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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It is a comet? Is it a UFO?

Bolt of light: Scientists and individuals alike were initially
baffled as to whether the blaze was space junk or a comet

• A mysterious bar of light shot through the night sky on Christmas Eve leaving many Europeans perplexed.
• Captured on videos throughout Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg the light moved much slower than a normal shooting star, was far brighter and more detailed
• It quickly became a popular topic on Twitter with people baffled as to whether it was a comet, meteor or space junk.

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A Hi-Tech Life saver insect.

Cyborg insect: This green june beetle is fitted with a tiny motion
generator to produce electricity. This could be
used to power a camera and a microphone

• Flying insects fitted with tiny cameras and microphones could be used to search for earthquake survivors during rescue operations, scientists have said.
•  The tiny devices will power themselves by harnessing power from wing movements.
• By converting kinetic energy into electricity, the device could have a lasting power source.

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Gadgets Of The Future!!!

These futuristic gadgets are creatively cool concept cell phones and accessories that we’d love to see developed and on the market.

Motorola Origami
Origami, a Motorola concept cell phone, is made of thin segmented “technostuff.”  It “can be folded into different forms to serve different functions: phone, recording device, camera, and, presumably, a pointy paper crane.”

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The iPhone of Future.

iPhone of 2020

• The future of apple's iPhone is clearly going to be awesome and this is how we can imagine our future phones to be developed by Apple.

Steve Jobs left a huge property of his for us to enjoy and make our lives better and better day by day. Its our duty that we should rethink his ideas and concept to develop iPhone of future. Certainly this concept would make Steve(RIP) shake in his shoes.

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A super-memory smart drug?

Suppression of the PKR molecule in mutant mice (right) enhances
learning and memory by lowering GABA release,
compared to the process in "wild type" (normal) mice (left) (credit: BCM)

Can this be the
 "Limitless" breakthrough     we
all have been searching for?

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How good Multi-tasker are you?

Can you manage multiple tasks at a time?

• The term "multitasking" originated in the computer engineering industry.

Human brain has been considered the most deadliest weapon on earth and it is one of most precious gifts given to us by Almighty God.

But are we utilizing it completely and up to its highest level??
The answer is obviously no, because we don't want to do that moreover its our brain only that does not allows us to do things which would lead us to utilize it to 100%. 

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Ready for the robot revolution? - 2012

Meet the "social robot" at University of Southern California

Social robot OLIVIA developed to be used as a receptionist

Robots are about to invade our lives.

From performing household chores, to entertaining and educating our children, to looking after the elderly, robotics say we will soon be welcoming their creations into our homes and workplaces.

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Touchless smartphones and TVs could be on sale in 2012

Using a GPS device without touching it while driving could be safer

• So you've lost your TV remote control. Again.
• You'll just have to turn your palm towards the screen, and zap away without ever getting off the couch.
• No need for under-the-skin electronics or fancy microchips.

Instead, the TV - or rather gesture recognition software installed inside - will "read" your moves and execute appropriate commands, without any need for physically pressing any buttons.

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Bare bones Raspberry Pi PC gets ready to launch

Many developers are keen to get their hands
on the bare bones Raspberry Pi computer.

• The eagerly anticipated Raspberry Pi home computer is about to go into production.

The $25 (£16) machine is being created in the hope that it will inspire a new generation of technology whizz kids.

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Using Photons to Manage Data

U of A Engineering professor Zubin Jacob wants to refine the
optical transmission of information by using a single photon, to
allow unprecedented applications in optical information
transfer. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Alberta)

• Managing light to carry computer data, such as text, audio and video, is possible today with laser light beams that are guided along a fibre-optic cable.
• These waves consist of countless billions of photons, which carry information down the fibre across continents.

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Crucial Advances in 'Brain Reading' Demonstrated

An innovative machine learning method anticipates neurocognitive
changes, similar to predictive text-entry for cell phones,
Internet search engines. (Credit: © ktsdesign / Fotolia)

• At UCLA's Laboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging Technology, researchers use functional MRI brain scans to observe brain signal changes that take place during mental activity. 
• They then employ computerized machine learning (ML) methods to study these patterns and identify the cognitive state -- or sometimes the thought process -- of human subjects. The technique is called "brain reading" or "brain decoding."

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More Powerful Supercomputers?

This illustration shows a new "all-silicon passive
optical diode," a device small enough to fit millions
on a computer chip that could lead to faster, more
powerful information processing and supercomputers.
The device has been developed
by Purdue University researchers. (Credit:
Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University)

• Researchers have created a new type of optical device small enough to fit millions on a computer chip that could lead to faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers.

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View Your Life in a Parallel Universe With the Press of a Button

The designer,  Patrick Stevenson-Keating, hopes that project serves to
“raise questions and provoke thoughts about the nature
of our reality and our lives,” as well as being a
useful tool to communicate modern theories in physics.

• The Quantum Parallelograph is more than just an art design
• You simply tune the search intensity and the device will use online sources to print out a short statement about your alternate realities.Click here to see the video
  

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6 Crazy Tech Predictions for 2012

We live in a world of absolutes: Here’s what happened. Even when we look to the future, our predictions are couched in the world’s sometimes difficult realities. It can, to be honest, take all the fun out of guess work. So, once a year I allow myself to go beyond the likely, beyond the possible and deep into the world of the implausible. What follows are my most ridiculous and unlikely predictions. Most are just nuts, but one is, to be honest, all too scarily possible. See if you can guess which prediction I’m talking about.

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Facebook rejiggers platform to increase game usage

Facebook announced Thursday evening that it has made updates to its platform to improve game usage and discovery of new apps.

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House of the Rising Sun, ancient computers version

The term “ancient” is relative and unfortunately I can remember using many of the machines in this video, but compared to what we have today, the various equipment used here are “older than the internet,” so to speak. It makes the end result, an equipment-generated variation of “House of the Rising Sun” by The Animals, even more epic.

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The World’s Smallest Digital Camera

Canon 7D with battery pack and a Canon 24-70mm f2.8L that’s totally heavy without a speedlight, so when I stumble upon this claimed world’s smallest camera –in terms of size and being almost weightless I have to shake my head. Hammacher Schlemmer‘s world’s smallest camera boasts dimensions 1 1/8″ L x 1″ W x 1 1/16″ and weighing half an ounce but ultimately capable of taking pictures at a 2MP resolution (1600 x 1200), and video at 30 fps and 640 x 480. The tiny camera also features a 2 GB microSD card but supports up to 32 GB.

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The World’s Smallest USB Stick

Manufacturers are fond of playing with claims that their product was the smallest or the biggest in the market –and so, a company called Deonet could easily win the claims for the smallest USB stick in the world, how? The company have just introduced a 19.5 x 14.5 x 2.9 millimeters USB stick that comes in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB storage capacities.

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Tesla prices Model S, makes navigation optional

Tesla has laid out the pricing structure for the all-new Model S electric car, and, as expected, higher range will cost you more.

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2012 Toyota Prius v: Bigger is better

If you put the standard Prius hatchback next to the new Prius v, this model expansion might seem like a pointless exercise, as the Prius v doesn't seem much bigger.

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An end to the dentist's drill: New painless cavity filler could be on the market in two years

Painless: The plasma brush is a new technique
which could replace the dental drill in fillings operations

There could yet be hope for those who live in fear of getting a filling, as a new painless cavity drill is set to hit dentists' surgeries.

The hi-tech 'plasma brush' can hollow out rotten teeth in just 30 seconds, with only a slight cooling sensation for the patient.

It uses chemical reactions to disinfect cavities before operations, and forms a bond on the tooth which is much stronger than current techniques.

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Death of the point-and-shoot camera? Smartphone cameras now take 27 per cent of pictures

Photos taken using smartphones such as Apple's iPhone 4S
have risen to 27 per cent of the total - as cameras fall to 44 per cent

• Sales of compact cameras drop by 17 per cent
• Smartphones increase from 17 per cent to 27 per cent of photos in one year
• Larger-lensed SLR cameras up by 12 per cent 

Pundits have been predicting the death of slim point-and-shoot cameras for years, as

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What Features Will Future Mobile Phones Most Likely Have?

 If you could go back in time ten years and give yourself a sneak peek at the smartphone you own now, what would you think? Would you be amazed by the brilliant display? Would the fast hardware capture your attention? Or would you simply scream “but time travel is impossible!?!”

What about if you could jump ten years forward from today’s date? What do you think you’d see? Predicting the technology in future mobile phones is a difficult business – but it’s also fun.

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New telescope will be 'second biggest structure created by mankind' after Great Wall of China

The KM3net telescope planned for the sea bed under the Mediterranean
will be a network of detectors with a volume of several cubic
kilometres, built to detect neutrinos - tiny, fast-moving
particles that pass straight through water and even solid rock

• Detector uses 'towers' taller than Burj Khalifa in Dubai
• 'Watches' for light flashes in 2.2 billion kg of water
• Detects tiny, fast-moving particles which usually pass straight through matter 

Telescopes come in all shapes and sizes - from orbiting space telescopes just a few metres long to the ambitious 'square kilometer array' planned for South Africa or Australia, where a network of linked dishes will stare at the sky together.

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Mask-Bot : A robot with human face.

Robotics researchers in Munich have joined forces with Japanese
scientists to develop an ingenious technical
solution that gives robots a human face.
(Credit: Uli Benz / Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

Robotics researchers in Munich have joined forces with Japanese scientists to develop an ingenious technical solution that gives robots a human face.

By using a projector to beam the 3D image of a face onto the back of a plastic mask, and a computer to control voice and facial expressions, the researchers have succeeded in creating Mask-bot, a startlingly human-like plastic head. Yet even before this technology is used to give robots of the future a human face, it may well soon be used to create avatars for participants in video conferences.

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Mysterious Metallic Space Ball Falls to Earth in Africa, Baffling Authorities

Space Ball National Forensic Science Institute via PhysOrg

A large metallic ball has fallen from the heavens and landed in a remote region of Namibia, spurring a lot of speculation about its origins and spurring local authorities to get NASA and the European Space Agency on the horn. No one is sure where the hollow metallic object came from, but it definitely came down hard--it was found 60 feet away from its landing site, a hole more than a foot deep and 12 feet across.

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Apple 'in talks with TV firms over voice-controlled flatscreens'

iPhone link: The voice-controlled Siri 'personal assistant' is
designed so you can talk to it like a normal person - the ideal
way to change channel and adjust the volume on Apple's new TV?

Senior Apple executives have met with TV chiefs over the development of Siri-powered flatscreens, according to reports.

Apple TV will use iPhone's Siri 'personal assistant' as its main control method - and will use touch control as a back up.

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Earth has always had two moons!

A future view from Earth? Saturn's moons Rhea and Dione
as seen by the Cassini spacecraft

The discovery of mysterious tiny asteroids which constantly circle our planet.

• Asteroids come and go so often we 'always' have a second moon

  • Rather than launching missions to explore asteroids, we can simply wait for them to orbit Earth

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Hubble discovers 'building blocks of life' on Pluto's surface

The new Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble space telescope has
discovered the first hints that these chemicals might be present in an
unlikely place - the rocky, icy surface of the distant dwarf planet Pluto

• Hydrocarbon molecules may explain planet's red hue
• Scientists expect 'exciting discoveries' when Nasa's New Horizons probe arrives in 2015

Complex hydrocarbon molecules are thought to have been crucial to the first life on planet earth.

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Want some Christmas cheer? Then don't download The Death App

Morbid: The Death App tracks fatal
road accidents and murders - and maps them

Of all the thousands of apps available to iPhone and Android users, there can be few as macabre as The Death App.

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Could the electronics in planes 'self-heal' to keep them in the air?

Plane-ly sensible: There are hundreds of circuits in
aircraft, so a self-healing system could come in handy

• Researchers develop microcapsules that spill conductive liquid into circuit cracks

If a computer chip in an aircraft cracks or fails, it could be fatal, but researchers think they've found a solution - the self-healing chip.

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NASA tests floating robot servant- Powered by an Android phone.

A Nasa astronaut controls one of the Smart Spheres in
testing on the Space Station last month:
The robots can fly, navigate and record information all by themselves

• Smartphone powered 'Sphere' navigates by itself
• Flies around by releasing CO2 through thrusters

Floating robots are everywhere in science fiction. But the difficulty of keeping a heavy object 'floating' on earth has ensured they remain thoroughly ficitonal on our planet.

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A battery that runs on waste paper- SONY.

A digestive enzyme, cellulase, 'breaks down' the cellulose in paper
into glucose, a sugar that Sony's 'bio batteries' can use as fuel

• 'Bio battery' digests paper using an enzyme
• Can generate enough power to run a small fan

In 2007, Sony demonstrated a Walkman that used a 'bio battery' - an organic battery that generates electricity by 'digesting' food, just like humans do.

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LG brings out voice controlled TV.

The new 'Magic' voice remote will let users speak to control their televisions
- a microphone and voice-recognition software built into the remote make
your voice work like an internet search

Don't wait for Apple's Voice Controlled iTV...... 

LG brings out its own 'Magic' Version.

• Speaking works like a 'search' function for shows
• Also controls 'apps' - such as web-TV - built into the TV
• Other rivals will be 'scrambling' to beat Apple - analyst

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Inception becomes reality- People can teach themselves new skills in dreams.

While the idea of 'walking through' someone's dreams, as in the hit
movie Inception is fictional - and likely to remain
so - dreams are good for more than just entertainment, say researchers

The idea of the surreal Hollywood blockbuster Inception, where people travel through someone's dreams to 'plant' an idea in his head may not be so out-there after all.

Researchers at Yale have found that 'lucid dreamers' - dreamers who have 'waking dreams' that they control - are able to learn new skills in their dreams.

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Hi-tech Google Glasses

Prototype transparent screens have already been demonstrated at technology shows
- so the idea of 'wearable' computer glasses is not as out-there as it sounds

• Fighter-plane-style heads-up display in the glass
• Will layer Google information 'over' the world
• Gadgets will look like ordinary thick-rimmed glasses, but have buttons on the legs

Gossip about the goings-on inside Google's secret 'Google X' lab - the 'blue sky ideas' department where the company's engineers come up out-there products - included the idea of 'wearable computing'.

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IBM predicts: Mind Controlled PCs within 5 years.

The company is investigating smartphone and PC technology where,
'You would just need to think about calling someone, and it happens.'

• Mind-controlled PCs and phones on market by 2016
• Computer passwords will 'disappear' in five years
• Part of company's annual '5 in 5' predictions

Apple, Google and Microsoft are already investigating voice-controlled gadgets - or gadgets controlled by moving your body in front of a camera.

But IBM thinks the tech giants might be a little shortsighted - and predicts that mind-controlled computers will be on the market within five years.

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Future of Computing- Quantum Computers.

Trap to develop a quantum computer based on single-electron transistors.

Introduction:

A quantum computer is a device for computation that makes direct use of quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data. Quantum computers are different from traditional computers based on transistors. The basic principle behind quantum computation is that quantum properties can be used to represent data and perform operations on these data.

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