Android combined with some electronics has been used much more than just a Google phone. For example see the video below to see how it has been used to control a remote control car over the Wifi network. {youtube}n6ypGlTCbKk{/youtube} What is interesting is that the phone has become an enabling electronic gadget since so much…
Accounting is something that is required for most businesses. In larger companies, there are full departments tracking the expenses for a company but for a smaller company, there are several options. One of the more popular options is to do some of the major accounting with a software from Intuit like Quickbooks and then consult…
When you have a business website, it is important to track visitors, the places they visit, the hits you get and other analytics that tell you more about whether your content is relevant and whether there is information that is useful to visitors or customers. Most companies make it a part of their daily, weekly…
The data analysis engine that most people use most commonly is something like an Excel spreadsheet with charts to look at the data that they have collected. However, once the dataset gets bigger, the tools to analyze the data also need to scale. Additionally, as the dataset gets bigger, it is managed through a database…
Weather prediction requires significant investment in sensors, computers to predict and calculate and then experts who would interpret the data. However, a group of entrepreneurs have made an app that predicts the weather in the short term with very little investment. First, what does the application do ? It predicts rain in the short term…
The problem: When staining tissues, it is difficult to see through tissue and so most of the time what is done is to section the tissue and then stain for specific proteins to see their distribution within the tissue. Sectioning also enables the tissue to become accessible for the reagents that are used to stain…
The story of Lego has been used as an example for many a MBA course. The story is incredible. Lego – a privately owned company did almost everything right – they listened to the customer, they developed products in different categories, enabled innovation in their company and came up with unique ideas. When the technology…
Each researcher spends quality time managing the literature that they have collected in the form of papers and PDF’s. However, the collection of PDF continues to grow and there are very little in the form of tools that help manage it. There are three(3) great open source tools that work wonderfully to manage the collection…
Plants communicate with each other. That much is known. However, what is not known is how plants communicate using symbiosis. Dr Johnson has reported new work in Ecology letters that shows that plants use symbiotic fungi to enable communication. Communication also causes interesting secretion by plants when infected by aphids. These secretions that are volatile…
Carnegie Mellon researchers, Robert Xiao, Chris Harrison and Scott E Hudson have come up with a touchscreen system that can be used on any surface. They have used a projector coupled with a depth measuring system that enables any surface to be converted to a touch screen. More information here and the technology can be…
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