4-5-6-7D MOVIES

Imagine bursts of air shooting past your ears when the bows and arrows start flying in the movies, and maybe sometime in movies some mist sprinkles on your face when the character swan dives into the lake.

What if you feel in being as a part of film or the character itself rather being in your personal home theatre. If the former seems to be true, the excitement will be a limitless factor. And yes the multi-dimensional movies are those which can make it possible.

The 4D films or the 4-Dimensional movies are of the latest entertainment presentation system with a combination of 3D films and some exclusive physical effects which occurs in synchronization with the film. Wind, Vibration, Moving Seat, scent and smells, mist and rain, bubbles etc etc are some of the exclusive effects added to such technology. The added extra dimension is not that is added in the filming, its the added feature of the theatre itself. The technology was popularized by a South Korean company called CJ 4D Plex, which currently converts all the 3D theatre into the extra dimensional technological feature. Using additional hall effects such as smoke, rain, lightning, air bubbles and special smells (for example fireworks smell at the London Eye's Experience and gassy smells when the stinkbug sprays it at It's Tough to be a bug) is often regarded by many as 5D. However, since there is no standard for using these terms, each company uses its own terminology and it is often confusing. It is important to disregard the marketing slogans (4-5-6-7D) used by different companies and check what is exactly offered for both the visual and sensory experience.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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MISSION INVISIBLE, NOT IMPOSSIBLE

Whether you're a Harry Potter fan or a mere fourth-level mage in a game of "Dungeons and Dragons," you're probably familiar with the concept of an invisibility cloak. Slip this magical garment over your head and, in the eyes of all onlookers, you are simply VANISH !!!

Due to the outburst of science and cutting edge technology such innovation has become a matter of dream come true. Researchers have constructed an invisibility cloak capable of hiding a tiny object by altering the behavior of the light that hits it. This is the first invisibility cloak made out of sophisticated, artificial materials called metamaterials that work with the full spectrum of light visible to the human eye.

The cloak, which works for the full spectrum of visible light traveling at any angle, is made out of silicon nitride layered on top of silicon oxide with minute pores. The silicon nitride is etched with a special pattern of holes. Because of their carefully calculated size, these holes can alter the speed at which light travels through the layer that contains them. This allows the engineers to manipulate our ability to see things. What you see is actually not just the light; what you are seeing is how the light is interacting with its environment. The pattern of microscopic holes essentially reconstructs the reflected light as if the light never hit the object in the first place, fooling the eye into missing the object. The most important thing is that, the cloak must be larger than the object and to built such cloak for a larger object it take eventually a very long time. Hope in near by future we get a well equipped n highly efficient camouflage technology by the invisible cloak.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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THE GAME CHANGER

How practical are electric aircraft? Yeah I ain't joking this time at least.

After all, powering a car down the road is different than powering an airplane through the air, and the electric automobile is still struggling to find its niche. Aviation experts say that ultra-green aviation technology will take a good deal of time. The necessary technical advances are still speculative. On the other hand, they add, aerospace engineers can see the path to eventual success, if not the actual stepping stones along the way.

Several years ago, when the auto industry faced government pressure to minimize its environmental footprint by reducing fuel consumption and tailpipe emissions, manufacturers turned first to hybrid-electric and then battery-electric power-trains that now move Chevy Volts and Nissan Leafs. Today, confronted with substantially the same environmental mandates, the aviation industry has begun gearing up to use those same green power plants to propel aircraft.

THE ELECTRIC CAR IS SO YESTERDAY; ELECTRIC AIRPLANES ARE COMING.

Electric propulsion will be a Game-changer and transform aeronautics in the next 20 to 30 years. Electric-powered unmanned aerial vehicles first transitioning from military to civilian use, followed in time by much more environmentally responsible commercial transport planes. The changeover to fully electric propulsion will be assisted by the adoption of hybrid-electric drive trains. Hybrids, which can implemented more easily, provide a way to compensate for the high masses of batteries and so afford a way to improve the power-to-mass ratio of the engine. The development of electric aircraft not only depends on the speed at which battery technology improves, but also how fast electrical equipment, the motors get better. Electric motors would need efficiencies of around 95 percent, and the most important of all is, after such tremendous improvement in the technology the system should be affordable and durable with maximum security and safety.


(In photo - Boeing's SUGAR Volt (Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research) twin-engine future concept airliner. The 737-size transport would be powered by hybrid propulsion system that would combine gas turbine and battery/electric motor technology )


Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.
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SOLAR ROADWAYS

We are using fossil fuels as the primary source of energy to run our Industrial Civilization. But we are paying a heavy price for using fossil fuels in the form of environmental damages.

Now, we know that fossil fuels and natural gases are not going to last forever. This will lead us into big problems. We can’t go back to life of the 18th century. We can’t shut down our industrial units and means of transport and communications. Many are worried about the impending situation and thinking of solutions.

We can counter the energy crisis by adopting an unique alternative method. We can construct Solar Roadways ! Yeah its true and possible. We can convert 50,000 miles of petroleum-based asphalt highways and byways into Solar Roadways ! Similar results can be achieved with the parking lots, airports, runways, malls, stadiums and driveways.

The project is the brain child of an US based electrical engineer Mr. Scott Brusaw who is also an elite voting member of NEMA and the co-founder of the Solar Roadways. With his impressive and encouraging ideology I believe that if the Indian Interstate Highway system can be exchanged with the system with a solar cell efficiency of 10 percent, it could power the whole country.

These Solar Road Panels will generate and restore energy for our homes and businesses. The added side effect will be a fifty percent cut in the greenhouse gases. I, envision about the interconnected and intelligent multiple Solar Road Panels. I predict a future where interstate highways, state routes, downtown streets, residential streets, or plain dirt or gravel country roads will be having Solar Road Panels catering to the energy needs of homes or business units. Solar Roadway will be an intelligent, self-healing, decentralized (secure) power grid.


The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. :-)
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SIMPLY MOVE ON !!!

Recording its title as the "fastest selling consumer electronics device" in the Guinness World Record, selling 8million units in first 60 days of its release.

The Kinect for XBOX 360 or simply Kinect, is the eight generation of video game consoles and till date marked for the best, for its hi-fi specification. Based on a webcam-style add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console, it enables users to control and interact with Xbox 360 without the need to touch. Carving to the latest innovative design using the Natural User Interface(NUI), the console is completely functioned on gesture and spoken commands. Kinect brings games and entertainment to life in extraordinary new ways without using a controller, rather making yourself as controller on full body movement . Imagine controlling movies and music with the wave of a hand or the sound of your voice. With Kinect, technology evaporates, letting the natural magic in all of us shine. The console helps you to have a quite healthy workout as it not only allow to move the hands and legs, rather the full body.
The console is loaded with RGB camera, depth sensor and multi-array microphone as well as supports 3D motion capture, facial recognition and voice recognition capabilities. The device is built-in USB 2.0 and  uses the XBOX 360 as well as MS Windows as its gaming platform. This ground breaking technology makes you feel the real essence of gaming just relating the real-physical world with the digital world, just as simple as we can think off. So just shake your bon-bon and make yourself feel that, the hips don't lie, because its simply what's called gaming in this 21st century era.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. :-)
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HOW MANY DO YOU HAVE ?

Hey guys ! I ain't talking about your watch collection. I am talking about a watch which has built-in storage capacity.

You may recall from the James Bond movies, that Mr. 007 used to carry confidential data or information that is often used as intels for his missions, which lead him to be personified as the most talented gentlemen in the British MI6 agency. If you want to be a hero, just like 007, then I suggest you carry your files on this USB Memory watch. In addition to displaying the time, the watch helps to carry your valuable data with you all times, from MP3 files to your favorite images and many more other essentials. It has a simple Plug and play operation as that of a standard USB flash drives.

The USB Memory Watch has a built-in USB connector and can transfer files to and from most computer operating systems.  The USB connector is cleverly stored in the watch band and flips up for easy connecting. There is also a LED light that indicates the device status. Its extremely shock-proof and anti-static but not waterproof. The watch is surprisingly sleek and lightweight - it is not a bulky watch. The band is comfortable and very flexible. The built-in USB 2.0, has a data storage capacity of about 2GB or 4GB or 8GB.

Technology does not drive change, it enables change.
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INTERACTIVE BOOK

This is one of the most elegant, fluid, impressive apps I ever seen. It's a showpiece for the new world of touch-screen gadgets.

The Choice will change the way we read books. And quite possibly change the world. Finally, the time has come to save yourself from shoulder aches from carrying bulky-boring study materials and move on with the simple but sophisticated mode of e-learning basically what I call "The Interactive Book" not iBook. Today in this present world of science and cutting edge technology, knowledge about general views and ideas of the environmental issues are of great practical importance. Its not only what you think it as a book, but this Interactive Book is capable of real-time interaction with the materials provided in it. The book features audio, video, geolocated photos, gesture enable demonstration and interactive graphics using intuitive pinch gestures and will be easy to read where users will be able to turn the pages on the screen. Push Pop has made the book more animated, dynamic, fast and responsive. In fact the book also enables you to navigate through the different location of the world on multiple topics of its respective genre like Climatic conditions, Energy resources and many more environmental, social, political and financial aspects beyond your thoughts. In this interactive app, Al Gore surveys the causes of global warming and presents groundbreaking insights and solutions already under study and underway that can help stop the unfolding disaster of global warming. With photography, interactive graphics, animations, and more than an hour of engrossing documentary footage, the book would never make you feel like a boredom, but rather a live encyclopedia. A new, groundbreaking multi-touch interface allows you to experience that content seamlessly. Pick up and explore anything you see in the book; zoom out to the visual table of contents and quickly browse though the chapters; reach in and explore data-rich interactive graphics.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

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SMARTER ENOUGH SMARTPHONES

Leave your laptop at home.Today's smartphones are smarter enough than what you think so.

It’s hard to believe that today’s phones are just as powerful as desktop computers were less than a decade ago. Today's smartphones are capable of doing anything you might need your laptop for on bussiness trip or holiday, plus much more. Its not only that you stay in touch via email and surf Web without wires and dongles but can have an ultimate experience of 3D gaming and capture HD videos. So its time to save yourself from shoulder aches and leave the bulky laptop behind. Apart from the freedom to move around, smartphones add new dimensions to our interaction, through video cameras, environmental sensors, GPS location awareness, and always-on Internet connections. In fact, even if phones weren’t so powerful, the advent of always-available online “cloud” services means you can safely cut the cord and live entirely out of the phone in your pocket. For those occasional times when you need more grunt, many of today’s phones can be expanded via video outputs, plug-in keyboards, Bluetooth accessories or even laptop-like docks with full-sized keyboards and screens. For personal entertainment, most of these smartphones have screens in the 3.5–4-inch range, which is great for watching movies without being disturbed. Huge libraries of streaming audio and video are available online, and if that’s too much for your 3G connection, just load up your phone at home—you won’t find less than 8 GB of storage space today!

If you don't have an iPhone, well you don't have an iPhone. :-)

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TOUCHY ! TOUCHY !

The big buzz words in technology today - tablets and Android, combine in this comparison.

Laptops and netbooks are handy portable devices that can handle a lot of your daily tasks. However, given their weight and bulky form factor, they aren’t ideal to lug around everywhere you go. As an alternative, touchscreen computing is already here and is taking over! Tablets have been all the rage lately. They combine touchscreens and a unique user interface, which makes using them a much simpler, quicker and fun experience. Thus, the traditional mice and keyboards are made redundant. Tablets are not just portable, but the recent tablet devices have been housing quite powerful components. Tablets have been running on processors with clock speeds around 1 GHz, around 1 GB RAM, and oodles of storage. The newest tablet devices also feature dual core processors. For all you know, they might even outperform those modest little netbooks. With the launch of the Apple iPad 2, Google’s Android Honeycomb platform, and mobile components like the Nvidia Tegra 2, tablets are here to stay.

A tablet is often mistaken to be a mere shiny or a useless gadget, but it can be used well for quick presentations, to watch movies, to catch up on the latest shows, or to sway to your favorite tunes. Browsing the Internet is a whole new experience on a tablet. With the full screen browser, the multi touch gestures, and the kinetic scrolling, no longer does browsing imply sitting for long hours in front of your PC. Then there’s the mobility factor. You don’t need to fire up your laptop or computer every time you want to look something up or catch up on the news. Innovative stands let you use tablets wherever and whenever you would need them, be it in the park, or on the dashboard of your car, showing you the way around town. They are even said to be great devices for learning, in the classroom and outside of it. Tablets have changed the face of e-books and magazines, making reading a more true to life experience, with pages you can actually touch and turn. Apps such as Google Voice, ooVoo and Skype have made VoIP on tablets far easier, and with most of the tablets featuring 3G and a secondary camera, they can be great devices for video calling and video conferencing.

While Apple’s iPad brought tablets into the limelight, there also exist tablets running Android, which are capable of doing just as much, or probably more. This is not only the end in the world on touch and smart computing still more gadgets are to be lauched in the nearby future.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. :-)

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INTRO...SIMPLE BUT SOPHISTICATED

Hello Guys and Girls too ..!!!

As this is my first blog ever, I really don't have any good experience on writing. Even though a simple try with a sophisticated ideas is really not a bad practice rather a good one too. Anyways in this blog I, in person publicly want to share my interest and my level of knowledge on creative skills on technology and modern hi-fi gadgets used in various field by limitless techies.

Though it may seem to be boring for a quite number of readers but I promise you all reader that it would really make you feeling more interesting as you go through it with little keen interest of learning it.

At last my conclude sentence that I want to quote is that " TECHNOLOGY IS WHAT WE USE AND TECHNIQUE IS WHAT WE ARE BEING USED TO"

keep smiling and enjoying :-)

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