Hyperion Power - A solution to all the electricity needs of the world?

Can you picture a world in which small safe nuclear reactors give you a virtually inexhaustible energy supply for all the needs of a small neighborhood ( Creek Vista in DHA Karachi for example) and even power your electric cars? That is what Hyperion Power is all about. Click the read more link to find out more!

A soultion to Climate Change and Global Warming?

Former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold proposes a method to combat climate change by pumping liquid sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere through nozzles in a hose lifted more than 15 miles into the atmosphere using helium-filled balloons. As described by Myhrvold in an interview this week, the idea behind this "Stratoshield" would be to dim the sun in critical areas of the world by just enough to reduce or reverse the effects of global warming.

Eye-tracking computers - Alternative for finger print scanners?

Beeping, flashing retinal scanners are a constant, and dare I say tired, fixture in films. And why not? They serve as convenient shorthand for wealth and technological sophistication, and their utility is easy to convey.

Rare as they may be, scanners like this do exist. But researchers in Israel have developed software that can identify individuals based on eye movement, and don’t require hardware any more sophisticated than a laptop with a decent webcam. 

Light-emitting sutures, biomedical tattoos and more future medical tech

By changing the properties of conventional semiconductor wafers — from stiff and brittle to bendable and stretchable — engineers at the University of Illinois have opened the door to such devices as light-emitting diodes on a suture thread and even implantable biomedical tattoos.

John Rogers, an Illinois engineering professor, said the researchers sliced silicon and other materials thinner by a factor of 100,000 — as if creating a sheet of paper from a two-by-four. Then, to achieve mechanics similar to those of a rubber band, they structured the material in a wavy, accordion-like shape.

Hybrid batteries tease big energy capacity while charging in seconds

Ioxus Inc. is an up and comer in the energy storage industry that has plans this Monday to announce a new hybrid storage device that it hopes will radically alter batteries used in the auto, medical, and consumer electronics industries. The teased product is said to be roughly the size of a typical C-cell battery and combines the fast charge / discharge benefits of ultracapacitors with the impressive energy-to-weight ratio of a lithium-ion electrode. As a result, Ioxus says the hybrid devices can store more than double the energy of traditional ultracapacitors and charge in a matter of seconds.

Genetically Modified Mosquitoes - A permanent cure for Dengue and malaria?

Scientists released sterile male mosquitoes in the Cayman Islands as a new way of controlling the cases of dengue fever. The Oxford-based company Oxitec released the mosquitoes into the wild three times a week in a 40-acre plot of land. Four months into the six-month trial, the mosquito population decreased by 80 percent when compared to a nearby area.

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Review - HTC Desire HD in Pakistan!

It brings me great pleasure today, to review one of the most cutting edge devices that have graced the earth with its presence up till now. The HTC Desire HD is as cutting edge as you can get, its feature include an enormous 4.3 inch touchscreen, Android Froyo OS, WiFi hotspot capabilities, 1GHz processor, 8 MP camera and just under 800 MB of RAM, separate graphics processing chip to run your graphics heavy applications (including watching high definition videos on the device). Such a rich set of features has gotten all the techies drooling over it even before it was announced in an event in London hosted by HTC on September 15, 2010. Now, lets take a closer look.

Israel to activate SMS missile alert system next year!

Israel Defense Forces will be moving forward on a plan to light up a new cellular system that will blast out SMS-CB alerts to citizens if and when a missile is fired in the direction of Israel. Just over $7 million will be invested, with the application itself being jointly designed by eVigilo and Ericsson. If all goes well, it'll be operational in June of 2011, and it's just one aspect of the country's effort to consolidate all emergency alerts into one centralized system. We're told that the blasts would be sent in a variety of languages, and there's even potential to send them to TVs, radios, websites and "billboards." And unlike various other SMS emergency alert systems that have been implemented, these would actually differ based on how the threat was fore-casted to affect different geographic regions. Something tells us eVigilo's going to become a multinational company in no time.

Angry Birds cake! Nice eh?

Ok so this isn't news per se, but it is pretty cool and who doesn't like Angry Birds? More to the point, who doesn't like cake? It was created by fonatic71, a chap over on Flickr and I have to say he's done a smashing job.

Video Update - The TAT LIVE wallpapers for Android!

Check out an new video of the Live Wallpapers we mentioned earlier. As you can see the most amazing thing is that the wallpaper isn't only interactive, it even responds to the accelerometer. That means that when you move the phone around, the trees move in the direction according to the way gravity would move them in the real world! Such amazing Applications are slowly coming and and showing everyone the powerful and elegant features available on Android!