Sustainable Supertree Grove at Gardens by the Bay

Located within Garden by The Bay, the Supertree Grove houses unique trees of up to 16 storeys in height. There are 11 Supertrees embedded with sustainable functions and cycles in energy and water throughout the garden.

You can walk along the 128-meter long skyway (bridge) that is suspended at 22 metres high. During a DukwTour (a war-time boat ride) along the Marina Barrage, we were told by the Captain that the Supertrees are powered by solar photovoltaic cells installed on their flat tops.

Panoramic view from the Observation Deck of Marina Bay Sands

If you are not a hotel guest, you can opt to view from here. You can go to the Supertrees for a fee.

Beside the Supertrees are the two conservatories: The Cloud Forest and the Flower Dome

 View from Skypark^TM  at 57th floor

Chill out on a cafe on top of the highest Supertree (about 50 m high)

View from our hotel room at 27th floor

128-metre suspended skyway connects two Supertrees

Take a walk here if you happen to be staying at Marina Bay Sands hotel.

Still in a Holiday mode, so, pardon the exasperated number of pictures. Happy new year & happy Holiday!

Samsung announced industry-leading 8-Gigabit LPDDR4 mobile RAM chip

With this announcement, future Samsung mobile devices could be fitted with bigger 4GB RAM and it could be realised as early as this month during the International CES trade show in Las Vegas.

Thinking of Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 4 already?


Another industry's first. Image credit Samsung Tomorrow


What this means is that, Samsung will be able to offer a breakthrough 4GB dynamic RAM chips which would be 50% faster than the current fastest LPDDR3 RAM.

In simple terms, you have more performance in your hand (literally). More importantly it uses 40% less energy compared to the latest chip - your battery should last longer!


Samsung Develops Industry’s First 8Gb LPDDR4 Mobile DRAM

Samsung has developed the industry's first 8 Gigabit LPDDR4 (low power double data rate) mobile DRAM. By combining four of them, the electronics giant claimed a high-end smartphone or tablet can get 4GB of RAM.

Today many expensive smartphones have 2GB of RAM, while Samsung's own Galaxy Note 3 has 3GB.

The memory increase and performance improvement offered by Samsung's chip will result in faster, more responsive applications and will open the door for more advanced features as well as higher resolution displays, according to the company.

The product also consumes less power than current memory chipsets, it said. Other expected smartphone trends for 2014 are faster LTE network connections and faster processors.


TheGreenMechanics: The latest Apple flagship, the iPhone 5S uses only 1GB of RAM compared to Samsung's 2GB and 3GB  on its high-end mobile devices. But the 5S feels pretty fast and perform just as good. Maybe it's how the operating system is written/programmed that matters.

I'm happy with what I have, save for the battery performance. I really need my smartphone to last longer than a day on continuous usage.


Source: Samsung

Happy, Happy New Year 2014

Wishing everyone a prosperous year ahead and may your wishes come true in 2014.

Fireworks at Marina Bay Sands @12.00 midnight, 31-12-2013

Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014, and best of wishes to all of us.

From:
The Green Mechanics
Marina Bay Sands (We celebrate new year in Singapore this year)
1^st January 2014 @ 1.00am

"Let's go for green"