National Committee of Indonesian Society in Cooperation with Energi Karya Mandiri, an Non Governmental Organization based in Surabaya, has developed fuel for automobiles made of bio-ethanol extract from cassava. The research on it has been done since approximately nine months ago and now the result is to be tested for usage with much longer distance. Seven cars, all have been fueled with bio-ethanol, are parked and ready to go from Surabaya to Jakarta nonstop in one day.

On previous occasions, the bio-ethanol-fueled cars were only tested to go for a certain short distance around the city of Surabaya. The total numbers of cars which were used during previous tests is 1200 cars. The cars tested are specified in 3 groups. One group used the 50% Bio-Ethanol fuel (E-50), another used the 75% Bio-Ethanol fuel (E-75), while the last one used 100% Bio-Ethanol fuel (E-100). Among the cars using E-50 are Kijang Innova , Luxio, and BMW. The Avanza used E-75, and a 1990-manufactured car used the E-100. The E-100 is purely Bio-Ethanol fuel, while E-50 and E-75 mixes Bio-Ethanol with conventional gasoline, Premium.

The use of Bio-Ethanol economically benefits the user. Only 1 liter of Bio-Ethanol is used for a 14-kilometer-travel. While only 6 kilograms of cassava needed to make 1 liter of Bio-Ethanol fuel. The cassava used to make this fuel is an engineered cassava resulted from a mixture between local cassava and the Thailand’s cassava which can fruit 50 kilograms after nine months. One kilogram of the…

Multimedia vendor from Taiwan, Asus, in cooperation with the GPS technology vendor from United States, Garmin, for the first time launch a navigator smart-phone, Nuvifone M10. Nuvifone’s country manager for Indonesia, Willy Halim, said that the extra performance of software applied in Nuvifone enabled its feature in Global-Positioning System (GPS) to work five times faster than it did in any other smart-phones. Nuvifone is also able to do the fix list (process of acquiring satellite signal along with the position solution) in just 33 seconds!

Nuvifone is also equipped with the latest software to provide more updated choices of new objects and locations which are called the points of interests along with the ability to save the location data in case the GPS signal vanishes in a sudden. With the Click&Go feature, the user is only 3 clicks away from the location searched in the map. Meanwhile, for the navigation guide, Nuvifone provides many features such as text-to-speech, junction-view, and lane-guidance, along with the searching of the nearest point of interest such as the parking lot, restaurant, gas station, and much more. This 7.2 Mbps HSDPA mobile phone also has a built-in 5 megapixels camera, strengthened with the MSMM7227 600MHz processor, a 512 Random Access Memory (RAM) and ROM, and last nut not least, the 4 GB internal memory.

Nuvifone’s 3.5-inch screen makes it looks alike with the iPhone, not to mention that it is also ready for WiFi and Bluetooth connection. It is claimed that its 1500mAh-battery enables…