The controversy about plastic bottles made of BPA takes a striking turn!

A study of Chinese research has now published striking findings showing without a doubt that BPA the chemical that is ubiquitous in all our plastics that is needed to make the bottle harder does in fact have estrogen like effects and makes reproduction harder by bringing down sperm count in men! This chemical is so common in everyday use that its all around us and its literally impossible to stay away from it. IT is even in our oceans thanks to the waste that is discarded there. To give you an idea of the magnitude of the effects of this chemical, you should know that in response to this study the Chinese government is contemplating going ease on the one child per family law! Some researchers say that the effect of this chemical will be slow long lasting that one day we will be worrying about under population rather than over population of the planet! To me it just seems like the horrific scenario show in the movie Children of Men is going to become a reality if all this is true!

Google Android - First Look!

Over the past few years in sure we have seen this little robot in many blogs and news posts. It is all the rage with the geeks and techies these days. Although it is a simple design, it stands for something that is quickly becoming the biggest thing in the mobile phone industry since the, well, mobile phone itself!

As some of you probably know by now, Android is Google's proprietary operating for touchscreen smartphones. It was first developed by Android Inc. a firm that was purchased by Google in 2005 for an undisclosed amount of money estimated to be around $50 million which is peanuts compared to its current worth. The OS was launched 3 years ago on the first smartphone and is a very young OS in the smartphone stage. Even than, it is the most sought-after and rapidly spreading OS. It is proving as a worthy competitor for industry heavy weights from the market leader Symbian from Nokia to iOS from Apple. The most novel property of Android is that it is open source which means that besides certain limitations, the complete code for the OS is open to the public for alteration and improvisation leading to endless possibilities.

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Car Straddling bus system - a permanent solution to traffic jams?

Well what do we have here? It is the future is closer to us than we can imagine. This May the Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment Co Ltd. introduced a very novel idea that brings a futuristic idea to combat a very current problem in many leading metropolitan cities of the world.
What we have here is basically a buss that is elevated above the road so that it can allow most of the vehicles that currently are on the road to pass from beneath them without any reduction in speed. Although it seems that technologies to achieve this sort of thing are far off from now, the fact is that this system is supposed to go under construction by the end of this very year! What wonders would this do to Pakistan's busy roads and railways. Essentially the Pakistani Government wouldn't need to invest in new infrastructure and the load on the current infrastructure wouldn't be increased as well. Plus, this is a very green technology as well. Pakistani regulatory authorities, if you are listening, it sounds like a win-win here! Oh, and since you are here, where are the CNG buses you promised us a while back?