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Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) are creating biometric robots for underwater use. The scientists have looked to nature to build robots that mimic natural behaviors. In the underwater robotic world, yes there’s an underwater robotic world, the robot of choice, according to the researchers, would be one that would be small, autonomous, sink and dive fast (no ballast system).
The NUS scientists say that’s a small robotic sea turtle that can think for itself and has the same behavior as a turtle – so it can dive, swim and swarm. Down the road, according to the scientists, they want to create a swarm of tiny autonomous robotic sea turtles to take on hazardous missions like underwater nuclear waste detection or other tasks too dangerous for humans.
The NUS turtle robot doesn’t use a ballast system which is typical in underwater robots for diving and sinking functionality. By removing the ballast system, the new robotic sea turtles are smaller and lighter which means they have greater energy efficiency and can carry larger payloads. This lets them perform more complicated tasks such as surveillance and water quality monitoring. The robotic turtle can also perform very deep dives and make a rapid vertical sink which means it can enter underwater tunnels or pipes to detect structural weaknesses or other maintenance issues that other underwater robots can not.
The NUS turtle robot is also self-charging which eliminates the need for it to return to a base station for recharging.
“In the future, we can have a swarm of tiny turtles which communicate with each other and act collaboratively to perform their duties. With improved maneuverability they can go to tiny and narrow places like crevices where bigger vessels are unable to do so,” said Professor S K Panda, Electrical and Computer Engineering department, NUS.
But it’s not just sea turtles, it’s shapes too. Other members of the research team have created an underwater spherical robot that can be used for oceanic surveys and inspection of underwater pipes and cables or a ship’s hull. The underwater spherical robot is vision-based and uses an on-board bottom facing camera that extracts positioning data to guide the robot. The spherical underwater robot can also dock on soft ground and harvest its energy from underwater currents. Once the robot lands on the seabed, the robot turns on sleep mode but keeps its monitoring sensors active and harvests more power from the underwater currents.
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There are premium product in the market that can do the same,but rift want u to enjoy the experience at $300 only. This is the begining of the revolution for next generation gaming.
Memristor can "remember" how much current has passed through it. And by alternating the amount of current that passes through it, a memristor can also become a one-element circuit component with unique properties. Most notably, it can save its electronic state even when the current is turned off, making it a great candidate to replace today's flash memory.
Memristors will theoretically be cheaper and far faster than flash memory, and allow far greater memory densities. They could also replace RAM chips as we know them, so that, after you turn off your computer, it will remember exactly what it was doing when you turn it back on, and return to work instantly. This lowering of cost and consolidating of components may lead to affordable, solid-state computers that fit in your pocket and run many times faster than today's PCs.
Someday the memristor could spawn a whole new type of computer, thanks to its ability to remember a range of electrical states rather than the simplistic "on" and "off" states that today's digital processors recognize. By working with a dynamic range of data states in an analog mode, memristor-based computers could be capable of far more complex tasks than just shuttling ones and zeroes around.
HP takes on Chromeboxes with $180, Windows-based Stream Mini PC.
HP kicked off the Windows war against Google's Chromebooks with its $200 Streambook 11, and now the company is back again to tackle Chromeboxes with its Stream Mini PC.
The Stream Mini is essentially a NUC-sized micro PC with a Celeron 2957U, 2GB of DDR3L/1600 and a 32GB M.2 SSD. In addition to the unit, you also get 200GB of Microsoft OneDrive storage free for two years as well as a $25 gift card to the Windows Store that can be used to buy apps, music, and even Xbox one games. And to further sweeten the deal, HP is even throwing in a keyboard and mouse too for the Stream Mini PC's $180 asking price.
US-based engineer has come up with needle-free injector
Parth Shastri & Bharat Yagnik,TNN | Jan 22, 2015, 05.24 AM IST Millions of children across the world are in mortal fear of needles that they face while getting injected medicines or vaccines. Dahyabhai Patel's son, who was getting a shot in the arm at the VS Hospital in the city nearly two decades ago before going to the US, was no different. He complained of pain and discomfort even afterwards.
However, Patel just did not tell his son that it was way of life and decided to change the scenario. Already into plastic products in the US, Patel worked for more than a decade to develop a product that would change the perception of injection for many - primarily the children who have to get the insulin shots on a regular basis.
D R 'Danny' Patel, 70, now based in Irvine, California, is a native of Chanasana near Gandhinagar. Patel was one of the guests during Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) organized in Gandhinagar this year. He got settled in the US during the second immigration wave from India as he went there as a student and later decided to settle there when he found good work opportunities after finishing his post-graduation in plastic engineering from University of Massachusetts.
He is attached to the homeland through his charitable trust in his native today. In the US, he went the entrepreneurial way and set up Computerized Plastic Molding and later National Medical Products. The latter primarily deals with his innovation J-tip, a needle-free injector, for which Patel has got a patent.
"The alternatives for the injection in some cases are patches that are to be applied to the skin as the material is soaked through skin pores. The jet injectors work on a very different principle - it pressurizes the liquid into fine mist and pushes it forcibly into the subcutaneous tissues without breaking the epidermis," he says.
Patel says that worldwide there is requirement of around 30 billion injections for medical use out of which today not even 1% is needleless. "However, with technology at hand and increased awareness, we see it as future option for many," he says. His firm provides more than 1 million such injectors annually primarily in the US.
Gesture-Based Remote Control. Gesture recognition systems are creeping onto the market now. Toshiba, a pioneer in this market, has at least one product out that supports an early version of the technology: the Qosmio G55 laptop, which can recognize gestures to control multimedia playback. The company is also experimenting with a TV version of the technology, which would watch for hand signals via a small camera atop the set. Based on my tests, though, the accuracy of these systems still needs a lot of work.
Gesture recognition is a neat way to pause the DVD on your laptop, but it probably remains a way off from being sophisticated enough for broad adoption. All the same, its successful development would excite tons of interest from the "can't find the remote" crowd. Expect to see gesture recognition technology make some great strides over the next few years, with inroads into mainstream markets by 2012.
Microsoft said its wire-free Microsoft HoloLens device will be available around the same time as Windows 10 this autumn. RELATED Dark Horse comics holding 'Star Wars' 50pc off farewell saleNames of the new Star Wars characters revealedMicrosoft cuts another 3,000 jobsMicrosoft fixes 19-year-old Windows bug'Star Wars' and 'James Bond' star Khan Bonfils dies during rehearsal SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp surprised the tech world with a prototype hologram visor that can bring the Minecraft video game, Skype calls and even the landscape of Mars to three-dimensional life.
The ageing tech pioneer, which long ago lost the mantle of the world's most inventive company, is making a bold play to regain that title in the face of stiff competition from Google Inc and Apple Inc.
Virtual or enhanced reality is the next frontier in computing interaction, with Facebook Inc focusing on its Oculus virtual reality headset and Google working on its Glass project.
Microsoft said its wire-free Microsoft HoloLens device will be available around the same time as Windows 10 this autumn. Industry analysts were broadly excited at the prospect, but skeptical that it could produce a working model at a mass-market price that soon.
"That was kind of a 'Oh wow!' moment," said Mike Silver, an analyst at Gartner who tried out the prototype. "You would expect to see a relatively high-priced model this year or next year, then maybe it'll take another couple of years to bring it down to a more affordable level."
Microsoft does not have a stellar record of bringing ground-breaking technology to life. Its Kinect motion-sensing game device caused an initial stir but never gripped the popular imagination.
The company showed off a crude test version of the visor — essentially jerry-rigged wires and cameras pulled over the head — to reporters and industry analysts at a gathering at its headquarters near Seattle.
It did not allow any photographs or video of the experience, but put some images on its website.
Microsoft has been working on the top-secret project for a few years, and showed off a number of scenarios: manipulating virtual objects that can be sent to a 3D printer, creating a Minecraft-like game environment in a room and letting users point to objects on the other end of the line in a Skype video call.
Most realistically, it demonstrated a lifelike panorama of the surface of Mars gathered from NASA's Curiosity Rover. NASA has already been working with Microsoft to develop software called "OnSight," which will allow scientists on earth to virtually explore and plan experiments on Mars.
"It is incredible and surprised me in how far the state of the art has progressed with holograms. I kept waiting for Princess Leia to appear," said IDC analyst Al Hilwa, referring to the Star Wars character.
"But the future wildcard is whether a significant chunk of the population will be willing to wear such gear. We also have to wait and see what compelling applications emerge and how broadly life-changing they are," he added
How to set up portable wifi zone: I would like to set up a Wi-Fi 'zone' that allows multiple devices to access the internet. More importantly, I would like a portable solution, which lets me use it in different places like my house, office, hotel room, etc. Please suggest options.
-- Tarun Sharma, Mayank Goel, Hemant
A portable Wi-Fi access point or router meet the requirements you have mentioned. Consider...
If you want to use your mobile service provider's data plan, then you should opt for a 3G USB dongle/data card. It comes with a sim slot and can be connected to a plug point (via an adapter), or even a PC or laptop. Here, you can look at the D-Link DWR-710 Le Petit HSPA+ (Rs 1,999) or the Huawei E8231 (Rs 1,980).
The former allows you to share your broadband connection with eight devices wirelessly, while the latter lets you connect up to ten Wi-Fi-enabled gadgets. The D-Link also has provision for a microSD card (up to 32GB), allowing you to share its contents wirelessly with devices connected to the network.
In case you already own a 3G USB dongle that's locked to a service provider (Reliance, Tata Photon etc), you need to get a portable Wi-Fi router that comes with a USB port and support for your mobile broadband service. For such a set up, go with the TP-Link TLMR3020 (Rs 1,290). This little router also has an Ethernet (RJ45) port for a wired connection. It does not include a memory card slot and needs to be powered via its microUSB port.
If you need to stay connected while on the road, then you can choose between the D-Link DWR 730 HSPA+ (Rs 3,800) and the Huawei E5730s-2 3G (Rs 5,400). Both have a sim card slot, built-in Li-ion battery and LED connection status indicators. The D-Link model houses a 2,000mAh battery and a microSD slot for data storage. The Huawei does not include the latter function, but has a larger 5,200mAh battery and an Ethernet port for a wired connections.
HOW IN FLIGHT Wi Fi WORKS: When you board a plane these days, the availability of WiFi connectivity is something we're beginning to expect, right along with the TSA full-body rub down and the fussy toddler kicking our seat for four hours. But while it's becoming common, the complexities of inflight WiFi and the variety of connection options are downright staggering.
What Kind Of System Are You Using?
Interestingly, the experience can and does differ, depending which airline and even which aircraft you're on, because not all airplane WiFi is created equal.
Air-To-Ground (ATG) - delivers peak speeds of 3.1Mbps, using cellular-based technologies. It operates in the 3GHz spectrum, beaming 3G signals from the ground into the sky from over 200 towers within the U.S. and Canada. 1,500 commercial aircraft use this somewhat obsolete system, likely including those old MD-80s on their way out to the desert.
ATG-4 - the next generation air-t0-ground technology, launched in November 2012. American, Delta, U.S. Airways and Virgin America have this on a select number of their planes. It bumps the potential connection speed up to 9.8Mbps by using a directional antenna which more-efficiently captures the beam being sent up from the tower at ground level.Gogo provides WiFi connectivity to many of America's airlines, including Alaska, American, Delta, United, U.S. Airways and Virgin America. Over 6,000 commercial and business planes worldwide have connectivity provided by Gogo. Ku - Rather than having an antenna mounted to the bottom of the plane, receiving a signal from the ground, Ku is actually a 12-18GHz band within the microwave frequency spectrum. For Ku connectivity, an antenna is mounted onto the top of the plane, under a radome. The antenna transmits data rates at 10-30 Mbps to the aircraft. Gogo Ku is currently installed on 15 international Delta Air Lines planes, and some Japan Air Lines planes as well.Ground to Orbit (GTO) - a hybrid technology that Gogo unveiled last September, promising speeds of 60 Mbps or higher, for planes flying in North America. It uses a combination of a satellite antenna on top of the plane to receive the signal and the ATG antenna under the plane to return the signal to earth. So technically, it's Orbit to Ground, but that's not nearly as catchy. During a speed test demonstration for us, download speed peaked at 46.52 Mbps.
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ReplyDeleteScientists Create Underwater Biometric Robots
ReplyDeleteResearchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) are creating biometric robots for underwater use. The scientists have looked to nature to build robots that mimic natural behaviors. In the underwater robotic world, yes there’s an underwater robotic world, the robot of choice, according to the researchers, would be one that would be small, autonomous, sink and dive fast (no ballast system).
The NUS scientists say that’s a small robotic sea turtle that can think for itself and has the same behavior as a turtle – so it can dive, swim and swarm. Down the road, according to the scientists, they want to create a swarm of tiny autonomous robotic sea turtles to take on hazardous missions like underwater nuclear waste detection or other tasks too dangerous for humans.
The NUS turtle robot doesn’t use a ballast system which is typical in underwater robots for diving and sinking functionality. By removing the ballast system, the new robotic sea turtles are smaller and lighter which means they have greater energy efficiency and can carry larger payloads. This lets them perform more complicated tasks such as surveillance and water quality monitoring. The robotic turtle can also perform very deep dives and make a rapid vertical sink which means it can enter underwater tunnels or pipes to detect structural weaknesses or other maintenance issues that other underwater robots can not.
The NUS turtle robot is also self-charging which eliminates the need for it to return to a base station for recharging.
“In the future, we can have a swarm of tiny turtles which communicate with each other and act collaboratively to perform their duties. With improved maneuverability they can go to tiny and narrow places like crevices where bigger vessels are unable to do so,” said Professor S K Panda, Electrical and Computer Engineering department, NUS.
But it’s not just sea turtles, it’s shapes too. Other members of the research team have created an underwater spherical robot that can be used for oceanic surveys and inspection of underwater pipes and cables or a ship’s hull. The underwater spherical robot is vision-based and uses an on-board bottom facing camera that extracts positioning data to guide the robot.
The spherical underwater robot can also dock on soft ground and harvest its energy from underwater currents. Once the robot lands on the seabed, the robot turns on sleep mode but keeps its monitoring sensors active and harvests more power from the underwater currents.
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ReplyDeleteVirtual reality gaming is here in the form of Oculus Rift.The history defining 3D headset let u mentally feel that u are actually inside a video game. In the Rift virtaul world,you can turn ur head around with ultra-low latency to view the world in high resolution display.
There are premium product in the market that can do the same,but rift want u to enjoy the experience at $300 only. This is the begining of the revolution for next generation gaming.
Memristor: A Groundbreaking New Circuit.
ReplyDeleteMemristor can "remember" how much current has passed through it. And by alternating the amount of current that passes through it, a memristor can also become a one-element circuit component with unique properties. Most notably, it can save its electronic state even when the current is turned off, making it a great candidate to replace today's flash memory.
Memristors will theoretically be cheaper and far faster than flash memory, and allow far greater memory densities. They could also replace RAM chips as we know them, so that, after you turn off your computer, it will remember exactly what it was doing when you turn it back on, and return to work instantly. This lowering of cost and consolidating of components may lead to affordable, solid-state computers that fit in your pocket and run many times faster than today's PCs.
Someday the memristor could spawn a whole new type of computer, thanks to its ability to remember a range of electrical states rather than the simplistic "on" and "off" states that today's digital processors recognize. By working with a dynamic range of data states in an analog mode, memristor-based computers could be capable of far more complex tasks than just shuttling ones and zeroes around.
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HP takes on Chromeboxes with $180, Windows-based Stream Mini PC.
ReplyDeleteHP kicked off the Windows war against Google's Chromebooks with its $200 Streambook 11, and now the company is back again to tackle Chromeboxes with its Stream Mini PC.
The Stream Mini is essentially a NUC-sized micro PC with a Celeron 2957U, 2GB of DDR3L/1600 and a 32GB M.2 SSD. In addition to the unit, you also get 200GB of Microsoft OneDrive storage free for two years as well as a $25 gift card to the Windows Store that can be used to buy apps, music, and even Xbox one games. And to further sweeten the deal, HP is even throwing in a keyboard and mouse too for the Stream Mini PC's $180 asking price.
US-based engineer has come up with needle-free injector
ReplyDeleteParth Shastri & Bharat Yagnik,TNN | Jan 22, 2015, 05.24 AM IST
Millions of children across the world are in mortal fear of needles that they face while getting injected medicines or vaccines. Dahyabhai Patel's son, who was getting a shot in the arm at the VS Hospital in the city nearly two decades ago before going to the US, was no different. He complained of pain and discomfort even afterwards.
However, Patel just did not tell his son that it was way of life and decided to change the scenario. Already into plastic products in the US, Patel worked for more than a decade to develop a product that would change the perception of injection for many - primarily the children who have to get the insulin shots on a regular basis.
D R 'Danny' Patel, 70, now based in Irvine, California, is a native of Chanasana near Gandhinagar. Patel was one of the guests during Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) organized in Gandhinagar this year. He got settled in the US during the second immigration wave from India as he went there as a student and later decided to settle there when he found good work opportunities after finishing his post-graduation in plastic engineering from University of Massachusetts.
He is attached to the homeland through his charitable trust in his native today. In the US, he went the entrepreneurial way and set up Computerized Plastic Molding and later National Medical Products. The latter primarily deals with his innovation J-tip, a needle-free injector, for which Patel has got a patent.
"The alternatives for the injection in some cases are patches that are to be applied to the skin as the material is soaked through skin pores. The jet injectors work on a very different principle - it pressurizes the liquid into fine mist and pushes it forcibly into the subcutaneous tissues without breaking the epidermis," he says.
Patel says that worldwide there is requirement of around 30 billion injections for medical use out of which today not even 1% is needleless. "However, with technology at hand and increased awareness, we see it as future option for many," he says. His firm provides more than 1 million such injectors annually primarily in the US.
Gesture-Based Remote Control.
ReplyDeleteGesture recognition systems are creeping onto the market now. Toshiba, a pioneer in this market, has at least one product out that supports an early version of the technology: the Qosmio G55 laptop, which can recognize gestures to control multimedia playback. The company is also experimenting with a TV version of the technology, which would watch for hand signals via a small camera atop the set. Based on my tests, though, the accuracy of these systems still needs a lot of work.
Gesture recognition is a neat way to pause the DVD on your laptop, but it probably remains a way off from being sophisticated enough for broad adoption. All the same, its successful development would excite tons of interest from the "can't find the remote" crowd. Expect to see gesture recognition technology make some great strides over the next few years, with inroads into mainstream markets by 2012.
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ReplyDeleteMicrosoft said its wire-free Microsoft HoloLens device will be available around the same time as Windows 10 this autumn.
RELATED
Dark Horse comics holding 'Star Wars' 50pc off farewell saleNames of the new Star Wars characters revealedMicrosoft cuts another 3,000 jobsMicrosoft fixes 19-year-old Windows bug'Star Wars' and 'James Bond' star Khan Bonfils dies during rehearsal
SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp surprised the tech world with a prototype hologram visor that can bring the Minecraft video game, Skype calls and even the landscape of Mars to three-dimensional life.
The ageing tech pioneer, which long ago lost the mantle of the world's most inventive company, is making a bold play to regain that title in the face of stiff competition from Google Inc and Apple Inc.
Virtual or enhanced reality is the next frontier in computing interaction, with Facebook Inc focusing on its Oculus virtual reality headset and Google working on its Glass project.
Microsoft said its wire-free Microsoft HoloLens device will be available around the same time as Windows 10 this autumn. Industry analysts were broadly excited at the prospect, but skeptical that it could produce a working model at a mass-market price that soon.
"That was kind of a 'Oh wow!' moment," said Mike Silver, an analyst at Gartner who tried out the prototype. "You would expect to see a relatively high-priced model this year or next year, then maybe it'll take another couple of years to bring it down to a more affordable level."
Microsoft does not have a stellar record of bringing ground-breaking technology to life. Its Kinect motion-sensing game device caused an initial stir but never gripped the popular imagination.
The company showed off a crude test version of the visor — essentially jerry-rigged wires and cameras pulled over the head — to reporters and industry analysts at a gathering at its headquarters near Seattle.
It did not allow any photographs or video of the experience, but put some images on its website.
Microsoft has been working on the top-secret project for a few years, and showed off a number of scenarios: manipulating virtual objects that can be sent to a 3D printer, creating a Minecraft-like game environment in a room and letting users point to objects on the other end of the line in a Skype video call.
Most realistically, it demonstrated a lifelike panorama of the surface of Mars gathered from NASA's Curiosity Rover. NASA has already been working with Microsoft to develop software called "OnSight," which will allow scientists on earth to virtually explore and plan experiments on Mars.
"It is incredible and surprised me in how far the state of the art has progressed with holograms. I kept waiting for Princess Leia to appear," said IDC analyst Al Hilwa, referring to the Star Wars character.
"But the future wildcard is whether a significant chunk of the population will be willing to wear such gear. We also have to wait and see what compelling applications emerge and how broadly life-changing they are," he added
How to set up portable wifi zone:
ReplyDeleteI would like to set up a Wi-Fi 'zone' that allows multiple devices to access the internet. More importantly, I would like a portable solution, which lets me use it in different places like my house, office, hotel room, etc. Please suggest options.
-- Tarun Sharma, Mayank Goel, Hemant
A portable Wi-Fi access point or router meet the requirements you have mentioned. Consider...
If you want to use your mobile service provider's data plan, then you should opt for a 3G USB dongle/data card. It comes with a sim slot and can be connected to a plug point (via an adapter), or even a PC or laptop. Here, you can look at the D-Link DWR-710 Le Petit HSPA+ (Rs 1,999) or the Huawei E8231 (Rs 1,980).
The former allows you to share your broadband connection with eight devices wirelessly, while the latter lets you connect up to ten Wi-Fi-enabled gadgets. The D-Link also has provision for a microSD card (up to 32GB), allowing you to share its contents wirelessly with devices connected to the network.
In case you already own a 3G USB dongle that's locked to a service provider (Reliance, Tata Photon etc), you need to get a portable Wi-Fi router that comes with a USB port and support for your mobile broadband service. For such a set up, go with the TP-Link TLMR3020 (Rs 1,290). This little router also has an Ethernet (RJ45) port for a wired connection. It does not include a memory card slot and needs to be powered via its microUSB port.
If you need to stay connected while on the road, then you can choose between the D-Link DWR 730 HSPA+ (Rs 3,800) and the Huawei E5730s-2 3G (Rs 5,400). Both have a sim card slot, built-in Li-ion battery and LED connection status indicators. The D-Link model houses a 2,000mAh battery and a microSD slot for data storage. The Huawei does not include the latter function, but has a larger 5,200mAh battery and an Ethernet port for a wired connections.
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ReplyDeleteWhen you board a plane these days, the availability of WiFi connectivity is something we're beginning to expect, right along with the TSA full-body rub down and the fussy toddler kicking our seat for four hours. But while it's becoming common, the complexities of inflight WiFi and the variety of connection options are downright staggering.
What Kind Of System Are You Using?
Interestingly, the experience can and does differ, depending which airline and even which aircraft you're on, because not all airplane WiFi is created equal.
Air-To-Ground (ATG) - delivers peak speeds of 3.1Mbps, using cellular-based technologies. It operates in the 3GHz spectrum, beaming 3G signals from the ground into the sky from over 200 towers within the U.S. and Canada. 1,500 commercial aircraft use this somewhat obsolete system, likely including those old MD-80s on their way out to the desert.
ATG-4 - the next generation air-t0-ground technology, launched in November 2012. American, Delta, U.S. Airways and Virgin America have this on a select number of their planes. It bumps the potential connection speed up to 9.8Mbps by using a directional antenna which more-efficiently captures the beam being sent up from the tower at ground level.Gogo provides WiFi connectivity to many of America's airlines, including Alaska, American, Delta, United, U.S. Airways and Virgin America. Over 6,000 commercial and business planes worldwide have connectivity provided by Gogo.
Ku - Rather than having an antenna mounted to the bottom of the plane, receiving a signal from the ground, Ku is actually a 12-18GHz band within the microwave frequency spectrum. For Ku connectivity, an antenna is mounted onto the top of the plane, under a radome. The antenna transmits data rates at 10-30 Mbps to the aircraft. Gogo Ku is currently installed on 15 international Delta Air Lines planes, and some Japan Air Lines planes as well.Ground to Orbit (GTO) - a hybrid technology that Gogo unveiled last September, promising speeds of 60 Mbps or higher, for planes flying in North America. It uses a combination of a satellite antenna on top of the plane to receive the signal and the ATG antenna under the plane to return the signal to earth. So technically, it's Orbit to Ground, but that's not nearly as catchy. During a speed test demonstration for us, download speed peaked at 46.52 Mbps.