Technology
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Google GLΛSS: What And Why
Issue 14You’ve all probably heard of it – but what is this new thing from Google, the world’s premier innovators. Due to release sometime next year, it is their most publicised project, even more than the “Google Balloons”, which we covered last month. So – what is it? The concept, as Sergei Brin (co-founder of Google) explains on TED Talks,...
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The HyperLoop
Issue 13Elon Musk, the famous founder and CEO of SpaceX (the private space flight company) and other crazy new ventures, who aims to send 80,000 people to Mars and set up a SpaceX Mars colony has again been making news with his very futuristic yet undeniably amazing idea for superfast travel – “the Hyperloop”. A new form of transportation that...
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3D Printers: What in The World?
Issue 12Imagine being able to sit at home and print a phone cover, a machine part, a piece of stationery, or just a decoration for your house. That is the newest revolution in technology – generating debates and tremors all through the scientific society – 3D printing. Okay so lets start at the beginning – what is 3D printing? As...
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Balloon Powered Internet For Everyone
Issue 6Yes it sounds crazy, but Google, who are at the moment booming with innovative technologies and ideas, announced last week ‘Project Loon’ – that aims to bring internet to all parts of the world. And although it sounds ridiculous, take a closer look, and you find that the project has been running for 18 months in complete secrecy, and...
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Balloon Powered Internet For Everyone
Issue 6Yes it sounds crazy, but Google, who are at the moment booming with innovative technologies and ideas, announced last week ‘Project Loon’ – that aims to bring internet to all parts of the world. And although it sounds ridiculous, take a closer look, and you find that the project has been running for 18 months in complete secrecy, and...
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An Eye For The Blind
Issue 5Well, that’s what scientists from the Bluesky Design Group at Monash University in Melbourne are trying to develop. The bionic eye that they are developing will allow a blind person detect light and make out shapes – not exactly vision, but a huge step forward. The process would involve the insertion of a micro-processor about the size of a...
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Raspberry Pi – The Disposable Computer
Issue 4The nonprofit Raspberry Pi Foundation has just launched their second “use and throw” personal computer the Model B which you can buy for only $35 (Rs 1900). It has Linux, Ethernet networking (so you can get on the internet), USB ports, Bluetooth, a 1 GHz ARM processor, 512 MB RAM and is the size of a credit card. All...
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Mind Control
Issue 3It’s the stuff of science fiction – turning on lights by thinking, sending emails from your phone without taking it out of your pockets, telepathic communication between mice and even mind controlled robots – but what if it was real. We are much closer than you think to making brain computer interfaces an everyday reality. Not that they don’t...
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Driven to fly
Issue 1In 2006, Carl Dietrich and a few of his friends at MIT won the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Prize for their project to make a flying car. They followed up the project by establishing a company, Terrafugia (meaning “escape the earth”), on May 1, 2006. Last week, on May 5, 2013, exactly 6 years later, they have announced their flying car,...
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