Dr Teng Li and Liangbing Hu of University of Maryland have been working on lithium or sodium based batteries and have used a unique material in the batteries that has not been thought before – wood. In batteries typically, the positive ion shuttles between the electrodes as it goes through its electrical cycle. Lithium is…
When anyone measures a lot of data and then correlates it with phenomenon seemingly unrelated to the data, seemingly some relationships become evident. Is there a cause and effect? – Not necessarily but it still is surprising on how it can be related. Consider the example correlation between the movie showed on TV and the…
Data visualization requires special tools. The one that has been very useful is “Weave”, as a ridiculously powerful visualization tool. Instead of describing in detail, look at this video below showing the elections of UK and the link that gives all the features very well. {youtube}WHQeP4yQa9U{/youtube}
The University of California system adopted a policy on August 2nd that the default publishing of any scholarly article will be licensed openly to the University of California and also openly available to all the scientists. This has received a great amount of press for the valuable value it brings to open access journals as…
There are several ways to visualize data. The most commonly used could be Excel charts. However, when the data sets are complicated and large, the ability to display and chart the data is required to be given to the individual user or consumer, new techniques are required to plot the data. One such technique involves…
Interesting work by scientists at Microsoft that shows that using mobile phone social contacts is strongly correlated to the perceived mood. They have designed a mobile application that enables collection of immense amount of data of user interaction with the phone and parameters such the number and time of calls made, the SMS sent and…
Bicycle has been around for quite some time. It has been modified to many degree’s. Designers have changed the color, number of wheels, suspensions and just about everything including how you sit, how you pedal including a design that allows you to push instead of pedaling. In many cases the essential design has kept the…
Researchers at University of Urbana-Champaign found that productivity of workers increased in a coffee shop environment that was not too loud or not too quiet. There is an interesting NY Times blog describing the effect. Interestingly a group of people have taken that to create an app that plays the recorded background noise back, with…
Every company needs marketing and sales. Some it may be generated by the discussion by customers themselves but on the other hand, companies spend substantial amount of money for marketing and sales. However, marketing as its practiced is changing – the digital marketing is taking over more of the dollars as compared to the traditional…
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…
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