Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Love at first sight: Really Powerful
A nice video for those who believe that Love in First sight can be very strong enough, this video has good CG rendering of the glass effects, ends with a really nice feeling, one of a kind video i would have seen in a long time.
Now you can eat your rice without cooking
Indian Scientists from Assam Agricultural University have developed a Rice Breed that does not require cooking, it can be eaten simply after being soaked in water and would definitely help save fuel and an important breakthrough for the poor in India, it's called Aghoni Bora and after you soak it in water it's ready to eat in 45 minutes, i can imagine how useful it can be for disaster relief purpose like in Haiti, where people would be in dire need of food right now.
One more reason for Beer Lovers to Cheers!
Two researchers from University of California claim that Beer is good for body, and that Barley beer is better than wheat beer, read more on this here
A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything
Check this video which is a stop-motion flip book animation made by an art student Jamie Bell, it took him 3 weeks to make it out of 2000 pages of notebook paper and ink pens, i like the effort put in by this artist, wonder why we never thought of such things when we made animated flip books back in our childhood.
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Control a computer by flexing a muscle
Microsoft is filing patent rights to a technology of what could be a really cool invention, called "Muscle Computer Interface" which works on electromyography (EMG) it measures electrical potentials generated by the activity of muscle cells. The intention here is to acquire human input that may not necessarily require direct manipulation of a physical implement.
The video above includes a demonstration of how to use muscle movement to play Guitar Hero, air-guitar style, so Microsoft would very well use this technology to Xbox 360 games and moving beyond games this invention could prove handy in situations where you could control devices with your muscle interaction using pressure points on your fingers, like snapping your fingers to change the track on your portable mp3 player, changing channels, volume etc. on your television by a touch to your fingers, hands-free input mechanisms that can helpful in areas sensitive to contamination, for example surgery rooms.
You can read more about this here, a white paper on Microsoft research website, an Indian member is also on board to this team Ravin Balakrishnan
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Average Net User now Spending 13 Hours Online a week
The time an Average US Internet user would spend way back in 1999-2002 was around 7 hours in a week which has now increased up to 13 hrs a week, The age group that spent the most time online per week: 30- to 39-year-old, at 18 hours. This rise in consumption of internet services has happened due to multiple devices now available to access internet, and increase in activities like shopping online and watching television online, read more on this here
Netbook Sales Rise in Year 2009
Portable computing trend has shifted heavily in favor of Netbooks in the year 2009, Netbook sales saw 72% growth from year 2008 and in comparison Notebook revenue was down by 7% as compared to 2008 sales revenue, Netbooks have found a place of their own in the portable computing market and would not be causing a permanent dent in the Notebook segment, as by next year their sales would also start to normalize, Notebook manufactureres have being actively slashing prices across year 2009 and would continue to pack in more features with improved versions of hardware configs in the year 2010, read more on this here
Monday, December 21, 2009
Avatar Movie Review
I went to watch Avatar Movie with great excitement and some curiosity, and the movie surpassed my expectations by and far, James Cameron has again worked a wonder out of this movie, he truly belongs to the league of Movie Makers who would probably not churn a movie title year after year but when they do make a movie, it would change the rules of the game and raise the bar for the others.
Avatar also could become the turning point in movie making, the way Terminator and Titanic set new standards for Hollywood film making, here's a summary to the movie story, Jake Scully (Sam Wothington) is a disabled Marine who signs up for the Avatar program to replace his scientist brother who is now dead Jake travels to Pandora, the lush moon of Polyphemus which is inhabited by humanoid species called Na'vi, Jake is supposed to join Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver) while as a marine he still reports security chief Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) who along with Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi) are interested to drive the Native's out of their home for mining Unobtainium.
Jake Scully goes on a science mission with grace and her team, he gets lost in the jungle and from here on he enters the Na'vi world, gets into their group and has a change of heart, where he decides to be with them, he was supposed to spy for the human's and give them intel on how they could pursue the Natives to leave the place they were staying, however the security cheif and the corporate baron have other plans and they jump into action by blowing up Na'vi home. Jake now decides to defend this race, and the movie roll's on to spectacular fight ahead, shot with great camerawork.
The first half of the movies makes you enjoy the fantasy land James has created in his story you get to explore the Pandora Landscape which is a feast to your eyes, it's not just about the CGI, James is successful to make you beleive that such worlds could exist and the scale of detailing the alien world is amazing second best to the landscape shown by george lucas in his Star Wars flicks. also you are able to connect to the chracters in the story before you roll in to the second half of the story which is fast paced and loaded with action.
There are defining moments in the movie which are equally high on emotions weaved perfectly to thhe story along with the technical brilliance, it's an rare amalgamation of fantasy extraterrestrial landscapes with cutting edge CGI, all bound into the high-testosterone camerawork. The story easily makes you hate the Human Race and feel for the Pandora Inhabitants, Indirectly it touches many points to our current issues like mindless destruction of the nature for corporate gains, waging fake wars and use of military to snatch natural resources, also displaying the human nature of exploiting the resources available on hand which shows that even if we found another planet to live after we have destroyed earth, we would still continue displaying our savage nature in the new home if we get.
This Movie is 3 hour long and you would not mind the length of the movie as you would be engrossed enough to come out of Avatar which is a cinematic brilliance, Music by James Horner is also good, no matter how beautiful a dream is you have to wake up, and for sure you would be content to leave the cinema hall having to worth to your ticket money, don't miss this one.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Chevrolet BEAT
I had posted pics of Chevrolet BEAT here on my blog on Dec 4, re-posting the details as i got to know the name of this Car today which i guessed was probably from the Chevrolet Stable, and yes it is a Chevrolet BEAT which i saw on a test drive at Mumbai Pune Expressway on 28 Nov 09.
Chevrolet Beat is going to be launched mostly Next month while it features in the upcoming Auto Expo this car is going to be placed in a Price Band of Rs 3.5 - 5 Lakhs, and a possibility of 3 variants to this model, the car hood behind gives it a sporty look and the design of this car is mostly similar to it's international version, it's a B Segment Hatchback touted to give competition to Maruti Ritz, Hyundai i10. Chevrolet had a good run in terms of sales with Spark and it's the right time they found a successor to Spark to maintain the presence in Indian market and grow ahead on their offerings to the evolving car market in our country, This car had featured in the Transformers 2 Flick also this year, check the pics at my album here
Take a look at this video review from CNB Show aired on NDTV
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Iron Man 2 Trailer is Out Now
Iron Man 2 Trailer finally revealed, this movie seems to pack more action than the first version and Tony stark has a equally menacing baddie to fight this time, Whiplash is at least not lame as Obadiah Stane, looking forward to this flick, though it's too early right now, since the movie would hit the screens in May 2010, check out the trailer.
Twitter Trending Topics 2009
Check out some interesting Twitter trends for the year 2009, Iran Elections featured twice in News Events and Hashtags, District 9 and Paranormal Activity for sure gained a good word of mouth publicity, and Tiger Woods made it to the list of People at number 8, check the pic here
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
4G Services launch in Sweden and Norway
Thanks to our netas, 3G services are yet to see the light of the day in India, 4G service has now being launched in Norway and Sweden, 4G service boasts of speeds up to 100 Mbps ten times faster that its 3G predecessor, read more here
Don't worry if people call you Baby Face
A new Danish study says that people who look younger to their age were far more likely to survive to a higher age, check out the article here
2012 Parody
12 Artsy Animals that actually paint
Here's a list of Animals who have being found capable enough to paint some colors to express themselves, try giving a canvas to your pet dog and sell it as a masterpiece, easy way to get rich huh?
This is really weird: Falling TV sets killing children
Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio has come up with some statistics between 1990 and 2007 300 deaths were caused by falling of TV sets in which children were the victims in most cases, check out this article here
Why online buying helps nature
Check out this article which points out an observation made on the impact of recent holiday season sale in November where consumers rushing to stores on Black Friday Sale had 50 times negative impact on environment compared to the Cyber Monday Sale
Make Windows 7 more awesome
Here are some tips and tricks to make your Windows 7 experience more enjoyable and awesome, you would find tips on Installation and Interface tweaks, on Taskbar and adding applets, Explorer and optimizing power usage, error handling and improving overall performance.
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