Sayan's BlogWorld
highlighting the future's bizzare as it transforms into the present's mundane
May 21st
Yahoo | Waste-To-Oil Company Selling Oil Commercially
Organic waste to oil conversion with over 80% using Thermal Conversion Process technology. More info here.
May 20th
AlwaysOn | Solar crystals get 2-for-1
This technology has the potential to increast the efficiency of solar cells to 60%. Excerpt: “Today’s commercial solar cells can use anywhere from 10 percent to 35 percent……Los Alamos researchers have found that it is possible to increase a cell’s energy production by making each photon move two electrons………….resulting in a solar cell with a potential efficiency of over 60 percent. The method could also be used to make more efficient amplifiers, lasers, switches and light absorbers………….”
May 19th
The New York Times | For Sniffing Out Land Mines, a Platoon of Twitching Noses
Holy rats ! Rats to the rescue? The rodents seem to be one up against humans or even dogs when it comes to detecting landmines.
May 19th
Linux Journal | Automating Government with e-Governance
This article has a good overview of the potential hurdles facing a vernacular-based (Kannada in this case) eGovernance system for a large country like India. Another Linux Journal article (Linux Access in State and Local Government) also has some relevant insights regarding open-source initiatives for local governance.
May 19th
Automating Government with e-Governance
This article has a good overview of the potential hurdles facing a vernacular-based (Kannada in this case) eGovernance system for a large country like India.
May 17th
CIO Magazine | The Virtues of Chitchat – Making I.T. Work
Blogging with the corporate enviornment is explored in this interesting article. Of course, the CIO’s may often face the dilemma of when to draw a line when to comes to such a open enviornment.
May 14th
Wired | Designer Virus Stalks HIV
A virus to kill a virus, sounds interesting. By using a computer model of what happens to the immune system when it’s infected with HIV, Arkin and his colleagues have designed a potential AIDS treatment that would remain with the patient as long as he or she has HIV, meaning it would prevent AIDS from arising even in patients who otherwise would have developed the disease after a decade of latency. They also predict HIV would not become resistant to the virus.
But the catch is…. It’s also possible that HIV and the therapeutic virus could mutate around each other and recombine to make an altogether new virus.
May 12th
Wired | The Unfolding Saga of the Web
Dr. Stuart Feldman, IBM’s resident visionary and leader of Big Blue’s Internet Technology division is co-chairing the 13th World Wide Web Conference. He has given this interviewing delving into the evolution of the next generation Internet.
May 12th
Financial Express | IISc Develops Fuel-efficient Engine For Two Wheelers
Will this help to somewhat reduce the pollution on Indian streets? Of course, the answer is not so simple, but this is a positive step.
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