Our cars are faster, smarter and most importantly, safer, thanks to these 10 innovations. ABS brakes 1. Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) Found in almost all but the cheapest cars, ABS is a simple “anti-lock” system that gives drivers the capability to steer around danger under hard braking by preventing the wheels from locking up. The modern evolution [...]
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10 car innovations in widespread use today. Leave a comment
10 revolutionary devices over the years Leave a comment
Last year, an online video showed a 1-year-old girl touching a magazine as if it were an iPad. She swiped it with her fingers to turn the pages and did a pinching motion to enlarge the images, but to no avail. Aside from being cute and amusing, the clip underscored the evolution of touch — [...]
Mercedes rolls out ‘invisible’ car Leave a comment
Using optical camouflage, technology experts at Mercedez Benz have figured out how to make an entire car disappear. The researchers created the illusion that their new zero emissions F-Cell Mercedes Benz is not even there at all, the Daily Mail reported. Taking the principal that to see through something you need to see what’s behind [...]
SHOOT A PIC, THEN FOCUS – Stunning camera set to change game 1 comment
Awesome Lytro uses light-field photography that just guarantees a good picture —always. Introducing consumers to a completely new technology is inherently tricky,but Lytro has done an impressive job of keeping things simple. Talk about a ‘living’ photograph now,It’s the photographer’s nightmare. You’ve taken the perfect photo of your daughter/son holding a ball. But you focused on the wrong thing. [...]
A new direction for gaming controllers Leave a comment
The next generation videogame controller will make you feel things you have never felt before thanks to an innovative feedback technique that pull and stretches the skin on your thumb tips University of Utah engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices,but pulls and stretches the thumb [...]
A hot idea for a faster hard drive Leave a comment
A revolutionary new way of magnetic recording uses heat to allow data to be processed hundreds of times faster than current hard drive technology An international team of scientists found they could record information using only heat a previously unimaginable scenario.They believe this discovery will not only make future magnetic recording devices faster,but more energy-efficient [...]
6 Thumb Rules of Business Innovation 1 comment
What according to you innovation is? Is it something that solves all our problems efficiently? Or something new and useful? Or which is ahead of time? Well all are true, but for entrepreneurs, innovation is all what can be seen in figures. Though invention and innovation may appear similar, but they all are poles apart. [...]
Where are the PhDs? Private sector must hire top maths & science talent Leave a comment
Over the last 20 years, India has steadily lost quality mathematicians working in the country. In the last two years, the Infosys Science Foundation has not been able to present its annual mathematics prize to an Indian working in India: in both years, the awardees are people who work in the US. Over the last [...]
Can Asia Beat the Western World on Innovation? Leave a comment
A recent comment from Rudolf Kutina went like this “What you see today is “Just follow the money” strategy, but in 10 years Asians well beat us on innovation and in 20 years they will teach us innovation methodologies. The main reason is that Asians today are managed to be multi-disciplined, while we just try to [...]
New research takes storage to atomic level Leave a comment
Researchers at IBM have stored and retrieved digital 1s and 0s from an array of just 12 atoms, pushing the boundaries of the magnetic storage of information to the edge of what is possible. The findings, being reported in the journal ‘Science’, could help lead to a new class of nanomaterials for a generation of [...]
