MIT student invents an electric unicycle that beats Segway

Bright spark: MIT student Stephan Boyer demonstrates
his 'almost self-balancing' electric unicycle.
The unicycle has a 'kill switch'
that turns off the motor (pictured in his right hand)

• MIT student invents first 'self-balancing' electric unicycle

  • It has a top speed of 15mph which is 2mph more than previously developed Segway.

   

  It could be a great way of getting around town, but it needs plenty of practise.
  A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has invented an ‘almost self-balancing’ electric unicycle that he uses to zoom around the campus.

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Twitter Crashes on new year's eve: 16,197 tweets per second

All a Twitter: Users were
devastated that the network crashed

Social network Twitter ground to a halt yesterday as it was overloaded with New Year messages. In Britain the site crashed at about 3pm and was out of action for more than an hour.

It coincided with midnight celebrations in Japan when revellers were sending a record 16,197 tweets per second.

The overload meant no one could post new messages or read existing ones. Instead, frustrated users were greeted with the error message: 'Twitter is over capacity.'

The site returned to working order but then stopped on several other occasions, prompting speculation that it was being hit by the arrival of New Year in different parts of the world.

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Now Computers can see what we see.

Computer Vision Research at Intel Labs Seattle

• An essential question confronting neuroscientists and computer vision researchers alike is how objects can be identified by simply "looking" at an image. Introspectively, we know that the human brain solves this problem very well. We only have to look at something to know what it is.

But teaching a computer to "know" what it's looking at is far harder. In research published this fall in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Computational Biology journal, a team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Chatham University, and Emory University first measured human performance on a visual task ‑ identifying a certain kind

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Will Google Plus overtake Facebook?

Facebook Timeline like Google Plus

• Google Plus is supposed to have 400million users by the end of year 2012.

Here’s some news Mark Zuckerberg won’t ‘like’ - Google’s social networking site Google Plus will have more than 400million users by the end of 2012, according to a researcher.

The prediction comes from U.S. analyst Paul Allen, who said that Google Plus, which went public in September, has just passed the 62million mark, with a quarter of those signing up in December.

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New astronomy software can render astonishing images of earth as what it looked like 240million years ago.

A warm, earthlike planet orbiting a red dwarf star. Mendez's
software lets astronomers enter the data they know about a
planet and then constructs a vision of what it might look like

• First software that 'renders' 3D worlds based on what we know
• Draws worlds based on their size, chemistry and distance from star
• Can render our Earth from historical data 

Astrobiologist Abel Mendez of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo has designed a software package that can draw real-looking worlds based on the scientific data we receive from space telescopes  - and says Nasa gets it wrong.

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Quantum Computing With Holograms.

• The US Air Force is developing simple but reliable quantum computers that can be built with off-the-shelf components

Light is one of the most promising carriers of quantum information. It is robust against decoherence because it does not interact with stray electric and magnetic fields and passes unscathed through transparent matter.

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China will be riding faster than bullets!!!

China's new bullet train achieved 300mph.( Not yet operational)

• The train runs at a speed of 300mph which is 100mph greater than current record holder train.
• Made of plastic materials reinforced with carbon fibre.

China has produced a

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You Cellphones are not safe!!! : Hackers can now hack it easily

Famous security expert Karsten Nohl said that any
phone that is on GSM network can be hacked easily and
made to send sms and calls without the owner's consent.

GSM is a widely used digital mobile telephony system.Mobile services based on GSM technology were first launched in Finland in 1991. Today, more than 690 mobile networks provide GSM services across 213 countries and GSM represents 82.4% of all global mobile connections. According to GSM World, there are now more than 2 billion GSM mobile phone users worldwide. GSM World references China as "the largest single GSM market, with more than 370 million users, followed by Russia with 145 million, India with 83 million and the USA with 78 million users."

But a new vulnerability demonstrated by Karsten Nohl, head of Germany's Security Research Labs, shows that any phone on any GSM network is vulnerable to attack.

The new attack - which Nohl did not publish - allows hackers to control hundreds of thousands of mobile phones at once.

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