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.
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Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Monday, 5 November 2012
Thursday, 1 November 2012
Thursday, November 01, 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
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 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
Wednesday, October 17, 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.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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
Friday, October 12, 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
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 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.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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
Thursday, March 08, 2012
NASA Will Launch Five Rockets In Five Minutes
