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May 28, 2006

The real 'cloaking device'

Physicists have drawn up blueprints for a cloaking device that could, in theory, render objects invisible.

Light normally bounces off an object's surface making it visible to the human eye. But John Pendry and colleagues at Imperial College London, UK, have calculated that materials engineered to have abnormal optical properties, known as metamaterials, could make light pass around an object as so it appears as if it were not there at all.

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May 25, 2006

Strong

Just a small interesting incident to share;

I received three samples of coolant from one of our clients, out of the three two were dark and strong because of higher % of coolant in water and the third one was clear and dilute. This afternoon during lunch time I was discussing something with one of my vendors. My senior, an old British, came in and said (in fun mood), pointing towards the samples, “this one is me (the clear sample) and this one is Chand (the dark sample) hehehe…“ And in just less than a second, I replied, “See.... (Showing the bottle just at his face) I am STRONGer than you.. hahahahahahaha…:D”
I don’t know what exactly he wanted to say, but I answered for all, and clearly the guys understood my SENSE, and kept on laughing at my reply to my senior.

Yes. I am STRONG.

PS: you might be wondering what is this coolant thing I am doing with in design? It was just one of the things that came in my way of doing many things.
Afterall,
I love DESIGN.

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May 17, 2006

Frankencotton

Genetically modified foods have caused no end of anxiety and distrust. But not genetically modified shirts. Why?
Readers may imagine the reason is that there is no such thing as a genetically modified shirt, and they would be half right. The shirt genome has yet to be mapped, and the heritability of sleeve length is not widely accepted in either the textile or molecular biology community.

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May 14, 2006

Most realistic virtual reality

More than $4 million in equipment upgrades will shine 100 million pixels on Iowa State University's six-sided virtual reality room.
That's twice the number of pixels lighting up any virtual reality room in the world and 16 times the pixels now projected on Iowa State's C6, a 10-foot by 10-foot virtual reality room that surrounds users with computer-generated 3-D images. That means the C6 will produce virtual reality at the world's highest resolution.

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May 07, 2006

Changing Constant

Cosmologists claim to have found evidence that yet another fundamental constant of nature, called mu, may have changed over the last 12 billion years. If confirmed, the result could force some physicists to radically rethink their theories. It would also provide support for string theory, which predicts extra spatial dimensions.

This is not the first time fundamental constants have been accused of changing over the lifetime of the universe. Most famously, there was controversy over the fine structure constant, alpha (α), which governs how light and electrons interact. Some physicists claimed it is changing while others said it was not.

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