Leica camera prototype is the most expensive camera in the world

Leica camera prototype made ​​in 1923 sold for 2.16 million euros, or about USD 25.8 billion, at an auction in Vienna, Austria.

Leica only make 25 units of Series 0, which later developed into Series A compact camera that uses 35mm film.

Sales value to make this camera a camera in the world's most expensive.

Auction in Austria on Saturday (12/5) starting price of 300,000 euros, and organizers expect this camera will sell in the range of 600 000 euro.

But when the auction ends, worth about 1.8 million euros. Taxes and other costs to make the winning bidder, who did not reveal his true identity, had to pay 2.16 million euros to get this classic camera.

The high price of Leica cameras showed that the higher interest of classic cameras.

The highest price for the Leica 0 series is 1.32 million euros. Whereas in 2007, it costs only 336 000 euros.

Hollywood inspiration

Leica was founded in 1849, known as the company's and microscope lenses.

One of the engineers, Oskar Barnack, who work in the microscope, loves photography and has long wanted a compact camera.

When the size is very large and heavy cameras.

He designed a compact camera using 35mm film which is widely used to make a Hollywood movie.

Barnack make a tiny camera on the 1908-1923 and many shots from this period that still survive today.

His boss welcomed this idea and then decided to make the Leica camera unit 25 Series 0, as well as to gauge market reaction.

Series 0 received a mixed reception, but the Leica to take risks and produce 1,000 units A Leica in 1925.

The market welcomed the Serie A in 1932 and Leica to produce no less than 90,000 units of this series.

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Story of a floating city, Blueseed

Blueseed is a floating city which is located in international waters, not far from Silicon Valley, California United States. But do not mistaken this is a small island inhabited by people.

Blueseed plan will be a cruise ship or barge is overhauled. In it will be well provided accommodation space living room, work space to entertainment facilities.

Users who want to experience the facility to pay around 1200-3000 U.S. dollars per month. But this place is only a capacity of up to 1,000 people with a crew of about 200-300 people.

Floating city project was founded by Max Marty and Dario Mutabdzija and is led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Blueseed will be placed in international waters, 12 miles from the coast of California.

"This ship can also be enjoyed by the entrepreneur or startup outside the U.S. and able to work in the near Silicon Valley, without the need for U.S. work visas," said Peter.

Apparently, a barge that doubles as a yacht like this is also in demand at least more than 100 international technology companies. In research released by Blueseed, approximately 20.3 percent came from the U.S., 10.5 percent from 6 percent from India and Australia.

Just for the record, the companies that now inhabit Silicon Valley, among others are Adobe Systems, Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, eBay, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo!.

Blueseed will be launched officially in the third quarter of 2013.

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Steve Wozniak fall in love with Windows Phone

Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, said that falling in love with the operating system Windows Phone. He fell in love with the look of Metro interface.

Several weeks ago, Wozniak be one of those involved in line to buy Nokia Lumia 900 that uses the operating system Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango).

In an interview with the site aNewDomain technology, Wozniak claimed to really like the look of Metro interface is checkered, or called a tile.

According to him, the look of Windows Phone looks more beautiful and more intuitive than other operating systems, IOS range and Android.

Wozniak lamented the availability of applications for Windows Phone is still minimal. Nevertheless, he is quite satisfied with Lumia 900.

Wozniak now always carry four favorite smartphone. He still relies on the iPhone and iPhone 4S 4 as main smartphone and Motorola Razr Droid Android and Nokia based Lumia 900.

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The Unique Ikea Camera

Digital camera technology is becoming increasingly developed. But digital cameras are more environmentally friendly because it is only made of cardboard.

Is a furniture company from Sweden, Ikea is producing digital cameras of the cardboard material. Almost all parts of the camera because it uses cardboard material to support environmentally friendly technologies.

Initially digital camera is part of an environmentally friendly campaign organized around the company. In addition, digital cameras are aimed at making furniture buyers who want to take pictures of furniture purchased, and then divided the Ikea website.

Knappa was designed by Swedish designer Jesper Kouthoofd. This camera uses two AA batteries and there is a direct USB connection that can be used to transfer images.

Although the digital format and users can shoot as much, but Knappa only be used to photograph as many as 40 objects. More than that, the camera is not usable and should be discarded.

However, because the camera only uses environmentally friendly materials are cardboard, then to recycle it too easy, just like regular recycling bin.

To obtain it, Ikea will distribute them for free on selected furniture stores in partnership with Ikea worldwide.

The tendency of companies to use environmentally friendly technology has actually been done by several leading companies. One of them is Asus.

Taiwanese vendors are developing green laptop called Ecobook with laptop cover from bamboo and recycled plastic materials to use in it. Coated cardboard computer component that is not painted or sprayed.

Another example is Samsung which makes the smartphone Samsung Blue Earth. Overall the phone is using a plastic material such as plastic bottle material. On the back, there are solar panels for battery charging.

Ikea itself has launched an environmentally friendly technology program since last year. Previously, Ikea has released a solar project for one of its stores in California. This panel is claimed to provide the same amount of energy for 64 homes a year.

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new variant of E series VAIO notebook 14P

Sony introduced a new variant of E series VAIO notebook 14P for Indonesia market. Notebook Sony brought to the session Indonesia Partners Conference 2012 was already using Ivy Bridge, the latest processors from Intel.

With the support of Ivy Bridge, Sony VAIO wanted to bring the performance of E 14 P as a ultrabook. "Although not as ultrabook slim, but this notebook is using Ivy Bridge Core i7 processor," said Citra Dewi Indahwati, VAIO Evangelist & Mobile Business Group IT Department at Sony Indonesia Sangri La Hotel, Jakarta, Friday, April 27, 2012.

Notebook with 14-inch screen comes with the operating system Windows 7 Home Premium, AMD Radeon HD 7670M discrete GPU (VRAM: 1GB). In addition to Ivy Bridge Core i7, Vaio E 14P is also available in a version of Ivy Bridge Core i5.

E 14P Vaio has a 5.5-hour battery life and function graphics processing unit capable of switching automatically depending on the application being used. Users can use the discrete GPU for game applications, video and photo editing. For tasks that are less intensive, Vaio will automatically turn off the discrete GPU to save battery life.

Through features Eco + Rapid Wake, under ultra-low power deep sleep, Vaio E 14P can store data up to 10 days. Open the lid can be used PC in seconds with the same data display when closed.

Vaio E 14P is also equipped with the technology and clear xCloud phase are able to increase volume without distortion to the sound movies and games. For video chat will also be more clear and sharp with a high definition web cameras are powered by the Exmor for PC.

There's also a Gesture Control feature that lets users interact with computers through intuitive hand movements. With this feature users can simply show his hand in front of the camera and do a sweep of the movement to the left and the right to change the look of a web page or photo gallery on the screen.

You can pull the hand down to pause the music, slideshows, or adjust the volume of music in a circular motion. Gesture Control is currently supported by Windows Media Player, Windows Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft PowerPoint and PowerDVD.

Vaio E 14P can also function as a cellular phone charger even if the notebook is off or sleep. Simply connect your phone with USB, Vaio E 14P can be useful as a charger all the time if you do not find the type of AC power panel.

Sony Vaio E 14P will launch officially on 10 May. E 14P series Vaio Ivy Bridge Core i5 is sold at Rp 9 million and Ivy Bridge Core i7 a price of USD 11 million. .

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REVIEW ASUS A43SA - VX022D The Next A43SV

This laptop series is virtually perfect for gamers with a minimal budget. : Peace because this laptop has been in favor with graphics from AMD HD 6730 with 2GB GDDR3 Dedicated memory, so do not take memory from the ram, 2GB pure. for the game - the latest games, such as PES 2012, BattleField 3 with a high setting still nice to play .. , And exhaust systems sidikit have made up, characterized by greater headsink, and the seat bottom is higher, so the cavity to circulate air more freely.

Specification :

SPESIFIKASI ASUS A43SA - VX022D

Intel® Core™ i3-2330M Processor (2.20 GHz, 3M Cache) 2nd generation 2.4x lebih cepat dari generasi pertama

Chipset :Intel® HM65 Express Chipset

Memory : 2 GB DDR3 PC-10600, max 8GB

ATI 6730 2GB GDDR3 Dedicated

640 GB Serial ATA 5400 RPM

Display Size :14" WXGA LED

Speaker :Altec Lansing®

IO : 1x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0, VGA, HDMI, LAN, Audio, Bluetooth, WIFI a/b/g/n

6 Cell of Battery

Special Features :

Ice Cool

Keyboard Chiclet ergonomis the winner IF Award

Teknologi Palm Proof prevent from error input

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Marketing Plan to sell your home with high bid

So that your home has high prices, there are some preparations to be done. As the marketing plan, or use the services of a broker, to make the open house event in your home. Which is interesting about you?

Hermawan Wijaya in his book "77 Secrets of Business Property Quick Lucky" mentions, there are five steps higher when selling a property at high prices. Check out his review below:

Marketing planning

A good marketing plan to include the achievement of sales targets, or transactions for each prospect, and a realistic implementation techniques. Through the regular way, the client can safely find its development. In addition, the problem will be easily detected, as well as its completion.

Marketing plan can be done by pairs of ads, install a notice board in front of the house, promotion through Internet sites, and spread the word to the listing sales network.

Looking for property agents

For entrepreneurs, there's no harm in asking for help real estate agents. But, make sure the company is trustworthy and professional. They will explain the details on promotional programs, files, documents, agreements, administrative costs, agent commissions, sales tax, and approaches to the seller and buyer.

Make sure also, that the agency provide optimal accommodation, as well as the determination of the selling price of the house is not too high of a price in the region.

Selling price survey

To determine the selling price of a home, you need to do a survey. His analysis can be obtained for example with the question, whether the area is planned to be a development area or not, how the price comparison recently sold homes in the area, the tendency of the desired trend of home buyers today, as well as price comparisons with other properties in the region.

With the analysis done, the selling price instead of the estimates, but based on actual conditions. Price will determine the magnitude of the attraction of buyers. If it is too expensive, surely there would not be interested, but too cheap will also harm you or your broker.

When setting the price, make sure the actual condition of the house. No harm in doing renovations to increase the selling price. So is the complete document and want to sell the facility must also be ensured.

Ensure the first impression

To attract the buyer's first impression, you can prepare homes for sale. Make sure the house in a neat condition, well maintained and spotlessly clean inside and out. Repairs or renovations you can do, such as repainting, cleaning and other garbage, so impressed and interested buyers.

If the building is still habitable, make sure you contact the old owner to make preparations before you and prospective buyers to come. At a minimum, make sure there are keys to the house making it easier for you free of buildings and space show to prospective buyers.

Make your open house

So that prospective buyers can feel the comfort of your home, invite relation to the house. Create an open house event. Pick the right day so many people can attend. Through this event, they could see every corner of your house or referring to his friend or someone else.

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