Sayan's BlogWorld
highlighting the future's bizzare as it transforms into the present's mundane
Mumbai surgeons perform knee surgery replacements using an iPod touch
Apr 21st
Mumbai surgeons perform knee surgery replacements using an iPod touch – http://pulsene.ws/1nGYJ
If neurons talk using RFID…are we zapping our brains with our phone yapping?? !!
Feb 6th
I stumbled across this article today about how neurons in brains do not rely just on physical connections to talk to each other. They interact with each other with their version of electro-magnetic coupling similar to Near Field Communication (NFC)or RFID.
NFC or RFID type technologies can be prone to interference from various gadgets or devices. This new discovery about neural communication may bring into focus how electronic devices affect our brains and cognitive abilities. Is it time to think about how our society designs and uses the billions of cell phones ?
Here is the article from Caltech:
I don’t think that on the deck of the Enterprise we’ll have rotating rust
Nov 27th
I have been thinking about making my own ZFS-based mini-NAS using FreeNAS for while.
ZFS has often been called one of the best innovations to come out of Sun Microsystems.
During the course of my reading about ZFS I came across this interesting interview of the developers of the ZFS filesystem where they mention “I don’t think that on the deck of the Enterprise we’ll have rotating rust”.
This interview from 2007 mentions how ZFS can be leveraged for high-performance database systems- this is distinct possibility now with the acquisition of Sun by Oracle.
The Story of Electronics
Nov 13th
The Story of Electronics employs the Story of Stuff style to explore the high-tech revolution’s collateral damage—25 million tons of e-waste and counting, poisoned workers and a public left holding the bill. Host Annie Leonard takes viewers from the mines and factories where our gadgets begin to the horrific backyard recycling shops in China where many end up. The film concludes with a call for a green “race to the top” where designers compete to make long-lasting, toxic-free products that are fully and easily recyclable
The economic value of nature
Oct 20th
Governments are finally waking up to the economic value of nature… but is it too late?
Check out this BBC article titled India and Brazil head move to ‘green’ economic future . Dr. David Suzuki has spoken about this extensively earlier
Home wireless overhaul successful !
Aug 7th
I had been struggling with the poor wi-fi at home for a while. After some looking around I got a refurbished Netgear WNDR3300 dual-radio 802.11a/b/g/n wireless router from www.newegg.com for about $30.
The stock firmware on the router is mediocre so flashed it with DD-WRT. Now I have super-fast connectivity to my computers and phones. Ya for awesome free open sourcey stuff !
Now for my geeky friends here is my setup: This router has 2 independent radios so after flashing the firmware to DD-WRT I configured a client bridge setup to the interweb on the 802.11g radio . On the other radio (802.11a/b/g/n) I setup a mixed 802.11g/n 2.4Ghz access point
Netgear WNDR3300
because my Android phone cannot do 5Ghz 802.11n
Back from hiatus
Jul 31st
I am back thanks to the WordPress for android app… To celebrate here are a few pictures I took with my new phone…
Leave it as it is…
Oct 2nd
Leave it as it is. You cannot improve it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it….
President Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt commenting on seeing the Grand Canyon
Read more about the US National Parks and President Teddy Roosevelt at http://www.nps.gov and http://blogs.nashualibrary.org/reference/2009/09/leave_it_as_it_is_1.html
India vs. USA: A visual comparison
Sep 27th
Mint.com (now owned by Intuit) has put an interesting set of easy to understand visual comparisons of India vs. USA. Here are the charts / graphs
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