Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts

Monday, 5 November 2012

Less Expensive Carbon Solar Cell

Despite of being widely used in almost every field, silicon made solar cells carry some major drawbacks. One of the biggest disadvantages of silicon cell is its inconsistency and limited durability. Besides this, they are quite costly to be manufactured. The film solar cell consisting of expensive indium tin oxide electrodes is definitely high-priced solution for most of the vendors.

Thursday, 1 November 2012

More Than 290,000 Google Play Android Apps Contain Security Risks

With the advent of latest Android phones brimming over the market, Google Play is also being filled up with frequent Android apps under various software banners. However, according to Bit9, a security vendor, many of these Android apps contain suspicious content. This may cause the leakage of critical information such as GPS data, phone calls or contact numbers just because user grant permission to such apps.

Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Man Sues Wife Over Ugly Baby And Won Settlement Of $120,000

There are plenty of strange people in this world as some weird guy in China sued his wife and the reason to sue was her ugly face. Well the story doesn't end here, as a result he not only won the right to divorce his wife, but also winning around $150,000 in a lawsuit.

Thursday, 25 October 2012

World's Smallest Size 4K2K Color TFT LCD

The new trend of HD displays is emerging these days, and has been seen to grab the attention of most widget lovers. From monitors to phablets, everyone seems to ship HD capable screens. However, a new form of HD has arrived with the resolution power from 1920 x 1080 to 3840 x 2160.

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

IVF Algorithm To Predict The Chances Of Fertility

Technological evolvement in the modern era has been seen rapidly to revitalize every domain of life. The combination of Biomedicine and recent technology has come up with great inventions and discoveries for the betterment of masses. Mylene Yao, CEO of Univfy has proposed an interesting novel algorithm that predicts the likelihood about a couple having a baby via in-vitro fertilization.

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Human-Powered Helicopters: Not More Than Just A Fantasy

No matter how much well-resourced and mechanized we get, it is still not more than just a fantasy to fly human controlled helicopters. However, man is still trying hard to turn this dream into a big reality. Sikorsky Prize for human-powered helicopter was set back in 1980. This award is said to be rewarded to the team that has ability to fly an air flight merely controlled by humans without having any support for electrical energy sources for a complete one-minute. Moreover, the air craft will not be allowed to leave a 10 square meter box and the distance must be more than 3 meters between the aircraft and the ground. Though, the choice of the number of people needed to power the aircraft can be decided by the competing team.

X1 - A Real "Iron Man" Suit By NASA

Exoskeletons aka augmented exosuits are getting great hype in various domains. Many of you probably don’t know much about what an exosuit is. It’s a wearable suit incorporated with powered armors and prevents from multiple kinds of environmental conditions including deep water, vacuum of space just like what Iron Man is wearing in its movie.

Google's New Built-In Malware Scanner For Android Devices

It hardly takes a minute to put any malicious Android application on Google Play Store as it doesn’t requires any long-term approval process just like Apple’s. This can give birth to various security concerns among the masses who frequently like being updated with latest apps available on Android store. Finally Google has been reported to develop a built-in malware scanner for the Android devices in its upcoming versions of Android after 4.1. Jelly Bean.

Friday, 12 October 2012

Google's Reward For A Teenage Hacker To Rectify A Bug In Chrome

Google has been known to appraise fresh and young talent in the software industry. One of the examples to justify this is the recently occurred incident at Google’s Pwnium 2 competition held at Hack in the Box 2012 event in Kuala Lampur, where Google awarded $60,000 i.e. £37,000 to a young hacker named Pinkie Pie for rectifying a bug in Google’s Chrome web browser.

Monday, 8 October 2012

Hydrogen Cars Still Have A Future

The concept of hydrogen-operated cars seemed to be a dream in the past. However, thanks to the advancements made by automobile engineers and experts as now one can live the dream to own a hydrogen-powered car easily.

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Normal Paper Can Become Magnetic, Waterproof, And Anti-Bacterial With Nanoparticle Doping

Paper is one of our daily needs, and almost people of every age used it. Paper is a simple material that came from the skins of the trees, but now it looks like that super-paper is coming into action which will be waterproof, anti-bacterial and magnetic as well. Doping a regular paper with nanoparticles will transform that paper into a super paper with increased functionality and reliability than a normal paper.

Smart eBall - Play Ping-Pong Using Cars

Every one of us definitely knows about the Ping-pong or table tennis, but you might not know that now you can play this game using the cars. Yes it is made possible by the BBDO, this is quite cool and looks so adventurous to me. The name of this cool game is Smart eBall, in which the cars will act as a controller just like a racket in a normal ping-pong game.

Thursday, 8 March 2012

NASA Will Launch Five Rockets In Five Minutes

NASA is looking to launch five rockets within about five minutes from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in order to test the winds in high-altitude jet stream. These jets are able to forecast weather in ionosphere as well, in addition the process time of these jets will be considerably less than the jets who are currently doing the weather forecasting.