Trevor Prideaux, a fifty year old man from United Kingdom was born without his left forearm. Years later he was given a prosthetic arm with limited degrees of freedom. Though he got used to the idea, he was still in need of more useful resources for his prosthetic limb. With the invent of smart […]
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a large internal confinement fusion (ICF) device setup at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. Till date, it is known to be the world’s largest and most energetic laser device. It has the size of three football fields with a height of a 10 stories building. The
Though the name sounds boring, the “Very Large Array”, abbreviated as VLA, is known to be one of the largest telescopes in the world. It is built and setup in a desert outside Magdalena, New Mexico, and covers hundreds of miles in diameter space. The whole device consists of 27 separate radio antennas. Each antenna
Photography has become more interesting and fascinating with the introduction of panoramic images. This technology not only brings in wide angle images, but also helps the viewer to get images that are more close to the human field. The images make us feel like we are seeing the image through our eyes, then and there.
Remember the James Bond flick “Die Another Day” where Pierce Brosnan camouflages his Aston Martin to escape from the villain, and also move undetected? Yes, the very same mechanism has now been developed by researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas. They were able to detect a unique characteristic in carbon nano-tubes with
People who go on adventure trips or hiking carry gadgets that send signals back to another station, who can easily track them if they go missing. Most gadgets available today are bulky and have to be kept safely inside the pocket. But they are prone to fall out and you may not even know it.
Piezoelectric devices are getting more and more popular due to their self-generating mechanism. As, a simple quartz crystal is able to produce an output voltage that is proportional to the stress applied to it, a lot of research is undergone in this field by instrumentation companies and also American defence agencies like DARPA. Recently, a
People often say that drinking and writing go hand in hand. This expression is turning out to be true since the invention of the typewriter that can mix different drinks with the help of a simple button press. The device was developed by a Russian artist and DIYer Morskoiboy. It mainly consists of a
All of us must have encountered this problem many times in our lives (atleast once!); you know what I am talking about? Dropping our mobile phones, smart phones, tablets, camcorders, digital cameras, pen drives! In this era of gadgets we depend on a lot of portable devices to make our life more entertaining – we
The mobile industry started their journey with bulky handsets and huge keypads. With emerging technologies they were able to reduce the size and bring in more features. All this has been replaced by touch-screens and smart phones, with better user interface, and great features. As a next step to this evolution, here come smart phones
From our childhood days, we have studied that nothing in this planet travels faster than light. It has been defined as the ultimate speed in our universe. This has been backed up by many experiments, tests and measurements in many ways possible. But all these remain as just theories, as a simple neutrino transfer
Doctors have been successful in replacing dead intestines and tracheas, designed by tissue engineers. But, the same process on larger organs has been a little slow as they could not design blood vessels like capillaries that deliver the wanted nutrients to the other tissues. If the nutrient supply is stopped or cut-off at intervals, the
This article is not something related to our usual electronics technology, rather we are dealing a little with web technologies and Internet marketing stuff. I know many of you electronics geeks and enthusiasts may not be well aware of technologies behind websites and techniques used to bring loads of traffic to a website. I will
Researchers from the University of Utah were successful in making a wi-fi device that could detect and analyze breathing patterns. This device will not only pave way for cheap and easy breath monitoring systems, but will also help doctors to get a faster and more efficient analysis of patients suffering from breathing problems like sleep
A team of UC San Diego security researchers presented a paper on how your Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) pin code can be stolen using the heat that our fingers leave behind. With the help of a digital infrared camera, the person immediately following you can know the keys you pushed, with 80% accuracy. Frightened?
Solar panels available nowadays pave way for great energy savings and better environmental protection (since the energy is renewable). But solar panels acquire a huge space to install and are really expensive. Only a few countries provide subsidies to build a domestic or industrial solar project. What if a solar film that is a thousand
Since, 1932, researchers have been successful in combining hot fusion with nuclei. Till then the concept of cold fusion was used and did not produce any satisfactory results. The research in hot fusion is still continuing and they have been successful in providing danger-free, very good potential energy source without producing much wastes. Some of
We have already discussed different concepts of high-efficiency computers like Brain-like Computers, which is soon to become a reality. Two researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, Jeffrey Bokor and Brian Lambson are developing a new concept called “Magnetic Microprocessors”. According to them, this new concept would be so efficient that the energy consumed by them
We have already discussed about StunRay Technology and its capability to substitute tasers and guns used in law enforcement. But, there are some limitations to the amount of damage you can do to the suspect if he is not in front of you. That is why tasers are considered more effective as it will
The U.S Army is famous for their military gadgets that are used to hunt down enemies and also navigate a battlefield at night. They began by using night goggles. But there were complaints about these goggles for being noticeable by the enemies. Another problem is that they had no way to track their exact location
Germans, who are known for producing the most promising ad efficient mechanical and electrical designs, have lately created the strongest magnetic field in one of their labs. This new development is considered as a new world record and was created by the researchers at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory Dresden (HZDR). For developing such a
We are used to making a closed conducting circuit diagram on PCB’s and Vera Boards. The same process can now be done by drawing on a paper with a silver coloured liquid metal ink. This whole basic process has been named 3-D Handwriting by its inventors – researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Infrared View of NASA Lander We have seen hovering space crafts and missile enabled drones in movies like Star Trek, Avatar, G.I Joe and so on. From these pictures it is clear that such machines can easily stay in the air at a fixed position, just above a few feet from Earth, for any amount
One has seen the beauty of the sunrise and the sunset. Wouldn’t it be all marvellous to have a better view from high above the Earth? Out of the total population on Earth, only a few people have had the luck to get a view of Earth from space. A Canadian company called UrtheCast (the
A new type of high-resolution nanoparticles detector called the “Whispering Gallery Resonator” has been developed by professors at the Washington University in St. Louis. The device mainly consists of a very small laser in the micro-size range along with a sensor that is used to detect the presence of individual viruses and particles in the
