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What can you accomplish in 360 hours?

The Chinese sustainable building company, Broad Group, has yet attempted another impossible feat, building a 30-story tall hotel in 360 hours, after building a 15-story building in a week earlier in 2011.

It can stand against 9 magnitude earthquake having 20 times purer air inside the building. And it is fully furnished.

The building was built over last Christmas time and finished before New Years Eve of 2012.

Are you tired at work and want to take a nap? Also don’t want to go out of your desk?

You can can have this ‘Chin absorbing chair’ to have a nap at your office desk.

This innovative product is from Japan (as usual ) and worth £354 approx. You can buy it here

Peer-to-peer file sharing is a famous way of sharing large files over internet. BitTorrent is a protocol designed by Bram Cohen.

Here is an informative video that explains BitTorrent in plain English.

Chinese designers have come up with an innovative cost-effective public transport system: the tunnel bus.

The remarkable bus straddles two lanes of traffic, allowing cars to drive underneath while it carries up to 1,200 passengers.

Check out the 3d video demo of the Tunnel Bus.

Very impressive design.

Augmented Reality is a word that is becoming popular after varieties of Smart phones hit the market.

What is Augmented Reality?

Wiki defines Augmented Reality as,

Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery.

Lee provided us a brilliant video to explain the jargon.

What if barcodes were replaced by chips that could not only be read more quickly but could have their information updated as well? And what if those chips could communicate with other devices? These chips already exist and the technology they use is called RFID – short for Radio Frequency IDentification.

RFID from wiki …

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.

Below given animation video is RFID in plain English and explains how it is rapidly becoming a key technology.

Isn’t an interesting explanation?

Just wondering the supermarkets like Asda & Tesco without any counters and queues!!!

The below picture depicts the size of 1 GB memory storage device in the past and the present.

The below cartoon shows the difference we have in software installation steps.