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Now you can scribble on your mouse pad!
Your scribe pad, no papers needed
Here is an idea that was due a long time ago. In fact, it should have been incorporated after the mouse pad became a necessity. It is called Scratch N Scroll mouse pad and what it does is to allow you to scribble anything on the mouse pad with your fingertip, or any sharp pointing object. The beauty of it is that you can erase off what you have scribbled by just lifting off a semi-transparent plastic cover. It was designed by the Quirky Community, comprising a group of eager beavers whose forte is designing practical items and turning ideas into reality. For just $9.49/-, you can buy it at their stores. Now, this product need more development as presently, you can’t get the thing that you scribbled saved onto anything. Any ideas?
September 12, 2009.
A workable one atom transistor.
We are now seriously in the realms of the nano world. Everything that can be brought down to size is being tried. On the lab is an experiment that is history in the making. In an experiment conducted by team collaboration between the University Of Helsinki University Of Technology, the University of New South Wales and the University of Melbourne, a one atom transistor is made to work using quantum tunneling principals. Although this is not the first time that a one atom transistor is attempted, it is the first time that it is made to work. The team successfully passes electricity through an atom of phosphorus to a drain lead made of silicon. Control of the current is made possible by a nano size electrode. Although much more work is required to size down the silicon layer (considered too large when compared to the one atom phosphor), the team is satisfied that they can study the effects of spinning electrons where a spinning up or spinning down of the electron could be harnessed like the one and zero of computer signals.
December 9, 2009.
Winding power is in fashion again
Thanks to everybody getting lectures on the need to being green to pull down climate warming, designers are reverting to using good old fashion clockwork winding mechanism to power everyday used devices. There are the usual retinue of watches and clocks and of late, there are even radios, mobile phones and mp3 players using clock work mechanism for recharging their drivers. Adding to the scorecard is designer Ahmet Bektes, who has designed a computer mouse that uses clockwork power mechanisms to function. So instead of getting power supply from the computer, the new design needs a wound up before use. And instead of a continuous electrical supply, the user will have to break his workflow by winding up the mechanism using a supplied key. Ahmet believes that a regular break from computer usage bodes well for relieving eye strains. Perhaps we need to have a relook at technologies, some of which are supposedly high tech, but equally having high energy consumptions.
January 6, 2010.