LONDON - During this wheelchair that is controlled by a remote control is included sophisticated. Now, presumably the sophistication akan tersingkir, because the switch with the wheelchair that can be driven with the mind.
Unique and sophisticated technology is developed by Spanish scientists, Dr Javier Minguez, from the University of Zaragoza. With technology, design, wheelchair users, especially the disabled do not need to use a conventional joystick to rotate and walk on the wheelchair. That they need to do is to think where they want to go.
"Wheel chairs are very easy to use. The volunteers who participate in the pilot wheelchair only takes 45 minutes to learn how to use them. Furthermore, they can operate it smoothly," said Minguez quoted from the Telegraph, Fri (1 / 5 / 2009).
Minguez wheelchair complete with a hat that contains the load electrode. When fit to the user, then this hat to detect brain activity and work to realize their movement to the direction they want.
In addition, there is also a laser scanner that can create three-dimensional image area where the wheelchair is located. The image displayed on the screen in front of wheelchair users.
Users can simply concentrate with the view of the screen and then place and direction that you want to dituju. The miraculous advanced technology will make this wheelchair and move to respond to suit users.
Unfortunately, this wheelchair is not yet ready to be marketed in a large scale. Minguez say at this time he developed the kind of wheelchair is faster and powerful. (srn)
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Ministry of Forestry (Menhut) MS Kaban revealed, Indonesia big meal to absorb emissions from industrialized countries with tropical forests that absorb carbon.
"State of the industry to remove the CO2 absorbed in the forests of Indonesia and other developing countries, but have not yet insentifnya, so our big meal on them," he said in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Speaking as a key speaker day seminar themed "scotch Voluntary Carbon Trading Initiative" held Ekolabel Indonesia Institute (LEI) and Cooperative Housing Wanabakti Nusantara (KPWN) MoF, he criticize the compensation is not balance.
According to him, that many industrial countries to remove the CO2 emissions menyoal often only deforestation, but the efforts of developing countries to maintain sustainable forests have not been properly valued.
"Environmental activist properly we can not help express seimbangnya compensation that carbon," he said. Therefore, he said, all stakeholders, the environment, including forestry and environmental activists in urgent need of incentives from the industry how the absorption of carbon.
Study refers to the United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 2006, MS Kaban revealed, along with land in the forest, beneath the world's store of carbon more than 1 trillion tons of carbon, which means twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. While damage to the forest, he said, adding nearly 6 billion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere per year.
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