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Zoggles !!!!!!!

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If u think u can u can! Here’s a live example of a lady named Valerie Palfy. Few years back she was driving near Chester County, Pennsylvania . Being in a chilly area she was not able to find out her way bcz of the evil named Fog. What next? She came up with an idea, isn’t there’s a way out to remove this evil (fog) automatically. She met with Don A. Skomsky a mechanical engineer, to form an anti fogging device and after a hard work of about Ten years she came up with ZOGGLES …A device that prevents Fog on any surface. They started with the basic question how fog is formed? Fog forms when warm water vapor hits a cooler object and forms droplets. Zoggles have Sensors that are used to feed temperature and humidity data to a chip that determines whether the lens is about to fog up or not . If it is, it will activate a heating mechanism that prevents the fog from forming. This technology has been tested by Mr. Mountaineer Jim Gagne. He says that of all the types of goggles he has trie

Helmet to charge mobile phones...

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Wish your morning bike commute could charge up your cell phone on the way to work? Well, two enterprising engineering students from the  Nirma University  of Ahmedabad, India have designed a handy  wind  and  solar powered  bike helmet that lets the user do just that. Pragnesh Dudhaiya and Aalok Bhatt put together the useful new headgear, which is  capable of charging a cell phone  using energy generated from a 40-minute ride – and they did it in just 3 days! Not only does the helmet provide  clean power to juice up electronics , Pragnesh and Aslok also hope it will encourage more bikers to protect themselves by wearing it. The design still needs a lot of work (hey, they only worked on it for 3 days so far!) but the pair wants to file a patent on their design soon. They plan to sell it for around $22, which is incredibly affordable for both safety and utility!

Here comes the bride…aaand there goes her dress.

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British researchers have developed a wedding gown that can be  dissolved in water —just in time for the honeymoon—to transform it into five new wearable pieces. The trick: Polyvinyl alcohol, an odorless nontoxic polymer that breaks down in water without harming the environment. Now on display at  Sheffield Hallam University’s Furnival Gallery, the dress and its subsequent permutations are the result of an unlikely union between the college’s fashion and engineering students.

Comman Bulbs gone LED On

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There are over 425 million 60 watt incandescent bulbs sold every year, which makes the energy-sucking globes the most commonly used bulbs in the United States. Lighting the way to a more energy-efficient tomorrow, Philips has just unveiled the 12-watt EnduraLED – the world’s first replacement for the commonly used 60 watt incandescent. The EnduraLED is capable of lasting 25 times longer than a standard incandescent and only consumes 20% of the energy. If all the bulbs in the states were switched to these LEDs it would save 32.6 terawatt-hours of electricity each year — enough energy to power 17 million homes. So go for it....

Facebook is wearable!!!!!!Holla can u hear me???

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If you are a facebook addict who can’t stop updating your status, then here is an outfit for you. “Ping,” a “social-networking garment” by Jennifer Darmour of Electricfoxy , allows you to connect with your virtual audience with a pop of the hood, cinch of the waist tie, or unfastening of a button. Because Ping connects wirelessly to your account wherever you are, you’ll be able to keep your friends in the loop without the need for a phone, laptop, or any kind of hardware. The garment itself is a hoodie wrap with sewn-in electronics that register every move you make . Filling your friends’ walls with messages that indicate you “just lifted your hood” could get annoying quickly..Isn't?? Here the communication is two ways: When your friends ping you back, you’ll feel a soft tapping on your shoulder.

MIT Unveils First Solar Cells Printed on Paper

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What if you could simply staple solar panels to your house rather than hiring a professional installation team? That’s not as far-fetched as it sounds — MIT researchers have figured out a way to print thin film solar cells on paper using a process that resembles a standard inkjet printer . If they’re able to gear efficiencies up to scale, the development could revolutionize the production and installation of solar panels. MIT’s new semiconductor-coated paper features carbon-based dyes that give the cells an efficiency of 1.5 to 2 percent. That’s not incredibly efficient, but the convenience factor makes up for it. And in the future, researchers hope that the same process used in the paper solar cells could be used to print cells on metal foil or even plastic. Of course, paper solar cells are a long way from commercialization. MIT researchers say that the technology is still in the research phase and it could take years before being commercialized. And once it is? Th

Punjabis Vs Marwaris(people frm rajasthan)

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A true marwaris A true Punjabi Lad 7 Punjab i ’ s and 7 Marwaris are going from PUNE to Mumbai.So both groups gather at Pune Station. Both groups are desperately trying to prove their superiority . SCENE 1 (PUNE- MUMBAI): ------------------------------ -------- ------------------------------ ------------------- - 7 punjabis take only 1 Ticket and 7 marwaris buy all 7 tickets.. Marwaris are desperately waiting for TC to come...... When TC arrives, All 7 punjabis get in one toilet so when TC knocks, one hand come out with the ticket and the TC goes Away.... NOW on return Journey All of them don't get a direct Train to PUNE. So they all decide to take a Passenger till Lonavala, from there they can easily get a LOCAL to PUNE SCENE 2 (MUMBAI - LONAVALA): ------------------------------ ---- ------------------------------ ------------- ----------- Marwaris decided, "this time we will prove that we too are equal"....All 7 Marwaris take 1

Turning Plastic Waste into $10/Barrel Fuel

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What if we could turn all the plastic waste we create on a daily basis into fuel to power our cars? A Washington, DC-based company called Envion claims it can do just that with a process that turns plastic into an oil-like fuel for just $10 per barrel. According to Envion, the resulting fuel can be blended with other components and used as either gasoline or diesel. Envion makes its plastic-to-oil conversion by heating up plastic to a pre-set temperature using infra-red energy. The process removes hydrocarbons without the use of a catalyst, resulting in a net gain of captured energy–82% of all material that goes in is transformed into fuel. In the past, attempts to turn plastic into fuel have resulted in a net loss of energy. Each Envion machine can process up to 10,000 tons of plastic waste each year (including bottle caps) and produce three to five barrels of fuel per ton with a total electricity cost of 7 to 12 cents per gallon. The $5 million inaugural plastic-to-fuel plant opened