BRB Evolution, the folding car..

Inspired by the Mercialigo, the BRB concept is a folding car that saves parking space. Check it out here

McKinnon being extradited to the US

McKinnon, the notorious UK hacker who broke into the Pentagon after the 911 attacks is finally being sent to the USA for trial and may face up to 60 years in jail. Read on here

Samsung launching an 8 MP Phone with Symbian S60

Samsung all set to launch an 8 MP phone, the i8510, with Symbain S60 and GPS, HSPDA etc. Quite a loaded phone this and should be a favorite with shutter bugs. Read on here

Google Knol goes live

Google announced their Wikipedia like authoring site known as Knol (Knol as in Knowledge) a few months back. It went live on 23rd July and you can check it out here at http://knol.google.com

5 Google calendar tweaks..

Google calendar is quite popular and a breeze to use, and with these tweaks, even breezier..Check out here.

Whoa!! Google slips. Loses market share...

Here is a chart from Comscore and the detailed report can be viewed here. Though not a major slip, it is being seen as a change in trend and hence significant. Read on here

Narrowest house is just 1 m wide

This house, the narrowest in the world has 2 rooms, kitchen, 3 bedrooms with washrooms and a veranda!and belongs to the lady in yellow - Helenita Queiroz Grave Minho , designed by her. She live in this 1 meter wide by 10 meter tall house in Madre de Deus, Brazil. Read on here.

My new E-Book on Corporate Selling

Hello there. I just managed to get my thoughts together to write a short e-book on corporate engagements, called "The 9 Ps of Corporate Engagement" and it is available at http://www.booksie.com/drvx

Do have a read and let me know if you find it useful.

Thanks
DrVx

iPhone 3G unboxing, and review by PCMAG videos

Hasselblad announces a 50 Mega Pixel camera

When it comes to professional digital cameras, the top name is not Nikon or Canon, it is Hasselblad and they have recently announced their 50 MP, yes thats 50 Mega Pixel camera model H3DII-50, but the price is not announced yet. But we can guess the approximate price if we know that their older model H3DII-39 with 39 mega pixel and lesser features, costs 37,000 US$. That's a lot of moolah for a camera, if you ask me.

It features a 36.8×49.1mm Kodak sensor, which is much larger than most DSLR cameras and a RAW format images will be around 65 MB. A 2 GB card will be able to hold just about 31 images.
Surely out of my pocket range. Read on here . Or check out their virtual demo here.

Australia may be planning to invade New Zealand

Don't believe me, check it out here and here.

Apple MobileMe goes live

http://www.apple.com/mobileme/
Apple MobileMe, the software that accompanies the iPhone, hitting the markets this friday, is already live. MobileMe stores e-mails, calendars and a picture gallery on an online server -- or "cloud" -- and pushes them down to an iPhone, iPod touch, Mac and PC. Have a sneak peek here and try it out at http://www.apple.com/mobileme/

Tour-de-France tracked by Google Street View

Tour-de-France, made popular in USA by Lance Armstrong's multiple wins, is now being tracked by Google by using Street View this summer. Check out the news here

GPS on a commercial flight

Ok that's me on a commercial flight with my GPS on. Notice the PDA is on flight mode, so it's legal and responsible, I guess.

Chatting with God online !!

Ever wanted to have a tete-a-tete with God and never got around to doing it. Here is your chance to get online with him and do it right now. He is waiting to hear from you here

The Flip Ship, actually flips !!

The FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform) Ship actually flips to study wave sciences. It studies the way water circulates, how storm waves are formed, how seismic waves move, how heat is exchanged between the ocean and the atmosphere, and the sound made underwater by marine animals are just a few of the subjects studied using the amazing FLIP.

The living quarters are designed to work vertically as well as horizontally as can be seen from the pic above. Check it out here..

Secret of eternal happiness !!

Underwater treadmill. What next !!

Some freak company called Hydrophysio dreams up an underwater treadmill for the hydrophiles. Not only does this contraption give you the extra exercise it purports, but also gives the much needed wash to your smelly socks.
Check it out here

Capitol Buzz Words

Have you ever wondered what they are talking about on the Capitol today. No more. Check out the latest buzz word on the Capitol here

Dailymotion, the French 'Youtube' wannabe goes HD

Dailymotion announces capability to add High Definition videos on their YouTube like service and pips YT at it.

Wonder how much bandwidth the Video sites will gobble up in the years to come. Check it out here

Phoenix finds some pepsi and coke on Mars!!

Phoenix Mars lander finds some evidence that there is Pepsi and Coke warring on Mars, in a pit of ancient ice. The picture included proves (above) that there has been at least one incident of Pepsi and Coke dueling on Mars in the last 38.3 Million years. The report says that there could be a slight error in the year and it could be within 3 days off mark from 38.3 million years...

This is being cited as one of the most earth shattering....errrr..... Mars shattering dicoveries in recent times and Martians are sending their armies, emails and text messages to the Phoenix crew of '0' to show their compassion for the Earthlings and their soda wars.

On it's further leg of the journey, Phoenix is moving on to Jupiter to look for traces of chewing gum and used underwear.

Yada Yada..

Such a waste of effort....really....

My first flower pic

Here is a picture of a flower I took at home using the camera, and it is almost decent, isn't it? Spy the camera shy fly, hiding behind the stamen..

Given the fact that I never got round to owning a decent camera, I finally did manage to get my hands on a prouser Canon SX100 IS, with 8 MP and 10X zoom and a macro of min 1 cm.



And here is another one I took using time exposure of some candles on my table. Would you say this is cool or what...

Check out the originals here

SD or SDHC, what's the difference?

Difference is that while SD cards specify the top speed, SDHC cards specify the guaranteed, consistant speed, and the difference is akin to the PMPO and the RMS values in Music Systems. This chart here lists the performance of some commonly found cards.

Jumbo Electronics Experience in Gurgaon

Today, I walked into a Jumbo store to pick up a battery charger for my Digicam. They had a Sony charger and it was marked at Rs. 975/-. It suited my purpose and I decided to buy it. Wait. Not yet.

The attendant asked me to pay up, which I did with 2 crisp Rs. 500/- notes I got from an ATM recently. I waited for about 10 minutes for 3 different attendants who fidgeted with the register, and probably did not know how to operate the machine. One of them then ran to the other and then another and finally (Phew !) they came up with a bill. Thank god for that, and for my good mood. That was not the end, since they had only Rs. 20/- change and could not find another Rs. 5 they owed me. They frantically searched their pockets and made me wait another 5 minutes before one of them disappeared and reappeared with the change, and with no apology for making me wait.



It was then that they realized that they needed to give me some kind of a 'bag' to carry the merchandise. So now the 3 attendants started searching for a 'bag' and finally came up with one that was big enough to carry a 25 inch LCD , and all I had was a small, pocket sized battery charger.

No 'thank you', no 'sorry to keep you waiting', no nothing.

I don't blame the 3 attendants, since they seemed very young and probably untrained or under-trained for the job.

Later I searched on the net and found the same charger on the 'Sony' website and the charger was in fact Rs. 975/- MRP. Wow!! I didn't know malls still sold at MRP; I thought they sold way below MRP because of the volume discounts they got. I didn't feel cheated, or looted, just unimportant as a customer for 'Jumbo'.

I hope someone at Jumbo Electronics, Ambiance Mall, Gurgaon reads this post and takes corrective action.

Mazda's Motonari 2057

If there is one car which will probably make you rise from your grave, it's got to be this one. When, or rather, if you ever get the chance to get into this Mazda mean machine, you will be given a special suit that will help you to feel the road. It uses millions of tiny actuators that will ultimately provide electric stimulation to different muscles depending on road conditions. All that we hope is not to get into a high-speed collision! Now that's expansion of thought into the fiction world, but yes we are getting there..