Tag: research

How can I help fight Covid-19 sitting @ home?

Karan S

Covid-19 poses a clear and present danger for all of us as a society as it endangers to flank the human race. While we stay home and practice social - physical distancing whenever we go out, how more can we contribute to the fight. Sitting at home is a weapon, and there is one more stronger weapon we have. Most of us don’t realise that we have a weapon with us sitting right on our desks, i.e. our computers @ home. We can donate the computing power of our desktops…

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Relevance of Google Suite for Modern Teams

Karan S

When advertising the G Suite, Google very rightly claims that G-Suite is ‘all you need’ seamless package, accessible from your computer, phone or tablet. Such versatility across platforms, such ease of use, as GUI is pretty similar to popular Office suites. All this is a result of an painstaking survey procedures followed at Google from conceptualizing to developing to updating Product offerings. Working alone across various platforms and devices is still a manageable affair in comparison to integrating online with people on different devices and OS platforms. Google’s Suite of…

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Project Tango: Indoor Human-scale understanding of 3D Space, Mapping

Tarandeep Singh

Google’s ATAP team has achieved a new breakthrough. The Project Tango takes a step closer towards converging real world with the virtual world. A new combination of hardware and software helps interpret and render indoor dynamics — whether its your room, hall or walkway. Humans use visual cues to navigate and understand the world around. With our eyes, we estimate size, shape and dynamics of the objects around us. with almost no effort we learn to use these parameters as we interact with the space and objects around us. Unlike…

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Predict, Forecast Earthquake Accurately

Tarandeep Singh

The Results of Earthquake predictions over the years have been disappointing. Often there are are false alarms which results in unwanted panic & epidemic. What causes Earthquakes? Earth’s hemisphere has multiple layers from the outer surface to deep down inside core. The Outer layer is broken into pieces called Tectonic plates. Each of these plates is about 100km thick and they are constantly floating towards or from each other. These plates have a very low velocity say of the order of 10cm per year. When these plates collide with each other,…

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Metamaterial: Camera Imaging Sensor that Needs no Lens

Tarandeep Singh

With the commercialization of Smartphones, Photography is for everyone. We may own a small portable camera in the smartphone with small or sensor or a full-fledged dSLR, but we’re strongly dependent on one or the other kind of imaging technology. All cameras today, whether they are surveillance cameras or dSLRs, requires a lens in order to focus on a point or zoom in to far-off places. Professionals use different kinds of lenses for different kinds of Photography, on the other hand consumer point and shoots have fixed lenses, with fixed focal range…

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Eye Contact Lens with LCD HUD

Tarandeep Singh

You may not be ready to be a Cyborg yet, but the technology has already made you one. We can’t live without the smart devices and soon these machines would be part of us. We’ve seen how Mind-controlled Bionic Leg has proved that Cyborg are not just near, they have already arrived. By-product of a latest research has brought an actual LCD screen to the Contact Lenses. What that means is that all those SciFi movies that showed retina-based displays right on the eyes are coming to life. For now,…

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First Mind-controlled Bionic Leg [Human Cyborg]

Tarandeep Singh

Singularity - theoretical emergence of greater-than-human superintelligence through technological means. Singularity virtually means one day Humans would one day unite with the Machine. An early stage of the phenomena is often named as Cyborg. Cyborg is nothing but a human aided by machine, in order to become superhuman. Whether you’re ready or not, its here. First human Cyborg has arrived. A New technology has enabled a mechanical leg to be operated by human brain, using nerves, just like an actual leg and muscle would. Zac Vawter is that first lucky person to get…

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Google’s Neural Networks: Machine’s Brain-like Learning

Tarandeep Singh

We all know Google has been a leader of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence research. The observations are prevalent with Google Search Engine. Google Search is still the most popular and most powerful Search engine ever built, and probably best for decades to come. Google Search always returns the must accurate search result, and its like magic. The latest in news, Google has set a new landmark with software that learned how to recognize cats, people, and other things simply by watching YouTube videos. That technology, is designed on the…

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Hack Human Brain to Extract information

Tarandeep Singh

How many times have you been victimized by Inception? You might not even know but social hackers can extract a wide set of information from you. However, simple Hardware intended for controlling games can be utilized to Hack your Brain to reveal dirty little secrets. Watchout, scientists have discovered a way to mind-read personal secrets, such as bank PIN numbers and personal associations, using a cheap headset. Brain Hacking / Reading: What all can be extracted? This isn’t magic or a device from the Future, brain reading had been possible…

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DIY Build OpenSource Spectrometer for Cheap

Tarandeep Singh

Spectrometer is really scientist’s swiss knife when it comes to identifying unknown materials. A new kickstarter project assures to make Spectrometry cheap and accessible like Wikipedia to just anyone. They have come up with a kit, which you can make it at home for cheap. What is Spectrometer? Spectrometer basically identifies materials. Ina wider term, it is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically used in spectroscopic analysis to identify materials. What is this Open Spectrometer? What can it do?…

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SoundWave: Control PC with Kinect-like Gestures [Doppler Effect]

Tarandeep Singh

We love Gestures, don’t we? Whether its your multitouch screen or a Kinect gameplay, not having to make enough effort to get things done serves our taste buds. Microsoft Labs is betting on Kinect-like gestures everywhere. The new thing would be achieved without the complex Kinect hardware, a motion sensing gadget everyone was excited about since 2010. Kinect has been popular among Xbox users as well as Open source hackers who made DIY projects like no other gadget has seen before. Microsoft’s research team is now about to get official…

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LASER Cooling for Semiconductors [Optomechanics]

Tarandeep Singh

Can Energy falling on another kick the former out? Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have managed to successfully combine two different worlds: Quantum physics & Nano physics. Semiconductors are building blocks of Technology and gadgets and the limiting factor of Silicon chips has always been heat dissipation: More efficiently we can remove heat from semiconductor chips, higher clock they can run on. LASERs are here to save the future, as they pave way to building most effective, efficient means of cooling Semiconductors. How LASER Cooling works Ironically, cooling is…

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Ultrasound Surgery - Healing without Surgery, Pain

Tarandeep Singh

Human ability to see light & sense sound have been one of the best abilities. On one side we can hear and cherish music and on the other, we cherish voices of our loved ones. Sound can do one more great thing, it can heal various problems that were previously treated using surgeries only. Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of…

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Honda ASIMO Robots mimics Humans

Tarandeep Singh

Honda has been making these ASIMO robots for a long while now and everytime they come with a new version, its filled with surprises. We’ve already seen it dance, sing and read minds. The new ASIMO is faster, skinnier and more ergonomic than any Robot ever made. It can walk, run backward and forward, run on a single leg, twist and rip the the bottle caps and what not. In fact, Honda claims that its bot is now less “automated” than it is “autonomous” — all thanks to new behavior control technology that allows it to…

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Make any Surface TouchScreen

Tarandeep Singh

We’ve seen how you can use your hand as TouchScreen. However, with the hack finally being mastered with Kinect technology, you can make just any surface touch screen, no matter what. Microsoft researchers have come up with a way to make devices sensitive to touch input through fabric — for silencing a phone or even entering text without taking the device out of a pocket or bag. PocketTouch uses a custom sensor on the back of a smartphone that can detect multitouch gestures even through heavy fleece or a jacket…

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