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Screen interface

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

The 9 cm (3.5) liquid crystal display (320 x 480 px px to 6.3 / mm, 160 ppi) HVGA touch screen with scratches glass is specially designed for use with a finger or more fingers for multi - Touch Sensing. Given that the screen is a capacitive touch screen, bare skin is necessary, a pen or a glove prevents normal electrical conductivity.

Almost all entries is through the touchscreen free iphone games, which includes gestures complex multi-Touch. The iPhone user interface allows the user to the content itself up or down by a drag-Touch movement of fingers. For example, zoom in and out of Web pages and photos are made in two fingers on the screen and dissemination on their part or continue their collaboration. In addition, scroll a long list in a menu functions as if the list is inserted into an outer surface of the wheel: The wheel can be “woven” by clicking with his finger on the bottom screen up (or vice versa ).

Phoenix lander’s work on Mars is delayed by a radio glitch

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Prospecting near Mars’ north pole was set back at least a day Tuesday when a communications link to NASA’s Phoenix lander, nestled into a wide, undulating expanse nicknamed Green Valley, was interrupted by what spacecraft operators called a “transient event.”

The event, caused by a cosmic ray or some other high-energy particle, knocked out the UHF radio on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, one of two NASA spacecraft circling Mars that relay computer commands between Phoenix and Earth.