On March 27, 2010 the whole world will come together and turn off the lights for an hour to express solidarity and commitment towards Mother Earth. The Earth Hour, an initiative by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is a reminder to all global citizens of the challenges posed by climate change. The Earth hour is symbolic [...]
Archive for Technology
20
Aug
2010
The Earth hour
Tags: challenges, climate change, earthhour, energy saving tips, global citizens, initiative, long break, mother earth, pledge, printers, reminder, scanners, solidarity, speakers, substantial steps, sustainable future, world wildlife fund, world wildlife fund wwf
09
Aug
2010
Invisibility Cloaks May be Fashion of the Future
Tags: carpet, controlled environments, ergin, germany, institute of technology, invisibility cloak, karlsruhe, light source, principle, realm of science, science fiction and fantasy, scientists, screens, spectrums, stealth technology
“Deployable” invisibility screens have been around for some time, able to make an object invisible from one direction, but these objects have extremely limited applications, considering they only work in theory in extremely controlled environments. It seemed for a while the world of ground stealth technology would have to remain in the realm of science [...]
05
Aug
2010
Sweet Animals Examined the Technology
Tags: Animals, animals examined the technology, computers, examined the technology, laptops, sweet animals
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29
Jul
2010
Where Is Buran Nowadays?
Tags: buran, cancellation, collapse, hangar, lonely place, photo session, shuttle program, space flight
The Buran completed one unnamed space flight in 1988 before the cancellation of the Soviet shuttle program in 1993. The Buran was subsequently destroyed by a hangar collapse in 2002. Some people asked, what happened to the Buran afterwards? Here is a photo session from Ukrainian site about what has become now of Buran. It [...]
27
Jul
2010
A Brief History of the Computer
Tags: air force, blockhouse, brief history of the computer, computer eniac, electronic computer, electronic numerical integrator, electronic numerical integrator and computer, general purpose, graphical displays, ground environment, history of the computer, modems, radar data, real time, sage, tubes, university of pennsylvania, world war ii
ENIAC, 1946 Regarded as the first general purpose electronic computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was initially commissioned for the use in World War II, but not completed until one year after the war had ended . Installed at the University of Pennsylvania, its 40 separate eight-foot-high racks and 18,000 tubes were intended [...]
26
Jul
2010
NASA’s Hyperwall
Tags: ames research, black widow, giant games, haze, hyperwall, light years, massive data sets, milky way, modern warfare, multitude, nasa, national disaster, nebula, processing units, processor cores, specks, spitzer space telescope, star clusters, ten thousand, teraflops
Hyperwall-2 is spread across 128 monitors and is used for a multitude of purposes such as displaying images from Nasa’s Spitzer Space Telescope (as shown above) You may think you’ve got a pretty good widescreen set-up at home, but nothing comes close to Nasa’s hyperwall-2. Used for a multitude of purposes, from weather and national [...]
15
Jul
2010
World’s Longest Under sea Tunnel – Seikan tunnel
Tags: anticline, aomori prefecture, gotthard base tunnel, honshu, initial surveys, japanese island, neogene period, railway company, railway tunnel, road tunnel, sedimentary rock, sedimentary rocks, seikan tunnel, tertiary period, tsugaru strait, twenty five years, undersea tunnel, volcanic geology, volcanic rock, volcanic rocks
The Seikan Tunnel is a 53.85 km (33.46 mi) railway tunnel from Japan, with a 23.3 kilometer (14.5 mi) long portion under the seabed. Track level is about 140 meter (460 ft) below seabed and 240 meter (790 ft) below sea level. It is the longest undersea tunnel in the world, although the Channel Tunnel [...]
14
Jul
2010
Simple Solutions for Complex Problems
Tags: assembly line, astronauts, c solution, case 2, delivery department, electric fan, empty boxes, japanese management, no doubt, parents, pencil case, post haste, problem solution, rank and file, ray machine, simple solutions, soapbox, whoopee, x ray, x rays
The Difference between FOCUSING on PROBLEMS and FOCUSING on SOLUTIONS Case # 1 : When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens would not work at zero gravity (ink will not flow down to the writing surface). Solution # 1 : To solve this problem, it took them [...]
11
Jul
2010
School bus
SCHOOL BUS IN JAPAN SCHOOL BUS IN INDIA So why is it that when you have a technical problem with your computer, your call ends up in India! Sphere: Related Content
