I’m probably from one of the world’s most secure, equal, organized and time-efficient countries. Sweden is the place where people wait properly in line in the super market, bargaining is out of question, cars are being
The presentation began with a story about a scientist who “thought why he thought” and how he went from pillar to post wondering whether he can end up thinking like Einstein if he got injected with more number of brain cells – the “neurons”.
About a month ago, I read an interesting article titled “A drone for every home”. At first it left me startled because, for me, the term drone has always referred to a specialized combat aircraft used for targeting enemy posts during a war. But then I realized the world has moved a bit ahead and has started utilizing drones for performing human chores. So. dear readers. today at Tech-o-philia we would be getting inside the world of drones. We would try to check out the prominent usage of drones and how to get a hand on them. We would also check out the technical details surrounding the drones.
The thunder and the clouds are not palatable to all the people – especially to the ones staring at the view from the glass window of the Mumbai Airport. The whole airport was extremely crowded with most of the people trying to get their flights readjusted, rescheduled or refunded. Amongst all this turmoil, there was one guy too busy to even look up from his iPad. Sitting comfortably against the couch in the waiting lounge, Aryan was flicking the screen of his ipad with his index finger in all possible directions. Suddenly his finger stopped with a female voice coming right above his head.
All the metropolitan cities in India get their water supply from sources 100s of kilometers away. They get their perishable food supplies like vegetables, fruits from sources 10s of kilometers away. Per person power consumption for domestic uses like lighting, ventilation is showing a continuous increase. Do things have to be like this only? “No”- say a couple of individuals who with simple innovations have achieved self sufficiency in one or more of the above aspects and have become role models for sustainability initiatives. Some examples of individuals and their innovations that were acclaimed by media were discussed by Asha Kranthi Nandigam- a PhD research scholar working in Computational Neuroscience, in this talk.
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If we look around, we will realize that electricity is one of the most heavily consumed resources. In fact, today we are in a world where we cannot imagine a day without electricity. All our day-to-day appliances, industrial units, medical instruments and so on are dependent on electricity. For a country with a population like…
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