Imagine a future where appliances would be powered by your movements. Every step you take generates a certain amount of energy. This energy if harvested could be stored and used to provide power to electrical appliances.Seems like a matrix Movie theme, doesn’t it? But in fact this is possible. Muscular energy is one of the [...]

Bharti Airtel India’s leading integrated telecom services provider and Apple have announced that they will launch iPhone 3G to customers in India later this year. The 3G versions will be Rs. 8k (8GB) and Rs 12k (16GB). In the US the new iPhone 3G is priced at $199 for the 8GB model, and just $299 [...]

The idea of a social compass began when Sam Altman, a computer science major at Stanford, had an epiphany as he walked out of class. Turning to his friend, classmate, and eventual co-founder Nick Sivo, Sam asked, “wouldn’t it be great if I could open my mobile phone and see a map of where all [...]

GPS has been around for a very long time, but of late we have been seeing various cellular companies providing an inbuilt GPS. The way GPS works in a cell phone is that it locates the strongest cell signals visible by the device’s antenna, enabling it to determine its position accurately within 200 meters. There [...]

India has developed the cheapest car of the world. Now its time to launch the cheapest laptop. I am not joking. India is on verge of launching only 10$ laptop. According to HRD state minister Purandeswari research work is going on in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and IIT Madras to develop the cheapest laptop. [...]

Oh, yet another search engine claiming to be better than Google. Yeah I am talking about Cuil which went live yesterday on 28th July. It is a search engine which not only shows the search result but also display some content with thumbnail pictures if available. This search engine claims to have a larger index [...]

Mahalo for visiting my blog. Surprised! Do you know the meaning of Mahalo? Mahalo is Hawaiian word which means “Thank you”. In internet world mahalo keyword introduced with the launch of Mahalo.com in 2007 by Jason Calacanis. It is basically a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the [...]

Samsung has launched a new candy bar mobile phone SGH-M150 in India. It will be also available in Germany in mid August and then in other European countries. It is a beautiful mobile handset that will definitely attract the Indian mobile users. Initially it will come in five colors including light grey, coal black, white, [...]

If you are using internet regularly or in software industry then just imagine how many times you click mouse in a day. Now you will not going to use mouse after 3-4 years. I am not joking. Today I will tell you one surprising news about this computer mouse. There is one leading research company [...]

Scientists at the centre for ultra-high bandwidth devices for optical systems (CUDOS) are developing a new photonic switch that can increase broadband speeds up to 100 times. Ben Eggleton, who is director of CUDOS at the University of Sydney, told the press that the increase in speed would not cost customer any extra money. They [...]

Google Maps is a popular free web mapping service application and technology provided by Google that powers many map-based services including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder and many embedded maps on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. Recently I have seen one great application of Google Maps API. It is actually a [...]

Yahoo has introduced a new version of its search API. Now you can create your own search engines based on Yahoo’s search technology. Also, this service is completely free. This search API has been give the name “Build-your-On-Search-Service” (in short BOSS). Now, webmasters and developers will have more control over the search API. With BOSS, [...]

Digg.com is one of the pioneers of Web 2.0 revolution on internet. Here users share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down are respectively known as digging and burying. Thousands of stories are submitted every day, but [...]

One of my friends always used to say that internet is nothing but just a solution to real life problems. Recently Alex Payne, a 24 years old computer engineer has developed an elegant solution to a problem encountered by most of the internet users. The service known as downforeveryoneorjustme.com allows visitors to type in a [...]

Today I found this video on one of my friends profile on Orkut. It is winner of the 2007 Webby Award for Viral Video. You will definitely love this video.

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