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POWER DRESSING (17 May 12:00) |
| Ray Winton has no medical degree nor any experience in the medical field, but the US-based electrical engineering researcher’s invention may lead to the next generation of ‘smart’ adhe... |
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Human eyes ‘equipped to see the future’ (17 May 12:00) |
| Washington: A new study by US scientists suggests that the human visual system is equipped with the ability to foresee the future. Mark Changizi, an assistant professor at the Rensselaer Pol... |
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‘$100 laptop’ teams up with Microsoft (17 May 12:00) |
| Boston: The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is about to find out whether Microsoft is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive laptops to schoolchildren. Microsoft and the l... |
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UP, UP, AND AWAY (16 May 12:00) |
| Swiss pilot Yves Rossy strapped on a jet-powered wing and leaped from a plane on Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high a... |
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New antennae may signal a ‘new wave’ in health care (16 May 12:00) |
| Soon, doctors will be able to monitor illnesses and injuries remotely through compact, wireless and power-efficient body sensors, thanks to UK-based scientists at Queen’s University Belfas... |
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womeninworldhistory (16 May 12:00) |
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Todays resource, www.womeninworldhistory.com, seeks to provide information on history, and how the fairer sex has had an impact on it. The site ta... |
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Playing for a smart Web (15 May 12:00) |
| Researchers at US-based Carnegie Mellon University launched a new Web site – www.gwap.com – on Wednesday, which is made up of five simple games that are each designed to help computers w... |
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‘Twitters’ report China quake first (15 May 12:00) |
| San Francisco: The world had real-time news about China’s massive earthquake as victims dashed out “twitter” text messages while it took place. As the earth shook with tragic consequen... |
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Cancer catcher (14 May 12:00) |
| Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have developed a chip that can save lives by diagnosing certain cancers even before patients become symptomatic.A t... |
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New software gives free tours of space (14 May 12:00) |
| Seattle: Any Star Trek fan knows that space travel is not always easy, but Microsoft Corp wants to make travelling the ‘final frontier’ as simple as turning on your computer. The world... |
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Scientists develop anti-scar bandage (14 May 12:00) |
| London: US Scientists from Stanford University Medical Centre have developed a bandage that could prevent formation of scars on skin. Keloid scars are the red lesions that form after surger... |
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Soon, self-cleaning fabrics to digest stains immediately (14 May 12:00) |
| London: You may soon be able to rid yourself from the tedious job of cleaning clothes, thanks to scientists who are developing a coating of ‘live’ enzymes that would make clothes digest ... |
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www.godchecker.com (14 May 12:00) |
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Todays site is a storehouse of information for those interested in Gods. The site neatly categorises them according to their regions and/or civili... |
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Getting CoSy with robots (13 May 12:00) |
| European researchers are making progress on piecing together a new generation of machines that are more aware of their environment and better able to interact with humans.While building robo... |
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Live Messenger adds Web video clips to chatting... (13 May 12:00) |
| London: Microsoft Corp has launched a new online service in 20 countries which will allow users to watch video clips at the same time as a network of friends and chat via Windows Live Messen... |
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Search online in spoken English (13 May 12:00) |
| San Francisco: Powerset – a Silicon Valley start-up – on Sunday unveiled tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, marking the first step of its... |
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www.xsketch.com (13 May 12:00) |
| Fans of the party game pictionary are bound to love todays site. XSketch takes pictionary online by putting it into a multiplayer setting. The rules remai... |
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GRAND SLAM (12 May 12:00) |
| Within a week of its release, the latest iteration of the infamous Grand Theft Auto gangland series – which pioneered the free-roaming and exploratory ‘sandbox’ genre of video games ... |
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Wind-powered robotic boat set to cross ocean (12 May 12:00) |
| An unmanned automated boat, known as ‘Pinta the robot’, is undergoing final preparations before setting sail, in the hope of becoming the first robot to cross an ocean using the power of... |
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notalwaysright.com (12 May 12:00) |
| Here’s a peek into the life of the service sector. The title of today’s Web site leaves no need for an explanation: ‘The customer is not always right’. That’s right, this site is ... |
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Go ahead, touch it (11 May 12:00) |
| If you’re even moderately techno-biased, you will have had – at some point – a pang of phone-envy during your daily commute by public transport. The range of shapes, sizes and price po... |
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A nice touch (11 May 12:00) |
| With the popularity of the iPhone, it was only a matter of time before Apple made a similar-looking iPod. And just like the iPhone, the iPod touch is a drool-worthy, shiny treat. The first t... |
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Gaming for Nobel (10 May 12:00) |
| Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. Now, US researchers at the University of Washington (UW)... |
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Eat like cavemen for a healthier life (10 May 12:00) |
| Eating the basic “caveman diet” of berries, nuts, lean meat and fish significantly lowers the chance of suffering a heart attack or stroke, says a new study. Researchers at the Karolins... |
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‘Girls aloud’ computer virus is worst outbreak in three years: experts (10 May 12:00) |
| An anti-virus firm has warned that the name of the Brit-nominated British group ‘Girls Aloud’ is being misused by some cyber-criminals to spread a new computer virus, which can scan a ha... |
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chainreading.com (10 May 12:00) |
| For those with a voracious appetite for reading, today’s site is a must-see. At Chain Reading, you can keep a track of your reading activities, and get to learn about new books. It’s si... |
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POWER-PLAYING (09 May 12:00) |
| A team of Brigham Young University (BYU) students have engineered a merry-go-round capable of turning children’s play into electricity. The students’ prototype merry-go-round uses a dire... |
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Free, email-based ‘RoboBraille’ helps the blind to read (09 May 12:00) |
| A free, email-based service that translates text into Braille and audio recordings is helping bridge the information gap for blind and visually impaired people, giving them quick and easy ac... |
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Hackers’ online mischief leads to epileptic seizures (09 May 12:00) |
| Computer attacks typically don’t inflict physical pain on their victims. But in a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the... |
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Tumour-nators (08 May 12:00) |
| Scientists in the US have developed ‘nanoworms’ that can cruise through the bloodstream and – like tiny, anti-cancer missiles – home in on tumours. The joint research – published ... |
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Inching closer to autonomous robot surgeries (08 May 12:00) |
| Engineers at US’ Duke University are getting closer to the day when robots will perform surgery on patients in dangerous situations or in remote locations, such as on the battlefield or in... |
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Earth may have had more than one moon (08 May 12:00) |
| A new model developed by US scientists has suggested that the ancient catastrophe that led to the creation of the moon may have produced additional satellites that lingered in Earth’s skie... |
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Cybershot DSC-H50 (08 May 12:00) |
| Hiroko Nakamura displays Sony’s new high-zoom digital camera ‘Cybershot DSC-H50’, in Tokyo on Wednesday. The 9.1-megapixel device boasts of a 30x optical zoom lens and 3-inch LCD scree... |
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www.funtrivia.com (07 May 12:00) |
| Here are some cool questions for trivia buffs: Which famous actor started off as a child star in Steven Spielberg’s ET? Who is the youngest Indian to captain the country’s test cricket s... |
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Sony Cyber-shot DSC - H10 (07 May 12:00) |
| Sony recently launched its new 8-megapixel digital camera, the Cyber-shot DSC-H10 that sports a powerful Carl Zeiss 10x optical zoom lens, coupled with a long-range flash. The camera also in... |
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City boffins develop low-cost device to detect heart attacks (06 May 12:00) |
| Mumbai: City scientists have developed ‘iSens’ – a low-cost biosensor which they say detects heart attacks well in advance. Developed at IIT Mumbai’s Centre for Excellence of Nanoel... |
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Future of war: Flying saucers and tiny helicopters (06 May 12:00) |
| London: Emotion-detecting robot cars will face off against eavesdropping flying saucers in the English countryside later this year, as scientists and school children compete with their desig... |
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www.freegamepick.com (06 May 12:00) |
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Todays resource, www.freegamepick.com, has four words that will bring a smile to any gamers face: Free and fully downloadable. The site has a larg... |
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All smoke, no fire (05 May 12:00) |
| Prologue (GT5P) launches to a smooth and jazzy piano riff, instead of a Linkin’ Park blast or some other loudness that most racing games sport. This grown-man approach to gaming continues ... |
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Flvto.com (05 May 12:00) |
| Found a singer on YouTube that you liked, and wanted to extract the song? Well, today’s resource lets you do just that. Simply copy-paste the YouTube link – or upload any FLV file you ha... |
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Robots of the wild (04 May 12:00) |
| One gray squirrel, its bushy tail twitching, barked a warning as another scrounged for food nearby. It was an ordinary spring day at the US-based Hampshire College, except that the rodent is... |
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Bio-inspired micro robots could one day monitor terrorists (04 May 12:00) |
| Washington: A new scientific project aims to design teams of bio-inspired micro robots that could one day monitor terrorists, or search for victims at disaster sites. “Minority Report was... |
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www.bookyards.com (04 May 12:00) |
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Todays resource is a treasure trove for the bookworm. BookYards.com was created with the aim of being the library to the world. The Web portal in... |
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Spec-tacular (03 May 12:00) |
| Sometimes, to diagnose illnesses such as schizophrenia and vertigo, or even reading and writing deficits, doctors need to take recourse to electro-oculography (EOG): A technique in which ey... |
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Scientists develop McSleepy, a robotic anaesthetist (03 May 12:00) |
| A team of Canadian researchers at McGill University have developed the world’s first totally automated anaesthesia system, nicknamed ‘McSleepy’. The new system administers drugs for g... |
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bloxtr.com (03 May 12:00) |
| Tired of lugging that heavy laptop around? Today’s Web site lets you take your computing online, and access it from anywhere. Bloxtr is completely free, and offers a familiar Windows-like ... |
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Lasting memories (02 May 12:00) |
| For nearly 40 years, scientists have speculated that basic electrical circuits have a natural ability to remember things even when the power is switched off. They just couldn’t find it. No... |
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Scientists speed up disease fighters (02 May 12:00) |
| Chicago: US researchers have developed a new process to make targeted, infection-fighting proteins known as monoclonal antibodies, which could help fight diseases such as influenza and bird ... |
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NASA names ‘minor’ planet after Indian (02 May 12:00) |
| Kollam: In a rare honour for an Indian, US space agency NASA has named a ‘minor’ planet after a Kerala zoology professor in appreciation of his environmental research and campaigns. Sain... |
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www.indhistory.com (02 May 12:00) |
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Todays Web site paints a picture of the history of India from the Indus Valley civilisation of 3,000 BC to the attainment of independence in 1947... |
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