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Researchers Leverage Lattice Dynamics to Conserve Thermoelectric Energy

February 25, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

It’s been quite some time since researchers were working on the property of thermoelectric material and lately, they were able to develop a prototype that allows electricity to pass through while heat transfer but maintains insulation at the same time. They were able to do this by placing an arrangement of nanopillars on top of the thermoelectric material; to conduct the experiment the material they took was a thin film of silicon. Effect that thermoelectricity produces refers to a phenomena, where electricity is produced due to the temperature variation between…

Meet Dr Gideon Greenspan: Developer, Entrepreneur and Lecturer

February 25, 2014February 25, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Today, we’d like to present before you an interview of an amazing person and one of the inspiring entrepreneur, Dr Gideon Greenspan. He is the man behind many successful and of course profitable online ventures including Carbon Catalog, now part of Ecosystem Marketplace, Giga Alert, Magic Baby Names, Family Echo, Siteliner, Question2Answer, Web Sudoku, Copyscape a plagiarism search engine and Cloudlook. Currently he is working on a new idea related to bitcoin called Bitcoin Colors. He is PhD in Computer Science from the Technion and teaches software entrepreneurship to undergraduate…

The Zettabyte Era: IP Traffic in 2017

February 22, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

As per ISPs worldwide scrutiny, Cisco predicts that by 2017, yearly global Internet traffic will escalate to 1.4 zettabytes, which is equivalent to 1021 bytes. While in 2012, the traffic was around 1018 bytes that happens to be 528 exabytes. Researchers claim that videos alone would be able to fetch nearly 90 percent of traffic along with machine-to-machine communication and the explosion of mobile devices contributing to the high tide. Wave of mobile devices including the Smartphone sales in Mid East and Africa will also run in the boom drive.…

Magnonic Holographic Technology: Revolutionizing Logic and Memory Devices

February 21, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Taking storage technology to the next level, researchers the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering and Russian Academy of Science have developed a holographic memory device, which would revolutionize the capacity for data storing and data processing proficiencies in e-devices. The new storage device makes use of spin wave propagation than the optical beam. Compatibility with the current and upcoming e-devices along with its operation at a shorter wavelength makes spin wave a promising candidate for smaller electronic devices over the optical devices.

First Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration Goes Successful

February 18, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Researchers from NASA and MIT have been trying to create a two-way laser link communication between the Moon and the Earth. The effort has been initiated last year in the month of Oct. First step concluded by beaming of laser light from a spacecraft orbiting the moon to the earth, at White Sands, New Mexico. And then the beam was sent to the spacecraft from the lab and this process went for about a month. Space scientists have dubbed it as Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD). The entire mechanism went…

Shoes From Back To The Future II Stepping Into The Real World

February 18, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Power Laces Shoes is the future of footwear, do not mix it with Loafers people (like one of my friend did), I am far too way to give any fashion statement :l The famous Tinker Hatfield, designer from the Nike announced that the power laces from Back to the Future II would hit the real world by 2015. He is the man behind the famous Air Jordan series and other fashionable shoes. At the moment, its far to predict whether the coming of the power laces would be in Nike…

Interview: Clément Eloy, The Promising Star of French Design

February 18, 2014February 17, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

After his Master’s in Engineering Design with Honors from the ISD Valenciennes, France, Clement Eloy decided to start his own firm. In 2008, he founded Feel Addicted, the global design agency in Lille, France. His firm deals with user experience and overall brand perception. Through its various services, like products, packaging, brand identity and creation of environment, Feel Addicted combines design to marketing in a comprehensive and personalized process. His list of awards includes Red Dot Design Award, and many of his designs have been showcased across countries like Belgium,…

Will Nanofabrication Recall 3D TV Without Glasses?

February 17, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Jayan Thomas, an assistant professor at UCF’s NanoScience Technology Center is at the verge of showing a red flag to the conventional 3D television, where one needs to wear the glasses to have a feel of 3D effect. The researcher has already received a grant of US $400 000 to work towards fabricating the materials that would be able to create a 3D image. As per him, he wants to create a TV, which would be something like table, and the images will resonate on top of it and people…

Graphene Morphs From Hydrophobic To Hydrophilic

February 14, 2014August 7, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Graphene is taking the role of Zeus in the fraternity of materials. Its astounding properties come to the fore every time researchers try to do something new with it. Interestingly this time, the material has shown its ‘romantic inclination’ towards water. Its hydrophobic nature allows graphene to repel water however, narrow capillaries fabricated from the material reverses the nature of the same material, turning it into hydrophilic. Rapid permeation occurs when the layer of water molecule is of same dimension as that of graphene itself, that is, one atomic thickness.

Satellite Servicing: Refueling Missions versus Resurrecting Satellites

February 14, 2014February 14, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Satellites do not know concepts like repairing or re-fueling. Once they are put into orbit, they last until the task is completed and then de-orbit. In case of malfunctioning, they are just forgotten about and are left to contribute to space junk. So what exactly would robots in manned cosmonautics do, although researchers envision that the bots would help in repairs and maintenance at the ISS along with other things including minimize human work. Interestingly, DARPA is trying to resurrect the ‘dead’ satellites by imparting the required skills to its…

Researchers Map Out Ganymede’s Grooved Terrain: Jupiter’s Largest Moon

February 13, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

After several years of consistent hard work, researchers from Brown University were able to complete the first global gelological map of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, which is also largest in the solar system. Geologists envision that the map might assist in future exploration since they expects habitable environment upon Ganymede. The moon’s terrain and the possibility of underground waters have made it a subject of curiosity and investigation by the researchers. Voyager and Galileo spacecraft were used to take images for constructing the map. In 1979, Voyager made its first…

Native Apps versus HTML5 Based Apps: The War Goes On

February 12, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

It’s been a decade now, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is working towards converging on standards of coding as per which, single chunk of code is to be displayed across connected devices be it app or webpage. Amongst others, automotive industry is looking forward to the new coding standards, called the HTML5. With this, they envision reduction in the cost and at the same time, opening up of new apps for a connected vehicle. Complete specifications of HTML5 was published in Dec 2012, however, the actual set of standards…

How To: Improve PC Performance For Win OS

February 11, 2014April 6, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Lately, I have noticed that my machine with Win OS is running slow. Though this is not a general problem but happened recently so I worked along the following strategies. It helped me improving my machine’s overall performance. I hope the following eleven steps might serve you well too in case any of you are facing the same issues. 1. Disk space: At least 15% of the storage space must be kept free as it helps in efficient running of the machine. How this can be done? Go to My…

Robots Capitalizing On The Efficiency Of Nature: Biomimicry

February 11, 2014February 21, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Tentacles of biomimicry have entered into the technology realm as well and hence we are witnessing robots derived from the workings of mother nature. Researchers are working towards developing designs that might bestow the animal capabilities to machines. Cats Inspired E-Whiskers Electronic whiskers are one such offshoot created by the researchers at the Berkeley Lab. They fabricated this design using carbon nanotubes and silver nanoparticles. With this it seems after eclipsing the Silicon, the CNTs would now make its presence felt among robotics as well. These artificial whiskers are made…

Graphene Sandwich Results In Higher Resolution Images Of Biomolecules

February 10, 2014August 7, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Biomolecule when sandwiched between sheets of graphene results in a high resolution of atomic level images of the molecule, a rare research put forth by the researchers at the University of Illinois, Chicago. The molecule called ferritin, an iron-storage protein, was imaged in the research. Prior to this method, imaging of any Biomolecule was taken of course with an electron microscope along with a liquid stage container that is placed between thick windows of silicon nitrate to protect the sample from vacuum. Graphene’s superior transparency becomes instrumental in providing an…