tHis cAn be tErmed as BreakThrough in tapping Human's Brain - TEACHING THE TONGUE TO SEE

An awesome article here with brilliant and mindblowing idea. Unable to believe that it is possible to teach a blind person to see with his tounge. Awesome one - connecting electrodes of a camera to the tongue. Here, this electrodes generate a sensation on the toungue with the help of picture captured by camera, and the tongue actually sends the signals to brain making him to see it.
It helps mankind a lot. Its a boon for human kind and specially for blind people who are in depression and can't see and enjoy the beauty of the world. Ofcourse, there are great people who can visualize the things in the better way compared to the things really exists and who are happy and intelligent than the people who can see.
UPDATE:
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19613/
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/18193/
Looks like image processing plays a big role here

hOw Google mAps tHe wOrld?

This was my doubt "How Google Maps the World? What its database? What it do?". Found a nice article on this here. These are from that article:
..These images, which are shared by Google Maps, are actually a combination of aerial photos and satellite ­imagery--and a lot of post­processing...
Looks like nothing database as such. Atleast for the current earth positions, it won't use any database. It uses the combination of aerial photos and the images from DigitalGlobe, the company that supplies Google's satellite photos, and do the image processing on them. May be, it need to use some spatial databases to store these and get them again whenever needed.
Below is the image from that article that explains most of the process

Technology Review Young Scientists TR35 - INVISIBILITY CLOAK

Technology Review have very good articles. There is one article on Invisibility Cloak . It made grin on my face from this ear to that ear as its a proof for Harry Potter story to come into reality. This may lead to BreakThrough in technology. Some nice fundu statements from article Shedding Light on how our brain recognizes faces
.. unravel the process by combining two of the most important tools in neuroscience: brain imaging and electrical recordings from single neurons.
Some nice articles:
Securing systems cyptographically
Optimizing Networks

List of Young Scientists is here

This "Invisibility Cloak" made me to remember the invisible car in "Die Another Day" James Bond movie also. Their villain wears some special type of spectacles which can track it. That should be X-Ray ones according to this article.

My Xperiences with nOvels

Thought of reading novels, to increase my vocabulary. But, my first attempt made me a Boring Chemistry Lecturer. Its because my first novel was "Arrow Of Time". It went like a semester course for me. Finally, stopped reading it.
Somehow, I got Harry Potter - 3 from my friend and read few pages of it. I became big fan of that. I bought the first 2 books and completed them within 2 weeks. I liked them very much. All the time, the characters were roaming in my mind. ('m usually of that kind where the things will be there in my mind roaming. May be same case with many). I just LOVED them. I think - it increased my communication skills, increased my vocabulary too. (I will try to use them in my blogs)
I was under impression that how people can read novels instead of reading technical books. Now, I got to know why people read novels - it increases the visualizatin power, vocabulary, thinking capacity and communication skills ofcourse. But, any thing exceeding limits will hurt and cause problems. So, Happy Reading nOvels to All :)
I will put some of my favourite phrases from that book in my next blogs :)

Changing the format of the coredump file name

When any program crashes, it dumps core. File name format of the core that gets created can be controlled using sysctl.
One way is: sysctl -w "kernel.core_name_format=/coredumps/%H-%N-%P.core"
%P The Process ID (current->pid)
%U The UID of the process (current->uid)
%N The command name of the process (current->comm)
%H The nodename of the system (system_utsname.nodename)
%% A "%"
Got this from the link.

In the traffic

Today, I missed Novell bus and took the BMTC bus. It was totally fun in the traffic today. I guess - people's problem in the traffic is not only that they are reaching late to their destinations, but there are some more I guess. Some I feel and some I read from their feelings are like
- if the person find that vehicles in his lane are not moving, he will be very much disappointed and will be scolding the driver like why this fellow is driving like this? what happened to this driver's lane only while other lanes moves fast :) And, when his lane is not moving and if driver takes other lane and if the first lane moves naa, gone case, he will be very very disappointed
- more over than this, they feel disappointed that other lanes are moving. and if his lane moves and crosses some other vehicles in other lanes, he will be the happiest.
And, also, he feels down because the vehicle stopped. Its not moving. So, we can have some sort of mechanism where people in vehicles feel that his vehicle is moving and we will close all the windows so that he can't see outside world :)
But, still, we won't solve the problem that he is reaching his destination late. But, he can be made mentally satisfied.
What a JUNK blog naa???? :D :)

What the HELL is happening on this Earth? :-(

Series of :-c, :-< and :-|| events