Breath powered USB generator does charging on the go

Hey, we're tired of waiting for wireless charging solutions to actually hit the market just as much as the next guy (or gal), but one inventive soul took that frustration out on a swank DIY project that elicits energy from simply breathing. We've seen the use of hot air in powering gadgets before, but this homegrown USB charger was assembled by simply using "parts scavenged from an old CD-ROM drive, a basic electronic circuit, and a few rubber bands." The chest-worn device was intended to output around one-watt for charging a cellphone, which could purportedly juice it up in just under three hours, but unfortunately for us all, this seemingly brilliant device only mustered about 50mW of energy. Of course, that's still getting somewhere, but we're not exactly keen on wearing this thing around for an entire day in order to add a few battery bars to our mobile. Nevertheless, the creator doesn't look to be giving up on it so soon, and hopefully v2 will allow our breath to add new life to our lappies or electric cars, eh?

Why cell phones are still grounded???????

"At this time, all electronic devices, including cell phones and two-way pagers, must be turned off and put away. After takeoff, I'll let you know when you may use approved electronic portable devices."
Of course, those "approved electronic portable devices" won't include your cell phone, not until after you land.
The reason is that cell phones interfere with the airplane's electronics, right?
Well, no, actually. The risk posed by cell phones to airplane equipment is unknown, and will remain unknown for as long as possible.
Phones are banned for two official reasons:

1. Cell phones "might" interfere with the avionics (aviation electronics) of some airplanes.

2. Cell phones aloft "might" cause problems with cell tower systems on the ground.


Both of these risks are easily tested, yet somehow neither the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) nor the Federal Communications Commission has been able to get a definitive answer in the past 20 years as to whether phone calls in flight cause these suspected problems. (The FAA is responsible for the flight safety portion of all this, and the FCC is responsible for the cell tower part.)

GOOGLE HARDWARE

Do u know where till now your search ran in the Google Servers......

Just have a look........

These are both 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers with 512MB of RAM. There are 99 G drives between the two machines. The main search engine is running on these. These were donated by Intel.

This is an IBM donated F50 IBM RS6000 with 4 processors

and 512MB of memory. It has 89 G drives internal.

Did u wonder where ur search ran till now.......................................

How was that ..........???????????

Water under the bridge(and on the top of it)

Who ever said east is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet? Water Bridge in Germany.... What a feat! Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long. Joining the former east and west Germany by water...take a look!


You might not have thought of such a bridge...

Good news for Google users..

Anticipation is brewing for Google’s big April 1st (April Fools) announcement this year and since GMail was first launched on April 1st, some are expecting Google to make some big changes.

It appears however that Google has already made some tweaks to GMail, in the form of storage space.
Google has updated the GMail code to calculate 5 years into the future, stopping at 3.47 GB.

The Gmail login page updated to reflect new targets for the amount of space each account gets. The counter on that page is always counting up, and you can actually see what it is counting to.
With the new update, here’s the new space targets and how many days until that much space is hit by the counter on the page:

2800MB: Already reached

2835MB: In 18.22 days

2980MB: In 384 days

3125MB: In 749 days

3270MB: In 1114 days

3415MB: In 1479 days

3560MB: In 1845 days
The last target is 3560MB, which is about 3.47GB of space. But that’s over 60 months (5 years) away!

Tech Researchers Calculate Digital Info

A new study that estimates how much digital information is zipping around (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff.

The report, assembled by the technology research firm IDC, sought to account for all the ones and zeros that make up photos, videos, e-mails, Web pages, instant messages, phone calls and other digital content cascading through our world today. The researchers assumed that an average digital file gets replicated three times.

Add it all up and IDC determined that the world generated 161 billion gigabytes - 161 exabytes - of digital information last year.

That's like 12 stacks of books that each reach from the Earth to the sun. Or you might think of it as 3 million times the information in all the books ever written, according to IDC. You'd need more than 2 billion of the most capacious iPods on the market to get 161 exabytes.

SO, Isn't it enough for all of us.........