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Wireless Electricity

2009-04-14T22:48:00.000-07:00

Here's something I read today and had thought of it earlier also. This is a fascinating thought. I really hope that people would succeed in whatever they are doing. Read on...

WIRELESS ELECTRICITY: Power’s In The Air
If phones, mice and keyboards could get wireless, why not everything else? In fact, about a hundred years ago, that untamed genius, Nikola Tesla had already begun to build a tower at Wardenclyffe, N.Y. to demonstrate the transmission of electricity without the use of wires.
On a humbler scale, researchers at MIT are in the process of repeating the experiment with their own ideas and less ostentatious techniques.

WiTricity
Marin Soljacic, Assistant Professor of Physics at the MIT, has spent a considerable number of years trying to figure out how to transmit power without cables. Radio waves lose too much energy during their passage through the air and lasers are constrained by the necessity of line-of-sight. Soljacic decided to use Resonant Coupling, in which two objects vibrating at the same frequency can exchange energy without harming things around them. He used magnetic resonance and along with his colleagues Jon Hoannopoulos and Peter Fisher, succeeded in lighting up a 60 watt bulb two metres away. What they did was this: two resonant copper coils were tied to dangle from the ceiling, two meters away from each other. Both were tuned to the same frequency and one had a light bulb attached to it. When current was made to pass through one coil, it created a magnetic field and the other resonated, generating an electric current. And then there was light. The experiment succeeded in spite of a thin screen being placed between the two copper coils.

And If This Comes Through...
One of the most obvious results is that we won’t have dozens of cables to trip over in our offices and rooms. Primarily, the aim of this research team is to achieve a cable-free environment wherein your laptops PDAs and mobile phones could charge themselves (with all the electricity floating around) and even, maybe, get rid of the batteries that are so much an essential part of our portable devices today. Magnetic fields interact very weakly with biological organisms and this little fact makes it infinitely safer for us. While this experiment happened about a year ago, the team is still hard at work trying to use other materials so as to increase the efficiency of the transfer of power from 50 per cent to 80 per cent. Once that happens, both, the industry as well as individuals will grab hold of it and never let go.

Content taken from (read more): http://thinkdigit.com/details.php?article_id=2741&art_title=Top%2010%20technologies%20to%20look%20forward%20to&art_keyword=Input%20Devices,Compression,CPU,Wireless,storage%20device

Creative Writing

2008-07-14T08:12:00.002-07:00

Here's one of my writings which we all do in our office under Creative Writing. This time we were given a picture, taken by one of us (Sanket) and we had to write something inspirational, story or some description. So here's the photo and what I have written :)

I have miles and miles to go. The destination seems too far away, but I'm not going to give it up. I have to reach where I have aimed. These are a few thoughts that come in my mind when I see this...

I had set high standards and big goals for myself. I was enthusiastic. Sometimes I feel as if that spark is going off. But this reminds me of what I decided. Running fast like the wheels of the train on the rails, with an amazing speed, reaching for the destination.

I guess I'm not alone with these thoughts in my mind. People do not realize when they start losing the inspiration to go on. This is one thing that gets, at least me, started again. The far looking destination looks so enticing that I want to get there, I want to experience it. I've worked hard for it. I have to reach there, I'm not going to give up.

I will tell the world when I will reach there. How hard I have worked to reach there. The way might look straight, but it is not. No one would know how hard it is to run on this path. This is an immense source of inspiration.

I still have miles and miles to go....

A very common query!

2007-10-29T12:29:00.002-07:00

Hey guys, here's a very common question I came across again today! Since I had written a reply, I decided to write it here too :) So here it goes..

QUESTION: What happens when you delete a file from your computer?

ANSWER:
Every file on your computer has an address, which is not comprehendable by us. Windows keeps an "index" of all the files on the hard drive with their address. Its eaiser for it to access any file this way, specially when HD capacities are going to insane levels. So when we delete a file, the address of that file is deleted from that index, or any reference to that file is deleted, making the file unaccessible. The file is actually present there. Now when the OS needs more space for itself to work, it starts using space and when it comes to such address which is not accessible, it simply uses that place to keep some other file, erasing the previous file. When you quik format, simply the "index" is deleted. When you full format, the head of the HD goes to every address and removes the file completely.
Data recovery softwares don't recover the files by the "index". They go to each and every sector of the HD and see if the file is not overwritten, and recover it.

I hope it helped in some way! ;)

My new Digital Camera!! :D Its an Olympus SP500 UZ!

2007-04-13T03:16:00.002-07:00

Hi Everyone!

Its time for another post, at a quick succession :) I got my new Digital camera!! Its an Olympus SP500 UZ. Well I got it 2 weeks ago, but just didn't get time to write anything here..... anyways, first take a look at the camera...

Its is a 6MP camera with 10x zoom and a super macro of 3cm with full manual controls...
If you are interested to know some more about it, visit this link:
Olympus SP500 UZ

Well, taking this one was my last minute decision and I must say that I was not very sure until I actually got it! I mean it is very unlike me to purchase something like this without doing proper research on it! I was all decided for Canon A710 IS. I had done a lot of research on it and it was in my budget too. Apart from this, I required a camera which I can take anywhere with me. So I decided for the canon one. But at the last moment, I asked the shopkeeper if he has something else in the same price range.. he showed me this cam! I can't believe I got so much in this priec range! I liked it the moment he showed it to me. Then I tried it out with some clicks in the shop itself. It is a nice cam.. and its an Olympus. They are known for good optics. So I decided ro take it.

Its not as portable as the canon one, but still, not too bulky to take it with me. I purchased a pouch for it from Case Logic which is pretty neat and not at all bulky! So I love my cam!! :D

I've been experimenting with the cam for 2 weeks now. You can have a glimpse of the pics I took in the "My Flickr Pictures" display in the side bar, click it to see all the pics in enlarged size. OR you can click the following link for the same:

My pictures on Flickr

So now I'm getting to know more about photography and cameras :) So you can expect even better pics now... :D

Renovation!

2007-04-13T02:36:00.002-07:00

Hi Everyone!

You all might be wondering why am I posting Happy Diwali on 4th of April!! hehe My blog went under a change of address and a whole new theme. So I decided not to waste the old posts. So now you are gonna see some new entries!! :)

2007-04-04T01:21:00.002-07:00

Wish you all a Very Happy and Prosperous Diwali!!

Things we can learn from Dil Chahta Hai...

2007-04-04T01:20:00.002-07:00

Things we can learn from Dil Chahta Hai .......

* Freaking out and enjoying life doesn't need drugs or cigarettes.
* There are relationships apart from bf/gf, marriage,siblings,friendship that canbe very emotional and true. which is beyond the understanding of manypeople.
* And yeah even though u may be the best of friends there is always a limitwhich should never be crossed. Then it starts hurting...........
* Improving ur imperfections after you realize it, always take some time.
* You always don't need to show or prove your gf/bf how much u love or care about her/him, which can sound very boring and finally u r dumped.
* Believe in Love , true love will never let you down
* Never be ashamed to go back to your old friends, friends are there tounderstand your mistakes.
* Do not be afraid of others, always think that others r afraid ofyou.(Australian Beggar )
* Whenever you need your friend , remember that he is just a phone callaway...distances can't separate friends
* In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silenceof our friends*It's the friends you can call up at 4 A. M. that matter.
* The only unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
* The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with -never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversations you've ever had.

Courtesy: madancer (http://madancer.blogspot.com)

Whole lotta things!!

2007-04-04T01:19:00.005-07:00

Wow!! This entry was getting OVERDUE!!! A lot of things have happened! My weekends were great!! On last weekend I went to my Mama’s place (the other mama). Then on the day of Dussehra, I went out with one of my friend for a movie. We saw Pyar Ke Side Effects. It was hilarious!!!!! Hahahahahaha… we just laughed and laughed. And you know what?? Sanjay Dutt was supposd to come to that theatre too!! It was 2nd October (Gandhi Jayanti). So yes, munnabhai had to be there to promote his film. All the news channels, media people were to cover it. It was nie to walk in to the theatre with all the media persons around!!! Hehehehe. But as ‘munnabhai’ was taking a lot of time to arrive and fact being that I didn’t want to miss the movie, we didn’t wait for him and went in. After we cam out of the movie, munnabhai had still not arrived!!! Hahaha… so we moved on to the mall next to this one.

Now here we saw another celebrity!! He’s a TV actor and married to an actress!! Both are VERY popular in TV. Okay, so the actor is Apoorv Agnihotri (Armaan of Jassi Fame) and his wife Shilpa Saklani (Ganga of Kabhi Saas bhi…. )

We were just walking in the mall when someone just went hitting my shoulder. I didn’t see who he was. My friend said, “do you know who went hitting you shoulder??” and I was like, noo. Then he told me to just turn and look around. I saw both of them with some of their friends who are TV actors too!! Shilpa Saklani was absolutely gorgeous!!!! Hehehe… hum nahn sudhrenge hahaha :P Just kidding (about nahin sudhrenge not about her looking gorgeous! Haha)

So yes that was the last weekend… This weekend I went to see Khosla ka Ghosla. It was quiet a weird movie. The real story of a common middle class family. I could relate that to soo many cases within my family!! But anyways it was ok.

And then I got my 200GB Hard Drive!!!!!! Man!!! I have a LOT of space now!!! Haha… I love it! So I spent a lot of time partitioning it and transferring data.

Now I’m excited to get back home!!! I’m going for Diwali!! I know its donna be great!! And I’m excited!! You can see that by the number of exclamation marks I’ve used in this paragraph! Hahahaha…

I guess its getting quiet a lot now! Will write some more about Diwali and why I love it sometime later. Have to go now to sleep!! Office jaana hai kal!

Seeya.. byee!! :)

Silly Us...... hahahahaha :)

2007-04-04T01:19:00.004-07:00

You people wont believe what happened... hahahaha. After opening up that Mac, its keyboard and mouse stopped working. Although we knew that it was not a big thing... but we still didn't want to take things in our hands anymore (we already dared a lot) hehehe. So we issued a ticket for the IT department, the IT person came and he found out that..... the keyboard was disconnected from the USB extension cable... hahahahahaha. Can you believe that!! We never thought about the simplest solution of a cable getting disconnected... so anyways... its working perfectly now!!

Tech: Power Mac G4 Dual Core...!!!

2007-04-04T01:13:00.002-07:00

This happened a few days back... :)

Hiiii, today in the office as usual we didn't have much work.... so me along with Vivek (who also finds a machine interesting from the inside :P) opened up a Power Mac G4. We were like getting mad clicking its pictures hahaha. And all my team mates were wondering what we were doing... :D But anyways, we had a lot of fun looking at it... and its a beauty... believe me.... and when it starts... its not less than a beast with a dual core processor and exellent graphics. Here are some pics of what we did.... enjoy if you find it interesting!!!!

How it opens up....

A Dual Core 'beast' beneath this processor....... :)