Innovative Designs and Devices

We all moving towards a fairy tale world where everything looks to be beautiful and perfect from the smallest little non living thing to the more visible creatures. With technology around we are able to live a comfortable life, but is comfortable good enough for us?? don't we wish to live life where everything around us is just like we want it to be?? well i think time is changing technology is advancing we are now moving towards a new world where consumers are having a say in the design, looks and features of every thing being built around us.

Its now end of those fat looking , heavy systems which would only satisfy our technological needs but still lack looks. Now it time for some makeover of devices its been long that we have been seeing things as they are but now we need change we want to get rid of these fat looking heavy device. Here are some new looking devices of 21st century which will change the way how we perceive things.

How about the remote control in shape of Apple??

Well well it gone be one fine experience to play with. Sony is expected to give our old fashioned remote a new look it will look like an apple














How about a Digital Pot Lets Plants tell you their demands???

A new Digital pot is being developed which will automatically tell us about what are the needs of the plant..............


These happens to be only just a few examples of our new devices. If you wish to see more then

Here is the link : smashingmagazine

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Nokia 6110 Navigator

Finnish Mobile handset giant Nokia has unveiled a new smart phone mobile device Nokia 6110 Navigator which has the capability of navigating to a particular location using satellite images with inbuilt magnetic COMPASS & Global Positioning System.
Some of the noticeable features of Nokia 6110 Navigator are:

• Voice-guided 3-D GPS Navigation
• 2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, integrated camera flash.
• Suppport for 3G Network.
• Video Calling.
• FM radio with Visual Radio.
• Push email with attachments.

Nokia has the collection of Nokia Maps 2.0 for 170+ countries maps to its database and maps could be used on its GPS enabled cell phones and could be used to browse LIVE streaming GPS navigation on mobile.You can easily track Geo magnetic directions, longitudes & latitudes with help of this mobile. It is also helpful in Drive Directions using one of the available 2 modes "Fastest Path Mode" & " Shortest Path Mode", besides them there is 3rd mode for pedestrians directions. It also provides information about the speed at which you are driving your car.

In INDIA navigator comes with pre-installed maps of eight cities including Delhi and NCR, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai,Bangalore and Hyderabad. These maps include the locations and details of roads, restaurants, hotels, banks, ATMs, schools, colleges, petrol pumps, hospitals and medicine shops, and other places of interests.

In India it is costing around Rs.13,500.

After my first experience with this mobile I will say the navigation system is really helpful but it can be dice at times for locations which are under development like Gurgoan. But thats not something to worry for since you can easily do away with this problem by simply downloading the latest maps. I think its a cool and helpful device to have.

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Microsoft's Windows7

As i had predicted few months back when i posted about increasing need for parallel processing will bring in the need for Tabbed Viewing in File System Explorer. Well Finally Microsoft's New Windows7 has implemented it. In my previous post i had mentioned about the advantage of implementing it and also showed snaps from my project in which i had implemented Tab Viewing.

Some of the features of Windows 7 are:

• Tabbed Viewing for increasing the support for parallel processing.
• A New Disk Usage Analyzer which provide in-dept detailed analysis.
• Support for Virtual Drive.
  
• A new Website Blog and Portal Designer.
  

Here is a video showing how Windows7 would look like......


It gives me a feeling that Microsoft's Windows 7 gives user more power with customizing abilities and its gone be a cool new interface with some lovely new user friendly features....................

Link to some More Video's of Windows 7 : Windows7
Link Previous Post:Future Looks Of MyComputer

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The World’s First Zero-Emissions City ....In Oil Rich Abu Dhabi

World’s first zero-emission city is on its way to be built in oil-rich Abu Dhabi. With this Abu Dhabi is hoping the project will propel the country to become world leaders in renewable energy.

Construction started on a city that will house 50,000 people and 1,500 businesses but use extremely little energy. The city's designers predict that efficiency improvements will result in a 75 percent reduction in energy consumption compared with a conventional city of the same size.

Some of the Design Paradigms which are implemented to make it zero emission are

• Thin-film solar panels will serve as the facades and roofing for buildings. High tech sensors will closely monitor energy use to ensure nothing is wasted.
  
• Driverless vehicles will be powered by batteries that make cars obsolete. All you do is type in your destination, and an electric carriage comes to your door to automatically take you to your destination on tracks using magnetic levitation.
• To keep people aware of their energy habits, sensors throughout the city will keep residents aware of how much their energy usage will cost them, which serves as a nice little reminder to keep habits reasonable.
  

The goal of the new city is to set new standards and develop new technology for clean sustainable that can be transferred to other cities around the world.

Source:Dailygalaxy

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HTC's Touch Diamond

It's now HTC coming with a new touch screen phone which seems to be inspired by Apple's iphone in many ways. It is Touch Diamond which will undoubtedly get compared to the iPhone, as the two devices share more than a few similarities.

The on-screen keyboard is one example which looks exactly like the iPhone's. There's even a zoom in / zoom out effect when opening and closing the full programs menu... just like the iPhone. And of course a custom YouTube app... just like you-know-who.

Some of the features which distinguish it are.....

1. It's sleek and smaller

The Touch Diamond is about the size of a deck of cards, but half the thickness and lot smaller than it looks in comparison to iphone. It also manages to squeeze a 640x480 screen into such a small body.

2. Silent your phone by setting the face down

If you get an incoming call that you don't want to answer, you can set the phone face down on your desk to silence the ringer.

3. Auto opening of notepad

If you want to jot something down mid-conversation, pulling the stylus out of the bottom of the phone will automatically open up the note-taking application.

4.Cool Flashing LED

The circular touchpad also has various LED configurations that will flash in different combinations to alert you to missed calls, new e-mails, new text messages, and so forth.

5.New TouchFlo 3D interface

The new TouchFlo 3D interface does completely replace the main programs menu, which is a welcome touch. Now you can easily choose and arrange icons for your most-used applications on a custom menu set up exactly how you like it, and even the list of additional programs has a slick look with finger-touch interaction.

All in all, I think the Touch Diamond will find its way into a lot of people's hands.

Will it be next big hit after iphone? Probably i believe YES.

Source:Phone Scoop

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Security flaw turns Gmail into open-relay server

A recent study by Information Security Research Team(INSERT) has revealed flaws in Google's e-mail service turning Gmail into a highly effective spam machine. According to the INSERT, Gmail is susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack that allows a spammer to send thousands of bulk e-mails through Google's SMTP service. Despite the fact that Google has identity fraud protection mechanisms and a limit of 500-messages on bulk e-mail but still allows spammers to send a potentially unlimited number of messages .The attack specifically exploits Gmail’s email forwarding functionality.

Situation seems even worse when we consider the fact that E-mail that originates from Google, are well-regarded by both Yahoo and Hotmail. If you try to send spam mails directly to Yahoo and Hotmail from a blacklisted IP, mails don't even necessarily reach the account's spam box, while forged e-mail sent via Gmail always arrived in the intended account's inbox. Hence exploiting the trust hierarchy among Email Servers.

As Spam messages represents 95% of all email communications, it is simply not feasible to apply the full power of spam filtering to every single message that is received by email servers. Thus to tackle this problem Servers do blacklisting of IP addresses of spam ofenders . This way, messages from blacklisted IP's are reject before even entering the system, and whitelisted addresses are granted ' to bypass most of the filters.

Source: Information Security Research Team

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Beautiful Pics of Yosemite for Wallpaper

For a change i decided to post something other than technical for my readers.......

I am a nature lover, like to visit places with open blue sky's, widely spread green fields, deep blue sea's and snow around.....

Here i would like to share pictures of a beautiful place called Yosemite where one of my cousins went and i would definitely visit this place some day..........

These pics will serve as my Wallpaper for next few days. Hope you would like it................

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