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OAKLAND, Calif.–Google on Friday introduced an interactive view of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Bay Bridge to users of its Google Earth mapping software.

The new view (zipped file), which can be seen by all Google Earth users who have 3D buildings turned on, provides a sneak peak at a completed version of the bridge. This includes a live representation of ongoing construction of the self-anchored suspension span, the final piece that will cross the divide between Oakland and Yerba Buena Island, connecting the East Bay to downtown San Francisco.

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LaCie has announced a range of new MacBook and iPad compatible covers. The LaCie Coat and LaCie ForMoa are designed by Sam Hecht, have a double layer of neoprene, a soft inside lining, and come in a range of five colors: red, blue, pink, orange, and black.

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In week since Mozilla released the first Firefox browser for mobile phones, we’ve had a better chance to explore the Web on the Nokia N900. Firefox for Maemo, as it’s called, is also available for the N810 Internet Tablet.

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The pace with which technology is progressing in modern era, we can’t even visualize the form and functioning of the gadgets in the days to come. Now we don’t have any other option than to bank on the vision or insight of the designers, giving the glimpse of futuristic technology and gadgets. The Apple Black Hole by French designer Josselin Zaïgouche is an identical cellphone concept that makes use of holographic technology to control all functions and web applications. Designed for the year 2020, the holographic phone also incorporates a charging base, Prism and the Black Hole. As soon as you open your hand, the central ball levitates to control the functions in mid-air. And when attached to the charging base, the Black Hole becomes a desktop device, allowing endless possibilities to the geeks.

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Caravans may have made nomadic life more comfortable for modern nomads, but towing huge caravans in narrow countryside roads is not as easy as the life within. However, the “FolDoub” by Dutch designer Niels Caris is a caravan with difference that folds into smaller dimension for easy transportation through link roads connecting far-flung places. Applying the basic principle of a classic travel sleeper, the FolDoub generously expands its available floor-space of an average mid-sized caravan to accommodate a small family comfortably. Touting an aerodynamic design, the foldable caravan can be stowed with minimum efforts within no time.

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Peeping into the future with vision and strategy, London-based design and innovation company Seymourpowell has designed a giant, elegant “clipper in the clouds” airship called “Aircruise” that seems to embark on a new era in luxury travel. Harnessing solar power with a primary hydrogen fuel cell drive, the Aircruise can cruise at around 90mph, leaving no carbon footprint behind. Lying somewhere between a cruise ship and a floating hotel, the airship, which is based on the “slow is the new fast” principle, could move 100 people from London to New York in 37 hours or from Los Angeles to Shanghai in under four days in utmost luxury.

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Devoid of a permanent place, we usually fail to find our mobile gadgets scattered in all corners of the house in time. Providing a solution, the HotSnow has popped up a piece of furniture that keeps all your mobile gadgets intact in one place. Hailed as the “BÅHEM,” the furniture unit by Igor Polyakov not only keeps your gadgets intact, but also become a clutter free docking station as it neatly hides all the wires underneath its surface, while juicing up your cellphone, game console, PDA and so on. Finished in Corian for a trendy look, the furniture measuring 610 x 340 x 180 provides adequate space to storage the gadgets of all the family members.

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Publishers aren’t wasting any time getting their books onto the new iPad.

Publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kaplan Publishing, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson have signed deals to be among the first to port their textbooks over to Apple’s new tablet. Heading to the iPad as well as the iPhone and iPod Touch will be their textbooks, study guides, and test prep manuals.

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STUDENT NAME:  AFAQ AHMED

ROLL NO: 2006-ARCH

UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY LAHORE

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Apple’s A4 chip, being used in the iPad, could ultimately provide a speed bump to future versions of the company’s iPhone, analysts said on Thursday. Apple on Wednesday introduced the iPad handheld device, which has a 9.7-inch diagonal screen and is designed for browsing the Internet, playing games, reading e-books and viewing video content. The product fits somewhere between the iPhone and MacBook laptop, said Apple CEO Steve Jobs at a press event.

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