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Human to Mermaid

arjun — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:16:56 +0000

Mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature that could breathe under water as well as on land and looks as if a half human .Science makes man to become a mermaid or mermen which could breathe on land as well as water.Alan Izhar-Bodner, an Israeli inventor, invented a special apparatus by which the divers are able to breathe under water without those massive oxygen tanks.The apparatus makes use of the dissolved oxygen in water to breathe ,as if a fish do. Behind the working The working principle of the apparatus is ‘Henry’s Law’.It states that the gas dissolved in a liquid is directly proportional to the pressure applied ie more the pressure applied larger the amount of gas that can be dissolved.This phenomenon could be observed while opening a soda can.When we read more

Electronic Nose

arjun — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:05:25 +0000

Human nose is one of the most amazing human organ which is able to detect more than 10,000 chemicals in air or simply able to detect many ’smells’.For years scientists were on research to find an artificial nose better known as ‘electronic nose ‘to replace a natural one which could find a lot of applications in food industries,explosive industries and other industries where human intake of a chemical become harmful. Lawrence Livermore scientists were the leading ones in the field of miniature electronic tools to detect various magnetic,acoustic,seismic,electrical,nuclear signal etc.Now in favour of Departments of Defense and Homeland Security planners they are in research of miniaturized electronic nose that could be used to detect nuclear,toxic and explosive read more

Witricity

arjun — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:19:34 +0000

Witricity stands for wireless electricity.Yes the modern world is getting rid of the complicated wires and cable for the power transfer and the wireless electric world is coming into existence.It uses the principle of coupled resonant objects(resonating magnetic field) to transfer wireless electricity.It requires a transmitter as well as a receiver for transmission.The inventors of the witricty is from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,the prime experiment was ligting up a bulb which was at a distance of seven feet a from the source using a transmitter and receiver. The experiment got its spark from the idea that it would be more easy if we could charge mobile phones without a charger, one of the master brain behind this experiment Prof. Marin Soljacic was the first to struck read more

Aluna the Lunar Clock

arjun — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:29:51 +0000

London plans to make the Lunar clock as one of the most attracting feature for the 2012 Olympics.This lunar clock is tidal powered and the massive art sculpture is designed and maintained by the British firm Aluna Limited and hence the structure is named as Aluna.The master brain behind the construction of this wonder is Lara Williams.The structure is 40m high and 130 m wide and is powered from the tidal waves produced in the river Thames which makes it flow beneath the clock.The power so produced is more enough to light 100 homes in addition to the powering of lunar clock.It has got the credit of first art work on the world to power more than hundred homes It consists of huge three rings which is made of steel,glass and concrete.How the time is determined??its determined by the read more

Chandrayaan-1,India’s first Mission to Moon

arjun — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:58:17 +0000

India made a remarkable achievement in space technology by making a successful launch of Chandrayaan-1 ,the lunar vehicle.The mission was success and it placed India’s tricolour on moon’s surface on Nov.14th,on the birth date of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.The research on the moon’s surface is yet going on progress.And this attempt made India one among the world powers who have dominance in the space technology.Photographs at the time of construction of Chandrayaan and photos taken by it are loaded below. Click on the image to enlarge This is the picture of moon’s surface taken from lunar orbit by Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft’s Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) on November 15, 2008. Taken over the polar region of the moon, the picture shows read more

Robo World

arjun — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:22:43 +0000

Looks like a penguin,but its the baby obedient robot made by Toshiba in Japan.His name is Apripoco.This small dude is an expert to handle remote controls and has got the ability to talk too.He talks to clear our doubts.If you are in a confusion that which button in the remote you should press to work your T.V,Car and other devices then ask him..He will say and do it for you. [caption id="attachment_1205" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Apripoco"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1206" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Kismet the smiling robot"][/caption] A robot with the look of creatures in the film Starwars,right??Humans were the only creatures in the universe which could smile back by giving a smile but he grabbed this monopoly.Its a robot made by the scientists of read more

What is a Verichip?

arjun — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:25:59 +0000

It became common to plant encapsulated radio tags inside animals to reveal its identity,more clearly by knowing the radio tag details of an elephant we could know who is the owner of the elephant?if the registration of that animal is made legal?does it reported for any kind of disease and so on. [caption id="attachment_1197" align="aligncenter" width="166" caption="Structure of a verichip"][/caption] But now the idea comes to apply it in humans, that each human is planted with a chip encapsulated in a plastic covering,it wont affect any of our body parts neither we feel any discomfort.And the size of it is as small as a rice grain,But by checking the details in the chip an authority could know our name,address,nationality,criminal records and everything.So the government or higher read more

Carbon Nano tube wires to replace Copper wires

arjun — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:33:13 +0000

Could carbon nano tube wires could replace copper wires which is used as inter connectors in chips?Earlier about 7years before the question was not this could copper wire can replace aluminum interconnectors and it happened aluminium interconnectors were replaced by more conducting copper wires.But the fast moving world demands more and more compact chips with a lot more functions.By 2012 its expected that we require less than 40 nano meter wide interconnectors to make this chips.But at that size the resistance of copper wire is high that it could slow down the signaling. Last month in the Material Research Society’s spring meeting in San Francisco, a team of scientists from Stanford and Toshiba claimed that they have used carbon nanotubes to make the logic components of read more

No more draught…

arjun — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:38:17 +0000

North eastern Australia scarce much in water and many projects were launched to improve the water level of this area but non was fruitful.Of this the importance was given to a mechanical process called reverse osmosis. What this process does is the desalination of salt water which is much abundantly available in those areas.But this process requires the cleaning, replacement etc of the semi permeable membrane through which the salinated water has to be passed under high pressure.Another method uses electric field to drive ions across membranes.But all this measures didn’t worth much and owing to its high cost couldn’t make an impact on water scarce areas. So resembling the latter technology a new technology was introduced named CDIs technology ie the Capacitive read more

Wild Wild West

arjun — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:39:02 +0000

Seems like a Hollywood movie ??? No its real a machine spider built as part of festival conducted in Liverpool during the month of September.At first the big arachnoid took the breath of many for a moment,children yelled out of terror.The huge 15 m terror wandered the streets for two days accompanied by a group of musicians and other artists.It was built by a French company named La Machine. The spider has got a steel body with wooden frames and controlled using 50 hydraulic actuators.It required more than a dozen of operator and a wheeled crane was used to move its entire body.And it may be the most expensive spider to buy and it costs about £2 million.Rumours were spread that the spider would appear in many cities in the coming year. Share and read more