Get Nokia and Morph your life babyy!

Unbelievably stylish mobile devices and stunning technologies have changed our lives and made the world a global village by connecting the known & the unknown. And, Nokia is more at it! I already wrote about Nokia's ongoing innovative research on Mobile devices. Nokia has not stopped there, it is now using Nano-technology in its latest research and is going beyond imagination!

You're gonna go crazy, mad and then go buy one for sure! The Morph concept device, launched alongside "The Museum of Modern Art Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition is a bridge between highly advanced, latest technologies and their potential benefits to end-users.

The nanoscale technologies which the device uses will potentially create a world of radically different opportunities that open up an entirely new spectrum of unbelievable and amazing possibilities. The possibilites are endless!

The fantastic opportunities that Morph concept technology might create are:

> Transparent electronics

> Self-cleaning and self-preserving

> Built-in solar absorption that can charge a device

> Smaller batteries, longer lasting and faster to charge

> Transparent electronics

> Integrated sensors allowing us to learn about the surroundings and to make better choices!

The integrated electronics shown in the Morph concept could cost less and include more functionality in a much smaller space, even as interfaces are simplified and usability is enhanced.
Flexible & Plastic Design
Nanotechnology enables materials and components that are flexible, stretchable, transparent and remarkably strong. Fibril proteins are woven into a three dimensional mesh that reinforces thin elastic structures. Using the same principle behind spider silk, this elasticity enables the device to literally change shapes and configure itself to adapt to the task at hand.

If a folded design would fit easily in a pocket, an unfolded larger design could display more detailed information, and incorporate input devices such as keyboards and touch pads. That is too sexy!!

Self-Cleaning
Nanotechnology also can be "leveraged" to create self-cleaning surfaces on mobile devices! This will ultimately reduce corrosion, wear and improves durability. Nanostructured surfaces, such as “Nanoflowers” as they call it, can naturally repel water, dirt, and even fingerprints making use of similar effects seen in natural systems! Self-Cleaning and Self-Protecting is incredible!!

Advanced Power Sources

Nanotechnology makes the device surface a natural source of energy via a covering of something called “Nanograss” structures that harvest solar power. Also, new high energy density storage materials allow batteries to become smaller and thinner, while also quicker to recharge and able to endure more charging cycles.

Sensing The Environment
Nanosensors would empower users to examine the environment around them in completely new ways, from analyzing air pollution, to gaining insight into bio-chemical traces and processes.

Get a Sneak-Peek of Morph'ed Nano Technology by Nokia:

Personal flight- Springtail; Be Happy to be Alone and be alone to be happy!

You must have jumped out of a window in your home and enjoyed the jump. That is how it feels when you're on air for a couple of seconds. How would you feel if you're on air as long as you like, all alone... ?

I know it feels awesome! Trek Aerospace's Springtail Exoskeleton is a human flying vehicle. It is a single operator powered-lift vehicle that supports the operator in a standing position.

It can lift you to good heights and you can surely have fun. There are a pair of ducts, approximately one meter in diameter, mounted on the upper end of the airframe above the operator.

Each duct contains a fan consisting of five blades which produce thrust in the vertical direction and helps you move up. The fans are counter-rotating, eliminating the torque that is normally associated with a single rotor.

The ducts and fans tilt, individually, about a common axis for pitch and yaw trim. Vanes mounted in the ducts, just below the fans, are used for directional control. The power plant for the aircraft is mounted on the airframe to the rear of the operator.

The vehicle is operated by an advanced fly-by-wire computer control system.

The first of its kind is the "Springtail Exoskeleton Flying Vehicle (EFV-4A)." The Springtail EFV-4A is a fourth generation single engine powered-lift research vehicle. This craft was built for the express purpose of testing and proving our core technology.





This was accomplished on November 5, 2003 when transition to forward flight was achieved. This vehicle is still in service and is being employed as a test bed for further enhancements and refinements to the technology.

They are currently using this vehicle for expansion of the flight envelope. Get more information on this mindblowing human shuttle!

Get a close look at the flight here:

Cars that can Swim and Fly!

Do you think you've seen it all? May be you have! But, you haven't come accross Cars that run on water and travel inside the water and even fly in the Air!! Don't dream about these cool things anymore, cos they're a reality now.

This awesome car, Rinspeed sQuba is so lovely to have a look at, luxurious to sit in and ofcourse cool and comfortable to travel. Now, with the same and better comforts, travel inside water in the sQuba car!

Rinspeed sQuba is the first diving car with zero emissions and zero pollution in the seven seas of the world!

Rinspeed sQuba (on road)

With the “sQuba,” the world’s first original submersible car, the movie fake now becomes reality for visitors of the Geneva Motor Show (March 6th - 16th, 2008 Rinspeed boss Frank M. Rinderknecht (52) is known for his extraordinary automotive creations. The acknowledged James Bond enthusiast and Swiss automobile visionary kept revisiting this scene in his mind over and over: “For three decades I have tried to imagine how it might be possible to build a car that can fly under water. Now we have made this dream come true.”

And it is this stabile flight at a depth of 10 meters which sets the “sQuba” apart from vehicles like the military vehicles!

Rinspeed sQuba (in water)

Exactly, thirty years after the movie thriller ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ hit the silver screen “sQuba” is the first car that can actually ‘fly’ or mmmm swim under water. You will surely gonna watch this instead of the "Baywatch" beauties!

Power is supplied by rechargeable Lithium-Ion batteries.

Rinderknecht: “The ‘sQuba’ is a zero-emission car as documented by the rotating license plate in the rear. It produces no exhaust emissions. The Swiss are among the world’s pioneers in the area of hydropower. The ‘sQuba’s’ filling station is the water reservoir.” It is no surprise that the vehicle features powerful yet energy-saving LED lighting technology

3-D foil elements with embossed fish and sharkskin patterns from Wetzel Processing Group and Hornschuch add visual pizzazz and streamline the exterior.

Together with styling elements from Foliatec they create a harmonious velvety matt-white appearance.

German alloy wheel manufacturer AEZ, including it’s brands Dotz, Dezent and Enzo leader in the European alloy wheel after market since many years, developed a really special wheel for the Rinspeed sQuba. All in all, a good ride for you in your favorite vehicle, under water is guaranteed! A Dream Unveiled!

Download more of Rinspeed sQuba's pictures here! See Rinspeed's other Concept Cars and many more! Similar to the ideas of Rinspeed sQuba, you can also find other cars like The AmphiGator which are interesting too!

Check out a video exclusively for Rinspeed sQuba and have a great time lasting for a life time:



Now that you're fully wet, go up in the air for a hot air experience! Just get into the Milner AirCar!!

People have dreamed about flying cars for a long time and tried too. The idea of a car that has wings has intrigued many, and there have been multiple attempts to create such a vehicle. The fact that such a vehicle has yet to be produced is an indication of the difficulty of the project.

Here's the catch: By the time features are added to a car to allow it to fly, or features are added to an airplane that allow it to legally drive on public highways, the vehicle will have lost its efficiency and will neither be a good car nor a good airplane.

Milner AirCar in their factory lawn (When used as a Car)



See the making of Milner AirCar:


What you can expect from Milner AirCar:

- provides one-vehicle transportation from door to door
- uses existing roads and/or airports, no additional infrastructure required
- needs no public subsidy
- provides private convenient ready-to-go transportation,
- uses your garage and needs no hangar rental fees
- avoids hazardous weather by landing, driving through it, then taking off again
- is less-expensive than any other form of air transportation

In ground mode, the Milner AirCar will operate as an automobile and be about the same size as the Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic. A separate 40hp engine and transmission will power the wheels on the ground. The AirCar has modern instrumentation with two flat panel displays that display the appropriate information for air mode and for ground mode!

The vehicle will cost approximately $450,000. The initial prototype is being built as an experimental aircraft, with the eventual goal of getting the aircraft certified for commercial production.

The airplane will be eventually be pressurized, have normal deicing equipment and operate up to 25,000 feet.

Milner AirCar (when the wings are opening up)


Milner AirCar (when the wings are opening up!)

This allows the pilot to get above a majority of the weather without getting into the more hostile airspace above 25,000 feet (of lower temperatures, lower atmospheric pressure, decreased airspeed flexibility, increased risk of loss of pressurization, and the need for increased pilot training).

Do visit the The AirCar Design center for more information on the ongoing desing and technical specifications.


Milner AirCar, ready to take off!

(All pictures taken from the factory area) Get more pictures as a slideshow here! For more about the company and its awesome innovation, see MilnerMotors!

We already have gadgets that can make a single person fly, see my article "FLY alone and be happy!"

Also, watch out if someone around you makes a bike or bicycle that can run inside water or fly! Let me know too... O_O

By the way, I recently found someone making similar flying cars that I cannot miss out to let you people know! Visit Moller and Volante Aircraft, both are flying cars in the make-out! Check 'em OUT! Have fun...

Sing a Song with the Slingbox.. carry your TV with you!

Slingbox lets you watch your living room TV through the Internet, on your Mobile Phone or your Laptop! It can even be live sports or your favorite programs and your favorite channels in another room or while you're on your way to work. Oh my god, even at work or while you travel abroad!

It's like taking your TV along with you, wherever you go!

You no longer have to be stuck to your same old sofa to watch your favorite shows on TV. That’s because the Slingbox allows you to watch live television via the Internet on your computer or mobile phone. So now you can enjoy your favourite programmes or sporting events wherever you are.

The Slingbox turns any Internet-connected PC or laptop, Mac or smartphone into your home television. That means you can watch TV virtually anywhere in the world. Sling Media's innovative SlingPlayer software connects users on all types of computing platforms to their Slingbox which then gives them complete control over their living room TV.

The Slingbox gives customers the ability to control any Audio/Video device including analog cable, a digital cable box, satellite receiver, digital video recorder (DVR) a DVD player or even a still video camera. The SlingPlayer applications are fully compatible with all Slingboxes sold today.


This groundbreaking device not only allows you to watch your TV anywhere you have an Internet connection—with crisp streaming video as well, but also connects up to four audio/video sources. You can choose between your cable box, DVR satellite receiver or DVD player with just a click of a button.

You can have a look at a demo of the fantastic Slingbox here:



The best part is that, once you buy a Slingbox, that's it. You won’t have to pay for anything else to be able to watch your TV—and all its programmes—wherever you like.

It also comes in different varities with various features. For more on that, visit SlingMedia website and have fun!

Comparing Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail!

Did you ever bother to compare Google, Yahoo and Windows Live Hotmail services?

It's amazing to see that as you just like Google! These three services, along with AOL mail, make up most of the 500 million plus Internet users around the world.

These users are still using the good old Yahoo Mail and Hotmail interfaces that require page refreshes for each and every click. However, the newer applications, along with Gmail, offer a rich experience much like your e-mail client. When these web-mail clients are performing well, their speed and ease of use is easily as good as an e-mail client.

All in all, everyone prefers Gmail over other webmail applications because of performance, speed is consistently fast, and e-mails can be tagged making search much more effective. They also offer huge storage and other features, and it’s free! That is important.

However, Yahoo and Windows Live Hotmail offer more mainstream Outlook-like user interfaces (although Live Hotmail does not allow you to access other email accounts from their application), whereas Gmail takes some time to get used to. But, we guys hardly need any time. :)



If you are looking for speed and tagging is important, Gmail is for you. If you are looking for the closest thing to Outlook online, go with Yahoo Mail. Nowadays, we love to use Gmail and will continue to use it while having an alternative option of having a Yahoo ID! That's how being really smart and enjoying it from both the worlds.



Check out the chart compaing these major e-mail services on a feature-by-feature basis. Note that the user numbers for Yahoo and Hotmail include legacy users still on the old platforms.

Let's see what exactly is happening with Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.

Yahoo Mail:

--> Is very good, allowing users to access other email accounts (POP-in), but only offers the POP-out access only for an additional fee which may not be that good for most folks! This is probably due to the legacy users who are already paying for this feature; Yahoo may not want to give up this revenue stream.

--> Storage is on the low side - only 1 GB, which is less than half of what Gmail offers! Still, Yahoo Mail has recently been running very fast and offers an intuitive, Outlook-like interface. Instant Messaging and RSS integration is going great.

Windows Live Hotmail:

--> The new Windows Live Hotmail will be a welcome change to Microsoft’s 228 million webmail users which frankly speaking look cool!

--> It falls just short of the Yahoo and Gmail offerings. Live Hotmail offers 2 GB of storage, better than Yahoo, but there are no POP-in or POP-out features at all, which actually is the best feature averyone's enjoying nowadays!

Gmail:

--> Gmail group emails in a thread into a single line in the Inbox, this is exciting and new. Some users love this, others hate it.

--> The best Gmail feature is the ability to tag emails for better organization and search. None of the other services offer this!

--> Gmail also has integrated Gtalk into the GMail interface, and continues to add other functionality as well (such as integration with Docs & Spreadsheets). Gmail is consistently fast, offers the most storage and free POP-in and POP-out, meaning you can use Gmail to access your other email accounts, or access GMail from whatever email client you use.

--> The fact that Google is paired with Google Calendar, the best online Calendar application, doesn’t hurt, either.

That's what a best service is supposed to have. I know that you too would agree that Gmail is the best... and the story newer ends as the competition is there any given time!

Electrons of an Atom captured in a Camera!

Yes, that is correct. I am not gone crazy... but it is indeed true!!

See a movie clip of Electron showing how an electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom! This is the first time an electron has ever been filmed, and the results are presented in the latest issue of Physical Review Letters.


<~ Electrons around an Atom

Previously it has been impossible to photograph electrons since their extremely high velocities have produced blurry pictures. In order to capture these rapid events, extremely short flashes of light are necessary, but such flashes were not previously available. With the use of a newly developed technology for generating short pulses from intense laser light, so-called attosecond pulses, scientists at the Lund University Faculty of Engineering in Sweden have managed to capture the electron motion for the first time.

Watch the video here:

You may also see the related PDF article in Physical Review Letters

Do you know that it takes about 150 attoseconds for an electron to circle the nucleus of an atom! An attosecond is 10-18 seconds long, or, expressed in another way: an attosecond is related to a second as a second is related to the age of the universe! With the aid of another laser these scientists have moreover succeeded in guiding the motion of the electron so that they can capture a collision between an electron and an atom on film.


<~ A Nitrogen atom with Electrons

These scientists also hope to find out more about what happens with the rest of the atom when an inner electron leaves it, for instance how and when the other electrons fill in the gap that is created.

Note that the length of the film corresponds to a single oscillation of the light, but the speed has then been ratcheted down considerably so that we can watch it. Please also see that the filmed sequence shows the energy distribution of the electron and is therefore not a film in the usual sense. :)

Previously scientists have studied the movements of electrons using indirect methods, such as by metering their spectrum. With these methods it has only been possible to measure the result of an electron’s movement, whereas now we have the opportunity to monitor the entire event. By taking several pictures of exactly the same moment in the process, it’s possible to create stronger, but still sharp, images.



<~ Digital Stroboscope

A precondition is for the process to be repeated in an identical manner, which is the case regarding the movement of an electron in a ray of light. They started with a so-called Stroboscope.

A stroboscope enables us to ‘freeze’ a periodic movement, like capturing a hummingbird flapping its wings. You then take several pictures when the wings are in the same position, such as at the top, and the picture will turn out clear, despite the rapid motion.

For more information about the research of Attosecond Physics, visit the University's web site HERE!

Silicon to shed light on our lives soon!

Light bulbs are official now, as they are being manufactured using Silicon! Yes, the same Silicon, which is the basic building block of all the high-tech electronics around you! Officially called Solid State Light Bulbs!

Why are they struggling to have Silicon for everything and now lights?? Yeah, that's a genuine doubt!

We all know that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1880, and, since the 1920s, the incandescent light bulb has remained largely unchanged. While that's a testament to Edison's ingenuity, it's also a bulb that uses up to 95% of its power to generate heat rather than light.

Natural Silicon ~>


In order to improve this efficiency, the fluorescent bulb has recently gained popularity as an alternative; uses just about 25% of its power for light and lasts up to 10,000 hours, compared with the incandescent bulb's 1,500-hour lifetime! The incandescent light bulb has changed very little since it was first invented more than 100 years ago.

It hasn’t grown much more efficient over the years, yet it’s used today in some 4.4 billion of North America’s 7 billion fixtures—in large part because the challenge of developing an inexpensive energy-saving alternative has proved exceedingly difficult. While Compact Fluorescent Bulbs (CFLs) have caught on lately with their promise of energy savings, they’re still only about 20 to 25% efficient.

However, unlike the recyclable incandescent bulb, fluorescent bulbs contain phosphor and mercury - toxic chemicals that could pose disposal problems on a large scale.

Incandescent bulbs ~>


Good news is that a company called Group IV Semiconductor, from Ottawa, Canada, is hoping to cre ate a light bulb that further increases the efficiency of fluorescent bulbs, while using completely non-toxic materials!

Group IV has been working on a unique bulb design, one that uses a tiny computer chip in place of a traditional wire filament or gas.

The so called Solid State Light Bulbs use low-cost Silicon technology originally developed for fiber optic networks in the early 2000s. The chips were intended to boost the light signal, increasing its speed and allowing it to travel longer distances. As you know, today, it is being used everywhere including cell phones, computers, and other major electronic products!

What you do not know is that lighting is a whopping $12-billion global industry.



LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes)

Countries including UK and Australia have laws to ban incandescent bulbs by 2011.

Other countries, including the US, are considering the same. Fluorescent bulbs are currently the main replacement bulb. It is understood that solid state light bulbs could offer a non-toxic alternative, better lighting quality and higher efficiency than fluorescent bulbs!

While some types of solid state lighting exist, they are currently too expensive for mass production. For instalnce, LEDs use expensive semiconductors such as Gallium Nitride, rather than Silicon, and often give off an undesirable bluish color.

The challenge with using silicon is that the material is poor at emitting light. Working on the same, Group IV uses electrical current to energize electrons within silicon quantum dots, which give off energy in the form of photons.

They hope to have final prototypes of the technology by 2010, with bulbs on store shelves by 2011 that cost about the same as fluorescent bulbs! Thats good news.

Great news is that this has attracted several big investors, such as Vinod Khosla, the founding chief executive of Sun Microsystems. Also Applied Materials Inc., which makes manufacturing equipment, has plans to help Group IV ramp up production of the bulbs once the prototypes have been perfected.

Group IV also has plans to sell the microchip technology to major electrical companies such as General Electric, which will incorporate the chip in their own bulb production!






See the video of Group IV Semiconductor's ongoing innovative engineering for brighter and cost effective silicon world of light:

Water replaces Petrol and HOW???

Water, water and water! More than 70% of Earth is water. Petrol, we cannot compare it with water. However, the fact is it's gonna be no more very soon and people will soon realize that it is a non-renewable fuel resource!

Still people can't stop buying new vehicles! Any alternative? Do not buy any vehicle that uses petrol or diesel! Use water instead... Oh yeah, you heard it right! Use water which is available abundantly and for free...

Meet American Stanley Meyer, who invented Water fuel cell. According to the working principle of the Water fuel cell he invented, it is designed to produce Hydrogen and Oxygen seperately from water using electricity, by a method called water electrolysis! And the Hydrogen gas is used as the fuel.

So far so good. In 1996, inventor Stanley Meyer was sued by investors to whom he had sold dealerships, offering the right to do business in Water Fuel Cell technology. According to The Times, Meyer claimed in court that his invention "opened the way for a car which would 'run on water', powered simply by a car battery."

The car would even run perpetually without fuel since the energy needed to continue the "fracturing" was low enough for the engine's dynamo to recharge the car's battery. His car was due to be examined by the expert witness Michael Laughton, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

You may see a video of his invention here:



However, Meyer made what Professor Laughton considered a "lame excuse" on the days of examination and did not allow the test to proceed.

The Water Fuel Cell, on the other hand, was examined by three expert witnesses in court who found that there "was nothing revolutionary about the cell at all and that it was simply using conventional electrolysis". On the basis of the evidence the court found Meyer guilty of "gross and egregious fraud" and ordered to repay the investors their $25,000.

Stanley Meyer seemed to be ambitious. However, it is unfortunate that he was died at the age of 57 after eating at a restaurant on 21 March 1998. An autopsy report by Franklin County coroner William R. Adrion showed the cause of death to be a cerebral aneurysm. Conspiracy theories persist, however, that he was poisoned, and that oil companies and the United States government were involved in his death. It is argued that this was done to suppress the technology in spite of the fact that complete plans remain available online.

Many of them have already started working on Meyer's idea! One of those useful discoveries useful for the World is here. See the video:


Some lectures explaining his invention:



Every human being is helped if this invention turns out to be correct or corrected by anyone. What's important is the idea behind it. Atleast this could make some brains work on it and may be they will find a solution to this BIG question. One of such innovative companies working on the same is HERE!

Guess if we drive our cars soon with just water and a girlfriend! Hope you enjoy... do not forget to comment people!

Microsoft is dangerous and always kicks off in Style!

Microsoft rocks! Microsoft works very hard and we hardly believe what is happening with Microsoft these days!

Microsoft buys Sidekick maker, Danger. Its here at REDMOND, Washington, U.S. on Feb. 11, 2008, Microsoft Corp. announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Danger Inc., the company responsible for the software and services powering many popular consumer handsets.

OMG, Microsoft is dangerous!

Danger is a Palo-Alto, California-based software-as-a-service company that provides mobile operators with an integrated end-to-end solution to deliver mobile data and Internet services to their subscribers.

Danger has connected with a customer base that is young and enthusiastic, Internet-savvy and socially inclined. The Danger team has a deep understanding of consumers and a hold on what people want from mobility, making it an ideal group to work with in delivering connected experiences.

Adding Danger to the Entertainment and Devices Division will provide Microsoft with additional assets and resources that will accelerate the company's entry into the consumer space and complement the company's focus on delivering innovative technologies and services that connect people's entertainment and information.

See some cool sidekick's reviews at the video below:

Mobile Experience: Through focused efforts Danger has successfully delivered a software and services platform to the mobile mass market. Applications on Danger-powered handsets include HTML Web browsing, instant messaging, games, multimedia, social networking, Web e-mail and personal information management applications.

Can anyone forget yet another side-kick from Microsoft by being in news recently to acquire Yahoo?!! Hmmm, unbelievable stunts by the Master!

Monkey's Brain is better than Humans?

Robot, made in Japan, thinks like a Monkey! Brain activity of a monkey is now being used to control the real-time walking patterns of a Robot. Strange, but true!

Japanese and U.S. researchers said on last Wednesday that they have just created a humanoid robot that purely acts as per the brain activity of a monkey, across the Pacific.

The robot moves its legs at a laboratory in Seika town in Kyoto prefecture, western Japan, January 15. As part of an experimental effort to develop prosthetic limbs which can be mentally controlled by people with disabilities, managed to create this Robot.

A laboratory in the city of Kyoto, Japan, the Japanese unveiled a 62-inch (155-centimetre) tall humanoid Robot, with a friendly face including black eyes, who walked using signals coming into the legs via wires. Researchers said the robot was responding to the cortical brain activity of a monkey that was walking attached to wires on a treadmill at Duke University in North Carolina. The signal was sent via the Internet.

Duke University

"We were able to detect the monkey's brain activity while walking on the treadmill and relay the data from the United States to Japan," the state-backed Japan Science and Technology Agency said in a statement.

"For the first time in the world, we were then able to make our humanoid robot in Japan walk in real-time in a similar manner as the monkey," it said. The robot was designed by the Japanese agency and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to move by responding to brain activity signals.

Duke University had trained two monkeys to walk on two feet on treadmills.

The activity of the animals' hundreds of neurons was recorded from their cortex and converted into data that could be transmitted online. "We can say that we have made another big step to the realisation of a neural prosthetic device that could one day restore lower limb motor functions for paralysed patients," the statement said.














You can get more close-up information at this video here:

Amazing Flexible Car: BMW's Gina!

We are not born with clothes; but BMW's Light Visionary Car 'Gina' is! The Gina has outer skin, a flexible cloth cover that stretches across a moveable car structure.



BMW Group Design engineers have an exta-ordinary idea in their mind called GINA (Geometry and Functions In "N" Adaptions) principle which lets the engineers' innovative thinking to reach any heights by allowing maximum freedom of creativity!

GINA produces unbelievable solutions that affect the functionality and design of our future cars. The GINA Light Visionary Model Car is an unbelievable expression of awesome concept which provide an example of the engineers' thoughts. BMW Group Design is happy to explore the creative freedom it is offering them and the extent the users will feel happy about using it! They're absolutely not interested in answering the question of how the car of the future will look!



Since Gina drapes a flexible fabric over a kinda moveable 'wire-mesh-frame', creating a smooth seamless surface, this alters its form at the whim of the driver. If you feel frisky any time, just raise the tail like an angry tiger and bulge the fenders as if you are injecting them with steroids and thus reshaping the sides of the car! Now, you've just transformed Gina from a sleek roady into an roaring racer! :P

At last, a cool trailer of BMW's Gina:

Your knee can charge your Mobile Phone!

Let us talk about generating power for our mobile phones. It is really hard to remember the chargers if you have lot of stylish ones around! May be to overcome such tension, some crazy people at Simon Fraser University Locomotion Laboratory in Burnaby, Canada, have created a gadget that can be tied to your knee and it will charge your mobile phone battery!

If you properly see, you do a lot of action when you walk; a lot of muslces move and we wouldn't even notice or we're not interested to see!

Every time you take a step, your leg both accelerates and decelerates. Two groups of muscles, work towards making this happen. The first group pushes your leg forward, so that a step can be taken. Just as the leg is close to being fully extended, the second group starts pulling back your leg, braking your leg. And the key is this braking mechanism! At this point energy is being wasted...

This energy that is being wasted was intelligently noticed by Max Donelan, a researcher. He thus modified a knee brace, which was outfitted with a drivetrain, actually a generator. This was able to absorb that wasted energy and turn it into electricity, in a manner much similar to the braking system of hybrid vehicles, which are capable of recuperating energy while they are braking!

This device can now be used to suppy power to small devices like mobile phones, GPS receivers and can even power a certain motorized prosthetic joints. I was wondering how would this device feel since you are generating power and that mean that there should be some resistance! Frankly, though the entire thing weights around 1.6kg, the people who tested it have not found it that uncomfortable!

A small video about the same:

You & people around you can generate Power!

Who said electricity can only be generated by water or steam turbines? Even shirts or carpets (by just walking on them) or jogging can generate Power!

First on the list:
Thousands of people come and go to your nearby supermarket, railway station or any such crowded place. But, have you ever thought that could well be used to generate lots of emission-free electric energy?

It is like "Pedestrians generating power without their knowledge!" Designed by British engineers, on the floor carpets generates electrical impulses from the pressure sensors. Underfloor generators, powered by “heel strike” designed by British engineers! This technology uses the footsteps' pressure of flooding pedestrians to power thousands of lightbulbs at markets and such shopping centres. The pressure of the feet on the floor compresses the pads underneath which drives the fluid through mini-turbines that generates electricity which is then stored in a battery!

Engineers at Victoria Underground station in Central London have estimated that around 34,000 pedestrians passing through every hour could help light 6,500 lightbulbs! Not only floors, the technology could also be modified to be installed beneath railway lines and on road bridges to generate energy from passing trains and vehicles...

The second on the list:

Here's a new way of showing your style statement and at the same time charging your cell phone! Just wear the "Power Shirt." Nanotechnology has inspired many and theses researchers are developing a "Power Shirt" able to generate electricity from the physical motion of just walking or running wearing that shirt! In the process the physical motion could be harnessed and converted to electrical energy!

What you do not know is that pairs of textile fibers covered with zinc oxide nanowires can generate electrical current using something called the "Piezoelectric Effect." Current flow from many such fiber pairs woven into, preferably a shirt or jacket could allow the wearer's body motion to generate electric energy. The fibers could also be woven into curtains, tents or other structures to capture energy from wind motion, sound vibration or other mechanical energy, which inturn generates energy!

Mr. Zhong Lin Wang, the Regents professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, who is researching on the field said that the fiber-based nanogenerator would be a simple and economical way to harvest energy from very normal physical movement of any human being! And that if we can combine many of these fibers in double or triple layers in clothing, we could provide a flexible, foldable and wearable power source that, for example, would allow people to generate their own electrical current while they do their work, like walking!

To see a video and more detailed pictures of Regents professor Zhong Lin Wang explaining how a Microfiber Nanogenerator works, visit the Georgia Institute of Technology Research center!

The technology can be modified for a range of domestic uses like powering iPods by plugging them into batteries placed in the owners’ heels! Soon, we will generating power for our cell phones and MP3 players instead of depending on other devices...

Dennis (Hwang): Who is this new Menace?

Dennis Hwang... any idea who this character is? I am absolutely sure that you guys have no idea who this guy is!

But you have seen lot of his works every day while being online. Dennis Hwang, or Hwang Jeong-mok is a graphic artist who designs the Festive Logos for Google on special days.

His art is seen by hundreds of millions of people but doesn't sit in a musuem or art gallery. He designed his first logo for Google in honor of Bastille Day, July 14, 2000, at the request of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and has been designing the specialty logos for Google ever!

Though he was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he moved to Korea when he was about years old. He was a normal kid. During and after his graduation, his Doodles (a type of sketch... Google logos) were frowned upon, but are now his source of income and pleasure. On a return visit to Knoxville in 2003, Hwang was awarded an Appalachian Arts Fellow Award at World's Fair Park by then-mayor Victor Ashe.

As Ashe proclaimed, "Mr. Hwang's work is impressioned hundreds of millions of times each week, and reaches all corners of the globe. He is arguably Knoxville's most persistent artist."

His actual position was Google's international webmaster, which made him responsible for all of their international content and kept him quite busy. Today, he is in charge of all of Google's webmasters, and designing the logos is still only about 20 percent of his job.

Today, he is in charge of all of Google's webmasters, and designing the logos is still only about 20 percent of his job. But that doesn't mean it's not a lot of work. Hwang said he had to do a string of all-nighters after he had what he called his "brilliant" idea to do individual designs for each of the 32 teams in this year's World Cup soccer tournament.

For more Holiday Logos, Official Logos, Fan Logos from the year 1999 to 2007 to the lates logos for Google designed by Dennis, see DooGle!!! haha


Catch him in action here at his korean website. You have full access to see him! Enjoy!

Meade MySky- Know what you see on the sky!

Know where you are located on Earth using a small handy gadget! Hats-Off to Meade MySky!!

The Meade MySky was demonstrated of February 6th in Mountain View, California. Its a wonderful GPS tool and also teaches you a great deal of science. It is ofcourse a gun-shaped device and knows where you are located on earth and also tells where you're exactly pointing it in the sky.

Welcome to an easy, amazing and superb way to stargazing! Say thanks to this handheld sidekick from Meade Instrument Corporation. You can now explore the mysteries of the universe from your bedroom comforts. It has collective data of 30,000 deep sky objects, stars and other bodies in its flash memory for your easy accessable information!

It delivers prerecorded audio snippets about the celestial object you aim at and displays its photos on the LCD screen.

Try this: After powering up and getting a solid GPS

location for you and the device, point it at the Moon or Orion constellation (for example) or any other object that you are familiar with, in the sky and pull the trigger. MySky would accurately tell you that you are pointing at the constellation Orion (or the object you are pinting at), specifically.

The better way to use MySky was in "tour" mode, where it guides you to the best objects for viewing given my time and location. An arrow would appear on-screen and just simply follow its direction to track down the object MySky was recommending. The unit can also be connected to some Meade telescopes and direct them to find objects of your choosing. It is a cool feature, but if you're going to break out heavy gear like a telescope, odds are you already have a quality star map or an astronomy software application and have all the information the MySky gives.

See Meade MySky Features and its Reviews! What a gadget it is!!!



The MySky audio quality is fine, and there's plenty of detail about the brighter stars in our sky. Clusters that appear as faint smudges become more interesting when a pocket astronomer is whispering all the details in your ear. :)

MySky has a slot for an SD memory card, and the catalog of objects within can be updated online should that become necessary.

MySky is a fun and educationally useful for kids, adults or any person who loves stars and the sky at night!

Have a look at a video of MySky here:



They have an offer now that Meade MySky is available for $299! See a demonstration of Meade MySky now! Get some more information here!

Materials with changing colors like Beetles' do!

Yes, this is something you never bothered to think about. Animals changing color. Though this is my first post related to biology, this is really interesting! Its about Beetles, the insect.

Looking at the metallic woodboring Beetle head-on, the insect appears red. But viewing it from the side, the beetle starts to take on a greenish hue, and then turns completely green at an 80-degree angle! This color-changing property is called Iridescence, and scientists are taking notes from the beetle to make artificial iridescent materials.

Iridescence is an optical phenomenon characterized as the property of surfaces in which hue or the color changes according to the angle from which the surface is viewed (as may be seen of soap bubbles and butterfly wings).

Iridescence is caused by multiple reflections from multi-layered, semi-transparent surfaces in which phase shift and interference of the reflections modulates the incident light by amplifying or attenuating some frequencies more than others. (Don't scratch your head if you do not know what I mean)

In the first picture, Chrysochroa Vittata and Hoplia Coerulea (right), the insects possess natural photonic crystal structures which inspired the researchers to make artificial iridescent materials.

A group of researchers from Belgium, has recently fabricated iridescent materials that closely mimic the structure and appearance of two species of Coleoptera beetles. By analyzing the underlying physical mechanisms that cause iridescence, the researchers can predict the colors displayed by specific material structures, and, conversely, determine what kind of structural properties are required to display certain colors.

See the video below to see how then viewing angle changes the color of a butterfly!


With this understanding, they have created a colorful variety of Iridescent materials!

In a recent issue of the New Journal of Physics, the scientists explain what causes the vivid colors to change based on viewing angle. The beetles in the study (Chrysochroa Vittata and Hoplia Coerulea) have layers of materials with different thicknesses.

When light waves reflect off the different layers at different depths, the light waves interfere. So when you look at a beetle, the color you see is due to the light’s reflection peak off not just one surface, but many surfaces combined. As your viewing angle increases from head-on to a side view, the reflectance peak shifts to shorter wavelengths.

That’s why Hoplia Coerulea, for example, appears blue head-on, but violet (shorter wavelengths) from larger viewing angles. For further explanation and more about Iridescence, see Physorg