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Interview: Suhasini Paul, Co-Founder at Paul Studio, India

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Suhasini Paul is an eminent Indian Toy Designer. She has done Management Program for Women Entrepreneurs from IIM, Bangalore. Not only TEDx, she has been invited to talk about design at various other design events, Institutes and many other platforms. She is the first toy designer in the country to have her name imprinted on the games designed by her for Indian and global clients. Her success lies in taking concepts to reality by connecting the right resources with the people she works with. Her services as a toy designer…

Plants Camouflaging with Odour: Survival Strategy

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Till now, we have known, humans and animals (including insects) have survival instincts. Its not just grit, its instinct. Sometime or the other, in our lives, we have experienced it too. But ever heard of plants displaying this survival strategy?

Queen Bee’s Tooting Initiates Swarming: Preserving Biodiversity

June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

It has been widely known for some time that queen bees make use of acoustical signals for communication amongst themselves. Now researchers have discovered an assortment of behavioural cues and other social signals that goes on within the waxy walls.

Astronauts create Fifth State of Matter on ISS: Bose-Einstein Condensates in Space

June 14, 2020June 15, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Astronauts harnessed the microgravity environment at the International Space Station by developing an ‘exotic’ form of matter. We call it exotic because this form of matter has not been easily observed on earth – maybe due to gravity.

Spherical Solar Cells Boost Up Solar Energy Harvesting

June 14, 2020June 15, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Flat solar panels dominate the world market when it comes to capture solar energy directly from the Sun. However, the flat design has a major limitation as it cannot keep track of sun’s apparent motion.

Xenobot: AI is Pushing the Best Way to Construct Itself

June 6, 2020December 1, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Scientists at the University of Vermont, have created a new class of artifact, called xenobots. They have used frog’s stem cells to fabricate first living robots.

Starlink: The sole charge of IoT in 2020 and beyond

June 2, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Our devices might never go out of internet coverage area. Musk plans to provide global internet connection to everyone and anywhere in the world. Connectivity speed too will be above average, that is, more than home WIFI (50Mb/s).

Book Review: Open An Autobiography by Andre Agassi

May 28, 2020June 29, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

J.R. Moehringer did a fantastic job in writing Andre Agassi’s ‘autobiography’, Open: An Autobiography. He gave his best shot again right after his own famous memoir “The Tender Bar”. Deftly, Moehringer slips into telling Agassi’s life on paper as if he had lived it too.

Can you be allergic to water: Aquagenic Urticaria

May 21, 2020May 29, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Earth is a watery planet, in fact, water covers nearly 71 percent of our planet. It exists in our atmospheric air as water vapor and in ground flora as moisture within the soil. Water is one of the main components that we look for in extra-terrestrial planetary space.

Book Review: Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Catherine M Pittman, Elizabeth M Karle

May 12, 2020June 29, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Anxiety is part of our everyday life but chronic anxiety is a type of mental illness. It is neither a temporary problem nor does it get away with medications. It can have serious consequences on health such as depression, mood swings, headache, panic attacks, pounding heart, breathing problems, extreme fatigue, increase in blood pressure and so on.

Book Review: The Yoga of Time Travel by Fred Alan Wolf

May 10, 2020June 29, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

This weekend I finished reading one of the most remarkable books, The Yoga of Time Travel: How the Mind Can Defeat Time by Fred Alan Wolf. Time travel, a concept has always intrigued me including movies based on the same. This book surpasses every motion picture that I have seen so far. Very deftly, Wolf has woven threads of Vedic philosophy into quantum physics and alternative philosophies like Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.

Caper Smart Shopping Cart (w/Video): Trolley with Deep Learning and Machine Vision

January 14, 2019May 29, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Autonomous, by far, has limited with the use of robotics or car but lately, the concept has encircled shopping carts as well. In the coming future, retail stores would offer “consumer has it all” experience by simply grabbing and going option.

Book Review: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

November 1, 2017June 29, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

Catch 22 is an American post-war novel written by Joseph Heller. It is one of the interesting pieces of American literature juggling dark humor, war issues, bleakness, satire, silliness, wordplay and serious theme. Initially the book looks like a noose of loose strands but as the plot progresses, we find that very deftly, Heller has been able to surface the absurdity of war and the human condition itself. It is a world of madness, where each character fits in perfectly well with his personal streak of eccentricity.

Book Review: We the Living by Ayn Rand

August 2, 2017 Pooja Kashyap

“We the Living” is Rand’s first novel and probably amongst the greatest works of nonfiction depicting the life during the Soviet Era, the communist dictatorship in Soviet Russia in 1920s. The motif runs around the struggle of individuals against the totalitarian state.

Interview: Robert Cheek, Head of Business Dev at UVify, San Jose, CA

February 1, 2017June 7, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Recently, we got the pleasure of having a virtual meet up with Drone and AI startup UVify’s, Head of Business Development, Robert Cheek. UVify’s new Draco drone was the main attraction at CES 2017. The startup has developed technologies that can provide drone racing to general public. For those who are interested, Draco is currently up for pre-order, at $499. Shipping is expected to start by the next quarter.