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3-D Moon Atlas To Be Launched Soon
(Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:25:19 PM IST)
The two-day sixth science meeting on the findings of Chandrayaan-1 at the Physical Research Laboratory has announced the launch of a 3-D atlas of the moon, which will be made available in the next six months, reports DNA.
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Robots To Help Find Parking Space For Cars!
(Monday, February 08, 2010 11:57:12 AM IST)
Anyone who has driven on a crowded road knows how difficult it is to find parking space. Now engineers at Rutgers University, New Jersey, have combined ultrasonic sensors, GPS receivers and cellular data networks to create a low-cost, highly effective method to find the nearest available parking space. The device will help motorists take decisions before hand, as it will have a Web-based interface. It will show roads which have congestion and travellers can then choose a different route for travel, reports Technology Review.
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US Technician Creates Robotic Spider!
(Saturday, February 06, 2010 11:45:43 AM IST)
A machinist and technician at the McCoy School of Engineering at Midwestern State University, Mark Weller, takes Lego’s programmable robotics set Mindstorms to the next level, reports Wired.com. He combined milled plastic pieces with the basic Lego Mindstorms set to create a robotic spider that can crawl and turn. Wellar also posts spider robot made from 3D printers such as Makerbot and RepRap which he hopes 3-D printing enthusiasts would definitely try out.
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Robotic Help For Partially Paralysed!
(Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:49:39 AM IST)
A new robotic device christened 'ReWalk' developed by Argo Medical Technologies in Haifa, Israel, would soon help partially paralysed patients walk again, reports Yahoo! News. ReWalk consists of 'smart software' that understands what the patient is intending to do, and translates that into taking a step or climbing a stair. ReWalk helps paraplegics stand, walk and even climb stairs.
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Indian Students Develop Earthquake-Sensing Robot
(Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:27:53 AM IST)
Students at J.T. Engineering College, Surat, have developed a robot that can detect an earthquake 3 hours in advance. The robot, named Earthquake Detector Robot, senses earth quake tremors with the help of two transmitters and one receiver. The circuit of the transmitters is buried inside the earth, which senses the temperature, water and the water level before transitting the information through microwave frequencies. After receiving the information, the robot senses the vibration and gives off an alarm, reports Deccan Chronicle.
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NASA Does A Volte-Face, Cancels Moon Plan
(Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:28:39 AM IST)
The world's premier space agency seems to be going in for a makeover of sorts.
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Coming Soon: Unmanned Black Hawk Helicopters
(Tuesday, February 02, 2010 9:56:12 AM IST)
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. have announced a billion-dollar venture that it hopes will respond to military demand for technology to fight two wars, including Black Hawk helicopters, a military workhorse, used in conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Grenada and Panama, that can see and fly on their own, reports MSNBC.
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A PC That Mimics The Human Brain!
(Monday, February 01, 2010 11:27:41 AM IST)
A computer modelled like a human brain? Are we going to live ‘The Matrix’ movie for real? Well, with what some researchers at the University of Southampton are doing, we can’t dismiss the possibility entirely. The researchers intend to adapt brain processes to a 'wet' information processing scenario by setting up chemicals in a tube which behave like the transistors in a computer chip, reports The Future of Things.
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Mapping The Brain
(Monday, February 01, 2010 10:55:30 AM IST)
MIT neuroscientists are making computers smart enough to see the connections between the brain's neurons.
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Sensor Computing Points Way To Future!
(Monday, February 01, 2010 10:38:33 AM IST)
Having a cold? Can't decide if your dish smells good? Maybe your smartphone or PC could help you out! Welcome to the world of sensor computing. Microchip-equipped sensors can be designed to monitor and measure not only motion, but also temperature, chemical contamination or biological changes. According to Peter Hartwell, a senior researcher at HP Labs, it is still as if the computer is a brain that is blind, deaf and dumb to its surroundings and closing that gap is what the sensor revolution is all about, reports CNET news.
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Power Your Phones Through Rubber!
(Saturday, January 30, 2010 5:13:20 PM IST)
Scientists at Princeton and Caltech have surfaced with a power-generating rubber material that could power electronic devices through a person's movement. It is made of nanoribbons which themselves are composed of lead zirconate titanate, or PZT, a ceramic substance that's 'piezoelectric'. The 'piezo-rubber chips' are fixed in clear silicone rubber sheets that produce electricity when flexed, says a CNET report. The scientists are optimistic that the rubber sheets could one day appear in shoes that power cell phones and other electronic devices while the user walks or runs.
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Now, A New Tool To Detect Your Blood Sugar!
(Monday, January 25, 2010 4:43:15 PM IST)
Here's some good news for those who are scared of blood. Now you don't need to spill your blood to analyse its glucose levels. University of Florida engineers have designed and tested versions of a special sensor for applications ranging from monitoring diabetics' glucose levels via their breath to detecting possible indicators of breast cancer in saliva, reports Medical News Today.
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Missile Tech Could Help Zap Cancer Tumours
(Monday, January 25, 2010 1:37:49 PM IST)
Nuclear technology is turning out to be a life saviour. Microwave technology, originally designed to shoot down nuclear missiles could also help zap breast cancer tumours, according to a study that appeared in a recent issue of Annals of Surgical Oncology, reports Dotmed News.
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Charge Your Mobile Through Your Jeans!
(Monday, January 25, 2010 1:30:07 PM IST)
Now you don't have to run around looking for a charger or plug point when you run out of battery. You can simply put your cellphone or iPod in your jeans pocket and it will be recharged. Sounds strange? Welcome to the world of e-textiles. Scientists in California say that this could be an easier way in the future of changing ordinary cotton and polyester into 'conductive energy textiles', reports Medical News Today.
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Cheap Tech For Bomb Detection!
(Monday, January 25, 2010 10:06:52 AM IST)
A cheap artificial nose promises to make it much easier to detect the explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP), reports NewScientist. TATP is an explosive used in the 2005 London bombings and the train attack in Madrid. Siegfried Waldvogel, an organic chemist at the University of Bonn, Germany, and his colleagues have developed a cheap detector that responds instantly to TATP in the atmosphere. This device could be installed in the doorways of buses, trains and airports to raise the alarm if someone carrying TATP crosses the threshold.
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Now, An Electronic Popable Book To Aid Readers!
(Monday, January 25, 2010 9:55:15 AM IST)
Ever wondered if you could get a functional and illustrative example while going through some article on electronics? Now you don't have to google your doubts while you are studying electronics. The High-Low Tech group at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. has developed an electronic popable book that has electronic circuitry embedded in its pages that transforms the tabs, flaps and wheels of a traditional pop-up into switches and a variety of sensors. The interactive pages come alive with LED lights, sounds and even vibrate in response to touch, reveals The New Scientist.
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NASA Engineer Creates One-Man Electric Aircraft
(Saturday, January 23, 2010 10:43:36 AM IST)
A NASA engineer has developed a one-man electrically-powered helicopter/plane/glider podcraft, says a Silicon India report. Mark Moore, the designer of this amazing technology, is employed at NASA's Langley research centre in Virginia. He has named this technology as "Puffin" aircraft. Rather than the rotors tilting and fuselage maintaining altitude, the whole lot will tip over into forward flight after making a vertical takeoff; and tip back again for landing to set down on its tail. Moore reckons just 45 kilowatts of power will suffice to lift the Puffin and its pilot off the ground. But because its electric batteries don't last for very long, the machine can only hover for some six minutes before its batteries run flat.
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North India's First Doppler Radar To Debut Soon
(Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:07:02 AM IST)
A small village near Delhi airport will be the venue for North India's first Doppler radar, for which work will begin later this week. The radar, which has been purchased from Beijing Metstar Radar company, will find its home at a height of 16 metres atop a building in Shahabad Mohammadpur village around the Palam area of the Indira Gandhi International Airport. According to Silicon India, the radar will primarily be used for weather prediction covering an area of 500 kilometres. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has placed orders for 12 such radars to be installed across the country in 2010. Currently, India has four German-made Doppler radars installed at Visakhapatnam, Machhlipatnam, Chennai and Kolkata. The installation is part of the Rs 1,000-crore modernisation drive of the IMD.
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Asia Pacific Chip Sales Shows Upswing
(Monday, January 18, 2010 5:38:06 PM IST)
The Asia Pacific semiconductor chip sales leading indicator went up in November 2009 by 9.2 per cent to reach 362.7, after increasing 10.8 per cent in October, says a study by economic research firm e-forecasting.com, reports globalsmtindia.in. The indicator, comparable to the company’s other global regional semiconductor industry indicators for North America, Japan and Europe, is a forward-looking composite index that forecasts six months ahead. The six-month growth rate is commonly used in business cycle analysis for both signaling impending turning points in business activity and as a recession monitor.
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ISRO Gets Ready For Year's First Solar Eclipse
(Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:35:38 AM IST)
On 15 January 2010, you could catch a glimpse of the longest annular solar eclipse of this millennium. The uniqueness of this eclipse is that it occurs during noon, when the incoming solar radiation is at its maximum. Also, it is expected to last over 10 minutes. ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSCC) will launch a series of mini-rockets to study the first solar eclipse of this year and its after-effects on the atmosphere. Nine sounding rockets would be launched before and during the eclipse from Thumba attached to the VSCC and Satish Dhawan Space Centre to collect data on the event, according to PTI.
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India's First Manned Spaceship In 2013
(Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:38:42 PM IST)
In 2013, India would launch its first manned space flight by sending two astronauts in a Russian spaceship. For this purpose, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is to fund the acquisition of a Soyuz spaceship and train its astronauts by a Russian Commander, reports SiliconIndia.
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India’s ‘Kill Vehicle’
(Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:02:25 PM IST)
India has announced that it is developing an exo-atmospheric “kill vehicle” for knocking enemy satellites out of orbit. The ‘kill vehicle’ programme was announced as part of India’s ballistic missile defence programme, a division of India’s ministry of defence, reports Gizmodo.
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Bringing Robots Into Homes!
(Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:20:25 AM IST)
A host of robots would soon be available to assist doctors, at home and to care for the elderly. The interactive robotic systems would be able to communicate and assist in homes and those with less mobility like the elderly would have robots on an assisted technical platform, which will be used to get them water, their medications and newspapers, says Prahlad Vadakeppat, robotic engineer professor. He further adds that the human-like robots would be mass produced and would soon be available in China, India and Singapore. Prices of the robots would vary depending on their specifications, reports SiliconIndia.
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Affordable Nano Sensors To Detect Heart Attack
(Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:49:41 AM IST)
A team of Indian scientists and engineers has developed affordable sensors using nano materials to detect a heart attack quickly. The device can not only detect a heart attack but can also help in early diagnosis by transmitting signal to doctors located remotely, according to SiliconIndia. V. Ramgopal Rao professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Mumbai) told the delegates at the 97th Indian Science Congress that a prototype of the portable device would soon be launched to help cardiac patients in the country to offer quick and cheap diagnosis on time.
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E-dog To Sniff Out Explosives!
(Thursday, January 07, 2010 10:31:22 AM IST)
In order to enhance security and check use of improvised explosive devices by terrorists, Indian scientists are developing a high-tech device (an electronic dog) with an electronic nose that will sniff out explosives like RDX. According to Silicon India, the government has assigned electrical engineering department of the IIT to develop the e-device in collaboration with the High Energy Materials Research Lab of the state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) at Chandigarh and the Madras Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam near Chennai. The device will be able to sniff presence of IED or RDX in any of the three forms in the way trained canines do.
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