The German car manufacturer Audi is betting on the plug hybridization through e-tron models, but also introduce the rest of its range a new light hybridization technology over the next ten years.

The signing of the four rings noted that in ten years will equip all its new models, except for the e-tron, this 'mild hybrid' and in 2016 mounted an auxiliary 48-volt electrical system on a new model of mass production, while in 2017 the slight hybridization is based on the technology of 48 volts.

Audi said that this type of light hybrid system can be incorporated into the vehicle from the current 12 volt electrical systems and stressed that the generator can implement new functions such as the activation of the Start-Stop with residual speeds up to 15 kilometers hourly or temporary shutdown of the engine when driving at high speed and the driver takes his foot off the accelerator.

According to the company, the starter generator belt 12 volt technology has the potential to reduce by up to 0.4 liters per hundred kilometers fuel consumption of the vehicle.
AUDI
In this technology can incorporate an auxiliary 48-volt electrical device, which the German company will soon launch a series production model. This innovation makes the fuel economy is 0.7 liters per hundred kilometers.

"With 48 volts can implement the same functions achieved slight hybridization with 12 volts, but in much greater extent: for example, the phase of movement by inertia with the combustion engine switched off can take up to 30 seconds," the company added.

In addition, by providing increased power it allows implement new applications such as electrically powered compressor, which eliminates the need to slow down constantly, keeping the engine at low revs.

The 48 volt also enable the launch series production of an electro-active anti-roll system to control body roll. On this basis, it is also working on the project e-ROT, which is an electromechanical rotary damper that replaces the hydraulic and capable of recovering energy in the operation of the suspension.

The Audi TT Sport Cup 2016 will start during the first May weekend during the opening of the DTM season at Hockenheim, followed by a first three weeks later. For the first time, the race organized by Audi drivers will compete as part of the support program for the 24-hour race in the Eifel on a variant of the Grand Prix circuit.

End of June, like last year, two rounds are planned at the Norisring in Nuremberg before the start of the race at Zandvoort (Netherlands), marking the first foreign race of the season. After a two month break during the summer, the Audi TT Sport Cup will resume at two events in September. First, young drivers will once again show their prowess at the Nurburgring, this time on the DTM configuration of the Grand Prix circuit. Subsequently, in Budapest (Hungary), another race weekend outside Germany is on the calendar. The final will take place in Hockenheim from 14 to 16 October 2016.

In the second season of the Audi TT Sport Cup, Philipp Mondelaers as the new project manager, will continue the successful work of Rolf Michl, which supports product marketing of R and RS models from quattro GmbH. Mondelaers was involved in the development of engines DTM at Audi Sport until 2010. In 2011, he moved to vehicle development in the department of the race to customers. At the same time, he worked as a race engineer at important events celebrating the notable successes with GT Racing among others Audi Sport Team Phoenix and Audi Sport Team WRT.

"I was watching the inaugural year of the Audi TT Sport Cup with great interest and I look forward to this new challenge and to work with young talent," said Mondelaers. "This year's calendar highlights the international character of the Audi TT Sport Cup. At Zandvoort and Budapest, we have two new leads in our portfolio. None of the drivers are already raced Audi TT Sport Cup. The handle to the 24 Hours of Nürburgring will undoubtedly be a highlight. "
A total of 125 drivers from 36 nations participating in the Audi TT Sport Cup 2016. 20 cockpits are assigned permanently by quattro GmbH - two more than last year. Four additional cockpits will be used for various non-permanent guest drivers.

DNA technology

Spanish DNA have talent and walk on all sides. The "Made in Spain" technology is opening a significant gap internationally. There are opportunities to create solutions. "Startups" appear with brilliant ideas (some very original) and in front of the big brands that dominate the landscape, are hitting hard the hammer industry. Among the two thousand exhibitors, the fair Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will feature nearly sixty Spanish companies, among which the presence of BQ, Wolder, Vexia or IMASD in the field of mobility, but new products and services will also be other technological branches trendsetters such as virtual reality or mobile payment systems that aspire to lead giants like Apple and Samsung.

Mobile was returning to its global event, he lives an explosive evolution. Front investment in marketing and advertising devoted large firms in the sector, the Madrid firm BQ has stirred the market with a proposal that combines content quality and prices. Its success lies in a premise: the price of being "closer to the possible cost", considers its chief executive, Rodrigo del Prado, told the newspaper ABC believes that "users are demanding to the extent that the performance of the device value ".
DNA technology
Currently centered in the field of mobility, the company based in Las Rozas and seeks its international not rule enter the field of technology "wearable" though not in the short term. After the lukewarm reception last year, the forecasts of analysts point to the wrist devices live strong entry into the market, but for now, the so-called "smartphones" will remain the center of the digital life: "The dolls. Wearables are part of the ecosystem and more like an accessory ", considers. In this field he will also explore new GeeksMe Geeksphone with a monitoring bracelet can even measure sexual performance.

Seeking to break the duality iOS-Android
IOS and Android operating systems vie reign and have gotten even move towards obscurantism BlackBerry. The scenario in the short term, does not foresee any major change despite the imminent arrival of Windows 10, which proposes joining all kinds of devices. Ubuntu OS, which BQ has become the first brand to bet on this free software platform, has just begun his career and assume that the user has more options at your fingertips. "The experience [of this operating system] focuses on the user and has traveled", believes Del Prado, while being convinced that the duality between Apple and Google ecosystem "is doomed to break."

For now, Android is still the king of mobile, thanks in part to the growth of low-cost devices from Asian countries and one of the bets of Vexia and Wolder to achieve momentum in the market. The format "tablet" another leg of the market, also lives his particular reinvention and seeks a new vision more focused on the productive use of the device, from which emerge proposals as powerful Portablet Corem of Vexia that gets put under Windows 8.1 the level of the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 in order to achieve that desired extreme mobility.

"More and more people use tablets for work and professionalize keyboards allow the concept of tablet to be used anywhere. Is an extension of the tablet, "stresses Sergio Hernandez, director of marketing of the Madrid company, which is also part Reticare a solution of screensaver that" changes the concept of using technology to a more responsible use 'to allow protect the eyes of users. "The display device can be significantly damaging our eyes," he says. This protector, which will also be featured as part of the fair in Barcelona, ​​absorbs fototoxididad screens.

They arrive "smartphones" to the letter
Another solution to the various brands seeking to reach as Google with Ara Project is to develop devices constructed of modules and that could become the "smartphones" to the letter, a novel concept and that means' the logical evolution that had to reach mobile ", according to Jaime Goig, communications director of the Valencian company IMASD, presented at the Mobile World Congress the first" tablet "modular.

This system will "cost savings in the manufacture and development of devices" as if it were a desktop computer with many users modify their benefits (graphics cards, processors, DVD) to get leave the PC to your needs ( games, video editing). "The life of your device is elongated and assumed say goodbye to the planned obsolescence" he explains.

The rise of mobile payments
These phones we carry daily and you are rather looking minicomputers turn to methods of payment and virtual wallets whose main obstacle to banish plastic cards remains the lack of a standard and the difficulties of extending the necessary infrastructure. In their search for a new means of payment remains to resolve those historical plastic card systems, a technology which 'is obsolete "and" not conducive to free competition "in the opinion of Jonathan Hayes, president and founder of Dinube the first half digital pay and that has a privacy control, "great concern" Generation Mobile call: "The money supply created in the fifties of the last century and are currently managed by banks cards are clearly unsatisfactory for digital age. "

How to fly a DRONE

The main producer of drones worldwide, the Chinese company DJI, just restrict the areas in which their aircraft can fly in Spain. According to El Pais explains Jaime Guillot, director of the Spanish company Drone Spain, on Monday had tested a software update available for devices with working DJI. When installed, they found areas over which it is not possible to fly.

Spain Drone pilots knew that the drones DJI reject their orders if they try to blow them near an airport. GPS detects your location and the appliance off. In the event that the drone is already flying back to the place from which he left whether to enter a perimeter forbidden by the manufacturer.

But when you activate one of these drones in Valencia they found that, after upgrading, besides the airport in the Mestalla stadium also appeared as a restricted area. They found that it was not alone: ​​other Spanish stadiums are also marked as NFZ (No Fly Zones).

In the manufacturer's website where detailed these prohibited areas in Spain include the embassies of France, USA, Russia, UK, Japan and China; the Canadian Consulate in Barcelona, ​​Congress of Deputies, the headquarters of the Generalitat of Catalonia and several prisons. In any case these areas are less numerous than in countries like France, Germany, Britain or the United States. It is also striking to see on that site in Syria and Iraq, DJI drones are programmed to not fly in areas controlled by the Islamic State.

In the event that the drone is already flying back to the place from which he left whether to enter a perimeter forbidden by the manufacturer
When you speak with DJI, the company did not comment on the causes that have led to the renovation of the places that appear restricted, but announced in December will launch a software for its drones and control applications that enable live updates restricted areas flight. Devices is something that the US company will also make 3D Robotics, as published by Engadget.

DJI COUNTRY been referred to a document that explains that the restricted areas for your drones are increasing progressively. In some areas, pilots are advised that they are flying over a protected area, but not for safety reasons, such as the case of a natural park. In other areas, as is the case of airports, the drones can not operate for safety reasons but you can ask for a temporary release to allow flight. Finally there are areas where it is not possible this release for security. As is the case of the US capital, Washington DC.

The document also explains that the data are almost always provided by the company Airmap, with the sponsorship of DJI and 3D Robotics. It also warns that in the event of an investigation of aviation security or law enforcement DJI may disclose credit card or mobile phone number used to verify your user account drones.
How to fly a DRONE
The zones 'forbidden' include the embassies of France, USA, Russia, UK, Japan and China, the Congress of Deputies, the headquarters of the Generalitat of Catalonia and several prisons
In any case beyond such technological restrictions to flying drones they are also legal. In Spain it is forbidden to fly a drone over urban areas and outside them is required of a pilot's license obtained in an approved by the State Aviation Safety Agency center, although the current regulations are not final. Traders expect it to be modified to allow flights can be made in certain circumstances on cities.

The limitations on flight drones began when a device DJI exceeded the safety limit of the White House. Although the incident was due to carelessness of an employee of the presidential residence that was flying for fun, that event caused the Chinese company prevented the flight of his drones in Washington. A series of restrictions imposed then surely also contributed alarm that caused several journalists from the television channel Al-Jazeera in Paris. They were stopped by drones fly without permission of DJI in the city after the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine.

Keep in mind that the drones can be a powerful information tool, as we noted during the revolution of umbrellas in Hong Kong. Then, a young protester drove a drone DJI to film the city from the sky and show the magnitude of the protests. The images were viral and went around the world.

Aircraft of this DJI owe their success they are relatively affordable (some stores are sold from 500 euros) and have features that make them attractive to other appliances model aircraft designed exclusively for leisure, such as the Parrot brand. Popular models DJI Phantom are able to be piloted five kilometers away and capture 4K images. Although the company has professional models capable of carrying up to eleven kilos. Enough to house a professional camera.