Monday, July 25, 2011

GE announces 500 GB holographic disc writer that runs at Blue-Ray speed


  GE's technology research group has announced the development of an optical disc writer capable of writing 500 GB of data onto a disc the same physical size as a DVD, at roughly the same speed as Blue Ray technology. This comes two years after announcing the holographic technology that was used to first imprint the discs with 25 times as much data as a Blue Ray Disc can hold.


GE announces 500 GB holographic disc writer that runs at Blue-Ray speed

Monday, July 18, 2011

Soft, submersible memory device created...

A new soft and squishy digital memory device prototype can be bent, dropped, or even placed underwater without suffering any damage.

Developed by researchers at North Carolina State University, the device consists of four crossed metal strips made of a liquid alloy of gallium and indium and set on the sides of slabs of a water based gel. The alloy strips act as the electrodes, creating a oxidized, non-conductive skin when exposed to a positive charge and losing that skin when when exposed to a negative charge. The gel is biocompatible, and could be implanted to allow electronics to interface with biological systems.


Soft and Flexible Memory Device

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Powermat chargers

The Powermat is a wireless charger for hi tech gadgets. You simply place your gadget on the mat to charge it.
It uses magnetic induction energy rather than electricity to charge devices and it works just as fast or faster than standard power adaptors.
It can also charge multiple and different gadgets all at the same time. 


New Invention

New Technology

Wipro builds Private Cloud for OnStream

Wipro Technologies has successfully built a private cloud for OnStream Utility Metering Services Limited. OnStream provides gas and electricity metering solutions in United Kingdom. OnStream is part of National Grid Group, which is one of the largest energy delivery businesses in the world and the largest investor-owned utility in United Kingdom. Wipro which has a matured set of cloud offerings initiated the private cloud project for OnStream in October 2010.

“With the commencement of a smart metering roll out in the UK and the need for a flexible dual fuel smart metering offering, OnStream embarked on a transformational programme through 2010 and into 2011, designed to improve service quality, improve business efficiencies and deliver a step-change in customer experience which would be at par or better than offered by home-visit operations in other sectors.” said Declan McLaughlin, Head of Transformation at OnStream.

As a part of this programme, OnStream replaced its existing legacy IT infrastructure with a new service driven model using a private cloud approach. This approach aligned the IT architecture to be more flexible in functionality and configuration while at the same lowering operational cost and improving responsiveness.

“OnStream envisages that the Private Cloud based framework will drive consistency across IT environments so that OnStream can build on existing investments and skill sets. The private cloud based approach provided by Wipro will enable OnStream to tap and address opportunities in a market friendly manner and at a greatly altered cost structure”, added Declan McLaughlin.

Neeraj Jaitley, Vice President & Business Head - Cloud Services at Wipro Technologies, goes on to add that “Our engagement with OnStream covers design, build and implementation of a private cloud environment using Microsoft’s Private Cloud solution. This approach provided OnStream with an ability to harness the best-of-breed technologies across the various layers in a private cloud stack. OnStream will benefit hugely through this program and such an engagement is a reflection of Wipro’s ability to add value to our clients’ business through new technology paradigms such as cloud computing”.

This project will help OnStream seamlessly manage heterogeneous environments, standardize and automate data center processes to continue to optimize business efficiencies. The solution will also provide timely insights into key business applications that will help in delivering a new level of customer service management. This will lead to a common identity management platform that can seamlessly federate to public cloud in line with the business demands in future.


Wipro’s Infrastructure cloud offerings include an in-depth analysis of workloads through Cloud Inventory Analysis Tool, design and build of private cloud use cases like Development/Test as a service; Disaster Recovery and Backup as a service; Virtual & Hosted Desktop as a service including its recently launched WDaaS offering and Identity and access management on the cloud.
Wipro is an aggressive player in fast growing collaboration market through its Collaboration as a Service offering. Other cloud services include on-boarding of workloads to public cloud environments and integration between public-private environments to provide a hybrid cloud setup. Recently Wipro had launched Dynamically Adaptive Infrastructure (DAI), a public cloud model for its clients. Wipro leverages its Global Command Center (GCC) to provide a unified monitoring and management platform for private, public and hybrid cloud environments. Wipro has also offerings in other layers of cloud including Business Process as a Service (e.g. loan origination as a service), Software as a Service (e.g. Bank in a Box with leading software vendors, implementation partner to leading SaaS vendors) and Platform as a Service (e.g. Development & Deployment partner to leading cloud platforms).

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Facebook Adds Skype video chat feature......

Facebook adds vieo chat featureFacebook has announced a partnership with Skype to add video chat to the social networking site.
The move is likely to be seen as a shot across the bow of Google, which recently launched a Facebook rival, Google+, also featuring video calling.
This is not the first time Facebook and Skype have teamed up – they already share some instant messaging tools.
Skype is in the process of being bought by Microsoft, which is a major shareholder in Facebook.
The new video-call service was launched by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who also revealed that the site now had more than 750 million users.
However, he said that the total number of active users was no longer a useful measure of the site’s success.
Instead, the amount of sharing – of photographs, videos and web links – was a better indication of how people engaged with the site, explained Mr Zuckerberg.
At launch, Facebook’s video chat service will only be able to connect two users face-to-face, whereas Google’s system allows group video calls, known as Hangouts.

Gallery of Gadgets collected over 35 years

HTC Advantage X7501 Smartphone
HTC Advantage X7501 Smartphone
Over the past 30 years, designer, writer, and Microsoft researcher Bill Buxton has been collecting input and interactive devices whose design struck him as interesting, useful, or important.
In the process, he has assembled a good collection of the history of pen computing, pointing devices, touch technologies, watches, keyboards, mice, an electronic drum set, a 60-year-old transistor radio whose design inspired the iPod, a Nintendo Power Glove, several Etch-A-Sketches, and even the first so-called “smart” phone – controlled by a touch-screen – first shown in 1993, 14 years before smart phones exploded onto the scene, as well as an illustration of the nature of how new technologies emerge.
Part of the collection was first shown publicly at the Vancouver Art Gallery as part of the Massive Change Exhibition, curated by Bruce Mau, in 2004. Since then the collection has grown significantly, largely through the generous support of Microsoft Research.
This collection was exhibited at CHI 2011, and the exhibit was open to the public. Each device at the exhibit included a Microsoft Tag on its label, which enabled people to scan the tag on their mobile phone and go directly to that device’s detail page on the website to learn more.