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HandSolo by Qualcomm: The Future is at Hand - April Fool’s Prank

Here’s some fresh news from Qualcomm at CTIA. It looks like they have figured out how to make a mobile phone none of us will forget to bring along:

Good Morning,
Qualcomm, a leader in developing digital wireless communications products and services, is announcing HandSoloâ„¢. It was developed as the first ultra-portable embedded device designed […]

Google Earth Hour - Google Celebrates Black Day

Earth Hour

Google users in the United States will notice today that we “turned the lights out” on the Google.com homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. As to why we don’t do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of […]

What if we tweak the clock

Imagine that the Indian Standard Time (IST) is advanced by half-an-hour to be six hours ahead of the Greenwich Mean Time or GMT.
“I can stick my neck out and say it is a win-win situation,” DP Sen Gupta, honorary professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) and one of the scientists who […]

Chintee.com - New venture of Reliance Group

Ack :- Informationmadness.com
Few days ago Startup Dunia talked about a new website coming out of the Reliance hive. The website is called Chintee.com. Chintee (means Ant).
The DNS servers are still pointing to zapak.com and the site used to redirect to BigAdda, which was just launched last week (Reliance social netowkring site).If you look at the […]

What is Second Life?

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 7,664,424 people from around the globe.

* From the moment you enter the World you’ll discover a vast digital […]

Expect to see a “Blue Moon” on June 30

For those interested in astronomy, Saturday (June 30) could be a landmark day, for they will be in a position to cite a `Blue Moon’.
According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, the “Blue moon” is a quirky astronomical term used to describe the second full moon in a calendar month, an event which occurs only […]

WiTricity: Transmitting Electricity Wirelessly

Ack:- Vishal Shah
In an experiment revealed last week, a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s departments of Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source seven feet away with no physical connection between the power source and the bulb.
The researchers […]

How does US Missile Defence Shield works

Now a days often use to hear the word “Missile defence shield” from Bush
What was that ??
What it is all about ??
So finally found something quite flashy and interesting that explains what it is and how it works
Look the flashy presentation @ BBC

Microsoft unveils table computer - Microsoft Surface

Microsoft has unveiled a new touch-sensitive coffee table-shaped computer called “Surface”.

Experience it……..
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

Designed to do away with the need for a traditional mouse and keyboard, users can instead use their fingers to operate the computer.
Also designed to interact with mobile phones placed on the surface, Microsoft says it will initially sell the unit to […]

Antoine Gombaud - Partly responsible for Probability theory

In 1654, Antoine Gombaud, Chevalier de Méré won quite a bit of money by betting that he could get at least one six in four rolls of a die. He reasoned the likelihood of a six was 1/6 on each throw. In four throws then, he believed his chances would be four times as good, […]