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Cool Imaginative Technology


Turn your Body into a Touchscreen Interface
“Finding the keypad on your cellphone or music player a bit cramped? Maybe your forearm could be more accommodating. It could become part of a skin-based interface that effectively turns your body into a touchscreen,” notes from NewScientist. What is being addressed is “Skinput,” a technological project developed by Chris Harrison from Carnegie Mellon University, and Desney Tan and Dan Morris of Microsoft Research. Read more about it here.


" We present Skinput, a technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, allowing the skin to be used as an input surface. In particular, we resolve the location of finger taps on the arm and hand by analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through the body. We collect these signals using a novel array of sensors worn as an armband. This approach provides an always available, naturally portable, and on-body finger input system. We assess the capabilities, accuracy and limitations of our technique through a two-part, twenty-participant user study. To further illustrate the utility of our approach, we conclude with several proof-of-concept applications we developed. "

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Dual SIM Watch Mobile with Touchscreen
This Dual SIM Watch Mobile Phone title surprised me. I have added some snaps of the watch phone as well as its specification and features. This small watch phone has dual sim functionality with touch screen enabled.
This is another great product from china with some extra ordinary features and spec. It named as Q8+ and currently supports GSM only. May be we can expect 3G support with the next upgrade of this watch phone. This has become one perfect handy mobile phone in a wrist watch can be called as a perfect gadget of course.


Phone Model Q8+
Network GSM+GSM QUADBAND
Announced (Newer version) 2010, Aug
Dimension & Weight 61x48x16 & 75g
Available Language (In selected lots)
English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Deutsch, Portuguese, Chinese & Italian
Display Type QVGA touch screen, 262K colors
Display Size 1.4 inch, 240 x 320 pixels
Ringtones Type · Polyphonic (64 channels) · Support Mp3, Midi & amr ringtone · 3D stereo speaker
PCSync & Webcam Yes.
Call Record Yes
Vibration Yes
Music · Support MP3 background play, support equalizer
Video · 3GP / MP4 / AVI, support to play in full screen, forward and pause
Phonebook Can store 1000 (500 + s1 +s2) phonebooks
Memory Expandable upto 32GB (NO memory card supplied)
Connectivity GPRS / WAP
Card slot MicroSD (TransFlash)
Messaging SMS, MMS
Data transfer USB cable / Bluetooth
Games Built-In
Camera 1.3MP camera, different modes.
Additional Features Dual SIM Dual Standby Phone· Watch Design· MP3 / MP4 player· FM· Shake Control· Compass Feature· Handsfree· Calendar· Memo· Physical Keypad· Alarm clock· World time· Calculator· Voice recorder· Call Record· Voicemail· 32GB expandable memory· SMS group sending· WAP· Support GPRS· MMS· Rich Effect Menu· Dual Bluetooth· 3D stereo speaker· Handwritten & Keyboard input· Ultra long standby
Battery Li-ion
Stand-by time 100-400 hours
Talk time 100-450 minutes

Features of Dual SIM Watch Phone
Lets have a look at the Jaw Dropping features of Dual SIM Watch phone.
1. DUAL SIM (Same time working; NO switching required!!)
2. Watch Design (An ideal device for a businessman!)
3. RICH EFFECTIVE MENU ( Feel It, When You Use It! )
4. QUAD-BAND TECHNOLOGY (Works WorldWide! )
5. WEBCAM (Convert your Phone –> Webcam)
6. Bluetooth Stereo Support (Enjoy Musics On A Bluetooth Headset!!)
7. 5 Different colored changeable panels FREE (Add colors to your life!!)
8. Shake Control/ Motion Sensor (Shake your phone for a variety of change!!)
9. Touchscreen+Keypad (More convenience and comfortability!)
10. FM Radio (Stay tuned wherever you are!)
11. Audio & Video Player (Get entertained on the go!)
12. Mp3, Mp4, Mpeg-4, AVI, 3GP formats supported.
13. Digital Clear Sound (Hear it to believe it!).
14. 1.3 Mega Pixels Hidden Pin-Hole Camera & Video Shoot (Never Miss Any Moment!)
15. 1.4 inch 262K QVGA TouchScreen (PDA model ; Porsche Look!)
16. Sleek , Compact & Professional look (Unlike Other Watch Phones!)
17. GPRS, WAP and MMS enabled (Browse right from your mobile!)
18. Caller Ringtone & Picture (Identify your callers with ease!)
19. Bluetooth (also A2DP), USB Data Transfer functionality!!
20. Compass Location Detector (Know where you are!!)
21. E-Book Reader (Browse your official .txt files from your mobile!)
22. Huge PhoneBook Capacity (Store around 1000 contacts!)
23. SMS Handwriting Recognition (Dont type just write!)
24. SMS DICTIONARY (Save your time; smarter than T9!)
25. PCSync & GPRS Modem functionality!
26. 32GB Expandable Memory
Mind blowing, isnt it ? Ofcourse, i felt the same way when i read the features first time.


Here is what Box Contains
· Q8+ Handset Box-Pack
· Li Ion Batteries – 2 [1+1(free)] Nos
· USB Charger#Wired Handsfree
· USB cable for PC connection
· English Manual
· 5 Front Panels
· Software (Soft copy)

Waterborne Vehicles FlyNano Personal Flying Machine

Waterborne vehicles like this FlyNano Personal Flying Machine look like they're out of some comic book instead of a legitimate company. These waterborne vehicles are available in three models including one electric, one gas, and one racing and are able to go up to 1.8 miles high, up to 76 mph, up to 43 miles away.The 150 lb FlyNano Personal Flying Machine also doesn't need a pilots license to be operated but water is required....definitely. You can buy this FlyNano Personal Flying Machine for a price of about $36,000-$39,000.

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Birth of some Famous Names


MERCEDES
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.ADOBE
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
APPLE COMPUTERS

It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call
his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock that evening.
CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed.
It is short for San Francisco .
COMPAQ
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
COREL
The name was derived from the founder's
name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearchLaboratory.
GOOGLE
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders- Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' ...thus the name.
HOTMAIL
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
HEWLETT PACKARD 
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
INTEL 
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ' Moore Noyce'but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
LOTUS (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapoor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
MICROSOFT 
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
MOTOROLA
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called
Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
SONY
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN
Founded by four Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
YAHOO! 
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

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General Info. about Bill Gates



1. Bill Gates earns US$250 every second, that's about US$20 Million a day and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!
2. If he drops a thousand dollars, he won't even bother to pick it up because during the 4 seconds he picks it, he would've already earned it back.
3. The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion dollars, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.
4. He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth and still be left with US$5 Million for his pocket money.
5. Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn't drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he'll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.
6. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.
7. If you change all of Bill Gate's money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from the earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But you have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years, and use a total of 713 Boeing 747 planes to transport all the money.
8. Bill Gates is 40 this year. If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he goes to heaven.
9. If Microsoft Windows' users can claim US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 years.

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Top 10 Largest Earthquakes on Earth


This list is heavily biased to recent years or due to the development and widespread deployment of seismometers.
Large earthquakes were not less common in the past, just records detailed enough to make magnitude estimates.Rank 10
Date : July 8, 1730
Location : Valparaiso, Chile
Name : 1730 Valparaiso earthquake
Magnitude : 8.7–9.0

The 1730 Valparaiso earthquake occurred at 08:45 UTC on July 8. It had an estimated magnitude of 8.7 and triggered a major tsunami with an estimated magnitude of Mt=8.75, that inundated the lower parts of Valparaiso. The earthquake caused severe damage from La Serena to Chillan, while the tsunami affected more than 1000 km of Chile’s coastline
Rank 9
Date : January 26, 1700
Location : Pacific Ocean, USA and Canada
Name : 1700 Cascadia earthquake
Magnitude : 8.7–9.2

The 1700 Cascadia earthquake was a magnitude 8.7 to 9.2 megathrust earthquake that occurred in the Cascadia subduction zone in 1700. The earthquake involved the Juan de Fuca Plate underlying the Pacific Ocean, from mid-Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, south along the Pacific Northwest coast as far as northern California, USA. The length of the fault rupture was about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) with an average slip of 20 meters (22 yards).
Rank 8
Date : February 27, 2010
Location : Maule, Chile
Name : 2010 Chile earthquake
Magnitude : 8.8

The 2010 Chilean earthquake occurred off the coast of the Maule Region of Chile on February 27, 2010, at 03:34 local time (06:34 UTC), rating a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, and lasting up to 3 minutes.
Rank 7
Date : January 31, 1906
Location : Ecuador – Colombia
Name : 1906 Ecuador-Colombia earthquake
Magnitude : 8.8

The 1906 Ecuador-Colombia earthquake occurred at 15:36 UTC on January 31, off the coast of Ecuador, near Esmeraldas. The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.8 and triggered a destructive tsunami that caused at least 500 casualties on the coast of Colombia.
Rank 6
Date : November 25, 1833
Location : Sumatra, Indonesia
Name : 1833 Sumatra earthquake
Magnitude : 8.8–9.2

The 1833 Sumatra earthquake occurred on November 25, 1833, about 22:00 local time, with an estimated magnitude in the range Mw= 8.8–9.2. It caused a large tsunami that flooded the southwestern coast of the island. There are no reliable records of the loss of life, with the casualties being described only as ‘numerous’. The magnitude of this event has been estimated using records of uplift taken from coral microatolls.
Rank 5
Date : March 11, 2011
Location : Sendai, Japan
Name : 2011 Sendai earthquake
Magnitude : 9.0

The 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami (東北地方太平洋沖地震, Tōhoku Chihō Taiheiyō-oki Jishin?, literally “Tōhoku region Pacific Ocean offshore earthquake”) was a 9.0 MW megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March 2011. The epicenter was reported to be 130 kilometers (81 mi) off the east coast of the Oshika Peninsula, Tōhoku, with the hypocenter at a depth of 24.4 km (15.2 mi)
Rank 4
Date : November 4, 1952
Location : Kamchatka, Russia (then USSR)
Name : Kamchatka earthquakes
Magnitude : 9.0

Three Kamchatka earthquakes, which occurred off the coast of Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia in 1737, 1923 and 1952, were megathrust earthquakes and caused tsunamis. They occurred where the Pacific Plate subducts under the Okhotsk Plate at the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench. The depth of the trench at the point of the earthquakes is 7,000–7,500 meters
Rank 3
Date : December 26, 2004
Location : Sumatra, Indonesia
Name : 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
Magnitude : 9.1

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday, December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake. The resulting tsunami is given various names, including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Asian Tsunami, Indonesian Tsunami, and Boxing Day Tsunami
Rank 2
Date : March 27, 1964
Location : Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA
Name : 1964 Alaska earthquake
Magnitude : 9.2

The 1964 Alaska earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan Earthquake, the Portage Earthquake and the Good Friday Earthquake, was a megathrust earthquake that began at 5:36 P.M. AST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing buildings, and tsunamis resulting from the temblor caused about 131 deaths.
Rank 1
Date : May 22, 1960
Location : Valdivia, Chile
Name : 1960 Valdivia earthquake
Magnitude : 9.5

The 1960 Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean earthquake (Spanish: Gran terremoto de Chile/Valdivia) of 22 May 1960 is to date the most powerful earthquake ever recorded on earth, rating 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale. It occurred in the afternoon (19:11 GMT, 14:11 local time) and its resulting tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, southeast Australia, and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.

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