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// October 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // Life
I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my readers and friends a Happy and Prosperous Diwali and New Years.
Saal Mubarak and Nutan Varshabhinandan.
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// September 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Techy, Webstuff
Guess what! Google now syncs calenders, contacts and of course mail with your iPhone using Google Sync.
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// August 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // Africa
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-organized technology workshop, International Design and Development Summit (IDDS) wraps up in Ghana tomorrow, August 12.
Since July 8, an eclectic blend of innovative doers — ranging from scientists to artists, from more than 20 countries, have been mingling and working hard to create prototypes in Kumasi, Ghana.
As explained by MIT newsletter,
“IDDS is an intensive project in which the participants form teams to tackle specific problems through simple technologies, generally using materials and manufacturing methods that can be easily obtained on-site at low cost in rural villages”.
The idea is to co-create within five weeks, prototypes (example rice thresher in photo above) that the local community of Kumasi, and the greater poorer communities of the world, can put to use in their daily lives. The co-creating process involved selecting 12 focus projects ranging from water, sanitation, agriculture, manufacturing and energy production.
One of the many fascinating prototypes created deals with water safety. A team of created a low cost, low tech, system to generate chlorine for water purification.
Quoting the IDDS blog writes, “clean water and high levels of hygiene are crucial for both short term and long term health for communities in the developing world and the teams were aware of the gravity of the projects they were working on. Two teams focused on Chlorine, one on production and one on dosing…”
Catch more of IDDS summit and ideas on their blog: http://iddsummit.blogspot.com/
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// August 14th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Randomness, Webstuff
Have you noticed the new Google Doodle on their homepage. I was reading that this logo to was made to recognize the birthday of Hans Christian Ørsted.
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// August 12th, 2009 // No Comments » // Africa, Economy
India’s Emami Biotech will invest $80 million in Ethiopia to make bio-fuel while another Indian company, Anmol Products, has opened a $5-million paper factory, the Ethiopian government said in a press release on Monday.
“The first phase of the project has already begun at Awash Sebat Kilo some 250 km east of the capital Addis Ababa growing Jatropha, sunflower, castor, pulses and various herbs at a cost of $24-million,” the government said.
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