Blockchain Applications

Here we come with our second update on Blockchain. This part comprises of the various possible uses of Blockchains across the industries.

Industries where  Technologies can be used

1.  Banking:

Swiss bank UBS and UK based Barclays have already started investing in this technology.

Banks essentially serve as secure storehouses and transfer hubs for value, and blockchain as a digitized, secure, and tamper-proof ledger can address the same function. 

Blockchain Technology

The ubiquitous idea of modern day cryptographic currencies coined when Bitcoin was thrown in 2009. With Bitcoin, the world had access to a completely decentralized mediocre of give-and-take. This medium of give-and-take reliably transfers value from one entity to another in unfriendly, trust-less environment by solving a problem that earlier compelled centralized entities, such as financial banks, to arbiter value exchanges. Bitcoin, the stateless virtual currency, often sounds like something between fad and fraud. But the technology undergirding bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—both the software protocols that make them work and a “distributed ledger” innovation known as the “blockchain”—may prove to be an enduring development that could significantly alter the way money changes hands around the world. 

Now the question arises – What is Blockchain? A blockchain is a public ledger of all bitcoin 

The Eye Tribe Tracker

The Eye Tribe Tracker is an eye tracking device which available for $99 this device is compatible with Windows 7 & 8, Android tablet and mobile platform. The Tracker allows user to control, navigate or actuate any software running on the device.

 The Eye Tribe Tribe Tracker uses sensor to locate the movement of the eye ball and estimate

The Most powerful Tablet

 Razor Inc. a USA based company has come up with one the most powerful tablet in the world Razor Edge Pro. It can be termed as the worlds first tablet for the PC games. This gaming experience is also be available in form of a PC or a Console.

World's First Android Phone

HTC DREAM

The HTC Dream  was the first smartphone running the mobile Android operating system which designed and manufactured by HTC for Google. 
The HTC Dream was first released  in US (as T- Mobile G1) on 22 October 2008 with a price

10% Mileage gain

Lightning Bolt Ignition : 10% Mileage Gain!!

Conventional spark plugs struggle to fire lean intake charges that are laced with heavy doses of exhaust gas. To prevent misfiring, Mercedes-Benz uses several sparks per combustion cycle

Paper Tab

What is a Paper Tab?

The Paper Tab is flexible tab with a 10.7 inch touch screen, E-Ink display and it is powered by Intel processor. It's thickness, looks and also feels like a sheet of paper. And it can interact with a flick of corner. 

Developed by

Based on the idea of mixing traditional paper with new, created by Canadian researchers from Queen's University Human Media Lab of Ontario, Canada in partnership with Plastic Logic and Intel. Paper tab is still a research prototype of flexible, interactive  and high resolution tablet computer. 

Driverless Car

Autonomous Car

An autonomous car or Personal autonomous vehicle, informally known as a driverless car, robotic car, or self-driving car, is a self powered  car capable of automated driving and navigating entirely without direct human input. 

Automated vehicles sense their surroundings with the help of techniques as radar, lidar, GPS, and computer vision.  Advanced control systems interpret sensory information to identify appropriate navigation paths, as well as obstacles and relevant signage. 

Numerous major companies and research organisations have developed working prototype automated vehicles including  Google, Continental Automotive Systems, BOSCH, Nissan, Toyota, AUDI, and Oxford University. 

Google Driverless Car
The most prominent of these is Google Driverless Car project. The project is currently being led by Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co inventor of Google Street View. The team developing the system consisted of 15 engineers working for Google, including Chris Urmson, MIke Montemerlo, and Anthony Levandowski who had worked on the DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges.

USB

USB 2.0, miniUSB

USB( Universal Serial Bus) are very common these day. USB connectors let connect printers, mouse and other accessories to computer quickly and easily. The operating system supports USB as well, so the installation of the device drivers is quick and easy.

The connection in made with a cable having connector on both end. one end plugs into the computer and is same across all the USB cables while the other end plugs into the mobile device and can be of various type such as miniUSB, microUSB, or proprietary connector.

Instant Clothes

There is a fabric that you can spray onto your body--Instant clothes in a can!

Wouldn’t your mornings be easier if you could simply spray on your outfit rather than pick it out? Well a London organization may have made this dream a reality. In 2000, Fabrican Ltd, based at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Imperial College London, invented a spray-on fabric. The spray is instant and produces a non-woven fabric.

Incredible NOKIA facts!!!

Nokia phones are nearly indestructible, which is an amazing feat on it's own considering iPhones seem to break if you drop them onto a pillow. Anyway, Nokia not only creates indestructible phones, but they also create their ringtones in clever ways!

Woofer

Woofer is a device commonly used for a loudspeaker driver designed to produce low frequency sounds, typically from around 40 hertz up to about a kilohertz or higher. 

Woofers can be made out of many different materials including reinforced paper, polypropylene, Kevlar, carbon or aluminum. Each material provides a slightly different effect or sound.

FIRST COMPUTER VIRUS

 The First computer which appeared "in the wild"

A Computer Virus is a computer program that can spread from one computer to another and can also replicate itself.

According to computer experts, in order for a virus to be considered "in the wild" , it must be spreading as a result of normal day-to-day operations on and between the computers of unsuspecting users.  Although there are an estimated 47,000 computer viruses, fewer than 600 are said to be circulating outside of laboratories and research facilities- hence, in the wild. These wild viruses pose the most significant threat to computers.
Wild viruses typically contain a damaging payload and the ability to wipe out all computer files, sometimes even damaging a computer's BIOS.

World's First Smart phone

IBM Simon with charging base

The first smart phone  combined the function of a personal digital assistant (PDA) with a mobile phone. Later models added the functionality of the portable media players, low-end compact digital cameras, pocket video cameras and GPS navigation units to form one multi-use device.

 A PDA also known as palmtop computer or personal data assistant is a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager.
 The first cellular phone to incorporate PDA features was an IBM prototype developed in 1992 and demonstrated  same year at the COMDEX computer industry trade show.

A refined version of the product was marketed  on 16 Aug.1994 by BellSouth under the name Simon Personal Communicator. The Simon was the first device that can be properly referred to as a "smartphone". In addition to its ability to make and receive cellular