Honda New Jazz – Autoportal India brings you all the Details

Honda, the Japanese carmaker, has offered the Indian car lovers some of the finest cars in the world. Although the Indians warmly welcomed all Honda cars, the premium hatchback Jazz failed to excite the buyers. Eventually, Honda had to withdraw the car from the market. However, the company has decided to bring back the hatch now. According to the reports, it is expected to hit the Indian roads on 8 July 2015.

In its second innings, the Jazz is likely to be more competitively priced and positioned. According to web portals like Autoportal, Honda Jazz price is at INR 5.5 lakh and upwards. It is an indication that Honda is not leaving anything to chance as far as the second innings of this premium hatch is concerned. Another area of concern would positioning it in the market. As pricing and positioning were two major reasons for the failure of the first edition, Honda would now look to address them better. If what we have heard and seen until now, it looks like they have the things under control as far as the new Jazz is concerned. Even so, it would have to face a tough competition to claim its place in the market.

It is rumored that the price of the new Jazz would be between INR 5.5 lakh and 7.1 lakh. Honda is able to offer such competitive prices because of the localization that has happened in the new Jazz. It is said that the new car is carrying up to 90% localization, which has resulted in the company being able to offer the car at lower prices.

It is also said that the Jazz, like its sibling Honda City, will come in five variants - E, S, SV, V and VX. The tired and tested 1.2-litre i-VTEC petrol engine, which is currently on duty on the cars like Amaze and Brio, will also power the Jazz. This engine can generate a maximum power of 90 bhp along with a peak torque of 110 Nm. The diesel variants will have a 1.5-litre i-DTEC diesel unit, which is capable of generating 100 PS of power and 200Nm torque.

The petrol variants will get either a 5-speed manual or a CVT with paddle shifters. They are expected to offer a mileage of 19 kmpl. The diesel variants will be equipped with a 6-speed manual transmission. The mileage expected is 21.3 kmpl.

The safety and comfort features would include a 15.7cm touch screen AVN system, adjustable rear headrests, automatic AC with touch controls, paddle shifts (CVT only) , steering wheel mounted hands-free telephone control, fabric upholstery ,electric folding OVRMs, multi-view rear parking camera, ABS with EBD and Driver and passenger airbags, to list a few.

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How to Create an Attractive PowerPoint Slide

When you’re responsible for creating an attractive PowerPoint slide design, there are several ways you can make your slides look more inviting. It’s important to keep your attendees engaged throughout your entire meeting; here are some simple ways you can create a powerful and effective presentation.

Prioritize and Keep it Simple

Whether you choose to work with horizontal or landscape slides, remember that the main star of your show is always your audience. Don’t make the mistake of spending all of your time developing your powerpoint slide design; create slides with your attendees in mind instead. You do not have to fill in all of the negative spaces in order to keep your audience captivated. Sometimes less clutter is better.

Creating Great Slides

Create slides that accommodate your speaking points, rather than creating slides that leave little room for you to speak. Your text should be concise and to the point, and if you can use images instead of bullets, chances are your topics will be much easier to remember. Instead of filling in your PowerPoint presentation with too much text, draft a separate handout that you can pass out to your attendees after they’ve seen your presentation.

How to Use Charts

Whenever you’re working with percentages, it’s best to work with pie charts and to limit slices to around four or five color-coded graphics. When you’re comparing different qualities, horizontal bars tend to work best, and if you’re attempting to demonstrate changes that have occurred over several years, vertical bar charts might be your best bet.

Colors Enhance Visibility

Implement color schemes whenever possible to evoke feelings. Using appropriate color choices can help motivate your audience. Cool colors are best used for backgrounds, while warm colors typically work best for images that are in the foreground of the slide. If you’re presentation will take place in a brightly-lit room, however, it might be more effective to choose a solid white background instead of a colored one.

Your presentation can be a success, as long as you remember that it’s more important for you to engage your audience rather than solely relying on your PowerPoint presentation.

Lexus has designed a Working 'Impossible' Hoverboard

As there is a havoc development in the communication system, there are lots of changes that have occurred in last few decades in the transportation, personal and public, systems. Hoverboard is such a most modern personal transport solution, which is getting popularity among the young generation. This is such a craze now that it is used in popular film like Back to the Future (in both part II & III) and created interesting impression in the younger folks. But due to confusion of fear among the parents; it has not been marketed so far in commercial manner.

Hoverboard – A Glimpse of Real Thing

The Hoverboard is almost like a skateboard, but there are no wheels underneath like the later and propelled by levitation theory. Many scientists and companies, all over the world, are trying to make the best possible transportation systems by using the levitation theory e.g. “Meglev” rail system but it is not yet commercially run by any entity. The levitation system is nothing but an autonomously fuelled vehicle that runs on the strength of the magnetic power over the ground level, without touching the surface.

Undoubtedly, the Hoverboard is the most modern invention and it is going to be a big success in the personal transportation system. Although a decade ago, it was just like another science fictional issue but now it becomes a reality and already trial runs have been made by Canadian creator Catalin Alexandru Duru and also by Lexus – the famous car brand has developed their own version of Hoverboard and issued a real video of its operation.

Lexus – Its Own Designed Hoverboard

Though there are some instances of “real” Hoverboard videos and news but the authenticity of these claims are yet to be recognized but this time the famous luxury car brand Lexus, has issued a video trailer of their newly developed Hoverboard. It appears from the video clip that it is a genuine product and the company’s brand value cannot be challenged in this issue because the said Hoverboard is realistically run above the ground level.

For last 18 months the company was trying to develop the project in to a reality and only now they are able to prepare the prototype, which has been shown in the aforementioned trailer. While we are talking about levitation; the automatic realization is that the Hoverboard will have a magnet and has to run on a metal track. Lexus has confirmed that they have used liquid nitrogen cooled superconductors and stable magnets, the basic product for getting the levitation.

However, as appears from the trailer that it was run on normal skatepark or bituminous road but actually there was a metal strip or layer underneath the road surface, which is confirmed by Lexus. The company has prepared the most convincing prototype and it is very much real with a gorgeous design and look, which will soon be followed by others.

The “impossible” dream has already been translated in to “reality” and made the history by Lexus.

Brain-to-Text Tech Lets Computers Read Your Thoughts

Technology is continuously evolving and revolutionary in nature. A new revolutionary technology has found fame with its ability to construct thoughts into text in the most accurate manner. This technology showed that a person thought can be easily transcribed on the computer screen with ease and grace. This will be great news for the patients who lack an easier to communicate and express their thoughts in the past.

This is for the first time scientist has made a breakthrough in envision and developing a technology which can transcribe brainwaves into text successfully. This means that the people who are terminally ill or are unable to speak can use the system to ‘talk’ with the help of a computer.

People behind This Revolutionary Technology

This technology is a result of collective research done by a group of talented informatics, neuroscientists and medical researchers at Albany Medical Centre. This team has been able to identify the brainwaves which specifically relates to the speech by using electrocorticographic (ECoG) Technology. This technology was utilized to monitor the frontal and temporal lobes of distinct seven participants who were epileptic. During the research needles were used to record signals directly from the participant’s neurons through an invasive and safe procedure of making incision in the skull.

How The Research Was Conducted? 

In the research the participants were asked to read aloud from the given sample texts. In the same time a machine learning algorithms worked out towards finding the most likely word sequence from the signals produced by the participants and as recorded by the ECoG. With the help of existing speech-to-text tools then worked toward transcribing the continuously spoken speech signals from the brain activity of the participants.

The Findings of This Remarkable Research

The error rates during this research were extremely low at just 25 percent which is a positive sign as it shows the potential for this technology is vast. This finding proves to be a boon for the locked-in and mute patients who don’t have any valuable communication method before. The brain to text tech utilizes the decoding approach which offers an ideal option for developing real-time online application on the desktop computers which can easily read the signals and transcribe the thoughts without the need of a keyboard. Apart from this it can also be valuable for the humans in order to communicate directly with the computer in future without need of any intermediary equipment.

Future Prospects of This Technology

At the moment it seems unlikely that the bran-to-text tech can make it in the computer product segment as there is no viable method. Currently it can be done only by the researchers through cutting into brain and accessing the brain waves. But with further improve and research new ways can be found to bring it in the mainstay for public usage and greater good of humanity. It can be easily ascertained that the future prospects of this remarkable technology is endless.

Devialet Wants You to Experience an Emotional Sound Implosion

 Phantom speaker system has finally been made available in the markets around United States last week. This speaker system is capable of giving out sound levels which are claimed to be at the edge of the infrasound spectrum.

The company is based in France and will start meeting the reorders requested in the United States for their hi-fi speakers starting this September. Speaking about the business strategy that allowed Beats to earn their spot in the team of Apple, the company is aiming to provide a new step for the audio and music enthusiasts who are looking for enjoying higher sound levels.

Reports suggest that the marker will be having two versions of the speaker system. The phantom which will have 740 watts and 99db base model will be sold out for US$1,990. The other version which comes with 3,000 watt and 105 dB in silver will be sold out for $2,390.

One awesome machine

The creator of the systems is calling it the best piece of sound making it sound implosive coming out of the world's best equipment. It has been created with two pieces of proprietary technology. The company states that this hi-fi speaker system is the results of their hard work and research for more than 10 years. The system will be drawing nearly 3,000 watts in its Silver model and there is no noise released by any of its components like saturation, distortion as well souffle.

A SAM unit has been used for processing the music and the ADH processing technology has been used for merging the analog and digital amplification. The system can be considered revolutionary starting from the design of the Phantom. This design enables the system to deliver implosive and emotional sounds. The vacuum-sealed BHI unit is used for delivering an output with acoustical density. The consumers will be able to create a stereo set up due to the integration of a Dialog Hub and Phantom.

Devialet's Dream 

If a person is able to experience the speaker in person, they will definitely end up buying one. But making someone curious and getting to buy them is two different things, especially when we look at the pricing of the product. People will start weighing the price of the product before they can buy the product. If a consumer wants a stereo sound, the will need to spend atleast $2000 per speaker making it two. The additional Dialog hub of each unit will cost around $325.

Another roadblock of getting these speakers sold out will be the fact that the market is flooded with seven speaker systems with subwoofers to get theatre experience and Phantom is only combination of two speaker system.

Considering the highly competitive market, it will easy for Devialet to anticipate struggle. When it comes to consumer hi-hi as well as high priced products often becomes a centre of poor attraction. It is not easy to perfectly adjust with these systems. It might not be able to make it to the mass market since consumers are relying on live streaming audios.