Google's New Office in London

12/13/2011 01:22:00 PM creative offices, Google london Office, google office, google office in london, innovation, innovative Office, london google office, Uncategorized 1 Comment

Innovative minds needs motivation and what best for a Google employee would be; when his own office environment is his best motivation.

Google has recently opened up a new Office in London. No need to explain further. Pictures will say it all



This morning in the Google house: One of the ultra trendy meeting rooms in the London office



And relax: A Google worker hoping for inspiration



Designed to inspire: Cushions are all-important at Google



Playtime: Google workers are treated to a pool table and games consoles



Central Perk, Google-style: The Coffee Lab serves 19 blends



It's an office, but not as we know it: Google's corridors look very futuristic



Presentation suite: For bigger team talks bosses can use this state-of-the-art suite



Chill a minute: The office is designed to be completely stress free



Music to their ears: Workers can always tune out with a pair of headphones if they're being distracted



Bizarre: Unconventional seating is a must at Google



Creative space: Workers can even write ideas down on white boards in the corridors



One of the many relaxation areas in L4



Big draw: A picture of a spaceship from Star Wars adorns one of the meeting-room walls



One hull of an office: The resident rowing boat



There's no diary room, but L4 does have futuristic meeting pods



May the force be with them: Programmers are encouraged to play with toys



Perhaps Google Googled 'trendy office' for inspiration



The next Google Doodle?



All white on the night: There aren't many dark corners at Google



L4 is paradise for creative thinkers



Net gain: Hi-tech video conferencing is a cinch at L4



Not a speck of dust in sight: Two workers admire their new super-clean office environment



Global headquarters: The Googleplex headquarters in San Francisco is also quirky



Google Front Desk




Relax and Think




Serenity



Office Area

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HighAlert ! Laptop WiFi may damage sperms

12/01/2011 02:02:00 PM infertility, sperm damage, Tech News, Wi-Fi 3 Comments

Those of you who are going to get married or have been dreaming about having children with your current girlfriend of-course after getting married. 

HighAlert !  Laptop WiFi may damage sperms.

Scientist from US and Argentina carried out a research and proved that extended use of a laptop with the internet Wi-Fi on might damage the sperms.

Experiment:

2 separate sperm samples were taken from each donor and there were equally separated into different pots. One of them was placed close to a laptop with the Wi-Fi switched on and left for around 4 hours.The other one was placed in the same environment with the only difference was that Wi-Fi was switched off.

Result:

Scientist diecoverd in the end of the experiment; 25 percent of the sperms which were left with the laptop and Wi-Fi on were dead and also there were significant changes in their genetic code. comparably sperms having no contact with Wi-Fi were dead by only 14 percent.

Though scientists acknowlege that heat can also be on of the reason that can damage sperms, but they believe heat cannot cause such adverse effect. They believe electromagnetic radiations may and might be the main culprit.

President of the Society for Male Reproduction and Urology, Robert Oates, questioned the findings, telling Reuters, “This is not real-life biology, this is a completely artificial setting. It is scientifically interesting, but to me it doesn’t have any human biological relevance.”

To maintain healthy sperm, Oates said “staying lean, eating healthy foods, exercising, not taking drugs and not smoking” are the most important factors.

Clearly, more research needs to be done to establish whether using a laptop on your lap for an extended period of time has any effect on sperm.

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NASA's new rover on its way to Mars

11/27/2011 08:02:00 PM Curiosity, Curiosity Rover, Mars, Mars Rover, Mars Rover Landing System, Rover, Space No Comments

New Rover on its way to Mars

(Don't miss the animated video at the end of this article)

Atlas V rockets carrying Curiosity

NASA's new Mars rover system named Curiosity, launched and left earth on Saturday, November 26, 2011. The new Mars rover system was packed and blasted in rocket(Atlas V). This Rover system(Curiosity) carries NASA's bigger and more capable new rover. This lengthy journey is 570-million-kilometer far and it takes around 9 months to reach MARS also known as The RED Planet.

This new rover will have to overcome lot of challenges in space during these 9 month journey. One of these challenges is probably most exciting and that is the innovative way Curiosity(Rover) will be landing on the surface of the Red Planet.

New Curiosity vs Previous ones

Previous MARS rover missions known as 'Spirit' and 'Opportunity', which were of the size of golf carts, were landed on "air bags" dropped from an air craft.(Previous Rover's landing)







This new ROVER is much more biggher and heavier this time. -- it is almost the size of a small car, and weighs 900 kg, interestingly it is equipped with a nuclear power supply (O yeah !)  and 10 scientific instruments

Rover's Parts

Landing Pattern

NASA team this time will lower the rover on cables known as the -- "skycrane maneuver." in which it will be descended just like commandos descend from helicopter during war.i.e. through rappelling. 

skycrane maneuver

NASA has prepared a computer animation which you can see below to understand it completely.

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Snake Like Robot can climb up trees

11/16/2011 06:09:00 PM gadgets, nature, robot, snake 1 Comment

Snake Like Robot can climb up trees


Scientists have always been trying to create robots that can mimic the movements of animals. The research in this field is now gone vast enough that scientists have been able to create a robot that moves just like a snake and is even able to climb up the trees.

The creators(Carnegie Mellon) of this Snake robots have named it as "Uncle Sam". Uncle Sam has the ability to crawl, roll and it can move sideways. But the best thing thing that it does to impress you is that it can wrap it self around any pole or a tree and can climb up too.

The robot is composed of segments, and each segment has the ability to move on its own and creates its own movement intelligent enoughly to move forward on ground and upwards on poles and trees.

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Worlds Most Expensive IPad (dinosaurs bones + gold) Costs 5 million pounds

11/04/2011 05:07:00 PM Tech News 2 Comments

A customized iPad made from gold, diamonds and shavings of Tyrannosaurus rex bone(a dinosaur type) has been billed as the world's most expensive gadget.

The £5m device is being promoted by British luxury goods specialist Stuart Hughes.

The iPad 2 is encrusted with 12.5-carat diamonds and has 53 separate gems forming the iconic Apple logo.

The back section has been formed in 24-carat gold and weighs two kilogrammes.

But the most expensive part is actually the main front frame which is made from the oldest rock the world has to offer - Ammolite.

Sourced from Canada, the stone is more than 75 million years old.

Just to cap off the unique design, part of a T-rex thigh bone dating back 65 million years is claimed to have been shaved into the stone.

The final touch is a single-cut 8.5-carat flawless diamond inlaid in platinum surrounded by 12 satellite gems.

Despite the hefty price tag, Hughes told Sky News one of the devices has already been sold to an anonymous buyer.

He claims they were actually finished earlier this year and says the dinosaur bone was sourced from Arizona.

The designer is known for creating "ultra-luxury" goods, including a £219,995 Macbook Air and a diamond and platinum iPhone costing £20,995.

It was claimed earlier this year he had built a super yacht encased in gold worth £3bn but he has since admitted this was not real.

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Genetically grown Dengue mosquito kills its own species.

11/02/2011 01:56:00 PM biotechnology, dengue, dengue fever, dengue virus, genetic modification, genetics, Research 1 Comment

Genetically grown Dengue mosquito will kill its own species


Gone are the days of those science fiction movies where it was fantasized as a story line that in a lab, genetically malfunction human converted into a monster and start killing human species.

 So to call it a good luck for dengue affected countries, but a marvalous breakthrough in the field of biotechnology. A british biotech lab has devised a way and created a species of dengue mosquitoes that kills its own larva. just imagine a mosquito giving eggs and the other one killing those larvae - and yet both belong to the same breed.

A lab grown species of dengue mosquito has been already released in Florida whose one and only deadliest trait is to kill their own offspring. Yup that means that a kid won;t be able to reach the adulthood because of the genetically introduced disease their parents gave them.

About Dengue: Dengue mosquito is re known for deadly Dengue fever also known as breakbone fever, is an infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash that is similar to measles. In a small proportion of cases the disease develops into the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever, resulting in bleeding, low levels of blood platelets and blood plasma leakage, or into dengue shock syndrome, where dangerously low blood pressure occurs

Dengue Fever around the world(2005)

Though this technique of genetically modifying insects already exsist decades age, but this is the first time it has been used successfully for mosquitoes. we hope that this technique won't kill the whole insect species of mosquitoes and also it is not sure what impact it will make on the environment.

via  NYtimes

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First Ever 'Logic Gates' made from Bacteria

10/24/2011 12:14:00 PM Research No Comments

First Ever 'Logic Gate' made out of Bacteria

Thinking of upgrading your PC or increasing your hard disk space and you are out of money. Take no worries now. As the scientists in imperial college of london have come up with a way of creating the logic gates out of bacteria. Yup! you heard it right. 'Bacteria'.


The scientists constructed a type of logic gate called an “AND Gate” from bacteria called Escherichia coli (E.Coli), which is normally found in the lower intestine. The team altered the E.Coli with modified DNA, which reprogrammed it to perform the same switching on and off process as its electronic equivalent when stimulated by chemicals.


The days are not that far now when you can harvest bacteria at your home to increase your PC's GB by breeding bacteria. The researchers claim that they are the first one to make bacterial logic gates, which can be sorted out to make more complex logic gates and a possibility of creating a biological processor.

E-Coli bacteria used

Researchers belive that not only they could one day be used as part of a PC's processor but may one day be used in the human body to kill the cancer cells and clear our arteries.

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Panoramic Ball Camera: Personal CyberShot Panoramic camera

10/17/2011 05:16:00 PM Camera gadgets, gadgets, Panoramic camera 1 Comment

Panoramic Ball Camera: Gives you a 360 Degree view by just throwing a ball


Innovative minds designed a new type of personal camera(cybershot) to take 360 degree panoramic photos and snapshot without moving the camera in 360 degrees. O yes, now you do not need to slide your camera slowly to capture a 360 degree view. This new camera is called 'Panoramic Ball Cam'. A simple but elegant and innovative solution will let you take the full picture of the whole area, which not only covers the side views but a whole globe view.

This simple gadget is equipped with 36 mobile phones cameras and it is designed to be thrown in to the air to capture the 360 degree panoramic photograph. As soon as the ball is thrown into the air, and the ball reaches to its highest point , the Panoramic Ball camera will take photograph using all the 36 on board cameras in the ball.  Providing a true 360 degree view of the environment.The pictures can then be downloaded to your computer and via a simple custom software, all pictures are merged into a single picture. giving a true panoramic view.

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Steve Jobs died a day after the launch of new iPhone 4s

10/06/2011 10:52:00 AM Tech News No Comments

Steve Jobs died just a day after the launch of the Apples new iPhone 4s.


(May his soul rest in peace)- we all will remember you for the efforts you made and they way you revolutionize the world with new technology.

The former founder of Apple, Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56, he left behind a wife and 2 children and 1 daughter from his previous relationship. He was diagnosed with a pancreatic cancer late in 2004, but he was recovered from the pancreatic cancer. He than again took a medical leave in January 2011.

In a family statement made out to press, they said 'Jobs died peacefully'

He was a visionary and he changed the whole thinking strategy of people about the technology and brought a great change and revolution in technology.

One of his very well known speeches he made in Standford University is worth listening

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iPhone 4s(iOS 5)- New Features

10/05/2011 12:48:00 AM iOS5, iPhone 5, Mobile 1 Comment

iPhone - 5  iPhone -4s - New Features (now official)


The new iPhone is not iPhone 5 but will be called iPhone-4s. Having Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO, the responsibility will be on the shoulders of the new CEO Tim Cook. Lets see if he will be able to move some heads with today's presentation.
Features for the new iPhone and the iOS5 are listed as was described in the press conference

The new handset looks the same as the iPhone 4 but contains considerable upgrades to its components.
The iPhone 4S runs on the same A5 processor that powers the iPad 2 and has an improved camera. It offers 8-megapixels, compared with the iPhone 4's 5-megapixels and, Apple says, will deliver sharper pictures with better colours.


iPhone - 4s

Tim Cook

Features:

1. iPhone will be releases on 14th of October in US, UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan.
2. Prince : $199 16GB, $299 32GB, $399 64GB
3. A5 Chip(1 GHz dual-core) same as that of iPAD 2
4. 2 time faster
5. 7 times better graphics
6. Battery life: '8hours talk time on 3G' - '14hours 2G talk time'- '9hours WIFI browsing
7. Camera: 8 Mega Pixel , takes pictures faster (compared to HTC Sensation takes 2.1s to take the first, 1.3 to get the second; iPhone 4S is 1.1 and 0.5s. )
8. Video: HD(1080p) video recording
9. Works on both GSM and CDMA
10. Siri Feature: (A voice activated assistant)A sound recognizer which can search the Internet. e.g what is the weather today and iPhone will search the Internet and voice back the answer. Also if you want to set an alarm for 5pm, you just need to say' SET A 5pm Alarm'.

iOS 5

Features:

1. iOS 5 will be available on October 12, 2011
2. iTunes will be available in the Cloud: Users will be able to share their songs, data and  among, MAC, iPhone, iPad and iPod. Users can sync the data among various devices just like DropBox.
3. New App: 'Find my Friend': Shows you where is your family on the map, you can even see if your son went to school today and where was he at 12am.

Over All the release for the iPhone 4s is not that impressive and is not able to nod some heads. Lets see how the sales go and they might prove us wrong.

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