Showing posts with label lightning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lightning. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

iPhone 5 - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW! iOS6 LIGHTNING A6 PANORAMA LTE

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SEPTEMBER 21
AT
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APPLE STORE!

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BETHESDA ROW
APPLE STORE

The incredible new iPhone 5 has just been unveiled to the world, and I've scribbled down as much information as I can for all Bethesdans who will be lining up here at Bethesda Row next week.

What aren't we getting?  Nikola Tesla wireless charging.  Also, just how improved Siri is was not really emphasized.

With that out of the way, let's get right to the iPhone 5!

Three letters:  LTE

No surprise there, nor with the iOS6 operating system.

The new iPhone is the same width, but taller.

SCREEN

Another row of apps!  5-day workweek in Calendar!

That's thanks to a 4" 326ppi Retina display.

1136x640 resolution

Your old apps?  They'll be letterboxed.

PHONE

It's made entirely of glass and aluminum, and 20% lighter than iPhone 4s.  Now "the World's Thinnest Smartphone."  7.6 mm thick, to be precise.

WHAT'S INSIDE?

New A6 chip.

BATTERY LIFE

8 hours of LTE talk time or browsing.

CAMERA

8 megapixels, dynamic low light mode, sapphire lens crystal cover, shared photo streams, and a 720p Face Time front camera.

Biggest camera news?

Panorama!  Take 28 megapixel images with a sweep of the phone!

And Face Time is available over all cellular networks, apparently.

LIGHTNING STRIKES!

An 80% smaller connector, all content downloaded wirelessly, and share iCloud tabs between your iPhone 5 and your desktop.

COLORS

Black and white.

PRICE

The same!

16GB: $199
32GB: $299
64GB: $399

WHEN CAN I BUY iPhone 5?

Preorder Friday the 14th of September.

iPhone 5 ships September 21!

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

BETHESDA'S
LOCKHEED MARTIN
READIES
LIGHTNING MAPPER
THAT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE
WEATHER FORECASTING

Satellite Module will Provide More
Accurate Tornado Warnings

Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin is conducting final tests on a new addition to its long-deployed GOES weather satellite.

The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) will record all cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning activity over the entire Americas.

In other words, the whole enchilada: every single lightning strike will be detected by this near-infrared device.

That in-cloud lightning activity is critical to giving as much as thirty minutes' warning of a tornado spawning. The complete scan will reveal an individual storm's "jump signature," a sudden acceleration of cloud-to-cloud lightning activity. This will also reduce false alarms.

Lockheed has scheduled final thermal and thermal vacuum testing for the coming months.

The Goddard Flight Center right here in Maryland helps manage development of GOES instruments.

Deployment of this advanced storm detection can't come a minute too soon, as unusual tornado activity continues to wreak havoc across the nation's southern and midwestern regions.