The Finn......

Fin is a gadget that makes your palm a touch pad by mapping each of the segments of your finger to assign them to particular device say bluetooth head set,smart tv's, etc.....,
This greatly reduces the stress on your hands and helps  you in many ways.

For further details: Here

India's Mars Mission Enters 2nd Stage.......

India's first mission to Mars left Earth's orbit early on Sunday, clearing a critical hurdle in its journey to the red planet and overtaking the efforts in space of rival Asian giant China.

The success of the spacecraft, scheduled to orbit Mars by next September, would carry India into a small club, which includes the United States, Europe and Russia, whose probes have orbited or landed on Mars.

India's venture, called Mangalyaan, faces more hurdles on its journey to Mars. Fewer than half of missions to the planet are successful.

"While Mangalyaan takes 1.2 billion dreams to Mars, we wish you sweet dreams!" India's space agency said in a tweet soon after the event, referring to the citizens of the world's second-most populous country.

China, a keen competitor in the space race, has considered the possibility of putting a man on the moon sometime after 2020 and aims to land its first probe on the moon on Monday.

It will deploy a buggy called the "Jade Rabbit" to explore the lunar surface in a mission that will also test its deep space communication technologies.

A New Monster Discovered...

A new discovery in  the field of Archealogy......
                 A new species of The Giant Monsters is discovered in Utah's Cedar Mountain.....
Scientists from Chicago Field Musem annonced the discovery  of Siats Mekarorum ,a dinosaur that streched more than 30 feet long and weighing more than 4 tons.
          Based on the size and characteristics of this massive creature,it is expected to be on the top of the food chain,and assumed to rule the time so called "The Last Age Of Dinosaurs"

   

Now Park Your Car From Outside.... ;)

You dont believe it...check this out....
Ford can now park cars in spaces so tight you couldn’t get out of the door even if you could get the car in the space. The Fully Assisted Parking Aid for backing into perpendicular and angled parking spaces .
              The Full Assisted Parking Aid (FAPA) is a follow-on to Ford’s Active Parking Assist  for automated parallel parking, done with the driver in the car. As with APA, FAPA uses ultrasonic sensors to scan for an open parking space at speeds as high as 19 mph (30 kph). When the car finds a suitable spot it alerts the driver, who can stay in the car or get out and use a remote to finish the parking job. The car then backs itself in to the parking space.It then switches gears and accelerator automatically.The driver’s function is to keep his or her finger on the button during the maneuver.
Watch this video...here

The Mummification......

•  Belief in after life of Egyptians led to the process of Mummification.  
• They believed that the only way to have an after is to possess the body after death.
• It is possible only if we preserve it some how.

These are the steps of mummification...

1)Pull brain out of nose using a hook

2)Make a cut on the left side of the body near the tummy

3)Remove all internal organs

4)Let the internal organs dry

5)Place the lungs, intestines, stomach and liver inside canopic jars

6)Place the heart back inside the body

7)Rinse inside of body with wine and spices

8)Cover the corpse with  salt for 70 days

9)After 40 days stuff the body with linen or sand to give it a more human shape

10)After the 70 days wrap the body from head to toe in bandages

11)Place in coffin(box used for funerary)

12)If the person had been a Pharaoh, he would be placed inside his special burial chamber with lots of treasure!

Healing Batteries?

Researchers at Stanford University think they have come up with a solution to improve the lithium-ion battery, which could lead to improvements in the next generation of mobile phones and electric cars.

Currently lithium-ion batteries contain silicon electrodes. Although silicon is a great material because it has a high capacity for absorbing and releasing lithium ions during charging and discharging, it also swells to three times the size and shrinks again during a charge-discharge cycle. This means they often don’t last very long.

A poor service life may not be a big issue if it is in a smartphone as people tend to replace them frequently anyway but it becomes a much bigger problem when someone has purchased something more pricey, like an electric car for example. When a person wants to sell the car on, they expect it not to need any major component replacements and in an electric car, the battery is a pretty major component.

This is one of the reasons why the motor industry is so reluctant to produce more battery cars. Even Tesla Motors, who is well-known for electric cars, has admitted that battery life could be a major problem for the company as its cars get older.

The Concept Of Healing Polymer

So what have the experts at Stanford University come up with? Well, they have been able to develop a strong and stretchy polymer which can be used to coat a silicon electrode. As cracks form during the charge and discharge process, the coating is able to “heal” the cracks.

“Self-healing is very important for the survival and long lifetimes of animals and plants,” says Chao Wang, a postdoc researcher at Stanford. “We want to incorporate this feature into lithium ion batteries so they will have a long lifetime as well.”

At the moment the researchers have been only been able to get this marriage of silicon and polymer coating to last for 100 charge cycles before it starts to lose performance. There is still ground to cover, with the goal being to reach 500 cycles for a phone and 3,000 for an electric vehicle. But as Professor Yi Cui points out “the promise is there, and from all our data it looks like it’s working.”

New Method That Can Revolutionize The Solar Energy Harvesting........

Solar cells offer the opportunity to harvest abundant, renewable energy. Although the highest energy light occurs in the ultraviolet and visible spectrum, most solar energy is in the infrared. There is a trade-off in harvesting this light, so that solar cells are efficient in the infrared but waste much of the energy available from the more energetic photons in the visible part of the spectrum.
                                                 Researchers a Cambridge and Mons have found that there can be a process in which the initial electronic excitation can split into a pair of half-energy excitation. This can happen in certain organic molecules when the quantum mechanical effect of electron spin sets the initial spin 'singlet' state to be double the energy of the alternative spin 'triplet' arrangement.

                                                             
                                                  A Study published in journal Natural Chemistry shows that this process of singlet fission of triplet pairs depends on interaction of molecules...When the material is very dilute, the distance between molecules is large and singlet fission does not occur. When the solution is concentrated, collisions between molecules become more frequent. The researchers find that the fission process happens as soon as just two of these molecules are in contact, and remarkably, that singlet fission is then completely efficient -- so that every photon produces two triplets.