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2011-10-10
Aakash: World’s Cheapest Tablet PC MADE FOR INDIA
The eagerly awaited Aakash tablet previously codenamed Sakshat is here finally.
HRD minister Kapil Sibal released the Aakash tablet, whose real price is Rs. 2,999, at a press conference in the capital.
The Govt. of India even distributed 500 free tablets to students from different parts of India who had come to attend the event. The Aakash tablet will be available for students at a subsidized price, which would bring down its value to $35 (Rs. 1,700) making it the cheapest tablet ever.
The device is equipped with a 7-inch touchscreen and runs on Android 2.2-Froyo OS. It is both GPRS and Wi-Fi enabled and available with an affordable Internet plan of Rs.98/2GB. It can also double up as a phone by inserting a SIM card and headphones.
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2011-10-05
HOW SEARCH ENGINE WORKS
If you need to buy a product online and you do not know the exact website that is offering the same, what will you do? Like most of the people, you will go for a search engine. And in a moment, the desired web pages will be in front of your eyes. That’s the work a search engine does. Not confining itself in just searching web pages, it also searches images, videos and lot more from the databases stored on the entire World Wide Web.
There are billions and trillions of web pages available on the World Wide Web. No doubt most of them are full of some useful information but managing all of them or accessing them in order to find the needed web page is a daunting task and so rather impractical too. On the...
2011-09-25
SOME INTERSTING INFO TO KNOW
1) If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.
2) To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
3) Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by ‘Bayer’.
4) Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.
5) Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
6) People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
7) Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
8 ) Astronauts can’t belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid...
GOOGLE DOODLES
Over the years, doodles on the Google homepage have made searching on Google more fun and enjoyable for its users worldwide. When doodles were first created, nobody had anticipated how popular and integral they would become to the Google search experience. Nowadays, many users excitedly anticipate the release of each new doodle and some even collect them!
Doodles are known as the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and scientists. Whether it is the beginning of Spring, Albert Einstein’s birthday, or the 50th anniversary of understanding DNA, the doodle team never fails to find artistic ways to celebrate these unique events.
Having a little bit of fun with...
2011-09-21
Scientists who Were Killed by Their Own Experiments
These are the great people whose discoveries have changed the world but they were unfortunate as they died or injured themselves while performing their experiments. The advances they have made to science are incredible and many of them opened the doors for some of man’s greatest discoveries and inventions.
Sir David Brewster
Sir David was a Scottish scientist, and a writer. Optics and light polarization was the field of his interest. Optics is a a field requiring excellent vision. In 1831, Sir David performed a chemical experiment which almost blinded him. He remained affected with eye troubles until his death. Sir David Brewster is well known as the inventor of the kaleidoscope – a toy that has gives...
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2011-09-06
Temporary Auto Pilot (TAP).
Volkswagen has taken the automobile industry a step up with its new technology called Temporary Auto Pilot (TAP). For all those of us who think that we could use our hands for doing other things while driving the vehicle, have a reason to rejoice. This technology would allow the driver to get around the town while keeping his/ her hands free. Imagine you could utilise the time you to the fullest without fearing accidents now. Isn’t it great?
But even though the technology would allow hands free driving, you would have to keep a tab on the system. This is the first attempt by the company which allows semi automatic driving but in near future drivers would be able to enjoy automatic driving. With a little monitoring, you could...
The Fastest Super Computer: Fujitsu K computer
K, built by Fujitsu and located at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, represents a giant leap forward in computing speed.This computer is three times faster than its Chinese rival that previously held the top position, a New York Times report said.
"It's a very impressive machine. It's a lot more powerful than the other computers," the Times report quoted Jack Dongarra, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville who keeps the official rankings of computer performance, as saying.
K pushed back the previous number one, Tianhe-1A supercomputer, at the National Supercomputing Centre in Tianjin, China, to second place. Tianhe-1A was...
2011-08-27
MICROSOFT SURFACE
MICROSOFT SURFACE
Microsoft Surface (codename Milan) is a multi-touch product that responds to natural hand gestures and real-world objects, helping people interact with digital content in a simple and intuitive way. Leave the mouse and keyboard behind. Surface lets you grab digital content with your hands and move information with simple gestures and touches.
It has a 360-degree user interface, a 30-inch reflective surface with a XGA DLP projector underneath the surface which projects an image onto its underside, while five cameras in the machine's housing record reflections of infrared light from objects and human fingertips on the surface. The surface is capable of object recognition, object/finger orientation recognition...
