Geeky Gadget Compatible Jeans (Limited Edition)

Geeky Gadget Compatible Jeans (Limited Edition)

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Features Front!!!

• iPhone or iPod Touch pocket

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• Micro-fiber iPhone protection

  Forget iPhone cases. Our special micro-fiber interior protects your iPhone or iPod touch, as well as cleaning it when you take it out. The iPhone, that is..

• Hidden Memory stick pocket

  Who needs backup with your data safely put away in the special hidden, high security USB stick pocket? You should backup as well though. Really. Backup. Seriously.

• Extra protection for boys

  No matter whether you wear the family jewels on the right like 90 percent of guys, or whether you’re a leftie — extra padding on both sides keeps them cozy.

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Your Weight Loss Tweet.. Directly from the scale.

Tweet Your Weight Loss Progress to the World

As the world's first WiFi connected personal weight scale, users can set up alerts to automatically post their updates to Twitter, further motivating them by sharing their progress with followers.

Withings, French start-up, just announced Twitter integration into its first-of-its-kind WiFi Body Scale. As the world's first WiFi connected personal weight scale, it automatically records the user's body weight, lean & fat mass, and calculated body mass index (BMI) to their secure webpage and/or free Withings iPhone application, WiScale. Now, with this new added feature, users can set up alerts to automatically post their updates to Twitter accounts, further motivating them by sharing their progress with followers.

"This social media feature was the next logical step in the evolution of the WiFi scale for our customers," said Cedric Hutchings, Withings General Manager. "Here at Withings we are committed to roll out new features and services on the field thanks to automatic updates. Adding this social functionality makes the WiFi scale by Withings the first true flagship of the Internet of Objects."

By default, the Twitter feature will not be activated when you purchase your scale, it will have to be enabled by the user on www.withings.com. During the Twitter set up process, a user can set their Twitter alerts to post automatically at each measure, daily, weekly or monthly (see image here). The tweet will read the users current weight and how many pounds they have left to reach their set goal, whether they need to loose or gain! Since the scale tracks up to eight users per scale, only the users that enable this feature will benefit from the online peer motivation. More information on the Twitter feature here: Withings Blog.

The scale is currently available on www.withings.com.

Source : Boomerous.com

Bing Tips and Tricks

There's lot around the web to read about the new Microsoft Bing. Got through a blog to find some more tips and tricks other than self experimenting.

1. Use the full version of Bing

If you are using Bing outside North America, chances are that you seeing a localized version of Bing that may be missing some features. For instance, the Indian version of Bing.com doesn’t have search history and the image on the Bing home page here is not interactive as in the US version.

To explore the full version of Bing, go to this page and set English - US as your default region. You can now enjoy all the Bing features from anywhere.

2. Track Companies from the IE Favorites Bar

If you search for a company stock (e.g. GOOG or MSFT), Bing will automatically create a web slice for that company which you may then add to IE 8 and track the performance directly from the favorites bar. You need Internet Explorer 8 to try this feature.

3. Watch Preview of Hulu Videos outside US

Hulu hosts some popular popular TV shows but the problem is that you can only watch these videos if your computer has US based IP address.

However, Bing lets you watch shot previews of Hulu video even outside US. Just search for any TV show episode on Bing Videos (see example) and hover the mouse over any of the video thumbnail to watch a short clip.

4. Save and Email search results

With Bing, you can save your search history on to a local folder inside Bing or to your Windows Skydrive account. Alternatively, you may send your search queries to a friend via email or publish them on your Facebook wall via Bing. You’ll need Silverlight to share queries in Bing.

5. RSS Feeds of Search Results

Unlike Google or Yahoo, Bing offers RSS feeds for their web search results that you can subscribe to inside any feed reader. Your browser should be able to auto-detect the RSS feed of Bing pages or you can append &format=rss to any Bing search URL and convert it into a feed.

This RSS feature is not available for Image or Video search in Bing.

6. Find Pages That Link to MP3 Files or Documents

Bing (and Live Search) supports a unique "contains" search operator that lets you find web pages that contain links to particular file types.

For instance, a search like susan boyle contains:mp3 will show pages that are about the British singer and that also link to MP3 files. Replace mp3 with doc to search pages that contain links to Word Documents.

This content has been taken from labnol.org

Bing Hopes to Bang on!!!

Microsoft asks you to Bing it now..Bored by googling things!!! Now Bing them. Bing is the latest running Beta version of Microsoft's live search. New and Revived Bing comes live on June 3.

News and related posts on Bing.

From the Economic Times, India:

BANGALORE: Will you Bing it, or google it? That’s the big question the world’s biggest software company Microsoft will be asking over one billion internet search across the world, after the company will launch its new search engine Bing on June 3, and prepares to compete more effectively with Google.

While Google invented the advertising-based search model, which produces most popular items for each query, Microsoft is aiming to change the game by calling Bing a ‘decision engine’ , which will offer more insights to users for helping them take decisions, and not necessarily throw the most popular and relevant items.

“We are introducing a new level of organisation to search results, and our differentiator will be the best results for query,” Satya Nadella, senior vice- president (R&D , online services division) Microsoft told mediapersons in a press conference on Friday.

For instance, if a user runs a search for British Airways, Bing will provide the airline’s customer service centre number, apart from a host of best deals sorted by trends in ticket price for a particular sector. Moreover, an opinion index will also rate the search results based on an algorithm developed by Microsoft . Codenamed Kimo for past many months, Bing in Chinese language means a certain answer, or response to a query.

Avid search users, such as 29-year-old Prashanth Prakash in Bangalore, who is working in market analytics division of an FMCG major, Bing could be the search engine of choice. “Google is great, but I think you still have to run multiple search queries to get that right answer. If Bing can change that, I will surely shift my search engine,” he said.

When Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive was interviewed by ET earlier this month, he had said that his company would focus on providing the right answers to search queries. “I can’t speak for Indian languages, but in English, average search query is 2.2 words because people have seen that if you type longer, you get worse answers.

Is there an opportunity for innovation here — I think so,” Mr Ballmer had said. “Almost half of all queries never answer somebody’s questions. So, 50% of time you don’t get what you are looking for — that’s interesting.”

From fastcompany.com:

Rebranding is a dangerous game; do it right, and consumers will love something old as if it's new again, but do it wrong and you can inspire incredible antipathy. Redmond unveiled its latest re-brand on Thursday at the conference All Things D. Live Search will now be known as Bing, an updated version of Microsoft's search engine that will try (again) to take on Google and Yahoo. Luckily for MSFT, Bing has plenty of new features that should generate some curiosity. "That was the most astounding software demo I've ever seen," said Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, calling himself a "big fan" of Bing. An auspicious early review, if ever there was one. Then again, this guy rides a Segway.

Bing seems to do good as with my experiment I found it more exact and avoidance of crap. It needed less no. of keywords to match the exact needed result. But, for the optimization guys it looks that they have to work harder as Bing enters into the market of 10billion search users, and for sure there are microsoft admirer's around. Crack the Bing code!!

Solar Powered Ariel Vehicle

By Candace Lombardi

An unmanned aerial vehicle that's intended to use a combination of solar power and stored electricity is being developed by Ascent Solar Technologies and Bye Aerospace, both companies announced Tuesday.

(Credit: Bye Aerospace)

Ascent Solar will be supplying flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules designed for Bye's drone, the Silent Sentinel.

Bye will be using a Williams International FJ33 turbofan engine that will draw power from stored electrical power in a lithium-ion battery and the photovoltaic panels on the plane.

The result will be a quiet, low-emission hybrid UAV with added endurance, according to Bye.

The Silent Sentinel is intended for military surveillance purposes, but could also be used in the commercial world for things like pipeline and power line inspection, forest fire watch, and aerial photography.

While Bye said it has had proposal meetings with U.S. government officials, no contract for the vehicle has yet been signed with the U.S. military.

Bye will not be the first to combine solar panels with a drone-type aircraft. British defense contractor Qinetiq built and tested the Zephyr, a 66-pound glider that flew an unofficial record 54 hours straight (according to Qinetiq's own report) over White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in 2007. In early 2008, DARPA announced it was developing the Vulture, a solar-powered aircraft that would "fly" for 5 years straight, though arguably that UAV could be considered more of a satellite in orbit.

Source : cnet news

World's Largest Solar Kitchen

Although this has been old, but wanted to include it here for a future reference..

World’s Largest 38500-meal Solar Kitchen in India!

The system has been installed as a collaboration between the Academy for a Better World and Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, with technology from Solare-Brücke, Germany. With 84 receivers and cooking at 650 degrees, the system can produce up to 38,500 meals a day when the sun is at its peak!

The solar kitchen has been set up at Taleti, near Mount Abu, situated at a height of 1219 m above sea level in Rajasthan. It boasts of a six-module solar steam cooking system and a total of 84 parabolic dish concentrators shell type receivers. Each oval parabolic concentrator has a reflective surface area of 9.2 square meters, and reflect sunlight on the receivers by special white glass pieces. Steam is collected in the header pipes, which is then directed via insulated pipes to cooking vessels in the kitchen.

The system generates temperatures of up to about 650 degrees, and 3500-4000 kg of steam per day. The food is cooked in 200-400 liters capacity cooking pots, producing an average of 20,000 meals a day, and up to 38,500 meals per day during periods of peak solar radiation maximum.

A total of $5 million has been spent on this endeavor. The Academy for a Better World is interested in renewable energy technologies and the program is part of a special demonstration project of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India.

+ Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University
+ Academy for a Better World

via : Green Oorja Blog (http://green-oorja.blogspot.com)