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One of the main hardware difference between Android devices is he GPU which is part of the SoC (System On a Chip / Chipset) powering the handset. There’s currently three big players in the market today: Qualcomm’s SnapDragon SoC with the Adreno 200 GPU, TI OMAP 3XXX with the Power VR SGX 530/535 and finally Samsung’s Hummingbird (S5PC110A01) with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU all three of them feature a CortexA8 CPU core.

AMD Z430 GPU

have shown up to a %500 increase in performance in some bechnmarks when homemade/tweaked drivers where used instead of the ones supplied with the retail device.

ndroid 4.0 Mini PC MK802 RAM 512MB ROM 4G mini TV BoxAndroid 4.0 Mini PC MK802 Features:-This is the smallest Android TV player in the world,it looks like a USB flash drive, twice as big as a USB stick,but compared to a regular small Android TV box,the size is only 25%. You can attach it to the back of your TV, easy to hide. -It outputs the video to TV via HDMI, a short HDMI cable is included, it requires your TV to have a HDMI input. -It is powered by a USB cable, this USB cable is included, but you need to purchase a compatible USB adapter (5V,2A),we can also give it to you if you tell me which country you are from, we will know what kind of USB adapter you need. -It has a regular USB port, you can connect your USB mouse or keyboard here, you can also connect a 2.4GHz wireless mouse and keyboard dongle here,please be noted that mouse and keyboard are not included. -It also has a micro USB port which can be used to connected to your PC. You can use it to copy files from your PC to this little guy. -It also has a micro TF card slot, you can insert a micro TF card with up to 32GB of movie or pictures here. -It doesnt have an ethernet port, you need to use WIFI to connect it to the internet. -It also no RGB port,no S-video port, no built-in IR,no built-in bluetooth. Are you still not clear ?-Connect this (mini CPU) to a monitor and a mouse (Fly mouse or USB mouse). -Switch ON both monitor and this player. -You’re ready to run Android 4.0 OS. -No other thing is needed. -Yes! really. It’s a complete CPU. You can play most of the latest 3D and 2D games available in market. -Performance of this device is comparable with smartphones.Specifications of Android 4.0 Mini PC -OS: Android 4.0

-Main Chip: Allwinner A10/ 1.5 GHz Cortex-A8 -Memory: 1GB -Storage: 4GB -Graphical processor: 2D/ 3D/ OpenGL ES2.0(AMD Z430)/OpenVG1.1(AMD Z160) 27M Tri/sec -Network: Wireless 802.11b/g, WAPI(Ralink8188) -Expand Memory: Micro TF 2-32GB -IO/Ports: Micro 5pin USB/ USB2.0 data transfer/ OTG and host expand -Keyboard: Support virtual keyboard, support 2.4G wireless keyboard, fly mouse -Audio: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, QCP, MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI, M4A -Video: WMV/ASF/MP4/3GP/3G2M4V/AVI/MJPEG/RV10/DivX/VC-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263/H.264/720P, 1080P, 720*480-Andriod APP: Youku,Tudou,QQ,Youtube,Twitter,AngryBird,Office,Gmail,Browse,Skype -HDMI: 1080P, 2160P  

The 620325 Stirling Engine by Thames and Kosmos uses renewable energy from the sun to drive a generator, which charges a rechargeable battery to power an electric car.

Power a Car with Solar Generated Electricity       Discover the Stirling engine, a simple, clean and efficient energy technology that is quickly becoming a viable source of electricity as the availability of fossil fuels declines. The Stirling engine in this kit uses renewable energy from the sun to drive a generator, which charges a rechargeable battery to power an electric car. Named after its inventor, Robert Stirling, the original Stirling engine dates back almost 200 years. Today, high-tech Stirling engines are being used in arrays of giant mirrored solar collectors and common applications like compact generators. NASA is even working on using Stirling engines to power a human outpost on the moon!Like a steam engine, a Stirling engine is a heat engine that converts heat energy into mechanical work, usually to drive a generator that then converts the mechanical energy into electricity. But instead of water and steam, the Stirling engine uses a permanently enclosed volume of gas, such as air or helium, to perform the mechanical work. Stirling engines are highly efficient, can operate very quietly, and can use many different sources of heat: combustion of fuels, nuclear fission, geothermal, or solar heat, as this model uses. The Stirling engine in this kit is located in acharging station with a mirrored parabolic dish. The dish focuses the sun’s rays onto the cylindrical glass bulb of the Stirling engine to heat it up. The air inside the bulb heats up and pushes a piston, which turns an electric generator. The generator produces electricity that charges a rechargeable battery in the car. The car runs on an electric motor powered by the battery.The kit includes the charging station with a beta type Stirling engine, the electric car, and a full-color, 64-page manual.

Cortex-A8 Processor (View Larger Cortex-A8 Processor Image)The ARM Cortex™-A8 processor, based on the ARMv7 architecture, has the ability to scale in speed from 600MHz to greater than 1GHz. The Cortex-A8 processor can meet the requirements for power-optimized mobile devices needing operation in less than 300mW; and performance-optimized consumer applications requiring 2000 Dhrystone MIPS.

The conversion of sunlight into electricity has been dominated by photovoltaic and solar thermal power generation. Photovoltaic cells are deployed widely, mostly as flat panels, whereas solar thermal electricity generation relying on optical concentrators and mechanical heat engines is only seen in large-scale power plants. Here we demonstrate a promising flat-panel solar thermal to electric power conversion technology based on the Seebeck effect and high thermal concentration, thus enabling wider applications. The developed solar thermoelectric generators (STEGs) achieved a peak efficiency of 4.6% under AM1.5G (1 kW m−2) conditions. The efficiency is 7–8 times higher than the previously reported best value for a flat-panel STEG, and is enabled by the use of high-performance nanostructured thermoelectric materials and spectrally-selective solar absorbers in an innovative design that exploits high thermal concentration in an evacuated environment.

Mini-bots

map out building interiors

The rolling droids are being developed by Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, and the California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Equipped with two cameras and laser scanners, they can autonomously explore hallways in an unfamiliar building, detecting doors and windows, and create a map for users such as soldiers or firefighters. The project is part of the Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) program and is being sponsored by the Army Research Laboratory. The program is aimed at developing palm-size machines that can hover in place, enter buildings, and perform other insect-like stunts while gathering data and relaying it to human controllers.

Android Boot SD Card Options: Android Boot SD Card ($119.31) Quantity: View Cart Final Cost: $119.31 Several Android developers have requested a pre-packaged and pre-formatted SD card contains the bootable Android OS, customized to run on the BeagleBoard and BeagleTouch. The Android Boot SD card s

aves days of customization and low-level programming needed to integrate Android with the BeagleBoard platform, allowing developers to immediately run the

Android OS and focus on building applications instead.

D2Plug is a Developer Kit for the Marvell PXA510 Highly Integrated SoC with PC-like performance.

The D2plug can be used by software developers, Independent Software Vendors (ISV), and System Integrators (SI); for evaluation, Application development, Rapid Prototyping, and interoperability testing for a “cloud” based service deployment. The complete solution in an attractive, innovative and “fan-less” enclosure will also be available for bundling solutions for product release with custom branding.