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Monday, April 23, 2012
amazing
This shot was taken from the top of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Note:On the day G+ launched its new profile style, I was in LA. I went out to capture a cover photo and this was the shot I took. Some people had asked to see the full photo, here it is... (My cover photo is a really close-up crop of this photo.)
Sunday, April 22, 2012
SOLAR-POWERED FABRIC CHARGES PHONES ON THE TRAIL
When every ounce on the trail counts, outdoor adventurers dream about ditching batteries. They might not have to wait. Designers at Colorado State University are developing solar-powered clothes from natural fibers that can charge a number of devices, including phones, tablets and GPS units.
Professor Eulanda Sanders and associate professor Ajoy Sarkar in CSU's Department of Design and Merchandising, as well as four of their students, are making prototypes for solar-charging apparel that can be worn while biking, snowboarding, skiing or hiking.
Ranbir Kapoor in Abhinav Kashyap’s next
With an array of releases and with some of very promising projects in his kitty, Ranbir Kapoor is definitely one of the most promising actors in our industry at present. So, it did not come as a surprise when Abhinav Kashyap (Dabangg fame) chose him as the central character for his next project. This will be Abhinav’s second directorial venture which will be based in Mumbai and Ranbir will be seen as a street smart tapori with a pure tapori accent. Abhinav Kashyap himself will co-produce this film with Viacom 18.
With this project in his hand, Ranbir gets the honor of being the only actor in Bollywood to be under the hands of both Kashyap brothers. He is working with elder brother Anurag Kashyap’s period film Bombay Velvet.
Currently, Ranbir is busy with his role of a deaf and mute character in Anurag Basu’s Barfee and a romantic role in Ayaan Mukherjee’s Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Emraan Hashmi as a rustic pan chewing reporter in ‘Shanghai’
There is no denying the fact that Emraan Hashmi has given many successful films at the box office. His last release ‘Murder 2’ was a big Bollywood hit and the first look and trailer of his forthcoming ‘Shanghai’ looks quite promising. Emraan plays a foul-mouthed reporter in this Dibakar Banerjee’s flick and for this, he had to chew tobacco.
On the first day of the shoot, Emraan Hashmi was asked to chew tobacco for a scene and Emraan found the taste so disgusting that he almost threw up and felt giddy.
The director insisted that since his role required him to do it, there was no other way out. After a lot of discussions, Banerjee and Emraan Hashmi came to the conclusion that the actor should chew tobacco.
However, Emraan failed to appear for a promotional event with his co-star since he was busy with his shoot for ‘Jannat 2’.
A disappointed Banerjee said, “I was heartbroken that we were not able to kick off the promotions with a trailer launch. We went through a lot trying to coordinate Emraan and Abhay’s dates and then change it all over again.” Shanghai is Banerjee’s release after two years, since his last film LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha. The movie stars Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi and Kalki Koechlin.
The first trailer of the flick shows Emraan as a rustic, paan-chewing village thug and he made his way into cine lovers hearts when he gave a scornful smile, his paan-stained teeth flashing on the screen.
SMARTWATCH BREAKS KICKSTARTER RECORDS
i need this
Pebble Smartwatch: $150 ($99 pledge)
Ever have one of those moments when you feel your phone buzzing in your pocket, but when check, it's not doing anything? I call that the "phantom vibrate." A new Kickstart project, the Pebble Smartwatch, is making sure those incidents (or the ones where you hold your purse to your head to see if it’s ringing) never happen again. The watch connects to phones via Bluetooth and vibrates in a more obvious way on your wrist when a call, text or other message comes in.
Great Achievement ...... :-)
The dream of true cybernetics -- merging man with machine -- just got a bit closer. Scientists at Northwestern University built a device that can send signals from the brain directly to paralyzed muscles, causing them to move by thought. This technology could help patients who have suffered spinal cord injuries regain the use of their limbs.
The work was done in rhesus monkeys, who were given a local anesthetic to block nerve activity at the elbow, which caused temporary paralysis of the hand. Before they were given the anesthetic, though, the monkeys were trained to grasp a ball, lift it and release it into a tube. The signals from their brains to their hands and arms during these activities were recorded via an electrode implanted painlessly into their brains. After many repetitions, the researchers were able to see what kinds of signals were necessary to cause the the limbs to move. It turned out that the information was encoded in only about 100 neurons.Knowing that, the scientists designed a device, called a multi-electrode array, that was able to pick up the tell-tale signals from the 100 or so neurons, decipher them and send them to the muscles -- bypassing the anesthetized nerves.
The signals that reached the muscles made them contract, enabling the monkeys to pick up the balls almost as well as they did before they were given the anesthetic.
The motions weren't perfect. Lee E. Miller, a professor in neuroscience at Northwestern and the lead investigator of the study said it might be because it takes some time for a monkey to learn how to use its arm again this way.
Other research teams have enabled monkeys to take mental control of machines, and there has been some work done in humans on linking prosthesis to neural signals. But the big advance here is better voluntary control and directly connecting to the brain. Previous efforts have been geared to interpreting signals through the skin at the end of an amputee's stump, for example, or controlling arms via shoulder movements. This type of interface provides voluntary movement more like that experienced naturally.
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