Technology News And Updates

• There is more to microwave ovens than meets the eye. Their versatility is seemingly infinite, as you will see all around you.
• To obtain more juice from an orange or lemon, heat on high for 30 seconds before squeezing.
• Refresh bread rolls, sliced bread or croissants by wrapping them in paper towel or greaseproof paper and heating on High for 10 seconds. Care must be taken not allow these foods to overheat or they become too dry.
• Soften butter, margarine & cream cheese for spreading or use in cooking. Heat for a few seconds and check for softness – more time can be given if necessary.
• Reheat cold tea or coffee without it developing a “stewed” flavor. Allow 11/2- 2 minutes per cup or mug.
• Make honey, liquid glucose syrup easier to measure and handle by softening for a few seconds in the microwave oven.
• Melt chocolate for use in cakes, icings and deserts; take care not to overheat. For example, 100g chopped chocolate should be heated on high for about one minute.
• To dissolve gelatin, sprinkle on top of liquid stated in recipe. Heat uncovered on high till dissolved, giving the mixture an occasional stir.
• For a quick snack, heat soup inn a heatproof mug or bowl.
• If members of the family eat meals at odd hours, cook, serve on to plate, cover and refrigerate meals at the time of the day when you are least rushed. Reheat in microwave oven as required; freshly cooked flavor is retained.
• Open mussels the easy way: place on a plate and heat on high for a few seconds. As each shell opens, remove from oven.
• Heat dinner plates (without gold or silver trim) by interleaving with a dampened tea towel or paper towel; four plates are heated in four minutes using this method.
• Instant hot dogs: cut bread roll, spread with butter and place Frankfurt in center. Wrap in greaseproof paper, heat on high for 1to 2 minutes. Spread with tomato sauce or mustard if liked and serve immediately.
• Using only firm fruit. You can remove skin from tomatoes, peaches or plums in a micro wave oven. Slit skin in a few places to prevent fruit bursting and heat on high for 30-60 seconds.
• Brown almonds ¼ cup at a time by placing on a plate and heating on high for 2 ½ minutes, then turning and heating on high for a further 2 ½ minutes. Almonds will be crisp and well toasted.
• To plump the fruit, measure 3 cups raisins currants or sultanas, sprinkle with 1 1/3 cup brandy or sherry and cover with plastic wrap. Heat on high for 1 ½ minutes, stir, heat a further 1 ½ minutes. Use in cakes, pies or serve warm with ice cream.
• Heat baby food for approximately 35 seconds in glass containers. Before feeding test for temperature. Extra time can always be given.
• When reheating an individual meat or apple pie, wrap in greaseproof paper or paper towel, microwave on high for one minute. Do not overheat as pastry will become soft.
• When cooking or reheating food, cover whenever practicable. This will contribute to easier cleaning of your microwave oven.

As the time is rolling on, the inventors using its creativity and producing inventions time to time, which are helpful and beneficial in all aspect of our life. Undoubtedly some of the inventions made a revolution and gave a lot of ease to human being. For example Edison invented the bulb and illuminated the dark world.

Here are inventions which are giving ease to all of us and surely the inventors are making a lot of money.

         Pet Rock

You can’t invent a rock, but the mad inventor Gary Dahl who was an advertiser of California, think over to decorate and sell rocks in this way that sell like hotcakes.

He was a creative minded person, so he bought ordinary and cheap gray pebbles from a construction company and sold them as pets, attached with painted models face. Surely it was a good marketing not anything extraordinary. It is the pet, which are not needed to be fed or cleaned.

It is interesting that the buyer could talk to it, name it and teach it fishy tricks. Most of them are outlined in a joyful manner included with the pet. A lot of buyers painted themselves in their own way to make it personal. Originally the price of Pet Rocks was $3.95 but due to its high demand it is now selling at $16. You will be surprise to know that the creator Dahl has sold these rocks more than 5 millions in only six months. He earned $56 million up till now. There is a facility that you may buy them on internet.

         Tamagotchi

This is also a pet which is very much on sale nowadays on this planet, became at its peak at the end of 20th century. This is a small, egg-typed device having a black & white LCD screen and a honking animal kept inside. A Japanese toymaker Bandai first introduced this device in market.

How it works

When you turned the Tamagotchi on and allot a name to it, then feed your given name by buttons of the device. The animal will play games and will become sleepy when it will be tired. It is design to make the copy of a real pet such as dog & cat. If you will take care of Tamagotchi nicely, it will change its versions. The pet required a continuous take care other wise it may “die”. To start it once again, you have to reset it. When it came into market it sold near about 70 million. They sell one Tamagotchi/ second, making it creator millionaire.

         The Singing Fish

This is an electronic fish like Rocky Rainbow Trout, started singing when you go closer to it. The appearance is just like a fish which may be mounted on a wooden board, and then the board may be mounted on the wall. The activation started when you push a button, a sensor activates the fish and it started singing, when any unknown person comes near it.

The device was created by a toy company of Texas. The buyers well liked it warmly, and the sale goes up high, so it became a great success for its company. In the starting year the singing fish sell about a million.

The stark hand

It is an artificial hand which is specially design for NASA. It moves easily and works like an electronic hand. The story behind the invention is like this:

A boy named Dave Vogt, when born has not his left hand by nature. A scientist Stark created an electronic hand for him and the hand has three knuckles (Which have a joint of a finger when the fist is closed). These knuckles can be bent according to the wish of the Vogt and he may catch the things easily. Interesting thing is that the Vogt may open all of his fingers freely by the moment of his shoulder that triggers a lever to extract. This artificial hand is really magical, because the Vogt may grip an egg with politeness and as well as drag a heavy chair.

When Vogt used this hand a ball is thrown towards him, he caught the ball with his artificial hand and certified that he is no more disabled and may do his work like a normal person.

A company named Edison Nation helps the inventors to develop their ideas selected the electronic hand for commercial production.

Dynamic eye sunglasses

Inventor: Chris Mullin

When a doctor Chris Mullin used to go to his laboratory 35 miles away from his house, the sunrays directly hit his eyes. The high penetrating rays cause headaches and give him trouble to see properly. Thus he decided to make a sunglass that may block the sunrays and protect his eyes. In 2002 he got a chance to work over his idea.

As lens material, he used a liquid crystal. The liquid crystal doesn’t give any obstruction to see through as a sunglass lens. Then he added a sensor on the bridge of the nose which finds limelight and gives a signal to a microcontroller attached nearby. The microcontroller reacts and gives instruction to the liquid-crystal lens to produce a 6 mm black square in front of the eyes to block the limelight. Surprisingly the square moves with the glass wearer to block the source of limelight at all the angles, but still gives a gap on the surroundings to let see properly.

Mullin is now developing an elastically plastic-based LCD, so that the product may be lighter and damage proof to sale in market on commercial scale.

The U.S Air Force has appreciated Mullin work and has funded in his project. Now he is working on developing a sunglass for soldiers & fighter pilots. Mullin claims that troops may go in high-noon sun onto the other place without any harm in illumination. The sight of the sunglass wearer will not be damaged. They may be able to see at the very moment after walking into sun. The scientist doctor making a plan to sell the idea to any of the big manufacturer of sunglass, so that they produce this Dynamic Eye shades commercially.

۩ Energy saving car head lights

Are you intended to save the energy of your car headlight, then wait for a little time? The big car company BMM is going to introduce laser headlights very soon. The company claims that these headlights will save energy in comparison to the normal headlights. To overcome the bad affects of the laser, which may be harmful for the passenger coming from the opposite sides, the lights produced by laser will be softened. The company is trying to pass the white light through fluorescent phosphor material in the headlight. The light which will come out from headlight will be bright and cool, giving no hazardous effect to the eyes of animals and human being coming in the range of this laser light. It will produce a huge intensity than LEO lights and safe a lot of energy. 

۩ Communicating cars

A large number of accidents occur when there is weak visibility and foggy situation takes place in the bad weather. The scientists of Bologna University, it a ly produced a modern device which will solve this problem and will save human life from collisions. This device will offer a communication to the approaching cars and deliver warning when ever any accident will take place. The warning system will be attached with an active sensor on dashboard; it will detect the accident when it takes place. Toyota is installing this system on the roads in Los Angeles. Surely this wireless device will save the human lives. The system will warm others about road blocks and slippery conditions.

۩ Magical camera

A camera with magical fiction is going to be launched in the last of this year by a company “Lytro” based in California. Often we faced a confusion when we photograph then came to know that the focus was not then came to know that the focus was not appropriate. We think the result of the snap will not be satisfied in camera technology has been made and you will never face this problem again. Now you may adjust the focus after taking the snap. Only you have to readjust the focus in the photo on the foreground, or background objects. You may adjust it in this way that all the objects come in a nice focus.

Ordinary cameras accumulates all the light rays to one point, but the new camera records the color, the power and its imaginary line position of the light position of the light rays differently, hence permitted the data to be done nicely by the software which mounted with strength in the camera.

۩ Fuel cell

In Georgian tech in USA scientist are trying to develop a new type of fuel cell which functions on coal gas. From coal gas is made and then the coal gas is used in the fuel cells. Scientists are claiming that by these fuel cells they may produce electricity with less expenditure. This electricity will be more efficient. The procedure of operating this fuel cell in like this the cell convert chemical energy into electrical energy which can be further used for different purposes. There are different kinds of fuel cells, for example hydrogen cells that produce electricity by oxidizing hydrogen with oxygen to make water from this process electrical energy generates. The electrical energy generated by these cells will be cheaper in comparison to the energy generated by turbines and thermal processes.

Portable watercraft

You will be able to know that a newly watercraft is introduced, which is portable and is running nowadays across the rivers & lakes having a speed of 25 mph and weighs 600 pounds.

When a boy Jason Woods was 19 years old living on his own, decided to buy an old ski boat. In his boat he drives the girls across the lake, near to his home in California. After few months he estimated that to drive a 16 foot boat is an expensive job. He was thinking about a boat that may carry in his car, but that dream didn’t come true. He was getting education at Napa’s New Technology High School and has a deep relationship with science and technology. In the meanwhile he get an idea that the carbon-fiber body board with a small engine power will have a tremendous speed. Its weight will be of 35 pounds only, so the persons who like adventure could carry it easily to the riverside.

It was Wood’s problem to find light weight parts. He search on different websites and discovered Germans are building 8 foot long & 20 hp mini yachts in these days. He also found that some companies are producing components for them. He purchased a small jet pump from a company in $500.
When he got the components he mounted the jet pump, and duct-taped the housing together. It took a jerk gave ugly voices, but it moved, and in this way Woods was able to build a new edition every year. His 4th edition put out 5 hp and run up to 15 mph. It also integrated with carbon fiber and handlebars.

Now the next model is under construction. A hybrid electric-propane four-stroke engine will be used in it and the boat will get the speed up to 25 mph. Woods estimated that on mass production basis the latest edition may be selling at $1,000.

Portable watercraft is a two-stroke gas engine drives a lightweight, high-powered jet pump, which throw out and creates a push, which deviate a little amount of water to cool down the engine.

The Body guard

The body guard is nothing but a crime-fighting armored glove invented by a cameraman, David Brown. It consists of a video camera & a stun gun to keep the outlaws away. Surely it can be said that Body Guard promise to save you life in odd situations. It runs on the high voltage stunner, a video camera, a laser pointer & flashlight. When you face any violation it protects you.

Brown think over it if a lion or any beast attacks on you suddenly, you have nothing to do. There should be a weapon which should work as your body guard. He wants to invent something.

As he worked over his idea, he came to know that his real market will be police force & military departments. He made a perfect glove in 48 hours from a medical arm pair, a stun gun and a fire-alarm button. After 7 years Brown became successful to complete his project. It looks and sounds horrible when electric current runs between its electrodes, which push back an attacker. As a last, it may be used to protect you.

This glove weighs only three pounds and is kept in a hard shell that extends across the forearm. A pull pin prepared the stunner and a button at the palm which activates it. Same buttons put in motion the laser pointer, video camera and flashlight. The Body Guard will be demonstrated at the U.S. Department of Justice’s very soon.