April 15, 2014

ATMs soon to defend themselves from robbers

ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) are soon to be armed with a mechanism that sprays hot foam of chemicals in the face of the attacker or robber who is trying to open it  unauthorizedly. Researchers of ETH University at Zurich are currently working on this and they've developed a film that will react when it is damaged. Two films with different chemicals are placed on top of each other and when they are damaged or subjected to an...

April 9, 2014

Storedot offers new 30 second phone charging tech

Israel based StoreDot showed up a device that is made of biological structures at Microsoft’s Think Next conference. Their tech claims to charge smartphone battery in matter of seconds. Imagine, a dead phone gets full-charged in 30, 40 seconds! That sounds cool! They used a Samsung Galaxy S4 at the stall to demonstrate in which the dead battery was charged to full power in just 26 seconds. In this demo, they’ve attached a small boxy thing...

April 5, 2014

India's ISRO plans a mini Hubble Telescope for space

It seems like India's Indian Space Research Organisation is joining the club of top space exploring countries such as the US, China and few European countries. These years, the ISRO is planning and launching many projects like this for the space exploration and all. They've launched a Mars exploring orbiter named MOM (locally Mangalyaan) and are planning for an indigenous space capsule to carry man to space. Now they are making another interesting...