New Delhi: If the Apple iPad be the Goliath of tablets, meet David - Aakash, the world's cheapest tablet computer. With hardly any flab beyond that 7-inch screen, it might also be among the smallest. Unlike the original iPad, it accepts pen drives. Something Indian university students, who get these tablets before everyone else, will find useful. But there are few gripes. The screen is rather unresponsive. Sometimes one has...
06:33 AM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi engineer has begun manufacturing robots and UAVs for the Indian armed forces. The Indian engineer, Aakash Sinha, is making possible a world where robots can give one company, serve water and guard skies. Aakash Sinha, the Founder of Omnipresent Robot Technologies, said, "When I was a child, I'd get Dad to buy me a kit and then take it apart. Then I'd ask him to buy...
10:19 AM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: It's time to get used to smart number plates on vehicles. After Delhi, it will become mandatory across the country. But what is a smart number plate and how does one get one? The smart number plate is made of a flexible alloy of aluminum and is completely blank, except for three markers on it which make it very hard to duplicate. The three markers include a chakra...
08:46 AM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: As India makes advances in the field of science and technology, from successfully launching nuclear missiles to inventing robots that treat cancer, one should not forget the people behind these innovations. On the May 11, 1998, India exploded a nuclear device in the face of international sanctions. Since then, the country has felicitated engineers and scientists this day, people who have developed indigenous technology for the national good....
09:42 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: A young guy starts a company and an international brand shows interest and snaps it for a huge sum of money - this is a common story in the US but not when it comes to India. But Abheek Anand's tech firm TagTile has just been acquired by Facebook. Polite and considerate, Abheek is nothing like the hot shot web entrepreneur. He has humble roots and he isn't...
08:52 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: From September, your phone will have to tell you how much of a danger it is to your health. A cell phone could ruin one's sex life. A JNU researcher did tests on male rats and found that cell phone radiation seriously reduced sperm count and testes size. But there are other, more obvious parts of the body that are affected by radiation. The phone antenna transmits and...
01:44 PM, May 08, 2012
Mayilsamy Annadurai is ISRO's programme director and chief problem solver for remote sensing satellites like the RISAT 1. He began his life studying in a cowshed and rose to lead a satellite team at India's premier space research organisation. ...
06:27 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: India has launched its first radar imaging satellite that can deliver crystal clear pictures in all weather conditions. It can even peer through jungle and dense tree cover. RISAT 1, India's heaviest remote sensing satellite, soars into space aboard an extra powerful PSLV XL rocket. K Radhakrishnan, Chairman, ISRO, says, "RISAT took Rs 378 crore to make. This includes research and development costs. The PSLV XL rocket cost...
07:16 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: They call her RISAT 1 - short for Radar Imaging Satellite. She's the first such machine India has built on its own. While most remote sensing satellites need light to snap pictures, RISAT uses microwaves - similar to the ones in your kitchen oven. Just like your camera fires a flash of light, RISAT-1 fires microwaves, which the ground reflects back. A radar inside the satellite uses those...
08:19 AM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: An IIT Professor, who is hoping to us give a clean, green and hopefully inexpensive fuel, has developed an alternative to petrol and diesel. It's a dream Professor L M Das of the Centre for Energy Studies at IIT Delhi nourished for 25 years, using Hydrogen gas as an automobile fuel. "Hydrogen can be made from both renewable and non-renewable sources. It's made from water. On combustion, it...
09:37 AM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: A controversial CD allegedly featuring Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi's has him livid. Despite a court injunction, the video went viral on the internet. Some are worried the incident will spark off a fresh wave of restrictions on the web. If you've shared Abhishek Manu Singhvi's leaked video with friends online, you could go to jail, say cyber experts. The video not only invades Singhvi's privacy, its content...
11:59 PM, Apr 21, 2012
New Delhi: Agni-V, India's newest strategic missile, on Thursday took its first successful flight and India joined a select club of nations with such technology. Agni-V's five thousand kilometer range puts all of Asia within reach plus much of the Indian Ocean, parts of Africa and Europe. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "The successful launch of Agni-V missile is a tribute to the sophistication and the commitment to national causes...
07:19 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Even as Indian power plants run short of coal, scientists at the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy are experimenting with new ways of using the sun to generate energy. These are purely experimental right now - there are no plans to roll them out commercially at affordable rates yet. ...
12:38 PM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: Meet a 28-year-old computer wizard who's set up his own software company, raising $35 million dollars in investment. Sachin Dev Duggal has designed software for businesses around the world and he hopes his own company will be the next big thing in computers. At 14, he was a businessman, making pocket money by assembling computers. Sachin Dev Duggal, says, "I messed up my mom's computer by accident and...
10:39 AM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's gone international in style. After making it to the cover of Time in March, he's now number three in a global online poll by the magazine, to pick the hundred most influential people in the world today. Modi got 2,56,792 votes in his favour. Interestingly 2,66,684 people also voted against him - making him the most unpopular figure on the list, just behind...
08:44 PM, Apr 13, 2012
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