Tag Archives : Science

Well we haven’t really seen Iran being in the news for is tech innovation, which is why the story of its successful human shaped robot got me amazed. It isn’t their first time as two years ago Iranian students had built Surena, a white human shaped robot that could be moved around via remote control. This time around a league of 20 robot experts [...]

The world has already had its share of solar driven cars and gadgets. It has been long waiting for a big leap, something awe-inspiring that will reinstate the people’s hope in non-conventional sources of energy. The Swiss company Solar impulse had embarked on a mission to fuel their aircraft with solar energy and successfully fly around in the night [...]

Nature has always provided us with solutions, but we never took the pains of realizing them. A group of insightful students at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble (ENSAG) in Madrid have drawn inspiration from nature and have constructed a house which can beat the scorching heat of the summers. As we step into the future we [...]

Sometimes conversations or discussions in meetings go annoyingly for too long and you just wish you could have used this time to grab a pint of beer in a bar. But the social convention or basic mannerisms really don’t allow you to just walk out of something like that. It is often seen people tend to take things seriously only when a money factor [...]

Usually when we come across the term “breakthrough” with respect to science and technology, our mind looks for some stupendous theory or invention. Stuff oozing out technology has in a way blinded us and we are not been able to enjoy simple applications of science around us. But Naoko Yamazaki and her daughter belonged to a different league of [...]

There was a time phase when everything portable was given a USB jack with some useful storage space too. There were lipsticks, crystal bearing pendants, action figures and even a Swiss Knives. Now the trend seems to have been shifted to navigation capabilities with Zanier introducing Ski Gloves with GPS functionality. Zanier Introduces World’s [...]

Could we label this the coolest Olympic flame ever? In true spirit of being more friendly on the earth, the Winter Olympics 2010 torch that has carried the flame all over Greece and Canada since October 30, 2009, burns at the lowest temperature than any other Olympic torch in history. Its fuel mixture is propane and refrigerant isobutane. The torch [...]

In need of an X-Ray urgently? Worry not about that long wait for your turn at the diagnosis centre. Or an appointment that takes longer than you expected. You can own your own personal X-ray machine now. The machine was designed in collaboration with NASA. It’s not advisable for individuals to get over-exposed to those rays. But for those whose lifeline [...]

Islamist groups launched new attacks against security forces in northern Nigeria, a day after nearly 40 people died in bloody clashes between police and a radical Islamic group in Bauchi. The BBC also reported a tally of ‘100 bodies, mostly of militants, near the police headquarters in Maiduguri, Borno State, where hundreds are fleeing their homes.’ [...]

So, NASA was competent enough to put man on moon and later on send a space probe to Mars, but it was too dumb to preserve the footage transmitted by Apollo 11. What seems downright more stupid is not that they misplaced the tapes or lost in an accident, but the wise men decided to tape over the original footage as NASA was short of video tapes in the [...]