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'Avatar' is out
2009-12-18 21:26:00
This movie is a true technological marvel.Don't miss it.http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video /avatar-clip-this-is-your-avatar/57ifx8d? from=sharepermalink
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“Person of the Year” for 2009- Pranav Mistry
2009-12-16 17:22:00
I don’t want to lag behind Time magazine in naming my “Person of the Year" for 2009 now that they have named Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for this honor. My person of the year is Pranav Mistry --this guy is a genius of our times. Pranav is redefining the meaning for the word “SixthSense'. His ground break research on, bringing intangible, digital information out into the tangible world, and allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures is just amazing.'SixthSense' devices are wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.I would like you to watch his video and visit his website to get a clear idea about the extent and impact of this technology. http://www.pranavmistry.com/This guy is a true philanthropist –all his work is open source.Prototype sixth sense gadgets cost as little as $350. I hope we don’...

Nemo H2--First fuel cell boat
2009-12-14 16:13:00
After  automobile it is the trun of boats to Go Green.Recently world's first  fuel cell boat -Nemo H2 was launched, emitting only water vapour and gliding silently through Amsterdam’s centuries-old canals, a canal boat—a popular tourist attraction—powered by fuel cells made its debut cruise on Wednesday. The “Nemo H2,” which can carry about 87 people, is the first of its kind designed specifically to run on a fuel cell engine, in which hydrogen and oxygen are mixed to create electricity and water, without producing air-polluting gases.
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Networking sites boost privacy
2009-12-13 17:24:00
Did you notice that resently Facebook took a step towards opening up parts of its site to outsiders by introducing more options for user’s privacy settings. The changes will make it easier for Facebook’s more than 350 million users to limit who sees their musings, videos, photos and other personal information, but will also give them the opportunity to expose a wider swathe of their information to a broader internet audience. The move comes as internet search engines like Google and Microsoft are showing interest in incorporating the growing trove of user-generated content from social media websites into their search results. Schrage, Facebook Vice President of Global Communications and Public Policy said Facebook users will be greeted with a message on Wednesday presenting them with new options to customise privacy settings and directing them to a new, simplified overview page of all their personal privacy settings. You will see that my blogs are short these days and We'r...
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Paper and Cloth Batteries
2009-12-11 19:09:00
If a team of researchers at Stanford University are to be believed, Batteries made from plain copier paper could make for future energy storage that is truly paper thin.These guys started with off-the-shelf copier paper, painting it with an "ink" made of carbon nanotubes-tiny cylinders of carbon - to collect electric charge..The coated paper is then dipped in lithium-containing solutions and an electrolyte to provide the chemical reaction that generates a battery's electric current.The paper acts to collect the electric charge from the reaction. Using paper in this way could reduce the weight of batteries, typically made with metal current collectors, by 20%.The team's batteries are also capable of releasing their stored energy quickly. That is a valuable characteristic for applications that need quick bursts of energy, such as electric vehicles - although the team has no immediate plans to develop vehicle batteries.The team says that adaptations to the technique in the future cou...
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Broadcast live through you iPhone with Ustream
2009-12-09 20:32:00
This summer has been crazy and I was forced to stay away from my blogging.I will be active again on blogosphere—My new year resolution for 2010 and I am starting on it right away.Just downloaded Ustream application on my iPhone and it turned my iphone live video broadcast equipment and it works like magic.Today the Ustream Live Broadcast er for the iPhone, was made available from the official iTunes App Store. This is the first live broadcaster ever available in the App Store, bringing the ability to broadcast live to anyone.The Ustream Live Broadcaster is a free app that enables live streaming on 3G or Wifi, and users can notify their Twitter communities when they start broadcasting, and interact with their viewers using chat or Twitter through Ustream’s Social Stream. For more information, go to www.ustream.tv/mobile
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MS Windows 7
2009-05-03 14:22:00
MS Windows 7, the next major release of the world's most popular operating system, goes public in trial form in the next week. A test version of Windows 7 will be available to developers from Thursday, while the public can try it out from 5 May.Microsoft is hoping it can avoid the negative press that surrounded the launch of Vista, the last major Windows release, almost three years ago.Windows 7 has been designed to be compatible with Vista so users do not have to invest in new hardware.A commercial release of Windows 7 is expected in the next nine months.Microsoft is hoping it can avoid the negative press that surrounded the launch of Vista, the last major Windows release, almost three years ago.Windows 7 has been designed to be compatible with Vista so users do not have to invest in new hardware.A commercial release of Windows 7 is expected in the next nine months.Windows 7 promises a major usability improvement on Vista, and a simplification of security measures which caused fru...

Rydberg Molecule--strange first
2009-04-23 19:29:00
Back in 1934 Enrico Fermi predicted that if another atom were to "find" that lone, wandering electron, it might interact with it but he never imagined that molecules could be formed.Recently Vera Bendkowsky and his team from the University of Stuttgart created such a molucle known as a Rydberg molecule; this is formed through an elusive and extremely weak chemical bond between two atoms.The Rydberg molecules in question were formed from two atoms of rubidium - one a Rydberg atom, and one a "normal" atom.The movement and position of electrons within an atom can be described as orbiting around a central nucleus - with each shell of orbiting electrons further from the centre.A Rydberg atom is special because it has one electron alone in an outermost orbit - very far, in atomic terms, from its nucleus.Unimaginably cold temperatures are needed to create the molecules.At temperatures very close to absolute zero - minus 273C - this "critical distance" of about 100nm (nanometres - 1nm = one...
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New Artificial Heart
2008-10-29 04:43:00
Dr Alain Carpentier's new artificial heart look very real expect for the colour and texture.The device is designed to be as similar as possible to the human heartThe device beats almost exactly like the real thing using electronic sensors to regulate heart rate and blood flow.Developers Carmat now need approval from the French authorities before pushing ahead with clinical trials.Several teams from around the world have been working to develop the perfect artificial heart that could be fitted into the 20,000 patients worldwide unable to receive a life-saving heart transplant because of a shortage of donor organs.The new heart is covered with specially treated tissue to avoid rejection by the body's immune system and the formation of blood clots.However, the power supply for the heart remains a significant hurdle.Carmat, the company founded by Professor Carpentier and Europe's aerospace and defence giant EADS, says the battery could last for between five and 16 hours after which i...
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The Large Hadron Collider experiment has stoped
2008-09-20 18:03:00
CERN announced on Thursday that it had shut down the collider a week ago after a successful start-up that had beams of protons circling in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions in the collider.It was at first thought the failure of an electrical transformer that handles part of the cooling was the problem, CERN said. That transformer was replaced last weekend and the machine was lowered back to operating temperature to prepare for a resumption of operations.But later it turned out to be a much serious problem. A faulty electrical connection between two magnets that stopped superconducting, melted and led to a mechanical failure and let the helium out and this will keep it out of commission for at least two months.
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Say No to Bottled Water
2008-09-16 20:57:00
That bottled water is not only hurting your pockets and the environment but also giving you diabetes and heart disease. An ubiquitous ingredient in plastics known as Bisphenol-A or BPA. BPA is the chemical once studied as a synthetic form of estrogen, but more recently known to leach out of some plastic water bottles and baby bottles, and that is found in all kinds of plastic products.A resent JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association) study has found a connection between BPA and diabetes and heart disease in adults. Scientists reviewed the health of 1,455 American adults and found that people with higher concentrations of BPA in their urine were slightly more likely to have heart disease and diabetes.This study was one of the largest BPA studies done in humans; it could only provide convincing circumstantial evidence that, where high levels of BPA lurked, so do diabetes and poor heart health. The study's authors wrote that their work could not definitively prove that BPA had ...
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The Large Hadron Collider experiment is on
2008-09-10 21:24:00
The first - clockwise - proton beam completed its first circuit of the underground tunnel at just before 0930 GMT. The second - anti-clockwise - proton beam successfully circled the ring after 1400 GMT. The beams have not yet been run continuously. So far, they have been stopped, or "dumped", after just a few circuits.Cern has not yet announced when it plans to carry out the first collisions, but some low-energy collisions could happen in the next few days. This will allow engineers to calibrate instruments, but will not produce data of scientific interest.The vast circular tunnel - the "ring" - which runs under the French-Swiss border contains more than 1,000 cylindrical magnets arranged end-to-end.The magnets are there to steer the proton beam around this 27km-long ring.In order to get both beams to circulate continuously around the LHC, engineers have to "close the orbit". The beams themselves are made up of several "packets" - each about a metre long - containing billions of pro...
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End of the world or unveiling the mysteries of universe
2008-09-10 04:27:00
Tomorrow the Large Hadron Collider is set to be fired up and everybody is wondering will it bring about the end of the world or provide the answers to the beginning of the universe .Built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research -- known by its French acronym CERN ,the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) buried deep underground along the border of Geneva and France is expected to reveal the secrets of Universe . The collider fires particles into accelerator until they almost acquire the speed of light. They gain enormous amount of energy as 2 beams of light travel in opposite directions, circling the structure 11,000 times per second.Scientists hope to put under the scanner the existing laws of physics describing the fundamental nature of matter.Giant detectors are placed inside huge caverns to record data. With 600 million collisions taking place per second, there is huge amount of data generated, which will be recorded in special computing system called the Grid.Some of the scient...
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Rap Performance — about high-energy particle physics
2008-09-06 01:47:00
Kate McAlpine the 23-year-old Michigan State University graduate and science writer raps about the Large Hadron Collider, the groundbreaking particle accelerator that has been built in a 17-mile circular tunnel at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.A must see on the YouTube.Click the link belowhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50Zs sEojtMMcAlpine honed her physics rapping skills at Michigan State's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, where she was part of a student research program two years ago.
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What is on your mind?
2008-08-18 04:13:00
The US military is paying scientists to study ways to read people's thoughts. The research could someday lead to a gadget capable of translating the thoughts of soldiers who suffered brain injuries in combat or even stroke patients in hospitals.Armed with a $ 4-million grant from the army, scientists are studying brain signals to try to decipher what a person is thinking and to whom the person wants to direct the message.The project is a collaboration among the researchers at the University of California, Irvine; Carnegie Mellon University; and the University of Maryland. The scientists use brain wave-reading technology known as electroencephalography, which measures the brain's electrical activity through electrodes placed on the scalp.It works like this: volunteers wear an electrode cap and are asked to think of a word chosen by the researchers, who then analyse the brain activity. In the future, scientists hope to develop thought-recognition software that would allow a computer...
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HTC mobile phones with Google's Android software
2008-08-15 21:53:00
HTC mobile phones with Google's Android software is expected to go on sale in the United States as early as October and T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer this handset.The device is expected to match many of the capabilities of Apple's iPhone and other smartphones that perform computer-like functions.Phones using Google's software will do the same thing. Google is making the Android operating system software available free to cellphone carriers and manufacturers who have agreed to provide devices which, like personal computers, allow users to decide which applications run on them.Google is eager to get the Android platform on phones quickly, because it thinks that the mobile Web is vital to the growth of its digital advertising business
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How about turning yourself into a flying machine?
2008-07-30 22:49:00
Yves Rossy, known as the 'Fusion Man,' flies with a jet-powered single wing over the Alps in Bex, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Some people go fishing on their day off. Yves Rossy likes to jump out of a small plane with a pair of jet-powered wings and perform figure eights above the Swiss Alps. The revolutionary human flying machine comes after five years of training and many more years of dreaming.
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Can water remember a thing or two?
2008-07-26 22:59:00
When we think of memory, most of us think of only living things but believe it or not some inanimate things like water can remember a thing or two.Twenty years ago, in the summer of 1988, the science world was rocked by one of the most controversial research papers ever published in the highly-respected journal Nature.According to a charismatic French scientist named Jacques Benveniste, pure water could somehow remember what it had previously contained.Benveniste had started with a substance that caused an allergic reaction, he diluted it over and over again until there was nothing left except water, and then he observed that the pure water still managed to trigger an allergic reaction when it was added to living cells.If the experiment was correct then it would mean rewriting the laws of physics and chemistry.Moreover, the research would have a major impact on the credibility of homeopathy, because it is a form of alternative medicine that relies on remedies made by diluting the ke...
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One Man Helicopter
2008-05-23 22:58:00
World's smallest one-man helicopter, GEN H-4, is seen here flying in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano prefecture, central Japan. It will soon take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci, who is credited with having first thought of a vertical-flight machine, according to its developer
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Rafflesia arnoldii - world's largest flower
2008-05-04 17:24:00
Besides the distinction of being the world's largest flower, Rafflesia arnoldii is one big stinker. Its odor has been described as similar to rotting flesh. Luckily, the parasitic plant, which can grow about 3 feet across, is only found in the Sumatra and Borneo regions of Indonesia
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Garmin's "nüvifone"
2008-05-02 16:00:00
Garmin is getting ready for the next quarter release of their nuviphone, a handset that looks a bit like Apple's popular iPhone, but with a mix of features that might appeal to business users as well.The nüvifone is Garmin’s first device to include Google local search capability, which harnesses the vast point of interest information available from the world wide web. Nüvifone users can search for locations like “coffee shops” and Google will sort the results based on the user’s current location and relevance.“Where am I?” feature lets users touch the screen at any time to display the exact latitude and longitude coordinates, the nearest address and intersection, and the closest hospitals, police stations and gas stations.It has a built-in camera that allows individuals to take a picture and will automatically be tagged with the exact latitude and longitude reference of where the image was taken.Cool device.Isn't it?

Universe as a Super Hologram
2008-03-25 15:30:00
You may have heard about the startling parallels between recent discoveries in quantum physics and ancient beliefs of Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism through Books such as The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra in 1975 and The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav’s in 1979.“Holographic Paradigm” is a continuation of this shiny happy alliance with a particular model of the universe that seemed to explain not only puzzling scientific phenomena but psychic experiences as well. The holographic paradigm was so named because of certain very unusual feature of holograms.In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart.Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is d...
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Google Bomb
2008-02-01 00:35:00
The recent attack on the Church of Scientology website introduced me to the term Google Bomb . Apprently this attack was a result of Google Bomb .A Google bomb (also referred to as a 'link bomb') is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentionsThe process of manipulating the results of Google by placing a link to a single webpage on several domains. The other most famous incident of Google bombing was when around 32 webmasters put the text “miserable failure” on their websites and placed a link under this text to George Bush’s autobiography. Causing this webpage to rank #1 in Google for the search term “miserable failure.”

origin of antimatter surrounding the galactic center
2008-01-24 19:35:00
New research based on the four years of observations from the European Space Agency’s Integral (INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) satellite may have cleared up one of the most vexing mysteries in our Milky Way: the origin of a giant cloud of antimatter surrounding the galactic center.Integral found that the cloud extends farther on the western side of the galactic center than it does on the eastern side. This imbalance matches the distribution of a population of binary star systems that contain black holes or neutron stars, strongly suggesting that these binaries are churning out at least half of the antimatter, and perhaps all of it.The cloud itself is roughly 10,000 light-years across, and generates the energy of about 10,000 Suns. The cloud shines brightly in gamma rays due to a reaction governed by Einstein’s famous equation E=mc^2. Negatively charged subatomic particles known as electrons collide with their antimatter counterparts, positively charged positron...
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Looking for Web Hosting
2008-01-24 00:46:00
If you are looking for web hosting choice it may interest you . Web hosting would perhaps be the most sought after web service required by netizens after domain name registration and finding a suitable web hosting provider, can be very challenging. Like for domain name registration, we have hundreds and thousands of web sites that offer this service all across the globe. Beside the price, you will have to consider other service parameters like Disk Space, Data Transfer, Operating System, Bandwidth, Up Time, Location etc., when selecting your web hosting provider. Web Hosting Choice has all the necessary prerequisites to help you make the correct decision.They have also rated all the service providers on scale of 1 to 10, which should also help in your decision making.This web site also has a Learning Center with some valuable information and is a ready to use tool-kit for new web users. So folks go and check this web site.
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World 1st Waterproof Video Camera- Sanyo Xacti E1
2008-01-21 19:12:00
Sanyo launched world first waterproof video camera Sanyo Xacti E1during the 2008 International CES, January 7-10, Las Vegas ( Consumer Electronics Association ) and is a beautiful gadget and a true work of art. This powerful little camcorder easily records both full 640x480 resolution video at 30 frames-per-second and high-resolution 6-megapixel digital still images, all of which are handily stored to a standard SD or SDHC flash memory card (sold separately). Designed to IPX8 international standard for waterproof, the Xacti E1 is capable of recording full motion video five feet underwater for up to 30 minutes. Incorporating a water-tight design that can resist the pressure created when submersed at five feet, the Xacti E1 is capable of capturing dramatic photos and video footage underwater to share with the less adventurous family members and friends. It has a large 2.5-inch Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). The display flips out from the camera and rotates up to 285 degrees on an axis ...
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Making Anti-Matter
2008-01-17 20:32:00
Antimatter is the mirror image of ordinary matter and both should have been created in equal quantities at the birth of the Universe. That everything around is predominantly ordinary matter is therefore a major puzzle.For years researchers have wanted to create significant amounts of antimatter to test the so-called Standard Model, which describes fundamental particles and their interactions. Antimatter is destroyed whenever it collides with matter, turning both into bursts of radiation. Today, the Universe consists of predominantly one form of matter and scientists are not sure why this is so.Physicists say they have mass produced antimatter, a crucial first step towards precision studies of its properties that may help solve one of the greatest mysteries of the Universe.Antihydrogen has been made before, but only a few atoms at a time. Researchers at Cern (Cern is the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) accelerator were have successfully created antiprotons and trapped the...
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Technology in Massage Chairs
2008-01-17 00:53:00
Every time one visits to a store like Brookstone or The Sharper Image, one is amazed at the range and features of the Massage Chairs they have to offer . Even more amazing is the technology that goes into making these gadgets; I calling them gadgets because they are no more a piece of furniture. Most of them have an in-built computer now and they will follow you instruction as if you working with a masseur.With Robotic motors and rotors inside, you can choose your massage type from Kneading, Rhythmic Pressure, Tapping, Rolling, and Kneading and Tapping together. With options like Airbag and vibration seat massage where seat air bags exert firm lateral pressure at the outer buttocks and upper thigh to stimulate circulation, while vibration massage soothes your tailbone region.If you compare with a $40 or 50 forty minute session with a masseur, it is great investment to go and buy one of these chairs.My thanks to human touch for sponsoring this post.
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Femtocell--Your Own Base Station
2008-01-15 15:09:00
If you are having coverage issues with to your wireless operator or Wi-Fi provider,now you can have your own base station--Femtocell.Femtocells are tiny base stations that go into homes or offices to improve voice and data coverage. Femtocells behave like small WiFi access points that communicate over IP broadband connections (e.g. DSL, UMA) to a gateway. The Femtocell creates the mobile user “home zone”. An operator has the opportunity to offer new services and tariffs designed for the “home zone”.They look pretty sleek, no bigger then a wireless router.These tiny gadgets are packed with features like-Core Network Emulator for testing of different access technologies, such as UTRAN and UMA-Multi-RNC support-Support of hybrid environments; concurrent support of UTRAN over ATM and Femtocell over IP-End-to End voice and UDI video calls-Load Test Capabilities for IuCS over IP and IuPS over IP-Intersystem Handover allowing a mobile subscriber to move from the “public zone” t...
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Tata Nano and Air Car
2008-01-10 19:34:00
I am amazed to see the similarities between Tata Nano --the world's cheapest car,at $2,500 and Air Car.Look at the picture below and the one with my previous post and you will see what I seeOf course both of them are produced by Tata Motors but I am wounder who's design is it---- Guy Nègre or Tata Motors ? However that does not undermine the fact that we a have a absolute beauty that will herald a new auto revolution in India and elsewhere.Company chairman Ratan Tata, who introduced the new car at India's main auto show, has long promised a $2,500 "People's Car" for India — a country of some 1.1 billion where only seven of every 1,000 people own a car. That vow has been much-derided by the global industry which said it would be impossible without sacrificing safety and quality.In terms of performance it doesn't offer much more than the Model T. The Nano has a two-cylinder 0.6 liter gasoline engine with 33 horsepower, giving it a top speed of about 60 mph, according to Tata. ...
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