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As Jobs quits, apple shares start to fall.

After the resignation of chief executive and co-founder Steve Jobs, what future does apple have? The shares were down 2.5% in early training, before closing down 0.66% at $373.89. Who will take over Mr Jobs? Tim Cook, formally chief operating officer.

Jobs has been on medical leave since January 17^th. Analysts say that investors do have confidence in Mr. Cook and his team and that shares have not fallen further.

Stephen Fry, an admirer of Jobs told BBC news,”I don’t think there is another human being on the planet who has been more influential in the last 30 years on the way culture has developed.

Here from Quantum CAD we send our hope to Mr Jobs on his treatment on the road to recovery and good luck to Tim Cook.

Mobile Phones powered by humans?

Now how may times have you been out and about and your mobile phone loses it battery? Im pretty sure at one point we have all experienced this. And im pretty sure it’s as annoying for you as it is for me.

But now things are changing, and your phone losing battery when you’re out of the house could soon be a thing of the past. Thanks to some pretty clever Americans.

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin led by Prof Krupenkin have come with technology that can generate electricity from human motion. 

But technology like this isn’t exactly new, but what sets Prof Krupenkin from the rest is the way the technology works.  The device uses microscopic droplets able to conduct electrical current. 

But once you have the energy, how do you get it into the phone? 

Well Prof Krupenkin already has a solution “the electricity-generating device connected to a shoe-bound wireless transmitter. This would take care of the power hungry part of a mobile phone's job - making radio contact with remote base stations.”

But what do you the buying public think of this?

Good idea? / Bad idea?

Feel free to comment.

 

The end of arcade gaming?

If you were a child growing up in the 1970’s or 1980’s you would have grown up playing arcade games such as Pac Man, Spade Invaders. 

But since the personal gaming revolution began back in the mid eighties with the birth of the Commodore and Atari consoles, followed by Sega and Nintendo, the traditional arcade games have slowly gone out of fashion. Could this be the end of arcade gaming? 

So why has arcade gaming lost its appeal?

This is mainly due to the modern day cousins of the Commodore and Atari consoles, the Xbox 360, PS3 and the Nintendo Wii, being so user friendly and being able to interact with players online, making them so more appealing than one player mode.

But could there be hope for arcade gaming? Sega seems to think so. With the trend of 3D firstly gripping and changing the world of cinema and now doing the same for gaming. Sega is jumping on the 3D wagon and developing 3D games for which you don’t need 3D glasses.

The Bluebird that just won’t fly

For any 19 year old teenage driver, damaging your dad’s car is truly one of the worst things that can happen to you. But what if your dad’s car was a multi-million pound speed car?

That’s the dilemma facing 19 year old Joe Wales, who recently tried to break the UK land speed record for an Electric Car. But in the process ended up damaging his dad’s car. 

Now it looks like its back to the drawing board for Joe and his dad, who is helping Joe to become the fourth generation of his family to break a world speed record.

No what do you do if your Joe Wales? 

Do you have another go? Or let dad show you how it’s done.