One of the many benefits of a floating island is that you begin with a clean sheet, and hence the potential to create an entire infrastructure from scratch leaves itself open to many new technologies being incorporated to achieve synergies well beyond the normal scope - such as Japan’s Shimizu Corporation and its idea that it can construct a self-sufficient, carbon-negative floating city in the Pacific Ocean.

   

Floating Model

                                                  

The Solar Floating Resort  uses dye-sensitized solar cells in the building fabric. The SFR is constructed of two 15-mm (0.6-in) layers of fibre glass reinforced balsa wood with a 30-cm (11.8-in) vacuum between. Puzzolante has solar cells in both the inner and outer layers, so that both artificial light from the interior and sunlight can be harvested. It's an indication of the amount of thought that is now being devoted to the future of marine habitats. By carefully conserving energy supplies, and re-harvesting them wherever possible, Puzzolante's Solar Floating Resort offers energy autonomy.now an Austrian-based company intends to manufacture much smaller, tailor made miniature floating islands, at a fraction of the cost.

THE FIRST COMMERCIAL AMPHIBIAN VEHICLE

The Gibbs Quadski is an amphibious quad bike, launched in October 2012 by .The Quadski is a 4-stroke, quad-bike that converts to a jet ski. It features a top speed of 72 km/h  on both land and water, a proprietary marine jet propulsion system, and wheel retraction. The Quadski can make transitions between land and water in 4 seconds. The Quadski uses Gibbs High Speed Amphibian  technology, which includes over 300 patents and patients pending worldwide.

The Quadski

Developed and manufactured by a Detroit based team, the Quadski shares a number of features with Gibbs' Aquada. When entering the water, by pressing a button the driver can retract the wheels into the housing within the vehicle’s body and detach them from the steering column. The transition time is a maximum of four seconds.The Quadski’s 175 bhp (130 kW) BMW engine includes a stone guard-protected intake, which draws in water before directing it through the engine driven impeller, which with the stator blades and nozzle propel the Quadski at high speed. The steering nozzle at the Quadski’s rear directs the vehicle via the handlebars.

Tamil writer D. Selvaraj, whose novel Thol (Skin), captured the pathetic living condition of tannery and municipality workers, once considered untouchables, and their struggle for social acceptance and fair wages in Dindigul between 1930 and 1958, has been selected for the Sahitya Akademi award for 2012.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

The longest known (approved) techincal word in english.Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

 a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.'

This word was invented in 1935 by Everett M. Smith, president of the National Puzzlers' League, at its annual meeting. The word figured in the headline for an article published by the New York Herald Tribune on February 23, 1935, titled "Puzzlers Open 103d Session Here by Recognizing 45-Letter Word":

"  Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis succeeded electrophotomicrographically as the longest word in the English language recognized by the National Puzzlers' League at the opening session of the organization's 103rd semi-annual meeting held yesterday at the Hotel New Yorker. The puzzlers explained that the forty-five-letter word is the name of a special form of silicosis caused by ultra-microscopic particles of silica volcanic dust..."

Identify the places and find the relation between them.....

Answer: 1-Sathish dhawan space centre
2-ISRO head quaters
Relation : Indian Space research

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To The noble prize Awardees for the year 2012….

Physics:

Serge Haroche (France) – David Wineland (USA)

Chemistry:

Robert Lefkowitz (USA) – Brian Kobilka (USA)

Literature:

Mo Yan (China)

Economics:

Alvin Roth (USA) – Lloyd Shapley (USA)

Peace:

European Union (EU)

Medicine:

Sir John Gurdon (UK) – Shinya Yamanaka (Japan)

Polishing old ideas can become new achievements. Self adjustable glass spectacles prove it. The idea, originally initiated in 1930’s was dusted by Oxford students and two Engineers and had achieved the success on 2 October 2012.The specs can focus by itself for a better vision. The spectacles can be adjusted with a help of a dial called ‘eyejusters’.One lens slide over other to provide better vision when eyejusters are turned. The glass costs around $40!!!!!!!...... Soon Indian can see through it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Self adjustable glass spectacles

Soon the world will welcome the world’s first interactive paper compute that would take the world to the next step. Scientists believe that Graphene, regarded as ‘WONDER MATERIAL’, could make Revolution in cell phones and solar cells. Like diamonds and graphite, Graphene is one such carbon compound that is almost 100 times stronger than steel. Let’s get ready to enjoy the “interactive paper phone”

Let the revolution

begin....