The Fastest Train In The World Floats On Air In Japan

Japan Rail is rolling out a brand-new train that can hit 311 miles per hour. It's called the JR Tokai L0 (L Zero) and as it's magnetically levitated, it hovers above the track for smooth, frictionless travel in any weather.

Slated to begin functional service in 2027, it's only running a test route between Tokyo and Nagoya for now. The train features an extremely long and angular front car to reduce air resistance. Trains will be up to 16 cars long and can carry up to 1,000 passengers at a time as they shuttle between the two cities. It's a 200-mile trip by automobile, but this train will complete a run in 40 minutes. Other bullet trains take up to 95 minutes to make the same trip.

For all its technological promise, the train brings a big financial burden to the table ,it will cost about $100 Billion to build a finished mag-lev line from Tokyo to the ultimate finishing point of Osaka, some 500 miles away.

If everything goes according to plans with time and money, the Japanese will be able to move around their country far more quickly than ever before.

IPHONE 5S IS HERE

Yesterday Apple announce their new Iphone 5 range of phone. The launched the iphone 5s 

it looks similar to the other but has several hardware improvement and comes in 3 colors schemes, black with grey,white with gold and white with grey

The most important new feature of the iPhone 5S is its home button, which has been redesigned and includes a fingerprint scanner.The fingerprint scanner will allow you to unlock your phone by placing your finger on top of the home button. It will also let you sign into apps and the iTunes store so you don't have to enter in a password every time you download a new app, song, or video from Apple. The iPhone 5S stores your fingerprint on its processor.

The home button no longer has the same circle-in-square design. Instead, it's completely smooth and has a stainless steel ring around it. The home button itself is made of scratch-proof sapphire.

The next big feature is the camera. Apple improved the camera sensor in the iPhone 5S to bring in more light and show bigger pixels for better overall photo quality. The camera flash now has two LED lights, which will help colors and skin tones appear better in low-light environments and comes with image stabilizer that prevent you from taking blurry photos.

As for the camera software, you'll be able to take several photos at once in "burst mode." The software will then help you choose the best photo of the bunch.

Under the hood, the iPhone 5S has a new processor called the A7. The A7 processor is twice as fast as the processor in the iPhone 5. There's also a new chip called the M7 that houses sensors like the compass, gyroscope, and accelerometer. Health and fitness apps will be able to use the processor to track your movements.

HERE COMES THE SMART WATCHES

The battle smart watch has just begun with Samsung and  Sony launching their devices yesterday at IFA. Both are powered by Google Android (Ice Cream Sandwich) and have a 1.6 inch screen.

Sony's smart watch display has been kicked up a bit to a 1.6-incher with 220 x 176 resolution. Of course, that's still a tiny color touchscreen, so you're only going to fit around six icons on there at any one time. The device is also slimmer than its predecessor, which goes a long way for something you're going to wear on your wrist, though we wouldn't exactly call it thin at the moment.

Samsung Galaxy Gear has one glaring problem with it. It only works with one Samsung phone, the soon-to-be-released Galaxy Note III. The Galaxy Gear won't work with other Galaxy phones like the Galaxy S4.

We ll keep updating as things progress

MICROSOFT BUYING NOKIA'S SMARTPHONE BUSINESS FOR $7 BILLION

Microsoft will pay 3.70 billion Euro for Nokia's devices business. That's nearly $5 billion is U.S. dollars. Microsoft will also pay an additional 1.65 billion Euro ($2.2 billion U.S.) for the rights to Nokia's patents.

All together, the deal will cost Microsoft about $7 billion U.S.

Microsoft will also take on about 32,000 Nokia employees. Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop will transfer to Microsoft too. (Elop used to work at Microsoft before becoming the Nokia CEO.)

The joining of Microsoft and Nokia isn't a huge surprise. Nokia is the only manufacturer that exclusively uses Microsoft' Windows Phone 8 operating system for its top-tier smartphones. Meanwhile, Microsoft has struggled to gain significant market share for Windows Phone as Android and the iPhone continue to dominate.

Nokia's flagship Lumia phones are most likely the best-selling Windows Phones today. The company sold 7.4 million last quarter. A lot of those sales are due to the fact that Nokia attacks the low-end of the smartphone market with cheaper devices. It also makes high-end phones like the Lumia 920, 925, and 1020

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This can also be another sign that Microsoft is taking its transition from a software company to a "devices and services" company much more seriously. Until last year, Microsoft did not make any major products (besides the Xbox) itself. That changed with its line of Surface tablets that run the new Windows 8 operating system. The company announced that it was making the transition to a company that provides both devices and services.

But Microsoft has yet to make a smartphone of its own, despite numerous rumors that it had plans to. By buying Nokia, Microsoft now has its own manufacturer that it can work closely with.

Microsoft's purchase isn't likely to annoy other manufacturers that make Windows Phones either. Most of those manufacturers (Samsung, HTC, etc.) have been able to make more money from Android devices than an alternative operating system like Windows Phone 8. Nokia is the only manufacturer that relies almost entirely on Windows Phone 8.