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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Health Technology Devices – Modwells..


Personal modules for wellness
The modwells system delivers a consumer-focused healthcare experience integrated into your daily life. It improves your physical and emotional health, and enhances your quality of life. The system respects the unique health and wellbeing needs of each user.  Modwells accommodates those needs through a customizable solution that blurs the line between traditional medical products and consumer products..



Bracelet is a Personal Life Manager

It seems like most of us are short on time these days, despite having a house full of gadgets to take care of many of our everyday tasks. That smart phone might help you keep track of appointments at first, but it can only do so much to actually make your life easier. This conceptual product is described as a “life support” device, meant to take care of remembering all of those little things you might otherwise space off and forget.  The Mercator is part personal data assistant, part health monitor, part GPS, part shopping assistant, and all must-have cutting-edge technology. New nanotechnology and a tiny AMD processor chip make this functional but stylish piece come together in a way that makes us want one right now.
Far from being just a wrist-mounted PDA, the Mercator – designed by Chinese UI designer Kingyo -A actually uses holographic imaging to display the information you need to keep your life in order. Appointment details, information about your current vital signs, and even your grocery shopping list pop right up in front of you to keep you on track no matter where you are. The device can tell what type of store you’re shopping in (presumably with some related piece of infrastructure that’s present in the store) and presents you with recommendations and reminders based on your buying patterns and preferences.





Radiation detecting bracelet

Radiations can have a harmful effect on pregnant women. Care Bracelet, keeping the dangerous results of radiations in mind. Have we ever thought while styling or drying our hair that what potential harm does a hairdryer comes wrapped in? Or what kind of radiations does a power distributor cabinet let off or the dangers of walking under a high power line have? Care Bracelet will warn you against all such situations and keep the fetus in a healthy state. So, pregnant women can always stay in a safe environment by wearing a trendy bracelet, which will warn them against all potential dangers that a particular area comes injected with.
The elegant bracelet has been fitted with radiation detecting chip, micro motor and thermal energy conversion module. Care can change color and also vibrates when it detects that the radiation levels are quite high. The color will swap from green to pink and the vibrations will be a symbol to leave that particular area as soon as possible. Once the wearer is in a safe radiation zone, the color will again change to green.






Designer Gang Wang

Solar cellphone charging

Mobius case for the iPhone 4 allows you charge up your phone by using the sun, without having to carry around an external charger.  Mobius is a huge improvement over previous solar chargers that relied mostly on clunky external designs with limited mobility. Mobius users simply place the case in the sun and charging starts immediately. The pack can also be detached and charged separately, the energy stored for when you need it. An LED readout lets users know how much energy remains, and the pack is equipped with a slide bar to stop charging and save energy. For skeptics afraid of rainy days, Mobius can also be charged via a convenient USB port.

A full charge effectively doubles your battery life with an additional five hours of talk time, or eight hours of either 3G internet or video playback. If you don’t have time for a long charge, one hour in the sun will get you 25 minutes of talk time. The hard plastic case feels solid and the battery pack has a comfortable ergonomic design. It’s also seductively slim and lightweight, two advantages that indicate a graceful future for solar power given its relatively cumbersome origins.



Water less cleaning



It turns out that not always need water to wash the dishes. And not just wash and remove food debris in the most inaccessible places. Such a method and a device are. A waterless cleaning solution that uses magnetic microwaves to heat dipole molecules of food residue stuck on dishes. As the spinning head and flexible bristles remove the residue only these molecules are heated, so the dish stays cold and can be safely handled while cleaning..

Opalum Move - Speakers you cannot resist

In collaboration with the brand "Opalum", industrial designer came up with this concept "Opalum speaker move". This project explores how we behave in relation to the music and sound within our own home. In our era, the Internet and digital media changed the way we listen to music, so you need to develop a product that supports the new way we consume music. The result is a portable speaker that handles all your audio needs.


Hardware keylogger

If you visit a cyber cafe and find find any black pin attached to your CPU as shown in the picture, kindly do not use that system. This pin is actually a connection which save all your data you enter in the system.
Thus it is a risk to your privacy over net. Risk to passwords, banking or any data you entered.
share this to all your friends...
 

Future pens

Another kind of digital tools that would be used for drawing in the near future. The Chromo-pen concept makes choosing colors for matte-painting a cinch. The user simply points and shoots the Chromo-pen’s built-in camera to catch colors directly from the scene they’re painting, simultaneously broadening their understanding of color tones. It turns out great...




Thursday, October 6, 2011

3 Scientific reasons for falling in love

 
Stage 1: Lust
This is the first stage of love and is driven by the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen – in both men and women. 


Stage 2: Attraction
This is the amazing time when you are truly love-struck and can think of little else. Scientists think that three main neurotransmitters are involved in this stage; adrenaline, dopamine and serotonin.

Adrenaline
The initial stages of falling for someone activates your stress response, increasing your blood levels of adrenalin and cortisol. This has the charming effect that when you unexpectedly bump into your new love, you start to sweat, your heart races and your mouth goes dry.

Dopamine
Helen Fisher asked newly ‘love struck’ couples to have their brains examined and discovered they have high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine. This chemical stimulates ‘desire and reward’ by triggering an intense rush of pleasure. It has the same effect on the brain as taking cocaine!

Fisher suggests “couples often show the signs of surging dopamine: increased energy, less need for sleep or food, focused attention and exquisite delight in smallest details of this novel relationship” . 

Serotonin
And finally, serotonin. One of love's most important chemicals that may explain why when you’re falling in love, your new lover keeps popping into your thoughts.
 Does love change the way you think?
A landmark experiment in Pisa, Italy showed that early love (the attraction phase) really changes the way you think.

Dr.Donatella Marazziti, a psychiatrist at the University of Pisa advertised for twenty couples who'd been madly in love for less than six months. She wanted to see if the brain mechanisms that cause you to constantly think about your lover, were related to the brain mechanisms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
By analysing blood samples from the lovers, Dr Marazitti discovered that serotonin levels of new lovers were equivalent to the low serotonin levels of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder patients.

Love needs to be blind
Newly smitten lovers often idealise their partner, magnifying their virtues and explaining away their flaws says Ellen Berscheid, a leading researcher on the psychology of love.

New couples also exalt the relationship itself. “It's very common to think they have a relationship that's closer and more special than anyone else's”. Psychologists think we need this rose-tinted view. It makes us want to stay together to enter the next stage of love – attachment.

Stage 3: Attachment
Attachment is the bond that keeps couples together long enough for them to have and raise children. Scientists think there might be two major hormones involved in this feeling of attachment; oxytocin and vasopressin.

Oxytocin - The cuddle hormone

Oxytocin is a powerful hormone released by men and women during orgasm.
It probably deepens the feelings of attachment and makes couples feel much closer to one another after they have had sex. The theory goes that the more sex a couple has, the deeper their bond becomes.

Oxytocin also seems to help cement the strong bond between mum and baby and is released during childbirth. It is also responsible for a mum’s breast automatically releasing milk at the mere sight or sound of her young baby.

Diane Witt, assistant professor of psychology from New York has showed that if you block the natural release of oxytocin in sheep and rats, they reject their own young.

Conversely, injecting oxytocin into female rats who’ve never had sex, caused them to fawn over another female’s young, nuzzling the pups and protecting them as if they were their own.

Vasopressin
Vasopressin is another important hormone in the long-term commitment stage and is released after sex.

Vasopressin (also called anti-diuretic hormone) works with your kidneys to control thirst. Its potential role in long-term relationships was discovered when scientists looked at the prairie vole.

Prairie voles indulge in far more sex than is strictly necessary for the purposes of reproduction. They also – like humans - form fairly stable pair-bonds.

When male prairie voles were given a drug that suppresses the effect of vasopressin, the bond with their partner deteriorated immediately as they lost their devotion and failed to protect their partner from new suitors. 

And finally … how to fall in love
  • Find a complete stranger.
  • Reveal to each other intimate details about your lives for half an hour.
  • Then, stare deeply into each other’s eyes without talking for four minutes.

York psychologist, Professor Arthur Arun, has been studying why people fall in love.
He asked his subjects to carry out the above 3 steps and found that many of his couples felt deeply attracted after the 34 minute experiment. Two of his subjects later got married.


Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Rhomobile Ipad Example- You Tube Client - From Ruby

We will create a Rhomobile ipad application which will search youtube videos and will playback this videos. It is just an example and our purpose is to explore Rhomobile AsyncHttp methods. We will connect to You tube search API. 



Step 1.) Create Rhodes application :
              rhogen app youtube_client
   
Step 2.)  Go to application directery:
              cd youtube_client/

Step 3.)  Create a controller Youtube

Step 4.) Create action search and search_result in youtube_controller.rb



   def search

   end

    def search_result
        you_tube_url = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=" + @params['name'] + "&max-results=5&v=2&alt=jsonc"
        @youtubes= Rho::AsyncHttp.get(
                                       :url => you_tube_url
                                       )["body"]["data"]["items"]
    end

 We are using AsyncHttp to call You Tube search API. And @params['name'] contain the search term.

5.) Create search.erb 


<div data-role="page">


  <div data-role="header" data-position="inline">
    <h1>Search You tube</h1>
    
  </div>


  <div data-role="content">
    <form method="POST" action="<%= url_for :action => :search_result %>">    
          <div data-role="fieldcontain">
            <label for="name" class="fieldLabel">Name</label>
            <input type="text" id="youtube[name]" name="name" />
          </div>
      
      <input type="submit" value="Update"/>
    </form>
  </div>
 
 
6.) Create search_result.erb and add following code:


<div data-role="page" data-add-back-btn="false">


  <div data-role="header" data-position="inline">
    <h1>Search result</h1>
  </div>


  <div data-role="content">
    <ul data-role="listview">
      
         <% @youtubes.each do |youtube| %>
        <li>
      <center>
            <span class="title">
<%= youtube["title"] %></span><br>
<iframe width="400" height="400" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/<%= youtube["id"]%>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center>
<span class="disclosure_indicator"></span>
      
        </li>
    
    <% end %>      
    </ul>
  </div>


</div>



7.) Link the search.erb to home page(by default it is index.erb in app folder.

8.) If you creating it for ipad add following line in build.yml under iphone.
      emulatortarget: ipad
If you creating this app for iphone or Android you can skip this step.

You can Download this code from : https://github.com/nalwayaabhishek/YouTubeClient 

Let Fitness Change Your Life- From TONY HORTON

For many of us, it’s befuddling to figure out how to improve our lives. Here’s my shot at it.

When you decide to eat right and exercise regularly, the person you become has it much easier. Life isn’t as complicated, and more opportunities come your way. This simple philosophy changed my life. I used to have so many problems when I was younger. Everything was difficult. So much drama and conflict. I was lazy, tired and overwhelmed much of the time. Life was a struggle because I couldn’t deal with reality. Not in a million years would I have equated a poor diet and lack of physical activity as the bane of my existence.
In my late twenties and early thirties, I began to eat better and workout more regularly. Suddenly, new opportunities came my way, my confidence improved and the drama began to fade. At that time, I would have never thought life outside of my workouts was improving just because of my lifestyle choices. I didn’t have the knowledge to put two and two together. I chalked it up to luck, nothing more. There were times in those days when I’d get lazy, eat garbage food and blow off my workouts — and sure enough, life got complicated again.
When my opportunities in the fitness industry started to explode, my eating habits and workouts were fairly consistent. When I was working on fitness programs for Beachbody in the late nineties, it was incredibly challenging but I never thought for a second that I wasn’t ready or capable. It wasn’t a right-place-at-the-right-time kind of luck that created these opportunities. It was an opportunity-meeting-readiness kind of luck. Because of my workouts and clean diet, I had the energy and enthusiasm to create something that could change millions of people’s lives. I finally had a clear understanding that my regular exercise and healthy eating habits had everything to do with my triumphs.
The more consistent I was with workouts and diet, the more opportunities came my way. As a boy I ate too much junk and, outside of sports, never exercised. As a result, my life was a mess. I struggled because I didn’t have the brain power of a person who was firing on all cylinders. During my sometimes-on-sometimes-off phase I suffered from what I call “fitness bipolar disorder.” Lack of consistency didn’t allow me to reap the life-altering benefits of a true health and wellness lifestyle. In the last decade I have learned how daily whole foods and near-daily exercise will provide opportunities for a better life.
Of course, I’m not alone in this way of thinking. Since my revelation, books such as John Ratey’s “Spark,” as well as “Younger Next Year” by Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge have come along and helped cement my philosophy.
I’m telling you this because I want you to realize that life can be incredible — not through roll-of-the-dice luck, money, tutelage, education or status. I know plenty of very smart people with lots of money and most of them are miserable. Joy, happiness, opportunities, success and the life you want comes from making “the change” to a lifestyle that involves taking care of yourself. What seems hard as hell at first will turn your life into a wonderful world of endless experiences, purpose, plenty of opportunities and the vim and vigor to enjoy life for the rest of your life. The issues and drama of the past will fade because you had the courage to make consistent fitness and healthy food a priority.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Why do we love food rich in fats?

We love fat, and there’s good reason why.
Scientists are beginning to understand the the ways in which our bodies react biochemically to fat, and it may lead to new ways to curb our addictions to unhealthy foods.
In a new study, published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, California researchers have discovered that receptors in our mouths, upon coming into contact with fat, triggering a powerful addiction-type mechanism in our guts.
Essentially it activates cannabis-like compounds in our body. Fat, therefore, makes us happy and we want more.


Dr. Arya Sharma, a Canadian obesity researcher, describes the study :

This study shows that oral sensing of fat sends a signal to the brain, which in turn sends a signal to the gut leading to formation of endocannabinoids, which in turn re-enforce fat eating.
This is probably why, just eating one piece of fatty food (say one potato chip or French fry) is so hard. Simply eating one makes you want to continue eating till the whole bag or plate is empty.
Unfortunately, the drug rimonabant, used to effectively block this effect in this study, is no longer available for obesity management (it was withdrawn due to its negative impact on mood), but it may well be that other CB-1 inhibitors that do not enter the brain may prove to be effective to reduce fat intake.

Perhaps drug researchers can identify CB-1 inhibitors like rimonabant that do not have similarly bad side effects.
For now your best bet to combat this mechanism is some sort of portion control: Put some chips in a bowl, and then put the bag away, or likewise don’t eat from the carton of ice cream but instead scoop some out.

NASA Discovers Alien Life?

NASA scientist Richard B. Hoover claims he’s found alien life. Within nine extremely rare meteorites called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites, he claims to have discovered the fossils of worm-like bacteria that is both similar to and nothing like what exists on our planet.
The findings were published late Friday, March 4th in the Journal of Cosmology. Dr. Hoover has been very open with his findings--he asked 100 experts to begin critiquing his work prior to its publication.

The scientific community has been stirred up by the findings. Critics claim that this is similar to Dr. Hoover’s previous claims of finding extraterrestrial life in meteorites, which was not accepted by mainstream science. The possibility of the bacteria being terrestrial and mistaken for alien has been put on the table by quite a few scientists.
Other scientists refute Dr. Hoover’s claims based on the judgment of the Journal of Cosmology, claiming it has promoted panspermia, “the hypothesis that life exists throughout the universe, and is distributed through ‘seeds’ carried on meteorites and the like.” Biologist P.Z. Myer castigated the Journal as “the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics.”

But considering alien life itself is pretty far out, it can only be hoped that the scientific community will seriously consider these findings. NASA has distanced itself, and some scientists refuse to even read the article.

Should the findings hold up against scrutiny, we can finally say it: we are not alone. And considering that the bacteria found is similar to that on earth, we may even be ordinary.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Iphone 5 (video) the reality


Recently a video has been shown on you tube that shows a lot of unbelievable feature like its keyboard. Now we all want to know is it real of its just a fake video. Now here is the reality we have.


The video, titled "iPhone 5 Concept Features", has gone viral on YouTube with more than 5 million views.
Aatma Studio's Prashanth Shantharam said many of the comments left underneath seemed to be confused.
"I'm monitoring the comments every hour or so. A lot of people say it's fake — but we clearly mention that it's a concept phone," he told news.com.au.
"(Other people) think this could be the real life phone, and they're sort of debating whether it is real or fake."
The video shows a finger-nail thin handset with futuristic features including a laser keyboard and holographic projection — things which are definitely not expected to come with the real-life iPhone 5.
"We're pretty sure that the iPhone 5 which will come out in October will not have all these features," said Mr Shantharam.
"But this is something that we want to see in the future of any smartphone really — not just the iPhone."
Mr Shantharam said that while the features in his studio's video might look futuristic, they were actually feasible.
"I'm not sure about the timeframe, but it's definitely in the realm of possibility, he said.
"The laser keyboards have been used before. Even IBM did this back in 1992, but it hasn't gone mainstream and mass-market.
"It's in the realms of possibility though. It's up to the companies to incorporate and innovate and try to include these on their smartphones."
Aatma Studio is a three-person start-up in San Francisco, specialising in visual effects and 3D animation.

Awesome Editing

Awesome work by some guys on a extremely good song "TERI MERI" a must see video for everyone

Life history of Steve Jobs