19 Sept 2014

For the sake of people

To invite or summon (someone to do something, esp to take part in a contest) it is not only the meaning and definition  of `Challenge` but also gives great inspiration and awareness to one and all. Now we have seen various variety of challenges  for  the good. Definitely some more innovative challenges will ready to come infront of the people.
Ice Bucket Challenge
The original version involved jumping into cold water, then nominating another to do the same. Later, this became the  ice  bucket dump, and charitable donations were the result of refusing to participate. By late July 2014, however, the charity being  named  was the ALS Foundation. Inspired by Pete Frates, a friend who was diagnosed with ALS,a neurode generative disease, Griffin launched the ice bucket challenge to raise awareness and funds for the disease. Griffin tried to do more fundraising for ALS research. Then the challenge spread worldwide on Facebook to the following countries (in order of participation): Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Philippines, Puerto Rico and India.During that time frame, over 28 million people joined the challenge by posting, commenting or liking a challenge post, Facebook said. 
Rice Bucket Challenge
The Rice Bucket Challenge is a way to raise awareness of world hunger, feed those in the most need and have fun at the same time!  The Rice Bucket Challenge involves donating a bucket of rice to a poor person or family. It is inspired by the Ice Bucket Challenge which has raised lots of money for the ALS Foundation. The idea for the Rice Bucket Challenge is attributed to Manju Latha Kalanidhi, journalist based in Hyderabad, India. It started off as a Facebook page on August 23, 2014. The Challenge spread to other South Asian nations, including Nepal and Sri Lanka, Philippines. 
My tree challenge
Following the global success of Ice bucket challenge and Rice bucket challenge Kerala Megastar Mammootty has initiated a eco-conservation programme in the title 'My Tree Challenge'. Within a few weeks from its start, the movement has gained big momentum as thousands of people has enrolled themselves as members, by planting a tree. It was through the 'My tree hash tag' and through Mammootty's facebook page that these thousand people announced themselves as part of the project. 

15 Sept 2014

Salt Water Car

Technological innovation is, without doubt, the major force for change in modern Society. These innovations have shaken core of the motor world. Quant e-Sportlimousine has to come up with some new innovative cars to compete with its competitors. The unusual flow cell technology used in lieu of a conventional battery pack is, along with the salt water it uses as a power source. It seats four, has full-length gull-wing doors that grant access to both front and rear seats, and stunning super car looks. It is 5.25 metres (0.4ft) long, 2.2 metres wide (7.2ft), the 1.35 metre (4.4ft).  22-inch wheels sit just beneath impressive double gull-wing doors.With a claimed 0-62mph time of 2.9 seconds and a top speed of over 217 mph, The Quant e-Sportlimousine could become the next big thing in the automotive world if it successfully passes testing and enters into production. Yet it isn’t the e-Sportlimousine’s claimed 372 mile range or four-wheel drive capabilities that make this car stand apart from others. The technology something Quant calls ‘nanoFLOWCELL’. The car tank capacity 200 Lts and total weight approxmately 2,300 Kgs (5,070lbs) wih 920 horse power (680 kW). After making a debut at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show, The Quant e-Sportlimousine has received approval from German road safety authority known as Technischer Uberwachungsverein (TUV for short). Price and sale date yet to be confirmed, but may cost more than £1m  ($1.7 million). The car, which uses an electrolyte flow cell power system, is now certified for use on German and European roads. Modern, fast, and innovative, the  Quant e-Sportlimousine is powered by two tanks of liquid electrolyte which pass through a specially-designed membrane, generating electric current and powering the car’s powerful motors.The Quant hitting the headlines as a car which could change the way we think about batteries forever. Flow cells or flow batteries as they are sometimes called work by passing two liquids (electrolytes) containing different chemical components either side of a specially-designed membrane. While the two liquids do not mix and stay in their own closed system, an electrical reaction takes place between the two liquids as they pass over either side of the membrane, inducing an electrical current. Essentially then, flow cells operate in a similar way to a traditional battery, but instead of the electrolyte living inside the battery, flow cells store their electrolyte outside of the battery in discrete storage tanks.The unusual gull wing doors give access to the front and rear of the car.This makes it possible for discharged electrolyte to be pumped out of the tank and replenished with fresh, fully charged electrolyte in the same time it takes to fill a car with gasoline. Spent electrolyte can then be recovered and recharged away from the vehicle, allowing for a quick refill without worrying about damage due to rapid recharging. In the case of the e-Sportlimousine, salt water is used as an electrolyte, something that’s abundant around the world. Quant says the e-Sportlimousine has a 120 kilowatt-hour storage capacity, made possible by ultra-high density flow cells and two large electrolyte tanks taking the place of traditional, heavy battery pack materials. Some back of the napkin maths suggests that the Quant e-Sportlimousine will have an energy efficiency of around 3.1 miles per kilowatt-hour. 

12 Sept 2014

Brain To Brain

Will one person or a machine be able to read exactly what another person is thinking? In the not too distant future it appears extremely likely that. Humans will face the distinct possibility of being able to directly upgrade their mental capabilities by means of implant technology. Extra senses and multi-dimensional thought present themselves as intriguing options. It is called `Thought communication`. That it means is a new language of thought. Ultimately transmitting ideas, concepts, picture sequences and abstract theorems. In a sense it will be an evolutionary milestone, potentially a billion times more effective than the introduction of the telephone. Technology is now becoming available which is opening up the realistic possibility of thought communication between individuals being achieved in the forthcoming decade. Spanish researchers proved the same recently. They claim to be the first to have demonstrated direct brain-to-brain communication between humans. The researchers, led by Giulio Ruffini, CEO of Starlab in Barcelona, successfully transmitted the Spanish and Italian words `hola`(hi) and `ciao`(hello) in binary code from the brain of a person in India to the brain of a person in France. Electroencephalography (EEG), which monitors electric currents in the brain, was used to record the information from the sender's brain, and robotized transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which causes neurons to fire from an electric current that is generated by a rapidly changing magnetic field, was used to deliver the message to the brains of the receivers in France. Researchers have for years been developing noninvasive systems for translating information directly from the human brain to the computer. These systems, called brain-computer interface, often involve brain activity-sensing tools such as EEG, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (FNIRS), and functional magnetic resonance imagine (FMRI). Researchers have also, to a lesser extent in the recent days, experimented with translating information from the computer to the brain, using brain stimulating tools such as TMS — variations of which have also been used to treat depression — and transcranial focused ultrasound (FUS). The Starlab experiment integrates two of these existing technologies to move a message from human brain to computer to human brain.New technical methods presently being looked into speed up the rate of progress in this `brain-to-brain interface`.

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