Technicians, repairers, engineers and technology enthusiasts are volunteering to undertake repairs of broken gadgets in Primrose Hill District of London. These volunteers are part of the ‘Restart Project’, an innovative initiative by adoptive Londoners, Italian Ugo Vallauri and a British American Janet Gunter. These two concerned persons, on return to the West after working in the developing world, found the amount of waste being generated and decided to do something about it. Under the banner of ‘Restart Project’, with the slogan of “Don’t Despair, Repair”, volunteers gather for “Restart Parties”, as these meets are called, and help repair the broken gadget brought by the visitors. Continue reading
Unique Project in London, Repair and Reuse your Broken Gadgets
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Iran is in the process of developing 3D map service within four months. The service is known as “Basir” an Islamic Google Earth as mentioned by the information and communications technology minister, Mohammad Hassan Nami. The Iranians are in the construction mode of a data centre that would support huge data of information that will enable to launch the map service. The minister said “We are doing out best to launch the Islamic Google Earth in the next four months as an Islamic republic’s national portal, providing service on a global scale”. 
The competitive market technology in the tablet PC segment is yet to see the release of iPad 5 from Apple. The company is rumoured to concentrate on a low cost tablet with smaller size and high performance. The iPad 5 fits in perfectly showing a compact model that will be ready to sweep the market. The tablet will take the base of iPad mini with large display screen. The screen will be placed with the advanced technology of LED background light which will make the device lighter and thinner. Other ultra advanced changes include display with touch sensor and use of IGZO display as used by Sharp. 
Scientists in New Zealand at Massey University conducted research on extracting gold through plants. They developed a technique that promises to gold harvest from growing crops. This technique is named as Phyto-mining that makes the use of plants to suck gold particles embedded in the soil. Some plants, like mustard have shown the ability to extract the gold particles from the soil through the roots and store them in their biomass. There are some of the plants that show the ability of such metals like, cadmium, nickel and zinc, such are known as hyper accumulators. Sucking gold in concentrated form is not possible. The metal has to be diluted for the plants. Scientist Chris Anderson said,” Under certain chemical conditions, gold solubility can be forced”. 