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Meet ‘Flyte ‘ – The Floating Light Bulb That Lasts 22 Years

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, Reviews, Science, tech 3:39 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>SP's: </b>Simon Morris has invented a light bulb that combines magnetic levitation with the power transmission- ‘Flyte’. It consists of an LED bulb with a wireless power receiver and an electromagnet in its bottom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Remember how back in our childhood, we used to be fascinated by anything that could fly or levitate in the air? Almost seemed like magic, didn’t it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps, it is for this reason, that a scientist Simon Morris, has finally turned his childhood dream into a reality after years of research. His new invention – Flyte levitating light bulb – combines magnetic levitation with power transmission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Inside the wooden base, is a wireless power transmitter and another electromagnet. The bulb has a lifetime of 22 years based on six hours use a day- or 11 years at 12 hours per day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It consists of an LED bulb with a wireless power receiver and an electromagnet in its bottom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Inside the wooden base is a wireless power transmitter and another electromagnet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Placing the bulb on the base and releasing it slowly will see it rise and settle into position.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Also, you can charge your phone by placing it over the base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The bulb has a lifetime of 22 years based on six hours use a day or 11 years at 12 hours per day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Morris always felt the necessity to bring the much needed change to the concept of bulbs , which hasn’t been altered over the past 135 years. ‘Flyte’ is currently being funded in Kickstarter for early pledges of $239. Although Morris has truly revolutionized the concept of bulbs, but when it comes to affordability, Flyte still lacks behind. One could buy approximately 50 Phillip’s low cost bulbs for that money</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When it comes to light globes, this sure isn’t cheap. Although the high cost can question the practical application and popularity of ‘Flyte’ but then aren’t all of us still charmed by the magic of levitating ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What do you think about the practicality of Flyte? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Meet ‘Flyte ‘ – The Floating Light Bulb That Lasts 22 Years

SP's: Simon Morris has invented a light bulb that combines magnetic levitation with the power transmission- ‘Flyte’. It consists of...

UK Plans To Bring ‘Useful’ Quantum Devices In Two Years

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, Science 3:36 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Researchers in the UK have announced to bring ‘useful’ quantum devices in two years and attain the most powerful quantum computer  by 2020.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Arms race and space contests are the things of the past for the first and second world countries. They are now focused on the new prize: The Quantum Technology. Till recently, we saw that the United States was the clear-cut front-runner in the next-gen computing program. NASA, along with Google, was working with the most powerful quantum computer built hitherto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The UK, it seems has also jumped into the competition and according to its engineers, UK would host the world’s most powerful quantum computer by 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">UK chancellor George Osborne had kicked off the Quantum Mission in 2013 and announced £270-million investment for the development of the quantum technologies. The engineers have claimed to build useful quantum devices within 5 years from 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Quantum computers have enormous applications, but researchers are focusing specifically on computing, communications, sensing, and imaging. The teams have already discussed their five-year plan in their first annual meeting at the Oxford University last month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now Quantum Technology is as difficult to develop as the name sounds in itself. It is far from the regular silicon-based chips and binary computing. The Quantum computers harness the power of atoms and use their superposed states (can have both 0 & 1 state simultaneously unlike classical bits) for the computational purpose. This creates the dynamic bits known as qubits or quantum bits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Apart from achieving precision while removing quantum decoherence, there is one more hurdle for the scientists: to make consumers understand that the technology is not spooky and too weird to be useful! Well, that is not just English’s problem. If quantum technology is brought in the market, the makers might have to explain a few things about their products first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, it is not just the US and the UK that are in the race to perfect the quantum technology, the Chinese have announced hack proof quantum communications network by 2016 stretching from Beijing to Shanghai.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ian Walmsley heads the quantum computing hub at Oxford and along with his team, he is working on new and viable methods to achieve quantum computing. Their team is developing a Q20:20 proof of concept system that holds the charged atoms inside the electromagnetic field which are then struck by lasers to read and write information. The name Q20:20 is an innuendo that they will bring a 20-qubit device in 2 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And they plan to integrate 20 such chips to form a 400-qubit processor by the end of 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is a great news for tech enthusiasts that quantum devices would soon be available, but wait, didn’t D-Wave already break the 1000-qubit barrier months ago!! What most powerful quantum technology then the English have been rattling about?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Have anything to add? Tell us in comments below.</span></div>
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UK Plans To Bring ‘Useful’ Quantum Devices In Two Years

SP's: Researchers in the UK have announced to bring ‘useful’ quantum devices in two years and attain the most powerful quantum comp...

Here’s Why Google Showed Narendra Modi’s Picture As First Indian PM

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, Creative, Hack, News, Tricks 3:35 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b style="font-weight: bold;">SP's: </b><b> </b>If you Google “India’s first prime minister”, you’ll be getting the result with a picture of the current prime minister Narendra Modi. Know why this is happening.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Do you remember the time when Google was showing Indian Prime Minister’s picture in top 10 criminal’s list? Well, Google has done another blunder and once again it’s related to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If I ask our Indian readers about their first prime minister, I’ll get the answer Jawaharlal Nehru unanimously. But, Google thinks somewhat different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Maybe the internet is too much crowded with the “Har ghar Modi, ghar ghar Modi” slogans and Google is confusing him as the first prime minister of India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you Google “India’s first prime minister”, you’ll be getting the following result with a picture of the current prime minister Narendra Modi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, I thought that this could be due to some website’s erroneous metadata, so I sniffed the web page’s source code and I found that the image shown was being served from the Wikipedia page of the List of Prime Minister’s of India. At the very top of this Wikipedia page, there’s an image of PM Modi, which is being served at the first prime minister result page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Digging deeper, I found that the alternative text for image (one of the many ways Google recognises and serves images) is set as “Image result for India’s first prime minister.” Being an image hosted on Wikipedia, this result was prioritised and is being shown on the result page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I hope that Google (and Wikipedia) corrects this mistake soon and avoid serving such confusions in future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Update: It’s being reported that some users are now getting the result without PM Modi’s image.</span></div>
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Here’s Why Google Showed Narendra Modi’s Picture As First Indian PM

SP's: If you Google “India’s first prime minister”, you’ll be getting the result with a picture of the current prime minister N...

Meet The Highest Earning YouTube Stars of 2015. Who’s Your Favorite?

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, News, Reviews, Science, tech, Tricks 3:32 AM

Meet The Highest Earning YouTube Stars of 2015. Who’s Your Favorite?

SP's: Forbes has released its first ever list of the highest earning YouTube stars. The list comprises of 10 channels, topped by F...

“You Can Hack a Computer Just by Looking at It” – HP Explains Visual Hacking

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, Science, Security, Software, tech, Tricks 8:44 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Visual Hacking is a security threat that is often overlooked by us. This is the act of stealing information by simple observation and it’s success rates are as high as 90%. Read more to know everything about it.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Visual Hacking is a relatively new term that you need to add in your jargon. When I’ll tell you its meaning, you’d even refuse to accept that it’s some kind of “hacking.” But, as the security threats are increasing, visual hacking is becoming a terrifying issue and we need to take some basic steps for an effective security.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">According to the genius minds at HP security division, if someone is able to read what’s on your screen and it’s not intended for that person, it falls in the category of “visual hacking”. After stealing some information by visual means, the act of owning someone’s digital life becomes much easier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“With more and more PCs being used in public places, visual hacking — the act of collecting confidential information by looking at someone else’s screen — is a paramount security risk in today’s business environment,” says an HP executive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In today’s busy and competitive world, laptop users are not aware of the fact who is looking over their shoulders. This is a way to gather credentials by observation and thus visual hacking becomes a greater threat. As shown in a recent research conducted by HP and 3M, about 90% of the attempts to steal business information was successful using visual hacking methods. The stolen data included employee login and access passwords, contact lists, consumer data, financial information etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To curb this menace, HP has partnered with 3M to deliver the solutions that protect the privacy of a user and improve the security measures by protecting the secrets of a billion-dollar company. The company has launched a collaboration to incorporate 3M privacy screens in the HP’s notebooks that are more focused on security.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">HP and 3M have announced the use of a “screen darkening technology that protects your screen from prying eyes on either side.” Basically, it’s a dark plastic that restricts the viewing angle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This highly successful visual hacking method is a security aspect that goes unnoticed a number of times. But, as mentioned above, its success rate increases the security threats to an alarming level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the future, we hope that visual hacking would be taken more seriously as a security threat and all the device manufacturers will employ effective solutions to curb it.</span></div>
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“You Can Hack a Computer Just by Looking at It” – HP Explains Visual Hacking

SP's: Visual Hacking is a security threat that is often overlooked by us. This is the act of stealing information by simple observa...

Explained: How Criminals Hack Your Chip And Pin Card

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, Security, Software 8:42 AM

Explained: How Criminals Hack Your Chip And Pin Card

SP's: EMV credit cards have till now been assumed to be unhackable. The security professor from the University of California explai...

Margaret Hamilton: Meet The Woman Whose Code Took Humans to The Moon

Shivam Patsariya 0 Linux, News, Reviews, Science, Security, Software, tech 8:39 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The whole world knows of Neil Armstrong and his famous small step and a giant leap on July 20, 1969 when United States’ Apollo 11 landed on Moon. It was a historic moment for the mankind, a journey of 384,400 km that has today been protracted over 7.5 billion kms to Pluto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But, the journey was not a fairy-tale as most people would know it. Years of hard work, failures and spirited team effort brought this dream to reality. As Neil Armstrong put his feet on behalf of all the mankind on the Moon, the world was ecstatic, and so was Margaret Hamilton, the woman whose code took the man to the Moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Margaret was the integral member of the part of the MIT team that was entrusted by NASA with the on-board flight software. This was the first time when the relatively new and abstract concept of software and codes were trusted with something so risky and real-time critical task.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As she recalls, just before the landing, the computer was cluttered with the erroneous signals and superfluous information sent by the radar and alarms went off indicating overloading. The software that Margaret and her team developed helped the computer to prioritize the tasks and avoided it from getting into a recovery mode. Had the software not been there, the computer would have gone berserk and history, well, not as we know today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Margaret is hailed as the computer science pioneer and she was the woman who coined the term “software engineering”. Needless to say, most of the people reading this article would thank her for their employment. 1950-60s was a time when software stream was just evolving and was not given due respect compared to other fields of engineering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Margaret tells in an interview to the Medium that she is surprised that even after all the achievements by the women in all spheres of lives and profession they still face biases and prejudices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Parisa Tabriz is one such outstanding lady who has been employed by Google to protect its empire from black-hats. Parisa goes by the name- “Security Princess” proving women are equally good if not better than men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Margaret had worked in all the Apollo manned missions and few unmanned ones as well. Naming her famous works, she has also worked on Skylab on-board flight software and preliminary software requirements for the Space Shuttle flight software.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">NASA felicitated her with Exceptional Space Act Award for her contributions in the Apollo missions. She was also the founder of Hamilton Technologies Inc. in 1986 which provides services to modernize the planning and helps the software engineers with their problem-solving approach though the USL (Universal Systems Language).</span></div>
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Margaret Hamilton: Meet The Woman Whose Code Took Humans to The Moon

Margaret Hamilton with the source-code of Apollo Guidance Computer in 1969 SP's: Margaret Hamilton was the software genius of her...

ZERO: This Smartphone Absolutely Does Nothing And That’s An Amazing Thing

Shivam Patsariya 0 Android, Hack, Security, tech, Tricks 8:37 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>ZERO from New York-based NoPhone is here to end your smartphone addiction. This phone has absolutely NO features at all. Read more to know what’s the idea behind it and everything else.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Being a technology addict could be frustrating sometimes and then you start looking for an escape. If you want to give up those endless sessions of texting, posting countless pictures to Instagram, and watching tons of YouTube videos – here’s a great device for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This new phone in the market called ZERO from New York-based NoPhone. As the name suggests, it comes with no features at all. It doesn’t come with any high-definition camera or some new technology like Force Touch. And you can’t even make a call.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It’s just a rectangular black piece of plastic that is cut in the exact dimensions as Apple’s iPhone 5 and it’s a follow-up to NoPhone’s first follow-up, which raised more than $18,000 on Kickstarter last year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It’s sleek and familiar design keeps your hands busy and is devised to fulfill the constant need to hold a smartphone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“It’s a technology free-alternative to constant hand-to-phone contact. We want to become the largest fake phone company in the world, that’s kind of the goal,” NoPhone Co-Founder Van Gould says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The earlier model included a mimicked camera, button, and an outlet. All these distractions have been removed from the new model to make a black and rectangular piece of plastic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And what are the reactions of people? Well, they are loving it.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">‘It feels like a smartphone in my pocket, but it’s just a plastic rectangle’ – Monica P</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">‘I can now eat food without taking photos of it. Thanks, NoPhone!’ – Andra J</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">‘Because of the NoPhone, I haven’t drunk texted my ex-boyfriend in one whole year’ – Craig G</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The previous model of NoPhone sells for $12, but the new ZERO sells for $5. If you liked the idea, grab your real phone and order a ZERO right now. 😉</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Tell us your views in comments below.</span></div>
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ZERO: This Smartphone Absolutely Does Nothing And That’s An Amazing Thing

SP's: ZERO from New York-based NoPhone is here to end your smartphone addiction. This phone has absolutely NO features at all. Read...

America’s Top Young Scientist: 9th Grader Wins $25k For Harvesting Energy From Ocean

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, Reviews, Science 8:32 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Hannah Herbst devised a brilliant generator that harvests oceanic energy to generate clean electricity, that could further be used to provide clean water in developing countries. She won America’s Top young Scientist award and a sum of $25,000.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The situation is worsening and someone has to do something about it. If the most brilliant scientists on the planet had their brains stifled, then the kids have to step up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hannah Herbst, a 15-year-old from Boca Raton, Florida has developed a unique method to harvest energy from oceanic currents to generate power and drinking water for the developing countries. She designed an energy probe from a 3D-printed propeller which is connected by a  pulley inside a plastic PVC pipe to a hydroelectric generator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The device produces electricity by converting the mechanical energy from the ocean currents. Testing her indigenous device in the Boca Raton Intracoastal Waterway (on the incoming currents of Atlantic Ocean), she was able to light a set of LED lights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The total cost of this setup was just $12 and as per Hannah’s calculations, if the model is scaled up it could harvest enough energy to charge three car batteries in one hour. The device is specifically targeted for the developing countries she says, as the energy is sufficient to power salt desalination pumps to produce fresh water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For this achievement, Herbst, a 9th grader, was awarded $25,000 and the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist” at 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, that was the best project, but her competitors were equally brilliant as well. Raghav Ganesh who is in 8th grade won the second prize for his machine that could check the physiological and environmental factors which can trigger meltdowns in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Another amazing invention was that of a seventh grader, Amulya Garimella who won the third prize was designing a system that keeps a check on the brainwaves and alerts the user whenever he/she is distracted ( I could use that one).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The fourth prize went to Iris Gupta, another seventh grader who devised a technique to prevent allergic reactions by blocking the allergens through nano-particles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, isn’t this amazing that the kids nowadays are actually working for the social cause and inspiring hundreds after them unlike few grown-ups in power? Tell us your views in the comments below.</span></div>
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America’s Top Young Scientist: 9th Grader Wins $25k For Harvesting Energy From Ocean

SP's: Hannah Herbst devised a brilliant generator that harvests oceanic energy to generate clean electricity, that could further be...