An interactive Flash animation titled “Scale Of The Universe 2“- an awesome website where you can discover the objects of this whole universe. You can also learn lots of new things by clicking on the object. This website could be a great tool for the science students. 
Prepare to have your mind blown! Requires Flash to view. Check here . Drag the scrollbar or use your mouse-wheel to zoom in and out of the universe.
M-wallet service, from My Mobile Payments Ltd (MMPL) is a a Simple, Smart and Secure way to buy products from your current local retail shops.With this you can book movie, bus, rail and air ticket, mobile recharging,DTH account top-up, sending and receiving money .You can complete all of these and many other financial transactions anytime and anywhere.It lets you to carry all your credit/debit cards and bank accounts on your mobile phone.
M-wallet lets you have a single personal account for all your transaction needs or link to multiple family and friend accounts for gifting purposes and sending and receiving money anywhere, at anytime, and from anyone. It allows customers to load their mobile phones with cash at retail touch points and use this virtual money to top-up any prepaid mobile or pay post-paid mobile bills and utility bills at present.All transactions through this service are PCI-DSS compliant in terms of security which means the highest possible level of encryption of your personal and bank details as well as of all transactions carried out through the application. In addition you have to enter your personally assigned MPIN two times once each time you login and once for approving transactions.
- Recharge your mobile phone
- Top up your DTH account
- Purchase rail / bus / air / movie tickets
- Buy goods and services at partner establishments and outlets
- Pay utility bills including electricity / gas / telephone
- Pay municipal and government taxes
Using Money-on-Mobile is very easy. To activate SMS services you will send an SMS to to register and then you are ready to you Money-On-Mobile; For GPRS all you have to do is download the application to your mobile phone, register for a customer account, update your bank and/or credit and debit card details and start making payments with merchants that accept Money-on-Mobile.
If your mobile phone has either SMS or GPRS services, then your phone will support Money-on-Mobile. The company will be rolled out a larger bouquet of offerings by September 15.MMPL have a network of 95,000 retailers across the country and a subscriber base of nearly five lakh recording nearly Rs 2 crore worth of transactions a day.
Money On MobileBen Heine is a Belgian painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer.He was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and currently live and work in Brussels. Ben also has created a really cool series of works that called Pencil vs Camera.He simply superimposing simple hand strokes on some photos taken in first person , he creates great effects , mixing reality and drawing.
You can watch all the works of this great artist here . Also visit his other artistic works on Flickr gallery .Really worth to watch.
After world’s cheapest car Tata Nano, India developed a tablet that will go on sale for just $ 35(Around Rs.1600/-).World’s cheapest tablet PC unveiled recently by the Indian Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal.
It has the Linux operated touch screen and possess all the functions of a high-end tablet that with lesser speed and memory . It also packed with features like Internet browsing facility, PDF reader, video conferencing and computing abilities like Open Office, SciLab, etc. It also capable of playing both stored and streamed media files.It is designed for easy access for students in rural areas, the tablet weighs 400 grams and has a 7 inch screen . In addition, solar powered and uses only 2 Watts.
Features
- A full Internet browser
- A PDF reader,
- Video conferencing support,
- Word, excel, Office document support etc using Open Office
- Sci-lab
- Media Player
- Remote device management
- Connectivity: 3.5mm jack, USB, WiFi
- OS: Linux
- RAM: 2GB
Indian Govt plans to introduce the tablet in early 2011 and, taking into account the mass production is expected to lower the price of the device to ten dollars. Two variants of this device will be available . One that is targeted for school students(limited memory and no hard disk) and other is for higher education institutions and colleges.Moreover, the Indian government decided to subsidize half the cost for the benefit of educational institutions .
Everyone of us had childhood dreams of flying in our car.Such cars are there in movies and cartoons .Terrafugia, a game-changing aircraft company, has developed a car, which, put simply, really can fly.It is a two-seat aircraft designed to take off and land at local airports and drive on any road. Transforming from plane to car takes the pilot less than 30 seconds. Terrafugia completed its maiden voyage last March in upstate New York.
The car can travel 740km at a speed of 185kph whilst up in the air before needing a refill of regular unleaded gas.When you land at the airport, you can fold the wings up, and then drive out of the airport.Taking off has to be kept to airports and not allowed to just take off randomly in the middle of a road.
According to the company, 70 people have already booked the car, with a deposit money of $10,000 each. The car is expected to cost $194,000. Check out the flying car's official video below
John Shepherd-Barron, the man who invented the ATM, has died after a short illness, aged 84. Barron, who was born in India to Scottish parents in 1925 .He is survived by his wife, three sons and six grand children .The world's first ATM was installed in a branch of Barclays in Enfield, North London. John Shepherd Barron, who worked for the printing firm De La Rue was the chief inventor.
In a Barclays press release, the bank stated that comedy actor Reg Varney, star of TV sitcom "On the Buses", became the first person in the country to use a cash machine at Barclays Enfield on June 27th 1967 The ATMS were at that time called DACS for De La Rue Automatic Cash System. John Shepherd Barron was the managing director of De La Rue Instruments, the company which made the first ATMS.
At that time plastic ATM cards did not exist. John Shepherd Barron's ATM machine took checks that were impregnated with carbon 14, a slightly radioactive substance. The ATM machine would detect the carbon 14 mark and match it against a pin number. Shepherd-Barron credited his wife with the idea for a four-digit PIN code after first toying with the use of a six-digit security code. He told the BBC: "Over the kitchen table, she said she could only remember four figures, so because of her, four figures became the world standard." He did not patent his system and did not make any money from his invention.There are now more than 1.7 million ATMs across the globe, according to the ATM Industry Association.
Today you may have noticed that something feels slightly different when you Using Google .Google added contextually relevant, left-hand navigation to the page. This new side panel highlights the most relevant search tools and refinements for your query.
Universal Search helps you find the most relevant types of results for your search.The new design refreshes and streamlines the look, feel and functionality of Google, making it easier to pinpoint what you’re looking for. Google had updated its color palette and logo.
According to Google
"Universal Search helps you find the most relevant types of results for your search. The top section of the new left-hand panel builds on Universal Search by suggesting the most relevant genres of results for your query and letting you seamlessly switch to these different types of results. The 'Everything' option remains our essential search experience with different types of results integrated into the main results, but now you can also easily switch to just the particular type of results you are looking for."
"These changes are slight, keeping our page minimalist and whimsical, but make our overall look more modern. The new design refreshes and streamlines the look, feel and functionality of Google, making it easier to pinpoint what you're looking for. It's powerful, yet simple,"
Google recently added a new way to catch up on Twitter's never-ending conversation: a timeline view through which you can replay old updates.It searches updates on Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, and MySpace. It is an attempt to recreate the conversation which occurred at a specific point in time about any topic.Tweets will be grouped by topic, and the format will allow users to see when tweet activity was highest for their search query. When a certain date is selected, the messages will pop up in the form of a scrolling list. The timeline looks something like a stock graph, showing spikes signifying moments of high Twitter activity on a particular topic.
Twitter has its own search page , the results are often grouped around trending topics, or simply lack any form of organization.If you have more tweets to your name, you can’t get to them all even though your are a registered Twitter user. But the Google program will work as a practical archive. For now, Google says that it will offer tweets going back to February 11, 2010 but will soon extend back to March 21, 2006.
You can try it now by selecting ‘options’ on the search page and selecting ‘updates’, You should then see the timeline updates for your chosen topic.In this example below Google shows us how it will look like when you search for your chosen topic. You can test drive the new function on this special link.
Google launched a new service recently - Google Reader Play - that plays a slideshow of cool items from around the 
To begin, visit http://www.google.com/reader/play and click "Get Started." Access more items by clicking the arrow on the right, or simply use the right and left arrow keys to browse. You can also click on any item in the thumbnail preview below to jump straight to that item.It is a fast, fun way to browse interesting stuff on the web.
Users can also browser their current subscriptions in Google Reader Play, by clicking on the arrow appearing next to the folder or RSS feed in the sidebar and selecting "View in Reader Play"
Using a mobile phone while driving is dangerous and also punishable offence. So how can you use your BlackBerry while
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The application is available for Android ,Blackberry ,iPhone , Windows Mobile and other phones..An excellent application for those busy individuals on the move.
Visit Drive Safe.ly
Recently Google announced the introduction of its own short URL service.Google URL shortener is not a stand-alone service; you can't use it to shorten links directly. Currently, Google URL Shortener is only available from the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner
However there are other two easy ways to shorten URLs with Goo.gl without having to use the toolbar
1.You can use this service to shorten any URL.http://gaigalas.net/lab/googl .Just paste the URL you want shortened and click the “Shorten” button.
2.goo.gl shortener is an extension for Chrome , which allows you to shorten the current website URL with the new Google URL Shortener service : Google Short URL Google Chrome extension
Time Magazine has released its annual 50 Best Inventions of 2009 List.Check out it here
Scientist Stephen Wolfram has built a new engine, called Wolfram Alpha, that apparently can compute answers to factual questions more powerfully than Google. — Wolfram has just posted about the effort here
It is a product of technological renaissance man Stephen Wolfram, and it runs on the the same kernel as his Mathematica software
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- Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web'
- Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big
Meet Gordon, probably the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue.Stitched together from cultured rat neurons, Gordon's primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading by scientists who unveiled the neuron-powered machine on Wednesday.
This new project is the first one to examine 'how memories manifest themselves in the brain, and how a brain stores specific pieces of data.' As life expectancy is increasing in most countries, this new research could provide insights into how the brain works and help aging people.
In fact, the main goal of this project is to understand better the development of diseases and disorders which affect the brain such as Alzheimer or Parkinson diseases. It's interesting to note that this project is being led by Professor Kevin Warwick, who became famous in 1998 when a silicon chip was implanted in his arm to allow a computer to monitor him in order to assess the latest technology for use with the disabled.
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It should be an interesting news for all of you that Washable Computer Mouse has been produced by Belkin.You can easily wash it if you feel it dirty or if something(coffee or drink) is poured in your mouse by mistake.Isn’t it fun.And it works on on a variety of household surfaces including upholstery and wood.
Washable Mouse is water-resistant, so it endures spills, and stays clean. Its versatile Scroll Pad lets you scroll vertically and horizontally with one easy touch.
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=375887#
Rolling your eyes to turn up the volume of a portable music player and tapping your fingers to turn on a DVD player are among technologies Japan's top mobile carrier is testing for "wearable" gadgets.Mr Hiroyuki Manabe and he is currently employed by a Japanese based mobile company NTT DoCoMo.
NTT DoCoMo believes wearable control technology will be adapted for mobile devices that download music, play video games and allow users to shop online and keep up with their e-mail.
In a demonstration Hiroyuki Manabe wore a giant headset covered with wires to show how computer graphic lines in a monitor connected to the headset darted wildly whenever his eyes moved.The headphones are wired to a system that detects the electrical currents produced by the rapid movement your eyeballs.
He turned up the volume on a digital music player by rolling his eyes, and he jerked his eyes twice to the right to fast forward.The precision of the system is high and it even lets him control the volume of the music player by moving his eyes up and down. Fast forwarding to the next song is accomplished via quick jerks of the eye to the right.
This unique looking mp3 player from Lancer called Laqa3 is probably the perfect companion for all you adventure junkies out there.The body is a metal tube and with ear buds which are IPX7 certified. Swimmers can rejoice with Laqa3. Weighing in at just 25g it can play MP3s and WMAs and has an eight hour battery life.
What Is Streaming?
Streaming refers to the technique of continuous and steady digital
data (audio, video, or graphics) transfer as “packets” in real-time
from a data server through the Internet to a user’s computer. Media files can played in a browser using an embedded plugin or in a media player. The smoothness of the media stream depends upon the speed of the connection. Multiple versions in terms of quality high,medium, or low) can be made available for different connection speeds. For slow connections, glitches in frames and delayed or no audio will occur.
A key factor is the compression method used for the media files so
they can be streamed seamlessly.Due to compression, some data
quality is compromised through perceptual encoding, that is, the
audio/video is stripped down in such a way that the changes cannot
be easily perceived. Usually, perceptual encoding refers to lossy audio
encoding in which psychoacoustics is used to determine what audio signals to encode and what to snip out. Large media files are encoded
using codecs to smaller sizes. Thus you have MOV, RM, etc.
RealNetworks, QuickTime,Windows Media and Macromedia Flash are the most common streaming technologies.
Types of Streaming
Streaming is of two types—progressive and real-time.During progressive streaming, the media file can be viewed orlistened to while the file is in being downloaded. In the case of data loss, re-transmission of lost packets is possible. Media files streamed using the progressive technique get saved on the viewer’s hard drive,
which raises the problem of redistribution. HTTP streaming is a
type of progressive streaming where the media file begins to play
before it is entirely downloaded. In the case of HTTP streaming, a
request for data remains open even after the data is received by the
client, so that the server can respond at any time.
In real-time streaming, media content gets downloaded temporarily to the user’s computer. Almost-live broadcast of content is possible. Content streamed realtime can adjust according to the user’s connection capacity; if the connection is too slow, the transmission
of data would break.
Media streams can also be distinguished as “on demand” or “live.” The former are stored on servers for long periods of time, becoming available to be transmitted to the user upon request. Live streams are available only at a particular time—like the streaming
of a live TV broadcast. A streaming server software package, the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) to control the interaction,
and a matching client is needed for real-time streaming.
It's every cyclist's nightmare - it's dark or getting that way, you have just given a hand signal, but will other road users have seen it? In order to increase the safety of the bike riders, a design student from London has envisioned a jacket by the name "Reactiv.
This futuristic piece of clothing has an accelerometer built in to detect the speed at which the wearer is traveling. Secondly, there are LEDs placed on the back side of the sleeves. Thus, with the help of the accelerometer, these multi-colored LEDs flash green when the biker is accelerating and red when he or she is braking. Also, if the biker wants to take a turn, by simply waving his hand sideways, the LEDs glow orange, indicating the turn to the people behind.
Source: Daily Mail via Gizmodo
We are all victims of the net's success. As more and more of us download music and films, watch YouTube and visit BBC iPlayer to catch up on TV, the system's being pushed to its limit.In fact, total standstill is possible, a nightmare computer experts call the broadband crunch.
But don't panic, a sophisticated fix is on the way - and we could all be hooked up in the near-future.The internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.That means you can download heavy multimedia data such as movies, songs etc within seconds.
The Grid will not only enable sharing of documents and MP3 files, but also connect PCs with sensors, telescopes and tidal-wave simulators.
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“We are extremely excited about our experiment. It is the biggest experiment in the world and we hope we are going to understand all sorts of things like the origin of mass and what is the dark matter in the universe,” said theoretical physicist Professor Malcolm Fairbairn at CERN.CERN has built Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is the most powerful particle accelerator ever constructed. It took almost 15 years and $8 billion to construct for CERN. The LHC is located in a 27-km circular tunnel 100 metres below ground level outside Geneva on the Franco-Swiss border.
The internet has evolved by linking together a hotchpotch of cables and routing equipment, much of which was originally designed for telephone calls and therefore lacks the capacity for high-speed data transmission.
By contrast, the grid has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, meaning there are no outdated components to slow the deluge of data. The 55,000 servers already installed are expected to rise to 200,000 within the next two years.
That network, in effect a parallel internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world.One terminates at the Rutherford Appleton laboratory at Harwell in Oxfordshire.From each centre, further connections radiate out to a host of other research institutions using existing high-speed academic networks.
It means Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system – so that any student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid rather than the internet from this autumn.Ian Bird, project leader for Cern’s high-speed computing project, said grid technology could make the internet so fast that people would stop using desktop computers to store information and entrust it all to the internet.
“It will lead to what’s known as cloud computing, where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere,” he said.
Computers on the grid can also transmit data at lightning speed. This will allow researchers facing heavy processing tasks to call on the assistance of thousands of other computers around the world. The aim is to eliminate the dreaded “frozen screen” experienced by internet users who ask their machine to handle too much information.
The real goal of the grid is, however, to work with the LHC in tracking down nature’s most elusive particle, the Higgs boson. Predicted in theory but never yet found, the Higgs is supposed to be what gives matter mass.
The LHC has been designed to hunt out this particle - but even at optimum performance it will generate only a few thousand of the particles a year. Analysing the mountain of data will be such a large task that it will keep even the grid’s huge capacity busy for years to come.
Although the grid itself is unlikely to be directly available to domestic internet users, many telecoms providers and businesses are already introducing its pioneering technologies. One of the most potent is so-called dynamic switching, which creates a dedicated channel for internet users trying to download large volumes of data such as films. In theory this would give a standard desktop computer the ability to download a movie in five seconds rather than the current three hours or so.
Additionally, the grid is being made available to dozens of other academic researchers including astronomers and molecular biologists.
It has already been used to help design new drugs against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills 1m people worldwide each year. Researchers used the grid to analyse 140m compounds - a task that would have taken a standard internet-linked PC 420 years.
“Projects like the grid will bring huge changes in business and society as well as science,” Doyle said.
“Holographic video conferencing is not that far away. Online gaming could evolve to include many thousands of people, and social networking could become the main way we communicate.
“The history of the internet shows you cannot predict its real impacts but we know they will be huge.”
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