The technological world is currently witnessing a stream of innovations, design breakthroughs in automation, medicine, the mobile world etcetera. With the emergence of mobile add-ons like Google Glass, Samsung Galaxy Gear, it seemed inevitable for the home not to undergo its own evolution.

Building a smart home though has turned out to be quite tedious and somewhat expensive, but with Inpoint systems' miniature sensor-packed Owl platform it has gotten easier and way cheaper.

The platform is aimed at hackers who want to experiment with various sensor arrays around their premises.It includes a base station and a number of sensors – door open/close, water level, temperature, etc. – that last for about 10 years and connect wirelessly to the base station and Owl Platform service.

In an official statement, the company stated "We have developed compact, reliable, and long life wireless sensors and intuitive software system for your home. Our compact (1 square inch) sensors last up to 10 years on a coin cell battery. With our online service you’ll know immediately if something is happening at home. Keeping simplicity in mind, the whole system can be unpackaged and set up in less than 15 minutes!"

The sensors-pack called Pips include open/close, temperature, humidity sensors. For $150, a basic sensor package can be acquired. The full Owl hardware will be available for shipping by July 2014.
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In the wake of a spate of health scares, worries about animal welfare and a trade tussle with Russia, demand for Australia’s kangaroo meat has tumbled. Fortunately, kangaroo product peddlers have an alternative: Chinese zeal for virility enhancing supplements made from kangaroo testicles. Chinese buyers are sizing up investment in the kangaroo testicle processing business, reports the Sunday Mail.

John Kreuger runs a roo processing business Chinese investors are eying. “We buy a tonne of testicles every month from roo meat processors and put them through my custom-made ‘de-nutting’ machine,” Kreuger told the Sunday Mail. ”It squeezes out the balls and leaves behind the empty pouch.” So far, Kreuger’s business has relied more on selling lighters, keychains and bottle-openers fashioned from kangaroo scrota in places like Canada and California.

Australian businesses have been exporting kangaroo testicle products since at least 2011 (they’re banned in Australia). A slew of manufacturers sell dDried and pulverized testicles, which can fetch up to $165 per bottle of 300 capsules (link in Chinese), on Taobao, a popular online marketplace in China.

Chinese enthusiasm for roo testicles is rooted in traditional medicine theories about libido-boosting, which similarly drive sales of tiger penis potions and rhino horn powder. One seemingly popular “kangaroo essence” virility product explains that male kangaroos typically have 40 female kangaroo sexual partners. “According to the analysis,” reads the product description, “the capability to produce the spermatic fluid of the male kangaroo is twice that of the adult bull.”

Kangaroo meat is also in high demand, and could get a boost from a new trade protocol between Australia and China. That could help the kangaroo industry overall, which has suffered from oversupply due to a Russian ban on imports following a 2009 contamination scare. Many Australians believe the country is overpopulated with kangaroos. The government typically promotes commercial kangaroo hunting in part to stem their numbers. Australians generally don’t eat kangaroo, perhaps because it’s the Oz equivalent of “eating Bambi,” and there’s growing awareness of inhumane killing methods. (Animal welfare groups have long argued that lack of regulation of commercial hunters has led to agonizing deaths for kangaroos.) More than 70% of the meat is typically exported, mostly to Russia; what stays is usually used in pet food.

The industry also has high hopes for Chinese demand for kangaroo steaks. The managing director of Macro Meats, the leading kangaroo meat producer, says that business could grow to more than $350 million annually.

But the business may not benefit humans. The main purported advantage of ingesting pulverized kangaroo testicles is the boost in testosterone. While a small dose may boost libido—the effects of the supplement haven’t been proven—large dosages can actually exacerbate impotence and cause sterility, one doctor told the Courier Mail. And though it’s often marketed as a healthy alternative to other red meats, kangaroo steak causes more damage arteries.
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This week on telepholution focuses on awesome results of the combination of acoustic string techniques with telegraphy. The results marked the beginning of unending discoveries and inventions of technologies in communications.

Human inquisitiveness knows no bound. The continuous yearning to know how things work, the resultant effects of occurrences and the reasons why some things are meant to be or not, is the major characteristic of the average human. Thus, it was not unexpected to have Innocenzo Manzetti (1844) conceive the idea of importing some techniques of the acoustic string phone into telegraphy. The idea aimed at transmitting voices (as in the acoustic phones) whilst employing the use of electromagnetic signals via the telegraph lines as against the use of conventional strings in acoustic phones. Hence, the birth of ACOUSTIC TELEGRAPHY. Although conceived this idea, Manzetti never pursued it further.

In a bid to improve the EM telegraph which was limited to only textual messages and transmission of one message at a time, Manzetti's idea was revisited years after by various scientists including Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray and Thomas Edison. Acoustic telegraphy was based on multiplexing telegraph messages by assigning different audio frequencies to each message and then transmitting over a single telegraph line. The concept of acoustic telegraphy is very similar to the modern frequency division multiple access (FDMA) technique, whereby voices or other signals to be transmitted and multiplexed, allotted certain frequencies and then modulated with a carrier signal in order to avail the signals to reach the intended destination. It is then appropriate to infer that with the advent of acoustic telegraphy came the concept of MODULATION. The improvement of the EM telegraph with the aid of acoustic telegraphy led to the conception of a device which significantly reduced cost of telegraph services and allowed voice transmission over telegraph lines. This device was called the SPEAKING TELEGRAPH, also known as a TELEPHONE. Various scientists are being owed the credits of inventing the telephone but, Alexander Graham Bell is often regarded as the inventor and father of telephone. This resulted from the fact that his invention was first patented and also, had a model that was commercially viable.

Bell's telephone comprised of the transmitter, telegraph line and the receiver. The transmitter; a funnel shaped membrane had a double electromagnet on a ring with a soft iron placed in its centre. A mouthpiece which is attached to the membrane, directs spoken voices to the centre of the membrane causing it to vibrate and the soft iron induces corresponding currents in the coils of the electromagnet. The voice vibrations along with the induced currents travel down the telegraph line to the receiver which also consists of an electromagnet with a disc of soft iron placed closed to it. At reception, the voices modulated with current flow through the electromagnet, causing the disc to vibrate and creating sound waves in air which can be heard. The disc vibrations are proportional to the intensity of current through the electromagnet.

Other scientists contributing to the invention of the telephone are Elisha Gray (1876) and Thomas Edison (1878) with the liquid transmitter and carbon grain transmitter respectively. Gray's design was never pursued further whilst Edison's served as one of many improvements to the Bell's model. Bell telephone had it first commercial usage in August 1876 and covered a distance of 10 miles (16 km). With the aid of numerous improvements from other scientists, the operating range improved significantly. These improvements would be the next topic of discourse in the series. Be sure to keep it a date for the next episode....thanks for the view!
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Nice work. Hope this work of urs will lead to papers showing how to build inexpensive helicopters. Knowledge never dies when it's shared hommes.

The depth tech companies are willing to go to make competitors look bad is more often than not a bit extreme. Samsung, a Korean company that has sold more devices than any other company company in the last couple of months, in an ill-advised decision decided to hire students back in April to write debilitating comments against HTC and praise Samsung.

In response, Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission slapped a $341,300 fine on Samsung on 24/10/13, along with a smaller fine for two of its marketing agencies. “This is the first case of its kind in Taiwan that a company has concealed its genuine status while attacking a rival,” commission spokesman Sun Lih-chyun told AFP. Samsung has also been accused of offering payments to Android developers in exchange for positive mentions of the company’s initiatives.

The practice is officially called Astrosurfing and is a common practise in the world of politics and business.

According to Tech Crunch sources, the new gold iPhone 5S is fondly called the "Kardashian Phone" by some of Apple's staff. This fact was tweeted by NYT's Nick Bilton.

The moniker isn't an official code name but an internal joke as a result of kim's fondness for gold iPhones. The reality star actually had an iPhone 5 that was anodized gold long before Apple’s ‘champagne’ device hit the market.

The gold iPhone has been the more popular of the three recently released variants of the iPhone. Prior to launch, the general opinion was the phone was going to be a flop.

Having gone through the earliest means of human communication, this week's episode brings forth replacements needed to satisfy the lapses of the acoustic string phones.
Human satisfaction is diminishing in nature. Satisfaction derived today may become unsatisfactory after a while. This is wholly due to humans' unending needs and wants. Little wonder why the acoustic string phones didn't last for long. Human communication needs began tending towards transmission over longer distances, hence came need for replacements. Devices which served as replacements were based on principles of telegraphy and could transmit messages up to 13 miles, which was about 26 times the operating range of acoustic string phones.

Telegraphy, originally coined from two Greek words; "tele" meaning remote and "graphein" meaning to write, roughly translates as remote writing, but more explicitly refers to very long distance transmission of textual messages without the presence of any physical message-bearing object to aid transmission. Textual messages are coded before transmission and decoded at reception points. Thus, both sender and receiver have prior knowledge of encoding technique to be used for message sending. Although varying encoding techniques were used at the discretion of various telegraph inventors, the widely used encoding technique was the Morse's Code developed in 1837 by Samuel Morse and his assistant.

Encoded texts are transmitted via various media. Initial means of telegraphy was the electrochemical means developed by Francisco Salva Campillo in 1804. The electrochemical telegraph employed Alessandro Volta's voltaic pile to pass electric current through electrically conducting chemical solutions in a sequential manner. As many wires as the amount of letters of alphabet and numerals are employed for the transmission. Each wire represents a letter or numeral. Passage of electric currents through the wires gives rise to varying bubbling signals in the solution and are interpreted by the telegraph operator. The presence of at least 36 wires in the voltaic pile made this type of telegraph rather cumbersome and clumsy in structure. This constituted the major setback of the electrochemical telegraph. Clumsiness in structure led to introduction of Electromagnetic (EM) Telegraph.

The EM telegraph employed four basic principles for operation. The first being the production of galvanic currents by chemical actions, demonstrated by Alessandro Volta (1800). Next principle was the ability of the galvanic currents to produce a magnetic field, thus being able to deflect unmagnetized needles. Also, principle of temporary magnetization of soft iron core when wound with energized wires, established by William Sturgeon (1825) and lastly, the Ohmic law stating the proportional relationship between the potential differences across ends of a conductor and the electric current flowing through such conductor. These four principles form the basis for operation of an electromagnetic telegraph. The EM telegraph circuit consists essentially of a conductor wound around a soft iron core, a source of galvanic current, galvanometers, a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter itself consists of keys which represent code letters to be transmitted. Striking a key on the transmitter closes the circuit, causing current to flow and induce a magnetic field around the soft iron and also causing deflection of the needle of the galvanometer. The degree of deflection of the needle corresponds to certain code letters, which are then interpreted.

Independent researches where carried out by various scientists in different locations at about the same time, on the EM telegraph. This makes it difficult to attribute the works of electromagnetic telegraph to a single person. Amongst others, there are scientists such as Baron Schilling (1832); Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber (1833) and; Samuel Morse (1837), who all contributed to the EM telegraph. Morse's model was of most impact, the most built upon model. This was due to the ability of these model to record its transmitted messages. It was one of the few telegraphs to be patented.

In the mid 19th century, out of human inquisitiveness came the desire to combine techniques of the acoustic phones and telegraphy. This gave a whole new dimension to the history of telephone. Further details of the result of this combined techniques would be next in series. Do make it a date next week as the TELEPHOLUTION series continues....many thanks for viewing!

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In a world filled with dynamism and fast paced innovations, multitasking has become a norm for many tech savvy individuals. Now imagine being able to charge your mobile device while cooking that pot of long grain rice. Thanks to Power Practical's PowerPot^TM, it's possible.

The PowerPot is a pot with a thermoelectric generator embedded in it. The generator converts heat energy into a power source capable of charging any handheld device through USB connection. It's a price range between $149 and $189.

Thermoelectric generators take a temperature difference and convert it into electricity. They need one side to be cold and the other to be hot. The greater the difference in temperature between hot and cold, the greater the power output.

The PowerPot can be used on any heat source; propane/butane heat source, stove, camp fire and even an hot spring. The device is connected to the flame resistance USB cord. It has a maximum temperature range of 300o Celsius.

The PowerPot generates up to 5-watts of usable power. It will fully charge most smartphones at the same rate as a wall adapter, usually 1-2 hours.

Once finished with the PowerPot, Power Practical recommends cooling the pot for 5 minutes to prevent damage to the device through temperature swings.

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Reports coming from Korean site, Naver (run by former Samsung employees) hints that Samsung is poised to released a successor to the Galaxy S4 sooner than expected. The January release date comes less than a year after the launch of the Galaxy S4.

Naver claims the phone is to feature a 16 Mega pixel camera, a 64 bit Samsung Exynos processor (not one from Qualcomm) and possibly an eight-core chip.

The feature i'd really love to see is thought - projection control. Oh well, we just have to wait and see.

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The iPhone 5s has been presenting a strange display to some users recently — the blue screen of death, presumed before now to be a uniquely Microsoft feature.

The problem, spotted first by The Verge, has been reported by several users in various threads on Apple’s support community, as well as MacRumors’ forums. Some users have also taken to Twitter to vent their frustrations.

It appears that the blue screen of death may be linked to Apple’s iWork apps — Pages, Numbers and Keynote. One user captured the appearance of the blue screen on video.

Apple’s iOS 7 rollout has been rather bumpy. Earlier this month, the company said it was working on a fix for problems with iMessage, with suggestions that it may be testing a new iOS update – iOS 7.0.3 — which will bring a fix to the software issue. It also recently patched up a vulnerability with its lock screen password system by releasing a new version of iOS 7.

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Mozilla announced on 9/10/13 that new launches of its Firefox OS (FFOS) smartphones will soon start in different countries around the world. This news follows just weeks after the successful launches of the first Firefox OS smartphones, the ALCATEL ONE TOUCH Fire and the ZTE Open.

Mozilla in its blog post mentions that the new devices will be running the latest version of the OS, FFOS (1.1) but neglects to mention the device vendors and the release dates.

Jay Sullivan, Mozilla's Chief Operating Officer believes the positive market reception of the first Firefox OS smartphones with Telefonica in Spain, Columbia, Venezuela and Deutsche Telekom in Poland demonstrates that people like the user experience and openness they’re building with Firefox OS.

The HTML 5 based OS which was launched as an alternative to Google's Android will be launched in Brazil and 3 other Latin American countries under Telefonica.

Thomas Kiessling, Deutsche Telekom's Chief Product and Innovation officer stated that "We are now excited about the upcoming sales start for our congstar customers in Germany. And we will bring the first devices to Greece and Hungary soon.” A third mobile provider, Telenor, is expected to launch Firefox OS devices in Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro by the end of the year.

Mozilla is currently working on the FFOS with more than 20 hardware and operator partners to deliver a better and more attainable smartphone experience to the 21 percent of global mobile subscribers using smartphones.

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Go to OSHODI, ASK AROUND. IF NO ONE HAS, SOME OF THEM ACTUALLY ORDER PRODUCTS ON REQUEST, SO THEY'LL HELP U OUT.

THE INTRO

As much as humans seek to be independent, there is always at least a tiny little urge to communicate and reach out to the world, as no one is an island that can exist alone. Humans' needs to communicate dates back to time immemorial. This series-wise piece takes us down memory lane and offers a sneak peek into how humans have communicated over time and how these means of communication have evolved over decades.
Before crashing into history, I'd like to introduce two Greek words: "tele" meaning remote and "fonos" meaning sound. Crudely put together gives "remote sound" which is exactly what a telephone gives to its users!

Long ago, as far back as the 1600s, the need to send voice messages arose among various parties including warriors, chieftains and even lovers. During those eras, communication was actualized based on the theory of mechanical vibrations in strings, pipes and wires, developed by Robert Hooke in 1664. This theory gave rise to the invention of the ACOUSTIC STRING PHONE.

Two diaphragms serving as transmitter and receiver, connected via a taut string or wire are the essential components of the acoustic string phone. Voices spoken into one end of the diaphragm cause air around it to vibrate. These air vibrations are then propagated as waves through the string. At the other end of the string, the air vibrations reach a dead end (the other diaphragm) and cause sound to be heard at the receiving diaphragm. Thus creating a simple mechanism for communicating over distances. This means of communication was effective for distances of about half a mile (approximately 800 m).

At greater distances, the device was less effective as the air vibrations began to dwindle, a phenomenon known as attenuation; whereby the intensity of the vibrations reduces as the distance of propagation increases. Due to the relatively short distance limit, coupled with the rising need for farther distances voice dissemination, the acoustic string phones were soon commercially replaced. Already, it had made its mark as the first improvisation for communication and what's more, it serves as toys and mini communication kits for kids, till this present day. Surprisingly, it was a mechanical device. This goes against the usual belief of telephones being strictly electrical devices.


To know more about the replacements for the acoustic string phones, be sure to make it a date with us next week as we bring the next in series of the EVOLUTION OF TELEPHONE...Thanks for reading!

Mobile technology has and continues to undergo revolutionary changes with each passing season but its Achilles hill still remains the inability of the batteries powering these devices to keep up with the devices. Lilliputian has the cure, Nectar - the self claimed world’s first truly portable power device that will power all of your CE devices for up to a month with a single power pod.

Nectar, fondly termed Silicon Power Cell by its creators is a solid oxide fuel cell and works in the manner described below:

"gas is pumped (literally Butene but it can be any hydrocarbon) into that really small package (smaller than the size of a small nine-volt battery) It's mixed with air, and Lilliputian's little 'secret sauce' inside, which then turns into electricity. Electricity is captured and put out on a small thermocouples (or leafs) on the end of a battery."

Specifications:

USB 2.0 interface
Standard +5V output
2.5W peak power
55,000 mW-hours of energy in a single nectar™ pod (>10 recharges of a typical smart phone per nectar™ pod)
"Instant On" - nectar™ is always available and allows recharging to begin immediately
Hot-swappable nectar™ pods, providing essentially infinite run-time
nectar volume, weight : ~150cc, ~200g
nectar pod volume, weight : ~55cc, ~35g

The silicon cell is ten times lighter and five times smaller than a regular battery which makes scaling down cost easier. The cell is designed to last nearly a month for users who charge their phones when the battery hits 20% i.e. once a day and 2 weeks for users who charge their phones when the battery dies. The device will cost $9.99 when released.the release date is yet to be announced.

Frustrated all day with your Gmail and Google docs, well it isn't just you. According to information on Google's app status database, both services has been experiencing disruptions since 7:25 am Pacific Time.

Google's status notes don't provide any details except to say that the company is investigating reports of an issue and will provide more information shortly.

Recent news from the company states that the service has been restored for some users, and it expects full resolution within an hour, but this time frame may change. Google did not say which percentage of the “less than 50 percent” of users have had service restored.

Hi Android and iPhone users,

This is Andrew Bocking, head of BBM at BlackBerry. As a follow up to our first blog post on Saturday, I want to take a moment to provide you with an update on the rollout of BBM on Android and iPhone.
Last week, an unreleased, older version of the BBM for Android app was posted on numerous file sharing sites. We were aware of an issue with this unreleased version of the BBM for Android app. This older version resulted in volumes of data traffic orders of magnitude higher than normal for each active user and impacted the system in abnormal ways. The version we were planning to release on Saturday addressed these issues, however we could not block users of the unreleased version if we went ahead with the launch.

We attempted to address the problems caused by the unreleased version throughout the day on Saturday, but as active users of the unreleased app neared a million – and accelerated – it became clear that the only way to address the issue was to pause the rollout for both Android and iPhone.

The team is now focused on adjusting the system to completely block this unreleased version of the Android app when we go live with the official BBM for Android app. We are also making sure that the system is reinforced to handle this kind of scenario in the future. While this may sound like a simple task – it’s not. This will take some time and I do not anticipate launching this week.

Thank you for your patience while we take the time needed to deliver the experience you expect from BBM. We will continue to provide you with updates here on InsideBlackBerry.com and through @BBM on Twitter. We will notify everyone who has pre-registered on BBM.com when BBM is available on Android and iPhone.

Andrew Bocking

EVP, BBM

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Veteran Broadcaster, author, television host and producer, Sir David Frost aged 74 died aboard the Queen Elizabeth liner where he was apparently slated to give a speech according to reports from his family. The vessel had left the English port of Southampton on Saturday for a 10-day cruise in the Mediterranean.

Sir David is the only journalist to have interviewed the last 7 President of the United States and the last six Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom.

He gained critical acclaim for his interview series with Richard Nixon in 1977, in which the former United States President apologised for the Watergate scandal when his Republican party staff bugged the opposition Democrats' offices. They achieved the largest audience for a news interview in history.

In a statement to BBC News, Sir David's family said: "His family are devastated and ask for privacy at this difficult time. A family funeral will be held in the near future and details of a memorial service will be announced in due course."

Born on April 7, 1939 to a Methodist preacher, at Tenterden, Kent, he was educated at Gillingham Grammar School, Wellingborough Grammar School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he joined the renowned revue society Footlights and got his first experience doing television for the regional station in Norwich with a programme called Town and Gown.

His big break came when he co-created and hosted satirical show That Was The Week Was in the early 1960s. In more recent times, he had hosted Breakfast with Frost on Sunday mornings (1993-2005) and panel game show Through The Keyhole (1987-2008).

He worked with Al Jazeera English since its launch seven years ago, first with the Frost Over The World programme, and most recently with The Frost Interview show.

Through the years, he was able to create a reputation has one of the best interviewers in the world racking up major Television awards and accolades. He was knighted by the British Queen in 1993 and honoured by the Museum of the Moving Image in New York in 1998 and by the Museum of Broadcasting in New York in 1999. He was the last journalist to interview Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.

David Cameron was quick to send his condolences and tweeted: "My heart goes out to David Frost's family. He could be - and certainly was with me - both a friend and a fearsome interviewer. Other dignitaries and fellow journalist have followed suit in expressing their condolences.

The National Security Agency of the United States of America is in the news again according to information from German news outfit Der Spiegel, that it successfully bugged United Nations Conferneces.

In the Summer of 2012, NSA experts succeeded in getting into the U.N. video conferencing system and cracking its coding system. "The data traffic gives us internal video teleconferences of the United Nations (yay!)," Der Spiegel quoted one document as saying, adding that within three weeks the number of decoded communications rose to 458 from 12.
In three ways, the NSA attacked by its own account, the European branches: each bug as well as by copying the hard drives in New York and infiltrating the computer network in Washington. Here, the NSA took advantage that the computer of the EU embassies about a so-called Virtual Private Network (VPN) are interconnected. "If we lose access to a page where we can get him back immediately when we come through the VPN to the other side" for components in NSA technicians in an internal presentation. "We have used several times when we were at, Magothy 'kicked out."

As disconcerting as the revelation may be, this is hardly the first time the United Nations has been the stage for a bit of international espionage. British Parliament member Clare Short blew the whistle in 2004 on a UK intelligence effort that saw British agents spying on then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and The Observer published a leaked memo from a senior NSA official just prior to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 asking staffers to increase surveillance on security counsel members and other UN officials.

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The Madeleine tagged the "Analog Odor Camera" is a student project by Amy Radcliffe of the university of the Arts, London. The simple device captures scents so they can be replicated chemically. Composed of two parts—a graduated dome and a ceramic geometric vacuum with leather straps that holds a simple glass odor trap with a filter inside it. It uses headspace technology to achieve this.
According to Radcliffe's instructions, one need only isolate the odor within the dome, switch Madeleine on to absorb the scent and then seal off the trap. Once that's done, the filter can be submitted for analysis, the scent's chemical signature decoded, and then the odor can easily be turned into a liquid fragrance.

That data is expressed in a graph-like formula, which essentially contains a fingerprint of the smell. In a special lab, that formula can then be inscribed on a bronze disk to artificially reproduce the smell. The smell can also be recreated in small vials.

Seems pretty easy doesn't it, but sometimes the process can take minutes and other times most of the day. Rather than aiming to produce a working product," Radcliffe explains, the project "was more to open this discussion on the power of scent memory."

Smell is perhaps the sense that has been most neglected by human technology. Our devices and their interfaces — tangible, tactile — exploit the nuances of touch. Even taste, that oh-so-sensory of senses, marches forward armed with technological augmentation: we are, as a culture, obsessed with innovation in food preparation, using new machines and new chemicals to create flavors and textures never before imagined.

This brings up so many possibilities, one being making devices that can actually transform scents, aroma into transferable mediums that can be sent over cellular network and enjoyed by the receiver. But for now we'll just have to make do with capturing everyday scents or moments we want frozen in time forever.

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The Madeleine tagged the "Analog Odor Camera" is a student project by Amy Radcliffe of the university of the Arts, London. The simple device captures scents so they can be replicated chemically. Composed of two parts—a graduated dome and a ceramic geometric vacuum with leather straps that holds a simple glass odor trap with a filter inside it. It uses headspace technology to achieve this.
According to Radcliffe's instructions, one need only isolate the odor within the dome, switch Madeleine on to absorb the scent and then seal off the trap. Once that's done, the filter can be submitted for analysis, the scent's chemical signature decoded, and then the odor can easily be turned into a liquid fragrance.

That data is expressed in a graph-like formula, which essentially contains a fingerprint of the smell. In a special lab, that formula can then be inscribed on a bronze disk to artificially reproduce the smell. The smell can also be recreated in small vials.

Seems pretty easy doesn't it, but sometimes the process can take minutes and other times most of the day. Rather than aiming to produce a working product," Radcliffe explains, the project "was more to open this discussion on the power of scent memory."

Smell is perhaps the sense that has been most neglected by human technology. Our devices and their interfaces — tangible, tactile — exploit the nuances of touch. Even taste, that oh-so-sensory of senses, marches forward armed with technological augmentation: we are, as a culture, obsessed with innovation in food preparation, using new machines and new chemicals to create flavors and textures never before imagined.

This brings up so many possibilities, one being making devices that can actually transform scents, aroma into transferable mediums that can be sent over cellular network and enjoyed by the receiver. But for now we'll just have to make do with capturing everyday scents or moments we want frozen in time forever.

Google isnt going to rest with their latest 7.0 inch nexus flagship even with the LTE Version yet to be in the market. They are yet to announce their next line of nexus though, but rumours has it that Nexus 5 is now the next anticipated device from LG. Last time around, it was rumoured that the Nexus 5 would be a “weaker” variant of LG’s latest flagship, coming equipped with the Snapdragon 800 processor, instead of the G2′s 800.

But Tinhte.vn — the same guys who leaked the Moto X months before anyone else — seems to have it on good authority that the upcoming 5-inch Google phone will still come with a Snapdragon 800 CPU, along with some changes to its physical appearance.

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The diversities of the languages and cultures around the world makes it such a wonderful and beautiful place to live in. Which makes the discovery by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation that over half of the world's languages will disappear by the end of this century.

With the disappearance of unwritten and undocumented languages, humanity would lose not only a cultural wealth but also important ancestral knowledge embedded, in particular, in indigenous languages. Every two weeks, a language is lost after its final living speaker dies, the Living Institute for Endangered Languages says.

An example is the case of Bo, a native language of the Bay of Bengal’s Andaman Islands whose last speaker, Boa Sr, died at 85 resulting in the extinction of the language and the over a millennia of rich history of the Andamanese, whose descendants were migrators from Africa.

However, this process is neither inevitable nor irreversible: well-planned and implemented language policies can bolster the ongoing efforts of speaker communities to maintain or revitalize their mother tongues and pass them on to younger generations.

UNESCO's Endangered Languages Programme supports communities, experts and governments by producing, coordinating and disseminating tools for monitoring, advocacy, and assessment of status and trends in linguistic diversity.
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