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Its not about not using but about using properly....October 24th being observed as the International Climate Change Day, may have brought some effect on the concern towards the environment of the planet. The emphasis of this day was to make aware the people about all the hazards the environment and the planet is facing in today's time. The Carbon Content has gone to a mind boggling 383ppm, just 70 less than the max the human race can bear to sustain. The scientists in this concern have their view that the planet's carbon content is the most that the human race has ever witnessed and its going to increase at even more rapid race. The question in every concerned mind is that what can one do to avoid such a catastrophic crisis the climate is suffering from. Many think it is due to all the industrialization and developments being done in the near past which is still going on. But on the contrary one cannot just throw away all the facilities and conviniencies to just think about the planet's climate. All this progress and development man has taken centuries to evolve cannot be just simply forsaken. The man cannot leave all this comfortability and still wants proper environment, food, no climate disorder, to speak in a small way. But how can one expect to get the present scenario under control, if the man cannot get rid of his zidd of not giving up all this. A new and innovative way, the Proper Managing Way(PMW), as I like to call it may help in solving this issue. Its not about changing anything or using new technology, or employing some rules. Its just a change in the habitual orders and mindset of the humans. No need to leave any luxury or facility, though can't be. But the only work needed is to use 'em in a proper manner, just like respecting the luxuries as they respect us. PMW's squeeze is to use everything but properly, without the action of letting the utilizable amount go to waste. Everything has a counterpart, an alternative which may be better or worse in some respect. Look at Google, whose reputation in the internet market is well-known. Google has a search engine which is as efficient as google but more energy saving as google. Its whole interface is in black, cause black is no colour which consumes the least energy, that's why its being named as Blackle. By this, Google has not only taken a so-called environmental step but also made clear about its view about the rapid climate change. Take a look to the sky, just before you die coz its the last time you will... will be the lines to be spoken if action towards the problem is not taken. This climatic blitzkrieg will surely take the human race into its vice grip and make each human, whether concerned or not will be its victim. Save ourselves before the earth bleeds... coz this bleeding will make all the humans bleed for their actions and the suffering of the climate and planet. All the hurricanes, Tsunamis speak for themselves, need not be explained. Its not about not using but about using properly all the resources, just as before, to respect the planet for all it has given to us.

Tejaswi Khanna Editor(3rd Year CSE) Every firm is investing heavily in the green technologies, which are closer to the environment. It were them in the first place to spoil the picture now they've taken responsibility to repent and mend their ways. Intel is researching towards the technology of tomorrow which is well efficient and energy saving as well. Moreover, the car manufacturers ain't leaving their business but are researching in cheap and ecofriendly technologies so that every man can have his hands in the mending of climatic crisis, which were once helping it.They have now come to realize about not just development but sustainable development. Actions to be taken need to be in rapid succession and tough in implementation. PMW may actually quite a step if everybody inculcates in him the better way of living and managing resources. Its just like what an MBA does in a firm, an MBA of environment. Utilizing optimally with the least possible resources in a proper way to see our new and younger generations enjoy the fruits of the planet just as we did.

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Our InstituteUniversity Institute of Engineering & Technology (UIET) was started by Kurukshetra University in year 2004 as a Centre of Excellence exclusively for the engineering and technical education. The Management of college is under University administration. The varsity was already conducting a B.Tech in Instrumentation Engg. successfully since 1995 under the department named USIC. Then the varsity decided to start B.Tech. programme in three more disciplines, namely, Biotechnology, Computer Science & Engineering and Electronics and Communication Engineering from session 2004-05 with Mechanical introduced in 2007-08. The institute is offering, apart from these graduate courses, a few postgraduate courses also - four M.Tech degree courses in Biotech, Computer engineering, Software Engineering and Electronics & Communication Engineering. And for these courses the varsity has constructed a separate building and named it University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), for the engineering courses with all amenities and modern laboratories, workshop, library etc. Well-qualified and dedicated faculty has been recruited as per the requirement of the courses. The University campus offers excellent environment for the overall development of the personality and leadership qualities of the students. This institute has marked its presence by providing quality education in these selected engineering disciplines. The institute is also concerned about the residence facilities for boys and girls coming from different parts of India, as the varsity campus provide separate hostel facilities for them. To ensure safety and comfortable atmosphere, the staff, accordingly is appointed to take good care of the students. Myriad and spacious seminar halls, class rooms are yet another impressive feature of the institute which is also capable of catering to the study needs of the students with an up-to-date library in the premises itself. It has a wide collection of books pertaining to all the branches of engineering, including reference books. The library has open access system for the convenience of the students.


Ratnawali: Haryana Day State Level Fest-2009

student participants from all the affiliated colleges of Haryana in 22 events which involved Haryanvi Folk Orchestra, Saang: The folk Theatre, Haryanvi Gazal, Haryanvi Group Dance, Solo Dance, Haryanvi Bhajan, OneAct-Play, Folk Costume etc. All these events receive packed participation from all parts of Haryana. On the final day, Hon'ble Governor of Haryana, Sh. Jagan Nath Paharia was invited to propel the youth participation and distributed the deserving winners their rewards. All in the entire, the event was a huge success and reminded the rich cultural heritage the state of Haryana possesses.

Inauguration by Lt. Gen. (Dr) D. D. S. Sandhu

The annual mega event Ratnawali 2009 embellished us all with its endeavours to keep the Haryanvi culture alive. This four day cultural extravaganza was organized by the Department of Youth and Cultural Affairs, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra from October 27th to October 30th, 2009. The department is organizing it from last two decades with the sole motto of preservation and enrichment of the rich cultural heritage of Haryana. The event was as usual a megahit and attracted more than 3,000

Price Distribution Ceremony

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Kunz Fest09:The varsity organized the 25th North Zone Inter University youth festival, Kunz Fest-09 at the Bhagvad Gita Sadan dating from 16th to 20th Nov 2009. This Silver Jubilee festival has been sponsored by the Association of Indian Universities and Ministry of Youth Affairs, Govt. of India. The festival, being inaugurated by Mrs. Geeta Bhukkal, Health Minister of Haryana, promised much events of quality with participants getting their hands in from the universities of Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, J&K, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, to say the least. The events like skit competition, one act play were quite a crowd gatherer. The closing ceremony was graced by honourable CM of Haryana, Ch. Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

YES+ is a programme for Art of Living given a thought by Pt. Shri Shri Ravishankar who started this programme on international level to help people to come out of their daily life tensions and make their living better.

Ch. Ranbeer Singh Bhawan inaugurated by CM of Haryana :Newly built hostel for students of Institute of Instrumentation Engineering (IIE), in front of Pratap Bhawan was inaugurated by honourable CM of Haryana, Sh. Bhupender Singh Hooda dated 20 Nov 2009. The hostel is named after Late Ch. Ranbeer Singh Hooda , father of honourable CM of Haryana Ch. Bhupender Singh Hooda.

Annual Sports Week :The ongoing Annual Sports Week from 10 to 12th Nov has been concluded successfully at the Sports Complex. It was an intercollege competition involving various sports and athletic events.th

Rostrum 2009-10 :Dean Student Welfare organised Rostrum 2009-10 in different departments/ hostels from 23-30th Nov 2009. The competition is being organised from last 4 years. The main motive is to expose the talent of students in public speaking.

Yes+ :Youth Empowerment and Skills workshop was organised in the University Model School, Kuruksheta University from 24-30th Nov 2009.14


Training and Placement Cell :University Institute of Engg. & Technology (UIET) was established by Kurukshetra University in 2004 in the Univ. Campus as Centre of Excellence to provide quality education in selected Engg. Disciplines at Under-graduate and Post-graduate levels. The first batch of passed out students in 2007-08 were placed in reputed companies with pay package of upto Rs. 4.5 lacs per annum. 83% students of ECE deptt., 82% students of CSE Deptt. and 54% students of Bio-Tech. Deptt were successfully placed. The college has signed MOUs with highly reputed organizations such as CSIO, CEERI Pilani and also has setup its own training and placement cell for the summer training of the students in countries leading R&D centres and reputed industries firms like DRDO, NDRI, HAU, Siemens, IBM, BHEL, PAU, BSNL, HCL, NTPC, Reliance, Airtel etc. Convener: Co-Convener : Member: Dr. C.C. Tripathi, Asst. Professor, F/I ECE Mrs. Amita Malik, Asst. Professor,F/I CSE Mr. Monish Gupta, Lecturer, ECE

Prism-I

Micro-Electronics Workshop :A three day workshop was organised in collaboration with TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS SERVICE, NEW DELHI in the college from 30th Nov to 2nd Dec 09 under the guidance of Dr. C.C. Tripathi (Asst. Prof. and F/I ECE).Competitions were held on poster-making and presentations based on HIGH VACCUM TECHNIQUES, PLASMA CHARACTERIZATION AND THIN FILM DEPOSITION. Practical session was held under the direction of Dr. R.K. Garg, Scientist, TAS (Nobel Laureate).

Techelons09Leaders of technology..An intra-college technical event namely Techelons09 was organized in the institute from 14th to 15th Nov 09 under the guidance of Dr. C. C. Tripathi, convener of the event. Techelons included a Seminar on IBM Technologies given by Mr. Akshit from U.S.A, Mr. Parveen from Bangalore & Mr. Pankaj from ALLSOFT SOLUTIONS. Other Technical Events like Bug hunt, Web hunt, Apt it, Change it were organized, which encourage the students to showcase the best from within.

UIET, KUK lived yet another day of exhibiting proficient intellect of its educatees on 24th Oct 09. The juncture was marked by enormous participation and exhilaration. Pioneered by students of 3rd year (CSE and ECE), as a team a.k.a PRISM-i, these couple of events served in infusing a creative bend to future engineers. Glimpse of technical advancement and rip-roaring intrusion of gadgets in human life were among the themes allotted to the participants for the events of POSTERMAKING and COLLAGEPRESENTATION. Students from all years exhibited their resourceful perception regarding the various upcoming technologies and sciences. The best share of the occasion was the heap of montage, posters and creators of the same, demonstrating their artistic skills along with brief verbal description of their basic idea behind their creations. Finally the occasion ended, marking cultural upliftment of a technical department. This was good attempt which raised voice for cultural events to be included in extra-curricular stuff for technical colleges as a reposeful drug for technocrats.

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GOOGLE GOING GREEN WITH BLACKLEBlackle is a nonprofit website powered by Google

Cisco blocks 'dark web' of social networksIronPort S-Series appliances filters web content on the fly

Cisco is tackling the so-called "dark web" of online custom search page that has saved 1,589,411.785 watt content that's not easily indexed or categorised by hours of energy and still counting. With the absence of adding new usage controls to its IronPort S-Series Web all colors, it has completely black interface that saves Security Appliances. The new technology is packaged energy compared to standard blank Google page. The as a software blade that works with Cisco's URL filtering database to make decisions about user web surfing to enforce acceptable-use policies. The IronPort Web Usage Controls software has an engine that reads a web page on the fly and analyses the content to decide if it's objectionable or off limits according to corporate policy, says Vivek Bhandari, a product marketing manager at Cisco. Simply categorising websites into lists -- such as sports, shopping, hate sites or porn -- is no longer sufficient because the Internet is now filled with highly transient and often dangerous sites that comprise the "dark web". Cisco says the dark web may constitute 80% of objectionable content, outside the 20% of websites that can still be put neatly into list form. Cisco's S-Series appliances can perform malware detection and blocking as well. The new Web Usage computer monitors consume less energy by displaying Controls software adds the ability to monitor, block or darker colors, or precisely no color at all. warn users about web traffic based on a method that A normal CRT screen uses about 74 watts for a white combines URL filtering lists with contextual heuristics page, and only 59 watts for the black one. According for analysing content and checking hidden tags. Cisco's to a blog post, Google could save 750 megawatt-hours URL filtering database includes 65 URL categories and is updated every 5 minutes through Cisco's security a year by utilizing it for CRT screens. intelligence operations. A technology journalist found that the CRT monitors With the configuration Cisco is advising customers to did use more energy displaying a white screen, but less than the calculations made by the blog post that use, about 90% of objectionable dark web content inspired Blackle. But even if the savings in energy are violating policy will be detected via IronPort Web Usage Controls without causing the false positive rate small, they are significant after being added up. to spike, Bhandari says.

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Google Fixes Two Android DoS BugsGoogle released patches repairing two security flaws in its Android mobile operating system, which enabled hackers to launch denial of service attacks on users' smartphones. The flaws, made public by the Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team (oCERT), affected Android version 1.5. One of the most serious security vulnerabilities occurs in the way Android handles SMS messages. Hackers can create malformed SMS message from a badly formatted WAP Push message, which, in turn, could trigger a mobile phone to disconnect from the cellular network, oCERT reports in a security advisory.

Altogether, the Google Android OS is the driving force behind nine devices with 32 carriers in 26 countries, according to The Wall Street Journal. While the Android has made clear strides on the consumer front, its steady emergence as a viable enterprise platform has also made it an increasingly attractive target for hackers.

Microsoft donates driver code to Linux communityIt isnt a joke. Microsoft released its 20000 lines of

device driver code to Linux community under GPLv2. So why is Microsoft trying to help Linux community and whats all this about?

This code is for the drivers that let the Linux operating system performance better on Microsoft virtualized server, Windows Server 2008, which The second patch Google released addressed uses Hyper-V virtualization system also known as numerous security issues in the Android Dalvik Viridian. Microsoft is doing all this for the support API, including a DoS vulnerability that leads to a for the well known Linux servers so as to be able system process restart. to run on its new version of Windows Server 2008. Microsoft might be looking forward to the large Hackers could launch a DoS attack by creating a malicious application, which would then be sent to market share that Linux community holds for its the user's mobile device, typically through some server participation. kind of social engineering scheme. The malware The senior director of platform strategy at would subsequently trigger the affected API Microsoft, Sam Ramji says: We are seeing function and cause a system restart once users Microsoft communities and open source opened and downloaded the application. communities grow together, which is ultimately of benefit to our customers. The Linux community, for The Google Android OS is primarily used on example, has built a platform used by many consumer smartphones, but is starting to gain customers. So our strategy is to enhance ground in the enterprise space. Android gained interoperability between the Windows platform some steam -- and credibility -- after numerous cell phone makers and wireless carriers recently and many open source technologies, which announced plans to launch handsets built around includes Linux, to provide the choices our customers are asking for. the open source platform. 19 Tech-Nattyam | Volume 1.0

Detector Cuts Energy Consumption in HVAC SystemsBridges gap between simple sensors and infrared cameras A new sensor can tell the difference between humans and animals inside a room without the use of expensive infrared (IR) imaging cameras.

Engineering industry relies on intelligent electronics made in Europe

Technological innovations in the machinery industry, and thus the competitiveness of the engineering sector as a whole increasingly depend on the application of intelligent electronics. Especially the access to customer specific Known as the Cool Eye Thermopile Array, the device microchips could be threatened with a vanishing European could serve as an energy conservation system, enabling a semiconductor industry. "Up to now this latent danger has building's HVAC to autonomously switch off the heat when not yet been perceived as such by most of our industry there's no one in a room, or turn up the air conditioning players, but in the long run it could become an Achilles' when a room is crowded. It could also inexpensively boost heel. This must be avoided", says Thilo Brodtmann, Vice the intelligence of security systems, where its ability to Executive Director of the German Engineering Federation, distinguish between humans and animals would enable it VDMA. to serve in an intruder alarm. From intelligent hydraulic components to machine Engineers say the system's key controlling and up to entire production flows in factory advantage is its cost. At about $20, logistics - electronics and data processing have long the device's price tag lies close to become basic components for innovations in the that of low-end sensors, but with machinery industry. Logic, sensors, actuators, RFID-chips, performance reportedly similar to embedded systems - the demand for customer specific that of $2,000 infrared semiconductor components in the machinery industry is cameras."We're bridging the gap between dumb sensors increasing constantly. The European semiconductor and infrared cameras," says Wolfgang Schmidt, product industry is able to produce small lot sizes, and reliably leader for infrared sensing at PerkinElmer, maker of the guarantees capacities as well as the protection of Cool Eye. "This is not an IR camera, but its performance is a intellectual property rights. lot closer to the IR camera than to the simple sensor." Therefore, the machinery industry notices with concern Cool Eye offers higher performance than the so-called the increasing trend to transfer semiconductor production "dumb" sensors because it employs a thermopile detector to non-European countries. The close co-operation array containing 16 elements. The array includes lenses, between semiconductor industry and the European and is available with an EEPROM and a microcontroller investment goods industry, which is vital for innovation with an integrated 10-bit analog-to-digital converter. In processes on both sides, would be severely threatened by contrast, typical IR sensors contain a couple of elements such an extensive relocation of production. and don't incorporate focusing optics, Schmidt says. "We fear that the respective research activities in Europe too will completely disappear after the production of The new 16-element detector can even distinguish semiconductors has been relocated. This might strongly between humans and animals because it takes a picture that's divided into 16 parts, and then it uses the affect the competitiveness of our companies", advises microcontroller to analyze all of the parts.The device is Brodtmann. Moreover, investments already spent on already being used in an unspecified commercial air research and development, as well as the education and conditioning product and in other HVAC applications where training of skilled personnel would be threatened it cuts energy consumption.

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by continuing relocation. Therefore, it is important that the EU advocates fair conditions in global competition, and that it works for an industry friendly environment, which makes the production of high-tech in Europe more favourable. This would also create the necessary conditions for the continuation of semiconductor production in Europe.

LEDs Brighten New Mustang

been in the interior. Ford launched MyColor in 2006 and added ambient LED lighting in 2008. Then it improved and broadened its use the technology in the 2010 Mustang."In 2010, we added an even better execution of footwells and cup holders," Gelardi says. "Then we did the rear-seat area, map pockets, and the coolest part: the sill plates."Indeed, the Mustang sill plate is likely to be popular among Mustang owners and enthusiasts. The feature borrows from the iconic, embossed aluminum sill plates long used in Mustangs, and then adds LED lighting to illuminate the sill's Mustang logo, so it can be seen at night.

Ford worked with Osram Opto Semiconductors Inc., which makes LEDs and associated electronics and optics, to Drivers can change colors of LED-based instrument panel develop the Mustang's illumination. Osram supplied LED and vehicle interior components for the interior, including the company's With light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the cup holders, map MULTILED, which contains red, green and blue chips in one pockets, dashboard and footwells, Ford's 2010 Mustang LED package, as well as its TOPLED and Mini TOPLED may be taking the auto industry's boldest step yet into the products. The semiconductor maker worked with Ford to develop the custom Ice Blue version of the TOPLED and world of LED lighting. Mini TOPLED, both created by employing a proprietary The new Mustang, introduced earlier this year, is phosphor chemistry to get the exact color Ford wanted. consistent with the growing desire of automakers to use LEDs, instead of incandescent bulbs, to boost the image of Osram engineers said the key to pleasing Ford was to their vehicles. In the Mustang, Ford designers created an provide consistent LED lighting quality. That way, vehicle owners wouldn't see differences between the lighting in aura inside the car, and then enhanced that aura by the footwells, dashboard and doors. enabling owners to change the color of the LED lighting. Using a feature called "MyColor," the new Mustang At the same time, LEDs are said to be enabling automotive provides 125 color possibilities for the instrument cluster, designers to enhance their while allowing seven color options for the footwells, map brand images. During the pockets, cup holders and door sill plates. Drivers can Mustang project, designers change the interior colors to their liking merely by flicking a built a so-called "half switch. buck" to demonstrate the "It made a lot of sense to people in our product planning technology internally, and then ended up showing committee," says Rob Gelardi, a senior designer for the 2010 Mustang. "Mustang is the perfect vehicle to launch a and re-showing it to hundtechnology like this."To be sure, Ford isn't alone in its use reds of engineers and executives throughout the company.The technology was an of LEDs for interior lighting. Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Volkswagen and General Motors have made significant use immediate hit internally, Gelardi says, because it enables Mustang owners to customize their cars without going the of LEDs to brighten their interiors. More than half of all aftermarket route. automakers also employ LEDs in center high-mount stop lamps (CHMSLs), as well as in daytime running lamps and parking lamps. Approximately 2 percent of new vehicles also use LEDs for high- and low-beam headlights. To date, however, the real impact of automotive LEDs has "You always want to make it your Mustang," Gelardi says. "It's always been one of the most customizable cars.With this, you can customize your car different every day."

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EcoCAR Challenge Throttles into Year TwoModel-Based Design around verification and testing is next stage of the advanced automotive engineering competition Seventeen university teams are heading into the next stage of the three-year EcoCAR: the NeXt Challenge automotive engineering competition, convening in Boston this week for additional training designed to prepare them for the validation and testing work that comes with year two. The competition, established by the United States Dept. of Energy (DOE) and General Motors and managed by the Argonne National Lab., challenges university teams in North America to reduce the environmental impact of vehicles while retaining performance and safety standards and without sacrificing consumer appeal. The teams are charged with reengineering a donated 2009 Saturn Vue to explore advanced propulsion and clean vehicle solutions, including full-function electric, range-extended electric, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell technologies. The students have to comply with real-world engineering processes to design and integrate their advanced technology designs and they are also working to incorporate lightweight materials to improve aerodynamics and to utilize alternative fuels such as ethanol, biodiesel and hydrogen. To that end, the teams are settling into year two of the competition, focused on the testing and validation stage of their designs. While model-Based Design tools such as SimuLink from The MathWorks and others from National Instruments were used the first year to create the engine components, the tools will now play a role in optimizing and testing the design parameters and the control software prior to the build stage where the teams create near-production-ready components. Model-Based Design is important to the competition and design teams, in general because it allows engineers to test a variety of scenarios quickly before launching into the more costly and time-consuming physical implementation. "While the technologies that go into the vehicles are

definitely cutting edge, we don't think one of these vehicles is going to change the world or outperform GM," says Mike Walstrum, control and simulation engineer at the Argonne National Lab. "We're trying to acclimate students to the real-world environment. Our goal is to develop engineers of the future who can really hit the ground running and start their careers off by developing environmentally friendly automotive applications."

Chemists Win Nobel Prize for Atom-byAtom Ribosome MapRounding out the 2009 science Nobel Prizes are Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath, who will receive the prize in chemistry for their work on an atomic-scale map of the ribosome. Ribosomes are the cellular organelle responsible for assembling amino acids into proteins. If DNA is the blueprint, ribosomes are the construction workers. Ribosomes themselves are composed of a combination of RNA and specialized proteins. The process of examining ribosomes at the finest possible resolution began over thirty years ago, when Ada Yonath first attempted to use X-rays to photograph a crystallized ribosome. Yonath's results threw down the gauntlet to the rest of the scientific community, and scientists like Steitz and Ramakrishnan soon joined in the race to describe the organelle at smaller and smaller scales. Eventually, the work of everyone in the field produced a working model of the ribosome at the atomic level. Understanding ribosomes has important implications in the health field, as many antibiotics kill bacteria by targeting the ribosome. The laureates' work also produced ancillary benefits for other fields, as the X-ray crystallography they perfected while examining ribosomes can be applied to the imaging of other tiny, biological elements.

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polar orbit going around the north and south poles at about 50 kilometers high. From this for one year it will map the surface of the Moon for what we call the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, the people who are planning our future presence on the Moon. After that one-year mission it will be turned over to the Science Mission Directorate at NASA who will use it to do lunar science and A powerful bomb rocked the surface of moon in the early study the history of the Moon's surface and how it came to be the way it is. hours of Friday i.e. 9th of October, 2009.The result of the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing explosion was a crater and a lots of dust. There is no casualty so far but on the contrary this bombardment has Satellite (LCROSS) led to a great discovery. Whattt?? The blasts on earth LCROSS is a very different concept. The LCROSS system lead to death, destruction and disaster but on the contrary consists of two main components. You have the centaur blasts on the lunar surface lead to upper stage of our Moon rocket, which again that has the discovery!!! How can be there motor that takes us out of Earth orbit and propels us be such a difference of Ds on a toward the Moon. And then later on we'll use that empty minute change in the surface of upper stage as our impactor. Then we also have the blasts!!!?? Dont worrythe shepherding spacecraft. This is what guides and targets source of blasts on both the that upper stage toward its target crater and it also carries surfaces is also different. On earth, the scientific instrumentation on board that will measure they are done by terrorists but on and analyze the plume we create. There is a range of the lunar surface they are instrumentation on board. We have cameras and conducted by NASA(National Aeronautics and Space spectrometers, both working in the visible and infrared Administration)J yes Im talking about the recent moon wavelengths. bombing mission conducted by NASA. Actually this mission Both LRO and LCROSS are scheduled to launch together in started in June 2009 when NASA fired into space two the spring of 2009. They'll launch aboard an Atlas 5 rocket robotic space probes,the lunar reconnaissance orbiter flying out of Cape Canaveral in Florida. As they launch and (LRO) and the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing climb out of the Earth's atmosphere they'll jettison or get Satellite (LCROSS) aboard an Atlas 5 rocket flying out of rid of the lower stage of the Atlas 5 rocket, and it will fall Cape Canaveral in Florida. back to Earth in the ocean. We'll climb into Earth orbit, and

BOMB BLAST ON MOON.!!!!

after being there a very brief time, fire the engine of the centaur. The centaur will take LRO and LCROSS out of Earth The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is going to go into orbit on its way toward the Moon. About two hours after orbit around the Moon and its going to map the Moon in launch LRO separates and it will now take its own path to finer detail than ever done before. As a matter of fact if a the Moon to conduct its mission coffee table were on the surface of the Moon, LRO would Five days after launch, LCROSS, still attached to that probably be able to see it. It's really pretty fantastic. But in centaur upper stage, will do a fly-by of the Moon and will addition to mapping the Moon with this beautiful use the Moon's gravity to fling us into a very highly tilted, photographic camera LRO is also going to look at the highly inclined orbit around the entire Earth/Moon system. temperature environment on the Moon (What are the high Each one of these big loops takes about 38 days. temperatures and lows?) and the radiation environment We call this an LGALRO orbit: Lunar Gravity Assist Lunar on the Moon. These are all things that we'll really want to Return Orbit. know before we have people living on the surface of the Moon. The idea is that when we meet up with the Moon again So the plan for LRO is that it will use its own propulsion system to enter into a circular orbit around the Moon, a

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

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Nobel In Physics: In 1966, Charles K. Kao made a discovery that led to a breakthrough in fiber optics. He carefully calculated how to Creators Of Optical transmit light over long distances via optical glass fibers. a fiber of purest glass it would be possible to Fiber Communication Withsignals over 100 kilometers, compared to onlytransmit light 20 meters for the fibers available in the 1960s. Kaos And CCD Image enthusiasm inspired other researchers to share his vision of the future potential of fiber optics. The first ultrapure Sensor fiber was successfully fabricated just four years later, inThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication, and the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, Bell 1970. Today optical fibers make up the circulatory system that nourishes our communication society. These low-loss glass fibers facilitate global broadband communication such as the Internet. Light flows in thin threads of glass, and it carries almost all of the telephony and data traffic in each and every direction. Text, music, images and video can be transferred around the globe in a split second. A large share of the traffic is made up of digital images, which constitute the second part of the award. In 1969 Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith invented the first successful imaging technology using a digital sensor, a CCD (Charge-Coupled Device). The CCD technology makes use of the photoelectric effect, as theorized by Albert Einstein and for which he was awarded the 1921 years Nobel Prize. By this effect, light is transformed into electric signals. The challenge when designing an image sensor was to gather and read out the signals in a large number of image points, pixels, in a short time. The CCD is the digital cameras electronic eye. It revolutionized photography, as light could now be captured electronically instead of on film. The digital form facilitates the processing and distribution of these images. CCD technology is also used in many medical applications, e.g. imaging the inside of the human body, both for diagnostics and for microsurgery. Digital photography has become an irreplaceable tool in many fields of research. The CCD has provided new possibilities to visualize the previously unseen. It has given us crystal clear images of distant places in our universe as well as the depths of the oceans.

Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit the CCD sensor.

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as any laptop owner knows, laptops can get extremely hot, especially when they are powered on for an extended period of time. Luckily there is a convenient and stylish solution- the Cool Lap Computer Desk. This foldable desk keeps the laptop cold with two integrated fans under the keyboard. The laptop remains cool while the fans hardly make a sound at all. This will benefit both you and your laptop. In this day and age of "going green" and looking for Furthermore, the laptop desk is angled at a perfect 15 alternative sources of energy, the makers of the waterdegrees which is ideal for typing in bed or on the floor in powered calculator are on the path of cutting edge front of the television. The Cool Lap Computer Desk folds technology. Yes, it is true that solar powered calculators flat so you can easily take it anywhere or conveniently store use less battery power, but they still it when not using it. Pack it on flights, take it to the beach, require a battery back-up and that set it up outside on a nice day. battery still needs to be replaced Furthermore, the Lap Computer Desk is durable, which causes unwanted waste. But lightweight and compact. When it comes to laptop with the water-powered calculator ergonomics, it doesn't get any better than this. there is no waste and you can reBut, yes it does. This is because the Cool Lap Computer charge it straight from the tap. Desk is not just a table. It also doubles as a stereo system. It functions just like any pocket Connect the Cool Lap Computer Desk to any computer, calculator, but can be filled with MP3 or gaming device for a great surround system water or any other type of electrolytic liquid. Equipped experience while you work, surf or play. The 5-watt with a fuel cell, the water inside the calculator creates a speakers and 10-watt subwoofer provide a crisp audio chemical reaction with the zinc anode and cathode. This sound all the while keeping you comfortable, cool, and chemical reaction causes an electrical current, and presto, relaxed. you can solve all those mathematical equations! The water- You can choose to run the Cool Lap Computer Desk from powered calculator can calculate for up to a month on less a USB connection to the computer, or opt for battery than a cup of water. power. The choice is yours. So whether you need it for school, balancing your Never worry about a hot lap again with this innovative checkbook, or figuring out how much to tip your waiter, and convenient invention. this water-powered calculator can be taken anywhere without fear of running out of power. Get this "green" calculator for your backpack, pocket or purse...

Energy Efficient Water-Powered Calculator

Cool Lap Computer DeskOne of the greatest things about owning a laptop is the fact that you can use it anywhere. Take it to bed with you; flip it open on a flight; or even type a report while commuting to and from work. However,

One-Person Mini Electric Car

Saving money and saving the earth -two themes in transportation during recent years. With the creation of the Hybrid and the electric car many drivers are finding easy and affordable ways to get better gas mileage while releasing fewer fuel emissions. The One-Person Electric Car makes it easy and fun to do all of these things.

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With the creation of the Hybrid and the electric car many drivers are finding easy and affordable ways to get better gas mileage while releasing fewer fuel emissions. The OnePerson Electric Car makes it easy and fun to do all of these things. Although it may not be convenient for long road trips, the One-Person Electric Car is quite comfortable for one driver along with a 6' cubic storage area for groceries or other purchases. Powered by a 156-volt DC electric motor, the electric car has 33-horsepower and can reach up to 70 mph. Simply plug the car into a 110-volt, 20-amp outlet and after 6 hours of re-charging it will be ready to take to the road again.

product has a small solar panel on top, an adjustable band, and a small fan built into the bill of the cap. The solar panel powers the fan which when turned on blows on you to keep you cool. Be sure to order more that one, because you will want a spare!

X7 FUEL CELL HYDROGEN CARIt is becoming more evident every day that we need to be concerned about our world and our environment. We are learning about the carbon footprint that we are leaving on the world and the potential damage. We are learning that it is important to plant more trees, and use less gas and electricity. And there is ongoing research for the perfect fuel for our vehicles. Our concern is transferring to the toys we purchase for our children. You can purchase a model Fuel Cell X7 Hydrogen Powered Car that is powered by water. Yes, it really runs on water! What a remarkable idea and what better way to get the kids interested in alternative fuel. All you do is add water. You can actually see it separate into hydrogen and oxygen. The gases are transferred into small storage areas and then, when you flip the switch, the Fuel Cell X7 Hydrogen Powered Car is propelled across the floor! This model which is the ultimate in simplicity, so easy to use and fascinating to watch; its a great way to get your budding scientists interested in the wonder of experimentation and research, because the more experiments they do, the more they learn about hydrogen power. This wonderful model car is for ages 10 and up, which means it is even for the big kids in your family! You might want to consider purchasing more than one, because everyone in your home is going to want to get their hands on this model. Everyone is going to want to use their own creativity to see how this power can be harnessed. What more could a gift offer? It is inventive, it is stimulating and it is fun for the entire family. This is not a model which will sit on a shelf collecting dust, this model will probably make its way to the classroom for show and tell.

SOLAR HATIf you are one of those people who thrive in the sun, someone who loves the feel of the sun and feels happier on sunny days, then you should also be aware of the dangers of the sun. We have all heard about the necessity of wearing sunscreen while you are out in the sunshine, to avoid skin damage; but there is another problem that is just as serious and much more immediate, sun stroke. When you are out in the sun, it is important to wear a hat if possible, because the top of the head can regulate your temperature. It is important that newly born babies have a cap to maintain their temperature, because they cannot maintain their body heat. And it is important that if the body is too warm, the top of the head be kept cool so that a heat stroke can be avoided. That is why it is advised that a hat be worn while gardening or working in the sun, and most of those hats have mesh or holes which can allow the heat to escape. And now there is a great product that can allow you to harness the power of the sun to actually keep you cool! Like most of us, you probably thought that solar energy was only used for large-scale items, such as heating and cooling buildings. While it is used for that purpose, it can also be used for smaller items, more personal items. And now, you can purchase a Solar Hat! This amazing

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TOP 10 GADGETS @ CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW 2009The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a non-public trade show held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association. At the show, many previews of products are introduced, or new products are announced. The show is held at the Las Vegas Convention Center with additional venues used for certain specialties. The CES is considered one of the major technology-related trade shows, after Comdex was cancelled. Technology, whether medical, constructive or state-of-the-art has certainly evolved with time. While some in the past year chose to use technology as a means to destroy a nation through terror attacks, smart chaps on the other end of the globe decided to flaunt their technology in the New Year through innovative and intelligent devices at the Consumer Electronics Show 2009 (CES). Held from January 8 to January 11, the CES 2009 lasted just 4 days. However the event definitely managed to give us technology lovers some soul-stirring devices. This year at the CES, gadget freaks were thrilled to lay their hands on some really innovative products that we think should rock 2009. The products dont just manage to use technology to the best of their advantage, but they also leave us in awe for sheer use of intelligence. So here is a list of which were the top 10 gadgets that were displayed at one of worlds largest technology affairs.

1)HP TouchSmart dx9000Touch these days is a technology that hasnt been left untouched by practically any device manufacturer. We think a product at the CES that used the touch technology to the best of its capabilities is the HP TouchSmart dx9000 PC. As the name suggests, the desktop PC is enabled with touch functionality and will certainly catch your eye with its sleek design. The novel PC incorporates a 22 high-def widescreen display along with other features like Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and HD support. The PC packs in the HP TouchSmart software which has been particularly optimized for touch interactions. The touch enabled all-inone desktop PC is also available in a 25.5 display option. While the 22 display will cost around $1,199, the 25 HP TouchSmart Desktop will cost around $1799.99.

We can certainly say that the Sony Vaio P series notebook was one of the most awaited products of 2009. The gadget created quite a rage in the technology terrain once it was launched. The highlight of the P notebook is its small form factor that resembles a mobile phone. The Vaio P series lifestyle PC has an 8 1600 x 768, LED backlit 8-inch ultra-wide diagonal display and combines Sonys XBRITE-ECO LCD technology with some great functionality. Available in many colors, namely garnet red, emerald green, onyx black, crystal white and classic black, the notebook is powered by the Windows Vista OS and weighs just about 1.4 pounds. Lasting about hours in battery life, the VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC comes for a starting price of $899.99.

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3)Palm Pre smart phone

While smart phones may have been the talk of the town in the past year, we think not too many mobile phones

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managed to leave an impression at the CES. Though one device that seemed to catch the eye of practically one and all was Palms novel Pre smartphone that came bundled in with a new platform called webOS. With a large 3.1 HVGA touch screen, the phone offers a host of connectivity options too including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Equipped with a 3 mega pixel camera, the Palm Pre boasts of 8 GB internal storage. While we have no updates on the pricing details, the Palm Pre smartphone is expected to launch exclusively through Sprint in Q1 of 2009.

4) Logitech Harmony 1100Logitechs latest innovation, the Harmony 1100 Advanced Universal Remote is meant to take a users home entertainment experience to elevated heights. In a stylish design, the award winning device is wrapped with some really cool features. Encased with a brushed-black aluminum top case, the Harmony 1100 includes a 3.5 QVGA touch screen that is customizable along with a rechargeable battery, RF- capability and an optional Harmony RF Extender. The high spot of the stylish remote is its user-friendly touch interface that is very simple to use. Well, we cant wait until this one starts shipping in February 2009. The Logitech Harmony 1100 Advanced Universal Remote will come for an approximate price of $499.99.

5) Samsung BD-P4600The next device which we think caught the fantasy of many at the CES 2009 in the home entertainment category is Samsungs BD-6400 Blu-ray player. Adorning a stylish form factor, the player bundles in many functions that should excite multimedia enthusiasts. Dressed in a piano black design with ruby accents on the edges, the Samsung BD6400 is just about 1.5 in thickness. Offering complete support for HD 1080p, the Blu-ray player includes many advanced features that make it stand out in the crowd. To top it, the BD-6400 Blu-ray player can be mounted on a wall at a 25 degree angle thanks to its distinct stand. There is no word yet on the price or availability of this distinguished device.

6) Samsung HT-BD7200 2.1-Channel Blu-ray HomeTheater SystemBesides the Blu-ray player, Samsung also showed off a new home theatre system called the HT-BD7200. We think it manages to stand out in the crowd of the many home entertainment systems revealed thanks to its stylish design.Adorning Samsungs signature ToC design accents, the system is astonishingly just 2.6 deep. The ultra-cool home entertainment system also supports an iPod dock besides offering compatibility to the BD-Live technology. The Blu-ray system boasts of a 5.1 channel surround sound that offers a 1000W output. With support for low power consumption, the Blu-ray home theater system also includes an improved amplifier engine. There are no details on the price or availability of the Samsung HT-BD7200 Home Theater System.

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7) Logitech G19 Gaming KeyboardThe CES also had loads in store for gaming enthusiasts. One such gadget that seemed to have caught the fantasy of most gamers was Keyboard by Logitech. The keyboard is bundled with 12 fully programmable G-keys that offer 3-macros per key support. With a multi-key input functionality, the G19 keyboard is bound to enhance a gamers experience while playing on the computer. The keyboard also supports 2 USB ports and is compatible with both, Mac and Windows computer systems. The powerful keyboard should launch around March 2009 in Europe and US for an approximate price of $199.99.

8) Sony Wi-Fi DSC-G3 cameraWhile there were many exciting digital cameras launched at the CES, one that really grabbed our attention was Sonys new Wi-Fi DSC-G3 cyber shot digital camera. A camera that is equipped with complete Wi-Fi enabled functionality, now thats really cool! We think the digital camera reveals how technology is indeed enhancing at a sky rocketing pace. Besides the Wi-Fi connectivity option, features the camera wraps in include a 3.5 Xtra Fine LCD display, 10 MP image sensor, 4 GB internal memory and many other advanced image management tools. Dressed in black color, Sonys super cool Wi-Fi DSC-G3 digital camera is up for grabs now at a price of around $500.

9) Sennheiser HD 800 earphonesGermans, we must say, are known to deliver some of the most innovative technologies. Doing just that, German based Sennheiser showed off their novel headphones called HD 800. The headphones are all ready to create a stir in the audio terrain thanks to their unique blend of technology and design materials. In a new open back ear cup design, the earphones will certainly excite dedicated audiophiles. Highlights of the new earphones is its large transducer that make the earphones more powerful while the Japanese Alcantara materials used for the ear pads increases the comfort factor of the earphones. The earphones are, however, heavy on the pocket costing around $1400 for a pair.

10) iriver P7 PMPFinally, the CES 2009 also made way for many interesting MP3 players. Standing out in the crowd was the P7 PMP from iriver. The portable playerwraps in many advanced features that should offer users the much needed functionality they yearn for in a music player. The best part about the player is that it will come in 4, 8 and 16 GB Nand Flash models with a microSD card slot. The P7 player is also more durable and adorns a sleek design. Sporting a 4.3 LCD, for users who are always on the move, the player wraps in 50 hours of audio playback. The P7 player will certainly catch the eye of many with its advanced functions like SRS WOW HD and 7 Preset EQ settings.

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1) Picasa:Googles free image editing and management software Picasa has a wild side that few people know about. Open Picasa and press CtrlShift-Y, and a teddy bear will pop up. Keep pressing those keys and watch out for the sloth (or sleuth) of red-bow tied bears that take over the program! 2) Wanda a Fish 1) Goto the run dialog in Gnome. 2) Type the following phrase without quotes "free the fish". 3) Click the Run Button. A fish called Wanda should pop up and wander around the desktop.

3) Like galaxian game 1.- Press alt + F2 (to exec a program) 2.- Write "gegls from outer space" (Without the quotes) 3.- Press enter.

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350.orgThe awareness for global warming and related issue has been quite in the talks for a while in the recent times. Another attempt in this direction is this social awareness site of an organisation called 350; which aims at bringing down the carbon content to 350ppm. All the concerned people need to have a look at this in playing an important role in helping curb this problem. This site has links to their activities being carried on in this direction. Different links to their posters and banners make the people more aware. They have this thing to inspire people to mend their ways to work towards the goal of bringing the carbon content down to 350ppm. Striking feature of the site is the front page picture slides of the past activities being carried out all around the globe. All the serious people should access this site, a must-to-be-in-bookmark website to work towards a better tomorrow. Its quite an inspiring site.

www.350.org www.TED.comwww.uncyclopedia.wikia.com

TED.comTED, a short for Technology, Entertainment, Design is an academic organization owned by The Sapling Foundation, a private non-profit foundation. TED is well-known for its annual, invitation-only conference devoted to "ideas worth spreading". TED is famous for its lectures, known as TED Talks, which originally focused on technology, entertainment and design, but have now expanded in scope to a broad set of topics including science, arts, politics, education, culture, business, global issues, technology and development. Speakers have included such people as former U.S. President Bill Clinton, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, molecular biologist James D. Watson, physicist Murray Gell-Mann, former Vice President of the United States Al Gore, ,Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, to name a few.Ted.com covers all the TED Talks with an idea of being precise. Different projects and seminars have their links on the website and many new updates in the field of technology world-wide. World renowned technocrats showcase their innovative ideas on this site.

UNCYCLOPEDIA.wikia.comWikipedia parodies Uncyclopedia. Yeah, you got that right, at least according to this article on Uncyclopedia. Uncyclopedia, the content free encyclopedia, hosted by Wikia is the website that parodies Wikipedia, and claims the exactly opposite. Founded in 2005, with English as only language, it now spans over 50 languages, according to wiki. It uses different sarcasms and humor for its contents on people and places. The hollow potato logo, it fakes the globe of Wikipedia. Its Wikipedia page is a perfect irony of the Uncyclopedia page of Wikipedia. This site is real fun, and worth visiting, at least once.

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SourceForge.netSourceForge is a web-based source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development. The website is operated by SourceForge, Inc. (formerly VA Software). SourceForge repository hosts more than 230,000 projects and more than 2 million registered users, although not all are active. The domain sourceforge.net attracted at least 33 million visitors by August 2009. SourceForge offers free access to hosting and tools for developers of free/open source software. Project developers have access to the centralized storage and tools for managing projects. Not only free and open source software, it also provides the softwares categorized according to the operating system. The vast number of users exposes a prominent project to a variety of users. Given that many open source projects fail due to lack of developer support, exposure to such a large community of developers can continually breathe new life into a project. Best promoting the interest of the open source software community and helpful in the interaction of the various programmers and the users.

9DOWN.com9down .com is a website where to look for the regular updates of various softwares, hardwares along with the download link too. The updates are date-wise. A very useful site for a tech-savvy who is online just searching for the latest offerings in OS, applications, they being games, multimedia, graphics, networking, security, etc. Updating site about all the new hot and happenings in the software or hardware market, a worthy site to have a look every 2 days approx.

THINKQUEST.comThinkQuest is a free, protected, online platform for teachers and students, sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation. Some great to be looked features of the site are: Online Project Environment- In the ThinkQuest project environment, students and teachers can create online projects. Competition- Student teams are challenged to create online content to address educational topics or global issues. Entries can take the form of a website or an online project (using the project environment). Winning teams receive laptop computers, digital cameras, grants for the Coachs school, and/or a trip to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend ThinkQuest Live. LibraryThinkQuest LibrariesThe ThinkQuest Library is an online repository that hosts the 7,000+ projects created by student teams for ThinkQuest competitions. It can be freely accessed by anyone on the Internet.

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Portable and ink-free Printing:zink MONIKA MANN (CSE 3rd Yr. U.I.E.T.)

technology, stationary printing might become obsolete. Zink imaging has invented a portable printer that prints digital photographs without the use of a cartridge, thus simplifying the printing process and allowing you to print digital photographs anytime and anywhere. Zero ink printing or ZINK in short is a technology that has been researched and developed by ZINK Imaging. Pioneered by a group of scientists this awe inspiring technology provides an easy and convenient alternative to bulky printers and ink cartridges while maintaining high quality printing.

With major advancements in

due to which they take on different colors. This paper is typically made up of five layers. The first layer which is known as the Base layer consists of an adhesive substance in which these crystals are placed. The second layer is known as the Cyan Imaging layer which when affected by low temperature releases a cyan dye that is formed into the image. The third layer, which is the Magenta imaging layer releases a magenta dye but only when heated at a medium temperature. The Yellow imaging layer which is the fourth layer tends to release a yellow dye when heated at a high temperature. And last but not the least comes the Overcoat layer which protects the image from any sort of damage once it has been printed.

is that its pocket sized and portable. It has also proved to be eco-friendly as the paper is recyclable and doesnt contain any toxic type substance. Using advanced heat-reactive crystals impregnated into the paper, Zink allows you to produce durable, full-color,

high-resolution prints from printers so small they can literally fit in your pocket or be integrated into mobile imaging devices. Due to the nature of the print technology, size isn't an issue, and commercial Zink printers will be easily able to reel off banners and posters of any length. As for cost, Zink paper is expected to cost around 20 cents per small print upon its initial release already a very attractive price point but one that will surely come down with volume.~*~

Mechanism of Zero ink printingZINK uses a special paper with embedded dye crystals known as Amorphocromic crystals which stimulates into different colors on heating. These crystals respond differently to heat impulses of varying duration and intensities,

Outcome of Zero ink printingThe prints obtained from ZINK printers can produce millions of colors with accuracy. Though this technology is new, its known to give out vibrant and clean prints that are waterproof, durable and heatproof. The major advantage of using this printer

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Touch Screens for Many Fingers MAMTA DABRA (CSE 3rd Yr. U.I.E.T.)

Researchers havebigger plans for multitouch screens than the novel interface on Apple's iPhone.When Steve Jobs demonstrated Apple's new phone at Macworld recently, the feature that elicited the most "oohs" and "aahs" from the audience was the touchscreen interface: it allowed more than one touch at a time. This

unleashed in screens far larger than those on phones. Over the past few years, Jeff Han, consulting research scientist at New York University, has developed an inexpensive way to make large multi-touch screens accommodating 10, 20, or even more fingers. He envisions applications ranging from interactive whiteboards to touchscreen tables and digital walls--any of which could be manipulated by more than just one person. Han has unveiled Perceptive Pixel, his new company based on the

screen "becomes interesting," he says, "because multiple users can then become collaborators." Such collaboration could take many forms, from brainstorming sessions using networked, interactive whiteboards to animation collaborations at which six hands can mould the face of a monster. Perceptive Pixel is set to ship its first wallsize touch screen to an undisclosed U.S. military customer.

"multi-touch" technology adds functions such as allowing a person to easily zoom in and out of pictures and Web pages by pinching the screen with two fingers. But the full power of multitouch technology might be38

technology. "The new iPhone is too small to be a very interesting multi-touch device," says Han, who demonstrates his technology on YouTube video. That's because multi-touch technology implies multiple users. More than one person gathered around a large touch ~*~


Operating System War RAGHU SHARMA (CSE 3rd Yr. U.I.E.T.)

Once again, the battle begins...Apple Mac OS Snow Leopard, the seventh (and world's most advanced OS, as stated by Apple) release of OS X, Microsoft Windows 7 and the Google Chrome OS: three giants of digital revolution with their OS. Here is a glimpse.

drive space than previous version, (just 5GB for the basic installation), freeing upto 7 GB.

for 32-bit) and 20 GB (16 for 32-bit) of hard disk space and 1 GHz processor.

Windows 7Windows 7 (codenamed Blackcomb/Vienna), an Operating System from Microsoft released on October 22, 2009. This OS has been made to provide much friendly user interface. The all new taskbar gets all the press. It takes some ideas from Mac OS X dock like larger icons and application launcher. The quick launch has been replaced by pinning option in the taskbar. Reordering of taskbar buttons, show desktop on the right side (default), Aero Peek, Aero Snap, windows media player 12 are some included features in windows 7. The user interface has been significantly improved by providing a lot of options like 13 additional sound themes, multiple windows environments, wallpaper switching, jump list to allow easy access to most common tasks etc. Not only user interface and visuals, Windows 7 also has improved start-up time. The hardware requirements are almost same for 32 bit OS. For 64 bit versions, it requires 2 GB of RAM (1 GB

Google Chrome OS:Expected to be released in the second half of 2010, the beta version has already been out based on SUSE Linux. Google Chrome OS will be open source and free OS. It will be light weight, based on Chrome web browser targeted towards net books. It is based on Linux kernel. Its code will be open sourced later this year. It has its own windowing system as opposed to X Window System which is standard windowing system for Linux platform. The user interface is minimal, as most experience takes place on the cloud. It is being created for the people who spend most of their time on the cloud. Its underlying architecture is completely redesigned in order to improve security, so that users dont have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates.

OS X Snow Leopard:Released on August 28, 2009, the 64bit Snowy is available as an upgrade from OS X Leopard. All the built in applications are 64 bit, but the OS has backward compatibility for 32 bit applications as well. For visuals, theres not much difference but a few refinements from its previous version. Dock Expose simply links Expose to the Dock as expected. But Snow Leopard is more secure as its 64 bit applications use more advanced security techniques to fend off malicious code, using function argument passing mechanism. With the introduction of GCD (Grand Central Dispatch) technology, OS X fully utilises the multi-core processors by distributing the work over all available cores, resulting in the improvement of performance and computing capabilities of the processors. OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a c based programming language that utilizes the power of GPUs and makes them available for general purpose computing. It introduces QuickTime X, with enhanced audio and video experience. This OS X version requires lesser hard

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Wireless Network Modded to See Through Walls ARNIKA GARG (CSE 3rd Yr. U.I.E.T.)

The way signal strengthvaries in a wireless network can reveal what's going on behind closed doors. It's everybodys dream: an easy way of looking through walls to spy on neighbors, monitor siblings, and keep tabs on the sweet jar. And now a dream no longer.. Researchers at the University of Utah say that the way radio signals vary in a wireless network can reveal the movement of people behind closed doors. A technique called variance-based radio tomographic imaging that processes the signals to reveal signs of movement, is developed. The idea is tested with a 34-node wireless network using the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless protocol. The basic idea is that the signal strength at any point in a network is the sum of all the paths the radio waves can take to get to the receiver. Any change in the volume of space through which the signals pass, for example caused by the movement of a person, makes the signal strength vary. So by "interrogating" this volume of space with many signals, picked up

by multiple receivers, it is possible to build up a picture of the movement within it. And the test is able to locate moving objects in the room to within a meter or so. That's not bad, and the team says there is ample potential for improvement by increasing accuracy while reducing the number of nodes. The advantage of this technique over others is, first, its cost. The nodes in such a network are off-the-shelf and therefore cheap. Other throughwall viewing systems cost in excess of $100,000. The second advantage is the ease with which it can be set up.

immediately form a network and self-localize, perhaps using information about the size and shape of the building from a database (eg Google maps) and some known-location coordinates (eg using GPS). Then, nodes begin to transmit, making signal strength measurements on links which cross the building or area of interest. The received signal strength measurements of each link are transmitted back to a base station and used to estimate the positions of moving people and objects within the building." That's ambitious, but if they do get their system to the point where it can be used like this, it raises another problem: privacy. Of course, in the cat-and-mouse game of surveillance, it shouldn't be too hard to build a device that disables such a monitoring network. ~*~

Project in a viewA building imaging scenario is envisioned similar to the following. Emergency responders, military forces, or police arrive at a scene where entry into a building is potentially dangerous. Radio sensors around (and potentially on top of) the building area are deployed, either by throwing or launching them, or dropping them while moving around the building. The nodes

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Electronic Evolution: Research Show Robots Forming Human-like Societies ASEEM BANSAL (Bio.Tech 2nd Yr. U.I.E.T.)

A lone group of Swiss scientistshave been using scattered LEDs, neural circuitry, and an army of miniature robots to explore the very basis of good and evil. No, you arent reading the back cover of a DVD in the one dollar each, please get this trash out of our store bin of your local blockbusterthis research is very real and very, very awesome. Dario Floreano and his team at Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology built a swarm of mobile robots, outfitted with light bulbs and photodetectors. These were set loose in a zone with illuminated food and poison zones which charged or depleted their batteries. Their programming was initially random, so the first generation staggered around the place like bunch of concussed pipes. At intervals, the robots were

shut down and those that had the most charge left in their batteries were chosen as successful, and their neural programming was combined to produce the next generation of the robots. These offspring are downloaded into the same mechanical bodies their parents

cheats and martyrs. Transistorized traitors emerged which wrongly identified poison zone as food ,luring their trusting brethren to their doom before scooting off to silently charge in a food zone presumably while using a mechanical claw to twirl a silicon carving of a handlebar moustache. You might be upset by this result, scientific proof that who say Evil is utterly fundamental to human nature actually understates the scope of the problem, there were also silicon souls of the angels. Some robots advanced fearlessly into the poison zone, flashing warning lights to keep other robots out of harms way. At this rate of evolution, how long we start to see other behaviours? Maybe polarized priests, warning other robots not to eat any food so that they may receive infinite food after theyre switched off .Or actorbot, given huge quantities of food because they can pretend to be turned off by poison really well?~*~

inhabitated , forming an closedcircuit Buddhist system which might be an extremely efficient method of maintaining a stable population ,but will provide a serious headache for any robot philosophers who might turn up. Which could happen before long? Within fifty generations of this electronic evaluation, cooperative societies of robots had formed-helping each other to find food and avoid poison. Even more amazing is the emergence of

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New Electronic Concept: How Hybrid Motors Could Become Cheaper PRATEEK BANSAL(ECE 2nd Yr. U.I.E.T.)

Not all that long ago,hybrid vehicles were still really exotic. Now, you see them more and more frequently on our roads. However, hybrid cars are not mass-produced as their production costs are still relatively high. A researcher from ETH Zurich has now developed a new concept as part of her doctoral thesis that integrates power electronic functions and an electric motor, which could reduce the costs of producing hybrid cars. Ever since Hollywood stars like Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz began to drive up to the red carpet in their hybrid cars, hybrids have become increasingly interesting to the conventional car market. As the public climate debate continues, hybrid cars with a combination of a combustion engine and an electric motor have increasingly become the focus of research projects.

The production of hybrid drives is still very expensive. This begs the question as to how hybrid vehicles can be constructed more cost-effectively. A substantial proportion of the costs is swallowed up by the electric motor and the power electronic energy management system, in which inverters and DC/DC converters play a crucial role. In this approach the power electronics and the electric motor perform several functions simultaneously. The multiple use of the electronic parts and the motor also saves volume. Combination with motor has its advantages In conventional hybrid vehicles, batteries not only power the electric motor, but also the radio, ventilation and the lights. Unlike the electrical drive system, for which a high DC voltage of 200 600 V has to be converted into a three-phase AC voltage, a low DC voltage Tech-Nattyam | Volume 1.0

of 12 V is sufficient to power a car radio. Inverters, which convert the direct current into an alternating current, and DC/DC converters, which transfer the power between the two batteries for the two voltage levels, are therefore important power electronic components in hybrid or electric vehicles. For current hybrid vehicles, these converters are located outside the electric motor. A system developed integrates the inverter, the DC/DC converter and the electric motor functionally; condenses the functions of the drive and the DC/DC converter in combination, therefore certain electronic components and the motor lamination stack can be shared. Large quantities of such functionally integrated systems will be cheaper as fewer raw materials are needed. ~*~

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Designing Tools for Space NITIN BANSAL (CSE 3rd Yr. U.I.E.T.)

Engineering Tools to be used in Zerog EnvironmentAstronauts have to use specially designed tools when working in space. When NASA astronauts embarked on Servicing Mission 4 to the Hubble Space Telescope in May 2009, they brought with them a variety of specialized tools to perform the servicing operations in a zero-g, vacuum environment.

Types of Space ToolsThere are three types of tools used by astronauts both inside of the Shuttle and the ISS, as well as outside: Crew Aids hand rails, foot restraints, tether devices. These are generally passive devices that help astronauts maneuver and brace themselves as they work both inside and outside of crew spaces. However, the ISS has a 200-foot network of rail lines with cable-driven controls integrated into the truss design to serve as transportation for astronauts and equipment. Hand Tools These manual tools help

astronauts perform tasks that are difficult to perform while wearing gloves. Some hand tools include a washer extraction tool, fastener capture plates, and specialized fixturing. Power Tools - The primary power tool used by astronauts is a pistolgrip tool, similar to a cordless drill. This version is designed to rotate at about 15 RPM. A specialized mini pistol-grip tool was developed for the Hubble Servicing Mission that had a faster rate, about 210 RPM, to allow astronauts to remove the many screws on the telescope components quickly.

requirements for tools for space operation include: A minimal tool weight so as to not impact total vehicle weight Cannot cause tears or cuts Must be operational in temperatures from -150F to +150F Must be operational in a vacuum environment Must be operational while wearing pressurized gloves Must be able to withstand launch forces and vibrations

Where are Space Tools Designed?The tools for the Hubble Space Telescope repair missions were developed by the Hubble Space Telescope Extravehicular Activity Team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. Goddard is the center for the development and testing of tools and devices for all NASA operations. Astronauts rely heavily on the functionality and quality of their tools and devices while operating in space. Engineers provide a significant service in ensuring these tools meet the needs of the astronauts. ~*~SOURCE: NASA WEBSITE

Requirements for Space Tool DesignWhen in space, astronauts live and work in a hostile environment that is different in many ways from working on earth. Much of the equipment in spacecraft is specially designed for zero-g operations, and this design specialization is particularly applicable to tools. Some of the

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MICROHOO... Tanisha Chaudhary (CSE 3rd Yr. U.I.E.T.)

Microsoft + Yahoo. Microsoft So these mistakes made long has moved to buy Yahoo! for ago created the new Microhoo. $44 billion. It's going to validate Yahoo will become the salesman a lot of innovation at Yahoo. and public face for Microsofts Yahoo! is great at content technology. and online innovation, though. "Microhoo" is finally a done That's what Microsoft needs right now. The deal Microsoft deal, but the main question is that and Yahoo made to combine will it really be able to make a their ad and search efforts has dent in Google's enormous search its roots in the mid-1990s, near market lead? It's a difficult feat for the dawn of the Web. sure. Google maintains 65% of the It was then Yahoo CEO Tim U.S. search market, compared to a Koogle who made the decision combined 28% for Microsoft and that Yahoo would become a Yahoo. But the newly partnered portal, a gateway to an tech giants are hoping that one internal Web world. All the smart guys in New York and in plus one equals more than two. the mainstream media were By combining the ... technology of urging this. Search, they said, both companies, they can create a was limited, it was techie, it was real, viable alternative for obscure. The real growth was in advertisers." media. Around the same time Microsoft decided it must embrace and extend its monopoly from Windows to Office to the Web, through Internet Explorer. Rather than selling what it made, it would bundle its monopoly products with its browser and dominate that way. This led to its antitrust case, and it has embraced, even extended itself into, the legal 46 In other words, size really matters to advertisers in the search market. More data

Microhoo stands for

profession ever since.

means more relevant searches and ads, which means more money can be charged to advertisers. The way advertising works is through a positive feedback loop, where the bigger you get, the better you get. Next important question is that even if the combined forces of Microsoft and Yahoo build a search engine that's 10 times better than Google's, will it matter?

The difficulty lies in the fact that user behavior is a tough nut to crack. And Google, with close to 75 percent of search share, is far and away not only the verbs when it comes to search but the undisputed market leader. Even combined with Yahoo, Microsoft will now own only 21 Microsoft + percent of the Yahoo Will it be domestic search able to make any market and much impact on 68% less than that search market overseas. share of Google

alone in US? Let the hearts and minds decide

But the merger says that it will give consumers more choice. Yet when it co


comes to search, consumers Microsoft is aggressive. Microsoft much more attractive to is innovative. Microsoft has seem to have already made a advertisers, ergo not that much zillions of dollars to invest in firm decision. more competitive. developers, research, marketing, If any company is aware of how and advertising. Bing is a difficult it is for consumers to mighty good search engine. But Ironically, those who may make this type of shift, it's in the end, it may not matter all stand to immediately benefit Microsoft. The company's very that much unless more from this new partnership are consumers use it to search. foundations are rooted in traditional publishers. consumer loyalty to the Windows Plenty of advertisers have Innovation is wonderful. praised Bing, its advertiser operating system. Windows is interface, and the ways they can Improved, faster, more reliable, the most insecure and unreliable slice, dice, and, segment target and more accurate search is OS on the market. Yet that audiences on the platform. useful, exciting, valuable, and doesn't stop Windows from Despite the kudos, they admit interesting. But what Yahoo and having close to a 90 percent they're still going with Google. That's where the critical mass is. Microsoft now face isn't merely global market share. a battle for improving and One can tout product benefits innovating search platforms, it's until the cows come home, but it Sure, the Microsoft/Yahoo deal a battle for hearts and minds. is probably good for advertisers. won't necessarily give you an edge. I think Pepsi tastes better A larger user base will make Microhoo that much more than Coke. So do the interesting to advertisers and overwhelming number of consumers who have taken the probably help lower CPC (define) Pepsi Challenge over the past 30 costs. But unless the new ~*~ years. Yet Pepsi remains solidly at initiative can lure a substantial number two in the cola market, and no one sees it going anywhere anytime soon. number of searchers away from Google and over to this new camp, it's not going to be that

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THE BIG PICTURE

Monika Mann

(CSE 3rd Yr. U.I.E.T.)

The multi-monitor setup allows you to connect two or more monitors to a single system and gain the benefits of a single large monitor.monitors can be configured in the graphics drivers control panel. Step 2: Layout and display settings

From 14-inch to 30-inch, sometimesthe size of the desktop is just not enough if you have many applications running simultaneously on your system. The multi-monitor setup allows you to connect two or more monitors to a single system to get all the benefits of a single large monitor. By setting up multiple monitors you can watch videos or images on the huge display. You can also view those never-ending Excel spreadsheets and work efficiently without having to scroll up and down the page. This setup can also be used to give you a more realistic experience while playing flight simulator. To setup multiple monitors, you require single or multiple graphics cards which have dual-link DVI output. You can also use a graphics card with a single DVI port in hybrid graphics mode with a

To change the display settings and to check the order in which the monitors are connected. Right-click on the Desktop and click on Properties. Go to Display Settings, here you will see the monitors connected to your system. Click on Identify Monitors and a number will be displayed on each of the monitors for a brief time. Depending on the type of layout you want, arrange the monitors by dragging and dropping compatible motherboard. This setup is them in the Display Settings dialog compatible with a system running any box. After you click Apply or OK, the version of Microsoft Windows or Linux. monitors will be mapped according to Support for multiple monitors is built your layout. You should be able to move into the graphics driver by default, so your mouse pointer across all the you dont have to download any third connected monitor as if you had a party utility. The multi-monitor single desktop. management software is specific to the graphic card you are usingnView which is a component of NVIDIAs Forceware drivers (www.nvidia. com) and HydraVison which is an add-on for the ATI Catalyst Control Center (game.amd.com). How to Synchronize? Step 1: Connect the monitors Connect the monitors to the graphics card(s). You dont need to connect them ports. The layout and sequence of the

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option to Switch Desktop with Mouse Wheel and Preserve Display Setting. Step 3: HydraVison After you Enable Multi Desktop, a new control Virtual Desktop control appears. By using this you can HydraVision is a multi-monitor management software for ATI graphics configure the settings for each desktop. card. After you download and install the software, a new tab appears in the Catalyst Control Center. The Step 4: DisplayFusion HydraVision tab consists of three controlsHydraGrid, Desktop Manager and Multi Desktop. From the DisplayFusion is a freeware utility HydraGrid control, you can assign grids which allows you to set desktop to your desktop. These grids can be wallpaper which will span across all used to manage your workspace the monitors. It also lets you set efficiently by arranging the windows of individual wallpapers for each monitor. running applications in a predefined One of the distinct features of manner. Click the Show Grid button DisplayFusion is that it allows you to to see the default grids across your search and download images from desktop, and then click Edit Flickr which can be used as wallpapers. HydraGrid to edit the grid layout. The The Size Mode drop down list has Grid Control Settings has the option to different settings to set the aspect Delete All Grids as well as use the ratio of the image. Make sure that you Preset Grid Layout. You can also use high resolution images as change the grid layout by dragging the wallpapers or else the resulting display borders of the grids. If you want to will be pixilated. assign the location of the application to a gird, just right-click on the title bar and select Attach to Grid. In the Step 5: UltraMon Desktop Manager control, the options such as Enable Desktop Manger, UltraMon is a freeware utility which Preserve Application Position & Size assists in the management of your and Allow Spanning Across Display multi-monitor setup. By using this can be enabled/disabled. The Multi Desktop controls allow you to enable utility, you can add a taskbar to each monitor connected to your system. multiple desktops across all the This is a unique feature because the monitors. HydraVision allows you to taskbar does not appear by default on create up to nine desktops, with an

each monitor in a multi-monitor setup. The taskbar can further be configured to show only the tasks running on that monitor or all the tasks running across the entire desktop. It also allows you to move windows across the monitors. This utility adds a Maximize to Desktop button to the title bar of every window. On clicking this button, the window will maximize across all the monitors. UltraMon also allows you to add hotkeys, create custom menu commands and enable/disable monitors in case you are not using them. Finally, UltraMon also allows you to modify the Screensaver, Wallpaper, Shortcuts and Windows Display Properties. You simply have to right-click on the UltraMon icon in the system tray to do this. Step 6: nView nView is a multi-monitor management utility specially meant for NVIDIA graphics cards and is built into the Forceware drivers. It has three control settings3D Setting, Display and Video & Television. In the 3D settings control you can modify the 3D settings such as anisotropic and anti-aliasing filtering. The Display controls allow you to modify the resolution, color and setup of multiple displays. If you dont want a single desktop, you can choose to mirror the desktop on other monitors.

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SMART DUST Monika Mann (CSE 3rd Yr. U.I.E.T.)

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