Author Archive for Amro Hasan

Parrot AR Drone controlled by iPhone or iPod

The idea of the Parrot AR Drone is to create a performing helicopter with the best of today’s technologies in order to enter a new universe where, mixing video game and the real world is the concept. The parrot drone was built after 4 years of research and development.
The product will enable you to [...]

Hide your Face in Facebook

Facebook is big and getting bigger with over 300 million active users of which over 50% are active every day. If you are using Facebook, Twitter and other social-networking sites, then you need to be aware of the risks that you are likely to encounter and know how to avoid them and defend yourself over [...]

This is not Xbox 720!

I can’t believe that some established and well recognized publishing establishment would post articles about the next Xbox without even checking facts. As many are announcing that the illustrated device is the next Xbox 720, we would like to inform our valuable Genistra.com readers that these rendering are only a perspective Xbox mod, or rather [...]

Formula Al-Ahram Car Exhibition Coverage

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Formula Al-Ahram Motor show is one of the biggest motor exhibits to occur in Egypt. A lot of expectations were preregistered for this event and I have to say that I am a littlie disappointed. I am not saying that the show is a failure or the contribution by car vendors is shy. [...]

Toys Toys Unique Car Models

One of the really worthy stands in the Formula Al-Ahram is the Toys Toys stand represented by Bermawy Company. Toys Toys reproduces models of the most prestigious cars. The cars model comply with safety European Community norms and special care exercised at the design of these models.
I had the chance to meet with Mr. [...]

Google Wave: The Verdict!

Continuing from the article “Google Wave, coming soon to your life!”, I have had many chances since to try the new application and wave with a few of my colleagues. Allow me to jump straight into the verdict for this new technology. It is worthless!
The resolution for Google Wave is not well defined. You can’t [...]

Asimo – The world’s most advanced robot

In 1986, Honda engineers set out to create a walking robot. Early models focused on developing legs that could simulate the walk of a human. The next series of models were focused on walk stabilization and stair climbing. Next, a head, body and arms were added to the robot to improve balance and add functionality.
Honda [...]

World Wide Web Illusions

The basic applications and guidelines that make the Internet possible had existed for almost two decades; the network did not gain a public face until the 1990s. On 6 August 1991, CERN, a pan European organization for particle research, publicized the new World Wide Web project. As of 2009, an estimated quarter of Earth’s population [...]

Genistra’s Top Five Supercars Engine Sound

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One of the important characteristics of a supercar is its engine sound. It completes the sensation and the car’s impose. Some of the most adrenaline pumps of the engine roars comes from the engine itself rather than the exhaust system of the vehicle. Still, the overall package produces the car’s image. We at [...]

The Legend of iPhone

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Since Apple announced the iPhone on January 2007 and Time magazine named it the Invention of the Year, life has changed. People’s communication needs didm’t change; after all, the iPhone didn’t introduce any new means to making calls or text messaging. Still, the iPhone has changed us. It made us emerge in [...]

Formula One Police Cars.

Abu Dhabi Police have built the fastest police vehicle in the world. They have put together a 400 km per hour F1 car, the F999, that was unveiled to the public on Oct. 28 at a festival hosted by officers on the city’s cornice.
The race car is fitted with a siren, flashing lights and police [...]

Hologram Graphics, When is it coming?

When are we going to play video games using real 3D characters standing in front of us? When will we be able to walk around them and view hidden details of the game character and be surrounded by the fictional environment the game is hosted upon? Well, don’t worry! It’s near.
The definition of Hologram in [...]

Cray CX1-iWS Personal Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. A global leader in supercomputing, Cray Inc. has released a new supercomputer that is labelled as Personal.
The Cray CX1-iWS system combines a fully featured Microsoft Windows 7 workstation with a 24-core Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series [...]

Cray Jaguar, the most powerful computer in the world.

In November 2009, Cray Jaguar was named #1 on the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful computers. Jaguar is the most powerful computer system for science with world leading performance, and world leading bandwidth to disks and networks. The AMD Opteron processor is a powerful, general purpose processor that uses the X86 instruction set [...]

Google Wave…Coming soon to your life!

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At Genistra, we strive to present our readers with the newest and most significant products, services and news. To get hold of this kind of information on the age of the internet, is not an easy task where, almost news is available to everyone at the same moment they are available to the [...]

Dexter’s Laboratory…a cartoon classic

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Do you like cartoons even if you are old enough that your children like them as well? If yes, then you have to see this Award-winning American animated series produced by Cartoon Network Studios called Dexter’s Laboratory.
Its story revolves around a smart boy called Dexter who likes science very much. Somehow, he managed [...]