A Piezoelectric device will do the job
A piezoelectric device inside a small motor
Piezoelectric materials are special classes of ceramics and crystals, which have the ability to generate electrical potential when mechanical pressure is applied on them. They currently provide the basis for a large number of applications, including powering up guitar pickups, making for fuses in rocket-propelled grenades, or making up the basis for doorbells. But now, scientists at the City College of New Yor... Read Full Story
Will It Win The Mainstream Market?
Google is gearing up to release it’s Chrome OS, an open source, lightweight operating system, which has created a buzz all over. It is supposed to target the netbooks in the initial stages. The company will be holding an event at it’s Mountain View campus this thursday to make a technical announcement on Chrome OS. No one knows whether the product will be a success or a failure, but considering the credibility of Google and also a list of itR... Read Full Story
It’s time to upgrade
It’s great news for radio listeners, now you can listen to radio music at CD quality sound and tag all your favorite songs aired on any HDRadio channel at your convenience. It’s like bookmarking your favourite website. If you are really looking for great radio sound quality, this the real deal. The HDRadio has Zune HD and related radio technology products that gives you access to your favorite HDRadio stations with the clear, deep sound and portability... Read Full Story
Dealing with the compatibility issue
Recently, I was stuck with installing drivers on my computer loaded with a newly purchased copy of Windows 7 Ultimate OS . I’m referring to a Pentium 4 processor, Intel 845G 64MB integrated graphics and 512MB DDR desktop. Windows 7 seemed to run well, with the luxurious features of Windows 7 like Aero and Media center turned off. The only bad thing is that Windows 7 is not very friendly with the older stuff. “Many” of the older applicatio... Read Full Story
This innovative tech will make our everyday activities easier and smarter
How would it be if you could get first hand information right of the internet about anything and anywhere in the world? Want to click a photograph of a beautiful scenery just with hand gesture? Want a consumer or even a critic review of a book you are about to purchase, all these right in front of you, with just hand gestures. It’s sounds just like the way Tom Cruise accessed information in the movie Minority Repo... Read Full Story
Yes, this one is legitimate and true
While stumbling through the WWW, I discovered a website, www.giveawayoftheday.com, that is dedicated to “Give Away” paid software and games for free download, daily. You get the software/game along with the activation key and you are ready to use it with full functionality! This is a very unique concept where it benefits the down-loaders and the software makers too.
Giveawayoftheday.com has made the whole idea clear with the following words :
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PENTMAN Robot for the US Army
Bill Christensen of Technovelgy.com says,
The PETMAN is a supposedly humanoid robot under development to test chemical protection clothing for the US Army. However, take a look at the PETMAN video below; there is something about the articulation of its legs that is not quite right…
PETMAN robot goes for a walk
How is this robot supposed to test human clothing when it has an extra, reversed joint in its legs? My legs don’t work like that. Supposedly, ... Read Full Story
A Complete Guide For A Successful Attempt
I have read some tech forum threads and am surprised to see people stuck with a myth that ‘it’s impossible to make a bootable Win XP setup with a portable drive’. With my effort of busting this myth, i will share a step-by-step but a slightly crooked method to install Windows XP from your portable drive. Whether it be a memory card, pen drive or even your digital camera, all are welcome.
Make sure you are prepared with the following... Read Full Story
Running Virus/ Trojan/ Spyware/ Adware/ Worm Infected Files without any damage to the system
Apart from pirated programs, sometimes even the legitimate programs are reported to be infected by the Anti-viruses. This does not necessarily mean the reported program is really infected. It might be a false positive (False positive is a term to point out a faulty action by anti malware applications that report innocent programs as infected). You must have adequate knowledge and expertise to conclude... Read Full Story
It’s impressive, exciting and challenging
This is how live coding appears to the audience
Have you ever thought how a computer code with trillions of 010101010101’s would sound like? It might just be the most conceptually complex way of making music that modern man has yet devised -- BBC News. After watching this video you will be impressed how impressively music can be made with complex computer codes.
This idea has been around since a very long time and many artists have perfo... Read Full Story