same author, same newspaper, more importance.Jug Suraiya.Title: Undo the PaperworkBack from Bangalore - or Bengaluru, to give it its new name - I am happy to report that the erstwhile Garden City which was fast becoming a concrete wasteland - thanks to greedy property developers who believe that nothing succeeds like overbuilding excess - is sprouting new green shoots. One of the more notable among these is the recently opened...
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Plastic Devi
Hello friends, This is an article ive read from an Indian newspaper daily.i think this has the kind of a message for us indians to start becoming environment friendly.the author is Jug Suraiya.Title: Plastic Devihere goes,The face of the goddess is 25,645 feet from the crown of her head to her chin, and she is smiling at me. Her name is Nanda Devi, and she is part of the great Himalayan massif, of which i have a grandstand view...
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Samsung unveils Blue Earth, a solar-powered mobile phone
Samsung's Blue Earth handset might just be taking the green thing to a whole new extreme. Made from PCM, a recycled plastic from water bottles, the phone boast an "eco" mode for efficiently adjusting screen brightness, backlight duration and Bluetooth usage, and an "eco walk" app / built-in pedometer to tell you how much CO2 emission...
thermoelectric lamp tutorial
What you see above is a generator that converts heat to electricity. [Reukpower's] thermoelectric lamp is one of those hacks that makes you scratch your head even though you understand why it should work. The heart of the system uses a Peltier cool, just like the thermoelectric solar generator. When there is a temperature differential...
Aerodynamic tail makes Geo Metro even cooler
[MetroMPG], an environmentally friendly car enthusiast from Ontario, added a tail to his car to increase gas mileage. This 1998 Pontiac Firefly is a sibling of the cheap and popular Geo Metro. He had already done some work to cover a portion of the rear wheel wells to reduce drag. Using cardboard, duct tape, and an aluminum frame he extended...
Cooling LEDs by heating the water saves on electricity
Matthias swapped out his twin-tube florescent aquarium lights for LEDs. By running tank water through the aluminum LED mounts he’s transferring excess heat into the water in the tank, in turn saving some of the electricity that would have been used to heat the tank. Couple this with roughly 35 Watts saved by moving away from fluorescent...
Thursday, February 25, 2010
PLANET SOLAR
A skipper's dream of sailing across the ocean using solar power is about to come true. More impressively, he'll be sailing on the world's largest pollution-free yacht, the PlanetSolar, which is unveiled Thursday at the HDW Shipyard in Germany.
Raphael Domjan, the skipper and CEO of the PlanetSolar project, regards this event as a confirmation...
SURFACE
What is Microsoft Surface? Microsoft Surface is a revolutionary multi-touch computer that responds to natural hand gestures and real-world objects, helping people interact with digital content in a simple and intuitive way. With a large, horizontal user interface, Surface offers a unique gathering place...
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High speed video from cheap digital camera
Some researchers from Oxford University have come up with a way to produce high-speed video from a one mega-pixel camera. They’re calling the method Temporal Pixel Multiplexing. This method adds a digital micromirror device in line with the camera lens. These chips house over a million mirrors and can be found in home theater projectors....
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Smartphones that are hacked could be used to spy you
As smartphones become more powerful, they become susceptible to even more sophisticated attacks from hackers. Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey recently used a special kind of malicious software, or 'malware' called a rootkit to demonstrate just how vulnerable smartphones are. Rootkits are not a new phenomenon. They have been...
Samsung launches JET 2 in India
Samsung has announced Jet 2 in India and to be honest, it’s the same as original Jet but apparently with an “easy-to-use user interface of a conventional mobile phone”. The Jet 2 feature set remains the same with 800MHz applications processor, 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display (WVGA), Dolfin browser, DLNA compatibility, Media browser,...
Honda goes hybrid cars in India
Hybrid car in India was Civic which was priced at Rs. 21.5 Lakh and this 1.3 liter engine provided almost 50% of fuel efficiency. India was the 33rd country to grab this car and the company feels that this is a great way to do something for the depleting environment and also to gain some market and revenue from countries like India.
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LG launches 'Ice Cream' phone in India
Korean major LG's 'Ice Cream' phone has come to india. The company has announced teh launch of its latest clamshell handset, KF350, also known as the 'Ice Cream' phone, in india. LG KF 350 is targeted at the fairer sex and has been launched to mark the internation Women's Day (fallind on March8). KF350 has a 2.2-inch QVGA, TFT display capable...
NOW SURF UPTO 24 MBPS
If your slow internet connection has been a cause of great distress to you, BSNL now gives you a reason to stop complaining. The state-owned telecom operator has introduces a new plan that offers broadband speeds of up to 24Mbps. To avail this service, subscribers will have to pay Rs. 4,999 a month for speeds up to 16Mbps and Rs 9,999 a month...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES) 2009 —LAS VEGAS, NV—JANUARY 8, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation, in conjunction with the world’s leading content developers, display manufacturers, and PC OEMs and system builders, is pleased to announce NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ for GeForce®, the world’s first high-definition 3D stereo solution for the home.Forming the foundation...
Monday, February 22, 2010
Mercedes-Benz F800 Style teases with fuel cells, aggressive new look.
Mercedes has just announced its latest "research vehicle," the F800 Style, and as concepts are wont to do, it intersperses some extremely ambitious goals with plenty of viable and forthcoming improvements. The two powertrain options touted by the company represent this best. On the one hand, there's a perfectly reasonable PHEV setup that...
The Fairest Fight : Samsung i8910 HD vs Google Nexus One vs Nokia N97
In the battle of top end, large-screened smartphones, the Symbian-powered flagships have a new competitor: the Google Nexus One, selling across the world and offering the unadulterated Google Android experience. And this being the start of 2010, it's also a good moment to pitch the two open source operating systems against each other. But...
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Notion Ink Adam closer look
Notion Ink Adam gives a serious competition to iPad. The tablet of the notion Ink ‘Adams’ is apparently very good. The notion Ink Adam is a challenge to the Apple iPad. With extremely interesting technical values, it is a serious opponent for the iPad. A demo video for Adam is also available on the Internet too. Price is the notion Ink Adam...
Nanotechnology may help turn fabrics, paper into lightweight batteries
An engineer has found a way to cheaply and efficiently manufacture lightweight paper batteries and super-capacitors, as well as stretchable, conductive textiles known as “eTextiles” - capable of storing energy while retaining the mechanical properties of ordinary paper or fabric.Like batteries, super-capacitors store energy, but by electrostatic...
Dell Mini 5 Prototype
Dell's puzzled the world for quite some time with its outlandish Mini 5 -- at first glance it's just another Android-based MID, but a quick fiddle with it reveals the full-fledged 3G phone inside. So will it fit in a pocket? Can we carry it around like a normal phone? Is this the future form factor that will bring the ultimate balance between...
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