Apple Powerbooks explodes due to battery

"I would compare this to the type of fire you saw in Kuwait during the first Gulf war. This type of laptop uses lithium-ion batteries, and they create their own oxygen when they burn. So you can't stop the fire by choking it, halon doesn't work either. Putting out the fire with water is not to be recommended, as poisonous gases develop, and water dissipates it faster." - An excerpt from article posted at gizmodo.

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Suggestion: Try not to keep you laptop switched on and unattended.

MIT $100 Laptop - First Working Prototype

Demonstration of the first working prototype of the One Laptop per Child computer.

Free SMS across India

Many of you guys might be knowing about it, but it seems many of you still donot know about it.

Rediff BOL Messenger allows you to send free SMS to any mobile network across India.

It allows you to send 3 sms to a particular mobile in a day. If you get a reply from a particular mobile, then you can send 3 more sms's for free :-)

Download Rediff BOL here ...
Enjoy SMS'ing

JanaGanaMana National Anthem

Pandora of Music

It builds a customized music station based on your earlier choices of songs ...
Select one artist u wanna listen to and it makes the remaining list automatically ..

Enjoy listening to Pandora ..

www.pandora.com

Intel unveils 'juggernaut' computer for rural India

31st March' 2006
Intel this week unveiled its entry into the low-cost developing-world computer stakes, and it's a whopper. Designed for India, the tower-on-its-side system is dubbed 'Jaagruti - which means 'awakening' in the local lingo - though 'juggernaut' might be a better choice given its size.

Intel is pitching the machine as a system that rural commuities can share, so it's more Communal Computer than Personal Computer. The beast's size comes, presumably, from its "rugged" chassis, designed to "withstand dusty conditions, varying temperatures and high humidity", and to keep the mobo cool at room temperatures of 45°C and humidities of 70-85.

It also contains a power supply unit with an integrated uninterruptible power supply capable of mainting "continuous load power in the event of a power outage".

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Device reads printed words to the blind

Dallas: Breakthrough innovation is talk of conference this week

By KIM HORNER / The Dallas Morning News

The 3,000 people in Dallas this week for the National Federation of the Blind convention are getting a demonstration of what life is like when you can read printed menus, mail, business cards and memos.

Dwight Sayer photographs the nametag of Barbara Loos at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas with the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader. An innovative handheld device that snaps a photo and then reads material aloud has been the biggest attraction at the exhibit hall in Dallas' Hilton Anatole Hotel. The federation teamed up with inventor Ray Kurzweil to create the device, which is being unveiled for the first time.

The Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader, the first portable device of its kind, looks like a PDA attached to a camera.

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