.

Just this month, a paper in a nanotechnology journal laid out work of researchers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, Northwestern University in Chicago and the University of Southern California who had successfully developed the first nanowire transistor-based active matrix display. The organic light emitting diode (OLED) display reportedly is every bit as bright as a flat LCD screen or CRT but has the added benefit of flexibility.

Think for a moment of the countless new applications there will be for digital signage based on this sort of flexible display. Architectural structures, such as pillars, supports and hand rails and even entire buildings; vehicles, such as tractor trailers and automobiles; personal items, such as apparel and umbrellas, all become potential homes for new flexible digital signage. While some surely will fail as appropriate homes form digital signage along the way, these sorts of applications are sure to contribute to the 35-fold growth iSuppli envisions.

As this technology matures so to will its performance characteristics. Tighter curves and smaller bends surely will follow with successive generations of these flexible displays. That in turn will lead to a whole new class of objects upon which the displays can be mounted. Eventually, it might even be possible to wrap a flexible active matrix display around a sphere to transform a ball into a globe displaying a computer graphic representation of the Earth –complete with landmasses and oceans. Or, 21st century equivalents of sandwich-board men, could don head-to-toe body wear to display unique promotions and ads. Imagine how that approach could be used to advertise the popular, traveling museum exhibit of plasticized human bodies.

As these applications unfold, there will be a need to address the problem of mapping a two-dimensional image onto a 3-D surface. Here too technology can conquer the challenge. Software applications, such as X-WARP, exist today to correct for such geometric distortions. In fact, such software is being used today to correct geometric distortions created by projecting an image with a video projector onto oddly shaped objects.

However, for the time being it’s enough to know that 2008 will be the year flexible active-matrix displays make it out of the lab and into the mainstream. If iSuppli is right, it’s entirely possible that before the end of this year we all will have wrapped our heads around the notion that video, graphics and text no longer must be confined to a flat display technology. Where that leads will only be limited by our imaginations.

Digital Signage: Wrap Your Head Around This -Flexible Displays!

Posted by admin | Posted on 02-11-2010

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Digital Signage: Wrap Your Head Around This -Flexible Displays!

Research firm iSuppli boldly proclaimed last month that 2008 will be known as the year flexible active matrix displays coalesced into a global market.


According to the El Segundo, CA, -based market research group, market for flexible displays worldwide will climb from million last year to .8 billion by 2013 -a whopping 35-times increase.


Applications for the flexible displays will range from the way-out-there clothes made out of wearable displays to more conventional display applications like digital signs, electronic display cards and digital shelf labels and end caps.


If you’re not familiar with flexible active matrix technology, here’s what they are in a nutshell. After much research and development, electronics giant Philips developed a technique for producing super-thin, rollable active matrix (i.e. pixel addressable) display that can be wrapped around objects –for example, a pillar in an airport concourse or a human body in a shirt.


Just this month, a paper in a nanotechnology journal laid out work of researchers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, Northwestern University in Chicago and the University of Southern California who had successfully developed the first nanowire transistor-based active matrix display. The organic light emitting diode (OLED) display reportedly is every bit as bright as a flat LCD screen or CRT but has the added benefit of flexibility.


Think for a moment of the countless new applications there will be for digital signage based on this sort of flexible display. Architectural structures, such as pillars, supports and hand rails and even entire buildings; vehicles, such as tractor trailers and automobiles; personal items, such as apparel and umbrellas, all become potential homes for new flexible digital signage. While some surely will fail as appropriate homes form digital signage along the way, these sorts of applications are sure to contribute to the 35-fold growth iSuppli envisions.


As this technology matures so to will its performance characteristics. Tighter curves and smaller bends surely will follow with successive generations of these flexible displays. That in turn will lead to a whole new class of objects upon which the displays can be mounted. Eventually, it might even be possible to wrap a flexible active matrix display around a sphere to transform a ball into a globe displaying a computer graphic representation of the Earth -complete with landmasses and oceans. Or, 21st century equivalents of sandwich-board men, could don head-to-toe body wear to display unique promotions and ads. Imagine how that approach could be used to advertise the popular, traveling museum exhibit of plasticized human bodies.


As these applications unfold, there will be a need to address the problem of mapping a two-dimensional image onto a 3-D surface. Here too technology can conquer the challenge. Software applications, such as X-WARP, exist today to correct for such geometric distortions. In fact, such software is being used today to correct geometric distortions created by projecting an image with a video projector onto oddly shaped objects.


However, for the time being it’s enough to know that 2008 will be the year flexible active-matrix displays make it out of the lab and into the mainstream. If iSuppli is right, it’s entirely possible that before the end of this year we all will have wrapped our heads around the notion that video, graphics and text no longer must be confined to a flat display technology. Where that leads will only be limited by our imaginations.

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Music and Entertainment Around the University of Texas

Posted by admin | Posted on 19-06-2010

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Music and Entertainment Around the University of Texas

With over 50,000 students there are numerous entertainment venues around the University of Texas.  Austin is frequently referred to as the live music capital of Texas.  And although when people talk about the music scene in Austin they usually think of downtown the campus area also reflects this saying with nightspots such as the Hole in the Wall, which is an Austin institution and has been the home of many local recording artists for more than twenty-five years, as well as the U.T. campus itself, which hosts regular live music performances in the Cactus Café, which is adjacent to the student union and which is located in the West Mall area. There are also faculty-oriented clubs and restaurants such as the Campus Club, at the corner of 24th and Guadalupe, which offers a daily special and a variety of top-notch choices in a buffet-style setting.

Other notable establishments in or around the campus area include the Frank Erwin Center, which hosts Longhorn basketball, and many other national as well as local sporting events and concerts and is located on the eastern rim of campus, adjacent to Interstate 35. The Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium, which is a few blocks north of the Erwin Center,  is home to the University of Texas Longhorn football team, and nearby Disch-Falk Field hosts U.T. Longhorn baseball games, and is directly across the highway from Royal Memorial Stadium on Interstate 35. One of the largest Austin metropolitan area hospitals, Brackenridge-Seton Hospital, is also just a few blocks south of campus, and is the oldest public hospital in Texas. The hospital complex includes the Children’s Hospital of Austin and the University Medical Center, all of which offer first class medical treatment for acute as well as long term care, ample parking, and many other facilities in a very convenient location.

In addition to football and basketball, the university sports and recreation department provides track facilities, including one of the only lighted intramural fields in the country, at the intramural fields complex, which is situated along the intersection of 51st and Guadalupe Streets in the North Loop neighborhood. The complex is about a mile north of the campus itself, and the intramural fields are home to the U.T. Rugby team.    In the neighborhood of Hyde Park, just north of the University of Texas, there are also museums and golf courses including the Elizabet Ney Museum, which is one of the oldest museums in Texas. The Hancock Golf Course, which was established in 1899, is just a few blocks away as well, and allows golfers to play the course on a daily fee basis. All and all, the University of Texas campus area in Austin offers something for everyone, and is one of the most popular destinations for locals, University students and tourists alike.   There is always something to do on or near campus.

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Rutgers Scarlet Knights Tickets – Impressive Turn Around Shows What Could Have Been

Posted by admin | Posted on 17-02-2009

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Rutgers Scarlet Knights Tickets – Impressive Turn Around Shows What Could Have Been

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights made an awesome performance in their last six games with the win over Louisville Cardinals as the highest point with the final result at 63-14. Mike Teel, the team’s starting quarterback, may have earned himself a slot in this year All-America team. This placed them in a three-way tie with the teams from Pittsburgh and West Virginia. With that they got an invite from the PapaJohns.com Bowl to go to Alabama even if that may have fallen short of their target.

Despite that achievement, there were still questions of what could have been. The Scarlet Knights had a very powerful set of players which was why it was very hard to take in the fact that they started the season dismally with a measly 1-5.

It took winning over Pittsburgh and South Florida as turning point for them and made them put their acts together. The next thing that showcased their talents was the game with University of Louisville where the Cardinals trailed 49-0 at half-time. That performance showed the whole country how dominant they can be and how cohesive they are. They were not quitters. They fight until the end.

But in retrospect, could they have done more if they started the season right? Would things have come out as they are?

People were speculating. If they started the season with wins, would they have gone on to the higher tiers like the BCS? If they played as superbly as in the last few games, would have they been able to triumph over their fierce rival, the Bearcats and end up with the Championship in the Big East?

If they won more games, would have they been invited to the bigger and more significant bowls instead of that of PapaJohns.com?

There were a lot of intense as well as seemingly bleak moments with the Rutgers Scarlet Knight. There were doubts whether they can make it the in three positions in the Big East despite their powerful line-up. There were even those who thought that they could not even make a pivotal game which would turn the tides in their favor. Who would think that they can still come back from 1-5 start?

They had a good finish at second place after starting so poorly and maybe that is truly remarkable but if they have the potentials and the capacity exhibited by the Scarlet Knight players, then have not really lived up to it. The vast difference in their games at the start and the ones leading to season’s end showed the very big gap which should be noted especially by the members of the team themselves and the coaching staff. There would always be the lingering queries on what really happened at the start and the series of what could have happened if they started the season with a blast.

But then again the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on their latter games were way beyond remarkable, they were downright amazing.