Revolutionary Football capturing Energy

Students Jessica Lin, Julia Silverman, Jessica Matthews, Hemali Thakkaras in engineering class at Harvard have invented a football named 'Soccket' (an energy-capturing soccer ball)  that captures energy created when kicked and converts the captured energy later into electricity, is all set to help provide a power solution for developing countries. Soccket stores energy from play for later use as portable power source in developing countries.  

Named as Soccket, the revolutionary ball builds up enough energy to power a light for three hours from just 30 minutes of play. This invention makes itself fairly innovative and cost-efficient and an indeed development for developing countries, costs only a little more than a normal football to produce.

Bill Clinton illustrated the concept, which was the innovation of Harvard students Jessica Lin, Julia Silverman, Jessica Matthews, Hemali Thakkaras and Aviva Presser, as ‘extraordinary’.

“It’s an off-grid solution that gives us a way to bring power and improved quality of life, working capacity and learning capacity,” the Daily Mail quoted Clinton as saying.

The idea unites football, the world’s most popular sport, with the huge need for electrical energy in developing countries - a confounding one in five citizens around the globe are exclusive of power.

This practice of electricity generation from a play uses inductive coil technology, which involves having a metal coil and magnetic slug that goes forwards and backwards.

Currently, Soccket can be used with an ac adapter, designers are hoping to make it enable for other products to be charged by it in the future.

Initial inspiration for this innovation came from hi-tech dance floors technology, which can capture enegy from dancers’ movements.

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“The idea was come together and using art and science pick an issue and try to make it better,” Matthews said.

“We started to think about the time we’d spent overseas and we’d all had this similar experience of seeing kids play. These kids aren’t allowed to be children for very long. They have to deal with very serious issues in their lives every single day.

 “Sometimes giving these kids the ball before we even show them the power generation part is such an amazing thing because they have a ball which doesn’t require inflation - you are telling them that the tooth fairy does exist,” she added.

Silverman further said that apart from noticing the universal love for soccer they also noticed the huge market for safe, sustainable immediate power access.

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Spy in the Sky: Eyes on You

Technology has made life easier, safe and secure. Along with the benefits technologies enclose, it has always come up with some thrilling stuff.

Military-grade cameras have been developed in US, with more powerful characteristics that they can even see into homes, and can produce four inches wide 3D objects. So now there is going to be a new tech peep into the privacy of your room.

Generally search engine giant will be focusing on this practice by using its spy planes that will be helping in creating 3-d maps with much more detail than its satellite-derived Google Earth images.

Google and Apple will use new hi-tech mapping planes that can film into homes and windows through skylights, putting privacy at risk. The Spy in the Sky Technology is pretty much similar to that used by intelligence agencies in tracking terrorist targets in any country.

Google has admitted to having sent spy planes over cities, and is expecting to have 3D coverage of towns and cities with a combined population of 300 million, however Google has not revealed any locations so far. If talked about Apple, it has acquired a firm using this technology that has been tested on over 20 locations, including London.

Apple revealed its new mapping app for its iPhone and other devices along with privacy safeguard. Current 3D mapping technology relies on aerial images with much lower resolution than the Apple is thought to be using.

Whenever user ‘zoom’ in any image, details tend to be lost because of that poor image quality, all because of aerial images produced by satellite, one of the reason behind  there must be a new consideration of enhancing the quality image production.

Apple would use Google for its mapping services before getting emerged with C3 technologies. Apple actually bought C3 technologies, a 3D mapping company that uses technology developed by Saab AB, the aerospace and defense company.

Sky planes would be flying too quickly and at too great a height to access domestic Wifi networks, and is fairly able to picture around 40 square miles every hour. The next generation of maps is taking us over the garden fence.

This technology is a menacing development that brings the surveillance society a step closer.

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morph technology

Nokia is coming up with the Nokia Morph flexible Mobile Phone with the nanotechnology developed by Nokia Research Center  and  MORPH comes with a Transform Quickly and Change Shape and Morph Technology Based Upon Nano Technology.

Application Of Nano Technolgy In Morph:

• Capable of delivering flexible materials, transparent electronics, and self-cleaning surfaces.
• Mobile phones can be folded, turned into bracelet and the colour can also be changed completely.
• Liquid batteries to enable the flexibility and transparency of the materials used.

Morph is a amazing concept that the mobiles will be stretchable and flexible in future . It also allowing the user to transform these devices indifferent shapes radically. These concept device will be a perfect example of the functionality of nano technology of performing flexible materials, transparent electronics and self-cleaning surfaces.These Morph phone can be used in wrist with Wrist Mode. 

Features of morph technology

• Self-Cleaning
• Advanced Power Sources
• Sensing the Environment
• Devices become self-cleaning and self-preserving
• stretchable and flexible 
• allowing the user to transform their mobile device into radically different
• ultimate functionality
• flexible materials, transparent electronics and self-cleaning surfaces

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Biometrics Technology

Biometrics Technology is a latest Technology specially designed for unique identity security and able to help to reduce the incidences of defense, violation and identity the theft.

Biometrics Devices are live scan systems that digitally capture Fingerprints scans, Iris Scan, Retina Scan or other Facial Recognition Information and then register that personal recognition information into their databases for future identification. And the most important use of biometrics is security; it is also used as the computer interface.

Biometric applications are being used for authenticating the person’s identity. With the use of various features including fingerprints, face and signature a person can be identified. Identification method is being preferred over conventional PIN and passwords and also overcomes necessity of remembering passwords and Pins.

 Features of Biometrics Technology

•  Easy understanding of identification and authentication.
•  Better understanding of handwritten signature, voice, typing.
•  Flexible, scalable
•  Security
•  Solving identity-related challenges of particular grandness
•  Remembering passwords and Pins 

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Air Clicker invisible camera

Air Clicker invisible camera is a thumb Or forefinger camera containing lens, Digital storage media like MMC, SD card and shutter mechanism and its concept is same as other cameras such as Sony, Nikon and Canon but the only difference is that lens is mounted on blue-tooth enabled thumb Ring that is capable to responds to a motion sensor wrapping up by bendable finger. So you can wear a camera on your thumb and shutter button on your forefinger. When your finger goes to ‘Clicking’ action then lens read its position and take the picture. The picture is sent to a Bluetooth-connected Mobile Phone, which acts as an extension of the camera assembly.

Air Clicker is Bluetooth enabled device being connected with Smartphone and this camera basically consists of two modules:

• One is for a thumb and
•  Other is for forefinger.

 Air Clicker consists of two rings, one of which itself is directly the camera button and its on-off switch, and another track finger position in space and you can control the functions of this unusual camera. In order to make pictures with the Air Clicker, you need to make a characteristic gesture – sticking two fingers thumb and index fingers and simulate the shutter index with Air Clicker, you can also shoot videos.

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HoverMast

HoverMast is a Light weighted intelligence-gathering tethered flying machine Technology specially designed for small vehicles and The ‘HoverMast’ is developed by Israeli in Sky Sapience Company.

HoverMast is a general purpose intelligence gathering craft that can carry up to 9 kilograms of equipment like radar systems or sensors and Data can be transmitted down to a nearby ground station or, via integrated data links. It attaches to a small vehicle like a car or truck by a combination power and data cable.

The HoverMast is stored in a compact housing unit that can be mounted on any vehicle generally small vehicles in particular: cars, pick-up trucks, unmanned ground or surface vehicles (UGV/USV), ATVs, and small naval craft, making the system especially suited for Special Forces, border and port protection, and infantry missions.

Features of HoverMast:

•     Has hard-wired power connection.
•     Is includes real time video cameras capable of both day and night-time.
•     HoverMast can be landed and stowed in 10-15 seconds.
•     Station keeping is indefinitely
•     Electricity powered from the ground

And is mainly used for

•     Port security
•     Federal and local law enforcement
•     Anti-terror activities
•     Critical infrastructure protection
•     Mega event protection and crowd control
•     Special forces, infantry and naval operations
•     Urban warfare
•     Battle information fusion

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Mind Reading Computers

IBM expects to make a Mind Reading Computer i.e. a computer that fully work according to your thoughts. The user just needs to wear a specialized headset which would translate the signals coming from your mind and then send it to the paired computerfor next responding steps. 

                     

Devices allowing people to write letters or play pinball using just the power of their brains, have become a major draw at the world's biggest high-tech fair. People who have no other means of communication can start to control a computer that can produce words for them or they can manipulate what happens in a robot and allow themto interact with the world.

Features of Mind Reading Computer

• Mind-reading computer program that decodes brain activity into words
• Power will come to life.
• You will never need a password again.
• Mind reading is no longer science fiction.
• The digital divide will cease to exist.
• Junk mail will become priority mail.

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