Top 10 Best Cities to live in 2011

If you plan to a new country this year, I suggest you to pick one country in this list. This is the list of top 10 best cities to live in 2011. The countries are indexed base on mercer score, live expectancy, purchasing power and GDP.

1. Sydney, Australia

Sydney-Australia

Sydney sits on the first chart of Top 10 Best Cities to live in 2011. The total population of the city is around 4,504,469, life expectancy is 80.73 years and it has Mercer Score 106.3. The city is recorded to be the 2^nd richest city in the world base on Purchasing power per capita and the GDP of Australia is $494.6 billion last year. Sydney has nice climate and it has loads tourist objects.

2. Bern, Switzerland

Bern Houses 123,466 people plus modern infrastructure, transportation system, and facilities. The life expectancy in the city is 80.3 years and the GDP of the Switzerland was $491.4 billion last year. The economy is stable and that can make your live will be extended here.

3. Frankfurt, Germany

Frankfurt is a house for 672,000 people, sky scraper buildings, wealthy bankers, international universities and students. Mercer score of Frankfurt is 107.0 and live expectancy staying in the city is 79.26 years. Last year, GDP of German reached $3.673 trillion. With all those prosperities, it seems you would not have any reason to die young in one of the most prosperous city in the world.

4. Munich, Germany

Munich has mercer Score 107.0 and it is covered by continental climate from the Alps. Munich is known as one of the favorite destination of expatriate and migration since 1990s. The average life expectancy of the city is 79.1 years. In the city, you will find modern structure, top class education facilities, international level health services and many more.

5. Dusseldorf, Germany

Dusseldorf has Mercer score 107.2 and it is famous for the financial services, fashion industries and trade fairs. The population of the city is 586,217 and they are served by modern health care programs and stable political condition. If you move to this city, I think you can live for 70 years and more.

          5 other cities that are listed in best cities to live in 2011 are Vancouver, Canada, Auckland, New Zealand, Geneva, Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland and Vienna, Austria. Vancouver has Mercer Score 107.4 and live expectancy 81.16 years, Auckland has Mercer score of 107.4 and live expectancy 80.24 years, Geneva has Mercer score 107.9, Zurich has Mercer score of 108.0 and life expectancy 80.74 years,and last Vienna has the highest Mercer score at 108.6 and live expectancy 79.5 years.

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Top 11 Most Unique Roads in The World

Here’s the list of  top 11 most unique roads in the world. A road is an identifiable thoroughfare, route, way or path between two places which may or may not be available for use by public. If there is no road, it make us can not go to anywhere we want. There are many types of road in the world, such is below:

11. Youngas Road la Paz, Bolivia

Youngas road is known as “road of death”, and is a 61- (38 mi) or 69-km (43 mi) road, 56 km (35 mi) northeast of La Paz in the Yungas region of Bolivia.

Youngas Road

10. Capulin Vulcano road, New Mexico

Capulin Volcano National Monument is located in Northeastern New Mexico. It rises steeply from the surrounding grassland plains to an elevation of 8,182 feet above sea level. The irregular rim of the crater is about a mile in circumference and the crater about 400 feet deep. Capulin Volcano is one of the outstanding landmarks located in the northeast corner of New Mexico, where the rolling grasslands meet the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Capulin Volcano

9. Trollstigen Rauma, Norway

Trollstigen is a mountain road in Rauma, Norway, part of Norwegian National Road 63 connecting Åndalsnes in Rauma and Valldal in Norddal. Overlooks the road with its bends and the Stigfossen waterfall. Stigfossen is a beautiful waterfall which falls 320 meters down the mountain side.

Trollstigen Road

8.The high Five Interchange, Dallas, Texas

The High Five Interchange is a five-level freeway interchange, and  is the first five-level stack interchange in Dallas. In 2006, American Public Association choose the interchange as one of “Public Works Projects of the Year.”

High Five Interchange

7. Lombard street, San Francisco

Lombard street is an east-west street in San Francisco, California. It is famous for having a steep, one-block section that consists of tight hairpin turns.

Lombard Street

6. The Cherohala Skyway Robbinsville, N.C., US

This road is connect the two states, North Carolina and Tennessee, with a range of elevation from 270 m – 1620 m, Cherohala Skyway offers a unique view of American mountains.

Cherohala Skyway

5. Highway 1, Iceland

Highway 1 is a main road  in Iceland  that runs around the island and connects all habitable parts of the country. The total length of the road is 1,339  (832 mi).

Highway Iceland

4. The Atlanterhavsvien Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Atlanterhavsvien is the part of Norwegian national road 64 (Rv 64) that connects the island of Averøy  to Vevang, Eide, on the mainland; by extension, the road connects the cities of Kristiansund  and MoldeThe 8.3 km (5 mile) long road is built on several small islands and skerries, and is spanned by eight bridges and several landfills.

Atlanterhavseins

3. Passo dello Stelvio Lombardy, Italy

The Passo dello Stelvio is located in Italy, at 2757 m (9045 feet) is the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps, and the second highest in the Alps, slightly below the Col de l’Iseran (2770 m, 9088 feet).The original road was built in 1820-25 by the Austrian Empire to connect the former Austrian province of Lombardia with the rest of Austria, covering a climb of 1871 m.

Passo Dello Stelvio

2. Hana highway Maui, Hawaii

H?na Highway is the name given to the 68-mile (109 km) long stretch of Hawaii State Highways 36 and 360 which connect the population center of Kahului with the town of H?na  in east MauiAlthough H?na is only about 52 miles (84 km) from Kahului, a typical trip to H?na takes about three hours, as the road is very winding and narrow and passes over 59 bridges, 46 of which are only one-lane bridges, requiring oncoming traffic to yield and occasionally causing brief traffic jams if two vehicles meet head-on.

Hana Highway Hawaii

1. Guoliang Tunnel Hunan, China

It took the time about five years to finish the 1,200-meter-long tunnel (a little less than a mile) which is about 5 meters high (15 ft) and 4 meters (12 ft) wide. with views of either side stone cliff, and also few of tunnel through the Taihang Mountains, are secured through the street who is going to be an unforgettable experience.

Guoliang Tunnel

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Top 10 Coolest Laptop In The World

Here are the list of  top 10 coolest laptop that ever in the world. A laptop is a personal computer design for mobile use, small and light enough to sit on the person’s lap while in use. Most laptops are designed in the flip form factor to protect the screen and the keyboard when closed. Nowadays, everyone has a laptop as their personal computer. The advantage having a laptop that it easy to bring everywhere. Here are the list of the coolest laptop below.

10. The million dollars laptop

Luvaglio is a creator of luxury goods who are domiciled in the UK has created the first laptop with millions dollar coast. Complete details about the specifications of the laptop has not been released at this time, but had been known that he put 17″ for wide LED screen which special designed anti-reflective glare coating for a clear and bright picture. There are 128GB Solid State Disk and a slot loading Blue-Ray drive. There is an integrated cleaning screen device and a very rare colored diamonds which functions as the power button when it’s placed into a laptop, and also as security identification acts.

Million Dollar Laptop

9. Orkin’s Rolltop

Certainly Orkin’s rolltop will be one of item in the list of ‘must-haves’ of gadget lovers. Even if it is just a concept at the point of issuance. This “Notebook” comes with a flexible LED screen that also handles multitouch for those infatuated with the iPhone. When it fully opened, this notebook will be a 17″ flatscreen. But It also can be folded into 13″ tablets if required. Do not know if this notebook will be powered wireless feature or not.

Orkins Rolltop

8.Datamancer’s Steampunk laptop

It maybe looks like a Victorian music box but is actually inside Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 that given a carved wooden frame is able to operate Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It provide features intricate clockworks under glass screen, engraved brass accents, claw feet, an antique copper keyboard and mouse, bearing arms, and adapted with the network card. The machines can be light by using antique key way to build a custom-ratcheting, and made from old clock parts.

Datamancer Steampunk

7. Thinkpad Reserve Edition

When the IMB submits all of their laptop division to Lenovo, there are many fear that the Thinkpad design classic will lose direction, but with the design of the increase to most people will be impressed by this laptop concept.

Thinkpad Reserve Edition

6.Girly laptop

Several girls wants an extra attention not only from men but also of gadgets and even a laptop that looks cool, like HP’s concept was created specifically for women. In every one of the design by Nikita Buyanov has a set itself specific to a special pampering and acknowledges that a girl has a lot of desire stylish, they looks classy, stylish, trendy and even provide additional productivity to your personality. Unfortunately, it still has not really produced. But if enough would show interest, maybe next year will be provides a different view of feminine models made just for women.

Girly Laptop

5.Ergonomic Dual screen Split keyboard Notebook

The extraordinary goods results of this laptop is not just that the keyboard is ‘split’ to provide more space for computer users to customize their hands, but it has a second LCD hidden underneath, a fantastic idea. The second screen works with the first screen – giving the user features “drag and send” to open windows or programs. It can independently act as a stylus – based input for recording, sketching, and other things that users are able to do to write into the interface. It makes EDSSKN tremendous is not only benefit to the writers and word processors, but also for the artists and designers.

Ergonomic Laptop

4.Fujitsu’s DJ Laptop

Fujitsu ‘s DJ’s laptop, as it is called, has a 20-inch LCD screen easily folded closed key to activate the function of turntables, which can be accessed via touch-sensitive screen on the outside. The laptop lets you browse all of your favorite tracks are the same as vinyl-turntable.

Fujitsu DJ Laptop

3. Canova’s Dual Screen Laptop

Dual Touch Screen Laptops from Canova is a very creative for notebook design. The features notebook is dual display with touch-sensitive screens, sketch pad, music score, graph paper, electronic pen and a special hardware for smooth functioning. Unfortunately, It is only sold in Italy and Australia.

Canova Dual Screen

2.Type-N01 Emergency Laptop

NEC has been teamed up with Takara to create a laptop that mad scientist-approved machine, which is where all the token stickers, labels, and even wallpapers that make this device very similar to that seen in the laboratory of Duke Nukem movie. The notebook is a G-type L LaVielaptop, 15.4-inch screen. Flanking in the side is an indispensable key is “Emergency Button”, which is going to shutdown the engine when the unexpected intrusion. It is launched in 2006, made only 300 units and very confidential.

Emergency Laptop

1.2015 Compenion Laptop

Felix Schmidberger designed a laptop for 2015 with OLED touch screen. Computer itself has a OLED touch-screen, where you can directly operate them. It is very similar to the UMPC or PDA. The entire screen is a slider, because it can be moved forward to open the second OLED touch-screen below, where you can have a keyboard or controls work, similar with two monitors setup.

Compenion Laptop

There are many advantages in using laptop, as one of the advantages is that laptop can easy to bring everywhere we want to go. Besides that, laptop is an easier tool in technology that can easy the user in many things of necessary.

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Top 10 Biggest Rockets that Ever Created in the World

Here are the list of the biggest rockets that ever created in the world. A rocket is an aircraft, missile, spacecraft, or other vehicle which obtains thirst from a rocket engine. Rocket engines work by action and reaction. Chemical rocket are the most common type of rocket and they typically create their exhaust by the combustion of rocket propellant. However, careful design, testing, construction and use minimizes risks. Here are the biggest rockets that ever created by man in the world.

10. Saturn V Rocket

Saturn V rocket is the biggest rocket in the world and most powerful ever built in human history. This is a rocket that allows for humans to land on the Moon. Saturn V height of nearly 363 feet tall 40 floor building.

Saturn V

9. N1 Rocket

N1 is a fairly powerful rocket and missile developed by the soviet largest to send people to the Moon. But all these rockets have been destroyed during their test flights. N1 length is about 344.5 meters.

N 1

8. Ares-1 Rocket

Ares-1 is another rocket designed the U.S. that is currently under construction. After retiring from the shuttle, Ares will be the transport humans to leave space and even to the Moon again. Ares-1 has 310 feet long and powered by a single solid rocket engines during takeoff.

Ares-1

7. Delta IV Rocket

Delta IV rocket that is designed by Boeing’s Integrated Defense systems division.  It is designed for the purpose of U.S. military and commercial use. This rocket has a height of 206 meters.

Delta IV

6. Atlas V Rocket

Atlas V is made in the United States rocket designed to carry heavy loads to be transported into Earth orbit. This rocket has a height of 195 feet and has a total lift of 333 298 kg mass.

Atlas V

5. Ariane 5 Rocket

Ariane 5 is first flight test that failed in June 1996, with self-destruction during the 37 seconds after launch because of damage to the control software, which is undoubtedly one of the most expensive computer bugs in history. This rocket has a height of 193 feet.

Ariane 5

4. Space Shuttle Rocket

Now here comes with sophisticated machines are the shuttle. Made in the USA, the Space Shuttle is being used to deliver cargo into orbit with a medium-size and operated by a crew of seven men. Space Shuttle has a 184 foot high.

Space Shuttle

3. H-IIB rocket

H-IIB rocket with liquid fuel is made in Japan that provides a launching system for the main purpose of launching the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) to the International Space Station (ISS). It has a height of 56m.

H-IIB

2. Falcon 9 Rocket

Falcon 9 is a two-stage can be used to orbit; oil and liquid oxygen rocket-powered launch vehicles manufactured by SpaceX. The rocket is still in development and will be launched in late 2009. This rocket has a height of 178 feet.

Falcon 9

1. Proton Rocket

The first Proton was launched in 1965 and the launch system is still used in 2009, which makes it one of the most successful proponents of gravity in space history. It has a height of 53m.

Proton

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Top 7 Most Unique Energy Alternative to Replace Fuel

Here’s a list of most unique energy alternative to replace fuel. Fuel is any material that can be used to generate energy to produce mechanical work in a controlled manner. It’s also used in the cell of organisms  in a process known as metabolism. The processes used to convert fuel into energy include chemical reaction such as combustion. Here is a list of the most unique energy alternative to replace fuel.

7. Compressed air

Perhaps the most tantalizing of all the alternative fuel is compressed air. That’s all it takes to run a car. It was designed by French engineers and will be available to American drivers in 2010.

Compressed Air

6. Vegetable oil

Everywhere, people always underestimate about running cars using vegetable oil since this idea was first suggested, and now we’re taking the leap from concept to reality. Volkswagen enthusiasts can now drive with a clean bio-diesel beetle entirely, and they do not have to wait for it.

Vegetable Oil

5. Hydrogen fuel cells

The prospect of hydrogen-fueled cars have been tantalizing environmentally friendly car drivers for years. While car manufacturers currently grappling with technical challenges, such as how to store hydrogen in vehicles efficiently or how to prevent it from freezing and / or burning, evidence of hydrogen-powered concept car is a model of luxury Mercedes vehicles.

Hydrogen Fuel Cells

4. Ethanol

Most of us have been using ethanol in vehicles, as federal law requires a certain percentage on gasoline who we buy. But in 2010, Suzuki Motor Company began selling the car completely, 100% ethanol powered.

Ethanol

3. Water

This Japanese car, also known as Genepax, can travel around 80 kilometers per hour, for an hour, only on one liter of water as its fuel source. These cars use hydrogen electrons from water to generate electricity which, in turn, power the electric motor of the car. Many can not criticize him about water-fueled vehicles, Genepax is the most appropriate answer.

Water

2. Electrical power

Maybe it’ll look like a car who can only exist in movies, Peugeot of France has two large front wheels can rotate at different speeds and rotate 360 degrees. There is no word on when or whether this car will be available for sale.

Electrical Power

1. Wood pellets

Cars depicted here actually running using wooden pallets. Which is basically the same thing may be burned in a campfire or wood stove for heat production that creates energy. This is all part of what is known as biomass.

biomass

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