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SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 1 Rocket
2007-03-21 08:41:00
Excellent ! Now space is not just a government only area. Privately owned space exploration company SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 1 rocket. The rocket was developed entirely by SpaceX without government funding or the related lack of government funding. According to company founder Elon Musk, who previously co-founded Zip2 and PayPal (wow, that's cool !), the Falcon 1’s success will drive the cost of space access down “ultimately by a factor of 10.”read more


Nokia older phones secret codes, tips and tricks
2007-03-20 15:21:00
To check IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) for Nokia mobile.On the main screen type *#06#Information you get from the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)XXXXXX XX XXXXXX XTAC FAC SNR SPTAC = Type approval code of your Nokia MobileFAC = Final assembly code of your cellphoneSNR = Serial number of your Nokia PhoneSP = SpareTo check the phones Software revision for Nokia Mobile.On the main screen type *#0000#To enter in the secret menu in Nokia Phone.On the main screen type *#92702689# [*#war0anty#] it will take you to a secret menu where you may find some of the information below:1. Displays Serial Number.2. Displays the Month and Year of Manufacture3. Displays (if there) the date where the phone was purchased (MMYY)4. Displays the date of the last repair - if found (0000)5. Shows life timer of phone (time passes since last start)To restore Factory Settings for Nokia mobile*#7780# reset to factory settings.Taking picture without getting noticed.Turn on/off the "cli
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Bob Woolmer passes away in Jamaica
2007-03-18 19:59:00
Robert Andrew Woolmer, (born May 14, 1948, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India - died March 18, 2007, Kingston, Jamaica), more commonly known as Bob Woolmer, was a professional cricket coach known for having coached the South African cricket team and Warwickshire. He was only the second non-Pakistani to coach the Pakistani cricket team, the first being Englishman Richard Pybus (1999-2000).He played English county cricket for Kent, initially as an all-rounder. He graduated to Test cricket with England in 1975 again, at first, as an all-rounder, having taken a hat-trick for MCC against the touring Australian cricket team with his fast-medium bowling. But he was dropped after his first Test, only reappearing in the final match of the series at The Oval where he scored 149, batting at number five, the slowest Test century ever for England against Australia. Further batting success followed over the next two seasons, including two further centuries against Australia, one in the Centenary Test.But


World Cup 2007 live video streaming of the matches
2007-03-18 19:24:00
Where can I see live webcast of ICC cricket world cup matches ? Can somebody provide list of links ? willow.tv ICC Cricket World Cup 2007Watch Live Video Streaming of all matches. Alongwith Interactive Highlights, On-Demand Produced Highlights and Replays, Mobile Ball-By-Ball updates and much more. Watch from ANY location (home or work) in high quality streaming video , on our fully redundant high-capacity network. cricketon.tv http://www.johndasfundas.blogspot.com LIVE CRICKET TV STREAMINGLive International Cricket Internet Telecast - India, England, Pakistan, Australia, West Indies, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and South Africa all teams shown online. streambox.tvWatch your favorite Indian channels right now. Do you have High Speed Internet connection? then you are all set to go. Just stream it right away!Want SMS updates or IM (Yahoo Messenger) cricket updates ?http://m.willow.tv/cricket/index.htmlespnstar.comLive Flash Cricket Center : Animation of the Cricket Match (LIVE) !!!www.sooriyan
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NASA Apollo moon hoax
2007-03-17 02:48:00
Did man land on the moon in July, 1969 ? Time : 4:17 pm July 20 EDTSeveral theories have been put forward saying it's just an elaborate hoax. And NASA has strongly refuted such claims too. So, what is the truth ? Did man (or human being to be more politically correct) land on the moon ?Did man land on the moon ? Was it just an elaborate hoax ? On July, 1969 at 4:17 pm July 20 EDT , Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin supposedly landed on the moon. But there are several conspiracy theories which say that all the moon landings were probably faked in Area 51 on Earth !!!Here are the theories and evidences to get you going.From http://www.weeklyuniverse.com/skies/skies2.htm... The spacecraft should be able to take with itself a minimum weight of ~175 tons. No such spacecraft were developed before the flight to the Moon, none even close to that; today's most powerful spacecraft's weight carrying capabilities couldn't approach even the numbers thrice smaller than this. (For example, one of
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PFW.pif virus or worm or trojan
2007-03-15 16:47:00
PFW.pif was a hidden file I first saw in a pen drive (also variously called flash drive to thumb drive to thumbnail drive)Anyway the hidden file is labelled as an MSDOS shortcut but it is a trojan or worm or virus or whatever.How does PFW .pif spread ?It has an autorun.inf file also in the root folder of the pen drive.How do you remove it ...If you have AVG free edition 7.5 installed and have the latest virus definitions, it is more than enough.I'm not sure about Norton but if it is not updated, I guarantee that it will NOT catch this virus.Manually remove the virus if you can !Right click and Open Pen Drive (Autoplay will run the virus - Don't double click)Delete Pfw.pif and autorun.inf from the pen drivePress Alt-Ctrl-Del End PFW.pifTools> Folder options> View hidden filesDelete C;windowssystem32pfw.pifRegistry Go to > HKCU>Sofrware>Microsoft>Windows>Current version>Explorer>Mountpoints2>(crazy names)>Shell>Make backup of registryDelete the Subkeys Shell which have Autoplay as d


Cricket questions !
2007-03-12 13:45:00
With the opening ceremony of the ICC Cricket world cup over, people have many questions about cricket. Here are a few questions and answers, some of them wrong ; some right.Where can I see live webcast of ICC cricket world cup matches ? Can somebody provide list of links ? willow.tv ICC Cricket World Cup 2007Watch Live Video Streaming of all matches. Alongwith Interactive Highlights, On-Demand Produced Highlights and Replays, Mobile Ball-By-Ball updates and much more. Watch from ANY location (home or work) in high quality streaming video, on our fully redundant high-capacity network. cricketon.tv LIVE CRICKET TV STREAMINGLive International Cricket Internet Telecast - India, England, Pakistan, Australia, West Indies, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and South Africa all teams shown online. streambox.tvWatch your favorite Indian channels right now. Do you have High Speed Internet connection? then you are all set to go. Just stream it right away!Want SMS updates or IM (Yahoo Messenger) cricket upda


Oddest Book Title ? Green Nazis ?
2007-03-12 13:25:00
Here it is : a contest for the oddest book title !The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for oddest book title.How Green Were the Nazis ? is just one of the shortlisted books.The book , published by Ohio University Press , written by Thomas Zeller, Franz-Josef Bruggemeier and Mark Cioc is billed as the first to examine the environmental policies of the Third Reich.The other book titles in the list are :* Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan* How Green Were the Nazis ?* D. Di Mascio�s Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry?An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans* The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification* Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium* Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into ExistenceAll are interesting, let's wait and see who wins ...
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Anagrams mean true
2007-03-12 13:02:00
What is an anagram ?Word formed by rearranging the letters of another word; 'lager' is an anagram of 'regal', as too is 'large'.Here are some to get you going.TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE:When you rearrange the letters:I AM LORD VOLDEMORTDORMITORY:When you rearrange the letters:DIRTY ROOMPRESBYTERIAN:When you rearrange the letters:BEST IN PRAYERASTRONOMER:When you rearrange the letters:MOON STARERDESPERATION:When you rearrange the letters:A ROPE ENDS ITTHE EYES:When you rearrange the letters:THEY SEEGEORGE BUSH:When you rearrange the letters:HE BUGS GORETHE MORSE CODE:When you rearrange the letters:HERE COME DOTSSLOT MACHINES:When you rearrange the letters:CASH LOST IN MEANIMOSITY:When you rearrange the letters:IS NO AMITYELECTION RESULTS:When you rearrange the letters:LIES - LET'S RECOUNTMOTHER-IN-LAW:When you rearrange the letters:WOMAN HITLERSNOOZE ALARMS:When you rearrange the letters:ALAS! NO MORE Z 'SA DECIMAL POINT:When you rearrange the letters:IM A DOT IN PLACETHE EARTHQUAKES:W


Use messenger without installing - meebo , iloveIM and the like
2007-03-11 11:39:00
Oftentimes, you'll have to use a computer which does not have your preferred messenger is not installed. What should you do ? Downloading and installing the messenger may not work out if you are not logged in as administrator.One option is to use that messenger's web service. I know that Yahoo and MSN have it.http://webmessenger.msn.com/http://messenger.yahoo.com/ See the bottom of the page "Launch Web Messenger"But these require Java to be installed and enabled and ther computer I'm using now doesn't even have Java or Flash installed.That's when u use meebo.com or iloveim.com or ebuddy.com or othersI really don't know how trustworthy these sites are to give your password and login information and I would really appreciate it if anyone can clarify this.By joining meebo, you'll have access to all of your previous IM conversations. You'll also be able to save preferences such as logging into multiple screen names at once, sounds and appearance customizations.And it's completely


ICC Cricket World Cup 2007
2007-03-11 10:47:00
The opening ceremony the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup is on 11 March 2007, that is today !The official website is http://www.cricketworldcup.com/ , but it just redirects to http://cricketworldcup.indya.com/ Does this happen only in India ? Or does it go to indya.com all over the world ?And if you click the top banner in cricketworldcup.indya.com where it says www.cricketworldcup.com , it just open the sponsor's page - Maruti Udyog.Anyway, moving on to the more important things .The event schedule : Match Schedules For a printable copy of this schedule, click here for the pdf file of the schedule . *Note: All matches start at 0930 local time (1330GMT except Jamaica which is 1430 GMT). Warm Up Matches Date Group ATrelawny, Jamaica Group BSt. Vincent Group CTrinidad & Tobago Group DBarbados Mon 05 Mar West Indies vs Kenya England vs Bermuda
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Cookies are delicious delicacies
2007-03-11 10:29:00
Yes they are, but this was about those electronic cookies which web browsers eat. Blake Ross, one of the lead developers of Firefox said this because, according to him "describing something so complicated in such a small space was quite frankly the last thing I wanted to worry about after rewriting the cookie manager"It was considered a bug and was "fixed" by Mike Connor on July 24, 2004 to read "Cookies are pieces of information stored by web pages on your computer. They are used to remember login information and other data".After this happened, the following remarks were made by Blake Ross over IRC to Mike Connor: congratulations mconnor you just destroyed a legend!Do you want it back ? The Firefox extension to get the "bug" back is here ( http://www.squarefree.com/extensions/delicious-delicacies/delicious-delicacies-0.5.xpi )Or go to the website and figure out the funda first http://www.squarefree.com/extensions/delicious-delicacies/What's a cookie ?A small text file of infor


India crush Windies in final warm-upSaturday, Marc...
2007-03-11 06:30:00
India crush Windies in final warm-upSaturday, March 10, 2007India completed a morale-boosting nine-wicket victory over the West Indies in their final ICC Cricket World Cup warm-up match here on Friday. Chasing a modest 86 for victory, India hit the jackpot with 31.2 overs to spare, when Dwayne Bravo delivered a no-ball to Robin Uthappa.Uthappa was not out on 35 and Dinesh Karthik was unbeaten on 38.They added 80 for the second wicket, after Virender Sehwag was caught behind off Daren Powell for a duck in the second over.Earlier, India's seam bowlers had destroyed the West Indies' batting on a helpful Trelawny Multi-Purpose Stadium pitch.Munaf Patel was the most successful Indian bowler with four wickets for 10 runs from six overs, Irfan Pathan collected three for 25 in six overs, and Zaheer Khan snared two for 22 from six overs.Only three West Indies batsmen got into double-figures after the hosts chose to bat - captain Brian Lara top-scored with 22, and Ramnaresh Sarwan and Dwayne S
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And Odo the hero, they bore him back home
2007-03-06 13:40:00
Who is Odo, why did they bear him back home ?Odo was a wizard we come to know fro the Harry Potter series of books. Slughorn sang a song about the wizard Odo when Harry and Sluggy were consoling Hagrid over the death of Aragog, the giant spider.They bore him back home coz he was dead.Why does this interest us ?Because it is a clue from the Harry Potter books regarding the death (or actually absence of proof of death) of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (born ca. 1840s [1])And Odo the hero, they bore him back home, To the place that he'd known as a lad, They laid him to rest with his hat inside out And his wand snapped in two, which was sad. (HBP pg 488/456)From the story, we don't see any mention that they snapped Dumbledore's wand in two. After the scene at the top of the tower, Dumbledore's wand is simply never mentioned again. Is it possible that Dumbledore's wand is missing because Dumbledore still has his wand, still needs his wand, because he's not dead ?Read


Pendulum clock puzzle
2007-02-28 17:04:00
Just a little puzzle, not the kind of stuff to blog about, but here it is ...If a pendulum clock take 2 seconds to give 2 bells when it’s a 2’O Clock.How many seconds it will take to give 3 bells when it is 3’ O clock ?Clue ? Not 3 seconds
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Albus Dumbledore lives !
2007-02-25 12:31:00
Dumbledore is not dead !!!Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (born ca. 1840s [1])Dumbledore Clues by David Haber 1. Dumbledore's Big Chill Harry and Dumbledore are up on the top of the tower underneath the Dark Mark. Harry is wearing his invisibility cloak, Dumbledore ordered him to put it on before they mounted their brooms to ride to the top of the tower. Harry hears footsteps and looks around, but Dumbledore orders him with a gesture to retreat. Harry draws his wand and backs away: The door burst open and somebody erupted through it and shouted, "Expelliarmus!" Harry's body became instantly rigid and immobile, and he felt himself fall back against the tower wall, propped like an unsteady statue, unable to move or speak.(HBP pg 584/545) It's interesting to note that things are happening so fast, even Harry is momentarily confused: He could not understand how it happened -- Expelliarmus was not a Freezing Charm -- Then, by the light of the Mark, he saw Dumbled


"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows " Book 7 - July 27
2007-02-04 12:17:00
J.K. Rowling said "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ," the last of seven installments of the boy wizard's adventures, will be published July 21. The seventh and final (?) book of the Harry Potter series ?Potter readers had speculated the book might be published July 7 (7/7/07 for the seventh book) or July 31 (Harry's birthday) ''Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows '' is topping the charts of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com, a deluxe edition, priced at $65, is No. 2a similar deluxe edition of Potter 6, ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,'' had sold around 100,000 copies. The deluxe ''Half-Blood Prince,'' according to Scholastic, includes a 32-page insert of art and illustrations, a ''custom-designed slipcase,'' and a ''full-cloth case book, blind-stamped on front and back cover, foil stamped on spine.''


Blogger's Clog - Wrtiters block
2006-12-29 19:59:00
What do you call it when a blogger stops posting for a long time ? Just like writers' block , may you want to call it Blogger 's Clog ?Why does it happen ? Do thoughts become clogged up in the blogger's mind ? Does it really matter ?Is it possible to just run out of ideas ? To try to post something after exams are over and find that you don't have anything to say ?To type one line that is not a question ?


Yahoo Messenger nsl-school virus - De vile Messenger
2006-10-23 14:10:00
If your computer is infected , this is what you doDownload the file http://www.fundazone.com/antivirus /registry/registry-enable-regedit.regCopy these instructions to notepad or word or note it down. Close Internet Explorer ( and Yahoo messenger) . Double click the .reg file and click yes when it asks whether you want to merge the file to the registry. This will enable the regedit and task manager tools and restore your home page and other settings.Then restart the computerAfter restarting Press Ctrl + Alt + Del . Click Processes.End the process svhost32.exe . ( may be more than one process is running )Start> Search > Files and folders. Search for svhost32.exe , svhost.exe and enet.exeDelete the files found.Restart for good luck.Use firefox http://www.fundazone.com/software/firefox/Firefox is a fast and nice browser with tabs and RSS feeds and cool stuff.So, the story behind this post ? Once again, another virus spread in all the computers here.This time, it was a virus using Yahoo M
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The Magic Tap
2006-10-01 21:25:00
Have you seen a magic tap earlier ?One that seems to perpetually give water from itself even though it is not connected to any water pipe ?Take a close look at the picture. It is not a camera trick. Or a computer trick.Speaking of computer tricks, nowadays, with a good photo editing software (By the way, Google has a good photo organizing software called Picassa, it is there somewhere on my blog sidebar - good to fix up the colurs and brightness and contrast and stuff on photos - automatically too) you can make any sort of unbelievable picture.Now, about the magic tap, this picture is of a big tap in the middle of a traffic island on the road. I have seen one in a science museum (in Bangalore) which is a normal size tap and I wondered for quite some time how it was done.The water tap seems to be pouring out water continuously. But where is the water coming from ? There is no other connection to the tap which can carry water. And in the museum tap , the tap was hanging by thin ropes. So
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Bend it like Betty
2006-09-28 11:28:00
More about the clever crow ...Did u think you were smart ? That you are the cleverst, most intelligent species on the planet ???Well, think again before you call someone a birdbrain. Even though a bird's brain is much smaller compared to a human brain, a young pigeon can recognise patterns and do some basic counting (not exactly counting, but they have some idea about numbers) and that is more than a 3 year old human kid can do !!!Now about the crow in the picture - She is Betty . Betty Crow if you like (Like Sheryl Crow) (I mean not if U like Sheryl Crow, but similar to Sheryl Crow ... did u get the point ? - I guess not , anyway don't read these stuff in the brackets - they make your head hurt (Actually these type of brackets are called parenthesis - see, I told u your head will hurt)) Did I close all the brackets ?? - I hope so - anyway back to Betty.Well, Betty here proved that she was no bird brain - she used her tiny brain to make tools - a hook !!! Using metal wire .Just check


That's the way the crow flies
2006-09-25 09:25:00
One of the cleverest (or should I say cunning ) birds in the whole wide world (www in short) is the Common Crow ! I suppose all of you have read the story of the clever crow and the pot of water. The water level was too low, so the crow dropped stones in the pot till the water rose and he/she could drink it.Read this article from an Indian newspaper The remarkable talent of a crow has challenged the chimpanzee's fame as the most proficient toolmaker in the animal world. A crow can make a hook from an ordinary piece of wire. Crows make and use a range of tools including hooks, which they use to extract food from cracks and crevices. But the crow has now shown that it can design and manufacture a tool from materials with which it has no previous experience. These skills came to light when two crows were given a choice between a straight wire and a hook to extract a bucket of food from the bottom of a plastic pipe. When the male bird made off with the hook, the female bent the tip of th


Me, myself and IE ( Internet Explorer 7 and 6 too )
2006-09-23 09:06:00
Well, those who have been reading my posts (or atleast the post Funda's Own Zone - FundaZone http://johndasfundas.blogspot.com/2006/08/fundas-own-zone.html ), will know that I'm building a website of puzzles at www.fundazone.comAs I wanted to be a nice webmaster, I tested my pages on various browsers - and what did I find ???Well, for one : this blog's previous template would come properly on Mozilla Firefox but in Internet Explorer , the sidebar would go down ! ( Or was it that the sidebar stays there but the posts go down - I don't remember exactly )So, I edited the template to change the page structure. I changed a few numbers here and there and finally, I refreshed the page in IE. I don't remeber how many attempts I made, but finally I made the sidebar come up (or the posts - whichever it was). And all this time, Mozilla Firefox displayed my blog perfectly."Eureka !" , I shouted. Actually I didn't. I was in a library and shouting is not a good habit in a library. Therefore,
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Why should we walk on the right side of a path ?
2006-09-18 22:03:00
What I'm talking about here is NOT why we should walk on the right path - what I try to explain here is why it is a better idea to walk on the right side of a road or street in a country like India. Rather than on the left.The explanation is like this. In India, the vehicles have to go on the left side of the road - one of the customs the Britishers left behind for us when they finally let go of their prized empire.Also, people have to walk on the road in many places because there is no space left for any footpath. Even if there was a footpath, it would be broken down with no slabs left. That is really dangerous because the footpaths are actually slabs covering the roadside drains - and there have been several instances of people falling into the drains through the missing footpaths.Now, even if there was a good footpath, roadside hawkers and illegal shops would be set up there and there would be no space left for pedestrians . . .So finally, the point is - U have to walk on the roa


FunDa's Own Zone
2006-08-18 16:40:00
Finally , I bought a web domain name http://www.fundazone.comI had wanted to buy a domain for a long time, but I kept putting it off, saying "Why ?"Then I thought "Why not ?"Especially after the strange incident where the Indian government blocked blogspot ( and typepad and other websites too) in a hasty decision to block communication between militants.If I had my own site, then there would be no problem of that sort (unless of course I am a militant [;)] )So finally, here it is : FunDa's Own FunDaZone.com


Reciprocal linking
2006-03-21 17:09:00
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Boycott Global Shutdown Day !
2007-03-24 05:58:00
Dennis Bystrov and Michael Taylor from shutdownday.orgwanted to see how many people could go without computers for a day. And shut down their computers - finda alternative uses for their laptops (believe me - somebody wants to play basketball with their laptop - there's a video of it on youtube !)See what a dude in Engadget has to say about shutdown day - that is today !Hold on there, big guy. You want us to STOP using computers for a day? How aboutwe all decide to hold our breath for 24 hours, too? Yeah, that's right, we'renot giving up our gadgets for anyone. We know that some day our computers willkill us (either by rising up against us or by getting us so sucked into a sixday-long WoW marathon that we forget to eat), but hey, you gotta die fromsomething right? At least we'll go out knowing we spent every waking momentindoors doing something worthwhile like reading RSS feeds and downloading porn.Those are truly the hallmarks of a life well-spent, wouldn't you agree? Anyway,we'
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To search for downloadable music
2007-03-23 16:59:00
type this {-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "www.fundazone.com"} in the search bar and replace www.fundazone.com with your favorite band, and you will only find open indexes that contain downloadable music files.Cool tip. Try it. Hope it works for you ! It's such a weel known trick it seems, a dude has a huge web page dedicated to the technique.


Shutdown Day - Did u shut down ? March 24th
2007-03-23 16:31:00
It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope? Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate! Shutdown your computer on this day and find out! Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?Thus says the message on shutdownday.org .By the time a good number of people read this, it is already past shut down day. Because it's just 3 hours from now !What is shutdown day ?It's a day (March 24th, 2007) when a lot of people shut down their computers for 24 hours just to see if they can live without computers for a day.And what is the response ?A lot of people said they can - 54007 and a few said they cannot 8561 at about 3 hours from t-03 hour
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Invisible flexible battery - crazy or what ?
2007-03-23 15:44:00
Yes, it is. Definitely crazy ! But what stuff can you do with an invisible battery ?Made in Waseda University by who some may descibe as mad scientists, this is cool but probably useless.Gizmag reported that researchers at the University have developed a so-called "organic radical" battery that's flexible and transparent. The battery apparently takes only one minute to charge and can last over 1,000 cycles.With transparent circuits and OLEDs also already in the works, it seems like it's only a matter of time before all our gadgets are invisible. Think of it, bumping into your car which is invisible.And what about an invisible cellphone ? But who would want an invisible ceelphone anyway - they're already too small to be visible.Let's wait and see how this develops.


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