Innovation : Telephone Operated Remote Switch

www.nif.org.in/dwn_files/hariyana/Part-I%20Innovations%20.pdf

National Innovation Foundation (NIF) has been pursuing the
mission of making India innovative and a creative society
since 2000 with the active support of Department of Science
and Technology, Government of India. Till date NIF has been
able to scout innovations and traditional knowledge practices
from over 520 districts across India.


Telephone Operated Remote Switch

The innovator observed the difficulty of farmers in their homes at night, who need to go to
faraway fields, as per availability of power supply, to switch the motor on or off for pumping
water.
The innovation uses the power of a mobile phone on existing networks to enable the
farmer to know of electricity status and remotely switch the pump on or off as required,
while sitting in his home itself. This “mobile phone operated switch” is an instrument box
with an attached mobile phone and modified circuit which can toggle a device between
switch-off and switch-on conditions, besides letting the user know the status of the remote
device.

Are you Softician ???

Very good article about "Life Of engineers and mechanics" and Commoditisation of computing skills has created a new breed of software engineers: ‘softicians’.

http://business.outlookindia.com/print.aspx?articleid=1530&editionid=40&catgid=13&subcatgid=370

Excerpt from the article:

Code writers will be on top of the emerging industry pyramid, followed by developers and softicians

Let’s look at the Indian software services industry to get some answers. The industry today is worth more than $40 billion. The export industry initially took off by offering to do low-end coding and maintenance work cheap. However, over the last 20 years, many companies, especially the big ones, have climbed up the value chain, and are doing complex work as well as simple coding, testing and maintenance work.

Today, the Indian software industry has figured out a way to succeed in the global services market by creating hybrid teams that are a mix of excellent engineers (about 30%) and average engineers (around 70%). The industry today commands 85% of the global offshoring market, so the model is obviously working well.

Improved Hand Pump - Innovation

Improved Hand Pump
Swayambhoo Sharma, Rajasthan and Chandan Agarwal, New Delhi
A Case Study
By Grassroots Innovations Augmentation Network – North (GIAN - North)
Science Park, Shastri Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Benefits of Hand pump redesigned
1. To make drinking water easy and stop wastage.
2. Also to collect clean drinking water for cattle.

www.idisc.net/en/Document.253.pdf

http://gian.org

Gifts for Mom - आज की बात

हालांकि आखिर में मज़ाक में कुछ कहा है पर यह कहानी बताती है की आज कल हम अपने मम्मी पापा

को कैसे तोफे देना पसंद करते हैं|



Three sons left home, started careers and prospered. Getting back together, they discussed the gifts that they were able to give their elderly mother for her seventieth birthday. The first said, "I built a big house for Mom."

The second said, "I sent her a Mercedes with a driver."
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The third smiled and said, "I've got you both beat. You know how Mom enjoys the Bible and you know she can't see very well. I sent her a brown parrot that can recite the entire Bible. It took 20 monks in a monastery 12 years to teach him. I had to pledge to contribute $100,000 a year for 10 years, but it was worth it. Mom just has to name the chapter and verse and the parrot will recite it."

Soon thereafter, Mom sent out letters of thanks:

She wrote to the first son, "Milton, the house you built is not practical. I live in only one room, but I have to heat, cool, and clean the whole house."

She wrote to the second son, "Marvin, I am too old to travel. I stay home all the time, so I never use the Mercedes. And the driver is so rude!"

She wrote the third son, "Dearest Melvin, you were the only son to have the good sense to know what your mother likes. The chicken was delicious."

Typing in Hindi made easy

Google has done a great work but making "Hindi Transliteration" very easy. http://www.google.co.in/transliterate/indic

Using this link, we can apply Google Hindi Transliteration on any website.
http://t13n.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/blet/docs/help_hi.html

Enjoy :-)

Vedascience.com - Awsome resource of knowledge

Today, I was just browsing through internet, when I found this website www.vedascience.com. This is a amazing resource. Site contains an amazing collection of book which can be ordered from any where in world. Prices are also very nominal.

I must say people are making great effort to retain the "Ancient Knowledge".

Thanks to http://vedicmathsindia.net mailing list, from where I got this reference.

Orkut SPAM friend requests

"My Name",I want to be your friend on orkut. How about it? "Sender Name"

I have been getting so many friends request for last one week on ORKUT. Frineds request format is also same for all the request i.e.

I see similar discussion on Google forum also.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/orkut/thread?tid=4ab507b26cb4c9ca&hl=en
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/orkut/thread?tid=00e8874b95af249e&hl=en

So be conscious before accepting any such friends request.

Mozilla Firefox : Proxy server changes the langauage

Problem: I faced this issue, that if I am using a proxy server in some other country. Then for the websites which chose the language based on the country of the client, making the request. It will open the page as per the location of proxy server.

In my case, I was using a Japanese proxy server, so typing Google.com will take me to Google.co.jp and open the search results in Japanese.

Solution: Change the language preference in "Tools > Options> Content". After this webpage was presented in desired language.

Speech on Current Education System

"LORD MACAULAY'S ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT 2 FEBRUARY, 1835"

"I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace the old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation."

Macaulay_Shikshan_Paddhati
http://rapidshare.com/files/11902575...ati_1_of_1.mp3