Hydrogen Enegery in your pocket now
Remember those sci-fi movies and TV series where people have endless amount of energy and that too bundled in a small package. I was thinking if I was ever able to see anything of that kind in my life. Horizon has developed a pocket sized fuel cell power plant. Its called Minipack. Minipack can power up/charge mobile, mp3 players, GPS devices and other small consumer electronics which does not take more than 1.5 to 2W power. As per the press release you would need to replace 1 Horizon Fuel Cell compared to 10000 AAA alkaline batteries. This is great news. Check out the press release here and watch the working demo video.
Indian Currency gets an Identity
India unveiled on Thursday what it hopes to be a globally recognized sign for its currency, just like the dollar and its symbol $. The rupee is currently referred to by abbreviations like Rs, Re or INR. The new symbol was created by a post-graduate student of Indian Institute of Technology,Uday Kumar. He beat 3000 other entries to win the cash prize of 250,000 rupees ($7,388).
So I joined Folding@Home
Hmm.. Those who know me would understand what a hmm means. Anyways, I came across the Stanford website today while researching about PS3 today. I was looking for some FAQs about PS3 and read about Folding@Home. I had read about it in the past as well but never tried to digg into that.
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