Technologies

Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors has announced its debut in the touring motorbike market. The first model will be the SOUO S2000 GL with a new four-stroke 8-cylinder engine. This engine will be the basis for several models that will be sold not only in the Middle Kingdom, but also in other markets.

Great Wall Motor Company, which has been operating in China since 1984, has become one of the top 25 largest automakers in the world over the past decade. It is currently on the rise and is making ambitious plans for the future.

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The power output in three modes is 17.5, 672 and 1000 lumens. Eight-hour charging of the 3500 mA⋅h lithium-ion battery in the maximum power mode is enough for 4 hours. In this mode, the beam ‘beats’ at 300 metres. A backlit ring at the bottom of the device makes it visible from all sides to make it easier to find when dropped in the dark.

There is also a hook at the bottom of the device, which allows you to hang the torch in a tent, and with the help of a magnet – to attach it to ferromagnetic surfaces, for example, to an open bonnet during repairs.

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The prestigious 45th International Motor Show in Bangkok is sure to be remembered for an unusual sensation. The presentation of a flying car prototype by the Chinese company XPeng was perfectly complemented by an unusual Unicorn unicorn robot for children produced by its subsidiary XPeng Robotics.

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Speedometer 3.0 analyses how well web browsers perform on modern web applications by simulating real user actions. The effectiveness of Speedometer 3.0 is the result of a collaborative effort between IT giants Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla.

Through tests, Google developers identified and optimised the features that took the longest to run. These include the SpaceSplitString function, string processing and stylesheet deduplication, and others. The ‘rubbish collection’ was also improved, adding another 3% to Speedometer 3.0.

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Scottish startup SeaWarm, a subsidiary of the University of Edinburgh, has successfully tested a new technology called ‘HotTwist’. The idea is to extract heat from natural water sources that have not yet frozen and therefore store some thermal energy. It is not much, but it can be used for passive space heating.

Water can hold about 3,400 times more heat energy than air – which is why bodies of water do not immediately freeze when cold weather arrives. This will happen to most of them anyway, so taking away heat energy for human use will not create problems for the local ecosystem. A simple pump pumps the still warm water through a heat exchanger where it transfers the energy to the heat transfer medium, glycol.

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