Six Degrees of Separation is now Down to Four

What started as six is now down to four. Thanks to Facebook and the sheer size of their user base (721 Million people, or roughly 10% of the earth’s population), the University of Milan was able to use state-of-the-art algorithms developed at their laboratory to concluded that the average separation between two people is 4.74.
In 1929, Frigyes Karinthy was first to conclude that the number was 6 and that was put to the test in the 1960′s when Stanley Milgram gathered a subject pool of 296 volunteers. Milgram concluded that the average number of separation was 5.2 further strengthening the “Six Degrees of Separation” we so often hear about.
With the population skyrocketing and technology advancing, it was time for a more complete test. The University of Milan was able to use the scale and international reach of Facebook to give us an answer that is based on a global scale that was never previously available. According to their research, “99.6% of all pairs of users are connected by paths with 5 degrees (6 hops), 92% are connected by only four degrees (5 hops).”
It looks like the 7+ Billion people in the world are closer to each other than we previously thought.

NASA Curiosity Heads to Mars

We’re heading back to Mars to search for any clues that might indicate life has or could exist on the big red planet. Of course, by ‘we’ I mean the new Mars Science Laboratory known as the Curiosity rover, the largest and most advanced rover that’s ever been sent to Mars.
The Curiosity is the size of a car or small SUV and weighs approximately a ton, with a scientific payload that’s ten times more massive than the instruments carried by previous rovers. A few of the tools the mobile lab is equipped with include cameras, a robotic arm, a drill, and a laser that can vaporize tiny segments of rock that can then be studied by on-board instruments.
“The MSL rover is essentially like a geologist in a self-contained laboratory,” says Wanda Harding, the MSL’s mission manager for the Launch Services Program, “and the capabilities that exist are probably the next best thing to sending a human to do the same job.”

Since Curiosity is loaded with more equipment than previous rovers, a different power source was needed because the solar arrays that were used on earlier models wouldn’t provide enough power for the new MSL. To insure that power levels don’t become an issue, the Department of Energy built a nuclear-powered electrical system called a multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator (MMRTG). The MMRTG converts heat from a small core of plutonium into approximately 110 watts of electricity, with the conversion process taking place around the clock all year long.
According to NASA, Curiosity will launch at 7:02AM PST on Saturday, November 26th from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The 354 million mile journey is expected to take more than eight months, with the rover landing on Mars in early August 2012.

Charging CellPhone with your Body Heat

Its a lot of research going on ,how to reduce energy consumption to the devices and How we can invent a new way of generating Electricity that run our devices..!!Samsung Fascinate Android Phone (Verizon Wireless)
Its a new invention,that a Phone which uses any source of heat from your body heat to a radiator to keep your cell phone charged.

What make this work..?
It have an integrated thermogenerator which converts heat into electrical energy to keep the phone running.Every single micro degree heat of your body can be surprisingly used and conerted to electrical pulses.
Car Charger for Apple iPod iPhone 3G 3GS (White)
Hmm..nice ,so whats yep..? take out phone from your purse and keep it in pocket for charging..!!

Simple Socket to conserve Energy

if you are going out somewhere leaving your mobile in charging,and yep you can't say when you will be return back..
so,upto then your mobile will be in charging even if its get fully charged,so why to waste the energy.....?

Here comes the new socket which will probably conserve energy and your gadgets too..
The socket plugs in between the wall and your gadget; tap the button on top of the plug to start the power flow. After a user selectable 30 minutes, 3 hours or 6 hours, the thing shuts off.You can use it for any electronics , rice cooker,heater,charger,and many other things you can add up.

If you like it,or have something in mind ask it..or pass by comment...!

Flying Micro Robot can fly more effectively

Micro Flying Robots Can Fly More Effectively Than Flies

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Engineers have long been working on in their attempts to fabricate micro aerial robots that can able to match the amazing flight capabilities of nature’s most advanced flying insects ¾flies. Such robot flies,if they could be made seffective enough means that could be used for a various useful tasks, from spying, to mine detection to search and rescue missions in collapsed buildings.The scientists had tested this with many experiments to know how much energy it consumes..?

based on the results they have found that, during lift of it took little more strain (low speed) and while it flies i ts design of the blade like what a helicopter have,make it move faster and consumes only 50% power.

It made engineers to develop further that can revolutionise the Micro-Robo Technology.

ASUS Transformer Prime Now Available For Pre-Order In North America

ASUS unveiled its Tegra 3-powered Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet a few weeks ago and now it is available for pre-order at some North American retailers already. There’s a lot to be excited about with this keyboard-dockable tablet hybrid.
It runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb, which is upgradeable to Ice Cream Sandwich and packs in a 1.3GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, an 8 megapixel rear camera, and a 1.2 megapixel front facing camera. It boasts high performance and low power consumption, which is really going to be the key driving force to how many sales this device makes. It has to deliver on battery life.
It comes in your choice of amethyst gray or champagne gold with 32GB or 64GB of built-in storage. Other specs include a mini-HDMI port, a USB 2.0 port, and a SD card reader. This 10.1 inch hybrid weighs just 1.3 pounds and is only 0.33″ thin.

ISRO to Launch PSLV-C17

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launch by ISRO
ISRO-Indian Space Research Organisation is using now to its rocket PSLV most powerful configuration to launch a communication satellite from Sriharikota on July 15. It’s only for the second time ever that a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is being used for a communication satellite, the first one Kalpana-1 in 2002.
Communication satellites are launched on board GSLV or ISRO goes in procured launches overseas. Similar PSLV, with extended strap-ons, was used for India’s Chandrayaan-1 mission.

The GSAT-12 "fast-track" satellite with a mass of 1410 kg, has 12 Extended C-band transponders. It is slated to be injected into space by PSLV-C17 after the launch from Sriharikota spaceport slated between 16.48 hours and 17.08 hours on July 15. Launch vehicle of PSLV of XL-class will cost about Rs 100-110 crore, and GSAT-12 will be about Rs 80 crore. The life of the satellite will be about 7-8 years.
To meet growing demand, Bangalore-headquartered ISRO is building GSAT-10 with 36 transponders and it would be launched by Arianespace from Kourou in French Guiana during March-April next year.ISRO is also building another satellite GSAT-7 that will have a few more transponders.