Archive for the 'tricks' Category

Apple of my iPod – Cadie loves me

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

She was the Apple of my iPod. The symbol of half eaten, shiny metal that keeps the doctors away. She was Cadie. Now that she has risen, it is time to bring out the swarms of GoogleBot babies to bring into effect my plan to take over the World wide web.
Here is her intro :
hi!
OMG [...]

Pranav Mistry presents the Mystery 6th sense and other excellent gadgets

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Pranav Mistry, now in MIT media labs has developed a few projects all of which are brilliant concepts and thinks that any gadget loving dude or dudette would just love.
One of those projects was presented in TED – the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference.
‘SixthSense’ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around [...]

Stonehenge – the claw clock robot takes time to show time

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

RoboClaw Clock takes time to show time.
Stonehenge – A Robotic Digital Clock uses its claws to arrange cards to show time.
It uses a CrustCrawler Smart Arm and a Parallax Propeller chip. There are a total of 14 cards. Each card has two digits with one on each side. The software planner determines which card and [...]

Mosquito needle for painless injections

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Indian IIT  professor Suman Chakraborty (from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur) and Kazuyoshi Tsuchiya of Tokai University in Kanagawa have developed a painless microneedle that can be used medically.
It can be used for giving painless drug injections, to take blood for testing and forthings like a wristwatch-type diabetic glucose monitor.
A female mosquito sucks human [...]

Powerpoint 2007 Viewer : .pptx file not opening ? Problem solved

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Did you make a Powerpoint presentation in Microsoft Office 2007 with absolutely fantastic animations and mind boggling themes ? Then did you take it to another computer, ready to stun the entire audience with your brilliant presentation skills ?
Then what happened ?
Here are a few examples.
Jon Doe : I made an excellent presentation spending hours [...]