The project, which Dr Peter Terren calls the Modern Thinker, involves passing about 200,000 volts of electricity over his body, a routine that transforms him into a human sparkler for all of 15 seconds.

Terren explained in a short note that” he wanted to convey the concept of the modern electrical age with the barrage of electrical interference in our lives”.

It shows the amateur physicist – striking a pose imitating Rodin’s The Thinker statue – channelling an arc of electrical current that leaps down from the crackling semi-circle of sparks suspended over his head.

Translucent keypad illuminates a cool glow

The LG-GD900 is expected to make a new fashion statement. Translucent keypad illuminates a cool glow that reflects the phone’s sleek and polished silver body. It also tries to live up to the highest level of technical features expected in a premium caliber handset, including its dedicated Bluetooth headset.

Specifications

3D Touch UI & Transparent S-Class GUI
Intelligent Transparent Touch Keypad
7.62 cms WVGA full touch screen
8 MP Camera with Auto/ Manual focus
Dolby Mobile enhanced sound
DVD resolution video recording
HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and Wi-Fi accessibility

The Netgear WNR1000 wireless router measures 223 x 153 x 31mm and weighs 500 gms.

The wireless router is compact and comes with a dual band connection with enhanced connectivity for net surfing, emailing and streaming videos and music. The Netgear WNR1000 wireless router will be available in India at a price of Rs 2,900 with a two-year warranty.

The Netgear WNR1000 wireless router measures 223 x 153 x 31mm and weighs 500 gms.

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Features:
* Provides better wireless coverage than older Wireless-G routers
* Extra performance boost when connected to Wireless-N devices
* Surf, email, stream music, play on-line games, and make Internet phone calls
* Push ‘N’ Connect can securely connect devices at the push of a button
* Advanced wireless technologies and powerful internal antennas generate better speed and range than Wireless-G

Pricing and Availability :
NETGEAR’s WNR1000 RangeMax 150 Wireless Router is now available in India through authorized distributors –Rashi Peripherals & Ingram Micro with a list price of Rs.2950/- and is backed by 2 years warranty.

Researchers at the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge in the UK are working hard on a technology that can harvest small amounts of energy from ambient radio and TV waves. The cell phone would pick up radio wave frequencies as low as 500 megahertz up to 10 gigahertz, which includes television broadcasts, microwave ovens, mobile phones, wireless LAN, bluetooth, GPS, and two-way radios. In theory, two circuits would be capable of receiving and then converting the free energy to an electrical current to charge the battery of a cell phone.

Hopefully, it would be enough energy to keep the phone charged in standby mode; although at first it won’t be enough to charge the phone while in use, or to full battery capacity. Markku Rouvala, one of the researchers who developed the device, says “trick here is to ensure that these circuits use less power than is being received.” So far, their device can collect up to 5 milliwatts of power, and their short term goal is to collect 20 milliwatts of power, which is just enough to keep the phone charged in standby mode. Ultimately, 50 milliwatts of power would be ideal and could help slowly recharge the battery.

This technology could be applied to other electronic equipment as well. Radio waves could be used to charge MP3 players, handheld devices, Kindles, portable game players, etc. Nokia isn’t relying on this type of technology alone to power their phones, they are also looking at integrated solar cells to work in conjunction with this new development. Deployment of this feature in Nokia phones is still at least 3 years away. We’ll be standing by with our waning cell phones waiting for word.

SOURCE:Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge

But terror attacks never let us down instead we always bounce back in a strong way,our nation anthem still sings in a standing ovation.26/11, a date remembered in infamy, forever etched into India’s consciousness. An attack so brazen, that a country was left reeling in shock for days afterwards. But amongst the chaos, there emerged stories of incredible heroism in the face of terror, where it proved that despite the best attempts of those who would seek to destroy it, the spirit and nobility of humanity would always shine through.

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Today most of technologies utilized the proper array of transistors, as in the case of a computer or television screen, whether it’s an LCD or plasma, are each controlled by several transistors. These transistors are made from silicon. Arrays of these transistors need to be made at high temperatures and in a vacuum, so they’re very expensive according to Chongwu Zhou, an associate professor of electrical engineering at USC and researcher on the nanotube project.

Now a days, advance technology takes new shape with sharp turn with carbon nanotube transistors, Many people use one nanotube to make a very small, high-performance transistor. “If we use one nanotube for one transistor, the yield will never be high enough” to work for large-scale manufacturing of big screens, he says. Zhou believes his approach will solve this problem by making larger transistors from mats of nanotubes.

The USC researchers make large arrays of carbon nanotube transistors using solution-processing techniques at room temperature. They start by placing a silicon wafer in a chemical bath to coat its surface with a nanotube-attracting chemical, then rinse off the residue. The treated wafer is then immersed in a solution of semiconducting carbon nanotubes, which are attracted to its surface. The wafer, now coated with a carpet of nanotubes, is rinsed clean again. To make transistors from this tangled mess, the researchers put down metal electrodes at selected locations. The electrodes define where each transistor is and carry electrons into and out of the nanotubes that lie between them. Areas of silicon underlying each device act as the transistors’ gates. So far, they’ve built a prototype device on a four-inch silicon wafer and used it to control a simple organic light-emitting diode display.

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• A single-layer Blu-ray disc, which is roughly the same size as a DVD, can hold up to 27 GB of data — that’s more than two hours of high-definition video or about 13 hours of standard video.
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6× @ 216 Mbit/s (27 MByte/s)
8× @ 288 Mbit/s (36 MByte/s)
12× @ 432 Mbit/s (54 MByte/s)

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High-definition video
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PlayStation 3 games

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Source: TIMES OF INDIA