Robot nominated to carry Olympic flame

Carrying the Olympic Flame gives budding athletes the chance to be a part of the biggest sports competition in the world, but why should humans have all the glory? James Law, a computer scientist at Aberystwyth University has nominated a robot to be part of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay.

Law has suggested that the iCub robot, which is designed to learn from the world like a human toddler, should be given a chance to take part in the event as a tribute to legendary computer scientist Alan Turing. "2012 will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, the founder of computer science and a figurehead for the code breaking efforts of WWII," he said. "A robot torch bearer would be a fitting tribute to Alan Turing, and an inspiration to future generations of scientists and engineers."

The robot has been nominated through a scheme sponsored by Lloyds TSB, which has over 800 torch bearer slots available, but it seems that iCub fails to meet the minimum requirements as nominees must live in the UK and be aged 12 or over. As a toddler, iCub clearly fails the age requirement. And while the robot does indeed reside in the UK, it's not actually alive. That makes any robot a long shot for inclusion, at least for now. Maybe by the next time the Olympics come to London, it'll be a different story.

TATA NANO GOLD CAR..!!!

Tata has given a massive makeover to the world’s cheapest car, making it one of the world’s costliest cars.

World's smallest camera that is just the size of a fingertip...!!!!!

 A New York firm has developed the world's smallest commercially-available camera that is around the size of a fingertip, but can take two megapixel images and can even shoot video.

Hammacher Schlememr insists that the 28-gram, one inch-squared device works perfectly well, despite being the size of a marble.

The gadget is set to hit the shelves for 100 dollars.

"Although The World's Smallest Camera is only slightly larger than a marble, it takes still images and records video just like much larger cameras," the Daily Mail quoted Schlemmer's General Manager Fred Berns, as saying.

"It comes with a wrist lanyard that keeps it close to hand and enables ease of portability," he added.

The camera can reportedly take JPEG images with a resolution of 1600x1200 and comes complete with autofocus.

Just like regular pieces of photography equipment, this camera also connects to a computer via a USB cable. (ANI)

Top 10 websites of 2011

1. Kickstarter

Kickstarter, a crowdfunding platform for creative endeavors, was founded in April 2009 and had what many would consider a break-out year in 2010. But the site could be poised for an even bigger 2011. The unique all-or-nothing approach to funding has struck a chord with both creators and funders and is allowing enterprising individuals to bypass traditional establishments to create films, music albums, events, and even products. Kickstarter helped hundreds of projects raise millions of dollars in 2010. 

2. OpenLeaks
OpenLeaks may very well be the WikiLeaks alternative in 2011, not as a destination, but as an enabler for media organizations to do the same as WikiLeaks. OpenLeaks, unlike WikiLeaks, seeks to be an intermediary between whistleblowers and other organizations and includes former members of WikiLeaks, most notably, Daniel Domscheit-Berg. The site will focus more on being a technological service for news organizations, likely enabling them to make it easier for their readers to submit such leaks to their own sites. This may keep the scrutiny from politicians and officials — something WikiLeaks has had to battle with this year — away from OpenLeaks, as they won’t be the ones publishing the material.
3. Klout
As social marketing starts to surpass traditional marketing methods, companies will look for influential individuals who can rep their product well. Klout is one of the tools that companies use to gauge who the social influencers are. Look for them to make some big moves in 2011.
4. Hipmunk
Hipmunk is fixing everything that’s wrong with flight searches with a tool whose usefulness is immense. Once people get used to the interface and start telling their friends about it, Hipmunk’s popularity will skyrocket.
5. Gilt Groupe
Gilt Groupe, which hired its 500th employee in 2010, is rapidly expanding into new verticals (such as location-specific group buying deals, a la Groupon) and territories (like Japan). Its next target? Full-priced retail. It’s launching a men’s e-commerce site in February. Expect to see further development in that area and the geographical expansion of its existing products in 2011.
6. Diaspora
Diaspora, the open source social network platform, released its code and opened up to private alpha invitesrecently. The platform was dubbed the alternative to Facebook, during Facebook’s privacy fiasco, andgenerated a lot of buzz. But as the platform opens up to more users in 2011, we’ll see how people react to it and whether it’s something that will actually be an alternative option to the social networking giant.
7. Quora
Quora has clearly found its place with the early adopter set and a number of active, high profile users who make the service interesting to engage with. In 2011, it will be interesting to see if the company is able to expand its audience while maintaining the quality Q&A that has made it so attractive to users thus far. In turn, we’ll see if it’s the next big thing or has a destiny more like that of FriendFeed, a community that was initially popular with early adopters but never found a mainstream audience (but ultimately found a home at Facebook).
8. Grooveshark
Among the many music streaming services in existence today, Grooveshark is one of the few that is both free and available to Europeans. It has a sleek, Google-like interface and a database with a huge amount of music (the service lets anyone upload music, so you can find many obscure, unknown, local or upcoming bands there). It also has an interesting array of features, such as skinnable interface, playlists, music sharing and promotions that don’t feel like ads, and it relies on a freemium business model that offers just enough to entice users to subscribe. Barring possible problems with copyright holders and cash flow issues, which always threaten to shut down services like this, Grooveshark might be the next big thing in online music.
9. Drupal
WordPress might get most of the love in the open source CMS space (for good reason), but Drupal provides a powerful option for individuals, organizations and brands that want to power complex, robust sites. With Drupal 7 set for release in early 2011, the Drupal team is actively addressing the one area the CMS has always received criticism: Usability. Thanks to shops like Development Seed and Lullabot, the Drupal ecosystem is becoming extremely impressive. Acquia, the commercial company from Drupal founder Dries Buytaert, continues to raise funding and offer an array of commercial and support services that better enhance the platform as a whole.
10. Foursquare
I expect Foursquare to scale to an even bigger level in 2011. I won’t be surprised if it starts to acquire smaller companies or make a major move to Silicon Valley, in order to make that happen.

Time Machine: World's First Computer Mouse

Proving that things were way cooler back in the day, is the world's first computer mouse. Made by Douglas Engelbart in 1964, it "consisted of two gear-wheels positioned perpendicular to each other -- allowing movement on one axis." Just look at this thing. Ergonomic shape, great button placement -- and it's made of wood. If that ain't style, then I don't know what is. Sure the front has rotted out, but who cares. My mouse looks like that, and it's brand new. That's just what happens when porn doesn't download fast enough and you start slamming the mouse on the desk.

The Pendulum Clock

The first accurate, modern clock was the pendulum clock. It was invented in 1656 by a Dutch scientist, Christian Huygens. When he first built the pendulum, it had an error of 1 minute per day. A lot of tweaking later, he had reduced it to only 10 seconds a day. The famous astronomer, Galileo Galilei, also dreamed up a pendulum design- but he never got to build it during his lifetime.
Different inventors later made improvements on Huygens’ invention. George Graham reduced the error margin to 1 second. John Harrison won an award for inventing a chronometer for use at sea. It was accurate to within 1/5 of a second. In 1889, Siegmund Riefier narrowed down the clock’s inaccuracy further to just 1/100 of a second. But his invention was overshadowed by the W.H. Shortt clock in 1921. The Shortt clock had two pendulums, with the “slave” pendulum pushing the “master” to move and also keeping the hands going.

India's First Humanoid

A humanoid robot is a robot having an overall appearance based on the human body and is created to imitate the same physical/mental tasks that humans perform daily. A new approach of creating humanoid robots is the branch of Biomechanics.

The Indian Humanoid is named AcYut-4.

The AcYut team consisted of Tushar Agarwal, Apoorv Shrivastava, Deepak Gopinath and Dhairya Seth. The team leader, a third year Mechanical engineering student, Akash Gupta, had the following information about the AcYut-4: “The robot can walk long distances, bend and pick up things, climb stairs and detect objects. It can even play autonomous soccer”. The robot has an autonomous weight-lifting record in its category and has even performed at the Robogames 2011 held in San Francisco a month ago.

The name AcYut is derived from the Sanskrit word “Achyut” meaning “one who never falls”. The 4 in the name indicates that this is the 4th in the series of robots built by the team. The team started by building a prototype biped with scrape aluminium and old motors in the robotics lab in BITS, Pilani. 

Happy Engineer's Day

Proud to be an Engineer...!!!!

When and why do we celebrate Engineer's Day?

September 15 is celebrated every year in India as Engineer's Day to commemorate the birthday of the legendary engineer Sir M. Visvesvaraya (1861-1962).

Internationally recognised for his genius in harnessing water resources, he was responsible for successful design and construction of several river dams, bridges and implementing irrigation and drinking water schemes all over India.

He served as the dewan of Mysore State and was considered to be the architect of the all-round development of Karnataka.

Women CEOs of India

Leading Business Women of India

1	Akhila Srinivasan, Managing Director, Shriram Investments Ltd
2	Chanda Kocchar, Executive Director, ICICI Bank
3	Ekta Kapoor, Creative Director, Balaji Telefilms
4	Jyoit Naik, President, Lijjat Papad
5	Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon
6	Lalita D Gupte, Joint Managing Director, ICICI Bank
7	Naina Lal Kidwai , Deputy CEO, HSBC
8	Preetha Reddy, Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals
9	Priya Paul, Chairman, Apeejay Park Hotels
10	Rajshree Pathy, Chairman, Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Ltd
11	Ranjana Kumar , Chairman, NABARD
12	Ravina Raj Kohli, Media personality and ex-President, STAR News
13	Renuka Ramnath, CEO, ICICI Ventures
14	Ritu Kumar , Fashion Designer
15	Ritu Nanda, CEO, Escolife
16	Shahnaz Hussain, CEO, Shahnaz Herbals
17	Sharan Apparao, Proprietor, Apparao Galleries
18	Simone Tata, Chairman, Trent Ltd
19	Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Joint MD, Kinetic Engineering
20	Tarjani Vakil, former Chairman and Managing Director, EXIM Bank
21	Zia Mody, Senior Partner, AZB & Partners

India's New Youth Icon

The 72-year-old social crusader Anna Hazare is the new youth icon of our country. It's not necessary to be young to become a youth icon."It is not true that youngsters are attracted only by young leaders". The youth can be drawn to anyone, who address their problems and who have contributed towards the betterment of society. Anna has achievements in the social sector.

“Most Indians and the youth in particular are frustrated with the prevailing corruption. They are looking for solutions and feel that Anna is the solution.”

Bullet Proof Human Skin..!!!

Bulletproof vests have been around for decades but skin that can stop them has only been the preserve of science fiction.

The most famous example is Superman, or the Man of Steel - bullets simply ricochet off of him.

Now, scientists have claimed to be making this science fiction into a reality with the development of bulletproof human skin made from spider silk and goat milk.

They genetically engineered goats to produce milk, which is packed with the same protein as silk spiders, which is then milked out and spun and weaved into a material that is ten times stronger than steel.

The fabric is then blended with human skin to make what the scientists hope will be tough enough to stop even a bullet.

How many of them are supporting Anna Hazare..????

Wake Up all Indians and Support ANNA HAZARE "CHANGE YOUR ALL Online PROFILE IMAGE TO ANNA HAZARE "

Bring a change.

Change The way you Think.

Change The Way of Doing. Bring Change in our Country...


Each and every Citizen, do something for Our country.

Do Online No problem....

1 Change Your Profile Image.. Put Anna's Image/Photo in support of Anna Hazare.

Show government That we all are with Anna Hazare.

Spread This Message to each and every one.

Anna's Supporter

Anti-corruption crusader and Anna's supporter killed in Bhopal

Bhopal, Aug 16 (IANS) Shehla Masood, an anti-corruption crusader and Right to Information activist, was Tuesday shot dead outside her residence here, police said.

Masood was in her car in the Koh-e-Fiza area when she was shot in the neck, Inspector General of Police Sailendra Srivastava told IANS.

Masood headed the Madhya Pradesh chapter of India Against Corruption group. In April, she led protests when Gandhian Anna Hazare had fasted in New Delhi for a strong anti-graaft law.

'She was shot dead when she was in the driving seat. The car was parked at her residence,' Srivastava said.

Masood had Monday pledged to expose widespread corruption and said she had several vital documents to back her claims.

Masood was also a green activist and had fought for the Save Tiger project in Madhya Pradesh.

Anna Hazare and their team in Tihar

The team went to Tihar jail
Anna Hazare,
Kiran Bedi,
Darshak,
Dada Phatare,
Suresh Phatare,
Manish Sisodia and
Navin Jaisingh

Anna Hazare refuses to Leave Tihar

Anna jailed, freed, but refuses to leave Tihar 
Just six hours after he was driven to the Tihar Jail after 3 pm after being sentenced to a week's judicial custody, an unprecedented outburst of spontaneous public anger led Delhi Police to release him. But Hazare, 74, having tasted victory, declined to move until his demands were met.

Robot Police Will Visit Us, Soon..!!!!

 Its called the C.R.A.B. or Cybernetic . Autonomous . Remote . Barricade. The 6 legged robotic cop comes straight out of video games. The sleek thing will be used to do patrols and will be used as a barricade, apparently. The robot packs powerful cannons to keep crowds under control with smoke screen and tear gas shell deployment capabilities. The AI software was developed over a period of 12 years apparently. And its headed to London.






So, the machines have finally made inroads into our lives!

The World’s First Sustainable City - Masdar

Masdar, United Arab Emirates. It’s scheduled to be completed by 2016, but the city will be the first zero carbon, zero waste citypowered entirely by renewable energy sources. Located 10.5 miles from Abu Dhabi, Masdar will be completed in seven phases and will include a plaza, a five-star hotel, a convention center, an entertainment complex and retail facilities.

Google+ Users Increases Exponentially...!!!

Google+ is the best competition for facebook and twitter..Wonderful features are in google+  such as video chat, adding circles,sharing posts and so on....

10 things to know about Google+

To find out what Google+ is capable of, see 10 things you need to know about it.

Social circles

Issues that you do not want to deal with all your friends (or relatives) now no longer a problem. Google + hits the vein of privacy and allows the user to divide your contacts into groups like “family”, “Friends”, “known” and so on. And the best: none of your contacts will know which group you put it.

Integration with other Google tools

It’s great to be able to sign in and find out for the top bar, you have Google + updates. To view them, just a click away. In addition, you can also make your own updates right there. Picasa and Buzz are other examples of integration. And probably Google will allow users to also use Docs, Maps and other integrated tools.

Content Sharing

By doing a Google search, there is no need to copy the link and post on social networking, in fact, you do not need to enter the field to do so. Just do a Google search, click the “+1″ and recommend the site to friends.
Another feature is the section Sparks enter a keyword, for example, “movie” and receive the Google page itself, news and updates on the subject. The advantage is that in all his actions, you can choose who you want to share.

More interaction

You can talk to your circles via video or voice, simply install a plugin (you must have Windows XP or higher, Mac OS 10.5 or higher or Linux). To chat via text messages, the network extended the Google Talk Gmail. You can open a group chat and chat with several people at once.

Mobile Devices

By downloading the Google + to your cell phone or iPad, you can also chat in groups or upload video or photos of the device on the web. Then just share. Another advantage is that the upload process is automatic in the phone. The social network is now available for Android phones, Google’s operating system, iPhone, Blackberry and Symbian.

Tagging pictures

You may or may not approve the appointment of a tag with your name on the photos posted. The appointment will allow access to the image and album related. If you prefer to delete the tag set, just click “x” in the tag. And if you prefer that this picture is removed from the network, just ask Google to remove (Click on “Actions” and select “Report Abuse”). You can also make a list of people who already are allowed to mark it in the pictures (Go to “Settings” in the top right).

Location

To let your friends know where you are, Google offers a + button on the home network. Should be interesting, but in tests by Season BUSINESS in Firefox, the system was wrong to try to locate where the story. Missed by far the neighborhood and therefore the address.

Resources on the keyboard

The letter “J” or the spacebar on your keyboard can be used to pass the post without having to run on the scroll bar. The letter “K” is to return to the initial messages.

Name people

Google took advantage of that feature of Facebook to name people in posts. For a guy know you’re talking about it, just type the “@” (at sign) and click on his name. When you use this feature, the person cited is alerted by e-mail – but you can choose not to be told in “Settings”.

Backup

Many of the things you share in a social network can have a big representation in your life, such as photos, news and contacts. Google+ lets you take all this to where you want, just click Settings and choose what you want to keep.