Morphee - A Shape Changing Smartphone Prototype

Imagine a smart phone that could change its shape & size as per you mood, requirements and activities performed by you such as - when you play a game, a smart phone named - 'Moprhee' changes into a console-like shape by curling its two opposite edges so that it could be better grasped with your two hands.

Morphee is actually a mobile phone (presently in prototype stage) that can automatically change their shapes for better user affordance or better say 'morph' into  shapes and that's why named as Morphees. Watch the video below to get an idea about Morphee prototype and how it work in typical daily life of smartphone user.

A Morphee is a self-actuated flexible mobile device that address the multiple affordance desired by any applications and transform itself into desired shapes.

The creators of the Morphees - Anne Roudaut, Abhijit Karnik, Markus Lochtefeld, Sriram Subramanian introduced this concept in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Science 2013, which made it viral, they also introduced the term shape resolution, which adds to the existing definitions of screen and touch resolution.

Ideally, for implementation of such easily morphing phones - it has to be as thin and flexible as possible, with no physical switches or dials that could prevent shape deformations. It has several layers of flexible components: the computation circuits, the display and a 2D touch sensor and a shape - shifting layer. The shape - shifting layer morphs (and also senses its deformation), thus affecting the entire assembly. The key point is that the shape - shifting layer is a grid of physical control points, which can be actuated to form the desired shape.

Moreover, it also allows users to download apps to enhance the functionality, for instance the "stress ball app" collapses the device on itself, or the "game app” makes it to adopt a console like shape.

The developing team has teamed up with Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK and German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Germany.

The team has published a research paper on new shape resolution concept and contributed a new metric to define the resolution of an interactive device and work lay down the foundation for creating future high shape resolution devices.

10 Top Time-Saving Tech Tips You Might Not Know - Video

Tech columnist David Pogue shares 10 simple, clever tips for computer, web, smartphone and camera users as well, some of the tips are so common that these trick exist for so long but we still don't know about these and these could save a lot of time and pretty good amount of money as well.

You might know some of these tips given by David like what cntrl+ would do or what a 'Tab' would do on web-forms (if not watch video above), but some of my favorite (because I don't know them before) are:

• Instead of pressing & pull down scroll bars, instead you can - Press 'SPACE' bar to scroll down and TAB+SPACE to go on Top again.


• How you select word/paragraph you probably move cursor character-by-character or word-by-word however more time efficiently you can - Double-Click to select/highlight a word and Triple-Click to select whole paragraph, it's in every program be it wordpad, notepad or any text-editor or even browsers.
  


• Best Camera Trick -
  Shutter lag is time lag between when you press the button and when camera actually capture the snap, how you deal with it, it simple - Half Press the shutter button of any ordinary camera and you will eliminate those frustrating blurry or bad pictures and save lot of bucks from buying auto-focus camera !

There are lot of other tricks you should look in above video to save time & for efficient working given by David. David Pogue is one of the world's bestselling how-to authors, with titles in the For Dummies series and his own line of "Missing Manual" books and he is also a personal technology columnist for the New York Times and a tech correspondent for CBS News.

Via - David Pogue via TED

SmilingStart.com - An Innovative Charitable Fundraising Startup

A young Mumbai based social entrepreneur has launched an innovative charitable fundraising movement that allows internet users to contribute towards causes without spending a rupee called SmilingStart.com.

In this new unique concept users don't have to pay anything at all, simply set SmilingStart.com as their browser homepage and each day receive a beautiful wallpaper which is actually an advertisement.

The wallpapers are sponsored by various brands which pays money to have its wallpaper displayed on the user homepage. Once user get started supporting SmilingStart.com, the user than need to select one charity program, then after every new wallpaper which says something about any brand will be displayed on daily basis, the brands will than be charged for each day. 75% of the revenue is then donated to the charity selected by the users.

To get started with this concept you don't have to download or install anything on you computer you just need internet connection to get new visually appealing wallpapers. Users can even track their donations over a period of time and see the exact impact they have incurred.

SmilingStart has partnered with three prominent charities – The Akshaya Patra Foundation, K.C Mahindra Education Trust and Pratham. As we write this, 150+ people have already signed up enabling 353 mid day meals for school kids, 190 days of education for under privileged girls and 252 days of shelter for street kids.

The founder-CEO of the business, Tejas Sangoi, says it is their goal to reach 1,00,000 users in Indian alone. He claims, with such an audience size SmilingStart can raise close to Rs 5 crore for its partner charities each year.

SmilingStart is a self funded startup venture of Thalia Technologies Pvt Ltd which is a profit driven organization with an intense social objective. Tejas argues that - "The profit motive encourages efficiency and innovation and the social motive brings satisfaction of contributing to the society. We strive to maximize every cent of investment and minimize expenses incurred in creating and delivering value". The project is funded by his personal savings and family funds.

World's First Smartphone for Blind

Soon, Blind people will get their own Smartphones dedicated just for them based Braille pattern, and will be able to send/read SMSs, pictures on this first of its kind smartphone which converts all text into Braille patterns. The phone is set to be launched in India first read on below for interesting features this phone have.

Earlier there has been claims of developing smartphones for blind such as - Qualcomm developed a smartphones called Ray for visually impaired but it works on voice recognition and finger movements in different directions and then came Georgie, created by Mr Wilson-Hinds and his wife who himself are blind, but it's rather a pack of apps for android phones and its more of a voice based app and has limited features.

This new smartphone developed in India is world's first smartphone based on blind's script called - 'Braille', this braille phone is a phone for Blind users. Its primary medium of communication is a haptic touch screen that allows users to "feel" the information on the screen. Using height mapping, the device will be able to project information ranging from textual (Braille), images, and animations and videos.



The interesting parts that this phone is that its more than a smartphone for blind and indeed a companion, this is what that put this phone far ahead than other phones/apps for visually impaired/ blinds which have been created earlier and some of the unique and distinguished features are:

1. It is based on Braille pattern which makes it multi-lingual and people from any region across the globe speaking/reading different languages can use it. (unlike to phones/ apps for blinds where people who don't know English can't use it )


2. It can capture/scan visuals/pictures and convert them into Braille pattern.


3.  It can scan text from sources such as newspaper, text document and convert them to braille pattern.

The company behind Braille smartphones is incubated by CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad and self-funded by its creator Sumeet Dagar a designer/innovator and TED fellow post-graduated from National Institute of Design, Sumit collaborated with IIT Delhi and LV Prasad Eye Institute Hyderabad to conceptualize the prototype this braille based phone.

How It Works -

• The smartphone uses Shape Memory Alloy technology, based on the concept that metals remember their original shapes, i.e. expand and contract to its original shape after use.


• The phone's 'screen' has a grid of pins, which move up and down as per requirement. The grid has a Braille display, where pins come up to represent a character or letter.


• This screen will be capable of elevating and depressing the contents to form patterns in Braille.


• All other elements are like any other smartphone.

Creator of this smartphone Delhi based Sumit has won prestigious Young Laureate award and US$50,000 from Rolex in December 2012.

Romo - An Affordable Robot Powered by Your Smartphone Processor

How many of you have 'Robots' in their home? since a real robot is not affordable enough to buy, people usually consider it as most luxurious or just sci-fi imagination but now a Las Vegas startup Romotive developed an affordable mini robot named - Romo, who can actually talk to you, show emotions and recognize faces of your family members all this by using your smart phone processor as its brain at cost of $149.



Romo is a portable mobile robotic platform that uses a smartphone as its brain, it actually a mobile base with batteries which get complimented by smartphones when docked onto it, which in turn create a robot that do things with artificial intelligence such as - tele-presence, autonomous navigation,controllable facial expressions, machine vision.

Romo as an affordable robot worth in sense of price/value proposition as it has plenty of artificial human expressions such as - face-recognition due to which it follow your face when you talk to him, got scared when you get too close to Romo, when feel tired it yawns, motor along with you on a walk, slide you a cup of coffee across the table, and react to you with programmable expressions.

When connected with any iOS device, Romo becomes a friendly robotic avatar that wanders about your home or office. He's small but sturdy, fast, and his basic interactions evolve the more you use him. A pet, toy, friend and powerful educational tool, Romo is living proof that robots can do awesome things for minimal costs - priced at $149, about 1% of what a what personal robots have cost in the past. If you living are outside of US it will cost $199 (around Rs.10,000 INR) if you buy online from - https://romotive.com/store

More interestingly, Romo's users can even download new behaviors and personalities for their Romo-robots at the click of a button as software for Romo software is distributed through the Apple App Store.

At TED 2013, Keller Rinaudo founder/CEO of Romotive, demos this smartphone-powered mini-robot, find the video below that demonstrate the expressions of Romo:

Romotive is Kickstarter funded startup company based out of Las Vegas, US though the hardware production factory of Romo is in China.

As of now to own the Romo, you need to have only Apple smart/ iOS devices to act like brain of Romo such as - iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod Touch 4th Generation. Currently iPhone 5 is not supported device for Romo. If you don't have any Romo supported iOS device than it will cost you - $248 i.e. (Romo Cost)$149 + $99(iPhone-4S apprx. cost). 'Romo' is actually hypothetically a male version of robot and the company plan a female version of robot next, named - "Julia."

NextDrop a Hubli Based Social Startup with Citizen Involvement - Case Study

Hubli is indeed growing as hub of new age startups in India with more of social business model and NextDrop is one of them which came up with idea & concept of something that's not as easy as e-commerce or any B2C based model but it rather requires citizen involvement along government authorities.

NextDrop has raised $450K of funds more of which came from the Knight Foundation as one of a winner of Knight News Challenge which encourage media innovation by funding breakthrough ideas in news and information. Anu Sridharan, who is the founder/CEO of NextDrop started the service first in Hubli-Dharwad twin cities of Karnataka, India and then in Bangalore with the idea -  using human observations to track water distribution with the help of available technology tools.

The Problem

As NextDrop explains - "More than half a billion people in India have access to treated piped water, however the water is available for only a few hours at a time once or twice a week, and residents have no way of knowing when that will be".

The Solution & the NextDrop Service

NextDrop is trying resolve this daily problem of families by using basic mobile phones to collect real-time water delivery information from water operators/engineers in the field this information is than distributed to the people who need it via SMS at a nominal cost of Rs.10 per month. For an example, SMS arrives - "Water will arrive in your area in 30 to 60 minutes."

The service sends real-time alerts to families in urban population via mobile SMS about when the civic authorities will turn the water on and in what it will reach to them. The NextDrop system have approx. 5k paying customers in Hublis/Dharwad area and more are coming to opt as people are seeing that benefits and usage of the system is worth at a cost of mere Rs.10 .

The Benefits

NextDrop is running this service in areas of Hubli city and 2 pilots are running in Bangalore area. Moreover, apart from SMS intimating the people when would the water supply come it also helps authorities and stakes to find out the anomalies, irregularities and fetch reports. NextDrop system is also approved water board of Hubli.

The urban residents get benefit from service as it save time and cut the daily stress of uncertainty of water supply, while enabling utilities to become more efficient and more transparent.

As explained - the engineers at water board come to know on time that the water reservoirs are critically low, because of this real time information, they can now reroute water from another reservoir (that has a surplus of water), thereby decreasing disruptions in water delivery to customers. As noticeable without the NextDrop asset management tools, those customers would not have received water that day, or if so, at a much later time than anticipated.

NextDrop is a success which have already received reports of increased efficiency and equitable access in the system from engineers in Hubli, through the use of NextDrop's low cost SCADA product. People using its service are liking it especially the less privilege people who are amusing to see that their mobile phone get SMS jut before the water supply arrive, a video below of  people using the next drop services explain the rest of positive feedbacks.

The Technology

The NextDrop system envisaged bunch of available technologies very effectively such as open source softwares, Google maps, mobile text, IVR (voice) along with a low cost SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) that monitor and control water treatment and distribution.

 



The web-based system is primarily developed using Django, a web application development framework for the Python programming language. The system also uses a web-based dashboard that uses google maps to show the status of valves and other system components in real-time, using information provided via voice or SMS.



 

At very starting time of NextDrop, they setup their own voice based telephony infrastructure using open source software - Asterisk now however NexDrop uses Kookoo, a major IVR service provider in India.

The Startup & future plans -

When IndianWeb2 communicated with Anu Sridharan, CEO NextDrop, she explains - "We are starting our second product line, low cost SCADA, that we are currently creating. We have deployed a beta in Hubli, and are looking into deploying in Bangalore as well. We are trying to be a low cost, high performance player in the asset management service sector. After Bangalore, we plan to deploy not only across India, but globally as well."

The startup is also looking to raise US $600K of funds to support developing NextDrop asset management tools and low cost SCADA, and also to help in scaling the service to the city of Bangalore.

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LurnQ - A New Socially Styled Learning Platform

LurnQ is a new online platform developed by Mumbai based Technium Labs, (funded by SeedFund) for education industry and anyone who wants to learn by providing various topics/subjects which can user can 'follow' in a similar fashion as anyone do in social netowrking sites like facebook or twitter where you follow someone's activity/updates.

The e-learning arena is valued at $60 billion and this Mumbai based young startup attempted a appreciable effort in e-learning market where Indian startups seldom give a try and made a really intelligent looking platform with sleek interface that mix learning with social media, it actually improvised the knowledge sharing model by bringing easy-to-use tools and familiar social media features together on one common platform.



LurnQ makes online learning simple and noise free through is 'Learn Feed' and 'Learn App'. For people who wants to teach; the 'Create Lesson' app can take full advantage of the information scattered all over the web, and yet gives reasonable original creative freedom of expression to teach.

LurnQ uses socialization, social content curation, data analytic and gamification to offer its users with contextually relevant content.

LurnQ attempts to change the way people experience education by providing them with access to an intelligent content discovery engine and a social stream that is constantly updated. The ability to create lessons/opinions on any topic
and collaborate with everyone makes information abundant, concise and highly relevant.

Staying technologically and innovatively forward, LurnQ presents these features:

• Learn feed: A linear stream, integrated with visuals, that presents updates from the lessons, people and topics that the user follows basis their interest.


• Library: A neatly segregated collection of the user's saved content with 4 main tabs - all, lessons, opinions and resources.


• Create lessons (Teach): A beautifully designed app that enables teachers to create rich media lessons quickly and efficiently and express their opinions  to help followers or students understand.


• Explore lessons: Users can search content, save links, explore recommended and authenticated lessons, see what topics are trending and  what’s recent.


• Read lessons: A clean, defined space, free of clutter, for reading or watching content.


• Image support: Videos/images can be uploaded as supporting resources for lessons.


• Search: Unlike internet search engines, this has a proprietary contextual and user relevant “find” semantic that improves productivity and efficiency

It is a learning management solution which can cumulate all the digital learning content from across the web, curate and filter it based on an individual's learning preference.The website offers a teaching app to create lessons on various topics and a learning app to explore lessons along with a library to save them. Lurnq has over 1000 lessons and 5000 registered users.

The Company has also released an interesting infographic where it tells the concept traditional learning and how Lurnq helps with online learning pattern it envisaged for learners as well as teachers.



The company behind LurnQ is founded by DU and IIT alumnus in year 2011 - Tarun Mitra (DU), Ramesh Nidadavolu (IITB) and Devvrat Arya (IITB) LurnQ is product development experience of Ramesh and Devvrat, all IITB tech team. The investment to develop LurnQ was made by Seedfund – an India based investment firm that invests in people and ideas that meets the needs and aspiration of new India.

PaperTab - A Flexible Tablet Just like Sheet of Paper

Apple has been beaten up this time with way more futuristic technology developed collaboratively by Intel, Plastic Logic and Human Media Lab (HML) at Queen’s University. It's called PaperTab - a flexible paper tablet computer that looks and feels just like a sheet of paper.

PaperTab is fully interactive with a flexible, high-resolution 10.7" plastic display developed by Plastic Logic, a flexible touchscreen, and powered by the second generation Intel i5 Processor.

PaperTab acts just like paper book but with high-end technology is more than just paper and even more good than a tablet moreover its lightweight, robust and can easily be flipped,tossed around like a book or magazine. By bending one side of the display, users can also navigate through pages like a book or magazine, unlike to today's tablet where one needs to press a button.



PaperTab’s intuitive interface allows a user to send a photo simply by tapping one PaperTab showing a draft email with another one showing the photo. The photo is then automatically attached to the draft email. The email is sent either by placing the PaperTab in an out tray, or by bending the top corner of the display.

PaperTab can file and display thousands of paper documents, replacing the need for a computer monitor and stacks of papers or printouts. Unlike traditional tablets, PaperTabs keep track of their location relative to each other, and the user, providing a seamless experience across all apps, as if they were physical computer windows. For example, when a PaperTab is placed outside of reaching distance it reverts to a thumbnail overview of a document, just like icons on a computer desktop. When picked up or touched a PaperTab switches back to a full screen page view, just like opening a window on a computer.

In this year on January 8 Plastic Logic and the Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab already showcased the PaperTab to the press at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2013), Las Vegas. The cost and launch time is still not revealed.

Rajeev Circle Corridor for Startups in India to Silicon Valley

Asha Jadeja Motwani, wife of late Stanford Professor, Rajeev Motwani who still holds a good name in silicon valley and an early advisor and mentor to companies like Google and PayPal. The Rajeev Circle Startup Corridor is an idea of Asha Jadeja Motwani, who sees potential in young Indian entrepreneurs though lack of mentor-ship or them as compare to US counterparts.

Rajeev is considered as a key architect of the algorithms that power Google today including the famous PageRank algorithm and had invested in plenty of startups in silicon valley, US. Asha too is an investor in over 75 start-ups in Silicon Valley and starting seed fund investing in India for startups particularly in technology sector.

As per Startup Corridor plan - at least 10 genuine entrepreneurs in India would be identified and invited as a fellow group called as - 'RajeevCircle Fellows' to silicon valley on a 2-week visit and ALL EXPENSES would be paid no conditions apply.

The RajeevCricle group was already there since year 2009, when Rajeev died this group is a response to a social and entrepreneurial vacuum left  due to absence of Rajeev.   Under same philosophy in march this year SiliconVillage, Kochi sent team of 5 young entrepreneurs from Kerala, India to silicon valley which than might shape up the idea of RajeevCircle Startup Corridor scheme on regular yearly basis.

The visit under this scheme will allow entrepreneurs & startups in India to have serious dialogue and depth discussions with ace personalities in Silicon valley. Each year a set of at least 10 fellow entrepreneurs will be identified, groomed and selected to send to Silicon valley for two weeks without any conditions in return.

Asha currently associated with dotEDUventures since year 2000 as a founding member to fund innovative technologies emerging from top US universities. Her  investments also includes that time Kaltix which is now Google and  Jareva  which is now Veritas.

Leaked Photos & Specs of iPad 5

The production of iPad 5 is started, this is what the leaked images of iPad 5 suggest, the photos has been published by French website - nowhereelse.fr, who since this January year continuously predicting the design of new iPad 5 which is most likely to be released in late September this year.

As predicted - the new iPad will more slimmer, thinner and bit smaller than its predecessors including iPad 4, more clearly the new iPad 5 if anything goes by this rumor will be - a Big iPad Mini, the little sibling of iPad tablet.

Photos published by another french 9to5mac.com also suggest the same about the size of iPad5. All the speculations seems to be true and all the rumors did by this french website went right most of the time.

The other speculated specification as per the rumors are:

•  iPad thinner comparing to iPad 4 by 7.2mm


• Screen size to be remain same i.e. - 9.7 inches.


• Resolution of 2048x1536 pixels and pixel density of 324 ppi


• iPad will have 4G connectivity.


• iPad 5 will have IGZO (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide) which consume 90% less power.

The first image below is from 9to5mac.com sent to them byan unverified image from a supposedly China-based iPad accessories maker, which frequently provide confidential Apple’s future product designs in advance, of the back plate for the next iPad.

Source: nowhereelse.fr   Image Sources:9to5mac.com, MacRumors

How Google Glass Actually Works - Infographic

Google glass is dream project of Google and regarded as one of the first future tech one can use today, which was once only seen in sci-fi movies.

Practically, it's a wearable head mounted display glasses which acts & display information like a smart phone but in a hands-free format and users' eye as screen and can interact with the web via human voice.

Like a computer Google glass consist of - tiny CPU, Camera, a prism, microphone, speaker and a battery. The magic lies in prism which project a layer ahead of user over reality light by focusing the image directly over retina of user's eye, this is called Virtual Retina Display (VRD) that draws a raster display (like a television) directly onto the retina of the eye.

The below interesting infographic via - Brille-Kaufen.org show the detail working of Google glass:

5 Indian Living Legends & their Great Contribution in Technology

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. - Albert Einstein

India is considered as one of the oldest civilization in the world and Indians as the soul of very discoveries and inventions, right from invention of dams & bridges in high middle ages to invention of '0' by Aryabhatta, contribution of wireless communication by Jagdish C Bose or Satyendra Nath Bose contribution of Bose–Einstein statistics in quantum physics.

It was Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, India who for the first time to the world shows experimentally that the plants are living and have feelings like other living organisms, consume food and sleep during nights, can have wounds which was otherwise considered as chemical nature.

Controversies were also there which says it was Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, Maharashtra, India in year 1895 when first airplane was flown and that's too unmanned airplane, 8 years before Wright brothers got famous for.

All The While, in today's modern world there are many things which was once considered as luxurious are now necessities of life like computers, internet, TV etc. Below are some of the important inventions of modern science & technology having Indian contributions.

Ajay Bhatt: For Inventing USB

An Indian graduated from Baroda city, Ajay Bhatt paved the way for Intel to bring disruptive and now widely used technologies such as USB (Universal Serial Bus), AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), PCI Express, Platform Power management architecture and many more chipset enhancements.

Ajay hold 10 US patents on his name for his various inventions and many more pending in file. Ajay joined Intel in 1990 and now he is Intel's Chief I/O architect. View Ajay Bhatt profile on Intel official website.
 

Arun Netravali: For HDTV

Arun is yet another IITian, Electrical engineer (IIT-Mumbai) known for pioneering contributions that transformed TV from analog to digital especially the development of HDTV technology at Bell Labs in the 1990s.

His work led to development of a video encoder which today is being used by more than 150 TV channels for their HDTV broadcasts, surprising isn't it. Arun Netravalu worked for NASA, tought in MIT, worked in Bell Labs as President, Lucent Technologies as Chief scientist.

 

Krishna Bharat: For Google News & first ever 'News' aggregator

Krishan Bharat who is Principal research Scientist at Google Inc. is responsible for developing Google News which is an automated news aggregator provided by Google Inc where not a single person is involved in the altering of the front page or story promotion unlike to traditional news portal it's just tweaking the aggregation algorithm which pulled the news all over the web.

Krishna Bharat is also 2003 World Technology Award winner for Media & Journalism, moreover he is also responsible for founding Google's R&D Center in Bangalore, India in 2004 and heading the operation for 18 months.

 

Narinder Singh Kapany: For Fibre Optics

In 1960 Dr.Narinder Singh Kapany, wrote an article in Scientific American which coined a new term, which is called - 'Fiber Optics'. He is an Indian born American physicist known for his pioneer research work in fiber optics and considered as one of the founders of fiber optics and popularly called as first light-bender, an important invention used in voice, data, and video transmission technologies and even used for medical purpose such as endoscopy, bronchoscopy.

Narinder Singh Kapany was one of a unsung heroes, as described by Fortune magazine in 1999. While working in ordnance factory after graduation, Kapany thought that light need not travel in a straight line, that it could be bent.

Unlike to many, he is a non-IITian and rather graduated from Agra university, done Ph.D from prestigious Imperial College of  London in 1955 and noticeably, he has more than 120 patents to his name.

 

Vinod Dham For Pentium Processors

He is known as the Father of Pentium microprocessor chip, a very popular term in computer world and even in consumers when 80386, 80486 processors used to rule the world's computers, it's the Pentium processor which broke the ice. Working for company Intel he invented a highly successful 'Pentium' processors.

Vinod is also co-inventor of the flash memory technology, popularly known as SD cards widely used in USB drives, digital cameras and many other storage devices. Apart from Intel he worked for prestigious companies like AMD, NCR Corporations and holds graduation degree in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering.

Presently Vinod is founding MD of Indo US Venture Partners, an investment company with focus on investing in Indian companies & startups of varied sectors.

Indian Researchers Developed World's Smallest Antenna

Researchers at BIT (Birla Institute of Technology), Ranchi, India have developed a smallest ultra wide-band antenna with high bandwidth, low energy and very cheap cost as per the news.

Srikanta Pal, academician and Mrinmoy Chakraborty, PhD research scholar at BIT (Mesra) Ranchi, India developed world's smallest super compact ultra-wide band (UWB) planar antenna with size of 14 mm X 11 mm useful in homes, military and among other domains.

The material used for antenna design is fiber reinforced plastics, which is less expensive. The fabrication process is simple wet chemical etching method. The UWBs are basically for high data rates, for short range, wireless personal area networks (WPANs) and this antenna can be pasted on any curved surface

The images or visuals of the antenna are not officially released  yet.

Previously, the smallest antenna record was held by researcher at Virginia Tech, USA developed in year 2008 with same bandwidth of 10:1.  (view here)

Srikanta Pal,  has made into world news earlier as well when National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), GREEN Bank, USA has installed his research products on World's largest 110Meter x 100Meter diameter GBT (Green Bank Telescope), read more here.

Top Picture Credit -  Alexis Tejeda

10 Hilarious Harlem Shake Videos - Indian Version

Since february this year, an Internet viral spread across the globe in form of videos where people uploaded do the Harlem Shake video. For those who don't know what the hell is Harlem Shake all about, please read the wikipedia link here.

Various web blogs, social media portal have made some list of top or best-of Harlem shake videos, however when it comes to India, there isn't any, we did the same as sunday fun, so here it is:

Please include your videos or your choice of video you think should be in the list.

Harlem shake done by Department of Biotechnology, IIT Chennai

Students and even professors are good at it, at first it's look like a serious award distribution ceremony, but then everything went crazy



 

Harlem Shake at Indian Border area 

Unknown border area of India with do-the-Harlem-shake participation from security force guys, a camel and few crazy guys



 

Army Public School, Delhi Edition

Kids doing Harlem shake in school classroom



 

IIT Delhi Classroom Edition, as aparent from video description



 

3 Guys doing the Harlem Shake in public places of Delhi, India. Watch the expressions of people around



 

Lovely Indian Girls doing harlem shake



Typical Indian family but funny this time with little grandma, funny lol!

 



 

Indian Wedding Harlem Shake



 

MTV India Office (Mumbai) Harlem Shake

A serious reality TV show Roadies strategy meeting turns into the epic Harlem Shake.



 

Harlem Shake - Indian Business School, Chennai Edition



 

 

When to buy Apple Products with Max Savings [Infographic]

If you are about to buy any Apple product like iPod, iPhone, MacBook or iPad you can get best price with little wait and strategize your buying plan dealnews.com has done a research and found that after release of Apple products one can get Apple re-sellers discounts in a matter of a few months.

But how long will you have to wait?, for this dealnews.com analyzed and find out how much one has to wait to get best amount of re-sellers discounts by going through over a year's worth of Apple deals.



 

For example Apple recently slashed the price of its current iPad 4 tablets that hinted the release of its successors - iPad 5, imagine the price of iPad 4 if iPad 5 will release out so the idea is to hold and wait for get best deal. For example consider iPad mini, if you wait 3 months you can save $9 (around 450 INR) and  if you wait 5 months you can save $29 (1500 INR apprx)

In other words the data also suggest to wait if there is speculation of next release of Apple product and also hinted to buy from authorized Apple re-sellers to get maximum discount instead of buying directly from Apple.