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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.

Regular Expression is a pattern describing a certain amount of text. Regular expressions are a language of their own.

Wiki defines Regular Expression as follows,

In computing, regular expressions provide a concise and flexible means for identifying strings of text of interest, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. A regular expression (often shortened to regex or regexp) is written in a formal language that can be interpreted by a regular expression processor, a program that either serves as a parser generator or examines text and identifies parts that match the provided specification.

You would have come across the regular expressions patterns regardless of the programming language (Java, .Net, PHP, etc.,).

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Dave Child had created a brilliant Cheat Sheet that gives you all the basics of Regular Expression in one page. Worth to place this poster at your desk.

You can download the cheat sheet here :  PDF Format PNG Format

Cheat Sheet Credits : Dave Child. You can download more cheat sheets from www.addedbytes.com

Further to the previous post Ten levels of intimacy in communication, I have got an updated version from my friend which is Five levels of intimacy in communication.

I like the rearranged version too; in-fact it makes sense.

Thanks to Kamal