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From the stable of Volkswagen Group has emerged one of the fastest cars in the world, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport. Developed by Volkswagen’s Bugatti Automobiles, this car packs a punch with 1000 bhp engine and knocks the competition out of the park with a top speed of 407 kmph. And, it has arrived in India! Specifically said, a black colored model has been delivered to a realtor in Mumbai who certainly seems to have a penchant for luxury cars.

The car is said to cost more than Rs. 16-17 Crores, depending upon the levels of customization opted for by the customers and the duties levied by the state. As per plan, only 300 models of Bugatti Veyron are to be manufactured, out of which 250 are already accounted for by car enthusiasts. In India, three cars have been reported, with the one in Mumbai already delivered, while two are in transit and headed towards a businessman based in southern region of the country.

The official dealer of the car in India is Exclusive Motors, which are also authorized distributors of high end cars like Bentley and Lamborghini in the country. It is noteworthy that prior to the Bugatti Veyron, the most expensive car in India were Phantom and Maybach, costing Rs. 5 Crores. Needless to say, Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport has dethroned these cars by a mile! The car sports an 8 liter engine that has 16 cylinders and goes from 0 to 100 kmph in an astonishing 2.7 seconds.

Day in and day out you might be using Google mail, Google maps, Google Android phone, but what Goggle’s latest innovation might leave you stunned! Yes, the latest from Google is a driverless car; the Google Streetview. It is a fully automated car complete with video cameras, radar sensors, a laser range finder and detailed maps that vouches the need to remove human drivers.

Google has already put more than 140,000 road miles on its test cars including six Toyota Prius hybrid and an Audi TT. The most notable feature seen on these cars is a rotating sensor on the roof of the car that rotates 360 degrees for more than 200 feet in diameter. Apart from this there is also a sensor on the cars left rear wheel that measures the cars movement in detail and a video camera on the wind shield near the rearview mirror that locates pedestrians, motorbikes, traffic lights or any other obstacles. And this is not all, the features also include a GPS receiver, a laser range finder and an inertial motion sensor.

The company boasts of the cars ability to tackle challenging terrains such as San Francisco’s winding Lombard Street and Golden Gate Bridge; the Pacific Coast Highway and around Lake Tahoe.

According to Google this technology has been designed to prevent accidents on roads as much as possible and provide a safe environment.

Here’s a case of education systems gone wrong with schools turning into Big Brother and keeping a tab on the pupils, even at home! The Lower Merion school district of suburban Philadelphia is now paying US $ 610,000 to two students who sued it for infringing their privacy. This act was done by the authorities by manipulating the cameras of 2,300 MacBooks provided to the students by the district school board itself. One of the students, Blake Robbins, received US$175,000 while the other, Jalil Hasan, got US$ 10,000. Weird enough is the fact that US$ 425,000 goes to the lawyer of the students, Mark Haltzman, who hired them.

Numerous images of the students are said to taken through the cameras without their knowledge as part of a unique, and seemingly disgusting, LANrev Theft Track program. The images are said to have been taken at school, home, in bed and even while they were partially dressed. The education authority had snapped around 400 images of the former, while 469 pictures and 543 screenshots of the latter were taken. In total, 56,000 images of the students in various situations were taken by the authorities of the Lower Merion school district.

The practice was part of a program wherein the laptops lost by students could be recovered using the cameras, but Blake Robbins did not report his school issued MacBook missing. It was a technicality, since he was reported to have broken two laptops earlier and was said to have not paid the requisite US$ 55 fee for the same. So, when he took his laptop home, it was considered stolen and the student-surveillance activity was discovered by him.

In fact, the when his principal deemed that he was taking drugs (an image of him eating candy was taken), Robbins got to known about the privacy infringement practice being carried out by the school. There is simply no excuse that can render this act of the Lower Merion school district acceptable, and still the federal authorities have refused to press charges. This is the perfect example of a situation where the usage of technology has left a negative impact on the lives of the common people.

Squarehead Technology, the Norwegian firm, has manufactured a new product that is expected to change the way we hear sports. That’s right, hear! Using this product, specific sounds can be heard, even those recorded in full capacity stadiums. The AudioScope is a product that has been developed keeping in mind the SONAR technology. The device includes up to 300 omni-directional microphones that are placed symmetrically around a camera.

The uniqueness of this gadget is that it allows the user to zero in upon a particular voice, using the microphones and a computer to suppress other sounds. Its operations work around the impact of the sound on each individual microphone and then extracting only that sound, with a result that is crystal clear. The usage of the software and hardware will be detailed to the operators, after which he will be able to follow the origin of the sound, even if the origin is a player itself.

Now, all the snicks in cricket as well as player’s chats in noisy football, basketball & other sports can be recorded and heard without any problems. But the usage of this fantastic gadget does not end with sports; with the development of technology, it can be used in a variety of places, including seminars, lectures, speeches, debates and classrooms. This product is anticipated with crossed fingers by sports broadcasters all over the world who aim to give the viewers a great time.

Gadget freaks and individuals in search of latest and unique inventions in technology are in for a surprise.  The world’s first DXG 3D enabled pocket recorder has been launched. No need to use separate glasses; appreciate the 3D imagery with the help of 3.2 inch LCD camrecorder display included in the 3D 7 inch media player.

The DXG 5D7V Camrecorder offers its users the opportunity to take 2D images as well as video. But its persuasive selling point is its 3D feature that sets it a class apart. It also includes a touch-screen technology and a remote control allowing excited users to control and view all still images and video content with ease.

The technical specifications are as follows;

• Dimensions: 8.39″ (W) x 5.41″ (H) x 0.94″ (D)
• LCD: 7″ Parallax-Barrier Auto-Stereoscopic (Glasses-Free) TFT Display
• Resolution: 800×480
• Display Effects: Normal, black and white, Sepia, Lens Distortion
• Video Format & Resolution: MPEG4, AVI, 720×480p at 30fps
• Audio & Image Format: MP3; JPEG
• Control Format: Touchable Keys, Remote Control
• Audio & Video Output: AVOUT, Earphone Stereoscopic Output
• Storage: Supports SD/MMC
• Power Supply: 5V DC, 2A
• Output Interface: USB 2.0

It is available at an approx price of $599.99.