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Hello Today we are going talks about a device which converts urine into drinking water.amazed???but its true.....     Leonardo Manavella has came with a concept device that turns urine into drinkable water. The H20 purifier, meant for emergency situations like flood, where drinking water is unsafe, requires users to urinate on the activated carbon in the purifier to eliminate the color and flavor of urine. And voila, after squeezing the container, water is ready to drink. The technical details of the device are a little unclear due to what appears to be translation issues, but it’s an innovative idea nonetheless. NASA has already developed a high-tech pee-cycling machine, but the $250,000-$255000 price tag keeps the device from ending up in the hands of everyday peecyclers.

Samsung recently announced a new budget smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016) and one of the new features announced with the phone is the S Bike Mode. S Bike Mode is an innovative feature for bikers. This feature basically turns off all the notifications on the device when the user is riding a bike. This is sort of do not disturb mode which can be enabled using NFC. S Bike Mode makes sure that you are not disturbed with calls and notifications while riding the bike. How to Activate S Bike Mode?  Samsung Galaxy J3 comes with NFC and there is a bundled NFC tag programmed to enable S Bike Mode. So you can paste the NFC sticker on the bike dashboard and tap the phone to enable S Bike Mode when you are going to ride the bike. You can also enable it from the quick toggles in the phone notification centre. How to Use S Bike Mode?  Once you have enabled this mode, you will see the display of the phone activated for this mode and you will not be able to use...

Researchers at the University of Bath have developed an innovative miniature fuel cell that can generate electricity from urine, creating an affordable, renewable and carbon-neutral way of generating power.Awesome.......isn't it? In the near future this device could provide a means of generating much needed electricity to remote areas at very little cost, each device costs just £2. With growing global pressures to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and the associated greenhouse gas emissions, microbial fuel cells could be an exciting alternative. A microbial fuel cell is a device that uses natural biological processes of 'electric' bacteria to turn organic matter into electricity. These fuel cells are efficient and relatively cheap to run, and produce nearly zero waste. In practice, urine will pass through the microbial fuel cell for the reaction to happen. From here, electricity is generated by the bacteria which can then be stored or used to directly powe...

Have you ever walked through any city and you're bound to stumble upon 'street trash.' Everything from boxes of discarded books, old toys,clothes to whole pieces of furniture and more things can be found curbside. It's not a green way to declutter - but many people scoop up these unwanted treasures and make good use of them. Tel Aviv-based photographer has been inspired by discarded street gems his whole life. The DIY-extraordinaire has furnished most of his apartment with upcycled items from city streets, and he shows us just how beautiful and functional 'trash' can be. He always had an eye for upcycling, even before it was a trend. He told Inhabitat, “I travel a lot around the world, and since I was a child I was creative about making things from other things,” he said, “I would walk down the street and find things and think, ‘What can I do with this?’ It could be an abandoned tree limb, a box or even a book.” Kaplan went to great lengths to impro...

India broke ground on a gorgeous solar-powered sports complex that will harvest piezoelectric energy from the crowds that enter its gates. Designed by Studio Symbiosis, the Athletic Ripple Project was commemorated by India's National Congress former President Dr. Manmohan sigh. The vast new complex emerges out of the natural landscape as an iconic structure that mimics the form of water droplets.   Each section, or ripple, contains a different sporting activity space. The “droplets” vary in size, design and purpose, but Studio Symbiosis unified each section by designing them to symbolize individual pebbles in a pond. The complex to emulates the ebb and flow of a swelling pond, and therefore gradates into the existing landscape rather than obstructing it. The complex is a sort of “sports city” that was designed to minimize congestion — a pedestrian walkway will be constructed down the middle, and opposing roadways surround the perimeter. The walkway brings visitors closer...

Wow 3D-printed plastic blocks can now be turned into acoustic holograms that generate 3D shapes made of sound, which could function like sonic "tractor beams," according to a new study. This could lead to innovative ways to manipulate objects in midair without touching them, the researchers said. This finding could also help scientists develop ultrasound therapies with sound fields sculpted to destroy unhealthy tissues in the body while leaving neighboring healthy cells intact, the researchers added. Conventional holograms are a special kind of 2D photograph that, when lit up, essentially turn into windows onto 3D scenes. The pixels making up each hologram scatter light falling onto them in very specific ways, causing these light waves to interact with each other to generate an image with the illusion of depth. The new acoustic holograms are plastic blocks with complex structures that scientists created using 3D printers. These printers form 3D structures by placing l...

The kitchen knife is one for the future that gives basic information on freshness and bacteria infection of food materials and food, and nutrients at a glance. The knife has sensor and system on its tip itself to sense ingredients of food materials, and the information is known to a user through Smart screen. the smart knife include not only providing information but also negative ions. it can keep freshness for a long time and block the virus. the negative ions is effective to organic groceries. especially It can block decomposition by ethylene gas and it help to keep freshness for a long time because negative ions have water molecular and it cover groceries surface. and it also help to prevent oxidation and keeping freshness to meat and fish you can choose a option of two ways voice recognition or touch screen, and you can conveniently get some information through voice recognition in cooking when you see the screen with holding the knife. it is very inconvenient to hold. so I...

Borrowing a trick from nature, engineers from the University of California at Berkeley have created an incredibly thin, chameleon-like material that can be made to change color—on demand—by simply applying a minute amount of force. This new material-of-many-colors offers intriguing possibilities for an entirely new class of display technologies, color-shifting camouflage, and sensors that can detect otherwise imperceptible defects in buildings, bridges, and aircraft. "This is the first time anybody has made a flexible chameleon-like skin that can change color simply by flexing it," said Connie J. Chang-Hasnain, a member of the Berkeley team and co-author on a paper published today in  Optica , The Optical Society's (OSA) new journal. By precisely etching tiny features—smaller than a wavelength of light—onto a silicon film one thousand times thinner than a human hair, the researchers were able to select the range of colors the material would reflect, depending on...

  In the hierarchy of things that I want robots to do for me, cooking dinner is right up there with doing the laundry and driving my car. And writing all my articles. For now, the best we can do is just watch progress being made toward getting all of these things to work reliably (and affordably). We’ve seen plenty of examples of robots that can cook, but generally, they’re all following some level of pre-programmed instructions. Telling robots what to do and how to do it is one of the trickiest things about robotics, especially for end users, so it’s a good thing we can all just sit back and let them learn things by watching videos on YouTube. This project is taking place at the University of Maryland, and this video does a very good job of not really saying all that much over the course of 2 minutes. The research we’re talking about here is from a paper titled, “Robot Learning Manipulation Action Plans by ‘Watching’ Unconstrained Videos...

  Driver-on-demand service Uber is building a robotics research lab in Pittsburgh, PA to “kickstart autonomous taxi fleet development,” sources close to the decision have confirmed to TechCrunch. They say the company has hired talent from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, including lead engineering and commercialization experts. No one at Carnegie Mellon or Uber agreed to discuss the deal on the record but an announcement should be forthcoming.   Update : Uber published  a blog post today outlining its partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, confirming our reporting. Sources tell us Uber is hiring more than fifty senior scientists from Carnegie Mellon as well as from the National Robotics Engineering Center , a CMU-affiliated research entity. Carnegie Mellon, home of the Mars Rover and other high-profile robotics projects, declined to comment at this time, as did scientists mentioned by our source. Uber has “cleaned out” the Roboti...

By:Prayag Nao   Tiny generators developed at the University of Michigan could produce enough electricity from random, ambient vibrations to power a wristwatch, pacemaker or wireless sensor. The energy-harvesting devices, created at U-M's Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems, are highly efficient at providing renewable electrical power from arbitrary, non-periodic vibrations. This type of vibration is a byproduct of traffic driving on bridges, machinery operating in factories and humans moving their limbs, for example. The Parametric Frequency Increased Generators (PFIGs) were created by Khalil Najafi, chair of electrical and computer engineering, and Tzeno Galchev, a doctoral student in the same department. Most similar devices have more limited abilities because they rely on regular, predictable energy sources, said Najafi, who is the Schlumberger Professor of Engineering and also a professor in the Department of Bio...

By:Prayag Nao A personal helicopter weighing just 230 lb created sizzling news when it flew on hydrogen with zero emission. With an ability to carry payloads up to 800 lbs, this pocket Hercules can fly for 90 minutes. Fitted with easy controls, this reaches a speed of 100 knots thanks to a pair of small yet powerful motors mounted on it. Two common and easily available things – Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and a catalyst – combined to bring about a milestone in personal aviation history with attention to the environmental issues as well! Avimech has combined these two to power engine in to an innovative machine.   unique combination:   Avimech has combined two ideas – a rocket and a helicopter – to create this cute little personal aviation machine baptizing it as ‘Dragonfly.’ Actually this idea to utilize H2O2 and a catalyst has been around for some time. But to use them to power this hybrid version of a rocket in a helicopter is the brain child of Avimech...

By:Prayag Nao High-rise buildings and skyscrapers have been the most favored architectural solutions for highly populated cities. It is a commendable idea for combining height – growing more vertically – and for its small footprint without hogging precious soil which is at a premium in most cities. But sporadic eruptions of skyscrapers do not add to the beauty of the skyline of any city nor does it add any way to the locale topographical charm. The solution seems to be structures that solve housing problem for the populace without spoiling the beauty of the city.    2011 eVolo Skyscraper Competition The 2011 eVolo Skyscraper Competition is an annual event for architectural designs. In 2011 year’s goal was to find an architectural solution for housing in thickly populated urban areas without disturbing the existent city skylines as well as not hogging precious green spaces. This flat tower designed by Yoann Mescam, Paul-Eric Schirr-Bonnans, and Xavier ...

By:Prayag Nao Zhenan Bao, Stanford researcher, is keen to create “Super skin.” Taking her previously created super-sensitive sensor a step ahead, she is now creating a super skin that will be self-powered with renewable clean solar energy. Bao and her team have designed polymer solar cells that are flexible and can be stretched to power the ’super skin’.     Previous sensor Ms Bao had successfully built a sensor flexible and very sensitive to any pressure. It was able to detect even touch-down pressure of a fly. She had made this over a foundation of a flexible organic transistor made of supple polymers and materials which are carbon based. Touch-sensing is achieved by the fluctuations in the current flow which is caused by an elastic rubber layer shaped like myriad inverted pyramids. Rationale for sensing Changing the transistor’s semiconducting material according to the type of material kept on sensor, the sensor can sense whether it is touching ...

By:Prayag Nao   Very quietly, NASA has tested a space drive that does not use propellant and according to the laws of physics should not work, according to a Thursday story in Wired.UK . The problem is that the drive, called the “Cannae Drive” by its inventor Guiddo Fetta, did work in the NASA directed test. If the efficacy of the drive is confirmed, the implications for space travel are profound. It seems that another technology from Star Trek may be about to become reality,. The Cannae Drive is apparently based on the work of a British scientist named Roger Shawyer called the EMDrive . It is said to work by bouncing microwaves in an enclosed chamber and thus creating thrust. Despite having built a number of demonstration models, Shawyer has not been able to get anyone interested in his device. Critics reject his relativity explanation for how it works and point out that it violates the conservation of motion. However it appears that the Chi...

By:Prayag nao   If you've ever dreamed of cruising around town on a floating skateboard like Marty McFly does in the classic '80s flick "Back to the Future Part II," then you could soon be in luck. A pair of innovators is trying to make the futuristic fantasy of riding a hoverboard into a reality. About two months ago, husband and wife design team Jill and Greg Henderson launched a Kickstarter campaignfor their Hendo Hoverboard, a levitating skateboard that could hit "hoverparks" as early as October 2015. The Kickstarter campaign , which ends Sunday (Dec. 14), has been a resounding success, bringing in well over its initial goal of $250,000 in its first week. With only a couple of days to go in the impressive crowdfunding campaign, the project has already raised nearly $500,000. But with all the hype comes an important question: How in the world does this thing work? The basic premise behind the technology is something called ...

By:Prayag nao Origami, the Japanese art form that dates at least to the 17th century, creates unique patterns and shapes from paper folding. Today, origami is inspiring engineers to design active materials and smart structures that bend, stretch and curve, overcoming traditional design constraints and rendering products and systems with remarkable performance characteristics and features. Perhaps the most ubiquitous example is the amazingly compact automobile airbag, though origami-inspired engineering is also making commercial inroads in the energy, apparel and healthcare industries. Reflecting emerging interest in the field, the U.S. National Science Foundation funded eight U.S. universities to advance origami engineering into the realm of reconfigurable, smart, structures and self-assembling systems.   Folding, far beyond paper "Origami engineering can meet the demand, across multiple industries, for products and syste...

By:Prayag nao NEW YORK — A new interactive exhibit in New York City teaches kids and adults alike about the mathematical order of the natural world in an unconventional way: with dozens of swarming robots. At first glance, the "Robot Swarm" exhibit — which opens Sunday (Dec. 14) here at the Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) in New York City — looks more like a futuristic boxing ring than a museum display. Essentially, it's an elevated box cordoned off by thick, metallic rope. At a preview of the exhibit, three people in backpacks (who happen to be MoMath's co-founders and chief designer) meander around the ring, performing what appear to be fancy footwork and exchanging mild smack talk. But no one throws any punches. As the members of the trio move around, each is followed by a pack of tiny robots that roll around right under their feet. The robots, which look like an army of mechanical horseshoe crabs, are clearly visible through the exhibit...

By:Prayag Nao    We all know that according to thermo-dynamics laws Perpetual motion machines are impossible to make. ( Perpetual motion is motion that continues indefinitely without any external source of energy. This is impossible to ever achieve because of friction and other sources of energy loss . A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can do work indefinitely without an energy source. This kind of machine is impossible, as it would violate the first or second law of thermodynamics.) But Prof. John Searl designed a generator called Searl Effect Generator (SEG) that can generate electrical energy without giving any energy,At least we don't have to give energy to it. SEG takes energy from environment as form of heat and gives continuous electric energy. Searl website : http://www.searlsolution.com/ Basic Information    The SEG consists of 3 large ring type stators that are specially magnetized with patterns des...

By:Prayag Nao   A lamp for $5 that does not require any electrical power source? It may sound like an impossible dream, but two designers in London have built functioning prototypes of GravityLight, a cheap way for people in developing countries t0 light homes, recharge batteries, or power a radio. And they just exceeded their Indiegogo fundraising goal by more than 500 percent with 21 days left in their campaign, so they’ll have the resources to mass-produce the light for less than $5 a unit. Visit Website: GravityLight Above: The GravityLIght comes in the bag that will be filled with dirt or stones to power it Image Credit: GravityLight Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves have spent four years developing GravityLight, which uses the Earth’s gravity to generate enough power to light an LED bulb for half an hour — no electrical grid, batteries, or any external generator required. Using the GravityLight simply requires removing the small whi...