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Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning

At the INK Conference, Arvind Gupta shares simple yet stunning plans for turning trash into seriously entertaining, well-designed toys that kids can build themselves -- while learning basic principles of science and design. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnCqR2yUXoU?rel=0] All the rights to content in this post belong to www.ted.com . I am only sharing the content I liked

Media obsessed with Modi Bashing

I have started this category to show media gaffe . CNN IBN has chosen to put Narendra Modi picture in an article on corruption related to Sushil Modi, Deputy CM of Narendra Modi. I don't if it is intentional or accidental but it is unfortunate for sure. From Blog References

Why should Potato aka Aloo be declared National Vegetable of India

Living several thousand miles away from home I realized why Potato deserves to be designated National Vegetable of India . Potato and an average Indian are so similiar that I was astounded by the level of similarities between them. To share with you some of them which I can think of now, will update the post as I remember rest 1) Both found everywhere, every continent, almost every country 2) Potato can survive anything atmosphere , inside/outside fridge, in rain , anywhere. Indian can survive in any company,  boss, workplace , anywhere. 3) Both are ready to be deployed all most every time.  Boil one and then it can be used in infinite ways. For the other one, just show the pay check and he is ready to work. 4) Potato in fridge and Indian in team. Once you have that,  you have a backup for hunger and tasks none is taking up, respectively. 5) One is the cheapest Veggie, other is cheapest employee. 6) One has high calorific value , other has high output value . 7) Both are super adjusti...

Google context Ads & AdSense were never so DUMB

Following is snapshot of one of the ads I saw at site of the highest circulation daily of India . I was appalled at the failure of Google Ad Sense and the kind of advertisements they are showing in the name of CONTEXT BASED ads. On an article related to Female Infanticide Google in showing ads related to massage parlours , dating chat rooms ... It is ridiculous. I am a great follower of Google but I am seriously not happy with this kind of service from Google to all those who are paying for these ads. Google really needs to improve its algorithms and move beyond its slogan - " Don't be EVIL ! " Even reputed publication groups like Times Group ( The Times of India , The Economic Times )

Low cost computers for 25 $ & self supervised learning for children

David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments , but is just as well known for being the co-developer of  Elite . He and his team have produced a super low cost computer  Raspberry Pi . It's a whole computer on a tiny circuit board - not much more than an ARM processor , a USB port , and an HDMI connection. It is not a joke and they plugged a keyboard into its one end, and hooked the other into a TV. Estimated cost of Production : $25 Time to market: 12 months Provisional specification: 700MHz ARM11 128MB of SDRAM OpenGL ES 2.0 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode Composite and HDMI video output USB 2.0 SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot General-purpose I/O Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel , KOffice , Python) The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity (Registration Number 1129409) which exists to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the ...

Nokia - Plan B : The Other Side

Accenture , a global management consulting , technology services and outsourcing company with more than 215,000 employees serving clients in more than 120 countries, will be taking on approximately 3,000 Nokia employees to support the continued delivery of Symbian software development and support services. The collaboration also includes plans for Accenture to provide mobility software , business and operational services around the Windows Phone platform to Nokia and other ecosystem participants. Source Looks like it is a very good plan B by Steven Elop , the same guy who was castigated by millions of Nokia fans. People called him from Trojan Horse of Microsoft to the biggest disaster that could have happened to Nokia. This is our view of what possibly the Plan B Nokia has and IT IS NOT ENDORSED BY NOKIA. Some facts and possible scenarios which will make clear by PLAN B Facts 1) Nokia unable to carry forward Symbian development activities of Symbian due to several factors like o...

I wish I could have touched it ...

Phi Phi island Phuket Thailand Continued From Phuket Phi Phi Island Thailand

Scenery which just invites you pulls you towards itself

Phi Phi Island Cruise, Phuket , Thailand From Phuket Phi Phi Island Thailand

Lankawi Evening at Sea

From Lankawi & Penang

Phuket - Evening View

From Phuket Phi Phi Island Thailand

Gist : One bet of Blackberry I can certainly vouch for

Gist is one of the best contact management services i have encountered in the recent times. It was recently acquired by RIM ( Research in Motion), the famous blackberry makers. The site helps you pull contacts from various social networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook , Twitter and sync them with your traditional email services ( gmail, hotmail, etc) and the desktop client address books( Thunderbird, Outlook). Thus you can have a complete address book. Additionally it searches information about Yes there are some issues like the following  with it, but it is still the one I liked most among all its peers like Soocial , Plaxo , Rainmaker, etc 1) Sync and searched information functionality needs lot of  improvement. The algorithm behind this just looks at the name of contact. In a country like India where family names likes  Gupta or Jain with common names like Abhishek, Sachin, Ankur in most of the cases lead a multiple results. The photos and information about contacts are are ...

Samajh Aaa Jaaye

Yun na Samajhne ka bahana bana kar wo chal diya karte hain, Dua karte hain ki kaash unhe kise din wo alfaz samajh aa jaayein, Ama Huzoor do lamha mehsoos karke to dekhiye, Shayari urdu mein nahi ehsasoon mein likhi jaati hai . ..

Aur bhi hain

Aur bhi hain chahne waale zamane mein hamare ek aap ke siwa, Aur bhi hain kuch jinhe ilm hai hamari maajoodgi ka, Shaam se to tanha baithe the, phir mahfil saj gayi, Bas phir raat bhadti gayi aur kaafila banta chala gaya ...