SENSITIVE SKIN FOR ROBOTS | Robots with sensitive skin

      The Technical University of Munich (TUM) Scientist, Germany are developing a synthetic (sensitive) skin for robots with a similar to as that of  human skin.  The synthetic skin will provide important tactile information to the robot and thus supplement its perception formed by camara eyes, infrared scanners and gripping hands.  As with human skin, the way artificial skin is touched could, for example, lead to a spontaneous retreat (when  the robot hits an object) or cause the machine to use its eyes for the first time to search for the source of contact.  Such behaviour is expecially important for robotic helpers of people travelling in constantly changing environments. 

    The centrepiece of the new robotic shell is  a five square cm hexagonal plate or circuit board.  Each small circuit board ccontains four infrared sensors that detect anything closer than one cm. "This sensor can register pressure ranging form a firm pinch between your thumb and forefinger to twice the pressure exerted by an elephant standing on one foot.

FOLDABLE TWIN-SEATER SPORT PLANE | The Foldable Sport Plane

     Foldable twin seater sport plane.  A prototype of the American light weight-sport aircraft, which is being tested for the past 3 years, is likely to enter the production  in the second quarter of 2012.  The two-seater ICON A5 is being developed by California-based Icon Aircraft.  Its wings can be folded easily from the cockpit in under five minutes while on water or land.  The financing was led by investors Satyen Patel and Bart Becht, who have expertise in building consumer product companies. 

GERMAN GRAND PRIX | Formula One German Grand Prix

     German Grand Prix in 2011.  Mclaren's Lewis Hamilton gives a mounmental drive to take his second Race win of this season in the German Grand Prix in Nuerburgring on July 24, after an enthralling battle with Ferrari's second-placed Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber, Red Bull's title holder and championship leader Sebastian Vettel finished fourth.  Force India's Adrian Sutil raced his way to a season-best sixth place finish.  The other Force India driver Paul de Resta finished 13th while Karun Chandhok of Team Lotus, finished 20th.

BRITISH GRAND PRIX | Formula One British Grand Prix

     British Grand Prix in 2011.  The 29-year-old Spaniard Fernando Alonso reaches Ferrari's long-awaited first win of the 2011 season in Silverstone on July 10 when he made the most of the unpredictable and challenging wet-dry conditions to triumph at the British Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel of Germany came home second ahead of his team-mate Australian Mark Webber-with Red Bull.  Briton Lewis Hamilton finished a fighting fourth for Mclaren after a superb rousing race.

MOST POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTER | powerful supercomputer in the world

    Powerful super computer.   A Japanese supercomputer named 'K'. It  built by Fujitsu, capable of making 8.2 quadrillion calculations per sec or equivalent to a million laptops working in tandem-has been named the most powerful system in the world.  The computer is three times faster than its Chinese rival-Tianhe-1A-that previously held the top position. 

HIGH-SPEED GRAPHENE CIRCUITS MADE | High speed circuit in the world

     IBM Researchers announced on June 9, that they had designed his first high-speed circuits from graphene, an ultra-thin material that has a host of promising applications, from high-bandwidth communication to a new generation of low-cost smartphone and television displays.  As reported in the journal 'Science', the IBM researchers describe a demonstration in which they deposited several layers of graphene on a silicon wafer, then created circuits based on graphene transistors and components known as inductors.  They demonstrated frequency mixing up to speeds of 10 gigahertz.  In the past, IBM has created stand-alone graphene transistors.  It is the high speed circuit made by IBM.

APPLE WORLD'S MOST VALUED BRAND | Most valued brand in the world-Apple.

    According to the 'social brand value' ranking, Apple, maker of the iPhone, iPad and iMac, overtook search-engine giant Google to become the most valuable brand in the World.  Apple's brand value raised 84% in the past year to $153.3 billion.  Google's brand decreased 2% to $111.5 billion, ending four years atop the rankings.  

        Twelve of the top 100 global brands were from China, led by China Mobile at No. 9 and Industrial & Commercial Bank of China at No. 11.  Azamon.com, which ranked 14th, overtook Wal-Mart Stores, which ranked 15th, to become the most-valuable retail brand.  Microsoft slipped to third place for this result. 

MICROSOFT INTRODUCES OFFICE 365 | Microsoft's OFFICE 365

    On June 29 Microsoft launched Office 365 specially specially developed for enterprises and business houses. It launched in New Zeland.    Being offered at prices starting at $2 per month per user, Office 365 will allow enterprise and business customers to access Microsoft's popular        e-mail, collaboration, conferencing and productivity capabilities online. It is very useful for business and enterprises.

TYRES FOR FORMULA 1 | F1 CAR Tires

     F1car tyres are differ from ordinary car tyres.  An ordinary car tyre typically has a life of 25,000 km or more.  But the Formula One tyre is designed to last for, at most, 200 km.  Like everything else on the car, the tyre is constructed to be as light and strong as possible.  That means an underlying nylon and polyester structure in a complicated weave pattern designed to withstand far larger forces than road car tyres.  In Formula One racing that means anything up to a tonne of down force, 4g lateral loading's and 5g longitudinal loading.

     The racing tyre is constructed from very soft rubber compounds  which offer the best possible grip against the texture of the racetrack, but obviously wear out very quickly in the process.  If you look at a typical track you will see that, just off the racing line, a large amount of rubber debris gathers.  All racing tyres work best at relatively high temperatures.  These tyres are give fastness for cars in Race.

FUEL FOR FORMULA 1 CAR RACE | F1 RACE FUEL

     The Fuel for all team are Spenser by his technical partners.  The talk around the fuel in a Formula One car has veered from secret fuel to rocket fuel.  It would then surprise you that the fuel an F1 car runs on today is surprisingly close to the composition of ordinary available petrol.  It was not always so.  Early Grand Prix cars ran on fierce mixture of powerful chemicals and additives, often featuring large quantities of benzene, alcohol and aviation fuel, indeed some early fuels were so potent that the car's engine had to be disassemble and washed in ordinary petrol at the end the race to prevent the mixture from corroding it.  Over the years, regulations and oil companies desire to link racing with road cars has changed the composition of the fuel used.

     The modern fuel is only allowed tiny quantities of  'non hydrocarbon' compounds, effectively banning the most volatile power-boosting additives.  Each fuel blend must be submitted to the sport's governing body, the FIA, for prior approval of its composition and physical properties.  A 'fingerprint' of the approved fuel is the taken, which is then compared to the actual fuel being used at the event by the FIA'S mobile testing laboratory.

     During a typical season a Formula One team uses over 2,00,000 liters for testing and racing, and these can be of anything up to 50 slightly different blends, tuned for the demands of different circuits -   or even different weather conditions.  More potent fuels will give noticeable more power but may result in increased consumption or engine wear.    

     The engine oil in an F1 car is just as important as it is in your car.  It helps to perform a vital diagnostic role, and is closely analysed after each race and tested for traces of metals to help monitor the engine's wear rate.  This is a fuel for F1 RACE.

FORMULA ONE LEGEND "JUAN HANUEL FANGIO" | JUAN HANUEL FANGIO The F1 LEGEND

    He is known as 'bandy legs'.  They don't make them like Juan Manuel Fangio anymore. He is the one of the greatest racing driver of all time.   The 'master', as he was popularly known, dominated the first decade of Formula One (F1) racing and won the world championship five times.  That record stood for 46 years before a certain someone from Germany in the Ferrari broke that record. 

       Racing at a time when safety was not uppermost on the drivers' mind and with almost no protective equipment, Fangio possessed some of the greatest innate driving abilities that his or any other age had seen.  He likened racing to painting and believed it was both a fine art and a science.  Much like today's mercenary F1 drivers, Fangio had a knack for soptting the best cars and won his world titles with four different teams.  In 1958 he abruptly retired, saying, "it's finished".  He passed away on july 17, 1995 at the age of 84.

CAREER STATISTICS:

Seasons:9/  Races:51/   F1 Titles 5( 1951,1954,1955,1956,1957 )/  Fastest Laps:23/  Wins:24/  Poles:29.

ABOUT CATS | General Facts about CATS

     The Lion and Tiger are the Members of the cat family.Cats born in Thailand are black and white in color.  Human beings sleep for about 8 hours a day, but cats sleep for about 16 hours in a day.

     The cat family also include the jaguar, leopards, the Cheetah, the puma, the caracal.

     Largest member of the cat family is the tiger.  Of them shale have been found up to 10.5feet in length, standing 3 feet high at the shoulder.  Cats cannot see in total darkness, but they can see far better in the dark than man.

     The Cheetah is exceptional among cats not only for its greatest speed- it is the fastest of all land animals, but also for its non retractile claws.

     The Egyptians worshiped the cat.  It was called Myco, which sounds rather like 'miaow'.  Killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.  When a household cat died, its owner shaved his eyebrows as a sign of his grief. This is one the the house animal

ABOUT DOGS | General Facts About DOGS

       Dogs are the faithful friends for human.  Dogs are descendants of wolves. A dog never forgets his master.  Most dogs have poor eyesight but they possess a superb sense of smell.  Of all animals, the dog is perhaps Man's favorite. 

     The only living creature know to have been killed by an extraterrestrial object was a dog, struck dead by a small meteorite.  the animal that traveled in a space flight was a dog.  Its name was "Laika".  It traveled on 3rd November 1957.

     A film called, "The Dog that saved Hollywood" was shown an audience of 100 dogs.

     The Australian dingo is a dog with no bark.  Dingoes have been found scavenging or hunting sheep.  Heaviest domestic dog is the  St. Bernard which weights up to 20 pounds (100kg) and stands 27 inches high at the shoulders.  In mythology, dogs often server as pets or as watchdogs.

UNCOMPROMISING QUOTES | MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES

     I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oft times disagreeable... i suppose i'm larger than life.                          -  BETTE DEVIS.


     I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice...i am in earnest, i will not equivocate, i will not excuse, i will not retreat a single inch, and i will be heard.    -  WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.

FORMULA ONE SPEED KINGS, SEBASTIAN VETTEL | F1 SEBASTIAN VETTEL

     He became the youngest Car Race winner with his victory at the Italian Grand Prix in 2008 and win 2010 championship.  In 2010, Sebastian Vettel's natural talent and driving prowess have helped him break several age-related records and his winning personality and pleasing demeanour helped the younger generation accept 'Baby Schumi' with ease.  There was surely more to come and he proved it in 2011, dominating the championship and is on course to match Michael Schumacher's record of 13 wins in a season.  Blessed with a curious brain and sharp wit, the karaoke fan is often touted as the heir to Schumacher.  It should be worth remembering that at vetter's age Schumacher had yet to win his first race.  The 24-years-old, the youngest double champion, is also as modest as they come. Youngest champion in the world.

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER F1 Champion | Formula One Legend MICHAEL SCHUMACHER

     One of the legend in Formula One Race.  With seven (7) world championships and nearly every Formula One (F1) record in the book to his name, Michael Schumacher's sheer brilliance behind the wheel was never in dispute.  Like all great drivers he had exceptional ambition, confidence, intelligence, motivation, dedication and determination.  What set him apart and resulted in his unprecedented length of time at the top was a pure passion for racing and an endless quest for improvement.  Blessed with natural feel for speed, he has a racing brain to match, possessing spare mental capacity that enable him to make split-second decisions, adapt to changing circumstances and plan ahead while driving on the edge.  His cold approach might not have won him many friends in the paddock but he's famous from Mumbai to Montreal.

   Michael Schumacher said he can make a winning impact in Formula One after coming out of retirement to join Mercedes. A real Fl Legend

ABOUT TIGER | General Facts about Tiger

     Tigers are the one of the category of the largest of the big cats. More of the zoo-bred white tigers of the world come from Rewa, Madhya Pradesh (MP), in India.
    Its roar can be heard almost two miles away.  A tiger can go two to three days without eating.  One tiger can eat more than pounds of fresh meat in one sitting.  Tiger have been known to kill and eat Crocodiles.  Tiger is neither a bloodthirsty killer nor a man eater by habit.  Tigers are known to kill prey while swimming.  More tigers have been known to kill and sometimes eat cubs of others males before taking the tigers as its own mate.
     A tiger can spend up to 18 hours sleeping.  It can leap more than 30 feet in a single bound.
     No two tigers have the same pattern of stripes.  If you were to shave the fur from a tiger it would still have stripes. 
     Tigers have excellent vision, estimated at six times better than a human's, that allows them to hunt effectively at night.  The tiger's most developed sense is its hearing. 


Tiger in medicine
  Tiger parts are used in Chinese medicine. 
Brain      -  To cure laziness and Pimples
Blood     -  for strengthening the constipation and will power.
Teeth      -  for rabies, asthma and sores on penis.
Skin        -  To treat mental illness
Tail         -  for various skin diseases.
Fat         -  for vomiting, dog bites, bleeding, haemenorhoids and scalp ailments in children.
Bile        -  For convulsions in children.

MOON YOUNGER BY 200M YRS | Moon Is Younger Than our Thought

    The latest issue about Nature says, the moon is billion years old, up to million years younger than thought.  The estimate comes from a new dating of isotopes of lead and neodymium found in samples of ferroan anorthosite,  a crustal rock that derives from magma.  Moons age is more than 200 Million Years.  A common theory for the origin of the moon is that it was created by an impact between a large planet-sized object and the nascent earth. The molten material, or magma, that was ejected from this giant collision progressively cooled, hardening into earth's rocky, barren and airless satellite.  This extraordinarily young age of this lunar sample means that the moon solidified significantly later than previous estimates.

Obese mothers deliver 'fat kids' | Kids Obesity is Response to Fat Mothers

    
       A latest Research says, The obesity Mothers may deliver Obese kids. She is one of the response for her kids obese.
     These babies, part of the study at chelsea and westminster Hospital, west London, were found to have a similar build-up of abdominal fat that adults in their 50s have.  The study used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to investigate links between obesity in children and their mothers.  It reportedly found evidence that being overweight or obese in pregnancy could result in potentially harmful changes in a baby's fat levels in the womb, the telegraph reports.  
     The study, led by Neena Modi, professor of neonatal medicine at Imperial College London, found nearly a third of children had more fat than expected.
     Of the 105 babies, 54 boys and 51girls a total of 31 babies had more adipose, or fat, tissue around their abdomen than normal.  Experts said the study was the first direct link that proved the weight of a month-er-to-be was passed on to her child and showed that over weight mothers gave birth to fat babies.
     "I was very surprised to the able to detect such a clear continuum of effect of maternal BMI (body mass index) on the baby," said Modi adding, "This is very important finding indeed opening the door to a new understanding of how a mother's metabolism affects her baby."  So the obese mothers affects her kids.

CHINA Launches PAK Satelllite (PAKSAT-1R) | Pakistan's First Communication Satellite Launched By CHINA

     CHINA Launches a Satellite for Pakistan on August 12. It is the Pakistan's first communications satellite 'PAKSAT-1R'. It launches from a sprawling launch centre in western Sichual province, marking a deepening in technological cooperation between the close allies and a millestone for the country's fast-growing commercial satellite industry.     

   

   The satellite (PAKSAT-1R) has a design life of 15 years and will provide TV broadcasting, Internet and other  data communication services across South and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, East Africa and the Far East.     

    The satellite  will reach a circular orbit about 22,300 miles above the equator in the coming weeks.   PakSat 1R will enter service after testing of its engineering systems and communications system payload.

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Keep Food Fresh For Years | A bisin could Keep Food Fresh For Years

     The Minnesota University Researchers, discovered a natural preservatives that should spell the end of the rotting food.  They discovered the substance, called bisin, which destroys the bacteria that make meat, fish, eggs, vegetables and other dairy products decompose.  The preservative could extend the food's life for several years and even work for opened bottles of wine and salad dressing.  According to the researchers, bisin occurs naturally in some types of harmless bacteria.  It prevents the growth of lethal bacteria including E-coil, salmonella and listeria.  The substance could extend the life of a variety of everyday foods (regular foods) which have strict use-by dates including seafood, cheese and canned goods. 

A TINY CHIP (plastic) Tests Blood, Detects HIV in 15min | The Tiny Chip Used to Detects HIV

         The new Technology.The Scientists of Columbia University in New York,  have developed a portable blood test device, Called mChip (plastic chip), which costs only $1 and looks like a debit card.  The mChip has returned a 95% accuracy for HIV and 76% for detecting syphilis. 


         The mChip uses optics to read fluids by taking a single pin-prick of blood.  It contains 10 detection zones which the blood passes through and then returns a positive or negative result in about 15 minutes.  The result is presented in a simple color-coded manner like pregnancy test, making it easy to use and understand. It has already been authorized for use in Europe. 

GAGARIN MINI-SATELLITE (KEDR) LAUNCHED | Russian Mini-Satellite Will Honor Yuri Gagarin

     Gagarin mini satellite (Kedr) Launched.  Two Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev on Aug 4 completed its marathon space-walk in which they launched by a students. The mini-satellite is also dedicated to Yuri Gagarin to honour the  50th anniversary of man's first flight on Moon (April 12, 1961).  The toaster-like simple mini-satellite called Kedr (Cedar) was designed to transmit Gagarin's message of global harmony by airing greetings in more than a dozen languages and relay images of Earth and telemetry data to amateur radio enthusiasts.

MICRO ROBOT that can walk on water | LATEST TECHNOLOGY ROBOT

           Robot walking on water.  An international Team (group) of scientists claim to have developed an Micro robot which can walk on water.  This type of  robot mimics the amazing water-walking abilities of water strider the long-legged insect that scoots across the surface of ponds, lakes, rivers and other waterways. 
          The micro-robot incorporates improvements of previous devices of this kind that position it as a prime candidate for military spy missions, water pollution monitoring, and other applications.  The robot can walk on water because of its highly water repellent legs, says the team.  The scientists describe progress on a new robot, with a body about the size of quarter; 10 water-repellent, wire legs; and two movable, oar-like legs - propelled by two miniature motors. It is one of the useful innovation in this field.

RUSSIAN CARGO SPACECRAFT CRASHES IN KAZAKHSTAN | SPACECRAFT CRASHES

    Russian cargo spacecraft crashes in Kazakhstan.  An  unmanned progress M-12M Russian Cargo spacecraft carried by Soyuz-U rocket, carrying food, water, fuel and experiments to the International Space Station crashed in Siberia 45 minutes after takeoff from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan on August 24,.  The accident will push back planned launches to the ISS.

Our EARTH has 8.7mn species | Species on Earth

     Our Earth has 8.7mn species.  A group of researchers from Canada's dalhousie University has estimated that 8.7 million species exist on Earth.  It is very dangerous.  Until now, the number of world's species, as estimated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ranged from 3 million to 100 million.  The researchers, however, say 86% of all terrestrial species and 91% of all marine species are yet to be discovered, described and cataloged and other species are did not discovered.

A RIVER found 13,000ft below the AMAZON | A New River Found In AMAZON

    A long river found below the amazon.   Scientists led by an Indian-origin researcher Dr Valiya Hamza, have discovered a huge underground river which they believe is flowing some 13,100feet beneath the mighty Amazon River in Brazil. It is one of the biggest river.   They believe the  river is about 6,000 km long, about the same length as the amazon on the surface. What a amazing river.