Top 10 emerging technologies of 2015

Technology is perhaps the greatest agent of change in the modern world. While never without risk, technological breakthroughs promise innovative solutions to the most pressing global challenges of our time. From zero-emission cars fueled by hydrogen to computer chips modeled on the human brain, this year’s 10 emerging technologies offer a vivid glimpse of the power of innovation to improve lives, transform industries and safeguard our planet. To compile this list, the World Economic Forum’s Read more [...]

ARE SMART GRIDS REALLY SMART?

ARE SMART GRIDS REALLY SMART?? Recently there has been a great research going on around the globe in this field. There are biggies involved such as Intel and others. What are they actually researching upon? Well I am no spokesperson of these companies so its hard to mention what exactly they are going to do. But as a technology enthusiast we all can figure out the things on a broader perspective! Lets try to sum up together what features we would like too see in this grid which boasts off Read more [...]

Delete Duplicate Rows from SQL Database Without a Primary Key

Just wanted to share with you a simple trick for deleting a duplicate row in your SQL table when you haven't assigned a primary key. So you may be wondering how could this happen... Well, in most cases, it would happen when you are setting an Id to your item by hand instead of using Identity to automatically set the Id. This leads us to another question, which is why would we set the Id by hand? Now here comes several answers, the best is the case where we need to insert a new item to the table Read more [...]

Second Tutorial in LabVIEW series ( arabic version)

The second Tutorial in my LabVIEW series is done. part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTkw-p2mws In this video i focused on : 1- applications of numeric functions 2-comparison function (equal) 3-boolean function (OR) . part 2  (please check the description is the second video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31sc0GgSMgw In this video i focused on : 1- creating a mathematic equation 2-numeric inputs and outputs 3- case structure don't forget to subscribe for my channel Read more [...]

Featured: World’s Smallest DIY USB PC with HDMI Output!

This has to be the world’s smallest DIY USB PC, fully functional with an HDMI output so you can plug in to your LCD monitor/keyboard and be ready to boot it up. This DIY USB PC packs a 700MHz ARM 11 CPU, 128MB of RAM, and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics, pretty click device. I imagine there will become a day when all desktop PCs will become this size or perhaps the smartphones and PCs will converge soon or later. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pQ7N4rycsy4) Source via Read more [...]

Featured: Laster Technologies’ Smart Spectacles

     Photo: Laster Technologies These glasses let users dispense with a computer monitor altogether. A decade ago, tech sages predicted that many portable consumer devices would soon be integrated into the mobile phone. For once, the pundits were right: Today, of course, elements of the old PDA, MP3 player, digital camera, portable e-mail, Web browser, and camcorder now live on our smartphones. Next in line, says a French company, are eyeglasses. When they get smart, we’ll Read more [...]

Featured: Virtual-Reality Scent System Fools Flavor Sense!

What you see and smell is what you taste... Photo: University of Tokyo Sights, sounds, and more recently, touch are commonly employed to create and enhance virtual-reality (VR) experiences. But the sense of smell is rarely a factor. A small group of researchers at the University of Tokyo is working to change that by integrating the sense of smell and sight in a way that alters a person’s perception of taste. Their VR system was able to trick people who were eating a plain Read more [...]

Featured: Computer-Like Contact Lenses!

"Washington University researchers are looking to develop contact lenses that would allow you to check your email, surf the web, and more , all with the blink of an eye." According to Digitaltrends: "With computers and smart devices decreasing in size and increasing in function, it seems that researchers at the University Washington are taking that concept even further. A team from the University has recently completed trials on a new generation of Terminator-like contact lenses that Read more [...]

Featured: Windows 8 app Remotely Controls Cars, Frightens Passers-by!

This is an in-development vehicle control app shown off at the company's Redmond campus as part of this year's Worldwide Public Safety Symposium. The Metro-style application turns any windows 8 slate into a virtual controller, granting users remote access to door locks, sirens, lights, as well as the ability to determine GPS location. And, as you'll see in the video, it also has the unintended and wholly amusing benefit of freaking out innocent passers-by. Via GeekWire Read more [...]

Featured: Your personal speaker pillow

Listening to music in bed can be very relaxing, but a pain too as at some point you are going to have to switch it off and that spoils the effect. However, this pillow comes with built speakers and a forty six inch iPhone or iPod cable. These are the features and specs for this wonderful speaker pillow; An embedded speaker produces crisp, clear sound that’s only audible to the person lying on the pillow. The speaker is virtually undetectable inside of the pillow to ensure a comfortable Read more [...]

Featured: A technological Smile!

Please view the video here. A smile always says a lot about people and these LED smiles certainly have that effect, they are strangely weird and funny at the same time, if that is possible! These LED smiles are the result of the work by Japanese designers Motoi Ishibashi and Daito Manabe, who have been working with LED technology and clearly feel that these LED smiles would an interesting idea to produce for the Japanese market. You can see these LED smiles in action in this video on YouTube, you Read more [...]

Featured: Solar Cells in Smartphone Screens!

Photo: Tim Robberts/Getty Images 18 January 2012—Arman Ahnood, a researcher at the London Centre for Nanotechnology at University College London is working toward a simple goal: "We can have a mobile phone [that] requires charging less often," Ahnood told a November session at the Materials Research Society’s fall meeting in Boston. It might soon be possible to go a week or more without charging a smartphone. And eventually, we might see a phone that never needs to be plugged in. Illustration: Read more [...]

Featured: Remote Control The Fireplace By Your Phone Lazy Romantics!

"Back in the old days, starting a fire in a fireplace was a trick, something that had to be learned. I should know. I live in the tropics. And back in the olden days, man didn’t even know how to start a fire period. Now what do we have? Fireplaces that are Wi-Fi connected and can be controlled with mobile apps. The tech was developed by New Zealand-based fireplace manufacturer Escea and is currently available in their two latest models, the DX1500 and DL850. Both fireplaces can be Read more [...]

Featured: Descriptive Camera Captures Description Instead of Images! A Pic Is Worth a Thousand Words?!!

And I thought that an image is worth a thousand words!! Inventor Matt Richardson simply calls it the Descriptive Camera (soon to be called Photo2Text). Here's how it works: The camera captures a digital image and sends it to a person to write the description .Richardson uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to find people who will describe the photo. Finally, the camera’s built-in thermal printer will print out the description, so there could be a privacy issue there. The whole process Read more [...]

سنة هجرية مباركة

اقدم لكم جميعا احر التهاني والتبريكات بمناسبة حلول السنة 1435 هجرية , أسأل الله العلي العظيم أن تكون سنة خير وبركة على الجميع وأتمنى أن يعُمّ الأمن و السلام , راجين من المولى عز وجل ان يحلها علينا بالصحة والعافية واليمن والبركات على جميع الأمة الأسلامية والعربية وأن نرى بلادنا Read more [...]

Launching a New Tutorial Series on LabVIEW in Arabic!

LabVIEW (short for Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) is a system-design platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments. This is the first video of a LabVIEW tutorials series , targeting all those looking for the beginning point to start with graphical programming, and if you are having problems with English language don't worry because the videos are in Arabic . (P.S. : an English version will be published after the series Read more [...]

Windows 8.1 Offline ISO Installer Leaked!

Update 1: You can only use the offline image directly for clean install if you have a Windows 8.1 Key. Otherwise use this method to offline-update using your Windows 8 Key: mcakins.com To update to Windows 8.1 normally, you can go to the Windows 8 Store Then click/tap Update to Windows 8.1 If you face any errors like "Your apps were installed" or you can't find the "Update" tile, you can run cmd in elevated mode and type: Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth   To Read more [...]

Get 20GB of Free Cloud Storage!

Barracuda Networks have launched "Copy", the Cloud Service based in California and founded in 2002. Supported Platforms: Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows, Linux   Copy is available for mobile phones as well as computers. The synchronization is very easy as all options may be found in one place. Best of all, sharing folders is great feature; Copy assumes that you're with your friends at a restaurant and you must divide the bill equally, so if you have a 12GB shared folder with 4 Read more [...]

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