Audi City - A place of Virtuality

Its none other than automobile ruling king Audi, which has made a new exciting showroom of unimaginable arts using latest technology and developments, to attract customers from different parts of the world. It's "Audi City" in Berlin (Germany), which in reality doesn't have any cars instead a 3D navigation screen displaying every information about the vehicle. This is a new innovative thinking of any other kind before.

Audi City, Berlin, Germany

Before getting into the nitty-gritty, lets see what makes this very showroom so special and highly interactive. The main appealing part is that, any customer can set his own model of any Audi Car, transform it, paint it, change some wheels, customize every pin to pin looking of the vehicle. These customizations are done on a small sized touchscreen monitor and when done, it is displayed on a huge screen, where one can see its total view in 3D. There's an another feature which allows one to see the inside view, review and change some of the accessories like MP3 player, Tea stand etc.

Controlling Touchscreen and huge 3D Display Screen

The main disadvantage of this showroom is that no customer can have any test drive of cars. This showroom cars is just like a phone model displayed in mobile shops. Whatever may be the pros and cons, it's a forward looking way of developing new showrooms with less expenditure; and Audi is planning to open many of this kind in the later this year.

A complete review of Audi Digital Showroom:

 

Ram Bahadur Bomjon - The boy with limitless Powers

This very fabulous boy is not fictitious, nor just a fluke for any money making business. Ram Bahadur Bomjon also called 'The Buddha Boy', born c. 9 April 1990, is from Ratanapuri village, Nepal. He's no equal to other children of his age. His way of life is completely different and very eccentric too. His powers has exceeded any spiritual leaders ability. What great monks, spiritual leaders, Saints can't do, this boy can perform those unimaginable arts, as easy as drawing a cup of water from a sea. He's no normal form of Human Being. His body is completely soaked up in a syrup of divinity, spirituality and immortality.

Ram Bahadur Bomjon

The Buddha Boy is known for his practice of meditation for over long periods without consuming any food or water. This method of surviving without food and water for several days is called Inedia or breatharianism. This may look very tumultuous and unbelievable as it seems, but rather the fact. Ram Bomjon meditated for over ten months under the same divine tree and had promised his mother (before he could go meditate), he would continue doing it for 6 years continuously. This holy place soon turned into a tourist attraction and media's most favorite spot, which reportedly disturbed his meditation process. He left the place on March 16, 2006 (i.e. 10 months of meditation) proclaiming to find a better place to continue his meditation.

The boy did not eat, nor drink anything over his period of meditation. To verify whether his work of meditation was genuine or some money propaganda, worldwide renowned Channel The Discovery, had him monitored for over a week using cameras all over the place. Although there were some controversies regarding his monitoring, they somehow managed to shoot him for several days.During monitoring, Buddha Boy was found sweating around his head although the surrounding temperature was 16^o C. Later the reason was said to be due to some extreme powers of meditation which the Buddhist monks keep it secretive till today.
 According to biologists, a person cannot survive without water for more than 3 days or 4. But this boy made miracle and created a questioning among the biologists. Many neuroscientist and biologist had asked the committee members to get his blood sample for test, but the request was disregarded and he was never tested physically.

After his evacuation from Ratanapuri village, many controversies was raised over the place and many buildings and fences were destroyed which was built by his own brother for protection and well being. The exact living of Bomjon is unknown. He was last spotted on March 26, 2007 meditating inside an underground chamber. It is also said that he reappeared on 10 November 2008, spoke to a group of devotees in the remote jungle. Looking at his extreme impracticable superpower, one may easily christen him "THE BUDDHA BOY", an ultimate disciple of Gautama Buddha.

Breathalyzer - Don't Dare Drink 'n Drive

Do you Drink and Drive? If you are pretending saying "NO", well it's not a matter of talk that cops would trust you. So, how would they know your intoxication level? Here's a simple device to test your drinking activity, Breathalyzer. Breathalyzer is a simple device usually used to identify the alcohol content ( a.k.a  Blood Alcohol Content) in a person's breath.             

A Breath Analyzer Device

               
This simple and portable device, invented by Robert Frank Borkenstein, an unrecognized inventor, who made possible for the cops to capture drunk drivers at smooth hands. Before the invention of this device, police officers investigating an accident or noticing a weaving car looked for symptoms like a flushed face, slurred speech and bloodshot eyes. If the suspect then went to sleep in the police station, they might have sufficient basis for charges and further punishment. Or the other way was to get their blood samples and test them in a laboratory, which was an uphill task for the police force. 

 Working: Breath analyzers do not directly measure blood alcohol content or concentration, which requires the analysis of a blood sample. Instead, they estimate Blood Alcohol Content ( BAC) indirectly by measuring the amount of alcohol in one's breath. It just measures the proportion of alcohol vapors in exhaled air, a proportion that reflects the content of alcohol in the blood. The device is kept in suspect's mouth for a matter of seconds and the reading shows the Blood Alcohol Level. If this reading is above the normal level, he is convicted to the police station and further action is taken against the convict.

A cop inspecting a car driver

Learn more about working of Breathalyzer at howstuffworks.

Rubik's Cube - Happy Birthday :)

Coloured cube which played its own mind bending game on each kid, children and even older person is the Rubik's Cube(Magic Cube).  Today it turned 40 and let's wish him with a humming birthday song.

A Rubik's Cube

Rubik's Cube was invented by Ernő Rubik, an Hungarian inventor who showed his keen interest in puzzle stuff. The Rubik's Cube consists of twenty-six unique miniature cubes, also called "cubies" or "cubelets". Each of these includes a concealed inward extension that interlocks with the other cubes, while permitting them to move to different locations. In a classic Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered by nine stickers, each of one of six solid colours (white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow; in currently sold models, white is opposite yellow, blue is opposite green, and orange is opposite red, and the red, white and blue are arranged in that order in a clockwise arrangement). It is said that then own inventor of this ingenious cube Erno Rubik, took long time to solve the puzzle.  It's not easy to describe 3-D cube. It's better to feel the way it is.

Google Celebrating Cube's Birthday

Watch google celebrating Rubik's Cube Birthday at http://www.google.com/doodles/rubiks-cube

Get a Rubik's Cube today and start Cracking it, http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=rubiks+cube&as=on&as-show=on&otracker=start&as-pos=1_q
After buying, need any help solving it? Not to worry, http://www.wikihow.com/Solve-a-Rubik%27s-Cube-%28Easy-Move-Notation%29

Rainbowing - The Ultimate Sand Mining

Rainbowing is the act of dredging sand from sea or any deep area, for construction purpose. This process uses a dredging ship which propels sand from the deep sea, as easy as pouring gallons of water. This technique is usually used in constructing artificial archipelago or artificial Islands over the sea. The name "Rainbowing"  is derived from the appearance of the arc, which closely resembles a brown-colored rainbow.

Rainbowing

World renowned famous mega-structures the Palm Islands and The World, Dubai used this technique to build cities over the sea. These ships scoops up sand from sea bed, exhaust them through a pipe at speeds up to 10 m/s. Large quantity of water present along with the sand, gives the mixture (called Slurry) a huge thrust and can be propelled through a long distance as needed.

Palm Island and The World by Rainbowing Technique

Nozzle Angle: Nozzle angle is the rotation (angle) made by the nozzle of the dredger. Indeed this is an important consideration for the range the sand to be placed. The longest range is obtained at an angle of 45°. The same which we have noted in our daily outdoor games.

Environmental Effects : Dredging involves excavating very large amount of sand from the sea bed, causing imbalance and takes long time to settle back. This process, can cause plumes of fine sediment to remain suspended in water, affecting the ecosystem.

Watch working video of the dredger ship at http://youtu.be/5f3Hl3FzMxI 

Fighting Gravity - The Gravity Defiers

A team of excellent skilled performance artists started in 2010, mesmerizing the crowds by their mind-blowing tricks and skills.  For these performers, laws of physics doesn't apply. They appear as if they have some extraterrestrial alien powers. They just fly in air, perform parkour still stunts, dance colored balls, without any kind of support and balance. They are Magicians!! Aren't they? What makes these performers perform stunts so lively and creatively? Let's see.

A Logo of Fighting Gravity

Ultra-violet Lights

 This technique use different lighting colors to deceive the eye witness audience. The whole performance stage is illuminated by high ultra-violet lights and these makes us to see only things which Fighting Gravity wants us to see and hide the rest other things. Light is a basic need for our vision and FG technique uses these lights of different bandwidth which human eye is not sensitive to. The performers costumes are coated with special fluorescent chemicals which observe these U-V lights and makes only those parts visible but none surrounding these men. I think you got the point. If you didn't here its how they do.

Light balls as seen in performance

Behind the scene of the performance

As black appears to us as nothing, the stunt makers are dressed black and cannot be seen in U-V lights. But when U-V lights are switched off and fed lights are switched on, one can clearly understand the indigenous trick behind the skills. One of the mystery is solved. Now the other is that how these performers are able to fly around like a superman. Well, the answer is unknown and its fighting gravity's secret. But if we give our second thought over it, the key to the answer may be found. May be the black group behind the performers are lifting them all around or are they using some special invisible wires to hover them around. The answer is yes, but with a little correction. The performers as seen by audience are not really humans at all. The black people behind these photo-fluorescence mask, turn these costumes up and down, displaying their skills. Isn't this crazy enough?  Another question is, how do they walk at heights? Well, the answer is simple. They use preset wooden planks arrangement on which they walk on. As all these are painted black its impossible to see them. Perhaps all these are just guesses and none of these are officially revealed by the team.

Wearing jackets when lights are off

 Wearing jackets when lights are on

 









Don't you want to watch their show now? http://youtu.be/370IPsqt39U

Space Pen - Any Direction, Any medium

                                                                                After looking this image one may question himself "How come that guy over there is writing underwater?" rather than "What is he writing over there?" Well its pretty upsetting that we have lost so many book writings in our school days, while we drenched in rains. Wonder how it would be if we were like this guy. Perhaps nothing is mysterious until the mystery is unlocked. Another question that lingers in one mind is how do astronauts write in space? Quick reply to all these questions is SPACE PEN. Let's see what is Space pen and its mechanisms.

It is said that NASA has spent millions of dollars to invent a pen that can work under Zero Gravity. Why usual pens won't work under zero g? Well, a pen needs gravity to be pointing in the direction of your writing angle to make the ink flow onto the paper. You can try this by writing with your pen upside down. It was Paul C Fisher who first invented a pen that can work under Zero g, underwater, greasy surface etc. He named it Fisher Space Pen. Even after his invention, NASA performed thousands of test to use it as a space pen.

Overleaf of Fisher Space Pen covering

Space pen works on the fact that the Nitrogen gas pressurizes at 240 kpa the ink fluid placed in between Tungsten Carbide ball and Sliding float(See picture).  Space pen is three times more reliable and powerful than a standard ball point.. Operating temperatures range from −30 to 250 °F (−35 to 120 °C). The pen has an estimated shelf life of 100 years.

An Astronaut using his Space Pen

                                                             
Watch Fisher Space pen working underwater at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7GsWpd9s8c. Plan to buy a space pen and feel the way it is? Check out http://www.jabong.com/accessories/fisher-space/