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. :-)

Tax time - HRA Tax exemption

Tax time is here. !!!

Every company starts with collecting tax proof in January. And that’s when everyone start thinking about tax saving. Most of us don’t know how those taxes are applied. I was surfing the internet to find out on how the HRA are applied. Then I came across this information. This is from one of my friend Sarajit Datta who is also investment consultant. Below is some extract from his recent blog.

HRA Exemption in Non-Metro Cities:

For example let’s say
• Yearly HRA = Rs 1,20,000
• Yearly Basic = Rs 2,00,000
• Yearly Rent = Rs 1,20,000

As per the HRA formula -
1. Yearly HRA = Rs 1,20,000
2. Yearly Basic X 40% = 2,00,000 X 40% = Rs 80,000
3. Yearly Rent - (Yearly Basic) X 10% = 1,20,000 – 2,00,000 X 10% = Rs 1,00,000..[more]

Why do we wear marks (tilak, pottu and the like) on the forehead?

The tilak or pottu invokes a feeling of sanctity in the wearer and others. It is recognized as a religious mark. Its form and colour vary according to one’s caste, religious sect or the form of the Lord worshipped.
In earlier times, the four castes (based on varna or colour) - Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Sudra - applied marks differently. The brahmin applied a white chandan mark signifying purity, as his profession was of a priestly or academic nature. The kshatriya applied a red kumkum mark signifying valour as he belonged to warrior races. The vaishya wore a yellow kesar or turmeric mark signifying prosperity as he was a businessman or trader devoted to creation of wealth. The sudra applied a black bhasma, kasturi or charcoal mark signifying service as he supported the work of the other three divisions.
Also Vishnu worshippers apply a chandan tilak of the shape of "U,” Shiva worshippers a tripundra of bhasma, Devi worshippers a red dot of kumkum and so on).
The tilak cover the spot between the eyebrows, which is the seat of memory and thinking. It is known as the Aajna Chakra in the language of Yoga. The tilak is applied with the prayer - "May I remember the Lord. May this pious feeling pervade all my activities. May I be righteous in my deeds.” Even when we temporarily forget this prayerful attitude the mark on another reminds us of our resolve. The tilak is thus a blessing of the Lord and a protection against wrong tendencies and forces.
The entire body emanates energy in the form of electromagnetic waves - the forehead and the subtle spot between the eyebrows especially so. That is why worry generates heat and causes a headache. The tilak and pottu cools the forehead, protects us and prevents energy loss. Sometimes the entire forehead is covered with chandan or bhasma. Using plastic reusable "stick bindis" is not very beneficial, even though it serves the purpose of decoration.