World's First Camouflage Clothing

You may wonder why I said World's First Camouflage Clothing when we have a lot of camouflage clothing available in the market. Yes, you are right. There are a lot of camouflage clothings available but they are used only for a single camouflage purpose. What if the season changes? There comes the relevance of Cabela's new color-changing ColorPhase apparel. Now wonder why it became the first of its kind. 

According to Cabela, ColorPhase is the world's first camouflage clothing printed with rapid-change, temperature-activated dye. This means based on seasons temperature the colour of the fabric changes. ColorPhase camo will begin changing colours at 65 degrees Fahrenheit. This allows soldiers as well as hunters to blend perfectly with the environment. 

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Google Cloud Print - Easier life for Users and Administrators

Google have always played an important role is developing web related applications making the life of users and administrators simple and easier. A new technology has been developed which helps to connect your printers to the web. It is called 'Google Cloud Print'. With the help of this technology we can make our printers available for us as well as for others whom we decide to choose, from the applications. This technology works on our phone, tablet, Chromebook, PC, and any other web-connected devices were we want to print from. Google Cloud Print works with all printers, but its always recommended to use a Cloud Ready Printer, since it can give us best printing performance. 

HOW TO SET UP A GOOGLE CLOUD READY PRINTER

It always easy to get start with a printer that's Google Cloud Ready. Consider an example where we try to set up a Canon Pixma MX922 as the Google Cloud Ready Printer. Each printer set up varies, but most of the times the instructions are easier to follow and I do believe you will not have any problems in setting up a printer. 

First we have to connect the printer to broadband or Wi-Fi network and register it with Google through the printer's onboard menu system. It will give us a shortened URL and QR Code which we can use on our phone or computer to log into our Google account and complete the registration. Its always better to finish registration quickly since we have only 14 minutes to do it. After registration is completed, we can go to this Google page to manage all of our printers. There we can see which printers we have, when they were added, the print jobs that have been completed etc. Its pretty a decent brief which can be used in future too. 

ADDING A STANDARD PRINTER TO GOOGLE CLOUD PRINT

If you dont already have a Google Cloud Ready printer, we can set up a regular one. First we have to make sure the printer is connected to the computer and make sure the latest printer drivers and Google's Chrome browser are installed. 

Using Chrome, log into the Google account and go to Settings>Show Advanced Settings. Then scroll under the Google cloud Print section and click the Manage button. 

Here we can see all our printers listed under My devices. Under Classic printers, click the Add printers button. 

For example if we are adding Canon MP495, make sure its checked and Click the Add printers(s) button at the bottom. For convenience we can also select automatically register new printers. 

This technology is easy to be used through mobiles as well as i-pads. There are a lot capabilities that Google Cloud Ready provide us. Some of them are 

• Convenience: Cloud Ready Printers can also register themselves directly with the Google Cloud Print service over the home or wireless network. Since they are connected to the web, they can keep their drivers and firmware up to date. Google Cloud Print also works with conventional non-cloud printers, so that we can start with any printer that we own. 
• Safe: Google Cloud Print takes security very seriously. Documents are transferred over a secure HTTPS web connection. After the job is completed the file is automatically deleted from the servers. In addition we can also delete jobs and their history, at any time. 
• Share with you friends: Google Cloud Print allows you to share printers with friends, family and co-workers. We can also track the jobs done by these printers, share with trusted individuals etc. 
• Chromebook ready and Enterprise ready: Google Cloud Print is the standard printing technology used by ChromeOS on Chromebooks. In the enterprise level, the Google Cloud print is used on over a thousand printers. It can meet the organization's requirements easily. 

At the end I would say, the Google Cloud Print makes the life easier of both system administrators and users. Not only that, less headache for organizations. :) :D 

A new promise for Electronics

Comparison of graphene oxide before (left) and after (right)

A team of researchers from MIT and University of Berkeley have found a new simple inexpensive method for a variety of applications. 

Do you wanna know the Hero of the Story? :) Yes, Ofcourse. Its Graphene, a two-dimensional array of carbon atoms. The new method was published in Journal Nature Chemistry  which was co-authored by MIT students Priyank Kumar, Neelkanth Bardhan and MIT professors Jeffrey Grossman and Angela Belcher and other two authors from Berkley. 

In fact, pure graphene lacks some key properties needed for electronic devices, solar power and sensors. But when it is modified through the addition of oxygen, it can provide all the essential properties required. The group did a new approach in which they exposed the material to relatively low temperatures. But the key point is, they havent used any chemical treatments. The low-temperature annealing process itself modified the distribution of the oxygen atoms, causing them to form clusters and leaving the areas of pure graphene between them without introducing any sort of disorder to its structure. The material earns a lot of capabilities such as ability to absorb visible light, becomes much electrical sensitive and further more which can be used in wide variety of applications such as solar cells etc. 

Bluetooth Smart Radio

Imec, Holst Centre and Wicentric introduced an ultra-low power Bluetooth Smart radio with a power consumption up to five times lower than radios. They can play an important role in applications such as personal health monitoring systems and smart home applications.

Living Shoes- Dont miss this!!!!!

A mind-blowing discovery have been made. A self-healing shoe printed to fit your foot from building blocks of life itself. At first when I heard about this news I didnt believe at all. But when I came to know the facts I got really surprised. 

Shamees Adens exhibited this product as a part of Wearable Futures event that held in London. It was like a science fiction. Currently scientists have begun to create and utilize the bio-links in the lab, in between Aden has looked all the way down where it can be created along with biological structures. Protocells are tiny structures which can be designed to take on the aspects of life when they are put together. They are tiny, synthetic quasi-living structures which can sense pressure and be the sole of your shoe, cushioning your every step. But when we are not wearing the shoes, they gets into a dormant stage. Once we have stopped using the shoes it can be put into a jay filled with protocell liquid that would allow the shoes to heal itself. 

I would say, science is just beginning to unravel its potential and I hope a lot of things coming up on our way, a day when the injuries are even self healed. Cant say no to that at this point of time. 

Crystal-Snow Fantasy, I love it

There are times when I really felt to be in snow. Playing around, wandering around and feeling the snow, its touch and enjoy the beauty in its pure white form. During my time in England, Wales and Scotland, I have felt it. Sometimes while watching movies (such as Chronicles of Narnia etc..) I have felt the same. Now the Japanese Designer Tokujin Yoshioka's Spider's Thread is a full-on crystalline fantasy scape, taking his previous work Crystallised Project to a whole new level. Developed via chemical synthesis, Yoshioka's signature crystals are formed through methodical cultivation on the surfaces of select materials. 

The inspiration for the project was a traditional Japanese story, The Spider's Thread, by writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, widely considered to be the father of Japanese short story. In Japanese Culture, a spider's thread represents hope and fragility, two key elements to Yoshioka's work. 

Take a look below as a snowflake in the studio becomes a crystal forest in a gallery: 

Advanced medical imaging, a new hope for medical field!!!!!

A research team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Extreme Light Laboratory had developed a new way to generate synchroton x-rays, which are high enough in quality for advanced medical imaging, among other applications. 

Physics Professor Donald Umstadter, director of the Lab, led this research project. He compares the synchroton x-ray breakthrough to the development of personal computers, giving more people access to computing power once available only via large and costly mainframe computers. Shrinking components of advanced laser-based technology will increase the feasibility of producing high-quality x-rays in medical and university research laboratories, which in turn lead to new applications for the x-rays. 

The new x-ray device could be small enough to fit in a hospital. This can increase the usage in wide range of applications. 

Doctoral student Nathan displays the electron accelerator used to generate x-ray light

Do you wanna see your muscles in motion while rehab?

Associate Professor Toshiakio Tsuji's Lab at Saitama University has developed R-cloud, a rehabilitation support robot that enables the patient to view how their own muscles move during rehabilitation and training. 

R-cloud calculates subtle muscles movements and quantifies this into data, which helps physiotherapists to provide accurate instruction on movement, and patient to confirm their own movements. This robot has a sensor and a sensor to measure the arm angle. Based on the data collected from these sensors, conclusions are made on the force of muscle contraction within the arm, as well as on the amount of calories consumed by each muscle during training.