You can climb walls like Spiderman

It may soon be possible to walk on walls like Spiderman with American researchers claiming to have invented a device that could lead to development of shoes or gloves which would stick and unstick to walls and also bear load.

Researchers at Cornell University have created a palm-sized device that uses water surface tension as an adhesive bond, journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported on Wednesday.

According to lead researcher Paul Steen, the device, using rapid adhesion mechanism, could lead to such development of the shoes or gloves that stick and unstick to walls, or postit-like notes that can bear loads.

The team took inspiration from a beetle native to Florida, which can adhere to a leaf with a force 100 times its own weight, yet also instantly unstick itself. The device consists of a flat plate patterned with holes, each on the order of a micron (one-millionth of a meter).

A bottom plate holds a liquid reservoir, and in the middle is another porous layer. An electric field applied by a common 9-volt battery pumps water through the device and causes droplets to squeeze through the top layer. The surface tension of the exposed droplets makes the device grip another surface — much the way two wet glass slides stick together [more...]

Will Matrix be a reality?

We can see next real MATRIX PART with real imagination, someone insert a wire into our brain and wooooosh we are off to another world where we can learn anything by just click of button, any art such as Kung-Fu or Fly a Helicopter. I am not joking but this is becoming reality.

An indian start up company has started working on that and soon we can see our brain information copied to computer.

An IT startup in Technopark, Kerala will be working on the Blue Brain Project, the world's first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain. The cost of the project is $3 billion and is expected to complete by 2018. It is an international project, propelled by Swiss Federal Institute, and involves several countries and ethics monitoring by UN bodies.

The whole idea for this project is that mental illness, memory and perception triggered by neurons and electric signals could be soon treated with a supercomputer that models all the 1,000,000 million synapses of brain.

Innovation not taken seriously in India

Innovation are not taken seriously in India. We have lakhs and lakhs of students passing out every year and every student is supposed to make a project for completing the course. Are all the innovation recognized? This is something we should be thinking about and the colleges/Universities should start realizing the dreams.
Here is an example of not getting recognized in India:
Projects like the 'black box' system installed in cars in U.S. and UK to detect a genuine accident is also done by a group of students from Latur-based Women Polytechnic Institute in Maharashtra but was not recognized, reports Times of India.

Recently i heard that there is a contest for engineering students, All India Engineering Project Innovation Contest (AIEPIC, pronounced as eye-pic) contest like this will promote many innovations and idea from students. This contest should not be limited only to engineering students it should be open at national level. Well school students are not be left behind in innovation.

Recently Kerala government had started this contest at school level.Really amazing to see the kind of innovation these kids have.

Wish this contest is open at national level irrespective of the age limit.

Baby cry translator

Ever wondered what a child is trying to say when he/she is crying..

Well to find that out there is a new Application called the Cry Translator. This is a brain child of a spanish doctor.

Anyhow, this all works because researchers have pretty much figured out what a baby’s crying means. Turns out there’s five types of cries—and these cries are the same across all of humanity, from Texas to Japan, from Portugal to Indonesia—and they indicate whether or not the baby is hungry, tired, stressed, bored, or annoyed. I did not know that ;-)

The App just costs $17.99. The App claims to be 96 percent accurate.

next time your child cries, try your luck with this app.. :-)[more...]

Own The Coolest Jet On Your Block

This is not a joke. Yes you can buy a jet and that too not a simple on but a fighter jet SU-27. Sukhoi is selling their SU-27 with a price tag of 5 M.. Well if i had one i would have got and parked at my house :-)

Read more abt this .....[More...]

80legs Crawling

80legs is a web crawling service running on a distributed grid of 50,000 computers, spidering the web at a rate of 2 billion pages/day, and analyzing the content found.

The service can be accessed on demand by setting up a job and executing it. As any crawling process, the job needs a seed list which can be contained by a text file up to 1 GB in size. Other job parameters are:

o Outgoing links – used to specify which links to crawl of those resulting from a seed

o Depth level – the URL level measured to a seed

o Crawling type – multiple depths in the same time or only one depth at a time

o Number of URLs – specifies the maximum number of URLs to crawl

o MIME types – specifies the page types to crawl

o Analyze options – there are several analysis options like keyword matching, regular expressions, running custom code

When a job runs, the crawler starts reading web pages starting with the seed ones and considering the outgoing links options, and analyzes the content of the pages. Simple analysis is available by specifying keywords to match or by selecting information based on regular expressions, but complex analysis can be performed on the data by using a custom application or a pre-built 80legs application. The analysis application needs to be written in Java. 80legs plans to open an application store where developers can sell their applications at their desired price and will collect all the revenue. 80legs has launched a contest to attract developers.

Paid subscriptions offer access to a Python API to interact with the crawling engine. Plans are for a Perl API. Free subscribers can create and control their jobs through the 80legs Portal.

There is a free plan with some limitations: 1 job at a time, 100k pages of max 100KB each, a 10MB analysis application (Java JAR), no API, 1 hit per second for the domain searched. There are two paid subscriptions, the top one offering 5 concurrent repeatable jobs with 10M pages/job, 10 MB/page, a 10 MB JAR, and 10 hits/sec/domain for $2/million pages crawled and 3 cents for CPU-hour utilized

Has GDrive come back?

Have you ever had thoughts that it will be great to store huge files over the internet for free?

Well now Google has the answer to solve your problem. Google has come with google docs. It has recently opened up all file type for upload. You can upload any file with huge size. Currently google limit users to 500KB for Microsoft Word documents, and 10MB for PowerPoint presentations and PDFs, the new limit for all other files that cannot be converted into a Google Docs format is 250MB. This is 10 times the size of what's allowed as an attachment in the company's Web mail service Gmail.

That said, the amount of space for non-Google Docs files that are stored within Docs will only be 1GB. Users can upgrade though, and Google is planning on that

Enjoy the free space. :-)