Author: Pooja Kashyap

A CPD certified Fitness Trainer, Pooja also likes to spend time reading and blogging the latest research and discoveries in science and how technology is shaping the world. Besides writing, she enjoys reviewing books and taking interviews of creative/innovative people. Currently, she is located in Noida, India, where she actively participates in marathons as well. She is also on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Dust Ring Confirmed Near Venus Orbit

Pooja Kashyap

Interplanetary dust or the Cosmic dust has occupied space in the solar system. Studies are still being conducted in order to understand the nature, origin and its relationship to larger bodies in space. However, one thing is confirmed that a planet’s gravity is acting on the cosmic dust by pulling it into its orbit forming a ring of dust around itself. Earth too has been travelling in the ring of dust, a discovery that was made twenty years ago. Since then space scientists have been working upon gathering the information…

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Magneto Electric Conversion In BFO Opens Door To Smart Devices

Pooja Kashyap

Among the other multiferroics, bismuth ferrite (BFO) has gained an increased interest from research scholars in science and technology. The credit goes to its enhanced magnetization and suppressed current leakage ability. In May this year, three researchers Dovron Rahmedov, Laurent Bellaiche and Rahmedov postulated the multi-functionality of bismuth ferrite (BFO) in terms of electrical polarization, which means, the compound can be magnetized by running an electric current through it.

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Controlling Robots Via An Intuitive Command System

Pooja Kashyap

Eye contact and face engagement are the two most important elements that plays major role in interaction among humans. And this main thing was missing when interacting with robots but now bots too would react according to the given set of instruction(s) that they’d decipher as per the eye and face recognition. Researchers at IROS made it a reality. They showed how an individual robot obeyed – within a group of bots – an instruction. This breakthrough went ahead in controlling bots in a more natural way. The bots were…

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Mars Has Granitic Rocks: A Research

Pooja Kashyap

Every time one reads a philosophical novel, one finds a new motif running parallelly across the main theme and the numbers of motifs keep on increasing with the number of times the book is re-read. Expedition on Mars is quite similar to such an experience or a discovery at least I think so. Until now, researchers advocated that Mars is much simpler geologically with respect to Earth and that the planet’s surface consists of only basalt, dark-colored volcanic rocks. However, a recent discovery by the Curiosity rover has surfaced more…

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Meet Daniel Becker, 2014 Nominee by German Design Council: An Interview

Pooja Kashyap

As an entrepreneur / designer heading his own eponymous firm in Berlin, Daniel Becker Design Studio, Daniel provides design and consulting services in the fields of industrial products, lighting and interior design as well as art-direction and strategic conception. Daniel Becker (born 1983) studied industrial design at Braunschweig University of Art. After graduating, he opened his own studio and was invited to show his work in several young design talent selections on major trade fairs. In 2013, he presented new products on the Milan Furniture Fair and is nominated for…

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Take A Dip Into The World Of Data Visualization With Florian Krautli: An Interview

Pooja Kashyap

Florian Krautli is a Swiss designer and developer working in London. He holds a BDes in product design from the Design Academy Eindhoven and a MSc in Cognitive Computing from Goldsmiths, focusing on philosophy of perception and artificial intelligence. He is experienced as a designer, software developer and lecturer and his work has been internationally exhibited and featured in both design and technology centered media. Currently, his research revolves around interactive data visualisations for cultural data, with a focus on representations of time.

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Designing Is More Complex Than Entrepreneurship, says Stefano Merlo: An Interview

Pooja Kashyap

Stefano Merlo was born in Valdobbiadene (Treviso, Italy). He is a multidisciplinary and awards winner designer, focused mainly on Product, Industrial, Web and Communication design. He has been awarded with international design prizes and honorable mention, and his works are published in many international design magazines and books. He won the first prize of “2nd Outdoor Furniture Contest” by Gandia Blasco in 2007 and was shortlisted at “Bright Led” competition by DesignBoom in 2007, he was featured on “Top 100 designs of the year” by Hugo Boss in 2009. Won…

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Interview Creative Designer of Dominic Schindler Creations: Matus Prochaczka

Pooja Kashyap

Today we’d like to introduce the work and thoughts of creative Matus Prochaczka, all the way from Slovakia. His specialties include Industrial Design, 3D Modeling, Illustration, Rhinoceros, 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, AutoCad, Corel draw, sketching and pencil pictures. He has also created 3D modeling tutorial for rhinoceros, in case anyone’s interested may directly see it here. His achievements include 1st , 2nd and 3rd place in 3 of 9 categories at interiormotivesdesign award 2006, he was the finalist at Skoda contest auto snu 2007 and bagged 1st place in 1…

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Dendrites Effectively Act As Mini Neural Computers

Pooja Kashyap

Researchers have lately discovered an additional role of dendrites the branching extensions of neurons. Before the study, dendrites were considered as the receptive parts of a neuron, meaning, responsible for transmitting information from sense organs and carrying impulses to different muscles in the body. It is because of this tendency, they are also termed as electrical transmitters of the body. However, the recent research postulates dendrites additional ability to process information, hence increasing the brain’s computing power. This insinuates brain has a huge processing power relatively. Period. Dendrite’s Study The…

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Budgee Bot Likes To Carry Packages & Bags

Pooja Kashyap

Shopping is always good but becomes cumbersome when there happens to be a load of bags or to navigate trolleys across a rush. Pushing trolleys is not only weighty but at times, creates inconvenience to others as well. However, Five Elements Robotics has come out with a simple problem to ease this issue. They have named the solution, Budgee. A cute and autonomously driven bot that’ll hold items while talking behind the person. It is so portable that it can be operated in shopping malls, parks, home, offices etc..

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Gamification: Understanding The Very Aspect Of Life & Work

Pooja Kashyap

Gamification is one of the most innovative strategies in getting insights for any organization. It also happens to be the most predominant approach across networking sites for creating a stream of dedicated user base. If we talk about it at an enterprise level, we find this phenomenon of using game elements in non-game contexts has been a lucrative offer for both the management as well as employees. The same process can be used effectively in dealing with outside segment that is the customer and the clients and the inner circle,…

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Now Paralyzed Patients Can Move With Spinal Stimulation

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Susan Harkema’s a neuroscientist at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, recent research would act as a boon to patients who are suffering from paralysis. Her study demonstrated awakening of patients’ lower spinal cord with the use of electrical stimulation. Dustin Shillcox, a 28-year-old guy, who met with an accident on August 2010 had lost his control on his lower limbs. But with Harkema’s research, for the first time in 2 years, he was able to stood on his feet. Similar result was seen in Rob Summers, 23 years of age,…

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Semiconductors: Graphene Will Be Replacing Silicon In The Chips

Pooja Kashyap

Researchers at the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) envision that copper-based relay points in silicon chips would very soon become obsolete. All types of interconnections employed in integrated circuits (ICs) will also cover this redundancy. Graphene, as per scientists, will be the next frontier in computing. Traditional silicon-based transistors and metal interconnects were using materials, which were bulky in the sense that it was affecting the feature-sizes and contact resistance problem. So in order to address this issue, researchers in electrical and computer engineering at the University of California,…

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FUEGO The Fire Spotting Satellite: A Tool For Firefighters

Pooja Kashyap

It’s been quite a sometime since scientists were working towards obtaining insights and control over the occurrences and patterns of global wildfire. As per a research reported by Clark University geographers, carbon emissions from fires have escalated tremendously, between 1996 and 2008 is 2.4 times as much as what burned between 1984 and 1995. So in order to resolve the problem, scientists thought of having a dedicated geostationary satellite. Such technology would also help in averting catastrophes like Arizona’s Yarnell Fire, which killed nearly 19 Firefighters in US this summer.…

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Carbonated Meteorite Hints At Presence of Carbon Dioxide on Mars

Pooja Kashyap

Planets scientists’ have discovered carbonation in a meteorite that landed on earth, US to be more specific, in late back 1931. Meteorite study suggests that it must be 3,000 years old and is carried off from the surface of Mars. This asserts that the surface on Mars must be loaded with carbon dioxide, which had happened not more than 3 to 4 billion years ago. Researchers still have no argument which supports the reason for its current absence. However, they have postulated several reasons that might have lead to the…

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