Kineticel-Human Battery Charger

Search for unconventional sources of power generation continues. Efforts are being made everyday to add more productivity to the day to day things we do in home. Keeping these thoughts in Kineticel was featured in the Metropolis Magazine. Its concept submitted by Yael Miller describing it as Kinetic Energy harnessing battery charger.

Looks like a comfortable concept to me. I will love to spend some time on this , listening to some enchanting music. Ending up fresh, relaxed and more importantly with charged up batteries at my disposal.

Will be my 2cents for fighting global warming.

via Gizmodo

Cool your laptop on docking station

This Refrigerated Docking Station was created through a joint effort between Embraco and Intel. It uses the smallest miniature compressor available to cool air before it flows into the bottom of the laptop. The cooler can reduce the temperature of a laptop by 41%.

This will be a boon for people who want to do overclocking in their laptops and wants to take out maximum performance from their CPU without frying it.

via Slashgear and Engadget

Firefox Campus Edition

Firefox Campus Edition, is a special edition of Firefox designed specifically for students. The Campus Edition bundles the latest version of Firefox with three great add-ons: FoxyTunes, Zotero, and StumbleUpon.

More info about addons:

FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more right from your favorite browser.

StumbleUpon lets you channel surf the Internet to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests.

Zotero helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work – in Firefox itself.

via : Firefox Blog

Emoticon 25 years old

Emoticon 25 anniversary was celebrated on 19 Sept 07, it was used for the first time in 1982 by Scott Fahlman a Carnegie Mellon professor on a school bulliten board system.
Along with emoticon anniversary came a surprise that smiley just didn't happen accidently it was actually proposed by Scott Fahlman to display emotions in comments.

Here is the picture which shows the proposition and first use of smiley

Messgage by smiley inventor : History of smiley

Orkut doubles photo space

Social networking site recently doubled the number of available photos you can upload . This came few weeks after orkut revamping was done. Earlier the number of pics that can be uploaded were 12, now as said this being doubled means more experience sharing through pics. This brings a happy surprise with orkut users who always wanted some more space to display pearls from their huge piles of pics.

via : Orkut blog

Google Phone Concepts

Searching through the net about the proposed or speculated Google Phone, I found out quite number of concept designs floating around. Here is sneak peak on all.

Check out Google's latest ideas

Google is always experimenting with new features aimed at improving the search experience. Take them for a spin.

Timeline and map views







See results on a timeline or map. With the timeline and map views, Google’s technology extracts key dates and locations from select search results so you can view the information in a different dimension. Timeline and map views work best for searches related to people, companies, events and places.



Get started with one of these queries :


View on time line : nanotechnology

View On Map : pgatours


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Keyboard shortcuts

Navigate search results quickly and easily, minimizing use of your mouse.

Get started with this query: rattlesnake

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Left-hand search navigation

Search deeper in a particular type of content—patents, products or news, for example. Google searches across all kinds of content, then ranks results by relevance.If you want to see additional results of a particular content type, just click a link in the left-hand search navigation.You can also refine your results by clicking on related search terms.

Get started with one of these queries: ipod, beach, airplanes

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Right-hand contextual search navigation




Similar to the left-hand search navigation, right-hand contextual search navigation allows you to search deeper in a particular type of content or to search related terms—but from the right side of the page.

Get started with one of these queries: downtown los angeles, python, dancing


Courtesy : Google Experimental Labs

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Google + Apple = ??
Came across a very interesting article about the recent business ties between Apple and Google on Forbes. It left me thinking that what will happen if they actually join together hands to make something big, will it spell doom for Microsoft which is already facing so much competition from all sides or it will make the Tech life of people more advance or both.
Look at the quote from the site
” But Schmidt has a habit of raising expectations of some kind of collaboration with blog-stoking quotes like, “Google and Apple are doing more and more things together through the normal course of communications. … We have similar goals and similar competitors.” “
Few snippets from the article whic gave a whole new meaning to the Apple + Google:

Goople TV
Take Apple TV, add YouTube clips. What do you get? Perhaps the start of something interesting.

WiFi iPod and Goople Wireless

Consumers want wi-fi enabled iPods so they can swap songs and browse the Web. But adding wi-fi is expensive, and there isn’t always a reliable signal to be found. That’s where Google could step in.

Goople Photo and Video Partnerships

Apple has a slew of programs that let users show off their creative work, like iPhoto and iMovie. Apple could integrate automatic uploading features into these products that bring the content directly to Google’s Picasa and YouTube sites. The two companies could share any ad revenues.

Goople Gaming

Apple’s recent scouting for game-making talent has us thinking that the company intends to make a bit of a portable console out of the iPhone (or turn something else, like Apple TV, into a gaming machine). Google is interested in gaming as well–last month it bought AdScape, a firm that delivers ads into video games

Goople Desktop Search

Goople Tourism

Goople Store

A Google corner in the Apple retail store. A Google rep could set up shop and give product demos, teaching Mac users (and would-be Mac users–those stores get tons of foot traffic) how to get the most of Google’s dozens of features.

Whacky right??? lets how much of this comes into reality or jus remains a fiction.

For the complete story please visit : Forbes